0001104659-24-064190.txt : 20240522 0001104659-24-064190.hdr.sgml : 20240522 20240522151131 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-24-064190 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 7 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20240522 0001114926 0001033232 ITEM INFORMATION: Securities Act Updating Disclosure ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20240522 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20240522 ABS ASSET CLASS: Auto loans FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001114926 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES [6189] ORGANIZATION NAME: Office of Structured Finance IRS NUMBER: 364396302 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NV FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-230733 FILM NUMBER: 24972998 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9850 DOUBLE R BLVD CITY: RENO STATE: NV ZIP: 98521 BUSINESS PHONE: 775-886-3000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9850 DOUBLE R BLVD CITY: RENO STATE: NV ZIP: 98521 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: HARLEY DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20000518 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0002017611 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES [6189] ORGANIZATION NAME: Office of Structured Finance IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NV FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-262475-04 FILM NUMBER: 24972999 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9850 DOUBLE R BLVD, SUITE 200 CITY: RENO STATE: NV ZIP: 89521 BUSINESS PHONE: 702-885-1200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9850 DOUBLE R BLVD, SUITE 200 CITY: RENO STATE: NV ZIP: 89521 8-K 1 tm2413280d9_8k.htm FORM 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

 

 

  Date of Report 
  (Date of earliest event reported):May 22, 2024

 

  Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A  

(Exact name of Issuing Entity as specified in its charter)

(Central Index Key Number of Issuing Entity: 0002017611)

 

  Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp.  

(Exact name of Depositor as specified in its charter)

(Central Index Key Number of Depositor: 0001114926)

 

  Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.  

(Exact name of Sponsor as specified in its charter)

(Central Index Key Number of Sponsor: 0001033232)

 

 

 

    Nevada           333-262475              36-4396302      

(State or other

jurisdiction of

incorporation)

(Commission File

Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

  9850 Double R Boulevard, Reno, Nevada 89521  

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

  (775) 886-3000  

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

  Not Applicable  

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None.

 

 

 

 

 

Item 6.05Securities Act Updating Disclosure

 

On May 22, 2024, Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Trust”) will issue $89,000,000 of 5.540% Class A-1 Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes (the “Class A-1 Notes”), $192,165,000 of 5.65% Class A-2 Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes (the “Class A-2 Notes”), $242,165,000 of 5.37% Class A-3 Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes (the “Class A-3 Notes”), and $55,619,000 of 5.29% Class A-4 Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes (the “Class A-4 Notes”). $84,550,000 of the Class A-1 Notes, $182,556,000 of the Class A-2 Notes, $230,056,000 of the Class A-3 Notes, and $52,838,000 of the Class A-4 Notes were offered and will be sold pursuant to the Prospectus dated May 14, 2024 (the “Prospectus”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) and relating to registration statement number 333-262475.

 

Item 8.01.Other Events.

 

Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. is filing final execution copies of the agreements listed below as exhibits to this Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with its filing with the SEC of the Prospectus described above in Item 6.05. See “Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.”

 

Item 9.01.Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

  (a) Not Applicable.

 

  (b) Not Applicable.

 

  (c) Not Applicable.

 

  (d) Exhibits.

 

(4.1)Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated May 1, 2024, between Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. and Wilmington Trust, National Association.

 

(4.2)Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024, between the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A and Citibank, N.A.

 

(4.3)Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, among Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A and Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC.

 

(10.1)Transfer and Sale Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, between Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. and Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.

 

(10.2)Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, among Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., and Citibank, N.A.

 

(10.3)Administration Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, among the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., and Citibank, N.A.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP.
   
Date: May 22, 2024 By: /s/ David Viney
    David Viney
    Vice President and Treasurer

 

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HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP.

Exhibit Index to Current Report on Form 8-K

Dated May 22, 2024

 

Exhibit

Number

 

(4.1)Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated May 1, 2024, between Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp and Wilmington Trust, National Association.

 

(4.2)Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024, between the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A and Citibank, N.A.

 

(4.3)Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, among Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A and Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC.

 

(10.1)Transfer and Sale Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, between Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. and Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.

 

(10.2)Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, among Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., and Citibank, N.A.

 

(10.3)Administration Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, among the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., and Citibank, N.A.

 

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EX-4.1 2 tm2413280d9_ex4-1.htm EXHIBIT 4.1

 

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT

 

by and between

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP., 

as Trust Depositor,

 

and

 

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 

as Owner Trustee

 

Dated as of May 1, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

  

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

        Page
ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS   1
Section 1.01.   Capitalized Terms   1
Section 1.02.   Other Definitional Provisions   4
Section 1.03.   Usage of Terms   4
Section 1.04.   Section References   4
Section 1.05.   Accounting Terms   4
ARTICLE TWO ORGANIZATION   4
Section 2.01.   Name   4
Section 2.02.   Office   4
Section 2.03.   Purposes and Powers   4
Section 2.04.   Appointment of Owner Trustee   5
Section 2.05.   Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate   5
Section 2.06.   Declaration of Trust   6
Section 2.07.   Liability of Trust Depositor   6
Section 2.08.   Title to Trust Property   6
Section 2.09.   Situs of Trust   6
Section 2.10.   Representations and Warranties of the Trust Depositor   6
Section 2.11.   Tax Treatment   8
Section 2.12.   Texas State Tax Matters   8
ARTICLE THREE TRUST CERTIFICATE AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS   8
Section 3.01.   Initial Ownership   8
Section 3.02.   The Trust Certificate   8
Section 3.03.   Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates   9
Section 3.04.   Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates   9
Section 3.05.   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates   11
Section 3.06.   Person Deemed Owner   11
Section 3.07.   Access to List of Certificateholders’ Name and Address   11
Section 3.08.   Maintenance of Office or Agency   12
Section 3.09.   Trust Certificate   12
Section 3.10.   Appointment of Paying Agent   12
Section 3.11.   Ownership by Trust Depositor of Initial Trust Certificate   13
ARTICLE FOUR ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE AND CERTIFICATEHOLDER   13
Section 4.01.   Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain Matters   13
Section 4.02.   Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters   14
Section 4.03.   Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy   14
Section 4.04.   Restrictions on Owners’ Power   14
Section 4.05.   Majority of the Trust Certificates Control   14
ARTICLE FIVE APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES   15
Section 5.01.   Establishment of Trust Account; Application of Trust Funds   15
Section 5.02.   Method of Payment   16
Section 5.03.   Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholder, Owners, the Internal Revenue Service and Others   16
Section 5.04.   Signature on Returns; Partnership Representative   16
ARTICLE SIX AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE   17
Section 6.01.   General Authority   17
Section 6.02.   General Duties   17
Section 6.03.   Action Upon Instruction   17
Section 6.04.   No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions   18
Section 6.05.   No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions   18
Section 6.06.   Restrictions   19
Section 6.07.   Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act Licenses   19
Section 6.08.   Succession to Rights of the Indenture Trustee   19

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE SEVEN CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE   19
Section 7.01.   Acceptance of Trusts and Duties   19
Section 7.02.   Furnishing of Documents   20
Section 7.03.   Representations and Warranties   20
Section 7.04.   Reliance; Advice of Counsel   21
Section 7.05.   Not Acting in Individual Capacity   22
Section 7.06.   Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificate, Notes or Contracts   22
Section 7.07.   Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificate and Notes   22
ARTICLE EIGHT COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE   23
Section 8.01.   Owner Trustee’s Fees and Expenses   23
Section 8.02.   Indemnification   23
Section 8.03.   Payments to the Owner Trustee   23
ARTICLE NINE TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT   23
Section 9.01.   Termination of Trust Agreement   23
ARTICLE TEN SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES   24
Section 10.01.   Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee   24
Section 10.02.   Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee   25
Section 10.03.   Successor Owner Trustee   25
Section 10.04.   Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee   26
Section 10.05.   Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee   26
ARTICLE ELEVEN MISCELLANEOUS   27
Section 11.01.   Supplements and Amendments   27
Section 11.02.   No Legal Title to Trust Estate in Owners   28
Section 11.03.   Limitations on Rights of Others   29
Section 11.04.   Notices   29
Section 11.05.   Severability of Provisions   29
Section 11.06.   Counterparts; Originals   29
Section 11.07.   Successors and Assigns   30
Section 11.08.   Covenants of the Trust Depositor   30
Section 11.09.   No Petition   30
Section 11.10.   No Recourse   30
Section 11.11.   Headings   31
Section 11.12.   Governing Law   31
Section 11.13.   Trust Certificate Transfer Restrictions   31
Section 11.14.   Trust Depositor Payment Obligation   31

  

EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A - Form of Certificate of Trust   A-1
Exhibit B - Form of Trust Certificate   B-1
Exhibit C - Form of Transferee Certificate   C-1

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of May 1, 2024, between HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP., a Nevada corporation, as Trust Depositor (the “Trust Depositor”), and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”).

 

WHEREAS, the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee entered into that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of March 20, 2024 (the “Original Agreement”), and filed a certificate of trust with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware pursuant to which the Trust (as defined below) was created; and

 

WHEREAS, in connection herewith, the parties have agreed to amend and restate the Original Agreement; and

 

WHEREAS, in connection herewith, the Trust Depositor is willing to purchase the initial Trust Certificate (as defined herein) to be issued pursuant to this Agreement and to assume certain obligations pursuant hereto;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE One

 

DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.01.         Capitalized Terms.

 

Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, whenever used in this Agreement the following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:

 

Administration Agreement” means the Administration Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, among the Trust, the Trust Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and Harley-Davidson Credit, as administrator.

 

Agreement” means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.

 

Benefit Plan” means (i) an employee benefit plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of an employee benefit plan’s or a plan’s investment in the entity.

 

“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in the cities of Chicago, Illinois, Wilmington, Delaware, Jersey City, New Jersey or New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law, executive order or governmental decree to be closed.

 

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Certificate Distribution Account” means the account established and maintained as such pursuant to Section 5.01.

 

Certificate Interest” means, with respect to a Trust Certificate, the percentage specified on such Trust Certificate as the Certificate Interest, which represents the beneficial equity interest in the Trust. The initial Certificate Interest held by Harley-Davidson Credit shall be 100%.

 

Certificate of Trust” means the Certificate of Trust filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.

 

Certificate Register” and “Certificate Registrar” mean the register maintained and the registrar (or any successor thereto) appointed pursuant to Section 3.04.

 

Certificateholder” or “Holder” means with respect to a Trust Certificate the Person in whose name such Trust Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register.

 

Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “Clearing Agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

Expenses” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02.

 

Harley-Davidson Credit” means Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., a Nevada corporation.

 

Indemnified Parties” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02.

 

Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024, between the Trust and Citibank, N.A., as indenture trustee.

 

Indenture Trustee” means the Person acting as Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, including any successor trustee under the Indenture.

 

Owner” means each Holder of a Trust Certificate.

 

Owner Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee under this Agreement, and any successor Owner Trustee hereunder.

 

Owner Trustee Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Owner Trustee at which its corporate trust business shall be administered, which initially shall be 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1605 Attn: Corporate Trust Administration, or such other office at such other address as the Owner Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Certificateholder, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Trust Depositor and Harley-Davidson Credit.

  

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Paying Agent” means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 3.10.

 

Person” means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

 

“Qualified Institutional Buyer” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

 

Record Date” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the Business Day immediately preceding such Distribution Date.

 

Sale and Servicing Agreement” means the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, among the Trust, as issuer, the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Credit, as servicer, and Citibank, N.A., as indenture trustee, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

 

Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

 

Statutory Trust Statute” means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code § 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

Treasury Regulations” means regulations, including proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury Regulations.

 

Trust” means the trust established by this Agreement.

 

Trust Certificate” means a trust certificate evidencing the beneficial equity interest of an Owner in the Trust, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

 

Trust Depositor” means Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., in its capacity as Trust Depositor hereunder, and its successors.

 

Trust Estate” means all right, title and interest of the Trust in and to the property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to Article Two of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from time to time in the Trust Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account and all other property of the Trust from time to time, including any rights of the Owner Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Administration Agreement.

 

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Section 1.02.         Other Definitional Provisions.

 

Capitalized terms used that are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or, if not defined therein, in the Indenture.

 

Section 1.03.         Usage of Terms.

 

With respect to all terms in this Agreement, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; words importing any gender include the other genders; references to “writing” include printing, typing, lithography and other means of reproducing words in a visible form; references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all amendments, modifications and supplements thereto or any changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Agreement; references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns; and the term “including” means “including without limitation”.

 

Section 1.04.         Section References.

 

All section references, unless otherwise indicated, shall be to Sections in this Agreement.

 

Section 1.05.         Accounting Terms.

 

All accounting terms used but not specifically defined herein shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

 

ARTICLE Two

 

ORGANIZATION

 

Section 2.01.         Name.

 

The Trust created hereby shall be known as “Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A”, in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the activities of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued.

 

Section 2.02.         Office.

 

The office of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner Trustee at the Owner Trustee Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Owners and the Trust Depositor.

 

Section 2.03.         Purposes and Powers.

 

(a)           The sole purpose of the Trust is to manage the Trust Estate and collect and disburse the periodic income therefrom for the use and benefit of the Owners, and in furtherance of such purpose to engage in the following ministerial activities:

 

(i)           to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust Certificates pursuant to this Agreement and to sell the Notes;

 

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(ii)          with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes, to purchase the Contracts, to fund the Reserve Fund, to pay the organizational, start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust, and to pay the balance to the Trust Depositor pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement;

 

(iii)         to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute to the Owners pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement any portion of the Trust Estate released from the Lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;

 

(iv)         to enter into and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is to be a party;

 

(v)          to enter into derivative transactions in connection with the Notes or otherwise;

 

(vi)         to engage in those activities, including entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and

 

(vii)        subject to compliance with the Transaction Documents, to engage in such other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of the Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the Owners and the Noteholders.

 

The Trust shall not engage in any activities other than in connection with the foregoing. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Owner Trustee to engage in any business operations or any activities other than those set forth in the introductory sentence of this Section. Specifically, the Owner Trustee shall have no authority to engage in any business operations, or acquire any assets other than those included in the Trust Estate under Section 1.01, or otherwise vary the assets held by the Trust. Similarly, the Owner Trustee shall have no discretionary duties other than performing those ministerial acts set forth above necessary to accomplish the purpose of this Trust as set forth in the introductory sentence of this Section. Notwithstanding Section 2.03(a)(iii) above, the Trust shall not assign, sell or transfer all or any portion of the Trust Estate except as contemplated or permitted by the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, without the prior consent of the Trust Depositor.

 

Section 2.04.         Appointment of Owner Trustee.

 

The Trust Depositor hereby appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein, and the Owner Trustee hereby accepts such appointment.

 

Section 2.05.         Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate.

 

The Trust Depositor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges receipt in trust from the Trust Depositor, as of the date hereof, of the foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Trust Estate. The Trust Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.

 

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Section 2.06.         Declaration of Trust.

 

The Owner Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the sole purpose of conserving the Trust Estate and collecting and disbursing the periodic income therefrom for the use and benefit of the Owners, subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Transaction Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Statute and that this Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such statutory trust. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Statute for the sole purpose and to the extent necessary to accomplish the purpose of this Trust as set forth in the introductory sentence of Section 2.03.

 

Section 2.07.         Liability of Trust Depositor.

 

(a)            All liabilities of the Trust, to the extent not paid by a third party, are and shall be obligations of the Trust and when due and payable shall be satisfied out of the Trust Estate.

 

(b)            Except as provided in the Statutory Trust Statute, no Certificateholder shall be personally liable for any liability of the Trust.

 

Section 2.08.         Title to Trust Property.

 

Legal title to the Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of the Trust Estate to be vested in an owner trustee or owner trustees, in which case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be.

 

Section 2.09.         Situs of Trust.

 

The Trust will be located and administered in the State of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Illinois or the State of Delaware. The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other than Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without the State of Delaware. Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware and payments will be made by the Trust only from Delaware. The only office of the Trust will be at the Owner Trustee Corporate Trust Office.

 

Section 2.10.         Representations and Warranties of the Trust Depositor.

 

The Trust Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:

 

(i)            The Trust Depositor is duly organized and validly existing as a corporation organized and existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Nevada, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business and had at all relevant times, and has, power, authority and legal right to acquire and own the Contracts.

 

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(ii)            The Trust Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualifications, and where the failure to so qualify or obtain such licenses and approvals would have a material adverse effect on the Trust, the Contracts, the operations or business of the Trust Depositor, or the ability of the Trust Depositor to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

 

(iii)            The Trust Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Trust Depositor has full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and deposited with the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust as part of the Trust Estate and has duly authorized such sale and assignment and deposit with the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust by all necessary corporate action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized by the Trust Depositor by all necessary corporate action.

 

(iv)            The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, nor constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the Trust Depositor, or any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Trust Depositor is a party or by which it is bound; nor result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of the properties of the Trust Depositor pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than pursuant to the Transaction Documents); nor violate any law or any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Trust Depositor of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Trust Depositor or its properties; which breach, default, conflict, Lien or violation in any case would have a material adverse effect on the Trust, the Contracts, the operations or business of the Servicer, or the ability of the Trust Depositor to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

 

(v)            There are no proceedings or investigations pending, or to the Trust Depositor’s best knowledge threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Trust Depositor or its properties: (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, any of the other Transaction Documents or the Trust Certificate, (B) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Trust Certificate or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents, (C) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the Trust Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement, any of the other Transaction Documents or the Trust Certificate, or (D) involving the Trust Depositor and which would adversely affect the federal income tax or other federal, state or local tax attributes of the Trust Certificate.

 

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Section 2.11.         Tax Treatment.

 

It is the intention of the Trust Depositor that (i) so long as there is only one Certificateholder, the Trust be disregarded as a separate entity pursuant to Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(b)(1)(ii) as in effect for periods after January 1, 1997 (and, in such case, Trust items of income, gain, loss and deduction for any month as determined for federal income tax purposes shall be allocated entirely to Harley-Davidson Credit (or subsequent purchaser of the sole Trust Certificate) as the sole Certificateholder), and (ii) if there is more than one Certificateholder, the Trust shall be treated as a partnership for purposes of federal income, state and local income and single business tax and any other income taxes. The parties agree that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Trust will file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and other forms consistent with the characterization of the Trust as provided in the preceding sentence for such tax purposes.

 

Section 2.12.         Texas State Tax Matters.

 

For purposes of Texas franchise taxes, it is the intention of the parties that the Trust be classified (i) as a passive entity within the meaning of Sections 171.0002 through 171.0004 of the Texas Tax Code, and (ii) not as a “business trust” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-4(b). The Trust Depositor and the Certificateholder, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree to treat the Trust in a manner consistent with such intention, unless otherwise required by law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, nothing in this Agreement should be read to imply that the Trust is doing business in Texas or has sufficient nexus with Texas in order for the Texas franchise tax to apply to the Trust.

 

ARTICLE Three

 

TRUST CERTIFICATE AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS

 

Section 3.01.         Initial Ownership.

 

Upon the formation of the Trust by the contribution by the Trust Depositor pursuant to Section 2.05 and until the issuance of the Trust Certificate, the Trust Depositor shall be the sole beneficiary of the Trust.

 

Section 3.02.         The Trust Certificate.

 

The Trust Certificate shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto and represent the entire beneficial equity interest in the Trust. The Trust Certificate shall be executed by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee and shall be deemed to have been validly issued when so executed. A Trust Certificate bearing the manual or facsimile signature of an individual who was, at the time when such signature was affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Owner Trustee shall be a valid and binding obligation of the Trust, notwithstanding that such individual has ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificate or did not hold such office at the date of such Trust Certificate. Each Trust Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

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Section 3.03.         Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates.

 

The Owner Trustee shall cause to be authenticated and delivered upon the order of the Trust Depositor, in exchange for the Contracts and the other assets included in the Trust Estate, simultaneously with the sale, assignment and transfer to the Trust of the Contracts and other assets included in the Trust Estate, and the constructive delivery to the Owner Trustee of the Contract Files and the other assets included in the Trust Estate, a Trust Certificate duly authenticated by the Owner Trustee, evidencing the entire beneficial equity interest in the Trust.

 

No Trust Certificate shall be valid for any purpose unless there appears on such Trust Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth in the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit B, executed by the Owner Trustee or its authenticating agent, by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Trust Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Trust Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Upon issuance, authorization and delivery pursuant to the terms hereof, the Trust Certificate will be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement.

 

Section 3.04.         Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates.

 

(a)            The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, a Certificate Register, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe. The Certificate Register shall provide for the registration of the Trust Certificate and transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificate as provided herein. The Owner Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar for the purpose of registering the Trust Certificate and transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificate as herein provided. In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Owner Trustee notifies the Servicer that it is unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Servicer shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in the City of Chicago, Illinois, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Owner Trustee, to act as successor Certificate Registrar hereunder.

 

(b)            Upon surrender for registration of transfer of the Trust Certificate at the Owner Trustee Corporate Trust Office, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to execute, authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee, one or more new Trust Certificates representing the same aggregate Certificate Interest as the Trust Certificate being surrendered.

 

(c)             Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

(d)            No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made in a transaction which does not require registration or qualification under the Securities Act of 1933 or qualification under any state securities or “Blue Sky” laws. Neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall effect the registration of any transfer of a Trust Certificate unless, prior to such transfer, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel that (x) the transfer of such Trust Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and (y) such transfer will not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. Any transferee of a Trust Certificate must be either an Affiliate of the Trust Depositor or a Qualified Institutional Buyer. Prior to any resale, assignment or transfer of a Trust Certificate described in this Section 3.04, each prospective purchaser of a Trust Certificate shall have acknowledged, represented and agreed as follows:

 

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(i)            It (and any Person for which it holds the Trust Certificate (or any interest therein)) neither has acquired nor will transfer any Trust Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) or cause any such Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) to be marketed on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without limitation, an over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.

 

(ii)            It (and any Person for which it holds the Trust Certificate (or any interest therein), collectively for purposes of this Section 3.04(d), a “transferee”) either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (or a disregarded entity of any of the foregoing), or (B) is such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more of the value of such interests in the transferee to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of the Trust Certificate (or any interest therein).

 

(iii)            It understands that if it is acquiring any Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) for the account of one or more Persons, (A) it shall provide to the Owner Trustee and the Trust Depositor information as to the number of such Persons and any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) any such change in the number of Persons for whose account a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) is held shall require the written consent of the Owner Trustee, which consent shall be granted unless the Owner Trustee determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state income tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation.

 

(iv)            It understands that no subsequent transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) is permitted unless (A) such transfer is of a Trust Certificate with a Certificate Interest of at least 5%, (B) it causes its proposed transferee to provide to the Owner Trustee and the Trust Depositor a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto, or such other written statement as the Owner Trustee shall prescribe, and (C) the Owner Trustee (on behalf of the Trust) consents in writing to the proposed transfer, which consent shall be granted unless the Owner Trustee determines that such transfer would create a risk that the Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state income tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation; provided, however, that any attempted transfer that would cause the number of beneficial owners of the Trust Certificate in the aggregate to exceed 100 or otherwise cause the Trust to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer.

 

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Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) to or on behalf of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan shall be void and of no effect. The Owner Trustee shall not be obligated to register any transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) unless each of the transferor and the transferee have certified to the Owner Trustee that such transfer does not violate any of the transfer restrictions stated herein. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable to any Person for registering any transfer based on such certifications.

 

(e)            No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein), but the Owner Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein).

 

(f)             Any Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer shall be canceled and subsequently destroyed by the Owner Trustee.

 

Section 3.05.         Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates.

 

If (i) any mutilated Trust Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Certificate, and (ii) there is delivered to the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice that such Trust Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall execute and the Owner Trustee or its authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Certificate, a new Trust Certificate of like tenor and Certificate Interest. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Certificate under this Section 3.05, the Owner Trustee may require the payment by the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto. Any duplicate Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.05 shall constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of ownership in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Certificate shall be found at any time.

 

Section 3.06.         Person Deemed Owner.

 

Prior to due presentation of a Trust Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any of their respective agents may treat the Person in whose name any Trust Certificate is registered as the Owner of such Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Section 5.01 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, any Paying Agent or any of their respective agents shall be affected by any notice of the contrary.

 

Section 3.07.         Access to List of Certificateholders’ Name and Address.

 

The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer and the Trust Depositor, within fifteen (15) days after receipt by the Certificate Registrar of a written request therefor from the Servicer or the Trust Depositor, the name and address of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date in such form as the Servicer or the Trust Depositor may reasonably require. If (i) one or more Certificateholders evidencing, in the aggregate, not less than 25% of the Certificate Interests, or (ii) three or more Certificateholders apply in writing to the Owner Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Trust Certificate and such application is accompanied by a copy of the communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then the Owner Trustee shall, within five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford such applicants access during normal business hours to the current list of Certificateholders. The Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Trust Certificate, agrees with the Servicer, the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee that none of the Servicer, the Trust Depositor or the Owner Trustee shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the name and address of such Certificateholder hereunder, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

 

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Section 3.08.         Maintenance of Office or Agency.

 

The Owner Trustee shall maintain in Wilmington, Delaware, an office or offices or agency or agencies where the Trust Certificate may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in respect of the Trust Certificate and this Agreement may be served. The Owner Trustee hereby designates the Owner Trustee Corporate Trust Office as its office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Trust Depositor, the Servicer and to the Certificateholder of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.

 

Section 3.09.         Trust Certificate.

 

The Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute, authenticate and deliver, the initial Trust Certificate.

 

Section 3.10.         Appointment of Paying Agent.

 

The Paying Agent shall make distributions to the Certificateholder from the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Section 5.01(b) and shall report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee. The Paying Agent initially shall be Citibank, N.A. and any co-paying agent chosen by the Paying Agent that is acceptable to the Owner Trustee. Each Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to the Owner Trustee. In the event that Citibank, N.A. shall no longer be the Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that, as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholder in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholder entitled thereto until such sums shall have been paid to the Certificateholder. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of Sections 7.01, 7.03, 7.04 and 8.01 shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other Paying Agent appointed hereunder. Further, the rights, protections and immunities granted to the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture shall inure to the benefit of Citibank, N.A. acting as Paying Agent hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.

 

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Section 3.11.         Ownership by Trust Depositor of Initial Trust Certificate.

 

On the Closing Date, the Trust Depositor or one of its affiliates shall hold a Trust Certificate evidencing 100% of the Certificate Interest.

 

ARTICLE Four

 

ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE AND CERTIFICATEHOLDER

 

Section 4.01.         Prior Notice to Owners with Respect to Certain Matters.

 

Subject to the provisions and limitation of Section 4.04, with respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action unless (i) at least thirty (30) days before the taking of such action, the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders in writing of the proposed action, and (ii) the Certificateholders shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day after such notice is given that the Certificateholders have withheld consent or provided alternative direction:

 

(a)            the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust (except claims or lawsuits brought in connection with the collection of the Contracts) or the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Trust (except with respect to the aforementioned claims or lawsuits for collection of the Contracts);

 

(b)            the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the Statutory Trust Statute);

 

(c)            the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;

 

(d)            the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such amendment materially and adversely affects the interest of the Owners;

 

(e)            the amendment, change or modification of the Administration Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or to amend or supplement any provision in a manner or add any provision that would not materially and adversely affect the interests of the Owners; or

 

(f)             the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note Registrar or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of a successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of its obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable.

 

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Section 4.02.         Action by Owners with Respect to Certain Matters.

 

Subject to the provisions and limitations of Section 4.04, the Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the direction of the Owners, to (a) remove the Administrator pursuant to Section 8 of the Administration Agreement, (b) appoint a successor Administrator pursuant to Section 8 of the Administration Agreement, (c) except as expressly provided in the Transaction Documents, sell the Contracts or other assets included in the Trust Estate after the termination of the Indenture, (d) initiate any claim, suit or proceeding by the Trust or compromise any claim, suit or proceeding brought by or against the Trust, (e) authorize the merger or consolidation of the Trust with or into any other statutory trust or entity (other than in accordance with Section 3.10 of the Indenture), or (f) amend the Certificate of Trust. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written instructions signed by the Owners.

 

Section 4.03.         Action by Owners with Respect to Bankruptcy.

 

The Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in a bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the prior written consent of all Owners (including the Trust Depositor) and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by each such Owner of a certificate certifying that such Owner reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.

 

Section 4.04.         Restrictions on Owners’ Power.

 

The Owners shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents or would be contrary to the purpose of this Trust as set forth in Section 2.03, nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.

 

Section 4.05.         Majority of the Trust Certificates Control.

 

Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, any action that may be taken by the Certificateholder under this Agreement may be taken by the Holders of the Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Interests. Except as expressly provided herein, any written notice of the Certificateholder delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by Holders of the Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Interests at the time of the delivery of such notice.

 

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ARTICLE Five

 

APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS;
CERTAIN DUTIES

 

Section 5.01.         Establishment of Trust Account; Application of Trust Funds.

 

(a)            On or before the Distribution Date on which the Notes have been paid in full, the Owner Trustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholder, shall establish and maintain (or shall cause to be established and maintained) in the name of the Trust an Eligible Account (the “Certificate Distribution Account”), bearing a designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Certificateholder.

 

The Trust shall possess all right, title and interest in the funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and in the proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholder. If, at any time, the Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Account, the Owner Trustee (or the Trust Depositor on behalf of the Owner Trustee, if the Certificate Distribution Account is not then held by the Owner Trustee or an Affiliate thereof) shall within ten (10) Business Days establish a new Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible Account and shall transfer any funds and/or any investments to such new Certificate Distribution Account. Monies on deposit in the Certificate Distribution Account may be invested in Eligible Investments upon the terms set forth in Section 5.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as if the Certificate Distribution Account were a Trust Account.

 

(b)            On each Distribution Date, the Paying Agent will distribute to the Certificateholder from amounts on deposit in the Certificate Distribution Account, on a pro rata basis in accordance with their respective Certificate Interests, amounts received pursuant to Sections 7.05(a)(x) or 7.05(b)(vi) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Distribution Date.

 

(c)             On each Distribution Date, the Paying Agent shall send to the Certificateholder the statement or statements provided to the Indenture Trustee by the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Distribution Date.

 

(d)            In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust’s payment (or allocation of income) to the Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to the Certificateholder in accordance with this Section. The Paying Agent is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable to the Owners sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings, and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to any Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to such Certificateholder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the appropriate taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution, the Paying Agent may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance with this paragraph (d).

 

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(e)            At such time as the Trust, as issuer, has paid or performed or caused to be paid or performed all amounts and obligations which the Trust owed to or on behalf of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders under the Indenture, the balance of the Trust Estate and related interests therein previously transferred to the Trust shall be distributed to the Certificateholder (and, if the Trust Depositor is the sole Certificateholder, such distribution shall be, for accounting purposes, treated as a return of capital).

 

Section 5.02.         Method of Payment.

 

Subject to Section 9.01(c) respecting the final payment upon retirement of the Trust Certificate, distributions required to be made to the Certificateholder of record on the related Record Date shall be made by check mailed to such Certificateholder at the addresses of such Holders appearing in the Certificate Register.

 

Section 5.03.         Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholder, Owners, the Internal Revenue Service and Others.

 

The Owner Trustee shall (a) maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis and the accrual method of accounting, (b) deliver to the Owners, as may be required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, such information as may be required to enable each Owner to prepare its federal and state income tax returns, (c) file such tax returns relating to the Trust and make such elections as from time to time may be required or appropriate under any applicable state or federal statute or any rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the federal income tax treatment for the Trust as set forth in Section 2.11, (d) cause such tax returns to be signed in the manner required by law, and (e) collect or cause to be collected any withholding tax as described in and in accordance with Section 5.01(d) with respect to income or distributions to Owners; provided, however, that the Administrator shall be responsible for the performance of such duties of the Owner Trustee to the extent set forth in Section 1(b)(iii) of the Administration Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall elect under Section 1278 of the Code to include in income currently any market discount that accrues with respect to the Contracts. If applicable, the Owner Trustee shall not make the election provided under Section 754 or Section 761 of the Code.

 

Section 5.04.         Signature on Returns; Partnership Representative.

 

(a)             The Trust Depositor shall sign on behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust.

 

(b)             If subchapter K of the Code should be applicable to the Trust, the partnership representative, within the meaning of Section 6223(a) of the Code, shall be the Trust Depositor. The partnership representative shall, (i) if the Trust is eligible, cause the Trust to elect, pursuant to Section 6221(b) of the Code, that Section 6221(a) of the Code shall not apply to the Trust or (ii) if the election in Section 6221(b) of the Code is not available, to the extent applicable, cause the Trust to make the election under Section 6226(a) of the Code.

 

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ARTICLE Six

 

AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE

 

Section 6.01.         General Authority.

 

Subject to the provisions and limitations of Sections 2.03 and 2.06, the Owner Trustee is authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Transaction Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and any amendment or other agreement, as evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee’s execution thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Transaction Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action as the Administrator recommends with respect to the Transaction Documents.

 

Section 6.02.         General Duties.

 

Subject to the provisions and limitations of Sections 2.03 and 2.06, it shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee to discharge (or cause to be discharged through the Administrator) all of its responsibilities pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents to which the Trust is a party and to administer the Trust in the interest of the Owners, subject to the Transaction Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall on behalf of the Trust file and prove any claim or claims that may exist against Harley-Davidson Credit in connection with any claims-paying procedure as part of an insolvency or receivership proceeding involving Harley-Davidson Credit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the Transaction Documents to the extent the Administrator has agreed in the Administration Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Owner Trustee hereunder or under any Transaction Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be held liable for the default or failure of the Administrator to carry out its obligations under the Administration Agreement.

 

Section 6.03.         Action Upon Instruction.

 

(a)             Subject to Article Four, in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, the Owners may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust.

 

(b)            The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action hereunder or under any other Transaction Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms hereof or of any other Transaction Document or is otherwise contrary to law.

 

(c)             Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or under any other Transaction Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Owners requesting instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any written instruction of the Owners received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten (10) days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Owners, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.

 

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(d)             In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the applicability of any provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Owners requesting instruction and, to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such action or inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten (10) days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Owners, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.

 

Section 6.04.         No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions.

 

The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with the Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms of this Agreement or any document or written instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any other Transaction Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien granted to it hereunder or to prepare or file any Commission filing for the Trust or to record this Agreement or any other Transaction Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge any liens on any part of the Trust Estate that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee that are not related to the ownership or the administration of the Trust Estate.

 

Section 6.05.         No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions.

 

The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with any part of the Trust Estate except (i) in accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the other Transaction Documents, or (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03.

 

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Section 6.06.         Restrictions.

 

The Owner Trustee shall not take any action (i) that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section 2.03 or (ii) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would result in the Trust’s becoming taxable as a corporation for federal or state income tax purposes. The Owners shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take actions that would violate the provisions of this Section.

 

Section 6.07.         Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act Licenses.

 

The Owner Trustee shall use its best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of all licenses required under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents until the lien and security interest of the Indenture shall no longer be in effect in accordance with its terms.

 

Section 6.08.         Succession to Rights of the Indenture Trustee.

 

Following the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and the payment in full of the principal of and interest on the Notes, the Owner Trustee will succeed to the rights of, and assume the obligations of, the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

ARTICLE Seven

 

CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE

 

Section 7.01.         Acceptance of Trusts and Duties.

 

The Owner Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually received by it constituting part of the Trust Estate upon the terms of the Transaction Documents and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or accountable hereunder or under any other Transaction Document under any circumstances, except for its own willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):

 

(a)             the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made by a responsible officer of the Owner Trustee;

 

(b)             the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the Administrator or the Owners;

 

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(c)             no provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder or under any Transaction Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;

 

(d)             under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Transaction Documents, including the principal of and interest on the Notes;

 

(e)             the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by the Trust Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Trust Estate, or for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of the Transaction Documents, other than the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificate, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur any liability, duty, or obligation to any Noteholder or to any Owner, other than as expressly provided for herein or expressly agreed to in the Transaction Documents;

 

(f)             the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct of the Administrator, the Trust Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer under any of the Transaction Documents or otherwise and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the Trust under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents that are required to be performed by the Administrator under the Administration Agreement, the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, or the Servicer or the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and

 

(g)            the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by the Agreement, or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, at the request, order or direction of any Owner, unless such Owner has offered to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any other Transaction Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act.

 

Section 7.02.         Furnishing of Documents.

 

The Owner Trustee shall furnish to the Owners, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Transaction Documents.

 

Section 7.03.      Representations and Warranties.

 

The Owner Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Trust Depositor and the Owners that:

 

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(a)             It is a national banking association duly formed under the laws of the United States of America and is authorized thereunder to exercise trust powers. It has all requisite corporate and trust power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement.

 

(b)            It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.

 

(c)            Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this Agreement, nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby nor compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene any federal or Delaware law, governmental rule or regulation governing the banking or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or constitute any default under its charter documents or bylaws or any indenture, mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which any of its properties may be bound or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance on the Trust Estate resulting from actions by or claims against the Owner Trustee individually which are unrelated to this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents.

 

(d)            This Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Owner Trustee, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity.

 

(e)             There are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to the Owner Trustee’s actual knowledge, threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Owner Trustee or its properties: (i) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement or (ii) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the Owner Trustee of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party.

 

Section 7.04.          Reliance; Advice of Counsel.

 

(a)             The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of determination of which is not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact or matter and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.

 

(b)            In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into by any of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents or attorneys as shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the written opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such persons.

 

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Section 7.05.         Not Acting in Individual Capacity.

 

Except as provided in this Article Seven, in accepting the trusts hereby created, Wilmington Trust, National Association acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity, and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall look only to the Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.

 

Section 7.06.         Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificate, Notes or Contracts.

 

The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificate (other than the signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificate) shall be taken as the statements of the Trust Depositor, and the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, any other Transaction Document or the Trust Certificate (other than the signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificate) or the Notes, or of any Contract or related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and enforceability of any Contract, or the perfection and priority of any security interest created by any Contract in any Motorcycle or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to the Certificateholder under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, including, without limitation, the existence, condition and ownership of any Motorcycle; the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; the existence and contents of any Contract on any computer or other record thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Contract to the Trust or of any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Contract; the performance or enforcement of any Contract; the compliance by the Trust Depositor or the Servicer with any warranty or representation made under any Transaction Document or in any related document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation; or any action of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer or any subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.

 

Section 7.07.         Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificate and Notes.

 

The Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of the Trust Certificate or Notes and may deal with the Trust Depositor, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.

 

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ARTICLE Eight

 

COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE

 

Section 8.01.         Owner Trustee’s Fees and Expenses.

 

The Owner Trustee shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been separately agreed upon between the Owner Trustee and the Trust Depositor. Additionally, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Trust Depositor for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties hereunder.

 

Section 8.02.         Indemnification.

 

The Trust Depositor shall be liable as primary obligor for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee and its successors, assigns and servants (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively, “Expenses”) which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Owner Trustee or any Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents, the Trust Estate, the administration of the Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except only that the Trust Depositor shall not be liable for or required to indemnify an Indemnified Party from and against Expenses arising or resulting from any of the matters described in the third sentence of Section 7.01. The indemnities contained in this Section shall survive the resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee or the termination of this Agreement. In the event of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity will be sought pursuant to this Section 8.02, the Owner Trustee’s choice of legal counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Trust Depositor, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.

 

Section 8.03.         Payments to the Owner Trustee.

 

Any amounts paid to the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be deemed not to be a part of the Trust Estate immediately after such payment.

 

ARTICLE Nine

 

TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT

 

Section 9.01.          Termination of Trust Agreement.

 

(a)             This Agreement (other than Article Eight) and the Trust shall terminate and be of no further force or effect upon the earlier of (i) the maturity or other liquidation of the last Contract and the disposition of any amounts received upon liquidation of any property remaining in the Trust, (ii) final distribution by the Owner Trustee of all monies or other property or proceeds of the Trust Estate in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and Article Five and (iii) the expiration of 21 years from the death of the last survivor of the descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy, the late Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James’s, living on the date hereof. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity of any Owner shall not (i) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, (ii) entitle such Owner’s legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all or any part of the Trust or Trust Estate or (iii) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.

 

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(b)             Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), neither the Trust Depositor nor any Owner shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.

 

(c)             Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the Distribution Date upon which the Certificateholder shall surrender its Trust Certificate to the Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to the Certificateholder mailed within five (5) Business Days of receipt of notice of such termination from the Servicer given pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, stating (i) the Distribution Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Trust Certificate shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificate at the office of the Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificate at the office of the Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to the Certificateholder. Upon presentation and surrender of a Trust Certificate, the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to the Certificateholder amounts distributable on such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 5.01.

 

(d)            Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by filing a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Statute.

 

ARTICLE Ten

 

SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES

 

Section 10.01.        Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee.

 

The Owner Trustee shall at all times be a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute; authorized to exercise corporate trust powers; and (a)(i) having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities and (ii) having (or having a parent that has) a rating of at least “Baa3” by Moody’s, or (b) that satisfies the Rating Agency Condition. If such corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.02.

 

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Section 10.02.         Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee.

 

The Owner Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by giving written notice thereof to the Administrator. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.

 

If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Administrator, or if at any time the Owner Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then the Administrator may remove the Owner Trustee. If the Administrator shall remove the Owner Trustee under the authority of the immediately preceding sentence, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.

 

Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and payment of all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall provide notice of such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each Rating Agency.

 

Section 10.03.         Successor Owner Trustee.

 

Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Administrator, and to its predecessor Owner Trustee, an instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become effective, and such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and monies held by it under this Agreement; and the Administrator and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.

 

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No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01.

 

Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section, the Administrator shall mail notice thereof to the Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and each Rating Agency.

 

Section 10.04.         Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee.

 

Any corporation into which the Owner 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 Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, that such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01. The Owner Trustee shall, upon any merger, conversion or consolidation described in this Section 10.04, provide notice to the Administrator detailing such merger, conversion or consolidation, including the full legal name, entity type and jurisdiction of formation or incorporation, of each entity involved in such merger, conversion or consolidation. Upon receipt of such notice thereof from the Owner Trustee, the Administrator shall mail notice of such merger or consolidation to each Rating Agency.

 

Section 10.05.         Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.

 

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Estate or any financed Motorcycle may at the time be located, the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by the Administrator and Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to the Trust Estate or any part thereof and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Administrator and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Administrator shall not have joined in such appointment within fifteen (15) days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01 and no notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.03.

 

Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:

 

(a)             all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust Estate or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Owner Trustee;

 

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(b)            no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and

 

(c)             the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.

 

Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of or affording protection to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrator.

 

Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor co-trustee or separate trustee.

 

ARTICLE Eleven

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 11.01.        Supplements and Amendments.

 

(a)             This Agreement may be amended by the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee, without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the Certificateholder, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions in this Agreement or to add any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement that shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, that any such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder or the Certificateholder.

 

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(b)             This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee, with the consent of the Required Holders and the Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Interests, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholder; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (i) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on Contracts or distributions required to be made for the benefit of the Noteholders or the Certificateholder, or (ii) eliminate the requirement for the Certificateholder’s consent or reduce the aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the Certificateholder and Noteholders affected thereby.

 

(c)             Prior to the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Trust Depositor shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent, together with a copy thereof, to the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator and each Rating Agency.

 

(d)             Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to the Certificateholder. It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Certificateholder or the Noteholders pursuant to this Section 11.01 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consent (and any other consent of the Certificateholder provided for in this Agreement or in any other Transaction Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by the Certificateholder shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.

 

(e)             Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the Secretary of State.

 

(f)              Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment that affects the Owner Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

 

Section 11.02.       No Legal Title to Trust Estate in Owners.

 

No Owner shall have legal title to any part of the Trust Estate. The Owners shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect to their undivided ownership interest in the Trust only in accordance with Articles Five and Nine. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Owners to and in their ownership interest in the Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Trust Estate.

 

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Section 11.03.         Limitations on Rights of Others.

 

The provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Trust Depositor, the Owners, the Administrator and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.

 

Section 11.04.         Notices.

 

All notices, demands, certificates, requests and communications hereunder (“notices”) shall be in writing and shall be effective (a) upon receipt when sent through the U.S. mail, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, with such receipt to be effective the date of delivery indicated on the return receipt, or (b) upon receipt when sent through an overnight courier, or (c) on the date personally delivered to an Authorized Officer of the party to which sent, or (d) on the date transmitted by legible telecopier or electronic mail transmission with a confirmation of receipt, in all cases addressed to the recipient at the address for such recipient set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Each party hereto may, by notice given in accordance herewith to each of the other parties hereto, designate any further or different address to which subsequent notices shall be sent.

 

Section 11.05.         Severability of Provisions.

 

If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions, or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Trust Certificate or the rights of the Holder thereof.

 

Section 11.06.         Counterparts; Originals.

 

This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument. The words “execution”, “signed”, “signature” and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Agreement shall include, in addition to manually executed signature pages, images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including “pdf”, “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, any State law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the UCC.

 

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Section 11.07.         Successors and Assigns.

 

All covenants and agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, each of the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee and their respective successors and permitted assigns and each Owner and its successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by an Owner shall bind the successors and assigns of such Owner.

 

Section 11.08.         Covenants of the Trust Depositor.

 

In the event that any litigation with claims in excess of $1,000,000 to which the Trust Depositor is a party which shall be reasonably likely to result in a material judgment against the Trust Depositor that the Trust Depositor will not be able to satisfy shall be commenced, during the period beginning immediately following the commencement of such litigation and continuing until such litigation is dismissed or otherwise terminated (and, if such litigation has resulted in a final judgment against the Trust Depositor, such judgment has been satisfied), the Trust Depositor shall not pay any dividend to the Servicer, or make any distribution on or in respect of its capital stock to the Servicer, or repay the principal amount of any indebtedness of the Trust Depositor held by the Servicer, unless after giving effect to such payment, distribution or repayment, the Trust Depositor’s liquid assets shall not be less than the amount of actual damages claimed in such litigation.

 

Section 11.09.        No Petition.

 

(a)             The Trust Depositor will not at any time institute against the Trust any bankruptcy proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificate, the Notes, this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

(b)            The Owner Trustee, by entering into this Agreement, the Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust Certificate, and the Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the benefits of this Agreement, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute against the Trust Depositor or the Trust, or join in any institution against the Trust Depositor, or the Trust of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, or liquidation proceedings or other similar proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificate, the Notes, this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

Section 11.10.        No Recourse.

 

The Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate acknowledges that such Certificateholder’s Trust Certificate represents beneficial interests in the Trust only and does not represent interests in or obligations of the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Seller, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any of the respective Affiliates (other than the Trust) and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Trust Certificate or the other Transaction Documents.

 

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Section 11.11.         Headings.

 

The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

Section 11.12.         Governing Law.

 

THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

 

Section 11.13.         Trust Certificate Transfer Restrictions.

 

No Trust Certificate or any interest therein may be acquired or held by or for the account of, or with the assets of, a Benefit Plan. By accepting and holding a Trust Certificate, the Holder thereof shall be required to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan and that it is not acquiring and will not hold such Trust Certificate or any interest therein for the account of, or with the assets of, a Benefit Plan.

 

Section 11.14.         Trust Depositor Payment Obligation.

 

The Trust Depositor shall be responsible for payment of the Administrator’s compensation pursuant to Section 3 of the Administration Agreement and shall reimburse the Administrator for all expenses and liabilities of the Administrator incurred thereunder.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING
  CORP., as Trust Depositor
                                     
  By: /s/ David Viney

  Printed Name: David Viney

  Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

  WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
  as Owner Trustee
                                
  By: /s/ Drew Davis

  Printed Name: Drew Davis

  Title: Vice President

  

Signature Page to Trust Agreement

 

 

 

  Acknowledged and Agreed:
   
  CITIBANK, N.A.
   
  By: /s/ Trang Tran-Rojas

  Printed Name: Trang Tran-Rojas

  Title: Senior Trust Officer

 

Signature Page to Trust Agreement

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

Form of Certificate of Trust of 

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A

 

This Certificate of Trust of Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Trust”), dated December 1, 2022, is being duly executed and filed by Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, as Owner Trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del. Code, § 3801 et seq.).

 

1.            Name. The name of the statutory trust formed hereby is Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A.

 

2.            Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the Owner Trustee of the Trust in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust, National Association, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1605.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole Owner Trustee of the Trust, has executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first above written.

 

  WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
  not in its individual capacity but solely as
  Owner Trustee
     
  By:  

  Printed Name:  

  Title:  

  

 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE

 

THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE TRUST (AS DEFINED BELOW) AND IS ENTITLED TO PAYMENTS AS DESCRIBED IN THE SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT AND INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREIN.

 

THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN OBLIGATION OF OR AN INTEREST IN HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP., HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP. OR ANY AFFILIATE THEREOF, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT SET FORTH IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT. THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR PLEDGED UNLESS THE CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN SECTIONS 3.01, 3.04 AND 11.13 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT HAVE BEEN COMPLIED WITH.

 

NEITHER THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE ACQUIRED OR HELD BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OR WITH THE ASSETS OF (A) AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”)), THAT IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA, (B) A PLAN SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED OR (C) ANY ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN’S OR A PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY (A “BENEFIT PLAN”).

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A
TRUST CERTIFICATE

 

NO. 1 Certificate Interest: 100%

 

THIS CERTIFIES THAT HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP. is the registered owner of 100% of the non-assessable, fully-paid, fractional undivided beneficial interest in the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Trust”) formed by Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., a Nevada corporation (the “Trust Depositor”).

 

The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement, dated as of March 20, 2024 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Trust Agreement”), between the Trust Depositor, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in (i) the Trust Agreement, (ii) the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Sale and Servicing Agreement”), among the Trust, the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. (“Harley-Davidson Credit”), as Servicer (in such capacity, the “Servicer”) and Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), or (iii) the Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Indenture”), between the Trust and the Indenture Trustee.

 

 

 

This Trust Certificate is a duly authorized Trust Certificate designated as “Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A Certificate” (the “Trust Certificate”). Issued under the Indenture are four classes of notes designated as “5.540% Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes, Class A-1,5.65% Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes, Class A-2, 5.37% Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes, Class A-3, and “5.29% Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes, Class A-4” (collectively, the “Notes”). This Trust Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the Holder of this Trust Certificate by virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound. The property of the Trust includes, among other things, (i) all the right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Contracts listed on the List of Contracts delivered on the Closing Date (including, without limitation, all security interests created thereunder), (ii) all rights of the Trust Depositor to payments which are collected pursuant thereto after the Cutoff Date, including any liquidation proceeds therefrom, (iii) all rights of the Trust Depositor under any theft, physical damage, credit life, disability or other individual insurance policy (and rights under a “forced placed” policy, if any), any debt insurance policy or any debt cancellation agreement relating to any such Contract, an Obligor or a Motorcycle securing such Contract, (iv) all security interests in each such Motorcycle, (v) all documents contained in the related Contract Files, (vi) all rights of the Trust Depositor in the Lockbox, the Lockbox Account and the related Lockbox Agreement to the extent they relate to the Contracts (but excluding payments received on or before the Cutoff Date), (vii) all rights (but not the obligations) of the Trust Depositor under the Transfer and Sale Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s rights under Article V thereof, (viii) the remittances, deposits and payments made into the Trust Accounts from time to time and amounts in the Trust Accounts from time to time (and any investments of such amounts), (ix) all rights of the Trust Depositor to certain rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies, debt cancellation agreements, extended service contracts or other repair and protection agreements and other items financed under such Contracts, and (x) all proceeds and products of the foregoing.

 

Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on each Distribution Date to the person in whose name this Trust Certificate is registered as of the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Distribution Date (each, a “Record Date”), such Certificateholder’s fractional undivided beneficial interest in the amount to be distributed to such Certificateholder on such Distribution Date.

 

The holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights to receive distributions in respect of this Trust Certificate are subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders to the extent described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture.

 

 

 

It is the intention of Harley-Davidson Credit, the Servicer, the Trust Depositor, Owner Trustee, Indenture Trustee and the Certificateholder that, in the event there is only one Certificateholder, the Trust be disregarded as a separate entity pursuant to Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(b)(1)(ii) as in effect for periods after January 1, 1997. The Trust Depositor has agreed in the Trust Agreement and the Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agrees not to take any action inconsistent with such intended federal income tax treatment. Because for federal income tax purposes the Trust will be disregarded as a separate entity, Trust items of income, gain, loss and deduction for any month as determined for federal income tax purposes shall be allocated entirely to the Trust Depositor (or subsequent purchaser of the Trust Certificate) as the sole Certificateholder.

 

Solely in the event the Trust Certificates are held by more than a single Certificateholder, it is the intent of the Trust Depositor, the Servicer and the Certificateholders that, solely for purposes of federal income, state and local income and single business tax and any other income taxes, the Trust will be treated as a partnership and the Certificateholders will be treated as partners in the partnership. The purchaser hereof and the other Certificateholders, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Trust Certificates for such tax purposes as partnership interests in the Trust.

 

The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate or beneficial interest in a Trust Certificate, covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder will not at any time institute against the Trust or the Trust Depositor, or join in any institution against the Trust or the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Credit or the Servicer any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificate, the Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement by wire transfer or check mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Trust Certificate will be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained for that purpose by the Owner Trustee in the City of Wilmington, Delaware.

  

 

 

This Trust Certificate does not represent an obligation of, or an interest in the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Credit, as the Seller or Servicer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates (other than the Trust) and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement or the other Transaction Documents. In addition, this Trust Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections and recoveries with respect to the Contracts and certain other amounts, in each case as more specifically set forth herein and in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. A copy of each of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined by any Certificateholder upon written request during normal business hours at the principal office of the Trust Depositor and at such other places, if any, designated by the Trust Depositor.

 

The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Trust Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholder under the Trust Agreement at any time by the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the consent of the Holder of this Trust Certificate. Any such consent by the Holder of this Trust Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and on all future Holders of this Trust Certificate and of any Trust Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Trust Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holder of this Trust Certificate.

 

As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Trust Certificate is registrable in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Trust Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Trust Certificates evidencing the same aggregate Certificate Interest in the Trust will be issued to the designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is the Owner Trustee.

 

The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any of their respective agents may treat the Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

 

 

 

The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to the Certificateholder of all amounts required to be paid to it pursuant to the Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust Estate. The Servicer may at its option purchase the Trust Estate at a price specified in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the Contracts and other property of the Trust will affect final payment of the Trust Certificates; however, such right of purchase is exercisable only as of any Distribution Date on which the Pool Balance has declined to less than 10% of the Pool Balance on the Cutoff Date.

 

Neither this Trust Certificate nor any interest herein may be acquired or held by, or for the account of, or with the assets of, a Benefit Plan. The Holder hereof, by accepting and holding a beneficial interest in this Trust Certificate, shall be required to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan and is not acquiring and will not hold this Trust Certificate or an interest herein for the account of, or with the assets of, a Benefit Plan.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual signature, this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or any other Transaction Document or be valid for any purpose.

 

THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in its individual capacity, has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly executed.

 

Dated: May 1, 2024 Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A
     
  By:  
   

Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee

     
  By:  
    Authorized Signatory

 

OWNER TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is the Trust Certificate referred to in the within-mentioned Trust Agreement.

 

Wilmington Trust, National Association,

 
not in its individual capacity but solely  
as Owner Trustee  
   
By:    
  Authorized Signatory  
   

 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

 

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR 

OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 

(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
 
the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
 
to transfer said Trust Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of substitution in the premises.
   
Dated:      
       
Signature Guaranteed:  
   
     
NOTICE: Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution.   NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Trust Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

  

 

 

EXHIBIT C

 

FORM OF TRANSFEREE CERTIFICATE

 

[          ], 20__

 

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, 

as Issuer  

c/o Wilmington Trust, National Association, 

as Owner Trustee

 

Wilmington Trust, National Association, 

as Owner Trustee

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

All capitalized terms not defined in this certificate shall have the meaning assigned to them in Sections 1.01 and 1.02 of that certain Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated May 1, 2024, by and between Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., as trust depositor (the “Trust Depositor”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”). In connection with our proposed purchase of 100% Certificate Interest Trust Certificate (the “Trust Certificate”) of Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Trust”), a trust formed by the Trust Depositor, we confirm that:

 

(a)             We acknowledge that the Trust Certificate has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any jurisdiction.

 

(b)             We neither have acquired nor will we transfer the Trust Certificate we purchase (or any interest therein) or cause the Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) to be marketed on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without limitation, an over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations;

 

(c)             We either (i) are not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (or a disregarded entity of any of the foregoing) or (ii) are such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in us have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more of the value of such interests in us to be attributable to our ownership of Trust Certificate.

 

(d)             We (i) are acquiring the Trust Certificate for the account of [______] Persons and we will notify the Owner Trustee of any changes in the number of such Persons and (B) understand that any such change in the number of Persons for whose account the Trust Certificate is held shall require the written consent of the Owner Trustee, which consent shall be granted unless the Owner Trustee determines that such proposed change in number of Persons would create a risk that the Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation.

 

 

 

(e)             We understand that no subsequent transfer of the Trust Certificate is permitted unless (i) such transfer is of a Trust Certificate with a Certificate Interest of at least 5%, (ii) we cause the proposed transferee to provide to the Owner Trustee and the Trust Depositor a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C to the Trust Agreement or such other written statement as the Owner Trustee shall prescribe and (iii) the Trust consents in writing to the proposed transfer, which consent shall be granted unless the Owner Trustee determines that such transfer would create a risk that the Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation; provided, however, that any attempted transfer that would either cause the number of registered holders of Trust Certificates in the aggregate to exceed 100 or otherwise cause the Trust to become a publicly traded partnership for income tax purposes shall be a void transfer.

 

(f)              We understand that the Opinion of Counsel to the Trust that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs (b) through (e) above.

 

(g)             We are a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

 

(h)             The Trust Certificate will not be acquired or held by or for the account of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of an employee benefit plan’s or a plan’s investment in the entity.  Each Person who acquires the Trust Certificate or interest therein will certify that the foregoing conditions are satisfied.

 

(i)              We are aware that we (or any account for which we are purchasing) may be required to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Trust Certificate for an indefinite period, and we (or such account) are able to bear such risk for an indefinite period.

 

(j)              We acknowledge that the Owner Trustee, the Trust Depositor, and their Affiliates, and others will rely upon the truth and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations and agreements.

 

 

 

You are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

  Very truly yours,
     
  By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  

  

EX-4.2 3 tm2413280d9_ex4-2.htm EXHIBIT 4.2

 

Exhibit 4.2

 

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A, 

as Issuer,

 

and

 

CITIBANK, N.A., 

as Indenture Trustee

  

 

 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of May 1, 2024

 

 

 

Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes

 

  

 

 

 

CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

 

TIA Indenture
Section Section
310(a)(1) 6.11
(a)(2) 6.11
(a)(3) 6.10
(a)(4) N.A.
(a)(5) 6.11
(b) 6.08; 6.11; 11.04
311(a) 6.13
(b) 6.13
312(a) 7.01; 7.02
(b) 7.02
(c) 7.02
313(a) 7.04
(b) 7.04
(c) 7.04
(d) 7.04
314(a) 7.03
(b) 3.06
(c)(1) 2.02; 6.02; 11.01
(c)(2) 11.01
(c)(3) 11.01
(d) 11.01
(e) 11.01
(f) N.A.
315(a) 6.01
(b) 6.05
(c) 6.01
(d) 5.12; 6.01
(e) 5.14
316(a)(1)(A) 5.12
(a)(1)(B) 5.02
(a)(2) N.A.*
(b) 5.08
(c) N.A.
317(a) 5.03; 5.04
(b) 3.03
318(a) 11.18

  

*N.A. means Not Applicable

**This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE2
     
Section 1.01. Definitions 2
Section 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act 9
Section 1.03. Rules of Construction 9
     
ARTICLE TWO THE NOTES 10
     
Section 2.01. Form 10
Section 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery 10
Section 2.03. Temporary Notes 10
Section 2.04. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange 11
Section 2.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes 12
Section 2.06. Persons Deemed Owner 13
Section 2.07. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest 13
Section 2.08. Cancellation 14
Section 2.09. Book-Entry Notes 14
Section 2.10. Notices to Clearing Agency 15
Section 2.11. Definitive Notes 15
Section 2.12. Release of Collateral 16
Section 2.13. Tax Treatment 16
     
ARTICLE THREE COVENANTS 16
     
Section 3.01. Payment of Principal and Interest 16
Section 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency 16
Section 3.03. Money for Payments to be Held in Trust 17
Section 3.04. Existence 18
Section 3.05. Protection of Collateral 18
Section 3.06. Opinions as to Collateral 19
Section 3.07. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Contracts 19
Section 3.08. Negative Covenants 20
Section 3.09. Annual Statement as to Compliance 20
Section 3.10. Issuer May Consolidate, etc. Only on Certain Terms 21
Section 3.11. Successor or Transferee 22
Section 3.12. No Other Business 22
Section 3.13. No Borrowing 22
Section 3.14. Servicer’s Obligations 22
Section 3.15. Guarantees, Loans Advances and Other Liabilities 22
Section 3.16. Capital Expenditures 23

 

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Section 3.17. Restricted Payments 23
Section 3.18. Notice of Events of Default 23
Section 3.19. Further Instruments and Acts 23
Section 3.20. Compliance with Laws 23
Section 3.21. Amendments of Sale and Servicing Agreement and Trust Agreement 23
Section 3.22. Removal of Administrator 23
Section 3.23. Creation of a Valid Security Interest 23
Section 3.24. FATCA Compliance 24
     
ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE 24
     
Section 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture 24
Section 4.02. Application of Trust Money 25
Section 4.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent 25
Section 4.04. Release of Collateral 25
     
ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES 26
     
Section 5.01. Events of Default 26
Section 5.02. Rights Upon Event of Default 27
Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee; Authority of Indenture Trustee 27
Section 5.04. Remedies 29
Section 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Collateral 29
Section 5.06. Priorities 30
Section 5.07. Limitation of Suits 30
Section 5.08. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest 30
Section 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies 30
Section 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative 31
Section 5.11. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver 31
Section 5.12. Control by Noteholders 31
Section 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults 31
Section 5.14. Undertaking for Costs 32
Section 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws 32
Section 5.16. Action on Notes 32
Section 5.17. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations 32
     
ARTICLE SIX THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE 33
     
Section 6.01. Duties of Indenture Trustee 33
Section 6.02. Rights of Indenture Trustee 34
Section 6.03. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee 36
Section 6.04. Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer 36
Section 6.05. Notice of Defaults 36
Section 6.06. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders 36
Section 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity 36
Section 6.08. Replacement of Indenture Trustee 37
Section 6.09. Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger 38

 

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Section 6.10. Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee 38
Section 6.11. Eligibility 40
Section 6.12. Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act Licenses 40
Section 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer 41
Section 6.14. Direction to Enter into the Administration Agreement 41
Section 6.15. Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee 41
     
ARTICLE SEVEN NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS; Noteholder Communication 41
     
Section 7.01. Issuer to Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders 41
Section 7.02. Preservation of Information: Communication to Noteholders 42
Section 7.03. Communications Between the Noteholders 42
Section 7.04. Noteholder Demand for Asset Representations Review 42
Section 7.05. Reports by Issuer 43
Section 7.06. Reports by Indenture Trustee 43
     
ARTICLE EIGHT ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES 43
     
Section 8.01. Collection of Money 43
Section 8.02. Trust Accounts 44
Section 8.03. General Provisions Regarding Accounts 44
Section 8.04. Release of Collateral 45
Section 8.05. Opinion of Counsel 45
     
ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES 46
     
Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders 46
Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders 47
Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures 48
Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture 48
Section 9.05. Conformity With Trust Indenture Act 48
Section 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures 48
     
ARTICLE TEN REDEMPTION OF NOTES 48
     
Section 10.01. Redemption 48
Section 10.02. Form of Redemption Notice 49
Section 10.03. Notes Payable on Redemption Date 49
     
ARTICLE ELEVEN MISCELLANEOUS 49
     
Section 11.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. 49
Section 11.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee 51
Section 11.03. Acts of Noteholders 52
Section 11.04. Notices 52
Section 11.05. Electronic Signatures and Transmission 52
Section 11.06. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver 53
Section 11.07. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions 54
Section 11.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents 54

 

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Section 11.09. Successors and Assigns 54
Section 11.10. Separability 54
Section 11.11. Benefits of Indenture 54
Section 11.12. Legal Holidays 54
Section 11.13. Governing Law 54
Section 11.14. Waiver of Jury Trial 54
Section 11.15 Submission to Jurisdiction 54
Section 11.16 Counterparts; Originals 55
Section 11.17. Recording of Indenture 55
Section 11.18. Trust Obligation 55
Section 11.19. No Petition 55
Section 11.20. Inspection 55
Section 11.21. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act 56
Section 11.22. Disclaimer and Subordination 56
Section 11.23. Communications with Rating Agencies 57

 

EXHIBITS                                                                   Page
 
Exhibit A-1            Form of Class A-1 Note       A-1-1
Exhibit A-2            Form of Class A-2 Note       A-2-1
Exhibit A-3            Form of Class A-3 Note       A-3-1
Exhibit A-4            Form of Class A-4 Note       A-4-1
Exhibit B                 Form of Note Depository Agreement       B-1

 

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INDENTURE

 

THIS INDENTURE, dated as of May 1, 2024 (this “Indenture”), is entered into by and between Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuer”), and Citibank, N.A., as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”).

 

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Issuer’s Notes.

 

GRANTING CLAUSE

 

The Issuer hereby Grants, transfers, assigns and otherwise conveys to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date, on behalf of and for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, without recourse, all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest (exclusive of the amount, if any, allocable to any rebatable insurance premium financed by any Contract) in, to and under: (i) the Contracts secured by the Motorcycles (which Contracts shall be listed in the List of Contracts); (ii) all payments of principal and interest under the Contracts received after the Cutoff Date and all other proceeds received on or in respect of such Contracts (other than payments of principal and interest received on or prior to the Cutoff Date); (iii) security interests in the Motorcycles; (iv) all amounts on deposit in the Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account and the Reserve Fund, including all Eligible Investments therein and all income from the investment of funds therein and all proceeds therefrom; (v) proceeds from claims under any theft, physical damage, credit life, disability or other individual insurance policies, voluntary protection products, debt insurance policies or debt cancellation agreements in respect of individual Motorcycles or obligors under the Contracts; (vi) the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Transfer and Sale Agreement; (vii) the protective security interest in certain of the above-described property granted by the Trust Depositor in favor of the Issuer; (viii) rebates of premiums and other amounts, if any, relating to insurance policies, debt cancellation agreements, extended service contracts or other repair agreements and other items financed under such Contracts; (ix) all present and future claims, demands, causes of and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing; and (x) all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, into cash of other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing (as each such defined term is defined in Section 1.01) (collectively, the “Collateral”).

 

The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, except as expressly provided herein with respect to distinctions among Classes of Notes and all other sums owing by the Issuer hereunder or under any other Transaction Document, and to secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture.

 

The Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Notes, acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trust under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and agrees to perform its duties required under this Indenture in accordance with its terms and the terms of the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

 

 

 

ARTICLE One

 

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

Section 1.01.          Definitions.

 

Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the following terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all purposes of this Indenture.

 

Act” has the meaning specified in Section 11.03(a).

 

“Administration Agreement” means the Administration Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Administrator, the Issuer, the Trust Depositor and the Indenture Trustee.

 

“Administrator” means Harley-Davidson Credit or any successor Administrator under the Administration Agreement.

 

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person controlling or controlled by or under common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

Asset Representations Review Agreement” means the Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Issuer, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and the Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

Asset Representations Reviewer” means Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

“Authorized Officer” means, (i) with respect to the Issuer, any officer of the Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters relating to the Issuer and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter) and (ii) so long as the Administration Agreement is in effect, any Vice President or more senior officer of the Administrator who is authorized to act for the Administrator in matters relating to the Issuer and to be acted upon by the Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Administrator to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter).

 

“Beneficial Owner” means, with respect to a Book-Entry Note, the Person in whose name such Book-Entry Note is recorded as beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Note by a Clearing Agency under a book-entry system, or by a participant or indirect participant in such Clearing Agency, as the case may be.

 

“Book-Entry Notes” means a beneficial interest in the Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.09.

 

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“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in the cities of Chicago, Illinois, Wilmington, Delaware, Jersey City, New Jersey or New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law, executive order or governmental decree to be closed.

  

“Calculation Agent” means the Indenture Trustee, or any successor Calculation Agent appointed as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

“Class” means all Notes whose form is identical except for variation in denomination, principal amount or owner.

 

“Class A-1 Notes” means the Class A-1 Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.

 

“Class A-1 Rate” has the meaning set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

“Class A-2 Notes” means the Class A-2 Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2.

 

“Class A-2 Rate” has the meaning set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

“Class A-3 Notes” means the Class A-3 Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3.

 

“Class A-3 Rate” has the meaning set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

“Class A-4 Notes” means the Class A-4 Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-4.

 

“Class A-4 Rate” has the meaning set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

“Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act. The initial Clearing Agency will be DTC.

 

“Clearing Agency Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

 

Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

Collateral” means the Collateral Granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

 

“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Indenture Trustee at which at any particular time its activities under this Indenture shall be administered, which office at date of the execution of this Indenture is located at 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10113, Attention: Agency & Trust – HDMOT 2024-A; provided, however, for the purposes of surrendering Notes to the Trustee, the office is located at 480 Washington Boulevard, Jersey City, New Jersey 07310, Attention: Agency & Trust – HDMOT 2024-A; or at such other address as the Indenture Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and the Issuer, or the designated corporate trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee (the address of which the successor Indenture Trustee will notify the Noteholders and the Issuer)

 

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“Default” means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.

 

“Definitive Notes” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.09.

 

Delinquency Trigger” means, for any Due Period, that the aggregate Principal Balance of Contracts that are sixty (60) days or more Delinquent (assuming 30-day months) as a percentage of the Pool Balance as of the last day of the Due Period exceeds 6.00%.

 

Delinquent” means, as of a date of determination, a Contract with a past due amount great than 10% of the scheduled payment then due; provided, no Contract with a past due amount of $10 or less shall be deemed “Delinquent.”

 

“Distribution Date” has the meaning set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, and its successors and assigns.

 

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

 

“Event of Default” shall have the meaning specified in Section 5.01.

 

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

“Executive Officer” means, with respect to any corporation or limited liability company, the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the Secretary or the Treasurer of such corporation or limited liability company; and with respect to any partnership, any general partner thereof.

 

FATCA” shall mean the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, as amended.

 

FATCA Withholding Tax” shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.24.

 

Fitch” means Fitch Ratings, Inc., or any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

 

Grant” means mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create and grant a lien upon and a security interest in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to this Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the Collateral and all other moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.

 

“Harley-Davidson Credit” means Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., and its successors and assigns.

 

“Holder” or “Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Note Register.

 

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“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person at any time, (i) indebtedness or liability of such Person for borrowed money whether or not evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other instruments, or for the deferred purchase price of property or services (including trade obligations); (ii) obligations of such Person as lessee under leases which should have been or should be, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, recorded as capital leases; (iii) current liabilities of such Person in respect of unfunded vested benefits under plans covered by Title IV of ERISA; (iv) obligations issued for or liabilities incurred on the account of such Person; (v) obligations or liabilities of such Person arising under acceptance facilities; (vi) obligations of such Person under any guaranties, endorsements (other than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business) and other contingent obligations to purchase, to provide funds for payment, to supply funds to invest in any Person or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss; (vii) obligations secured by any lien on property or assets of such Person, whether or not the obligations have been assumed by such Person; or (viii) obligations of such Person under any interest rate or currency exchange agreement.

 

“Indenture” means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

 

“Indenture Trustee” means Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee under this Indenture, or any successor Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

 

“Independent” means, when used with respect to any specified Person, that the Person (i) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Trust Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer and any of their respective Affiliates, (ii) does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Trust Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer or any of their respective Affiliates, and (iii) is not connected with the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Trust Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.

 

“Independent Certificate” means a certificate or opinion to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01, made by an Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care, and such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition of “Independent” in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof.

 

“Interest Rate” means the Class A-1 Rate, the Class A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, and/or the Class A-4 Rate, as applicable.

 

“Issuer” means Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the Notes.

 

“Issuer Order” and “Issuer Request” means a written order or request signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

 

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

 

“Note” means, as the context requires, a Class A-1 Note, a Class A-2 Note, a Class A-3 Note or a Class A-4 Note.

 

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“Note Depository Agreement” means one or more agreements dated as of the Closing Date, executed by the Issuer, relating to the Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

  

“Note Register” and “Note Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 2.04.

 

Noteholder FATCA Information” shall mean information sufficient to eliminate the imposition of, or determine the amount of, U.S. withholding tax under FATCA.

 

“Noteholder Tax Identification Information” means information and/or properly completed and signed tax certifications sufficient to eliminate the imposition of or to determine the amount of any withholding of tax imposed on payments to the provider, and to allow the recipient to comply with any reporting or other obligations under any applicable tax law, including but not limited to Internal Revenue Service Form W-9, W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E, W-8ECI or W-8IMY, as applicable, and any required supporting documentation.

 

“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by any Authorized Officer of the Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01, and delivered to, the Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any reference in this Indenture to an Officer’s Certificate shall be to an Officer’s Certificate of any Authorized Officer of the Issuer.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means one or more written opinions of counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be employees of or counsel to the Issuer and who shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, which shall comply with any applicable requirements of Section 11.01 and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee.

 

“Outstanding” means, as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture except:

 

(i)             Notes theretofore cancelled by the Note Registrar or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation;

 

(ii)           Notes or portions thereof the payment for which money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Notes (provided, however, that if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision for such notice has been made, satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, has been made); and

 

(iii)          Notes in exchange for or in lieu of other Notes which have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a protected purchaser, within the meaning of § 8-303 of the UCC;

 

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Outstanding Amount have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any other Transaction Document, Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Credit or any of their respective Affiliates shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that the Indenture Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Credit or any of their respective Affiliates.

  

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“Outstanding Amount” means the aggregate principal amount of all Notes of one or more Classes, as the case may be, Outstanding at the date of determination.

 

“Owner Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, or any successor trustee under the Trust Agreement.

 

“Paying Agent” means the Indenture Trustee or any other Person that meets the eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in Section 6.11 and is authorized by the Issuer to make the distributions from the Note Distribution Account, including payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on behalf of the Issuer.

 

“Permitted Lien” means, any tax lien, mechanics’ lien and other lien that arises by operation of law, in each case on a Motorcycle and arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the related Obligor.

 

“Person” means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

 

“Plan” means an employee benefit plan, as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to Title I of ERISA or a plan, as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code.

 

“Predecessor Note” means, with respect to any particular Note, every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and for the purpose of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.05 in lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.

 

“Proceeding” means any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative proceeding.

 

“Rating Agency” means each of Moody’s and Fitch, so long as such Persons maintain a rating on the Notes; and if either of Moody’s and Fitch no longer maintains a rating on the Notes, such other nationally recognized statistical rating organization selected by the Trust Depositor.

 

“Record Date” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Distribution Date.

 

“Redemption Date” means, in the case of a redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or a payment to Noteholders pursuant to Section 10.01(b), the Distribution Date specified by the Servicer or the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or 10.01(b), as the case may be.

 

“Redemption Date Amount” means (i) in the case of a redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 10.01(a), an amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the applicable Interest Rate for each Class of Notes being so redeemed to but excluding the Redemption Date, or (ii) in the case of a payment made to Noteholders pursuant to Section 10.01(b), the amount on deposit in the Note Distribution Account, after prior applications pursuant to Section 5.06(a), but not in excess of the amount specified in clause (i) above.

 

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“Registered Holder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.

 

“Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Indenture Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office (or any successor group of the Indenture Trustee), including any Vice President, assistant secretary or other officer or assistant officer of the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the people who at such time shall be officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

 

“Review” has the meaning stated in the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

 

“Review Contracts” means, for a Review, the Contracts sixty (60) days or more Delinquent (assuming 30 day months) as of the last day of the Due Period before the Review Demand Date stated in the Review Notice.

 

“Review Demand Date” means, for a Review, the date when the Indenture Trustee determines that each of (a) the Delinquency Trigger has occurred and (b) the required percentage of Noteholders has voted to direct a Review under Section 7.04 hereof.

 

“Review Notice” means the notice from the Indenture Trustee to the Asset Representations Reviewer and the Servicer directing the Asset Representations Reviewer to perform a Review.

 

“Sale and Servicing Agreement” means the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Issuer, the Trust Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer.

 

“Seller” means Harley-Davidson Credit, in its capacity as Seller under the Transfer and Sale Agreement, and any successors and assigns.

 

“Servicer” means Harley-Davidson Credit, in its capacity as Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and any Successor Servicer thereunder.

 

“Similar Law” means any foreign, federal, state or local law with provisions substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

 

“State” means any one of the 50 states of the United States or any of its territories, or the District of Columbia.

 

“Termination Date” means the date on which the Indenture Trustee shall have received payment and performance of all amounts and obligations which the Issuer may owe to or on behalf of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders under this Indenture or the Notes.

 

“Trust Depositor” shall mean Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., in its capacity as Trust Depositor under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

 

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“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the date hereof and from time to time in the State of New York, provided, that if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, the perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority of the security interests in any Collateral or the availability of any remedy hereunder is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on or after the date hereof in any other jurisdiction, “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority or availability of such remedy.

  

“United States” means the United States of America.

 

Section 1.02.      Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

 

“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“indenture securities” means the Notes.

 

“indenture security holder” means a Noteholder.

 

“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

 

“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Indenture Trustee.

 

“obligor” on the indenture securities means the Issuer and any other obligor on the indenture securities.

 

All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.

 

Section 1.03.      Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(i)           a term has the meaning assigned to it;

 

(ii)          an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time;

 

(iii)        “or” is not exclusive;

 

(iv)        “including” means including without limitation;

 

(v)         words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular;

 

(vi)        any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended, modified or supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments) references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein; references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns; and

 

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(vii)        the words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Indenture shall refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Indenture; Section and subsection references contained in this Indenture are references to Sections and subsections in or to this Indenture unless otherwise specified.

  

ARTICLE Two

 

THE NOTES

 

Section 2.01.      Form. The Notes, in each case together with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 through A-4, as applicable, 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, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note.

 

The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibits hereto are part of the terms of this Indenture.

 

Section 2.02.      Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile. Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.

 

The Indenture Trustee shall, upon receipt of an Issuer Order, authenticate and deliver the Notes for original issue in the Classes and aggregate principal amounts as set forth below:

 

Class  

Aggregate Initial
Principal Amount

 
Class A-1   $89,000,000 
Class A-2   $192,165,000 
Class A-3   $242,165,000 
Class A-4   $55,619,000 

 

The aggregate principal amount of such Classes of Notes Outstanding at any time may not exceed such respective amounts, except as otherwise provided in Section 2.05.

 

Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall initially be issuable as registered Notes in minimum denominations of $1,000 and multiples thereof.

 

No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein by the Indenture Trustee by the manual or electronic signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

 

Section 2.03.      Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Book-Entry Notes or Definitive Notes, the Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, of the tenor of the definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such variations not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

 

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If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer will cause Book-Entry Notes or Definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of Book-Entry Notes or Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Book-Entry Notes or Definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like tenor and principal amount of definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Book-Entry Notes or Definitive Notes.

 

Section 2.04.      Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The Issuer shall cause to be kept a register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of Notes. The Indenture Trustee shall be “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar.

 

If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, the Issuer will give the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Note Register, and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the principal amounts and the amounts and number of such Notes.

 

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of the same Class in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.

 

At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same Class in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

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

 

Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company located, or having a correspondent located in the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located, or by a member firm of a national securities exchange, and such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require.

 

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No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuer or the Indenture 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 Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.03 not involving any transfer.

 

Each Person that acquires a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note shall be required to represent, or in the case of a Book-Entry Note, will be deemed to represent by its acceptance of the Note, that (i) it is not, and is not acquiring and will not hold the Note or a beneficial interest in the Note on behalf of or with “plan assets” (as determined under Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise) of a Plan, or any employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law, or (ii) its acquisition, holding and disposition of the Note or a beneficial interest in the Note do not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or any Similar Law. Any transfer with respect to which the representation in clause (i) or (ii) above is not true shall be void ab initio.

 

The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be required to make and the Note Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of Notes selected for redemption or of any Note for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Note.

 

(i)  the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee will be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture (including the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole holder of the Notes, and shall have no obligation to the Noteholders;

 

(ii)  the rights of Noteholders will be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and will be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Noteholders and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants pursuant to the Depository Agreement;

 

(iii)  whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Clearing Agency will be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it has received instructions to such effect from Noteholders and/or Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes and has delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee; and

 

(iv)  without the consent of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, no Note may be transferred by the Clearing Agency except to a successor Clearing Agency that agrees to hold such Note for the account of the Owners or except upon the election of the Owner thereof or a subsequent transferee to hold such Note in physical form.

 

Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Registrar shall have any responsibility to monitor or restrict the transfer of beneficial ownership in any Note an interest in which is transferable through the facilities of the Clearing Agency.

 

Section 2.05.      Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to hold the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, within the meaning of § 8-303 of the UCC, the Issuer shall execute and upon its request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of the same Class and denomination; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven (7) days shall be due and payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date without surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a protected purchaser, within the meaning of § 8-303 of the UCC, of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a protected purchaser, within the meaning of § 8-303 of the UCC, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.

  

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Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar) connected therewith.

 

Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in replacement of any destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note 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 Notes duly issued hereunder.

 

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

 

Section 2.06.      Persons Deemed Owner. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, and any of their respective agents may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any of their respective agents shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

Section 2.07.      Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest.

 

(a)            Each Class of Notes shall accrue interest at the related Interest Rate, and such interest shall be payable on each Distribution Date, as specified therein, subject to Section 3.01. Any installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note which is punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Distribution Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such Person and except for the final installment of principal payable with respect to such Note on a Distribution Date or on the related Final Distribution Date, as the case may be (and except for the Redemption Price for any Note called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.01), which shall be payable as provided below.

  

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(b)            The principal of each Note shall be payable on each Distribution Date to the extent provided in the form of the related Class of Notes set forth as an Exhibit hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable, if not previously paid, on the date on which the maturity of the Notes has been accelerated in the manner provided in Section 5.02. All principal payments on each Class of Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such Class entitled thereto. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding the Distribution Date on which the Issuer expects that the final installment of principal of and interest on such Note will be paid. Such notice shall be mailed within five (5) Business Days of receipt of notice of termination of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.01(c) of the Trust Agreement and shall specify that such final installment will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be presented and surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.02.

 

(c)            If the Issuer defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, the Issuer shall pay defaulted interest (plus interest on such defaulted interest to the extent lawful) at the applicable Interest Rate in any lawful manner. The Issuer may pay such defaulted interest to the Persons who are Noteholders on a subsequent special record date, which date shall be at least five (5) Business Days prior to the related payment date. The Issuer shall fix or cause to be fixed any such special record date and payment date and, at least fifteen (15) days before any such special record date, the Issuer shall mail to the Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest to be paid.

 

Section 2.08.      Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Order that they be destroyed or returned to it; provided that such Issuer Order is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture Trustee.

 

Section 2.09.      Book-Entry Notes.

 

The Notes, upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of a printed Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to DTC, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer (or held by the Indenture Trustee as custodian for DTC). Such Notes shall initially be registered on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Noteholder will receive a Definitive Note representing such Noteholder’s interest in such Note, except as provided in Section 2.11. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Notes (the “Definitive Notes”) have been issued to Noteholders pursuant to Section 2.11:

 

(i)           the provisions of this Section shall be in full force and effect;

 

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(ii)          the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture (including the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole holder of the Notes, and shall have no obligation to the Noteholders;

  

(iii)         to the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section shall control;

 

(iv)         the rights of Noteholders shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Noteholders and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants;

 

(v)           whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based upon instructions or directions of Noteholders evidencing a specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount, the Clearing Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it has received instructions to such effect from Noteholders and/or Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes and has delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee; and

 

(vi)          pursuant to the Note Depository Agreement, unless and until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 2.11, the Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on the Notes to such Clearing Agency Participants.

 

Section 2.10.      Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other communication to the Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to Noteholders pursuant to Section 2.11, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to Noteholders of the Notes to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to the Noteholders.

 

Section 2.11.      Definitive Notes. If (i)(A) the Administrator advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities as described in the applicable Note Depository Agreement, and (B) the Indenture Trustee or the Administrator is unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Administrator or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, notifies the Clearing Agency of its intent to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency and requests a withdrawal of the Book-Entry Notes held by the Clearing Agency, and after receipt by the Clearing Agency Participants of a notice issued by the Clearing Agency notifying the Clearing Agency Participants of such withdrawal request, the Clearing Agency Participants holding beneficial interests in the Book-Entry Notes agree to initiate such termination, or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Required Holders advise the Indenture Trustee and the Clearing Agency through the Clearing Agency Participants in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of the related Noteholders, then the Indenture Trustee shall notify all Noteholders of the related Class or Classes of Notes, through the Clearing Agency, of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of Definitive Notes of the related Class of Notes to Noteholders requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and all such persons may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes of a Class, the Indenture Trustee shall recognize the Noteholders of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders hereunder.

 

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The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any failure by the Indenture Trustee or the Administrator to locate a qualified successor Clearing Agency. The Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

 

Section 2.12.      Release of Collateral. Subject to Sections 4.04, 8.04 and 11.01 and the terms of the Transaction Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture only upon receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate.

 

Section 2.13.      Tax Treatment. The Issuer and the purchasers of the Notes intend, and will act at all times in a manner consistent with the intention that the Notes, held by persons other than the Trust Depositor or one of its affiliates, be treated as indebtedness for all U.S. federal, state, local, and foreign income tax purposes. The Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of its Note, agree to treat the Notes held by persons other than the Trust Depositor or one of its affiliates for U.S. federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.

 

ARTICLE Three

 

COVENANTS

 

Section 3.01.      Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. Without limiting the foregoing, subject to Section 8.02(c), the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee will cause to be deposited into the Note Distribution Account amounts allocated pursuant to Section 7.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and cause to be distributed all such amounts on a Distribution Date as deposited therein (i) for the benefit of the Class A-1 Notes, to the Registered Holders of the Class A-1 Notes, (ii) for the benefit of the Class A-2 Notes, to the Registered Holders of the Class A-2 Notes, (iii) for the benefit of the Class A-3 Notes, to the Registered Holders of the Class A-3 Notes, and (iv) for the benefit of the Class A-4 Notes, to the Registered Holders of the Class A-4 Notes, in each case as further specified herein. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest and/or principal shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder, as the case may be, for all purposes of this Indenture.

 

Section 3.02.      Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer will maintain in (i) Jersey City, New Jersey (for so long as Citibank, N.A. is serving as Indenture Trustee), and (ii) Wilmington, Delaware an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.

 

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Section 3.03.      Money for Payments to be Held in Trust. As provided in Section 8.02, all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Collection Account, the Reserve Fund, or the Note Distribution Account pursuant to Section 8.02(b) and 8.03 shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from such accounts for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuer except as provided in this Section.

 

On or before 2:00 p.m., New York time, the Business Day immediately preceding each Distribution Date and Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Note Distribution Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due under the Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Paying Agent is the Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

 

The Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:

 

(i)            hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;

 

(ii)           give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment required to be made with respect to the Notes;

 

(iii)           at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent;

 

(iv)           immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment; and

 

(v)            comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith.

 

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

 

Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust and upon receipt of an Issuer Request shall be deposited by the Indenture Trustee in the Collection Account; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof, and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty (30) days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to or for the account of the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee may also adopt and employ, at the expense of the Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including, but not limited to, delivering notice of such repayment to Holders whose Notes have been called but not have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Holder).

 

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Section 3.04.      Existence. The Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other state or of the United States, in which case the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument or agreement included in the Collateral.

 

Section 3.05.      Protection of Collateral. The Issuer intends the security interest Granted pursuant to this Indenture in favor of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders to be prior to all other liens in respect of the Collateral, and the Issuer shall take all actions necessary to obtain and maintain, for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders, a first lien on and a first priority, perfected security interest in the Collateral. The Issuer will from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, all as prepared by the Servicer and delivered to the Issuer, and will take such other action necessary or advisable to:

 

(i)            Grant more effectively all or any portion of the Collateral;

 

(ii)           maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and the priority thereof) created by this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof;

 

(iii)           perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;

 

(iv)           enforce any of the Collateral;

 

(v)            preserve and defend title to the Collateral and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Collateral against the claims of all persons and parties; and

 

(vi)           pay all taxes or assessments levied or assessed upon the Collateral when due.

 

The Issuer shall file the financing statements on Form UCC-1. All financing statements filed or to be filed against the Issuer in favor of the Indenture Trustee in connection herewith describing the Collateral shall contain a statement to the following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement, except as permitted in the Indenture, will violate the rights of the Secured Party.” The Issuer hereby authorizes the Indenture Trustee to execute, if necessary, and file all continuation statements or other instruments required to be filed pursuant to this Section and hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact for such purpose; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall have no obligation to monitor or file any financing statements, continuation statements, financing statement amendments or any other instrument.

 

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The Issuer shall file UCC financing statements, describing the collateral as “all assets of the Issuer, whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or arising and wheresoever located, and all proceeds and products thereof” or words to that effect, and any limitations on such collateral description, notwithstanding that such collateral description may be broader in scope than the Collateral described in this Indenture.

 

Section 3.06.      Opinions as to Collateral. On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, in the opinion of such counsel, either (i) all financing statements have been filed that are necessary to perfect the Indenture Trustee’s security interest in the Collateral for the benefit of the Noteholders, and reciting the details of such filings, or (ii) no such action shall be necessary to perfect such security interest.

 

Section 3.07.      Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Contracts.

 

(a)            The Issuer will not take any action and will use its best efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others that would release any Person from any such Person’s material covenants or obligations under any instrument or agreement included in the Collateral or that would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as expressly provided in the Transaction Documents or such other instrument or agreement.

 

(b)            The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing its duties and obligations under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer’s Certificate shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for the action or inaction of the Servicer or the Administrator. Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist the Issuer in performing its duties under this Indenture.

 

(c)            The Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, in the other Transaction Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Collateral, including but not limited to filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements and continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein and therein. Except as otherwise expressly provided therein, the Issuer shall not waive, amend, modify, supplement or terminate any Transaction Document or any provision thereof without the consent of the Indenture Trustee (acting at the written direction of the Required Holders).

 

(d)            If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of Termination, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency thereof. Upon any termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee. As soon as a Successor Servicer is appointed, the Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies of such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of such Successor Servicer.

 

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(e)            The Issuer agrees that it will not waive timely performance or observance by the Servicer or the Seller of their respective duties under the Transaction Documents if such waiver would adversely affect the Holders of the Notes.

  

Section 3.08.      Negative Covenants. Until the Termination Date, the Issuer shall not:

 

(i)           except as expressly permitted by the Transaction Documents, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets of the Issuer, including those included in the Collateral, unless directed to do so by the Indenture Trustee (acting at the written direction of the Required Holders);

 

(ii)           claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code or applicable state law) or assert any claim against any present or former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon any part of the Collateral;

 

(iii)           except as may be expressly permitted hereby or by the other Transaction Documents, (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien created by this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenant; or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture, (B) permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Collateral or any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof (other than Permitted Liens), (C) permit the lien created by this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority (other than with respect to any Permitted Liens) security interest in the Collateral, or (D) amend, modify or fail to comply with the provisions of the Transaction Documents without the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee, except where the Transaction Documents allow for amendment or modification without the consent or approval of the Indenture Trustee;

 

(iv)          dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part; or

 

(v)           except in connection with a transaction under Section 3.10(a), change its name or state of formation.

 

Section 3.09.      Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer will deliver to the Indenture Trustee, on or before March 31 of each year commencing in the calendar year 2025, an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer’s Certificate, that:

 

(i)            a review of the activities of the Issuer during the prior calendar year and of performance under this Indenture has been made under such Authorized Officer’s supervision; and

 

(ii)            to the best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Issuer has complied with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the compliance of any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.

 

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Section 3.10.      Issuer May Consolidate, etc. Only on Certain Terms.

 

(a)            The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless:

 

(i)            the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture and each other Transaction Document on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein;

 

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

 

(iii)          the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction;

 

(iv)          the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel which shall be delivered to and shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee to the effect that such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer or any Noteholder;

 

(v)           any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken;

 

(vi)          the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (which shall describe the actions taken as required by clause (v) above or that no such actions will be taken) each stating that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article Three and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with; and

 

(vii)         the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger has a net worth, immediately after such consolidation or merger, that is (A) greater than zero and (B) not less than the net worth of the Issuer immediately prior to giving effect to such consolidation or merger.

 

(b)            The Issuer shall not convey or transfer all or substantially all of its properties or assets, including those included in the Collateral, to any Person (except as expressly permitted by the Transaction Documents), unless:

 

(i)            the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of the Issuer shall (A) be a United States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any State, (B) expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture and each other Transaction Document on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein and therein, (C) expressly agree by means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of Holders of the Notes, and (D) unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes.

 

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

 

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(iii)          the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction;

  

(iv)          the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel which shall be delivered to and shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee to the effect that such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer or any Noteholder;

 

(v)           any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken;

 

(vi)          the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (which shall describe the actions taken as required by clause (v) above or that no such actions will be taken) each stating that such conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article Three and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any filings required by Exchange Act); and

 

(vii)          such Person has a net worth, immediately after such conveyance or transfer, that is (A) greater than zero and (B) not less than the net worth of the Issuer immediately prior to giving effect to such conveyance or transfer.

 

Section 3.11.        Successor or Transferee.

 

(a)            Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with same effect as if such Person has been named as the Issuer herein.

 

(b)            Upon a conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all the assets or properties of the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.10(b), the Issuer will be released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee stating that the Issuer is to be so released.

 

Section 3.12.        No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any business other than financing, purchasing, owning, selling and managing the Contracts in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents and activities incidental thereto.

 

Section 3.13.        No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any Indebtedness except for (i) the Notes and (ii) any other Indebtedness permitted by or arising under the other Transaction Documents. The proceeds of the Notes shall be used exclusively to fund the Issuer’s purchase of the Contracts and the other assets specified in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to fund the Reserve Fund, and to pay the transactional expenses of the Issuer.

 

Section 3.14.        Servicer’s Obligations. The Issuer shall cause the Servicer to comply with its obligations under Article Five and Article Nine of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Section 3.15.        Guarantees, Loans Advances, and Other Liabilities. Except as otherwise contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuming another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.

 

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Section 3.16.       Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty).

 

Section 3.17.        Restricted Payments. Except as permitted by the Transaction Documents, the Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of the Issuer or to the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or security, or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose; provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause to be made, (A) distributions to the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholder as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are available for such purpose under, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Trust Agreement and (B) payments to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 1(a)(ii) of the Administration Agreement. The Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Collection Account except in accordance with this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents.

 

Section 3.18.       Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer agrees to give the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency prompt written notice of each Event of Default hereunder and an Event of Termination under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Section 3.19.       Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

 

Section 3.20.       Compliance with Laws. The Issuer shall comply with the requirements of all applicable laws, the non-compliance with which would, individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect the ability of the Issuer to perform its obligations under the Notes, this Indenture or any other Transaction Document.

 

Section 3.21.        Amendments of Sale and Servicing Agreement and Trust Agreement. The Issuer shall not agree to any amendment to Section 11.01 of the Trust Agreement to eliminate the requirement thereunder that the Holders of the Notes consent to amendments thereto as provided therein. Prior to the execution of an amendment pursuant to Section 11.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall give written notice of such proposed amendment to the Rating Agencies.

 

Section 3.22.        Removal of Administrator. So long as any Notes are issued and outstanding, the Issuer shall not remove the Administrator without cause unless the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied in connection with such removal.

 

Section 3.23.        Creation of a Valid Security Interest. The Issuer covenants and agrees that the Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Contracts and the other Collateral in favor of the Indenture Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens) and is enforceable as such against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuer.

 

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Section 3.24.        FATCA Compliance. The Issuer represents, warrants and covenants to the Indenture Trustee that, (i) to the best of the Issuer’s knowledge, the Indenture Trustee is not obligated in respect of any payments to be made by it pursuant to this Indenture, to make any withholding or deduction pursuant to an agreement described in Section 1471(b) of the Code or otherwise imposed pursuant to Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code and any regulations or agreements thereunder or official interpretations thereof (“FATCA Withholding Tax”); and (ii) the Issuer will require the Noteholders to collect and provide the Noteholder FATCA Information. The Issuer will provide the Noteholder FATCA Information to the Indenture Trustee upon request; and to the extent the Issuer determines that FATCA Withholding Tax is applicable, it will promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of such fact. Each holder of a Note or an interest therein, by acceptance of such Note or such interest in such Note, will be deemed to have agreed to provide the Indenture Trustee with the Noteholder Tax Identification Information and, to the extent FATCA Withholding Tax is applicable, the Noteholder FATCA Information. In addition, each holder of a Note will be deemed to understand that the Indenture Trustee has the right to withhold interest payable with respect to the Note (without any corresponding gross-up) on any Beneficial Owner of an interest in a Note that fails to comply with the foregoing requirements.

 

ARTICLE Four

 

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

Section 4.01.        Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.01, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.07, 3.08, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and 3.20, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Section 4.02) and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, when

 

(A)          either

 

(1)            all Notes therefore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.05 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or

 

(2)            all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation:

 

(i)            have become due and payable, or

 

(ii)           will become due and payable at their respective final Distribution Dates within one year, or

 

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

 

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provided, however, that all outstanding Notes must become so due and payable or be so called for redemption on the next succeeding Distribution Date; and provided, further, that the Issuer, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States (which will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust in an Eligible Account for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Note not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due to the final scheduled Distribution Date;

 

(B)          the Issuer has paid or performed or caused to be paid or performed all amounts and obligations which the Issuer may owe to or on behalf of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders under this Indenture or the Notes; and

 

(C)            the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the TIA) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants, each meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01(a) and, subject to Section 11.02, stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with and the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied.

 

Section 4.02.        Application of Trust Money. All moneys deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Registered Holders of the particular Notes for the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such moneys need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or required by law.

 

Section 4.03.        Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.03 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such moneys.

 

Section 4.04.        Release of Collateral. Subject to Section 11.01 and the terms of the Transaction Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture only upon receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA §§314(c) and 314(d)(1) or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the effect that the TIA does not require any such Independent Certificates.

 

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ARTICLE Five

 

REMEDIES

 

Section 5.01.      Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

 

(i)            default in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue for a period of five (5) days;

 

(ii)           default in the payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable on the applicable Final Distribution Date;

 

(iii)          default in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement a default in the observance or performance of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with) which default has a material adverse effect on the Noteholders, or any representation or warranty of the Issuer made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have been made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of thirty (30) days after there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by the Holders of at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes a written notice specifying such default or incorrect representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

 

(iv)          the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuer or any substantial part of the Collateral in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Collateral, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

 

(v)          the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuer to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Collateral, or the making by the Issuer of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Issuer generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

 

The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee within five (5) days after obtaining knowledge of the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any event which with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under clause (iii) above, its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

 

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Section 5.02.        Rights Upon Event of Default. If an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default described in Section 5.01(iv) or (v) above, shall have occurred and be continuing the Indenture Trustee or the Required Holders may declare the principal amount of the Notes immediately due and payable at par. At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter in this Article Five provided, the Required Holders may rescind such declaration if (i) the Issuer has made all payments of principal of and interest on all Notes that have become due and payable (other than by reason of acceleration of the Notes) and (ii) the Issuer has paid all amounts due and payable to the Indenture Trustee. If an Event of Default described in Section 5.01(iv) or (v) shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal amount of the Notes shall become immediately due and payable.

 

Section 5.03.       Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee; Authority of Indenture Trustee.

 

(a)            The Issuer covenants that if the Notes are accelerated following the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Issuer will, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the applicable Interest Rate and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel.

 

(b)            The Indenture Trustee, following the occurrence of an Event of Default, shall have full right, power and authority to take, or refrain from taking, any and all acts with respect to the administration, maintenance or disposition of the Collateral.

 

(c)            If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may in its discretion (except as provided in Section 5.03(d)), proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by law.

 

(d)            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and if the Issuer fails to perform its obligations under Section 10.01(b) when and as due, the Indenture Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for specific performance of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by law; provided that the Indenture Trustee shall only be entitled to take any such actions to the extent such actions (i) are taken only to enforce the Issuer’s obligations to redeem the principal amount of Notes, and (ii) are taken only against the Collateral.

 

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(e)            In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in the Collateral, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:

 

(i)             to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;

 

(ii)            unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;

 

(iii)           to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and the Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and

 

(iv)          to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its property;

 

and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make payments to the Indenture Trustee, and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.

 

(f)            Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.

 

(g)            All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture or under any of the Notes may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes as provided in Section 5.06.

 

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(h)            In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (including any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture), the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all of the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.

 

Section 5.04.       Remedies. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee (subject to Sections 5.12 and 7.04) may, and shall if so directed by the Required Holders in writing:

 

(i)            institute Proceedings in its own name and as or on behalf of a trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer and any other obligor upon such Notes moneys adjudged due;

 

(ii)           institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Collateral;

 

(iii)          exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and any other remedy available to the Indenture Trustee and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders under this Indenture or the Notes; and

 

(iv)          sell the Collateral or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Collateral following an Event of Default, unless (A) the Holders of 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to the Noteholders are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon such Notes for principal and interest or (C) there has been an Event of Default described in Section 5.01(i) or (ii) and the Indenture Trustee determines that the Collateral will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as they would have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable, and the Indenture Trustee provides prior written notice to the Administrator and obtains the consent of the Required Holders, and the Administrator provides written notice to each Rating Agency. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clauses (B) and (C), the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Collateral for such purpose.

 

Section 5.05.       Optional Preservation of the Collateral. Following an Event of Default and if such Event of Default has not been rescinded and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to maintain possession of the Collateral. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal and interest on the Notes, and the Indenture Trustee shall take such desire into account when determining whether or not to maintain possession of the Collateral. In determining whether to maintain possession of the Collateral, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Collateral for such purpose.

 

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Section 5.06.       Priorities.

 

(a)            If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article Five, it shall pay out the money or property in the order and priority set forth in Section 7.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

(b)            The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section. At least fifteen (15) days before such record date, the Issuer shall mail to each Noteholder and the Indenture Trustee a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.

 

Section 5.07.       Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless (and in all events subject to Section 11.19 hereof):

 

(i)            such Holder has previously given written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;

 

(ii)           the Holders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;

 

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

 

(iv)         the Indenture Trustee for sixty (60) days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such Proceedings; and

 

(v)           no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Required Holders.

 

It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided.

 

In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes, each representing less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.

 

Section 5.08.       Unconditional Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

 

Section 5.09.        Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture Trustee or any Noteholder 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 Indenture Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.

 

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Section 5.10.        Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

Section 5.11.       Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the Indenture Trustee or any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article Five or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or (subject to Section 5.07) by the Noteholders, as the case may be.

 

Section 5.12.       Control by Noteholders. The Required Holders shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided that:

 

(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture;

 

(ii) any direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Collateral shall be subject to the terms of Section 5.04;

 

(iii) if the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Collateral pursuant to Section 5.05, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by Holders of Notes representing less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes to sell or liquidate the Collateral shall be of no force and effect; and

 

(iv) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.

 

Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section, subject to Section 6.01, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or might materially and adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such action.

 

Section 5.13.       Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the time a judgment or decree for payment of money due has been obtained as described in Section 5.03, the Required Holders may waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences, except a Default (i) in payment of principal or interest on any of the Notes or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that cannot be modified or amended without the consent of all Noteholders. In the case of any waiver of an Event of Default, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto. Upon any such waiver, such Event of Default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

 

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Section 5.14.       Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to (i) any suit instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (ii) any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, or (iii) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).

 

Section 5.15.       Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantages of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

 

Section 5.16.        Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes under this Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Collateral or upon any of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.06.

 

Section 5.17.        Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.

 

(a)            Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so, and at the Administrator’s expense, the Issuer shall take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Trust Depositor, the Seller and the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Transfer and Sale Agreement, in accordance with the terms thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement to the extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on the part of the Trust Depositor or the Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Trust Depositor or the Servicer of each of their obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

(b)            If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and at the direction (which direction shall be in writing, including facsimile) of the Required Holders shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuer against the Trust Depositor or the Servicer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the Trust Depositor or the Servicer of each of their obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and any right of the Issuer to take such action shall be suspended.

 

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ARTICLE Six

 

THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

 

Section 6.01.        Duties of Indenture Trustee.

 

(a)            If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and in the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

 

(b)            Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

 

(i)            the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and

 

(ii)            in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which the Indenture Trustee is a party (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

 

(c)            The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

 

(i)            this paragraph does not limit the effect of Section 6.01(b);

 

(ii)            the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

 

(iii)            the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.12.

 

(d)            Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Indenture Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section.

 

(e)            The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer.

 

(f)            Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

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(g)            No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayments of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

 

(h)            The Indenture Trustee shall have no discretionary duties other than performing those ministerial acts set forth above necessary to accomplish the purpose of this Indenture.

 

(i)            Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and to the provisions of the TIA.

 

Section 6.02.       Rights of Indenture Trustee.

 

(a)            The Indenture Trustee may rely on any document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

 

(b)            Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate (with respect to factual matters) or an Opinion of Counsel, as applicable. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on the Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

 

(c)            The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through Affiliates, agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.

 

(d)            The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

 

(e)            The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel.

 

(f)            The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Indenture or in relation to this Indenture, at the request, order or direction of any of the Holders of Notes, pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Holders of Notes shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred therein or thereby; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default (that has not been cured), exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture in a manner consistent with Section 6.01.

 

(g)            The Indenture 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, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document, unless so requested by the Holders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes; provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the Indenture Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Indenture Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such cost, expense or liability as a condition to so proceeding; the reasonable expense of every such examination shall be paid by the Person making such request, or, if paid by the Indenture Trustee, shall be reimbursed by the Person making such request upon demand.

  

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(h)            Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall the Indenture Trustee be liable for special, punitive, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Indenture Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

 

(i)            In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, epidemics or pandemics, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Indenture Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

(j)            In making or disposing of any investment permitted by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee is authorized to deal with itself (in its individual capacity) or with any one or more of its Affiliates, in each case on an arm’s-length basis and on standard market terms, whether it or such Affiliate is acting as a subagent of the Indenture Trustee or for any third Person or dealing as principal for its own account. The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to take any action with respect to any securities that it holds for the Issuer other than to forward notices received by the Indenture Trustee to the Issuer.

 

(k)            The Indenture Trustee shall have no duty (1) to see to any recording, filing, or depositing of this Indenture or any agreement referred to herein or any financing statement or continuation statement evidencing a security interest, or to see to the maintenance of any such recording or filing or depositing or to any rerecording, refiling or redepositing of any thereof, (2) to see to any insurance, (3) to see to the payment or discharge of any tax, assessment, or other governmental charge or any lien or encumbrance of any kind owing with respect to, assessed or levied against, any part of the trust funds other than from funds available in the Collection Account, (4) to confirm or verify the contents of any reports or certificates of the Servicer delivered to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture believed by the Indenture Trustee to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties, or (5) monitor the Servicer, the Administrator or any successor Servicer.

 

(l)            The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of an Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer for administration of this Indenture has received actual written notice thereof.

 

(m)            Delivery of any reports, information and documents to the Indenture Trustee provided for herein is for informational purposes only (unless otherwise expressly stated) and the Indenture Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive knowledge of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuer’s compliance with any of its representations, warranties or covenants hereunder (as to which the Indenture Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

 

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(n)            The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Indenture Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Indenture Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder or under any Transaction Document, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder or under any Transaction Document.

 

(o)            The Indenture Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Clearing Agency participants or Beneficial Owners of any Book-Entry Notes) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Indenture Trustee shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Clearing Agency.

 

(p)            The Indenture Trustee may request that the Issuer, the Servicer, the Trust Depositor or the Administrator deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture or any other Transaction Document.

 

Section 6.03.        Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Indenture Trustee is required to comply with Section 6.11.

 

Section 6.04.        Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture, the Collateral or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes, other than the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication.

 

Section 6.05.        Notice of Defaults. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder notice of the Event of Default within ninety (90) days after it occurs. Except in the case of a Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note (including payments pursuant to the redemption of such Notes), the Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Noteholders.

 

Section 6.06.        Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders. Within the prescribed period of time for tax reporting purposes after the end of each calendar year during the term of this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver to each Noteholder such information, including without limitation, IRS Form 1099, as may be required by applicable law to enable such holder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.

 

Section 6.07.        Compensation and Indemnity. The Issuer shall pay or shall cause the Administrator to pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services. The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuer shall or shall cause the Administrator to reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuer shall indemnify or shall cause the Administrator to indemnify the Indenture Trustee against any and all loss, claim, liability or expense (including attorneys’ fees and expenses, including fees and expenses with respect to enforcement of this indemnity) incurred by it in connection with the administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer and the Administrator promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuer and the Administrator shall not relieve the Issuer or the Administrator of its obligations hereunder. The Issuer shall defend or shall cause the Administrator to defend any such claim, and the Indenture Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall pay or shall cause the Administrator to pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. Neither the Issuer nor the Administrator need reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, claim, liability or expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture Trustee’s own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

 

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The Issuer’s payment obligations and indemnification to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section shall survive the resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and the termination and discharge of this Indenture; provided that the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled only to compensation for its services for the period prior to the date of such resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(iv) or (v) with respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

 

Section 6.08.        Replacement of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer and the Servicer. The Issuer shall remove the Indenture Trustee if:

 

(i)            the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;

 

(ii)           a court or banking regulator having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Indenture Trustee in an involuntary case or proceeding under federal or state banking or bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, conservatorship or other similar law, shall have entered a decree or order granting relief or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, conservator, sequestrator (or similar official) for the Indenture Trustee or for any substantial part of the Indenture Trustee’s property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Indenture Trustee’s affairs, provided any such decree or order shall have continued unstayed and in effect for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days;

 

(iii)          the Indenture Trustee commences a voluntary case under any federal or state banking or bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, conservatorship or other similar law, or consents to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, conservator, sequestrator or other similar official for the Indenture Trustee or for any substantial part of the Indenture Trustee’s property, or makes any assignment for the benefit of creditors or fails generally to pay its debts as such debts become due or takes any corporate action in furtherance of any of the foregoing; or

 

(iv)          the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

 

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If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The Issuer or the successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring Indenture Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor Indenture Trustee.

 

If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within sixty (60) days after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Holders of a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes may appoint or petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.

 

If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.

 

Any resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section and payment of all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Indenture Trustee. Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section, the retiring Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to payment or reimbursement of such amounts as such Person is entitled pursuant to Section 6.07.

 

Section 6.09.        Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. If the Indenture Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation or banking association without any further act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee; provided, that such corporation or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under Section 6.11. The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Administrator with prompt written notice of any such transaction and the Administrator shall provide each Rating Agency prompt notice thereof.

 

In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trust created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Indenture Trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.

 

Section 6.10.        Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee.

 

(a)            Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Collateral may at the time be located, the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer acting jointly shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustees, jointly with the Indenture Trustee, or separate Indenture Trustee or separate Indenture Trustees, of all or any part of the Trust, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the Collateral, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee and the Administrator may consider necessary or desirable. If the Administrator shall not have joined in such appointment within fifteen (15) days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Indenture Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-Indenture Trustee or separate Indenture Trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility of a successor Indenture Trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the appointment of any co-Indenture Trustee or separate Indenture Trustee shall be required under Section 6.08.

  

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(b)            Every separate Indenture Trustee and co-Indenture Trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:

 

(i)            all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Collateral or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustee, but solely at the direction of the Indenture Trustee;

 

(ii)            no Indenture Trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other Indenture Trustee hereunder; and

 

(iii)            the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer may at any time accept the resignation of or remove, with or without cause, any separate Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustee.

 

(c)            Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate Indenture Trustees and co-Indenture Trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustee shall refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Article. Each separate Indenture Trustee and co-Indenture Trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of co-appointment, either jointly with the Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of or affording protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrator.

 

(d)            Any separate Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustee may at any time constitute the Indenture Trustee its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor Indenture Trustee. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, the appointment of any separate Indenture Trustee or co-Indenture Trustee shall not relieve the Indenture Trustee of its obligations and duties under this Indenture.

 

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Section 6.11.        Eligibility.

 

(a)            The Indenture Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA §310(a). The Indenture Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a financial institution organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or any state, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers. The Indenture Trustee or its parent shall have a long term unsecured debt rating of at least Baa3 by Moody’s and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority; provided that the Indenture Trustee’s separate capital and surplus shall at all times be at least the amount required by Section 310(a)(2) of the TIA. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of a supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.11, 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.

 

(b)            If a Default occurs and is continuing and the Indenture Trustee is deemed to have a “conflicting interest” (as defined in the TIA) as a result of acting as trustee for the Notes, the Issuer shall appoint a successor Indenture Trustee for one or more Classes of Notes so that there will be separate Indenture Trustees for the Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes and Class A-4 Notes, as applicable. No such event shall alter the voting rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture or under any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

(c)            In the case of an appointment hereunder of a successor Indenture Trustee with respect to any Class of Notes, the Issuer, the retiring Indenture Trustee and the successor Indenture Trustee with respect to such Class of Notes shall execute and deliver an indenture supplement hereto wherein the successor Indenture Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, the successor Indenture Trustee all rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes of such Class as to which the appointment of such Indenture Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Indenture Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Classes of Notes, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes of each Class as to which the retiring Indenture Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Indenture 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 trust hereunder by more than one Indenture Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Indenture Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Indenture Trustee; and upon execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein.

 

(d)            In case at any time the Indenture Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.11, the Indenture Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.08. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA §310(b); provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA §310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities of the Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA §310(b)(1) are met.

 

Section 6.12.        Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act Licenses. The Administrator shall use its best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of all licenses for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee required under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act in connection with this Indenture and the transactions contemplated hereby until the lien and security interest of this Indenture shall no longer be in effect in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

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Section 6.13.       Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA §311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA §311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA §311(a) to the extent indicated.

 

Section 6.14.        Direction to Enter into the Administration Agreement. The Issuer hereby directs the Indenture Trustee to enter into and execute the Administration Agreement.

 

Section 6.15.        Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Issuer as follows:

 

(a)            Organization. It has been duly organized and is validly existing as a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States and has the power to conduct its business and affairs as a trustee.

 

(b)            Authorization; Binding Obligations. It has the corporate power and authority to perform the duties and obligations of Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. It has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of each Transaction Document to which it is a party, and all of the documents required to be executed by it pursuant hereto and thereto. Upon execution and delivery by the Issuer, this Indenture will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of it enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium, and similar laws affecting the rights of creditors and subject to equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought in a legal or equitable proceeding).

 

(c)            No Conflict. Neither the execution, delivery and performance of any Transaction Document to which it is a party, nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, (i) is prohibited by, or requires it to obtain any consent, authorization, approval or registration under, any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ, injunction or decree that is binding upon it or any of its properties or assets, or (ii) will violate any provision of, result in any default or acceleration of any obligations under, result in the creation or imposition of any lien pursuant to, or require any consent under, any agreement to which it is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

 

(d)            No Proceedings. There are no Proceedings pending, or to the best of its knowledge, threatened against it before any federal, state, provincial or other governmental agency, authority, administrator or regulatory body, arbitrator, court or other tribunal, foreign or domestic, that could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Collateral or the Noteholders or any action taken or to be taken by it under any Transaction Document to which it is a party.

 

(e)            Eligible Trustee. It is an eligible trustee under the TIA as of the Closing Date.

 

ARTICLE Seven

 

NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS; NOTEHOLDER COMMUNICATION

 

Section 7.01.       Issuer to Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders. The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee (A)(i) not more than five (5) days after each Record Date and (ii) three months after the last Record Date, a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Noteholders as of such Record Date and (B) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than ten (10) days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

 

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Section 7.02.       Preservation of Information: Communication to Noteholders.

 

(a)            The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Noteholders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Noteholders received by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar and shall otherwise comply with TIA §312(a). The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

 

(b)            Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes.

 

(c)            The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).

 

Section 7.03.       Communications Between the Noteholders. A Noteholder or a Beneficial Owner that seeks to communicate with other Noteholders about a possible exercise of rights under this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents may send a request to the Issuer and the Servicer, on behalf of the Issuer, to include information regarding the communication in a Form 10-D to be filed by the Issuer with the Commission. Each request must include (i) the name of the requesting Noteholder, (ii) the method by which other Noteholders may contact the requesting Noteholder, and (iii) in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Book-Entry Note, a certification from that Person that it is a Beneficial Owner, together with at least one form of documentation evidencing its ownership of a Note, including a trade confirmation, account statement, letter from a broker or dealer or similar document. A Noteholder or a Beneficial Owner that delivers a request under this Section 7.03 will certify to the Issuer and the Servicer that its request to communicate with other Noteholders relates solely to a possible exercise of rights under this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents, and shall not be used for other purposes. On receipt of a request, the Servicer will include in the Form 10-D filed by the Issuer with the Commission for the Due Period in which the request was received (A) a statement that the Issuer has received a request from a Noteholder that is interested in communicating with other Noteholders about a possible exercise of rights under this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents; (B) the name of the requesting Noteholder; (C) the date the request was received; and (D) a description of the method by which the other Noteholders may contact the requesting Noteholder.

 

Section 7.04.       Noteholder Demand for Asset Representations Review. If a Delinquency Trigger occurs, as reported on a Form 10-D, a Noteholder or a Beneficial Owner may make a demand on the Indenture Trustee to cause a vote of the Noteholders or Beneficial Owners, as applicable, about whether to direct the Asset Representations Reviewer to conduct a Review of the Review Contracts under the Asset Representations Review Agreement. In the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Book-Entry Note, each demand must be accompanied by a certification from that Person that it is a Beneficial Owner, together with at least one form of documentation evidencing its ownership of a Note, including a trade confirmation, account statement, letter from a broker or dealer or similar document. If the Noteholders and Beneficial Owners of at least 5% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (excluding Harley-Davidson Credit or any Affiliate of Harley-Davidson Credit that is also a Noteholder) demand a vote within ninety (90) days of the filing of the Form 10-D reporting the occurrence of the Delinquency Trigger, the Indenture Trustee will promptly request a vote of the Noteholders as of the most recent Record Date through the Clearing Agency process, which shall be conducted with a tabulation agent appointed by the Issuer and in accordance with the standard internal vote solicitation process at the time. The vote will remain open until the 150th day after the filing of such Form 10-D. Assuming a voting quorum of the Noteholders holding at least 5% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes is reached, if the Noteholders of a majority of the aggregate principal balance of the Notes vote to direct a Review, the Indenture Trustee will promptly send a Review Notice to the Asset Representations Reviewer and the Servicer under the Asset Representations Review Agreement requesting the Asset Representations Reviewer to conduct the Review.

 

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Section 7.05.        Reports by Issuer.

 

(a)            The Issuer shall:

 

(i)            file with the Indenture Trustee, within fifteen (15) days after the Issuer is required (if at all) to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) that the Issuer may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;

 

(ii)            file with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Issuer with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

 

(iii)           supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture Trustee shall transmit to all Noteholders described in TIA §313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Issuer pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.05(a) and by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.

 

(b)            Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Issuer shall end on December 31 of each year.

 

Section 7.06.        Reports by Indenture Trustee. If required by TIA §313(a), within sixty (60) days after each January 31st beginning with the calendar year 2025, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver to each Noteholder as required by TIA §313(c) a brief report dated as of such date that complies with TIA §313(a). The Indenture Trustee also shall comply with TIA §313(b).

 

A copy of each report at the time of its delivery to Noteholders shall be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange.

 

ARTICLE Eight

 

ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

 

Section 8.01.       Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as directed by the Servicer in accordance with this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, if any default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of the Collateral, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article Five.

 

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Section 8.02.       Trust Accounts.

 

(a)            On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the Trust Depositor to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificateholder the Trust Accounts as provided in Section 5.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

(b)            All Available Monies will be deposited in the Collection Account as provided in Section 5.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. On or before each Distribution Date, all amounts required to be deposited in the Note Distribution Account with respect to the related Due Period pursuant to Section 7.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement will be transferred from the Collection Account and/or the Reserve Fund to the Note Distribution Account in accordance with direction from the Servicer.

 

(c)            On each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee shall distribute, in accordance with direction from the Servicer, all amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account to Noteholders in respect of the Notes to the extent of amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal and interest in the order and priority set forth in Section 7.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Section 8.03.       General Provisions Regarding Accounts.

 

(a)            So long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the Trust Accounts shall be invested as directed by the Servicer and in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all income or other gain from investments of moneys deposited in such Trust Accounts (other than the Reserve Fund) shall be deposited by the Indenture Trustee in the Collection Account, and any loss resulting from such investments shall be charged to the related Trust Account, as applicable. The Issuer will not direct the Indenture Trustee to make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in any of the Trust Accounts unless the security interest granted and perfected in such account will continue to be perfected in such investment or the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further action by any Person, and, in connection with any direction to the Indenture Trustee to make any such investment or sale, if requested by the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to such effect.

 

(b)            Subject to Section 6.01(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in any of the Trust Accounts resulting from any loss on any Eligible Investment included therein except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee’s failure to make payments on such Eligible Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as Indenture Trustee, in accordance with their terms.

 

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(c)            If (i) the Issuer shall have failed to give investment directions for any funds on deposit in the Trust Accounts to the Indenture Trustee by 11:00 a.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed by the Issuer and Indenture Trustee), on any Business Day, or (ii) a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not have been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.02 or (iii) such Notes shall have been declared due and payable following an Event of Default, but amounts collected or receivable from the Collateral are being applied in accordance with Section 5.05 as if there had not been such a declaration, then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest and reinvest funds in the Trust Accounts in one or more Eligible Investments satisfying the requirements of clause (d) of the definition thereof, as instructed by the Servicer.

 

Section 8.04.       Release of Collateral.

 

(a)            Subject to the payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.07, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall, execute instruments to release property from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee’s interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in this Article shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any moneys.

 

(b)            The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes Outstanding and all sums due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.07 have been paid, release any remaining portion of the Collateral that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and release to the Issuer or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Trust Accounts. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.04(b) only upon receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel shall state that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent to such release, if any, have been complied with), and (if required by the TIA as so stated in the Opinion of Counsel) Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA §§314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01.

 

Section 8.05.       Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at least seven (7) days’ notice when requested by the Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.04(a), accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require, as a condition to such action, an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with and such action will not materially and adversely impair the security for the Notes or the rights of the Noteholders in contravention of the provisions for this Indenture; provided, however, that such Opinion of Counsel shall not be required to express an opinion as to the fair value of the Collateral. Counsel rendering any such opinion may rely, without independent investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any certificate or other instrument delivered to the Indenture Trustee in connection with any such action.

 

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ARTICLE Nine

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

Section 9.01.       Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.

 

(a)            Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes and with prior notice by the Issuer to each Rating Agency, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, and the other parties hereto at any time from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the TIA as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

 

(i)            to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to the lien created by this Indenture, or to subject additional property to the lien created by this Indenture;

 

(ii)            to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuer, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein and in the Notes;

 

(iii)           to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer;

 

(iv)           to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Indenture Trustee;

 

(v)            to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, in any supplemental indenture, in the Transaction Documents or in the Prospectus or to add any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, in any supplemental indenture, in the Transaction Documents or in the Prospectus; provided that such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes;

 

(vi)           [reserved];

 

(vii)          to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder by a successor Indenture Trustee, a co-Indenture Trustee or a separate Indenture Trustee and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trust hereunder by more than one Indenture Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article Six; and

 

(viii)          to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such other provisions as may be required by the TIA.

 

The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained.

 

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(b)            The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, may, also without the consent of any of the Holders of the Notes and with prior notice by the Issuer to each Rating Agency, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder.

  

Section 9.02.       Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders.

 

(a)            The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, may, with prior notice by the Issuer to each Rating Agency and with the consent of the Required Holders, by Act of such Required Holders delivered to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

 

(i)            change the date of payment of any installment of principal of or interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate thereon or the Redemption Date Amount with respect thereto, change the provisions of this Indenture relating to the application of collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of, the Collateral to payment of principal of or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of this Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as provided in Article Five, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);

 

(ii)           reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture or any amendment to the other Transaction Documents, or the consent of the Holders of which 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;

 

(iii)          modify or alter the provisions of the second proviso to the definition of the term “Outstanding”;

 

(iv)         reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the consent of the Holders of which is required to direct the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Collateral pursuant to Section 5.04;

 

(v)           modify any provision of this Section except to increase any percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby; or

 

(vi)          permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien created by this Indenture with respect to any part of the Collateral or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien created by this Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive the Holder of any Note of the security provided by the lien created by this Indenture.

 

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

 

Promptly after the execution by the parties hereto of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the Holders of the Notes to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to deliver such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

 

Section 9.03.       Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02 shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

Section 9.04.       Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of the parties hereto and the Holders of the Notes shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

 

Section 9.05.       Conformity With Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.

 

Section 9.06.       Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and if required by the Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.

 

ARTICLE Ten

 

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

 

Section 10.01.     Redemption.

 

(a)            In the event that the Servicer purchases all outstanding Contracts and the related Contract Assets pursuant to Section 7.10 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Notes are subject to redemption in whole, but not in part, on the Distribution Date on which such purchase occurs, for a purchase price equal to the outstanding principal, and accrued interest on the Notes; provided, however, that the Issuer has available funds sufficient to pay such amounts. The Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish each Rating Agency notice of such redemption. If the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 10.01(a), the Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish notice of such election to the Indenture Trustee not later than twenty (20) days prior to the Redemption Date and the Issuer shall prior to the Redemption Date deposit with the Indenture Trustee in the Note Distribution Account the Redemption Date Amount to be redeemed whereupon all such Notes shall be due and payable on the Redemption Date upon the furnishing of a notice complying with Section 10.02 to each Holder of the Notes.

  

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(b)            In the event that the assets of the Trust are sold pursuant to Article Five of this Indenture, the proceeds of such sale shall be distributed as provided in Section 5.06. If amounts are to be paid to Noteholders pursuant to this Section 10.01(b), the Servicer or the Issuer shall, to the extent practicable, furnish notice of such event to the Indenture Trustee not later than twenty (20) days prior to the Redemption Date whereupon all such amounts shall be payable on the Redemption Date.

 

Section 10.02.     Form of Redemption Notice.

 

(a)            Notice of redemption under Section 10.01(a) shall be given by the Indenture Trustee not less than five (5) days prior to the applicable Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes, as of the close of business on the Record Date preceding the applicable Redemption Date, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Note Register.

 

All notices of redemption shall state:

 

(i)            the Redemption Date;

 

(ii)           the Redemption Date Amount; and

 

(iii)          the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Date Amount (which shall be the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02).

 

Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the Indenture Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer. Failure to give notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Holder of any Note shall not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Note.

 

(b)            Prior notice of redemption under Section 10.01(b) is not required to be given to Noteholders.

 

Section 10.03.      Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes or portions thereof to be redeemed shall, following notice of redemption (if any) as required by Section 10.02, on the Redemption Date become due and payable at the Redemption Date Amount and (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of the Redemption Date Amount) no interest shall accrue on the Redemption Date Amount for any period after the date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the Redemption Date Amount.

 

ARTICLE Eleven

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 11.01.     Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.

 

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(a)            Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee (i) an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, and (iii) (if required by the TIA as so stated in the Opinion of Counsel) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants meeting the applicable requirements of this Section and TIA §314(c), except that, in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. No additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

 

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

 

(i)             a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

        (b)      (i)         Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for authentication and delivery of the Notes or the release of any property subject to the lien created by this Indenture, the Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 11.01(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of the signer thereof as to the fair value (within ninety (90) days of such deposit) of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.

 

(ii)           Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (i) above, the Issuer shall also deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the named matters, if the fair value to the Issuer of the property to be so deposited and of all other such property made the basis of any such withdrawal or release since the commencement of the then-current fiscal year of the Issuer, as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this clause (ii), is 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any property so deposited, if the fair value thereof to the Issuer as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

 

(iii)          Other than with respect to any release described in clause (A) or (B) of Section 11.01(b)(v), whenever any property or securities are to be released from the lien created by this Indenture, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within ninety (90) days of such release) of the property or securities proposed to be released and stating that in the opinion of such person the proposed release will not impair the security created by this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof.

 

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(iv)         Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of all other property or securities (other than property described in clauses (A) or (B) of Section 11.01(b)(v)) released from the lien created by this Indenture since the commencement of the then current fiscal year, as set forth in the certificate required by clause (iii) above, equals 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or securities if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the then Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

 

(v)          Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the Issuer may, without compliance with the other provisions of this Section, (A) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of the Contracts as and to the extent permitted or required by the Transaction Documents, and (B) make cash payments out of the Trust Accounts as and to the extent permitted or required by the Transaction Documents, so long as the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee every six months, commencing June 30, 2024, an Officer’s Certificate stating that all the dispositions of Collateral described in clauses (A) or (B) that occurred during the preceding six calendar months were in the ordinary course of the Issuer’s business and that the proceeds thereof were applied in accordance with the Transaction Documents.

 

Section 11.02.     Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture 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 Person as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or given an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

 

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

 

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

 

Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuer’s compliance with any term hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be construed to affect the Indenture Trustee’s right to rely upon the truth and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article Six or the right of counsel rendering an Opinion of Counsel to rely on any statement as otherwise provided in this Section.

 

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Section 11.03.      Acts of Noteholders.

 

(a)            Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

 

(b)            The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee deems sufficient.

 

(c)            The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.

 

(d)            Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.

 

Section 11.04.      Notices. All notices, demands, certificates, requests and communications hereunder (“notices”) shall be in writing and shall be effective with respect to the Indenture Trustee, upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, and with respect to the Issuer (a) upon receipt when sent through the U.S. mail, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, with such receipt to be effective the date of delivery indicated on the return receipt, or (b) upon receipt when sent through an overnight courier, or (c) on the date personally delivered to an Authorized Officer of the party to which sent, or (d) on the date transmitted by legible telecopier or electronic mail transmission with a confirmation of receipt, in all cases addressed to the recipient at the address specified in the Sale and Servicing Agreement for such recipient. Each party hereto may, by notice given in accordance herewith to each of the other parties hereto, designate any further or different address to which subsequent notices shall be sent.

 

Section 11.05.      Electronic Signatures and Transmission.

 

(a)            For purposes of this Indenture, any reference to “written” or “in writing” means any form of written communication, including, without limitation, electronic signatures, and any such written communication may be transmitted by Electronic Transmission. “Electronic Transmission” means any form of communication not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, including the use of, or participation in, one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases), that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process. The Indenture Trustee is authorized to accept written instructions, directions, reports, notices or other communications delivered by Electronic Transmission that is reasonably believed by it to have been presented by the proper person. The Indenture Trustee shall not have any liability for any losses, liabilities, costs or expenses incurred or sustained by any party as a result of such reliance upon or compliance with such instructions, directions, reports, notices or other communications or information to the Indenture Trustee reasonably believed by it to have been presented by the proper person, including, without limitation, the risk of interception and misuse by third parties.

 

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(b)            Any requirement in this Indenture or the Notes that a document, including the Notes, is to be signed or authenticated by “manual signature” or similar language shall not be deemed to prohibit signature to be by facsimile or electronic signature and shall not be deemed to prohibit delivery thereof by Electronic Transmission.

 

(c)            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, any and all communications (both text and attachments) by or from the Indenture Trustee that the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion deems to contain confidential, proprietary and/or sensitive information and sent by Electronic Transmission will be encrypted. The recipient of the Electronic Transmission will be required to complete a one-time registration process.

 

(d)            Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Indenture by Electronic Transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Indenture.

 

Section 11.06.      Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Registered Holder affected by such event, at its address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Registered Holder is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Registered Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Registered Holders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given.

 

Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Noteholders shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.

 

In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

 

Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created hereunder, (except in cases where notice to the Rating Agencies is required to satisfy the Rating Agency Condition) and shall not under any circumstance constitute a Default or Event of Default.

 

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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Note, where this Indenture or any Note provides for notice of any event or any other communication (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) to a holder of a Book-Entry Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Clearing Agency (or its designee) pursuant to the standing instructions from the Clearing Agency or its designee, including by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices at the Clearing Agency.

 

Section 11.07.      Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuer may enter into any agreement with any Holder of a Note providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent to such Holder, that is different from the methods provided for in this Indenture for such payments or notices. The Issuer will furnish to the Indenture Trustee a copy of each such agreement and the Indenture Trustee will cause payments to be made and notices to be given in accordance with such agreements.

 

Section 11.08.      Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

Section 11.09.      Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-Indenture Trustees, separate Indenture Trustees and agents.

 

Section 11.10.      Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

Section 11.11.      Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, the Noteholders and any other party secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part of the Collateral, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 

Section 11.12.      Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.

 

Section 11.13.      Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS, AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

 

Section 11.14.      Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE OR ANY OTHER RELATED DOCUMENT OR FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN OR RELATING THERETO.

 

Section 11.15.      Submission to Jurisdiction. The Issuer hereby irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of any New York State court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York or any federal court sitting in the Southern District in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York in respect of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Indenture and the Notes, and irrevocably accepts for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts.

 

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Section 11.16.     Counterparts; Originals. This Indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument. The words “execution”, “signed”, “signature” and words of like import in this Indenture or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Indenture shall include, in addition to manually executed signature pages, images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including “pdf”, “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, any State law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the UCC.

 

Section 11.17.     Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

 

Section 11.18.     Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficiary interest in the Issuer, or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their individual capacity) and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity. For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles Six, Seven and Eight of the Trust Agreement.

 

Section 11.19.      No Petition. The parties hereto, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by accepting a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this Indenture or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

Section 11.20.     Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, during the Issuer’s normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the Issuer’s affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer’s officers, employees and independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall and shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.

 

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Section 11.21.     Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall control.

 

The provisions of TIA §§310 through 317 that impose duties on any person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture, whether or not physically contained herein.

 

Section 11.22.      Disclaimer and Subordination. Each Noteholder by accepting a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note acknowledges and agrees that such Note represents a debt obligation of the Issuer only and does not represent an interest in any assets of the Trust Depositor (including by virtue of any deficiency claim in respect of obligations not paid or otherwise satisfied from the Trust Estate and proceeds thereof). In furtherance of and not in derogation of the foregoing, each Noteholder by accepting a Note or a beneficial interest therein acknowledges and agrees that it shall have no right, title or interest in or to any assets (or interests therein) conveyed or purported to be conveyed by the Trust Depositor to another securitization trust (i.e., other than the Issuer) or other Person or Persons in connection therewith (whether by way of a sale, capital contribution or by virtue of the granting of a Lien) (“Other Assets”). To the extent that, notwithstanding the agreements and provisions contained in the preceding sentences of this Section 11.22, any Noteholder either (i) asserts an interest in or claim to, or benefit from, Other Assets, whether asserted against or through the Trust Depositor or any other Person owned by the Trust Depositor, or (ii) is deemed to have any such interest, claim or benefit in or from Other Assets, whether by operation of law, legal process, pursuant to applicable provisions of any applicable insolvency laws or otherwise (including without limitation by virtue of Section 1111(b) of the federal Bankruptcy Code or any successor provision having similar effect under the Bankruptcy Code or any successor provision having similar effect under the Bankruptcy Code), and whether deemed asserted against or through the Trust Depositor or any other Person owned by the Trust Depositor, then each Noteholder by accepting a Note or beneficial interest in a Note further acknowledges and agrees that any such interest, claim or benefit in or from Other Assets is and shall be expressly subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full of all obligations and liabilities of the Trust Depositor which, under the terms of the relevant documents relating to the securitization of such Other Assets, are entitled to be paid from, entitled to the benefits of, or otherwise secured by such Other Assets (whether or not any such entitlement or security interest is legally perfected or otherwise entitled to a priority of distribution or application under applicable law, including any applicable insolvency laws, and whether asserted against the Trust Depositor or any other Person owned by the Depositor), including, without limitation, the payment of post-petition interest on such other obligations and liabilities. This subordination agreement shall be deemed a subordination agreement within the meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Each Noteholder further acknowledges and agrees that no adequate remedy at law exists for a breach of this Section 11.22 and that the terms and provisions of this Section 11.22 may be enforced by an action for specific performance.

 

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Section 11.23.      Communications with Rating Agencies. If the Indenture Trustee shall receive any written or oral communication from any Rating Agency (or any of their respective officers, directors or employees) with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby or under the Transaction Documents or in any way relating to the Notes, the Indenture Trustee agrees to refrain from communicating with such Rating Agency and to promptly (and, in any event, within one Business Day) notify the Administrator of such communication.  The Indenture Trustee agrees to act at the direction of the Administrator with respect to any communication to a Rating Agency and further agrees that in no event shall the Indenture Trustee engage in any oral communication with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby or under the Transaction Documents or in any way relating to the Notes with any Rating Agency (or any of their respective officers, directors or employees) without the participation of the Administrator.

 

[signature page follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE
  TRUST 2024-A,
   
  By: Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely on behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement
   
  By: /s/ Drew Davis
    Printed Name: Drew Davis
    Title: Vice President
   
  CITIBANK, N.A.,
   
  By: /s/ Trang Tran-Rojas
    Printed Name: Trang Tran-Rojas
    Title: Senior Trust Officer

 

Signature Page to Indenture

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A-1

 

FORM OF CLASS A-1 NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE TRUST OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE 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.

 

THIS SECURITY IS NOT A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR DEPOSIT AND IT IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES.

 

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A

 

5.540% MOTORCYCLE CONTRACT BACKED NOTES, CLASS A-1

 

REGISTERED                                                   $89,000,000
   
No. R-1             CUSIP No. 412922AA4

 

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of Eighty-Nine Million Dollars ($89,000,000) payable on the earlier of the Distribution Date occurring in May 2025 (the “Class A-1 Final Distribution Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture referred to herein. Any capitalized term utilized but not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Indenture (as hereinafter defined).

 

The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Distribution Date during the related Interest Period and will be computed for the actual number of days elapsed in the related Interest Period based on a 360-day year. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified herein.

 

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

 

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This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its 5.540% Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes, Class A-1 (the “Class A-1 Notes”), all issued under an Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A-1 Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture. All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as the case may be, as so supplemented or amended.

 

The Class A-1 Notes and the other Classes of Notes described in the Indenture (collectively, the “Notes”) are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture subject to the priorities of allocations as to interest and principal payments as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Principal of the Class A-1 Notes will be payable on the earlier of the Class A-1 Final Distribution Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or 10.01(b) of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which the maturity of the Notes shall have been accelerated following the occurrence of an Event of Default in the manner provided in the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-1 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-1 Noteholders entitled thereto.

 

Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Distribution Date shall be made by wire transfer to the account of the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on the related Record Date except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) affected by any payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed within five (5) days before such Distribution Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent appointed for such purposes located in the City of Wilmington, Delaware.

 

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-1 Rate to the extent lawful.

 

As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed pursuant to Section 10.01(a) of the Indenture, in whole, but not in part, at the option of the Servicer, on any Distribution Date on or after the date on which the Pool Balance is less than 10% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (STAMP) or similar signature guarantee program, and such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or more new Class A-1 Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

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Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture and such Note that such Noteholder will not at any time institute against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the Transaction Documents.

 

The Issuer has entered into the Indenture, and this Note is issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness secured by the Collateral. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.

 

Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the Required Holders. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of the Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer 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 Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

 

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Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, is deemed to represent that (i) it is not, and is not acquiring and will not hold a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note on behalf of or with “plan assets” (as determined under Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise) of a Plan, or any employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law, or (ii) its acquisition, holding and disposition of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note do not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or any Similar Law. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note is deemed to make one of the foregoing representations.

 

The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

 

This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual or electronic signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by an Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

 

Date: May 22, 2024 HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE
  TRUST 2024-A
     
     
  By: Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely on behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee, under the Trust Agreement
     

  By:  
  Printed Name:  
  Title:  

  

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INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

  CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but
  solely as Indenture Trustee
   
  By:  
  Authorized Signatory

 

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EXHIBIT A-2

 

FORM OF CLASS A-2 NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE TRUST OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE 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.

 

THIS SECURITY IS NOT A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR DEPOSIT AND IT IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES.

 

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A

 

5.65% MOTORCYCLE CONTRACT BACKED NOTES, CLASS A-2

REGISTERED                                                   $192,165,000
   
No. R-1             CUSIP No. 412922AB2

 

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of One Hundred Ninety-Two Million One Hundred Sixty-Five Thousand Dollars ($192,165,000) payable on the earlier of the Distribution Date occurring in February 2027 (the “Class A-2 Final Distribution Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture referred to herein. No payments of principal of the Class A-2 Notes shall be made until the principal of the Class A-1 Notes has been paid in full. Any capitalized term utilized but not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Indenture (as hereinafter defined).

 

The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Distribution Date during the related Interest Period and will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified herein.

 

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

 

A-2-1

 

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its 5.65% Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes, Class A-2 (the “Class A-2 Notes”), all issued under an Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A-2 Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture. All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as the case may be, as so supplemented or amended.

 

The Class A-2 Notes and the other Classes of Notes described in the Indenture (collectively, the “Notes”) are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture subject to the priorities of allocations as to interest and principal payments as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Principal of the Class A-2 Notes will be payable on the earlier of the Class A-2 Final Distribution Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or 10.01(b) of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Class A-2 Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which the maturity of the Notes shall have been accelerated following the occurrence of an Event of Default in the manner provided in the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-2 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-2 Noteholders entitled thereto.

 

Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Distribution Date shall be made by wire transfer to the account of the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on the related Record Date, except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) affected by any payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed within five (5) days before such Distribution Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent appointed for such purposes located in the City of Wilmington, Delaware.

 

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-2 Rate to the extent lawful.

 

As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed pursuant to Section 10.01(a) of the Indenture, in whole, but not in part, at the option of the Servicer, on any Distribution Date on or after the date on which the Pool Balance is less than 10% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (STAMP) or similar signature guarantee program, and such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or more new Class A-2 Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

A-2-2

 

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture and such Note that such Noteholder will not at any time institute against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the Transaction Documents.

 

The Issuer has entered into the Indenture, and this Note is issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness secured by the Collateral. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.

 

Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the Required Holders. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of the Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer 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 Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

 

A-2-3

 

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, is deemed to represent that (i) it is not, and is not acquiring and will not hold a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note on behalf of or with “plan assets” (as determined under Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise) of a Plan, or any employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law, or (ii) its acquisition, holding and disposition of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note do not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or any Similar Law. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note is deemed to make one of the foregoing representations.

 

The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

 

This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual or electronic signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

A-2-4

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by an Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

 

Date: May 22, 2024 HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE
  TRUST 2024-A
     
     
  By: Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely on behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee, under the Trust Agreement
     

  By:  
  Printed Name:  
  Title:  

  

A-2-5

 

 

INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

  

This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

  CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but
  solely as Indenture Trustee
   
  By:  
  Authorized Signatory

 

A-2-6

 

 

EXHIBIT A-3

 

FORM OF CLASS A-3 NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE TRUST OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE 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.

 

THIS SECURITY IS NOT A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR DEPOSIT AND IT IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES.

 

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A

 

5.37% MOTORCYCLE CONTRACT BACKED NOTES, CLASS A-3

 

REGISTERED                                                   $242,165,000
   
No. R-1             CUSIP No. 412922AC0

 

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO, or registered assigns, the principal sum of Two Hundred Forty-Two Million One Hundred Sixty-Five Thousand Dollars ($242,165,000) payable on the earlier of the Distribution Date occurring in March 2029 (the “Class A-3 Final Distribution Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture referred to herein. No payments of principal of the Class A-3 Notes shall be made until the principal of the Class A-1 Notes and, prior to an acceleration of the Notes, the Class A-2 Notes have been paid in full. Any capitalized term utilized but not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Indenture (as hereinafter defined).

 

The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Distribution Date during the related Interest Period and will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified herein.

 

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

 

A-3-1

 

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its 5.37% Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes, Class A-3 (the “Class A-3 Notes”), all issued under an Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A-3 Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture. All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as the case may be, as so supplemented or amended.

 

The Class A-3 Notes and the other Classes of Notes described in the Indenture (collectively, the “Notes”) are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture subject to the priorities of allocations as to interest and principal payments as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Principal of the Class A-3 Notes will be payable on the earlier of the Class A-3 Final Distribution Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or 10.01(b) of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Class A-3 Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which the maturity of the Notes shall have been accelerated following the occurrence of an Event of Default in the manner provided in the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-3 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-3 Noteholders entitled thereto.

 

Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Distribution Date shall be made by wire transfer to the account of the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on the related Record Date, except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) affected by any payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed within five (5) days before such Distribution Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent appointed for such purposes located in the City of Wilmington, Delaware.

 

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-3 Rate to the extent lawful.

 

As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed pursuant to Section 10.01(a) of the Indenture, in whole, but not in part, at the option of the Servicer, on any Distribution Date on or after the date on which the Pool Balance is less than 10% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (STAMP) or similar signature guarantee program, and such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or more new Class A-3 Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

A-3-2

 

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture and such Note that such Noteholder will not at any time institute against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the Transaction Documents.

 

The Issuer has entered into the Indenture, and this Note is issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness secured by the Collateral. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.

 

Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the Required Holders. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of the Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer 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 Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

 

A-3-3

 

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, is deemed to represent that (i) it is not, and is not acquiring and will not hold a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note on behalf of or with “plan assets” (as determined under Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise) of a Plan, or any employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law, or (ii) its acquisition, holding and disposition of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note do not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or any Similar Law. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note is deemed to make one of the foregoing representations.

 

The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

 

This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual or electronic signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

A-3-4

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by an Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

 

Date: May 22, 2024 HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE
  TRUST 2024-A
     
     
  By: Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely on behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee, under the Trust Agreement
     

  By:  
  Printed Name:  
  Title:  

  

A-3-5

 

 

INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

 

This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

  CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but
  solely as Indenture Trustee
   
  By:  
  Authorized Signatory

 

A-3-6

 

 

EXHIBIT A-4

 

FORM OF CLASS A-4 NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE TRUST OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE 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.

 

THIS SECURITY IS NOT A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR DEPOSIT AND IT IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES.

 

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A

 

5.29% MOTORCYCLE CONTRACT BACKED NOTES,

 

CLASS A-4

 

REGISTERED                                                   $55,619,000
   
No. R-1             CUSIP No. 412922AD8

 

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of Fifty-Five Million Six Hundred Nineteen Thousand Dollars ($55,619,000 payable on the earlier of the Distribution Date occurring in December 2031 (the “Class A-4 Final Distribution Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture referred to herein. No payments of principal of the Class A-4 Notes shall be made until the principal of the Class A-1 Notes and, prior to an acceleration of the Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes have been paid in full. Any capitalized term utilized but not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Indenture (as hereinafter defined).

 

The Issuer will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Distribution Date), subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Distribution Date during the related Interest Period and will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified herein.

 

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

 

A-4-1

 

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its 5.29% Motorcycle Contract Backed Notes, Class A-4 (the “Class A-4 Notes”), all issued under an Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Class A-4 Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture. All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as the case may be, as so supplemented or amended.

 

The Class A-4 Notes and the other Classes of Notes described in the Indenture (collectively, the “Notes”) are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture subject to the priorities of allocations as to interest and principal payments as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Principal of the Class A-4 Notes will be payable on the earlier of the Class A-4 Final Distribution Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01(a) or 10.01(b) of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Class A-4 Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which the maturity of the Notes shall have been accelerated following the occurrence of an Event of Default in the manner provided in the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-4 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-4 Noteholders entitled thereto.

 

Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Distribution Date shall be made by wire transfer to the account of the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on the related Record Date, except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) affected by any payments made on any Distribution Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a Distribution Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Distribution Date by notice mailed within five (5) days before such Distribution Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent appointed for such purposes located in the City of Wilmington, Delaware.

 

The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-4 Rate to the extent lawful.

 

As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed pursuant to Section 10.01(a) of the Indenture, in whole, but not in part, at the option of the Servicer, on any Distribution Date on or after the date on which the Pool Balance is less than 10% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date.

 

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As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution which is a participant in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (STAMP) or similar signature guarantee program, and such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or more new Class A-4 Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture and such Note that such Noteholder will not at any time institute against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the Transaction Documents.

 

The Issuer has entered into the Indenture, and this Note is issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness secured by the Collateral. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, agrees to treat the Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.

 

Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the Required Holders. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of the Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer 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 Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

 

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Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note, is deemed to represent that (i) it is not, and is not acquiring and will not hold a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note on behalf of or with “plan assets” (as determined under Department of Labor Regulations Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise) of a Plan, or any employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law, or (ii) its acquisition, holding and disposition of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note do not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or any Similar Law. Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note or a beneficial interest in a Note is deemed to make one of the foregoing representations.

 

The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

 

This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual or electronic signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by an Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

  

Date: May 22, 2024 HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE
  TRUST 2024-A
     
     
  By: Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely on behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee, under the Trust Agreement
     

  By:  
  Printed Name:  
  Title:  

  

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INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

  CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but
  solely as Indenture Trustee
   
  By:  
  Authorized Signatory

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT

 

[see attached]

 

B-1

EX-4.3 4 tm2413280d9_ex4-3.htm EXHIBIT 4.3

 

Exhibit 4.3

 

 

 

ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEW AGREEMENT

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A,

 

as Issuer

 

and

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.,

 

as Servicer

 

and

 

CLAYTON FIXED INCOME SERVICES LLC,

 

as Asset Representations Reviewer

 

_____________________________

 

Dated as of May 1, 2024

_____________________________

  

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I. USAGE AND DEFINITIONS 1
     
Section 1.01 Usage and Definitions 1
Section 1.02 Definitions 1
     
ARTICLE II. ENGAGEMENT; ACCEPTANCE 2
     
Section 2.01 Engagement; Acceptance 2
Section 2.02 Confirmation of Status 2
     
ARTICLE III. ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEW PROCESS 3
     
Section 3.01 Review Notices and Identification of Review Contracts 3
Section 3.02 Review Materials 3
Section 3.03 Performance of Reviews 3
Section 3.04 Review Report 4
Section 3.05 Review Representatives 5
Section 3.06 Dispute Resolution 5
Section 3.07 Limitations on Review Obligations 5
     
ARTICLE IV. ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER 6
     
Section 4.01 Representations and Warranties of the Asset Representations Reviewer 6
Section 4.02 Fees and Expenses 7
Section 4.03 Limitation on Liability 8
Section 4.04 Indemnification by Asset Representations Reviewer 8
Section 4.05 Indemnification of Asset Representations Reviewer 8
Section 4.06 Inspections of Asset Representations Reviewer 9
Section 4.07 Delegation of Obligations 9
Section 4.08 Confidential Information 9
Section 4.09 Personally Identifiable Information 11
     
ARTICLE V. REMOVAL, RESIGNATION 12
     
Section 5.01 Eligibility of the Asset Representations Reviewer 12
Section 5.02 Resignation and Removal of Asset Representations Reviewer 12
Section 5.03 Successor Asset Representations Reviewer 13
Section 5.04 Merger, Consolidation or Succession 13
     
ARTICLE VI. OTHER AGREEMENTS 14
     
Section 6.01 Independence of the Asset Representations Reviewer 14
Section 6.02 No Petition 14
Section 6.03 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee 14
Section 6.04 Termination of Agreement 14
     
ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 14
     
Section 7.01 Amendments. 14
Section 7.02 Assignment; Benefit of Agreement; Third Party Beneficiaries 15
Section 7.03 Notices 15
Section 7.04 GOVERNING LAW 15

 

 

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Section 7.05 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL 15
Section 7.06 No Waiver; Remedies 16
Section 7.07 Severability 16
Section 7.08 Headings 16
Section 7.09 Counterparts 16
     
Schedule A – Review Materials  
Schedule B – Representations, Warranties and Tests  

 

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This ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEW AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), entered into as of May 1, 2024, by and among HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A (together with its successors and assigns, the “Issuer”), HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP. (solely in its capacity as Servicer, together with its successor and assigns, the “Servicer”), and CLAYTON FIXED INCOME SERVICES LLC (the “Asset Representations Reviewer”).

 

WHEREAS, the Issuer will engage the Asset Representations Reviewer to perform reviews of certain Contracts for compliance with certain representations and warranties made with respect thereto; and

 

WHEREAS, the Asset Representations Reviewer desires to perform such reviews of Contracts in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound hereby, agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I.

 

USAGE AND DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.01         Usage and Definitions.

 

Unless otherwise defined in this Agreement, capitalized terms used herein (including in the preamble above) shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Section 1.02         Definitions.

 

Whenever used in this Agreement, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

 

Annual Fee” has the meaning stated in Section 4.02(a).

 

Confidential Information” has the meaning stated in Section 4.08(b).

 

Eligible Representations” shall mean those representations identified within the “Tests” included in Schedule B.

 

Information Recipients” has the meaning stated in Section 4.08(a).

 

Indemnified Person” has the meaning stated in Section 4.05(a).

 

Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2024, between the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, as the same may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

 

Indenture Trustee” means Citibank, N.A., as indenture trustee under the Indenture, and any successor thereto.

 

Issuer PII” has the meaning stated in Section 4.09(a).

 

PII” has the meaning stated in Section 4.09(a).

 

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Review” means the completion by the Asset Representations Reviewer of the procedures listed under “Tests” in Schedule B for each Review Contract as further described in Section 3.03.

 

Review Contracts” means those Contracts identified by the Servicer as requiring a Review by the Asset Representations Reviewer following receipt of a Review Notice as further described in Section 3.01.

 

Review Fee” has the meaning stated in Section 4.02(b).

 

Review Materials” means the documents, data, and other information required for each “Test” in Schedule A.

 

Review Notice” means a notice delivered to the Asset Representations Reviewer by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 7.04 of the Indenture.

 

Review Report” has the meaning stated in Section 3.04.

 

Sale and Servicing Agreement” means the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024, between the Issuer, Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., as Trust Depositor, and the Servicer, as the same may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

 

Tests” mean the procedures listed in Schedule B as applied to the process described in Section 3.03.

 

Test Complete” has the meeting stated in Section 3.03(c).

 

Test Fail” has the meaning stated in Section 3.03(a).

 

Test Pass” has the meaning stated in Section 3.03(a).

 

ARTICLE II.

 

ENGAGEMENT; ACCEPTANCE

 

Section 2.01         Engagement; Acceptance.

 

The Issuer hereby engages Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC to act as the Asset Representations Reviewer for the Issuer. Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC accepts the engagement and agrees to perform the obligations of the Asset Representations Reviewer on the terms stated in this Agreement.

 

Section 2.02         Confirmation of Status.

 

The parties confirm that the Asset Representations Reviewer is not responsible for (a) reviewing the Contracts for compliance with the representations and warranties under the Transaction Documents, except as described in this Agreement, or (b) determining whether noncompliance with the representations or warranties constitutes a breach of the Transaction Documents.

 

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ARTICLE III.

 

ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEW PROCESS

 

Section 3.01         Review Notices and Identification of Review Contracts.

 

On receipt of a Review Notice from the Indenture Trustee according to Section 7.04 of the Indenture, the Asset Representations Reviewer will start a Review. Once the Review Notice is issued, the Servicer will provide the list of Review Contracts to the Asset Representations Reviewer within sixty (60) days.

 

The Asset Representations Reviewer will not be obligated to start a Review until a Review Notice, the related list of Review Contracts, and the initial delivery of the Review Materials as described in Section 3.02 is received. The Asset Representations Reviewer is not obligated to verify the accuracy or completeness of the list of Review Contracts provided by the Servicer.

 

Section 3.02         Review Materials.

 

(a)            Access to Review Materials. Within sixty (60) days of the delivery of a Review Notice, the Servicer will provide the Asset Representations Reviewer with access to the Review Materials for all Review Contracts in one or more of the following ways: (i) by providing access to the Servicer’s systems, either remotely or at an office of the Servicer, (ii) by electronic posting to a password-protected website to which the Asset Representations Reviewer has access, (iii) by providing originals or photocopies at an office of the Servicer, or (iv) in another manner agreed by the Servicer and the Asset Representations Reviewer. The Servicer may redact or remove Personally Identifiable Information from the Review Materials without changing the meaning or usefulness of the Review Materials. The Asset Representations Reviewer shall be entitled to rely in good faith, without independent investigation or verification, that the Review Materials are (i) accurate and complete in all material respects and (ii) not misleading in any material respect.

 

(b)             Incomplete or Insufficient Review Materials. The Asset Representations Reviewer will review the Review Materials to determine if the Review Materials are incomplete or insufficient for the Asset Representations Reviewer to perform any Test. If the Asset Representations Reviewer determines the Review Materials to be incomplete or insufficient, the Asset Representations Reviewer will notify the Servicer promptly, and in any event no less than twenty (20) days before completing the Review. The Servicer will have fifteen (15) days to give the Asset Representations Reviewer access to the complete Review Materials or other documents or information to correct the insufficiency. If the complete Review Materials or other documents have not been provided by the Servicer within fifteen (15) days, the related Review Report will report a Test Fail for each Test that requires use of the incomplete or insufficient Review Materials.

 

Section 3.03         Performance of Reviews.

 

(a)            Test Procedures. For a Review, the Asset Representations Reviewer will perform, for each Review Contract, the procedures listed under “Tests” in Schedule B for each Eligible Representation. In the course of its review, the Asset Representations Reviewer will use the Review Materials listed in Schedule A. For each Test and Review Contract, the Asset Representations Reviewer will determine if the Test has been satisfied (a “Test Pass”) or if the Test has not been satisfied (a “Test Fail”).

 

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(b)            Review Period. The Asset Representations Reviewer will complete the Review within sixty (60) days of receiving access to the Review Materials. However, if additional Review Materials are provided to the Asset Representations Reviewer as described in Section 3.02(b), the Review period will be extended for an additional thirty (30) days.

 

(c)            Completion of Review for Certain Review Contracts. Following the delivery of the list of the Review Contracts and before the delivery of the Review Report by the Asset Representations Reviewer, the Servicer may notify the Asset Representations Reviewer if a Review Contract is paid in full by the Obligor or purchased from the Issuer in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents. On receipt of such notice, the Asset Representations Reviewer will immediately terminate all Tests of the related Review Contract, and the Review of such Review Contracts will be considered complete (a “Test Complete”). In this case, the related Review Report will indicate a Test Complete for such Review Contract and the related reason.

 

(d)            Previously Reviewed Contracts; Duplicative Tests. If any Review Contract was included in a prior Review, the Asset Representations Reviewer will not conduct additional Tests on such Review Contract, but will include the previously reported Test results in the Review Report for the current Review. If the same Test is required for more than one representation and warranty, the Asset Representations Reviewer will only perform the Test once for each Review Contract, but will report the results of the Test for each applicable representation and warranty on the Review Report.

 

(e)            Termination of Review. If a Review is in process and the Notes will be paid in full on the next Distribution Date, the Servicer or the Administrator will notify the Asset Representations Reviewer no less than ten (10) days before that Distribution Date. On receipt of such notice, the Asset Representations Reviewer will terminate the Review immediately and will not be obligated to deliver a Review Report.

 

(f)            Review Systems; Personnel. The Asset Representations Reviewer will maintain business process management and/or other systems necessary to ensure that it can perform each Test and, on execution of this Agreement, will load each Test into these systems. The Asset Representations Reviewer will ensure that these systems allow for each Review Contract and the related Review Materials to be individually tracked and stored as contemplated by this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer will maintain adequate staff that is properly trained to conduct Reviews as required by this Agreement.

 

Section 3.04         Review Report.

 

Within five (5) days after the end of the applicable Review period under Section 3.03(b), the Asset Representations Reviewer will deliver to the Issuer, the Servicer, the Trust Depositor, and the Indenture Trustee a Review Report indicating for each Review Contract whether there was a Test Pass, Test Fail or Test Complete for each related Test. For each Test Fail or Test Complete, the Review Report will indicate the related reason, including (for example) whether the Review Contract was a Test Fail as a result of incomplete or insufficient Review Materials. The Review Report will contain a summary of the Review results to be included in the Issuer’s Form 10-D report for the Collection Period in which the Review Report is received. The Asset Representations Reviewer will ensure that the Review Report does not contain any PII. On reasonable request of the Servicer, the Asset Representations Reviewer will provide additional details on the Test results.

 

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Section 3.05         Review Representatives.

 

(a)            Servicer Representative. The Servicer will designate one or more representatives who will be available to assist the Asset Representations Reviewer in performing the Review, including responding to requests and answering questions from the Asset Representations Reviewer about access to Review Materials on the Servicer’s originations, receivables or other systems, obtaining incomplete or insufficient Review Materials and/or providing clarification of any Review Materials or Tests.

 

(b)            Asset Representations Review Representative. The Asset Representations Reviewer will designate one or more representatives who will be available to the Issuer, the Servicer and the Administrator during the performance of a Review.

 

(c)            Questions About Review. The Asset Representations Reviewer will make appropriate personnel available to respond in writing to written questions or requests for clarification of any Review Report from the Servicer until the earlier of (i) the payment in full of the Notes and (ii) one year after the delivery of the Review Report. The Asset Representations Reviewer will not be obligated to respond to questions or requests for clarification from Noteholders or any other Person and will direct such Persons to submit written questions or requests to the Servicer.

 

Section 3.06         Dispute Resolution.

 

If a Review Contract that was the subject of a Review becomes the subject of a dispute resolution proceeding under Section 7.12 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Asset Representations Reviewer will participate in the dispute resolution proceeding on request of a party to the proceeding. The reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Asset Representations Reviewer for its participation in any dispute resolution proceeding will be considered expenses of the requesting party for the dispute resolution and will be paid by a party to the dispute resolution as determined by (i) in the case of arbitration, the arbitrator, and (ii) in the case of mediation, as mutually agreed upon by the parties as part of the mediation. If not paid by a party to the dispute resolution, the expenses will be reimbursed by the Issuer according to Section 4.02(d) of this Agreement.

 

Section 3.07         Limitations on Review Obligations.

 

(a)            Review Process Limitations. The Asset Representations Reviewer will have no obligation (i) to determine whether a Delinquency Trigger has occurred or whether the required percentage of Noteholders has voted to direct a Review under the Indenture; (ii) to determine which Contracts are subject to a Review, (iii) to obtain or confirm the validity of the Review Materials, (iv) to obtain incomplete or insufficient Review Materials except as specifically described herein,(v) to take any action or cause any other party to take any action under any of the Transaction Documents to enforce any remedies for breaches of representations or warranties about the Eligible Representations, (vi) to determine the reason for the delinquency of any Review Contract, the creditworthiness of any Obligor, the overall quality of any Review Contract or the compliance by the Servicer with its covenants with respect to the servicing of such Review Contract, or (vii) to establish cause, materiality or recourse for any failed Test as described in Section 3.03.

 

(b)            Testing Procedure Limitations. The Asset Representations Reviewer will only be required to perform the “Tests” listed under Schedule B, and will not be obligated to perform additional procedures on any Review Contract or to provide any information other than a Review Report. However, the Asset Representations Reviewer may provide additional information in a Review Report about any Review Contract that it determines in good faith to be material to the Review.

 

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(c)            Maintenance of Review Materials. It will maintain copies of any Review Materials, Review Reports and other documents relating to a Review, including internal correspondence and work papers, for a period of two years after the delivery of any Review Report.

 

ARTICLE IV.

 

ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER

 

Section 4.01         Representations and Warranties of the Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

The Asset Representations Reviewer hereby makes the following representations and warranties as of the Closing Date:

 

(a)            Organization and Qualification. The Asset Representations Reviewer is duly organized and validly existing as a limited liability company in good standing under the laws of State of Delaware. The Asset Representations Reviewer is qualified as a foreign limited liability company in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its properties or the conduct of its activities requires the qualification, license or approval, unless the failure to obtain the qualifications, licenses or approvals would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Asset Representations Reviewer’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

 

(b)            Power, Authority and Enforceability. The Asset Representations Reviewer has the power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer has authorized the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. This Agreement is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Asset Representations Reviewer enforceable against the Asset Representations Reviewer, except as may be limited by insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights or by general equitable principles.

 

(c)            No Conflicts and No Violation. The completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the performance of the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement will not (i) conflict with, or be a breach or default under, any indenture, loan agreement, guarantee or similar document under which the Asset Representations Reviewer is a debtor or guarantor, (ii) result in the creation or imposition of a Lien on the properties or assets of the Asset Representations Reviewer under the terms of any indenture, loan agreement, guarantee or similar document, (iii) violate the organizational documents of the Asset Representations Reviewer, or (iv) violate a law or, to the Asset Representations Reviewer’s knowledge, an order, rule or regulation of a federal or State court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Asset Representations Reviewer or its property that applies to the Asset Representations Reviewer, which, in each case, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Asset Representations Reviewer’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

 

(d)            No Proceedings. To the Asset Representations Reviewer’s knowledge, there are no proceedings or investigations pending or threatened in writing before a federal or State court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Asset Representations Reviewer or its properties (i) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (ii) seeking to prevent the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Asset Representations Reviewer’s ability to perform its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.

 

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(e)            Eligibility. The Asset Representations Reviewer meets the eligibility requirements in Section 5.01, and will notify the Issuer and the Servicer promptly if it no longer meets, or reasonably expects that it will no longer meet, the eligibility requirements in Section 5.01.

 

Section 4.02         Fees and Expenses.

 

(a)            Annual Fee. As compensation for its activities hereunder, the Asset Representations Reviewer shall be entitled to receive an annual fee (the “Annual Fee”) with respect to each Annual Period prior to the termination of the Issuer, in an amount equal to $5,000.00. The Annual Fee will be paid by the Servicer on the Closing Date and on each anniversary of the Closing Date until this Agreement is terminated.

 

(b)            Review Fee. Following the completion of a Review and the delivery of the related Review Report pursuant to Section 3.04, or the termination of a Review according to Section 3.03(e), and the delivery to the Administrator of a detailed invoice, the Asset Representations Reviewer will be entitled to a fee of $200.00 for each Review Contract for which the Review was started (the “Review Fee”). However, no Review Fee will be charged for any Review Contract (i) which was included in a prior Review, (ii) for which no Tests were completed prior to the Asset Representations Reviewer being notified of a termination of the Review according to Section 3.03(e), or (iii) due to incomplete or insufficient Review Materials under Section 3.02(b).

 

(c)            Reimbursement of Travel Expenses. If the Servicer provides access to the Review Materials at one of its properties, the Issuer shall cause the Administrator to reimburse the Asset Representations Reviewer for its reasonable travel expenses incurred in connection with the Review upon receipt of a detailed invoice.

 

(d)            Dispute Resolution Expenses. If the Asset Representations Reviewer participates in a dispute resolution proceeding under Section 3.06 of this Agreement and its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses for participating in the proceeding are not paid by a party to the dispute resolution within ninety (90) days after the end of the proceeding, the Issuer shall cause the Administrator to reimburse the Asset Representations Reviewer for such expenses upon receipt of a detailed invoice.

 

(e)            Payment of Invoices. When applicable pursuant to this Section 4.02 and Section 4.05, the Asset Representations Reviewer will invoice the Servicer or the Administrator, as applicable, at the notices address set forth in Section 11.04 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and all such invoices are payable within thirty (30) days of receipt. In the event fees, expenses and indemnities of the Asset Representations Reviewer are not paid within thirty (30) days following the Servicer’s or Administrator’s, as applicable, receipt of an invoice, the Asset Representations Reviewer will submit invoices to the Issuer (with a copy to the Administrator) at the notices address set forth in Section 11.04 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and the Issuer shall or will cause the Administrator to, pay all such invoices according to the priority of payments described in Section 7.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement on the payment date following the month in which the invoice was received by the Issuer. However, if a Review is terminated according to Section 3.03(e), the Asset Representations Reviewer must submit its invoice to the Administrator for fees, expenses and indemnities remaining unpaid no later than ten (10) Business Days before the final payment date to be reimbursed on such final payment date. The Servicer acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to reimburse the Asset Representations Reviewer for its fees and expenses pursuant to this Agreement shall not be limited to or reduced by any reduction in Available Amounts on deposit in the related Collection Account. For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate limit on the fees, expenses and indemnities of the Asset Representations Reviewer specified in Section 7.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall not be applied to amounts payable by the Servicer to the Asset Representations Reviewer pursuant to this Section 4.02.

 

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Section 4.03         Limitation on Liability.

 

The Asset Representations Reviewer will not be liable to any Person for any action taken, or not taken, under this Agreement or for errors in judgment. However, the Asset Representations Reviewer will be liable for its willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence in performing its obligations under this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer will not be liable for any errors in any review materials relied on by it to perform a review or for the noncompliance or breach of any representation made about the Contracts. In no event will the Asset Representations Reviewer be liable for special, indirect or consequential losses or damages (including lost profit), even if the Asset Representations Reviewer has been advised of the likelihood of the loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

 

Section 4.04         Indemnification by Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

The Asset Representations Reviewer will indemnify each of the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents for all fees, expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses), losses, damages and liabilities (a) resulting from the willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence of the Asset Representations Reviewer in performing its obligations under this Agreement, (b) resulting from the Asset Representations Reviewer’s breach of any of its representations or warranties in this Agreement, and (c) in connection with the enforcement of this indemnity. The Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Section 4.04 will survive the termination of this Agreement, the termination of the Issuer and the resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

Section 4.05         Indemnification of Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

(a)            Indemnification. The Administrator, will, or will cause the Issuer to, indemnify the Asset Representations Reviewer and its officers, directors, employees and agents (each, an “Indemnified Person”), for all costs, expenses, losses, damages and liabilities resulting from the performance of its obligations under this Agreement (including the fees and expenses of defending itself against any loss, damage or liability), but excluding any cost, expense, loss, damage or liability resulting from (i) the Asset Representations Reviewer’s willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence or (ii) the Asset Representations Reviewer’s breach of any of its representations or warranties in this Agreement.

 

(b)            Proceedings. Promptly on receipt by an Indemnified Person of notice of a Proceeding against it, the Indemnified Person will, if a claim is to be made under Section 4.05(a), notify the Issuer and the Administrator of the Proceeding. The Servicer may participate in and assume the defense and settlement of a Proceeding at its expense. If the Servicer notifies the Indemnified Person of its intention to assume the defense of the Proceeding with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person, and so long as the Servicer assumes the defense of the Proceeding in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person, the Servicer will not be liable for fees and expenses of counsel to the Indemnified Person unless there is a conflict between the interests of the Servicer or the Issuer, as applicable, and an Indemnified Person. If there is a conflict, the Servicer will, or will cause the Issuer to, pay for the reasonable fees and expenses of separate counsel to the Indemnified Person. No settlement of a Proceeding may be made without the approval of the Servicer and the Indemnified Person, which approval will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.

 

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(c)            Survival of Obligations. The Servicer’s obligations under this Section 4.05 will survive the resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer and the termination of this Agreement. The Servicer acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to indemnify the Asset Representations Reviewer shall not be limited to or reduced by any reduction in Available Amounts on deposit in the related Collection Account. For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate limit on the fees, expenses and indemnities of the Asset Representations Reviewer specified in Section 7.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall not be applied to amounts payable by the Servicer to the Asset Representations Reviewer pursuant to this Section 4.05.

 

Section 4.06         Inspections of Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

The Asset Representations Reviewer agrees that, with reasonable advance notice not more than once during any year, it will permit authorized representatives of the Issuer, the Servicer or the Administrator, during the Asset Representations Reviewer’s normal business hours, to examine and review the books of account, records, reports and other documents and materials of the Asset Representations Reviewer relating to (a) the performance of the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement, (b) payments of fees and expenses of the Asset Representations Reviewer for its performance, and (c) a claim made by the Asset Representations Reviewer under this Agreement. In addition, the Asset Representations Reviewer will permit the Issuer’s, the Servicer’s or the Administrator’s representatives to make copies and extracts of any of those documents and to discuss them with the Asset Representations Reviewer’s officers and employees. Each of the Issuer, the Servicer and the Administrator will, and will cause its authorized representatives to, hold in confidence the information except if disclosure may be required by law or if the Issuer, the Servicer or the Administrator reasonably determines that it is required to make the disclosure under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents. The Asset Representations Reviewer will maintain all relevant books, records, reports and other documents and materials for a period of at least two years after the termination of its obligations under this Agreement.

 

Section 4.07         Delegation of Obligations. The Asset Representations Reviewer may not delegate or subcontract its obligations under this Agreement to any Person without the consent of the Issuer and the Servicer, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

 

Section 4.08         Confidential Information.

 

(a)            Treatment. The Asset Representations Reviewer agrees to hold and treat Confidential Information given to it under this Agreement in confidence and under the terms and conditions of this Section 4.08, and will implement and maintain safeguards to further assure the confidentiality of the Confidential Information. The Confidential Information will not, without the prior consent of the Issuer and the Servicer, be disclosed or used by the Asset Representations Reviewer, or its officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives or affiliates, including legal counsel (collectively, the “Information Recipients”) other than for the purposes of performing Reviews of Review Contracts or performing its obligations under this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer agrees that it will not, and will cause its Affiliates to not (i) purchase or sell securities issued by the Issuer or its Affiliates or special purpose entities on the basis of Confidential Information or (ii) use the Confidential Information for the preparation of research reports, newsletters or other publications or similar communications.

 

 

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(b)            Definition. “Confidential Information” means oral, written and electronic materials (irrespective of its source or form of communication) furnished before, on or after the date of this Agreement to the Asset Representations Reviewer for the purposes contemplated by this Agreement, including:

 

(i)            lists of Review Contracts and any related Review Materials;

 

(ii)          origination and servicing guidelines, policies and procedures, and form contracts; and

 

(iii)          notes, analyses, compilations, studies or other documents or records prepared by the Servicer, which contain information supplied by or on behalf of the Servicer or its representatives.

 

However, Confidential Information will not include information that (A) is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by the Information Recipients, (B) was available to, or becomes available to, the Information Recipients on a non-confidential basis from a Person or entity other than the Issuer or the Servicer before its disclosure to the Information Recipients who, to the knowledge of the Information Recipient is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with the Issuer or the Servicer and is not prohibited from transmitting the information to the Information Recipients, (C) is independently developed by the Information Recipients without the use of the Confidential Information, as shown by the Information Recipients’ files and records or other evidence in the Information Recipients’ possession, or (D) the Issuer or the Servicer provides permission to the applicable Information Recipients to release.

 

(c)          Protection. The Asset Representations Reviewer will take reasonable measures to protect the secrecy of and avoid disclosure and unauthorized use of Confidential Information, including those measures that it takes to protect its own confidential information and not less than a reasonable standard of care. The Asset Representations Reviewer acknowledges that Personally Identifiable Information is also subject to the additional requirements in Section 4.09.

 

(d)            Disclosure. If the Asset Representations Reviewer is required by applicable law, regulation, rule or order issued by an administrative, governmental, regulatory or judicial authority to disclose part of the Confidential Information, it may disclose the Confidential Information. However, before a required disclosure, the Asset Representations Reviewer, if permitted by law, regulation, rule or order, will use its reasonable efforts to provide the Issuer and the Servicer with notice of the requirement and will cooperate, at the Servicer’s expense, in the Issuer’s and the Servicer’s pursuit of a proper protective order or other relief for the disclosure of the Confidential Information. If the Issuer or the Servicer is unable to obtain a protective order or other proper remedy by the date that the information is required to be disclosed, the Asset Representations Reviewer will disclose only that part of the Confidential Information that it is advised by its legal counsel it is legally required to disclose.

 

(e)            Responsibility for Information Recipients. The Asset Representations Reviewer will be responsible for a breach of this Section 4.08 by its Information Recipients.

 

(f)          Violation. The Asset Representations Reviewer agrees that a violation of this Agreement may cause irreparable injury to the Issuer and the Servicer and the Issuer and the Servicer may seek injunctive relief in addition to legal remedies. If an action is initiated by the Issuer or the Servicer to enforce this Section 4.08, the prevailing party will be reimbursed for its fees and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, incurred for the enforcement.

 

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Section 4.09         Personally Identifiable Information.

 

(a)            Definitions. “Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII” means information in any format about an identifiable individual, including, name, address, phone number, e-mail address, account number(s), identification number(s), any other actual or assigned attribute associated with or identifiable to an individual and any information that when used separately or in combination with other information could identify an individual. “Issuer PII” means PII furnished by the Issuer, the Servicer or their Affiliates to the Asset Representations Reviewer and PII developed or otherwise collected or acquired by the Asset Representations Reviewer in performing its obligations under this Agreement.

 

(b)            Use of Issuer PII. The Issuer does not grant the Asset Representations Reviewer any rights to Issuer PII except as provided in this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer will use Issuer PII only to perform its obligations under this Agreement or as specifically directed in writing by the Issuer and will only reproduce Issuer PII to the extent necessary for these purposes. The Asset Representations Reviewer must comply with all laws applicable to PII, Issuer PII and the Asset Representations Reviewer’s business, including any legally required codes of conduct, including those relating to privacy, security and data protection. The Asset Representations Reviewer will protect and secure Issuer PII. The Asset Representations Reviewer will implement privacy or data protection policies and procedures that comply with applicable law and this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer will implement and maintain reasonable and appropriate practices, procedures and systems, including administrative, technical and physical safeguards to (i) protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of Issuer PII, (ii) ensure against anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of Issuer PII, (iii) protect against unauthorized access to or use of Issuer PII, and (iv) otherwise comply with its obligations under this Agreement. These safeguards include a written data security plan, employee training, information access controls, restricted disclosures, systems protections (e.g., intrusion protection, data storage protection and data transmission protection) and physical security measures.

 

(c)             Additional Limitations. In addition to the use and protection requirements described in Section 4.09(b), the Asset Representations Reviewer’s disclosure of Issuer PII is also subject to the following requirements:

 

(i)            The Asset Representations Reviewer will not disclose Issuer PII to its personnel or allow its personnel access to Issuer PII except (A) for the Asset Representations Reviewer personnel who require Issuer PII to perform a Review, (B) with the prior consent of the Issuer, or (C) as required by applicable law. When permitted, the disclosure of or access to Issuer PII will be limited to the specific information necessary for the individual to complete the assigned task. The Asset Representations Reviewer will inform personnel with access to Issuer PII of the confidentiality requirements in this Agreement and train its personnel with access to Issuer PII on the proper use and protection of Issuer PII.

 

(ii)            The Asset Representations Reviewer will not sell, disclose, provide or exchange Issuer PII with or to any third party without the prior consent of the Issuer.

 

(d)          Notice of Breach. The Asset Representations Reviewer will notify the Issuer promptly in the event of an actual or reasonably suspected security breach, unauthorized access, misappropriation or other compromise of the security, confidentiality or integrity of Issuer PII and, where applicable, immediately take action to prevent any further breach.

 

(e)            Return or Disposal of Issuer PII. Except where return or disposal is prohibited by applicable law, promptly on the earlier of the completion of the Review or the request of the Issuer, all Issuer PII in any medium in the Asset Representations Reviewer’s possession or under its control will be (i) destroyed in a manner that prevents its recovery or restoration or (ii) if so directed by the Issuer, returned to the Issuer without the Asset Representations Reviewer retaining any actual or recoverable copies, in both cases, without charge to the Issuer. Where the Asset Representations Reviewer retains Issuer PII, the Asset Representations Reviewer will limit the Asset Representations Reviewer’s further use or disclosure of Issuer PII to that required by applicable law.

 

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(f)          Compliance; Modification. The Asset Representations Reviewer will cooperate with and provide information to the Issuer regarding the Asset Representations Reviewer’s compliance with this Section 4.09. The Asset Representations Reviewer and the Issuer agree to modify this Section 4.09 as necessary for either party to comply with applicable law.

 

(g)            Audit of Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer will permit the Issuer and its authorized representatives to audit the Asset Representations Reviewer’s compliance with this Section 4.09 during the Asset Representations Reviewer’s normal business hours on reasonable advance notice to the Asset Representations Reviewer, and not more than once during any year unless circumstances necessitate additional audits. The Issuer agrees to make reasonable efforts to schedule any audit described in this Section 4.09 with the inspections described in Section 4.06. The Asset Representations Reviewer will also permit the Issuer during normal business hours on reasonable advance written notice to audit any service providers used by the Asset Representations Reviewer to fulfill the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement.

 

(h)            Affiliates and Third Parties. If the Asset Representations Reviewer processes the PII of the Issuer’s Affiliates or a third party when performing a Review, and if such Affiliate or third party is identified to the Asset Representations Reviewer, such Affiliate or third party is an intended third-party beneficiary of this Section 4.09, and this Agreement is intended to benefit the Affiliate or third party. The Affiliate or third party may enforce the PII related terms of this Section 4.09 against the Asset Representations Reviewer as if each were a signatory to this Agreement.

 

ARTICLE V.

 

REMOVAL, RESIGNATION

 

Section 5.01         Eligibility of the Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

The Asset Representations Reviewer must be a Person who (a) is not Affiliated with the Sponsor, the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or any of their Affiliates, and (b) was not, and is not Affiliated with a Person that was, hired by the Sponsor or any underwriter to perform any due diligence on the Contracts prior to the Closing Date.

 

Section 5.02         Resignation and Removal of Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

(a)          No Resignation. The Asset Representations Reviewer will not resign as Asset Representations Reviewer unless it determines it is legally unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement and there is no reasonable action that it could take to make the performance of its obligations under this Agreement permitted under applicable law. In such event, the Asset Representations Reviewer will deliver a notice of its resignation to the Issuer and the Servicer, together with an Opinion of Counsel supporting its determination.

 

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(b)            Removal. If any of the following events occur, the Issuer, by notice to the Asset Representations Reviewer, may remove the Asset Representations Reviewer and terminate its rights and obligations under this Agreement:

 

(i)            the Asset Representations Reviewer no longer meets the eligibility requirements in Section 5.01;

 

(ii)            the Asset Representations Reviewer breaches any of its representations, warranties, covenants or obligations in this Agreement; or

 

(iii)            an Insolvency Event of the Asset Representations Reviewer occurs.

 

(c)            Notice of Resignation or Removal. The Issuer will notify the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee of any resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer. Any resignation, removal or substitution of the Asset Representations Reviewer will be reported on the Form 10-D for that month.

 

(d)            Continue to Perform After Resignation or Removal. No resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer will be effective, and the Asset Representations Reviewer will continue to perform its obligations under this Agreement, until a successor Asset Representations Reviewer has accepted its engagement according to Section 5.03(b).

 

Section 5.03         Successor Asset Representations Reviewer .

 

(a)            Engagement of Successor Asset Representations Reviewer. Following the resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer, the Issuer will engage a successor Asset Representations Reviewer who meets the eligibility requirements of Section 5.01.

 

(b)          Effectiveness of Resignation or Removal. No resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer will be effective until the successor Asset Representations Reviewer has executed and delivered to the Issuer and the Servicer an agreement accepting its engagement and agreeing to perform the obligations of the Asset Representations Reviewer under this Agreement or entering into a new agreement with the Issuer on substantially the same terms as this Agreement.

 

(c)            Transition and Expenses. If the Asset Representations Reviewer resigns or is removed, the Asset Representations Reviewer will cooperate with the Issuer and the Servicer and take all actions reasonably requested to assist the Issuer in making an orderly transition of the Asset Representations Reviewer’s rights and obligations under this Agreement to the successor Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer will pay the reasonable expenses of transitioning the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement and preparing the successor Asset Representations Reviewer to take on the obligations on receipt of an invoice with reasonable detail of the expenses from the Issuer and the Servicer or the successor Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

Section 5.04         Merger, Consolidation or Succession. Any Person (a) into which the Asset Representations Reviewer is merged or consolidated, (b) resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Asset Representations Reviewer is a party or (c) succeeding to the business of the Asset Representations Reviewer, if that Person meets the eligibility requirements in Section 5.01, will be the successor to the Asset Representations Reviewer under this Agreement. Such Person will execute and deliver to the Issuer, the Servicer and the Administrator an agreement to assume the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement (unless the assumption happens by operation of law).

 

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ARTICLE VI.

 

OTHER AGREEMENTS

 

Section 6.01         Independence of the Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

The Asset Representations Reviewer will be an independent contractor and will not be subject to the supervision of the Issuer for the manner in which it accomplishes the performance of its obligations under this Agreement. Unless expressly authorized by the Issuer, the Asset Representations Reviewer will have no authority to act for or represent the Issuer and will not be considered an agent of the Issuer. Nothing in this Agreement will make the Asset Representations Reviewer and the Issuer members of any partnership, joint venture or other separate entity or impose any liability as such on any of them.

 

Section 6.02         No Petition.

 

Each of the parties agrees that, before the date that is one year and one day (or, if longer, any applicable preference period) after payment in full of all securities issued by the Seller, the Issuer or by a trust for which the Seller was a depositor, it will not start or pursue against, or join any other Person in starting or pursuing against the Seller or the Issuer, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings or other proceedings under any bankruptcy or similar law. This Section 6.02 will survive the termination of this Agreement.

 

Section 6.03         Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee .

 

This Agreement has been signed on behalf of the Issuer by Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuer. In no event will Wilmington Trust, National Association in its individual capacity or a beneficial owner of the Issuer be liable for the Issuer’s obligations under this Agreement. For all purposes under this Agreement, the Owner Trustee will be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the Trust Agreement.

 

Section 6.04         Termination of Agreement.

 

This Agreement will terminate, except for the obligations under Section 4.04, on the earlier of (a) the payment in full of all outstanding Notes and the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and (b) the date the Issuer is terminated under the Trust Agreement.

 

ARTICLE VII.

 

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

Section 7.01         Amendments.

 

(a)            The parties may amend this Agreement:

 

(i)            to clarify an ambiguity, correct an error or correct or supplement any term of this Agreement that may be defective or inconsistent with the other terms of this Agreement or to provide for, or facilitate the acceptance of this Agreement by, a successor Asset Representations Reviewer, in each case without the consent of the Noteholders or any other Person;

 

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(ii)            to add, change or eliminate terms of this Agreement, in each case without the consent of the Noteholders or any other Person, if the Administrator delivers an Officer’s Certificate to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee stating that the amendment will not have a material adverse effect on the Noteholders; or

 

(iii)            to add, change or eliminate terms of this Agreement for which an Officer’s Certificate is not or cannot be delivered under Section 7.01(a)(ii), with the consent of a majority of the principal amount of the Notes of the Controlling Class then outstanding, acting together as a single class.

 

Section 7.02         Assignment; Benefit of Agreement; Third Party Beneficiaries.

 

(a)            Assignment. Except as stated in Section 5.04, this Agreement may not be assigned by the Asset Representations Reviewer without the consent of the Issuer and the Servicer.

 

(b)            Benefit of Agreement; Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is for the benefit of and will be binding on the parties and their permitted successors and assigns. The Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Noteholders, will be third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement and may enforce this Agreement against the Asset Representations Reviewer and the Servicer. No other Person will have any right or obligation under this Agreement.

 

Section 7.03         Notices.

 

(c)            Notices to Parties. All notices, requests, demands, consents, waivers or other communications to or from the parties must be in writing and will be considered given:

 

(i)            for overnight mail, on delivery or, for registered first class mail, postage prepaid, three (3) days after deposit in the mail;

 

(ii)            for a fax, when receipt is confirmed by telephone, reply email or reply fax from the recipient;

 

(iii)            for an email, when receipt is confirmed by telephone or reply email from the recipient; and

 

(iv)            for an electronic posting to a password-protected website to which the recipient has access, on delivery of an email (without the requirement of confirmation of receipt) stating that the electronic posting has occurred.

 

(d)            Notice Addresses. Any notice, request, demand, consent, waiver or other communication will be addressed as stated in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Administration Agreement, as applicable, or to another address as a party may give by notice to the other parties.

 

Section 7.04         GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

Section 7.05         WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. Each party irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, THE right to trial by jury in legal proceeding relating to this agreement.

 

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Section 7.06         No Waiver; Remedies. No party’s failure or delay in exercising a power, right or remedy under this Agreement will operate as a waiver. No single or partial exercise of a power, right or remedy will preclude any other or further exercise of the power, right or remedy or the exercise of any other power, right or remedy. The powers, rights and remedies under this Agreement are in addition to any powers, rights and remedies under law.

 

Section 7.07         Severability. If a part of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then it will be deemed severable from the remaining Agreement and will not affect the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining Agreement.

 

Section 7.08         Headings. The headings in this Agreement are included for convenience and will not affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

Section 7.09         Counterparts; Originals. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same agreement. The words “execution”, “signed”, “signature” and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Agreement shall include, in addition to manually executed signature pages, images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including “pdf”, “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, any State law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the UCC.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer, the Servicer, the Administrator and the Asset Representations Reviewer have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A, as Issuer
       
  By: Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely on behalf of the Issuer as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement
       
  By: /s/ Drew Davis
    Name: Drew Davis
    Title: Vice President
       
  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP., as Servicer
       
  By: /s/ David Viney
    Name: David Viney
    Title: Vice President and Treasurer
       
  CLAYTON FIXED INCOME SERVICES LLC, as Asset Representations Reviewer
       
  By: /s/ Anthony Neske
    Name: Anthony Neske
    Title: Senior Vice President

 

 

 

Schedule A

 

Review Materials

 

Review Materials

 

“Review Materials” means, with respect to each Review Contract, electronic copies of:

 

(a)            The Contract, including any modification agreement or correction notices to the Contract completed before the Cutoff Date, as applicable

 

(b)            The List of Approved Contract Forms

 

(c)            Title Documents, including certificates of title, e-titles, applications for title or other evidence showing the security interest in the financed Motorcycle

 

(d)            The Data Tape as of the Cutoff Date

 

(e)            Servicing System Records

 

(f)            Such other documentation or information (whether tangible or electronic, and including, without limitation, screen prints or reports of the Servicer’s receivables and securitization systems) as the Servicer, as the case may be, may maintain and which the Servicer shall have determined to be relevant to any Test with respect to such Review Contract.

 

 

 

Schedule B

 

Representations and Warranties and Tests

 

Representation

 

(a)Payments. Except for a payment that is not more than 29 days delinquent as of the Cutoff Date, no payment default exists on the Contract.

 

Review Materials

 

Servicing System Records

 

Tests

 

i)Review Servicing System Records and confirm the Contract was not more than 29 days delinquent as of the Cutoff Date

ii)If step (i) is confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(b)No Waivers. As of the Cutoff Date, no material term of the Contract has been affirmatively amended or modified, except amendments and modifications indicated in the Servicer’s servicing system or in the Contract File.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract 

Data Tape 

Servicing System Records

 

Tests

 

i)Compare the Data Tape to the Contract and confirm there is no indication of modifications or amendments to the following contract terms:

a)APR

b)Original number of scheduled payments

c)Monthly payment amount

d)Total amount financed

ii)If modifications or amendments are observed, review the Contact File and Servicing System Records and confirm modifications or amendments were noted

iii)If Steps (i) and (ii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(c)Binding Obligation. The Contract is in a form that includes rights and remedies allowing the holder to enforce the obligation and realize on the Motorcycle and represents the legal, valid and binding payment obligation of the Obligor, enforceable in all material respects by the Holder of the Contract, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights or by general equitable principles and consumer protection laws.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract

List of Approved Contract Forms

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Contract form number and/or revision date and confirm it is on the List of Approved Contract Forms

ii)Confirm the Obligor(s) signed the Contract

iii)If Steps (i) and (ii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(d)No Defenses. As of the Cutoff Date, no right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or defense asserted or threatened with respect to such Contract was indicated in the Seller’s servicing system or related Contract File.

 

Review Materials

 

Servicing System Records

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Servicing System Records and confirm there is no evidence of litigation or other attorney involvement as of the Cutoff Date

ii)If step (i) is confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(e)Insurance. The terms of the Contract require that for the term of such Contract the Motorcycle securing such Contract will be covered by physical damage insurance.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract 

List of Approved Contract Forms

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Contract form number and/or revision date and confirm it is on the List of Approved Contract Forms

ii)If step (i) is confirmed, then Test pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(f)Origination. The Contract (i) was originated by Eaglemark Savings Bank in the regular course of its business, (ii) was fully and properly executed by the parties thereto, and (iii) has been purchased by Seller in the regular course of its business.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Contract and confirm Eaglemark Savings Bank is listed as lender

ii)Review the Contract and confirm it was signed by the Obligor(s)

iii)Review the Contract and confirm the form of Contract contains language regarding the automatic assignment to the Seller

iv)If Steps (i) through (iii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(g)Compliance with Law. At the time it was originated, the Contract complied in all material respects with all requirements of law in effect at the time.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract 

List of Approved Contract Forms

 

Tests

 

i)Review contract form number and/or revision date and confirm it is on the List of Approved Contract Forms

ii)If Step (i) is confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(h)Contract in Force. As of the Cutoff Date, the Seller’s servicing system indicates that the Contract was not satisfied or subordinated in whole or in part or rescinded, and the related Motorcycle securing the Contract has not been released from the lien of the Contract in whole or in part.

 

Review Materials

 

Servicing System Records

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Servicing System Records and confirm the Contract was an active account as of the Cutoff Date

ii)Review the Servicing System Records and confirm there is no indication the Contract was rescinded or subordinated in whole or in part as of the Cutoff Date

iii)Review the Servicing System Records and confirm there is no indication the Motorcycle securing the Contract has been released from the lien of the Contract in whole or in part as of the Cutoff Date

iv)If steps (i) through (iii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

  (i) Valid Security Interest. The Contract has created or shall create a valid, binding and enforceable first priority security interest in favor of the Seller in the Motorcycle, except as to priority for any Permitted Liens, which security interest is assignable by the Seller to the Trust Depositor.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract 

Title Documents 

List of Approved Contract Forms

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Title Documents and confirm they identify Eaglemark Savings Bank (ESB), Eaglemark Savings Bank and/or its assigns or the Seller, or an accepted name variation, as the first lienholder

ii)Confirm the Obligor name(s) on the Contract, taking into account any amendments or correction notices, are consistent with the names on the Title Documents

iii)Confirm the vehicle identification number on the Contract, taking into account any amendments or correction notices, matches the vehicle identification number on the Title Documents

iv)Review Contract form number and/or revision date and confirm it is on the List of Approved Contract Forms to confirm assignability

v)If steps (i) through (iv) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(j)No Defaults. As of the Cutoff Date, no default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration was reported in the Servicer’s servicing system with respect to any Contract. Seller has not waived any such default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration. As of the Cutoff Date, no Motorcycle was in repossession.

 

Review Materials

 

Servicing System Records

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Servicing System Records and confirm, as of the Cutoff Date, there is no evidence of a continuing condition which would constitute a default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration

ii)Review the Servicing System Records and confirm, as of the Cutoff Date, there is no evidence the Seller waived any default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration

iii)Review the Servicing System Records and confirm the financed Motorcycle was not in repossession as of the Cutoff Date

iv)If steps (i) through (iii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(k)Installments. The Contract has a fixed Contract Rate and provides for monthly payments of principal and interest which, if timely made, would fully amortize the loan on a simple-interest basis over its term.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Contract and confirm it specifies a fixed Contact Rate

ii)Review the Contract and confirm it specifies monthly payments of principal and interest (excluding periods of deferral of first payment)

iii)Confirm the Contract is a simple interest contract

iv)From the Truth in Lending Disclosure section of the Contract, calculate the product of the Number of Payments and the Amount of Payments, together with any first and last scheduled payments (if applicable), and confirm this amount equals the Total of Payments amount

v)If steps (i) through (iv) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(l)Owner of Record. The Seller is identified as the “owner of record” on all electronic chattel paper relating to the Contract, and the Seller has “control,” as defined in Section 9-105 of the UCC, of all electronic chattel paper relating to the Contract. The Contract does not have any marks or notations indicating that it has been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed by the Seller to any Person other than the Trust Depositor.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract 

Servicing System Records

 

Tests

 

i)If the Contract is electronic chattel paper, confirm the Contract’s authoritative copy is held in the trust’s electronic vault

ii)Confirm the Contract does not have any marks or notations indicating that it has been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed by the Seller to any Person other than the Trust Depositor

iii)If steps (i) through (ii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(m)Good Title.  Immediately before the sale and assignment under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Seller has good and marketable title to the Contract free and clear of any encumbrance, or lien, except for any Permitted Liens, and, immediately upon the transfer of the Contract by the Seller, the Trust Depositor shall have good and marketable title to the Contract free and clear of any encumbrance or lien, except for any Permitted Liens, and, immediately upon the transfer of the Contract by the Trust Depositor, the Trust shall have good and marketable title to the Contract free and clear of any encumbrance, equity, loan, pledge, charge, claim or security interest, other than the liens created by the Indenture and any Permitted Liens.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract 

List of Approved Contract Forms 

Title Documents 

Servicing System Records

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Contract form number and/or revision date and confirm it is on the List of Approved Contract Forms

ii)Observe the Title Documents and confirm they report Eaglemark Savings Bank (ESB), Eaglemark Savings Bank and/or its assigns or Seller, or an accepted name variation, as the first lien holder

iii)Observe the Servicing System Records for the Contract and confirm they indicate that the Contract has been marked as sold, the pool number corresponds to the securitization transaction and the sale date corresponds to the Cutoff Date

iv)If steps (i) and (iii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(n)No Government Obligors. The Obligor is not the United States government or an agency, authority, instrumentality or other political subdivision of the United States government.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract

 

Tests

 

i)Review the Contract and confirm the Obligor’s name indicates a natural person or, if it does not, confirm internet search results indicate the Obligor(s) is not a federal or state government, agency, department subdivision or instrumentality

ii)If step (i) is confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(o)Obligor Bankruptcy. At the Cutoff Date, the Obligor was not the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, according to the records in Servicer’s servicing system.

 

Review Materials

 

Servicing System Records

 

Tests

 

i)Observe the Servicing System Records and confirm the Obligor was not the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding as of the Cutoff Date

ii)If step (i) is confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(p)Chattel Paper; One Original. The Contract is either “tangible chattel paper” or “electronic chattel paper”. The Contract is evidenced by either (i) one executed tangible record constituting or forming a part of the Contract that is “tangible chattel paper”, or (ii) a single “authoritative copy” of the electronic record constituting or forming a part of the Contract that is “electronic chattel paper”. Terms in quotation marks have the meaning assigned to them in the applicable UCC.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract 

Contract File

 

Tests

 

i)Confirm there is a signature of the appropriate Obligor(s)on the Contract

ii)If the Contract constitutes “electronic chattel paper,” then confirm the Contract is the “Authoritative Copy”

iii)If the Contract constitutes “tangible chattel paper,” confirm the Contract File does not contain more than one executed version of the final Contract

iv)If steps (i) through (iii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

 

Representation

 

(q)Selection Criteria; One Original. The Contract is secured by a new or used Motorcycle. No Contract has a Contract Rate less than 0.010%. The Contract amortizes the amount financed over an original term no greater than 84 months (excluding periods of deferral of first payment). The Contract has a Principal Balance of at least $500.00 as of the Cutoff Date.

 

Review Materials

 

Contract 

Contract File

 

Tests

 

i)Confirm the Contract Rate is greater than or equal to 0.010%

ii)Confirm the original term of the Contract is no greater than 84 months

iii)Confirm the Contract had a Principal Balance of at least $500.00 as of the Cutoff Date

iv)If steps (i) through (iii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

 

 

EX-10.1 5 tm2413280d9_ex10-1.htm EXHIBIT 10.1

Exhibit 10.1

TRANSFER AND SALE AGREEMENT

by and between

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.,

as Seller

and

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP.,

as Purchaser

Dated as of May 1, 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I DEFINITION 1
Section 1.01. General 1
ARTICLE II TRANSFER OF CONTRACTS; ASSIGNMENT OF AGREEMENT 2
Section 2.01. Closing 2
Section 2.02. Conditions to the Closing 2
Section 2.03. Assignment of Agreement 3
ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 3
Section 3.01. Representations and Warranties Regarding the Seller 4
Section 3.02. Representations and Warranties Regarding Each Contract 5
Section 3.03. Representations and Warranties Regarding the Contracts in the Aggregate 6
Section 3.04. Representations and Warranties Regarding the Contract Files 7
ARTICLE IV PERFECTION OF TRANSFER AND PROTECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS 8
Section 4.01. Custody of Contracts 8
Section 4.02. Filing 8
Section 4.03. Name Change or Relocation 8
Section 4.04. Costs and Expenses 9
Section 4.05 Sale Treatment 9
Section 4.06 Separateness from the Trust Depositor 9
ARTICLE V REMEDIES UPON MISREPRESENTATION 9
Section 5.01. Repurchases of Contracts for Breach of Representations and Warranties 9
ARTICLE VI INDEMNITIES 10
Section 6.01. Seller Indemnification 10
Section 6.02. Liabilities to Obligors 11
Section 6.03. Tax Indemnification 11
Section 6.04. Operation of Indemnities 11
ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS 11
Section 7.01. Prohibited Transactions with Respect to the Trust 11
Section 7.02. Merger or Consolidation 11
Section 7.03. Termination 12
Section 7.04. Assignment or Delegation by the Seller. 12
Section 7.05. Amendment 12
Section 7.06. Notices 13
Section 7.07. Merger and Integration 13
Section 7.08. Headings 13
Section 7.09. Governing Law 13
Section 7.10. No Bankruptcy Petition 13
Section 7.11. Counterparts; Originals 13
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Form of Assignment
Exhibit B Form of Officer’s Certificate

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THIS TRANSFER AND SALE AGREEMENT, dated as of May 1, 2024 (this “Agreement”), is made by and between Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., a Nevada corporation, as seller hereunder (together with its successors and assigns “Harley-Davidson Credit” or the “Seller”), and Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., a Nevada corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Seller (together with its successors and assigns the “Trust Depositor”), as purchaser hereunder.

WHEREAS, in the regular course of its business, the Seller purchases and services motorcycle promissory notes and security agreements from Eaglemark Savings Bank, which contracts provide for installment payment obligations by or on behalf of the retailer’s customer/purchaser and grants security interests in the related motorcycles in order to secure such obligations;

WHEREAS, the Seller and the Trust Depositor wish to set forth the terms and conditions pursuant to which the Trust Depositor will acquire the “Contract Assets,” as hereinafter defined; and

WHEREAS, the Trust Depositor intends concurrently with its purchase of the Contract Assets hereunder to convey all right, title and interest in such Contract Assets to Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Trust”) pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of May 1, 2024 by and among the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Credit, as Servicer, the Trust, and Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Sale and Servicing Agreement”), executed concurrently herewith;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements hereinafter set forth, the Seller and the Trust Depositor agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01.         General. Unless otherwise defined in this Agreement, capitalized terms used herein (including in the preamble above) shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

ARTICLE II

TRANSFER OF CONTRACTS; ASSIGNMENT OF AGREEMENT

Section 2.01.         Closing. Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Seller hereby sells, transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Trust Depositor, in consideration of the Trust Depositor’s payment of a purchase price in cash of $549,973,105.62 (less fees and expenses in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes and certain deposits to the Reserve Fund on the Closing Date) and the Trust’s issuance of the Certificate to the Trust Depositor, (i) all the right, title and interest of the Seller in and to the Contracts listed on the List of Contracts delivered on the Closing Date (including, without limitation, all security interests created thereunder), (ii) all rights of the Seller to payments which are collected pursuant thereto after the Cutoff Date, including any liquidation proceeds therefrom, (iii) all rights of the Seller under any theft, physical damage, credit life, disability or other individual insurance policy (and rights under a “forced placed” policy, if any), any debt insurance policy or any debt cancellation agreement relating to any such Contract, an Obligor or a Motorcycle securing such Contract, (iv) all security interests in each such Motorcycle, (v) all documents contained in the related Contract Files, (vi) all rights of the Seller in the Lockbox, Lockbox Account and related Lockbox Agreement to the extent they relate to the Contracts (but excluding payments received on or before the Cutoff Date), (vii) all rights of the Seller to rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies, debt cancellation agreements, extended service contracts or other repair and protection agreements and other items financed under such Contracts, and (viii) all proceeds and products of the foregoing (items (i) - (viii) being collectively referred to herein as the “Contract Assets”). Although the Seller and the Trust Depositor agree that any such transfer is intended to be a sale of ownership in the Contract Assets, rather than the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, in the event such transfer is deemed to be of a mere security interest to secure indebtedness, the Seller shall be deemed to have granted the Trust Depositor a perfected first priority security interest in such Contract Assets and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under applicable law. If such transfer is deemed to be the mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor may, to secure the Trust Depositor’s own borrowing under the Sale and Servicing Agreement (to the extent that the transfer of the Contract Assets thereunder is deemed to be a mere granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing) repledge and reassign (i) all or a portion of the Contract Assets pledged to the Trust Depositor and not released from the security interest of this Agreement at the time of such pledge and assignment, and (ii) all proceeds thereof. Such repledge and reassignment may be made by the Trust Depositor with or without a repledge and reassignment by the Trust Depositor of its rights under this Agreement, and without further notice to or acknowledgment from the Seller. The Seller waives, to the extent permitted by applicable law, all claims, causes of action and remedies, whether legal or equitable (including any right of setoff), against the Trust Depositor or any assignee of the Trust Depositor relating to such action by the Trust Depositor in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Sale and Servicing Agreement. To the extent the cash purchase price for the Contract Assets sold by the Seller to the Trust Depositor is less than the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date, the difference shall be deemed to be a capital contribution by the Seller to the Trust Depositor.

Section 2.02.         Conditions to the Closing. On or before the Closing Date, the Seller shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trust Depositor each of the documents, certificates and other items as follows:

(a)            The List of Contracts, certified by the Chairman of the Board, President or any Vice President of the Seller together with an Assignment substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A hereto.

(b)            A certificate of an officer of the Seller substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

(c)            An opinion of counsel for the Seller substantially in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters (and including as an addressee thereof each Rating Agency).

(d)            A letter or letters from Ernst & Young LLP, or another nationally recognized accounting firm, addressed to the Seller, the Trust Depositor and the Underwriters and stating that such firm has reviewed a sample of the Contracts and performed specific procedures for such sample with respect to certain contract terms and identifying those Contracts which do not so conform.

(e)            Copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Seller or of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Seller approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereunder, certified in each case by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Seller.

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(f)             Officially certified recent evidence of due incorporation and good standing of the Seller under the laws of Nevada.

(g)            A UCC financing statement naming the Seller as debtor, naming the Trust Depositor and the Trust as assignor secured parties, naming the Indenture Trustee as secured party and identifying the Contract Assets as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Nevada; a UCC financing statement naming the Trust Depositor as debtor, naming the Trust as assignor secured party, naming the Indenture Trustee as secured party and identifying the Trust Corpus as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Nevada; and a UCC financing statement naming the Trust as debtor, naming the Indenture Trustee, as secured party and identifying the Collateral as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Delaware.

(h)            An Officer’s Certificate from the Seller certifying that the Seller, on or prior to the Closing Date, has indicated in its computer files, in accordance with its customary standards, policies and procedures, that the Contracts have been conveyed to the Trust Depositor pursuant to this Agreement.

(i)             The documents, certificates and other items described in Section 2.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to the extent not already described above.

Section 2.03.         Assignment of Agreement. The Trust Depositor has the right to assign its interest under this Agreement to the Trust as may be required to effect the purposes of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, without further notice to, or consent of, the Seller, and the Trust shall succeed to such of the rights of the Trust Depositor hereunder as shall be so assigned. The Seller acknowledges that (i) pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Trust Depositor will assign all of its right, title and interest in and to the Contract Assets and its right to exercise the remedies created by Section 5.01 hereof for breaches of representations and warranties of the Seller contained in Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03 and 3.04 hereof to the Trust, and (ii) pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust shall assign such rights to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders. The Seller agrees that, upon such assignments to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee, such representations and warranties will run to and be for the benefit of the Trust and the Indenture Trustee and the Trust and the Indenture Trustee may enforce directly, without joinder of the Trust Depositor, the obligations of the Seller set forth herein.

ARTICLE III

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

The Seller makes the following representations and warranties, on which the Trust Depositor will rely in purchasing the Contract Assets on the Closing Date and concurrently reconveying the same to the Trust, and on which the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders will rely under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture. Such representations speak as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, but shall survive the sale, transfer and assignment of the Contracts to the Trust and the pledge of the Contracts to the Indenture Trustee. The repurchase obligation of the Seller set forth in Section 5.01 below and in Section 7.08 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement constitutes the sole remedy available for a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller set forth in Sections 3.02, 3.03 or 3.04 of this Agreement.

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Section 3.01.         Representations and Warranties Regarding the Seller. The Seller represents and warrants, as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:

  

(a)            Organization and Good Standing. The Seller is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and has the corporate power to own its assets and to transact the business in which it is currently engaged. The Seller is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of the business transacted by it or properties owned or leased by it requires such qualification and in which the failure so to qualify would have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Seller or the Trust Depositor.

(b)            Authorization; Binding Obligation. The Seller has the power and authority to make, execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party and all of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party, and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Seller enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement of such terms may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

(c)            No Consent Required. The Seller is not required to obtain the consent of any other party or any consent, license, approval or authorization from, or registration or declaration with, any governmental authority, bureau or agency in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party.

(d)            No Violations. The Seller’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party will not violate any provision of any existing law or regulation or any order or decree of any court or the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Seller, or constitute a material breach of any mortgage, indenture, contract or other agreement to which the Seller is a party or by which the Seller or any of the Seller’s properties may be bound.

(e)            Litigation. No litigation or administrative proceeding of or before any court, tribunal or governmental body is currently pending, or to the knowledge of the Seller threatened, against the Seller or any of its properties or with respect to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Seller is a party which, if adversely determined, would in the opinion of the Seller have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets or condition (financial or other) of the Seller or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Seller is a party.

(f)             State of Incorporation; Name; No Changes. The Seller’s state of incorporation is the State of Nevada. The Seller’s exact legal name is as set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement. The Seller has not changed its name whether by amendment of its Articles of Incorporation, by reorganization or otherwise, and has not changed its state of incorporation, within the four months preceding the Closing Date.

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(g)            Solvency. The Seller, after giving effect to the conveyances made by it hereunder, is Solvent.

Section 3.02.         Representations and Warranties Regarding Each Contract. The Seller represents and warrants as to each Contract as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:

(a)            Payments. Except for a payment that is not more than twenty-nine (29) days delinquent as of the Cutoff Date, no payment default exists on the Contract.

(b)            No Waivers. As of the Cutoff Date, no material term of the Contract has been affirmatively amended or modified, except amendments and modifications indicated in the Seller’s servicing system or in the Contract File.

(c)            Binding Obligation. The Contract is in a form that includes rights and remedies allowing the holder to enforce the obligation and realize on the Motorcycle and represents the legal, valid and binding payment obligation of the Obligor, enforceable in all material respects by the Holder of the Contract, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights or by general equitable principles and consumer protection laws.

(d)            No Defenses. As of the Cutoff Date, no right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or defense asserted or threatened with respect to such Contract was indicated in the Seller’s servicing system or related Contract File.

(e)            Insurance. The terms of the Contract require that for the term of such Contract the Motorcycle securing such Contract will be covered by physical damage insurance.

(f)            Origination. The Contract (i) was originated in the United States (including U.S. military bases) by Eaglemark Savings Bank in the regular course of its business, (ii) was fully and properly executed by the parties thereto, and (iii) has been purchased by the Seller in the regular course of its business.

(g)            Compliance with Law. At the time it was originated, the Contract complied in all material respects with all requirements of law in effect at the time.

(h)            Contract in Force. As of the Cutoff Date, the Seller’s servicing system indicates that the Contract was not satisfied or subordinated in whole or in part or rescinded, and the related Motorcycle securing the Contract has not been released from the lien of the Contract in whole or in part.

(i)             Valid Security Interest. The Contract has created or shall create a valid, binding and enforceable first priority security interest in favor of the Seller in the Motorcycle, except as to priority for any Permitted Liens, which security interest is assignable by the Seller to the Purchaser.

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(j)             No Defaults. As of the Cutoff Date, no default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration was reported in the Seller’s servicing system with respect to any Contract. The Seller has not waived any such default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration. As of the Cutoff Date, no Motorcycle was in repossession.

(k)            Installments. The Contract has a fixed Contract Rate and provides for monthly payments of principal and interest which, if timely made, would fully amortize the loan on a simple-interest basis over its term.

(l)             Owner of Record. The Seller is identified as the “owner of record” on all electronic chattel paper relating to the Contract, and the Seller has “control,” as defined in Section 9-105 of the UCC, of all electronic chattel paper relating to the Contract. The Contract does not have any marks or notations indicating that it has been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed by the Seller to any Person other than the Purchaser.

(m)            Good Title. Immediately before the sale and assignment under this Agreement, the Seller has good and marketable title to the Contract free and clear of any encumbrance, or lien, except for any Permitted Liens, and, immediately upon the transfer of the Contract by the Seller, the Trust Depositor shall have good and marketable title to the Contract free and clear of any encumbrance or lien, except for any Permitted Liens, and, immediately upon the transfer of the Contract by the Trust Depositor, the Trust shall have good and marketable title to the Contract free and clear of any encumbrance, equity, loan, pledge, charge, claim or security interest, other than the liens created by the Indenture and any Permitted Liens.

(n)            No Government Obligors. The Obligor is not the United States government or an agency, authority, instrumentality or other political subdivision of the United States government.

(o)            Obligor Bankruptcy. At the Cutoff Date, the Obligor was not the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, according to the records in the Seller’s servicing system.

(p)            Chattel Paper; One Original. The Contract is either “tangible chattel paper” or “electronic chattel paper”. The Contract is evidenced by either (i) one executed tangible record constituting or forming a part of the Contract that is “tangible chattel paper”, or (ii) a single “authoritative copy” of the electronic record constituting or forming a part of the Contract that is “electronic chattel paper”. Terms in quotation marks have the meaning assigned to them in the applicable UCC.

(q)            Selection Criteria. The Contract is secured by a new or used Motorcycle. No Contract has a Contract Rate less than 0.010%. The Contract amortizes the amount financed over an original term no greater than 84 months (excluding periods of deferral of first payment). The Contract has a Principal Balance of at least $500.00 as of the Cutoff Date.

Section 3.03.         Representations and Warranties Regarding the Contracts in the Aggregate. The Seller represents and warrants, as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:

(a)            Amounts. The Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date equals or exceeds the aggregate principal amount of the Notes on the Closing Date.

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(b)            Characteristics. The Contracts have the following characteristics as of the Cutoff Date: (i) all the Contracts are secured by Motorcycles; (ii) no Contract has a remaining term to maturity of more than 84 months; and (iii) the final scheduled payment on the Contract with the latest maturity is due no later than May 10, 2031. Approximately 70.47% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date is attributable to loans for purchases of new Motorcycles and approximately 29.53% is attributable to loans for purchases of used Motorcycles. No Contract was originated after the Cutoff Date. No Contract has a Contract Rate less than 0.010%.

(c)            Marking Records. As of the Closing Date, the Seller has caused the Computer File relating to the Contracts sold hereunder and concurrently reconveyed by the Trust Depositor to the Trust and pledged by the Trust to the Indenture Trustee to be clearly and unambiguously marked to indicate that such Contracts constitute part of the Trust Corpus, are owned by the Trust and constitute security for the Notes.

(d)            No Adverse Selection. No selection procedures adverse to Noteholders have been employed in selecting the Contracts.

(e)            True Sale. The transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement constitute valid sales, transfers and assignments from the Seller to the Trust Depositor and from the Trust Depositor to the Trust of all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in the Contract Assets as of the Closing Date.

(f)             All Filings Made. All filings (including, without limitation, UCC filings) required to be made by any Person and actions required to be taken or performed by any Person in any jurisdiction to give the Indenture Trustee a first priority perfected security interest (subject only to the liens created by the Indenture and Permitted Liens) in the Contracts, the proceeds thereof and the rest of the Collateral have been made, taken or performed. All financing statements filed or to be filed against the Seller in favor of the Purchaser in connection herewith describing the Contracts contain a statement to the following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement, except as permitted in the Transfer and Sale Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, will violate the rights of the Secured Party.”

(g)            List of Contracts. The information set forth in the List of Contracts is true, complete and correct in all material respects as of the Cutoff Date.

(h)            Lockbox Bank. All Obligors have been instructed to make payments to a Lockbox Account (either directly by remitting payments to a Lockbox, or indirectly by making payments through direct debit, the telephone or the internet to an account of the Servicer which payments will be subsequently transferred from such account to one or more Lockbox Banks), and no person claiming through or under the Seller has any claim or interest in a Lockbox Account other than the related Lockbox Bank; provided, however, that other Persons may have an interest in certain other collections therein not related to the Contracts.

Section 3.04.         Representations and Warranties Regarding the Contract Files. The Seller represents and warrants, as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:

(a)            Possession. Immediately prior to the Closing Date, the Servicer or its custodian will have possession of each original Contract and the related complete Contract File. Each of such documents which is required to be signed by the Obligor has been signed by the Obligor in the appropriate spaces. All blanks on any form have been properly filled in and each form has otherwise been correctly prepared. The complete Contract File for each Contract currently is in the possession of the Servicer or its custodian.

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(b)            Bulk Transfer Laws. The transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Contracts and the Contract Files by the Seller pursuant to this Agreement and by the Trust Depositor pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement is not subject to the bulk transfer or any similar statutory provisions in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.

ARTICLE IV

PERFECTION OF TRANSFER AND PROTECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS

Section 4.01.         Custody of Contracts. The contents of each Contract File shall be held by the Servicer, or its custodian, for the benefit of the Trust as the owner thereof in accordance with the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Section 4.02.         Filing. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Seller shall cause the UCC financing statements referred to in Section 2.02(g) hereof and in Section 2.02(g) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement to be filed and from time to time the Seller shall take and cause to be taken such actions and execute such documents as are necessary or desirable or as the Trust Depositor or the Trust may reasonably request to perfect and protect the Trust Depositor’s and the Trust’s ownership interest in the Contract Assets and proceeds thereof against all other persons, including, without limitation, the filing of financing statements, amendments thereto and continuation statements, the execution of transfer instruments and the making of notations on or taking possession of all records or documents of title. The Seller authorizes the Trust Depositor to file financing statements describing the Contract Assets as collateral. All financing statements filed or to be filed against the Seller in favor of the Trust Depositor or the Trust in connection herewith describing the Contract Assets as collateral shall contain a statement to the following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement, except as permitted in the Transfer and Sale Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, will violate the rights of the Secured Party.”

Section 4.03.         Name Change or Relocation. (a) During the term of this Agreement, the Seller shall not change its name, identity or structure or state of incorporation without first giving at least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Trust Depositor and to the Trustees.

(b)            If any change in the Seller’s name, identity or structure or other action would make any financing statement or notice of ownership interest or lien filed under this Agreement seriously misleading within the meaning of applicable provisions of the UCC or any title statute, the Seller, no later than five (5) days after the effective date of such change, shall file such amendments, if any, as may be required to preserve and protect the Trust Depositor’s and the Trust’s interests in the Contract Assets and proceeds thereof. In addition, the Seller shall not change its state of incorporation unless it has first taken such action as is advisable or necessary to preserve and protect the Trust Depositor’s and the Trust’s interest in the Contract Assets. Promptly after taking any of the foregoing actions, the Seller shall deliver to the Trust Depositor and the Trustees an opinion of counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements or amendments necessary to preserve and protect the interests of the Trust Depositor and the Trust in the Contract Assets have been filed, and reciting the details of such filing.

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Section 4.04.         Costs and Expenses. The Seller agrees to pay all reasonable costs and disbursements in connection with the perfection and the maintenance of perfection, as against all third parties, of (i) the Trust Depositor’s, the Trust’s and the Indenture Trustee’s right, title and interest in and to the Contract Assets (including, without limitation, the security interests in the Motorcycles related thereto), and (ii) the security interests provided for in the Indenture.

Section 4.05          Sale Treatment. Each of the Seller and the Trust Depositor shall treat the transfer of Contract Assets to the Trust Depositor as a sale or capital contribution for all purposes, although the Seller and the Trust Depositor acknowledge that the consolidated financial statements of the Seller and the Trust Depositor shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and, as a result of the consolidation required by generally accepted accounting principles, the transfers will be reflected as a financing by the Seller in its consolidated financial statements; provided, however, that (i) appropriate notations shall be made in any such consolidated financial statements (or in the accompanying notes) to indicate that the Trust Depositor is a separate legal entity from the Seller and to indicate that the Trust Depositor’s assets and credit are not available to satisfy the debts and other obligations of the Seller, (ii) such assets shall also be listed separately on any balance sheet of the Trust Depositor prepared on a stand alone basis, and (iii) following the occurrence of any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar event in respect of the Seller, the Contracts and Contract Assets purportedly conveyed to the Trust Depositor hereunder would not constitute part of the Seller’s estate in bankruptcy.

Section 4.06          Separateness from the Trust Depositor. The Seller agrees to take or refrain from taking or engaging in with respect to the Trust Depositor each of the actions or activities specified in the “substantive consolidation” opinion of Foley & Lardner LLP (or in any related certificate of the Seller) delivered on the Closing Date, upon which the conclusions expressed therein are based.

ARTICLE V

REMEDIES UPON MISREPRESENTATION

Section 5.01.          Repurchases of Contracts for Breach of Representations and Warranties.

(a)            The Seller hereby agrees, for the benefit of the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Trust Depositor, that it shall repurchase a Contract (together with all related Contract Assets), at the related Purchase Price, not later than two (2) Business Days prior to the first Distribution Date after the last day of the calendar month in which the Seller becomes aware or receives written notice from the Trust Depositor, either of the Trustees or the Servicer of any breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller set forth in Article III of this Agreement that materially adversely affects the Trust Depositor’s or the Trust’s interest in such Contract (without regard to the benefits of the Reserve Fund) and which breach has not been cured; provided, however, that with respect to any Contract described on the List of Contracts with respect to an incorrect unpaid Principal Balance which the Seller would otherwise be required to repurchase pursuant to this Section 5.01(a) and Section 7.08 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Seller may, in lieu of repurchasing such Contract, deposit in the Collection Account, not later than one Business Day prior to such Distribution Date, cash in an amount sufficient to cure any deficiency or discrepancy; and provided further that with respect to a breach of a representation or warranty relating to the Contracts in the aggregate and not to any particular Contract, the Seller may select Contracts (without adverse selection) to repurchase such that had such Contracts not been reconveyed by the Trust Depositor and included as part of the Trust Corpus there would have been no breach of such representation or warranty; provided further that the failure to maintain perfection of the security interest in the Motorcycle securing a Contract in accordance with the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be deemed to be a breach materially and adversely affecting the Trust’s interest in the Contracts and in the related Contract Assets.

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(b)            If the Servicer determines in good faith that the representation and warranty of the Seller as set forth in Section 3.02(i) herein may have been violated with respect to one or more Contracts, and that amendment of the terms of such Contract(s) could better ensure compliance with applicable laws and if the Seller shall have notified the Servicer in writing of its intention to amend the terms of such Contract(s) to ensure compliance with applicable laws upon reacquisition pursuant to Section 7.08(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and this Agreement, the Servicer shall give prompt written notice of such determination to the other parties. The Seller shall reacquire from the Trust Depositor, in accordance with Section 7.08 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, a Contract at its Purchase Price (which shall be deposited into the Collection Account), not later than two (2) Business Days prior to the first Distribution Date after the last day of the calendar month in which the Trust Depositor and the Seller receive the written notice from the Servicer described above; provided, however, that no Contract shall be reacquired pursuant to this Section 5.01(b) if, after giving effect to such reacquisition, the aggregate Principal Balance of the Contracts so reacquired, measured as of the Cutoff Date, would exceed 10% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision does not limit the obligation of the Seller to repurchase any Contract for which there is a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller as set forth in Article III of this Agreement and there shall be no limitation on the Principal Balance or the number of Contracts that are required to be repurchased by the Seller in connection with a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller as set forth in Article III of this Agreement.

(c)            Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the obligations of the Seller under this Section 5.01 and under Section 7.08 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall not terminate upon a Servicing Transfer pursuant to Article Eight of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

ARTICLE VI

INDEMNITIES

Section 6.01.         Seller Indemnification. The Seller will defend and indemnify the Trust Depositor, the Trust, the Trustees, any agents of the Trustees and the Noteholders against any and all costs, expenses, losses, damages, claims and liabilities, joint or several, including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation arising out of or resulting from (i) this Agreement or the use, ownership or operation of any Motorcycle by the Seller or the Servicer or any Affiliate of either, (ii) any representation or warranty or covenant made by the Seller in this Agreement being untrue or incorrect (subject to the third sentence of the preamble to Article III of this Agreement above), and (iii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus or in any amendment thereto or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement was made in conformity with information furnished to the Trust Depositor by the Seller specifically for use therein. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the obligation of the Seller under this Section 6.01 shall not terminate upon a Servicing Transfer pursuant to Article Eight of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and shall survive any termination of that agreement or of this Agreement.

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Section 6.02.          Liabilities to Obligors. No obligation or liability to any Obligor under any of the Contracts is intended to be assumed by the Trustees, the Trust or the Noteholders under or as a result of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

Section 6.03.         Tax Indemnification. The Seller covenants and agrees to pay, and to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Trust Depositor, the Trust, the Trustees or the Noteholders from, any taxes that may at any time be asserted against any such Person as a result of or relating to the transactions contemplated herein and in the other Transaction Documents, including any sales, gross receipts, gross margin, general corporation, tangible personal property, New York personal property replacement privilege or license taxes (but not including any federal, state or other taxes arising out of the creation of the Trust and the issuance of the Notes) and costs, expenses and reasonable counsel fees in defending against the same, whether arising by reason of the acts to be performed by the Seller under this Agreement or the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or imposed against the Trust Depositor, the Trust, a Noteholder or otherwise. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the obligation of the Seller under this Section 6.03 shall not terminate upon a Servicing Transfer pursuant to Article Eight of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

Section 6.04.         Operation of Indemnities. Indemnification under this Article VI shall include, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation, including in connection with the enforcement of such indemnities. If the Seller has made any indemnity payments to the Trust Depositor or either Trustee pursuant to this Article VI and the Trust Depositor or such Trustee thereafter collects any of such amounts from others, the Trust Depositor or the applicable Trustee shall repay such amounts collected to the Seller, except that any payments received by the Trust Depositor or such Trustee from an insurance provider as a result of the events under which the Seller’s indemnity payments arose shall be repaid prior to any repayment of the Seller’s indemnity payment.

ARTICLE VII

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 7.01.         Prohibited Transactions with Respect to the Trust. The Seller shall not:

(a)            Provide credit to any Noteholder for the purpose of enabling such Noteholder to purchase Notes;

(b)            Purchase any Notes in an agency or trustee capacity; or

(c)            Except in its capacity as Servicer as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, lend any money to the Trust.

Section 7.02.         Merger or Consolidation. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 7.02, the Seller will keep in full force and effect its existence, rights and franchises as a Nevada corporation, and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Agreement and of any of the Contracts and to perform its duties under this Agreement.

(b)            Any person into which the Seller may be merged or consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from such merger or consolidation to which the Seller is a party, or any person succeeding to the business of the Seller, shall be the successor to the Seller hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

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(c)            Upon the merger or consolidation of the Seller as described in this Section 7.02, the Seller shall provide the Rating Agencies notice of such merger or consolidation within thirty (30) days after completion of the same.

Section 7.03.         Termination. This Agreement shall terminate (after distribution of any amounts due to Noteholders due pursuant to Section 7.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) on the Distribution Date on which the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes is reduced to zero; provided, that the Seller’s representations and warranties and indemnities by Seller shall survive termination.

Section 7.04.          Assignment or Delegation by the Seller. Except as specifically authorized hereunder, the Seller may not convey and assign or delegate any of its rights or obligations hereunder absent the prior written consent of the Trust Depositor and the Trustees, and any attempt to do so without such consent shall be void.

Section 7.05.          Amendment. (a) This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Seller and the Trust Depositor, with notice to the Rating Agencies, but without the consent of the Trustees or any of the Noteholders to correct manifest error, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions herein or therein which may be inconsistent with any other provisions herein, therein or in the Prospectus, as the case may be, or to add any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement or the Prospectus; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel for the Seller acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder.

(b)            This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Seller and the Trust Depositor, with the consent of the Required Holders, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of Noteholders; provided, however, that no such amendment or waiver shall (i) reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on any Contracts or distributions that shall be required to be made on any Note, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Holders of which are required to consent to any such amendment or waiver pursuant to this Agreement, without the consent of the Holders of all Notes of the relevant Classes then outstanding.

(c)            Promptly after the execution of any amendment or consent pursuant to this Section 7.05, the Trust Depositor shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment and a copy of such amendment to each Trustee and each Rating Agency.

(d)            It shall not be necessary for the consent of Noteholders under this Section 7.05 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Noteholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Trustees may prescribe.

(e)            Upon the execution of any amendment or consent pursuant to this Section 7.05, this Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such amendment or consent shall form a part of this Agreement for all purposes.

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Section 7.06.          Notices. All notices, demands, certificates, requests and communications hereunder (“notices”) shall be in writing and shall be effective (a) upon receipt when sent through the U.S. mail, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, with such receipt to be effective the date of delivery indicated on the return receipt, or (b) upon receipt when sent through an overnight courier, or (c) on the date personally delivered to an Authorized Officer of the party to which sent, or (d) on the date transmitted by legible telecopier or electronic mail transmission with a confirmation of receipt, in all cases addressed to the recipient at the address for such recipient set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Each party hereto may, by notice given in accordance herewith to each of the other parties hereto, designate any further or different address to which subsequent notices shall be sent.

All communications and notices pursuant hereto to Noteholders shall be in writing and delivered or mailed at the address shown in the Note Register.

Section 7.07.         Merger and Integration. Except as specifically stated otherwise herein, this Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter hereof, and all prior understandings, written or oral, are superseded by this Agreement. This Agreement may not be modified, amended, waived, or supplemented except as provided herein.

Section 7.08.          Headings. The headings herein are for purposes of reference only and shall not otherwise affect the meaning or interpretation of any provision hereof.

Section 7.09.         Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York.

Section 7.10.         No Bankruptcy Petition. The Seller covenants and agrees that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all amounts owing in respect of all outstanding Securities, as well as any other amounts distributable or payable from the Trust Estate, together with any other amounts owing in respect of obligations of the Trust Depositor, it will not institute against, or solicit or join in or cooperate with or encourage any Person to institute against, the Trust Depositor or the Trust, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings or other similar proceedings under the laws of the United States or any State of the United States. This Section 7.10 shall survive termination of this Agreement.

Section 7.11          Counterparts; Originals. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. The words “execution”, “signed”, “signature” and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Agreement shall include, in addition to manually executed signature pages, images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including “pdf”, “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, any State law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the UCC.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above.

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP.
 
  By: /s/ David Viney 
  Printed Name: David Viney
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.
 
  By: /s/ David Viney
  Printed Name: David Viney
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer

Signature Page to Transfer and Sale Agreement

Exhibit A

Transfer and Sale

Agreement

FORM OF ASSIGNMENT

In accordance with the Transfer and Sale Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated as of May 1, 2024 made by and between the undersigned, as seller thereunder (the “Seller”), and Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., a Nevada corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Seller (the “Trust Depositor”), as purchaser thereunder, the undersigned does hereby sell, transfer, convey and assign, set over and otherwise convey to the Trust Depositor (i) all the right, title and interest of the Seller in and to the Contracts listed on the List of Contracts delivered on the Closing Date (including, without limitation, all security interests created thereunder), (ii) all rights of the Seller to payments which are collected pursuant to such Contracts after the Cutoff Date, including any liquidation proceeds therefrom, (iii) all rights of the Seller under any theft, physical damage, credit life, disability or other individual insurance policy (and rights under a “forced placed” policy, if any), any debt insurance policy or any debt cancellation agreement relating to any such Contract, an Obligor or a Motorcycle securing such Contract, (iv) all security interests in each such Motorcycle, (v) all documents contained in the related Contract Files, (vi) all rights of the Seller in the Lockbox, Lockbox Account and related Lockbox Agreement to the extent they relate to the Contracts (but excluding payments received on or before the Cutoff Date), (vii) all rights of the Seller to rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies, debt cancellation agreements, extended service contracts or other repair and protection agreements and other items financed under such Contracts, and (viii) all proceeds and products of the foregoing.

This Assignment is made pursuant to and in reliance upon the representation and warranties on the part of the undersigned contained in Article III of the Agreement and no others.

Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of May 1, 2024 made by and among the undersigned, as servicer, the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A, as issuer, and Citibank, N.A., as indenture trustee.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Assignment to be duly executed this 1st day of May 2024.

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.
 
  By:  
  Printed Name: David Viney
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer

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Exhibit B

Transfer and Sale

Agreement

FORM OF OFFICER’S CERTIFICATE

[Form of Closing Certificate of Servicer/Seller]

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.

Officer’s Certificate

The undersigned certifies that [s]he is [_____________] of Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. (“Harley-Davidson Credit”), and that as such is duly authorized to execute and deliver this certificate on behalf of Harley-Davidson Credit, as Servicer, in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement (the “Sale and Servicing Agreement”) dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Effective Date”) by and among Harley-Davidson Credit, as Servicer, Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. (“CFC”), Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, and Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (“Trust”), and as the Seller in connection with the Transfer and Sale Agreement dated as of the Effective Date (the “Transfer and Sale Agreement”) by and between Harley-Davidson Credit and CFC (all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement), and further certifies as follows:

(1)             Attached hereto as Exhibit I is a true and correct copy of the Articles of Incorporation of Harley-Davidson Credit, together with all amendments thereto as in effect on the date hereof.

(2)            There has been no other amendment or other document filed affecting the Articles of Incorporation of Harley-Davidson Credit since August 9, 1999, and no such amendment has been authorized by the Board of Directors or shareholders of Harley-Davidson Credit.

(3)            Attached hereto as Exhibit II is a Certificate of the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada dated as of a recent date, stating that Harley-Davidson Credit is duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada and is in good standing.

(4)            Attached hereto as Exhibit III is a true and correct copy of the By-laws of Harley-Davidson Credit which were in full force and effect as of August 9, 1999 and at all times subsequent thereto.

(5)            Attached hereto as Exhibit IV is a true and correct copy of resolutions adopted pursuant to a unanimous written consent of the Board of Directors of Harley-Davidson Credit and relating to the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement and the Administration Agreement. Said resolutions have not been amended, modified, annulled or revoked, and are on the date hereof in full force and effect and are the only resolutions relating to these matters which have been adopted by the Board of Directors.

(6)            No event with respect to Harley-Davidson Credit has occurred and is continuing which would constitute an Event of Termination or an event that, with notice or the passage of time, would constitute an Event of Termination under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. To the best of my knowledge after reasonable investigation, there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of Harley-Davidson Credit, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Preliminary Prospectus (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) or the Prospectus and except as set forth therein.

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(7)            All federal, state and local taxes of Harley-Davidson Credit due and owing as of the date hereof have been paid.

(8)            All representations and warranties of Harley-Davidson Credit contained in the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement and the Administration Agreement (collectively, the “Program Agreements”) or in any document, certificate or financial or other statement delivered in connection therewith are true and correct as of the date hereof.

(9)            There is no action, investigation or proceeding pending or, to my knowledge, threatened against Harley-Davidson Credit before any court, administrative agency or other tribunal (a) asserting the invalidity of any Program Agreement to which Harley-Davidson Credit is a party; or (b) which is likely materially and adversely to affect Harley-Davidson Credit’s performance of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, the Program Agreements.

(10)           No consent, approval, authorization or order of, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental agency or body or state or federal court is required to be obtained by Harley-Davidson Credit for Harley-Davidson Credit’s consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Program Agreements, except such as have been obtained or made and such as may be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the issuance and sale of the Notes or the issuance of the Certificate.

(11)           Neither Harley-Davidson Credit’s transfer and assignment of the Contract Assets to CFC, CFC’s concurrent transfer and assignment of the Trust Corpus to the Trust, nor the concurrent pledge by the Trust of the Collateral to the Indenture Trustee, nor the issuance and sale of the Notes, the issuance of the Certificate or the entering into of the Program Agreements, nor the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated therein, will violate or conflict with any agreement or instrument to which Harley-Davidson Credit is a party or by which it is otherwise bound.

(12)           In connection with the transfers of Contracts and related assets contemplated in the Transfer and Sale Agreement, (a) Harley-Davidson Credit has not made such transfer with actual intent to hinder, delay or defraud any creditor of Harley-Davidson Credit, and (b) Harley-Davidson Credit has not received less than a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for such transfer, is not on the date hereof insolvent (nor will Harley-Davidson Credit become insolvent as a result thereof), is not engaged (or about to engage) in a business or transaction for which it has unreasonably small capital, and does not intend to incur or believe it will incur debts beyond its ability to pay when matured.

(13)           The sole shareholder of Harley-Davidson Credit is Harley-Davidson Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which has its chief executive office and only office in Chicago, Illinois, and has no other offices in any other state.

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(14)           Each of the agreements and conditions of Harley-Davidson Credit to be performed or satisfied on or before the Closing Date under the Program Agreements has been performed or satisfied in all material respects.

(15)           Each Contract being transferred pursuant to the Transfer and Sale Agreement is evidenced by a written agreement providing for a repayment obligation as well as a security interest in the related Motorcycle securing such obligation.

(16)           Harley-Davidson Credit has not authorized the filing of any UCC financing statements listing the Contract Assets as collateral other than financing statements relating to the transactions contemplated in the Transfer and Sale Agreement.

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In Witness Whereof, I have affixed my signature hereto this 1st day of May 2024.

  By:  
  Printed Name: David Viney
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer

EX-10.2 6 tm2413280d9_ex10-2.htm EXHIBIT 10.2

 

Exhibit 10.2 

  

 

SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

 

among

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A, 

as Issuer,

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP., 

as Trust Depositor,

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP., 

as Servicer

 

and

 

CITIBANK, N.A., 

as Indenture Trustee

 

Dated as of May 1, 2024 

  

 

 

 

Page 

Table of Contents 

ARTICLE ONE  DEFINITIONS 1
Section 1.01. Definitions 1
Section 1.02. Usage of Terms 14
Section 1.03. Section References 14
Section 1.04. Calculations 14
Section 1.05. Accounting Terms 14
ARTICLE TWO  TRANSFER OF CONTRACTS 15
Section 2.01. Closing 15
Section 2.02. Conditions to the Closing 15
ARTICLE THREE  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 17
Section 3.01. Representations and Warranties Regarding the Trust Depositor 17
Section 3.02. Representations and Warranties Regarding the Servicer 18
ARTICLE FOUR  PERFECTION OF TRANSFER AND PROTECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS 20
Section 4.01. Custody of Contracts 20
Section 4.02. Filing 21
Section 4.03. Name Change or Relocation 21
Section 4.04. Costs and Expenses 21
ARTICLE FIVE  SERVICING OF CONTRACTS 21
Section 5.01. Responsibility for Contract Administration 21
Section 5.02. Standard of Care 22
Section 5.03. Records 22
Section 5.04. Inspection 22
Section 5.05. Trust Accounts 22
Section 5.06. Enforcement 24
Section 5.07. Trustees to Cooperate 25
Section 5.08. Costs and Expenses 25
Section 5.09. Maintenance of Security Interests in Motorcycles 25
Section 5.10. Successor Servicer/Lockbox Agreements 26
Section 5.11. Separate Entity Existence 26
ARTICLE SIX  THE TRUST DEPOSITOR 26
Section 6.01. Covenants of the Trust Depositor 26
Section 6.02. Liability of Trust Depositor; Indemnities 28
Section 6.03. Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, Trust Depositor; Certain Limitations 29
Section 6.04. Limitation on Liability of Trust Depositor and Others 30
Section 6.05. Trust Depositor Not to Resign 30
ARTICLE SEVEN  DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE FUND 30
Section 7.01. Monthly Distributions 30
Section 7.02. Fees 31
Section 7.03. Advances 31
Section 7.04. Reserved 31
Section 7.05. Distributions; Priorities 31
Section 7.06. Reserve Fund 33
Section 7.07. [Reserved] 34
Section 7.08. Purchase of Contracts for Breach of Representations and Warranties 34
Section 7.09. Reassignment of Reacquired Contracts 35

Section 7.10. Servicer’s Purchase Option 35

 

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Section 7.11. Purchase of Contracts for Breach of Servicing Obligations 35
Section 7.12. Dispute Resolution 36
ARTICLE EIGHT  EVENTS OF TERMINATION; SERVICE TRANSFER 38
Section 8.01. Events of Termination 38
Section 8.02. Waiver of Event of Termination 39
Section 8.03. Servicing Transfer 39
Section 8.04. Successor Servicer to Act; Appointment of Successor Servicer 40
Section 8.05. Notification Noteholders 40
Section 8.06. Effect of Transfer 40
Section 8.07. Database File 40
Section 8.08. Successor Servicer Indemnification 40
Section 8.09. Responsibilities of the Successor Servicer 41
Section 8.10. Limitation of Liability of Servicer 41
Section 8.11. Merger or Consolidation of Servicer 41
Section 8.12. Servicer Not to Resign 42
Section 8.13. Appointment of Subservicer 42
ARTICLE NINE  REPORTS 42
Section 9.01. Monthly Reports 42
Section 9.02. Officer’s Certificate 42
Section 9.03. Other Data 42
Section 9.04. Report on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria and Attestation; Annual Officer’s Certificate 42
Section 9.05. Monthly Reports to Noteholders 43
Section 9.06. Regulation AB 45
Section 9.07. Information to Be Provided by the Indenture Trustee 45
Section 9.08. Exchange Act Reporting 46
ARTICLE TEN  TERMINATION 46
Section 10.01. Sale of Trust Assets 46
ARTICLE ELEVEN  MISCELLANEOUS 47
Section 11.01. Amendment. 47
Section 11.02. Protection of Title to Trust 48
Section 11.03. Governing Law 49
Section 11.04. Notices 49
Section 11.05. Severability of Provisions 51
Section 11.06. Assignment 52
Section 11.07. Third Party Beneficiaries 52
Section 11.08. Counterparts; Originals 52
Section 11.09. Headings 52
Section 11.10. No Bankruptcy Petition; Disclaimer and Subordination 52
Section 11.11. Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee 53

  

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EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A Form of Assignment A-1
Exhibit B Form of Closing Certificate of Trust Depositor B-1
Exhibit C Form of Closing Certificate of Seller/Servicer C-1
Exhibit D Form of Servicing Officer Certification as to Monthly Report D-1
Exhibit E Servicing Criteria to be Addressed in Indenture Trustee’s  
  Assessment of Compliance E-1
Exhibit F Form of Indenture Trustee’s Annual Certificate F-1
Exhibit G Form of Certificate Regarding Reacquired Contracts G-1
Exhibit H List of Contracts H-1
Exhibit I Form of Monthly Report to Noteholders I-1
Exhibit J Seller’s Representations and Warranties J-1
Exhibit K Lockbox Bank and Lockbox Account K-1

  

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THIS SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of May 1, 2024 (this “Agreement”), is entered into by and among Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (together with its successors and assigns, the “Issuer” or the “Trust”), Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. (together with its successor and assigns, the “Trust Depositor”), Citibank, N.A. (solely in its capacity as Indenture Trustee, together with its successors and assigns, the “Indenture Trustee”), and Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. (solely in its capacity as Servicer, together with its successor and assigns, “Harley-Davidson Credit” or the “Servicer”).

 

WHEREAS, the Issuer desires to acquire from the Trust Depositor a pool of fixed-rate, simple interest promissory notes and security agreements relating to the purchase of new or used Harley-Davidson motorcycles (collectively, the “Contracts”) purchased by Harley-Davidson Credit and subsequently sold by Harley-Davidson Credit to the Trust Depositor;

 

WHEREAS, the Trust Depositor is willing to transfer and assign the Contracts to the Issuer pursuant to the terms hereof; and

 

WHEREAS, the Servicer is willing to service the Contracts pursuant to the terms hereof;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE One

 

DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.01.      Definitions. Whenever used in this Agreement, the following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:

 

Administration Agreement” means the Administration Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Issuer, Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. (in its capacity as administrator), the Trust Depositor and the Indenture Trustee.

 

ADR Organization” means The American Arbitration Association or, if The American Arbitration Association no longer exists or if its ADR Rules would no longer permit mediation or arbitration, as applicable, of the dispute, another nationally recognized mediation or arbitration organization selected by the Seller.

 

ADR Rules” means the relevant rules of the ADR Organization for mediation (including non-binding arbitration) or binding arbitration, as applicable, of commercial disputes in effect at the time of the mediation or arbitration.

 

Advance” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the amounts, if any, deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account for such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 7.03.

 

Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person controlling or controlled by, or under common control with, such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control”, when used with respect to any specified Person, means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” or “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

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Aggregate Principal Balance” means the sum of the Principal Balances of each outstanding Contract.

 

Agreement” means this Sale and Servicing Agreement, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

Asset Representations Review Agreement” means the Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Issuer, the Servicer and the Asset Representations Reviewer.

 

Asset Representations Reviewer” means Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

Asset Representations Reviewer Annual Fee” means “Annual Fee” as such term is defined in the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

 

Asset Representations Reviewer Fee” means “Review Fee” as such term is defined in the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

 

Available Monies” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the sum (without duplication) of (a) the following amounts received by the Servicer on or in respect of the Contracts during the related Due Period: (i) all amounts received in respect of principal of and interest on the Contracts, (ii) all Net Liquidation Proceeds, and (iii) all amounts received in respect of interest, dividends, gains, income and earnings on investment of funds in the Trust Accounts as contemplated in Section 5.05(d), and (b) the following amounts received on or prior to such Distribution Date: (i) the aggregate of the Purchase Prices for Contracts reacquired by the Trust Depositor pursuant to Section 7.08 or moneys otherwise deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to such Section, (ii) all Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 7.03, (iii) all amounts paid by the Servicer in connection with an optional purchase of the Contracts pursuant to Section 7.10, and (iv) the aggregate of the Purchase Prices for Contracts purchased by the Servicer pursuant to Section 7.11.

 

Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday, or another day on which banking institutions in the cities of Chicago, Illinois, Wilmington, Delaware, Jersey City, New Jersey or New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law, executive order, or governmental decree to be closed.

 

Certificate” means a Trust Certificate (as such term is defined in the Trust Agreement), representing a beneficial equity interest in the Trust and issued pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

 

Certificate Register” shall have the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

 

Certificateholder” shall have the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

 

Class” means all Notes whose form is identical except for variation in denomination, principal amount or owner.

 

Class A-1 Final Distribution Date” means the May 2025 Distribution Date.

 

Class A-1 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-1 Note is registered in the Note Register.

 

Class A-1 Notes” has the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

 

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Class A-1 Rate” means 5.540% per annum (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360-day year).

 

“Class A-2 Final Distribution Date” means the February 2027 Distribution Date.

 

Class A-2 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-2 Note is registered in the Note Register.

 

“Class A-2 Notes” has the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

 

Class A-2 Rate” means 5.65% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months).

 

Class A-3 Final Distribution Date” means the March 2029 Distribution Date.

 

Class A-3 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-3 Note is registered in the Note Register.

 

“Class A-3 Notes” has the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

 

“Class A-3 Rate” means 5.37% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months).

 

Class A-4 Final Distribution Date” means the December 2031 Distribution Date.

 

Class A-4 Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Class A-4 Note is registered in the Note Register.

 

Class A-4 Notes” has the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

 

Class A-4 Rate” means 5.29% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months).

 

Clearing Agency” shall have the meaning specified in the Indenture.

 

Closing Date” means May 22, 2024.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

Collateral” shall have the meaning specified in the Indenture.

 

Collection Account” means a Trust Account as described in Section 5.05 maintained in the name of the Indenture Trustee and which shall be an Eligible Account.

 

Computer File” means the computer file generated by the Servicer which provides information relating to the Contracts and which was used by the Seller in selecting the Contracts sold to the Trust Depositor pursuant to the Transfer and Sale Agreement and transferred to the Trust by the Trust Depositor pursuant to this Agreement, and includes the master file and the history file as well as servicing information with respect to the Contracts.

 

Contract Assets” has the meaning assigned in Section 2.01 of the Transfer and Sale Agreement.

 

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Contract File” means, as to each Contract, (a) the original Contract (or with respect to “electronic chattel paper”, the “authoritative copy” thereof), including the executed promissory note and security agreement or other evidence of the obligation of the Obligor, (b) the original title certificate to the Motorcycle and, where applicable, the certificate of lien recordation, or, if such title certificate has not yet been issued, an application for such title certificate, or other appropriate evidence of a security interest in the covered Motorcycle; (c) the assignments of the Contract; (d) the original(s) (or with respect to “electronic chattel paper”, the “authoritative copy”) of any agreement(s) modifying the Contract including, without limitation, any extension agreement(s) and (e) documents evidencing the existence of physical damage insurance covering such Motorcycle (terms in quotation marks have the meaning assigned to them in the UCC).

 

Contract Rate” means, as to any Contract, the annual rate of interest with respect to such Contract.

 

Contracts” means the promissory notes and security agreements described in the List of Contracts and constituting part of the Trust Corpus, and includes, without limitation, all related security interests and any and all rights to receive payments which are collected pursuant thereto after the Cutoff Date, but excluding any rights to receive payments which are collected pursuant thereto on or prior to the Cutoff Date.

 

Corporate Trust Office” has the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

 

Cram Down Loss” means, with respect to a Contract, if a court of appropriate jurisdiction in a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding shall have issued an order reducing the Principal Balance of such Contract, the amount of such reduction (with a “Cram Down Loss” being deemed to have occurred on the date of issuance of such order).

 

Cutoff Date” means the close of business on April 30, 2024.

 

Defaulted Contract” means a Contract with respect to which there has occurred one or more of the following: (i) all or some portion of any payment under the Contract is 120 days or more delinquent, (ii) repossession (and expiration of any redemption period) of a Motorcycle securing the Contract or (iii) the Servicer has determined in good faith that an Obligor is not likely to resume payment under the Contract.

 

Delinquency Trigger” means, for any Due Period, that the aggregate Principal Balance of Contracts that are 60 days or more Delinquent (assuming 30-day months) as a percentage of the Pool Balance as of the last day of the Due Period exceeds 6.00%.

 

Delinquent” means, as of a date of determination, a Contract with a past due amount greater than 10% of the scheduled payment then due; provided, no Contract with a past due amount of $10 or less shall be deemed “Delinquent.”

 

Delinquent Interest” means, with respect to each Determination Date, all accrued and unpaid interest on any Contract for which the related Obligor is 30 or more days delinquent (assuming 30-day months) in any payment due, as of the last day of the related Due Period.

 

Determination Date” means the fourth Business Day following the conclusion of a Due Period during the term of this Agreement.

 

Distribution Date” means the fifteenth day of each calendar month during the term of this Agreement, or if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day, with the first such Distribution Date hereunder being June 17, 2024.

 

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Due Date” means, with respect to any Contract, the day of the month on which each scheduled payment of principal and interest is due on such Contract, exclusive of days of grace.

 

Due Period” means a calendar month during the term of this Agreement, and (i) the Due Period related to a Determination Date or Distribution Date shall be the calendar month immediately preceding such date; provided, however, that with respect to the first Determination Date or first Distribution Date, the Due Period shall be the period from the Cutoff Date through May 31, 2024 and (ii) the Due Period related to the Purchase Price shall be the calendar month in which the Seller or Servicer, as applicable, becomes aware or receives notice of the breach or potential breach giving rise to a repurchase or a purchase obligation pursuant to Section 7.08 or Section 7.11, as applicable.

 

Eligible Account” means a segregated deposit account maintained with the Indenture Trustee, acting in its fiduciary capacity, or a depository institution or trust company organized under the laws of the United States of America, or any of the States thereof, or the District of Columbia, the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, having a certificate of deposit, short-term deposit or commercial paper rating of at least “P-1” by Moody’s and “F1” by Fitch.

 

Eligible Investments” mean book-entry securities, negotiable instruments or securities represented by instruments in bearer or registered form which evidence:

 

(a)             direct obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed as to timely payment by, the United States of America;

 

(b)            demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit of any depository institution or trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any State (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision and examination by Federal or State banking or depository institution authorities; provided, however, that at the time of the investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, the commercial paper or other short-term senior unsecured debt obligations (other than such obligations the rating of which is based on the credit of a Person other than such depository institution or trust company) thereof shall have a credit rating from each Rating Agency in the highest investment category granted thereby;

 

(c)            commercial paper, master notes, promissory notes, demand notes or other short term debt obligations having, at the time of the investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, a rating from each Rating Agency in the highest investment category granted thereby;

 

(d)            investments in money market funds having a rating from each Rating Agency in the highest investment category granted thereby (including funds for which the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates is investment manager or advisor);

 

(e)            notes or bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust company referred to in clause (b);

 

(f)             repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements collateralized by securities issued or guaranteed by the United States government or any agency, instrumentality or establishment of the United States government, in either case entered into with a depository institution or trust company (acting as principal) described in clause (b), or entered into with an entity (acting as principal) which has, or whose parent has, a credit rating from each Rating Agency in the highest credit category granted thereby; and

 

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(g)            any other investment with respect to which the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied.

 

Event of Default” has the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

 

Event of Termination” means an event specified in Section 8.01.

 

Excess Amounts” shall mean Available Monies after distributions made in accordance with Section 7.05(a)(i) through (vi).

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

Final Distribution Date” means the Class A-1 Final Distribution Date, the Class A-2 Final Distribution Date, the Class A-3 Final Distribution Date, or the Class A-4 Final Distribution Date, as the case may be.

 

Fitch” means Fitch Ratings, Inc., or any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

 

Form 10-D Disclosure Item” means with respect to any Person, any litigation or governmental proceedings pending against (i) such Person in the case of the Issuer, the Seller, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Servicer or (ii) a Responsible Officer of such Person in the case of the Owner Trustee or Indenture Trustee, to the extent such Person (or Responsible Officer of such Person), has actual knowledge thereof, in each case that would be material to the Noteholders.

 

Form 10-K Disclosure Item” means with respect to any Person, (a) any Form 10-D Disclosure Item, (b) any affiliations between such Person and the Seller, the Servicer, the Trust Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee (each, an “Item 1119 Party”), to the extent such Person, or in the case of the Owner Trustee or Indenture Trustee, a Responsible Officer of such Person, has actual knowledge thereof and (c) any relationships or transactions between such Person and any Item 1119 Party that are outside the ordinary course of business or on terms other than would be obtained in an arm’s-length transaction with an unrelated third party, apart from the transactions contemplated under the Transaction Documents, and that are material to the investors’ understanding of the Notes, but only to the extent such Person, or in the case of the Owner Trustee or Indenture Trustee, a Responsible Officer of such Person, has actual knowledge of such relationships or transactions.

 

Harley-Davidson” means, collectively, Harley-Davidson, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

 

Holder” means, with respect to a (i) Certificate, the Person in whose name such Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register and (ii) Note, the Person in whose name such Note is registered in the Note Register.

 

Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of the date hereof, between the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.

 

Indenture Trustee” means the Person acting as Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, including any successor trustee under the Indenture.

 

Indenture Trustee Fee” means $7,500 per annum.

 

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Independent” when used with respect to any specified Person, means such a Person who (i) is in fact independent of the Issuer, the Trust Depositor or the Servicer, (ii) is not a director, officer or employee of any Affiliate of the Issuer, the Trust Depositor or the Servicer, (iii) is not a person related to any officer or director of the Issuer, the Trust Depositor or the Servicer or any of their respective Affiliates, (iv) is not a holder (directly or indirectly) of more than 10% of any voting securities of Issuer, the Trust Depositor or the Servicer or any of their respective Affiliates, and (v) is not connected with the Issuer, the Trust Depositor or the Servicer as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.

 

Interest Period” means (x) with respect to the Class A-1 Notes and any Distribution Date, the period from and including the Distribution Date immediately preceding such Distribution Date (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, from and including the Closing Date) to but excluding such Distribution Date and (y) with respect to the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes and any Distribution Date, the period from and including the 15th day of the month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date occurs (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, from and including the Closing Date) to but excluding the 15th day of the month in which such Distribution Date occurs.

 

Interest Rate” means the Class A-1 Rate, the Class A-2 Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, or the Class A-4 Rate, as applicable.

 

Issuer” means the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A.

 

Late Payment Penalty Fees” means any late payment fees paid by Obligors on Contracts.

 

Lien” means a security interest, lien, charge, pledge, equity or encumbrance of any kind, other than tax liens, mechanics’ liens and any liens that attach to the respective Contract by operation of law.

 

Liquidated Contract” means a Contract with respect to which there has occurred one or more of the following, as determined as of the end of a Due Period: (i) 90 days have elapsed following the date of repossession (and expiration of any redemption period) with respect to the Motorcycle securing such Contract, (ii) the receipt of proceeds by the Servicer from the sale of a repossessed Motorcycle securing a Contract, (iii) the Servicer has determined in good faith that all amounts expected to be recovered have been received with respect to such Contract, or (iv) all or any portion of any payment is delinquent 150 days or more (assuming 30-day months).

 

List of Contracts” means the list identifying each Contract constituting part of the Trust Corpus, which list (a) identifies each Contract and (b) sets forth as to each Contract (i) the Principal Balance as of the Cutoff Date, (ii) the amount of monthly payments due from the Obligor, (iii) the Contract Rate and (iv) the maturity date, and which list (as in effect on the Closing Date) is attached to this Agreement as Exhibit H.

 

Lockbox” means the post office box maintained by a Lockbox Bank identified on Exhibit K hereto and any other Lockbox hereafter established to accept collections on the Contracts.

 

Lockbox Account” means the account maintained with the Lockbox Bank and identified on Exhibit K hereto and any other account hereafter established to accept collections on the Contracts.

 

Lockbox Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Lockbox Administration Agreement dated as of July 14, 2009 by and among the Lockbox Bank, the Servicer, the Trust Depositor, Harley-Davidson Warehouse Funding Corp., a Nevada corporation, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Eaglemark Customer Funding Corporation IV, and Bank of America, National Association, with respect to the Lockbox Account, unless such agreement shall be terminated in accordance with its terms, in which event “Lockbox Agreement” shall mean such other agreement, in form and substance acceptable to the above-described parties; such term shall also include any other agreement having substantially the same terms as the existing agreement described above, between or among a Lockbox Bank, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer, the Trust Depositor and any other parties in respect of any Lockbox Account.

 

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Lockbox Bank” means the financial institution maintaining the Lockbox Account and identified on Exhibit K hereto or any successor thereto and any other financial institution at which a Lockbox Account is maintained.

 

Monthly Report” shall have the meaning specified in Section 9.05.

 

Monthly Servicing Fee” means, as to any Distribution Date, one-twelfth of the product of 1.00% and the Pool Balance as of the beginning of the related Due Period or, with respect to the first Distribution Date after the Closing Date, as of the Cutoff Date.

 

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

 

Motorcycle” means a motorcycle manufactured by a subsidiary of Harley-Davidson, Inc. securing a Contract.

 

Net Liquidation Losses” means, as of any Distribution Date, with respect to all Liquidated Contracts on an aggregate basis, the amount, if any, by which (a) the outstanding Principal Balance of all Liquidated Contracts (as of the respective dates upon which they became Liquidated Contracts) exceeds (b) the Net Liquidation Proceeds received in respect of Liquidated Contracts.

 

Net Liquidation Proceeds” means, as to any Liquidated Contract, the proceeds realized on the sale or other disposition of the related Motorcycle, including proceeds realized on the repurchase of such Motorcycle by the originating dealer for breach of warranties, and the proceeds of any insurance relating to such Motorcycle, after payment of all reasonable expenses incurred in the collection of such proceeds, together, in all instances, with the expected or actual proceeds of any recourse rights relating to such Contract as well as any post-disposition proceeds or other amounts in respect of a Liquidated Contract received by the Servicer.

 

Note Depository Agreement” shall have the meaning specified in the Indenture.

 

Note Distribution Account” means the account established and maintained as such pursuant to Section 5.05.

 

Note Interest Carryover Shortfall” means, with respect to any Distribution Date and a Class of Notes, the excess, if any, of the sum of the Note Interest Distributable Amount for such Class for the immediately preceding Distribution Date, over the amount in respect of interest that was actually paid from the Note Distribution Account with respect to such Class on such preceding Distribution Date, plus interest on such excess, to the extent permitted by applicable law, at the applicable Interest Rate for the related Interest Period.

 

Note Interest Distributable Amount” means, with respect to any Distribution Date and a Class of Notes, the sum of the Note Monthly Interest Distributable Amount and the Note Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Class of Notes with respect to such Distribution Date.

 

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Note Monthly Interest Distributable Amount” means, with respect to any Distribution Date for any Class of Notes, interest accrued for the related Interest Period at the applicable Interest Rate for such Class of Notes on the outstanding principal amount of the Notes of such Class on the immediately preceding Distribution Date, after giving effect to all payments of principal to Noteholders of such Class on or prior to such preceding Distribution Date (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, on the original principal amount of such Class of Notes).

 

Note Pool Factor” means with respect to any Class of Notes as of the close of business on any Distribution Date, a seven-digit decimal figure equal to the outstanding principal amount of such Class of Notes (after giving effect to any reductions thereof to be made on such Distribution Date) divided by the original outstanding principal amount of such Class of Notes.

 

“Note Register” shall have the meaning specified in the Indenture.

 

Noteholder” shall have the meaning specified in the Indenture.

 

Notes” means the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, and the Class A-4 Notes, in each case as executed and authenticated in accordance with the Indenture.

 

Obligor” means a Motorcycle buyer or other person who owes payments under a Contract.

 

Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman, the President, a Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of any Person delivering such certificate and delivered to the Person to whom such certificate is required to be delivered, including any certificate delivered under any of the Transaction Documents required to be executed by a Servicing Officer. In the case of an Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer, at least one of the signing officers must be a Servicing Officer. Unless otherwise specified, any reference herein to an Officer’s Certificate shall be to an Officers’ Certificate of the Servicer.

 

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel (who may be counsel to the Trust Depositor or the Servicer) acceptable to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be.

 

Outstanding Amount” shall have the meaning specified in the Indenture.

 

Overcollateralization Target Amount” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, 4.75% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date.

 

Owner Trustee” means the Person acting, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, its successors in interest and any successor owner trustee under the Trust Agreement.

 

Paying Agent” means the entity described in Section 1.01 of the Indenture and Section 3.10 of the Trust Agreement.

 

Permitted Lien” means, any tax lien, mechanics’ lien and other lien that arises by operation of law, in each case on a Motorcycle and arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the related Obligor.

 

Person” means any individual, corporation, estate, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

 

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Pool Balance” means as of any date of determination, the aggregate outstanding Principal Balance of outstanding Contracts as of the close of business on such date.

 

“Principal Balance” means (a) with respect to any Contract as of any date, an amount equal to the unpaid principal balance of such Contract as of the close of business on the Cutoff Date reduced by the sum of (1) all payments received by the Servicer as of such date allocable to principal and (2) any Cram Down Loss in respect of such Contract; provided, however, that (i) if (x) a Contract is reacquired by the Seller pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Transfer and Sale Agreement and Section 7.08 hereof because of a breach or potential breach of representation or warranty or is purchased by the Servicer pursuant to Section 7.11 hereof, or (y) the Servicer gives notice of its intent to purchase the Contracts in connection with an optional redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 7.10 hereof, in each case the Principal Balance of such Contract or Contracts shall be deemed as of the related Determination Date to be zero for the Due Period in which such event occurs and for each Due Period thereafter and (ii) from and after the Due Period in which a Contract becomes a Liquidated Contract, the Principal Balance of such Contract shall be deemed to be zero; and (b) where the context requires, the aggregate of the Principal Balances described in clause (a) for all such Contracts.

 

Principal Distributable Amount” means, in respect of any Distribution Date, the excess, if any, of (1) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Notes as of such Distribution Date (before giving effect to any principal payments made on the Notes on that Distribution Date) over (2) the result of the Pool Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the related Due Period minus the Overcollateralization Target Amount, except that the Principal Distributable Amount on and after the Final Scheduled Payment Date for any Class of Notes will not be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the Outstanding Amount of that Class of Notes to zero.

 

Prospectus” means the Prospectus dated May 14, 2024 relating to the Notes.

 

Purchase Price” means, with respect to a Contract to be reacquired or purchased under Section 7.08 or Section 7.11 hereof, or Section 5.01 of the Transfer and Sale Agreement, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the Principal Balance of such Contract as of the end of the related Due Period, plus (b) accrued and unpaid interest at the Contract Rate on such Contract as of the end of the related Due Period.

 

Qualified Eligible Investments” means Eligible Investments acquired by the Indenture Trustee in its name and in its capacity as Indenture Trustee, which are held by the Indenture Trustee in any Trust Account and with respect to which (a) the Indenture Trustee has noted its interest therein on its books and records, and (b) the Indenture Trustee has purchased such investments for value without notice of any adverse claim thereto (and, if such investments are securities or other financial assets or interests therein, within the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC as enacted in New York, without acting in collusion with a securities intermediary in violating such securities intermediary’s obligations to entitlement holders in such assets, under Section 8-504 of such UCC, to maintain a sufficient quantity of such assets in favor of such entitlement holders), and (c) either (i) such investments are in the possession, or are under the control, of the Indenture Trustee, or (ii) such investments, (A) if certificated securities and (1) in bearer form, have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee, or (2) in registered form, have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee and either registered by the issuer thereof in the name of the Indenture Trustee or endorsed by effective endorsement to the Indenture Trustee or in blank; (B) if uncertificated securities, the ownership of which has been registered to the Indenture Trustee on the books of the issuer thereof (or another person, other than a securities intermediary, either becomes the registered owner of the uncertified security on behalf of the Indenture Trustee or, having previously become the registered owner, acknowledges that it holds for the Indenture Trustee); or (C) if securities entitlements (within the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC as enacted in New York) representing interests in securities or other financial assets (or interests therein) held by a securities intermediary (within the meaning of said Section 8-102), a securities intermediary indicates by book entry that a security or other financial asset has been credited to the Indenture Trustee’s securities account with such securities intermediary. Any such Qualified Eligible Investment may be purchased by or through the Indenture Trustee or any of its affiliates.

 

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Rating Agency” means each of Moody’s and Fitch, so long as such Persons maintain a rating on the Notes; and if either of Moody’s or Fitch no longer maintains a rating on the Notes, such other nationally recognized statistical rating organization selected by the Trust Depositor.

 

Rating Agency Condition” means, with respect to any action, that each Rating Agency shall have been given ten days (or such shorter period as is acceptable to each Rating Agency) prior notice thereof and within ten days of such Rating Agency’s receipt of such notice (or such shorter period as is acceptable to each Rating Agency) such Rating Agency shall not have notified the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in writing that such action will result in a qualification, reduction or withdrawal of its then-current rating of any Class of Notes.

 

Record Date” means, with respect to any Distribution Date, the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Distribution Date.

 

Regulation AB” means Subpart 229.1100 - Asset Backed Securities (Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R. Sections 229.1100-229.1125, as amended from time to time and as clarified and interpreted by the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff from time to time.

 

Reimbursement Amount” has the meaning assigned in Section 7.03 hereof.

 

Reportable Event” means any event required to be reported on Form 8-K.

 

Required Holders” means Holders of more than 50% of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

 

Reserve Fund” means the Reserve Fund established and maintained pursuant to Section 7.06 hereof.

 

Reserve Fund Deposits” means all moneys deposited in the Reserve Fund from time to time including, but not limited to, the Reserve Fund Initial Deposit, as well as any monies deposited therein pursuant to Section 7.05(a), all investments and reinvestments thereof, earnings thereon, and proceeds of the foregoing, whether now or hereafter existing.

 

Reserve Fund Initial Deposit” means $1,519,548.72.

 

Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Owner Trustee, any officer in its Corporate Trust Administration Department (or any similar group of a successor Owner Trustee) and with respect to the Indenture Trustee, the chairman and any vice chairman of the board of directors, the president, the chairman and vice chairman of any executive committee of the board of directors, every vice president, assistant vice president, the secretary, every assistant secretary, cashier or any assistant cashier, controller or assistant controller, the treasurer, every assistant treasurer, every trust officer, assistant trust officer and every other authorized officer or assistant officer of the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom a corporate trust matter is referred because of knowledge of, familiarity with, and authority to act with respect to a particular matter.

 

Review” has the meaning stated in the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

 

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Review Report” has the meaning stated in the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

 

Securities” means the Notes and the Certificate, or any of them.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Securityholders” means the Holders of the Notes and the Certificate.

 

Seller” means Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., a Nevada corporation, or its successor, in its capacity as Seller of Contract Assets under the Transfer and Sale Agreement.

 

Servicer” means Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., a Nevada corporation, or its successor, until any Servicing Transfer hereunder and thereafter means the Successor Servicer or its successor pursuant to Article Eight below with respect to the duties and obligations required of the Servicer under this Agreement.

 

Servicing Transfer” has the meaning assigned in Section 8.03(a).

 

Servicing Criteria” means the “servicing criteria” set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB.

 

Servicing Fee” means, on any Distribution Date, the sum of (a) the Monthly Servicing Fee payable on such Distribution Date, (b) Late Payment Penalty Fees received by the Servicer during the related Due Period, and (c) extension fees, convenience fees and other similar fees received by the Servicer during the related Due Period.

 

Servicing Officer” means any officer of the Servicer involved in, or responsible for, the administration and servicing of Contracts whose name appears on a list of servicing officers appearing in an Officer’s Certificate furnished to the Indenture Trustee by the Servicer, as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

Shortfall” means, with respect to a Distribution Date, an amount equal to the excess (if any) of (a) the sum of the amounts payable pursuant to (1) clauses (v) and (vi) of Section 7.05(a) or (2) clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 7.05(b), as applicable, over (b) Available Monies for such Distribution Date minus the amounts payable pursuant to (x) clauses (i) through (iv) of Section 7.05(a) or (y) clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 7.05(a) and clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 7.05(b), as applicable, on such Distribution Date.

 

Solvent” means, as to any Person at any time, that (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the amount of such Person’s liabilities (including disputed, contingent and unliquidated liabilities) as such value is established and liabilities evaluated for purposes of Section 101(31) of the Bankruptcy Code; (b) the present fair saleable value of the property of such Person in an orderly liquidation of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured; (c) such Person is able to realize upon its property and pay its debts and other liabilities (including disputed, contingent and unliquidated liabilities) as they mature in the normal course of business; (d) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature; and (e) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in a business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute unreasonably small capital.

 

Specified Reserve Fund Balance” means, 0.25% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date; provided, however, in no event shall the Specified Reserve Fund Balance be greater than the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes. As of any Distribution Date, the amount of funds actually on deposit in the Reserve Fund may, in certain circumstances, be less than the Specified Reserve Fund Balance.

 

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Successor Servicer” has the meaning assigned in Section 8.03(b).

 

Test Fail” has the meaning set forth in the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

 

“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Lockbox Agreement, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Asset Representations Review Agreement, the Administration Agreement, and the Note Depository Agreement.

 

Transfer and Sale Agreement” means the Transfer and Sale Agreement dated as of the date hereof by and between the Seller and the Trust Depositor, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

Trust” means the trust created by the Trust Agreement, comprised of the Trust Corpus.

 

Trust Accounts” means, collectively, the Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account, the Reserve Fund, or any of them.

 

Trust Account Property” means the Trust Accounts, all amounts and investments held from time to time in any Trust Account (whether in the form of deposit accounts, physical property, book-entry securities, uncertificated securities or otherwise) and all proceeds of the foregoing.

 

Trust Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of March 20, 2024, between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee.

 

Trust Corpus” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.01(a) hereof.

 

Trust Depositor” has the meaning assigned such term in the preamble hereunder or any successor thereto.

 

Trust Estate” shall have the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

 

Trustees” means the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.

 

UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on the date hereof and from time to time in the State of New York, provided, that if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, the perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority of the security interests in any collateral or the availability of any remedy hereunder is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect on or after the date hereof in any other jurisdiction, “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority or availability of such remedy.

 

Uncollectible Advance” means with respect to any Determination Date and any Contract, the amount, if any, otherwise to be advanced by the Servicer pursuant to Section 7.03 which the Servicer has as of such Determination Date determined in good faith would not be ultimately recoverable by the Servicer from insurance policies on the related Motorcycle, the related Obligor or out of Net Liquidation Proceeds with respect to such Contract.

 

Underwriters” has the meaning set forth in the Underwriting Agreement.

 

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Underwriting Agreement” means the Underwriting Agreement, dated May 14, 2024, by and among the Trust Depositor, the Seller and the Underwriters.

 

United States” means the United States of America.

 

Vice President” of any Person means any vice president of such Person, whether or not designated by a number or words before or after the title “Vice President” who is a duly elected officer of such Person.

 

Wilmington Trust, National Association” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, in its individual capacity.

 

Section 1.02.         Usage of Terms. With respect to all terms in this Agreement, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; words importing any gender include the other genders; references to “writing” include printing, typing (including digitally), lithography and other means of reproducing words in a visible form; references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all amendments, modifications and supplements thereto or any changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Agreement; references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns; and the term “including” means “including without limitation.”

 

Section 1.03.         Section References. All section references, unless otherwise indicated, shall be to Sections in this Agreement.

 

Section 1.04.         Calculations. Except with respect to the Class A-1 Notes and except as otherwise provided herein, all interest rate and basis point calculations hereunder will be made on the basis of a 360-day year and twelve 30-day months and will be carried out to at least three decimal places.

 

Section 1.05.         Accounting Terms. All accounting terms used but not specifically defined herein shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

 

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ARTICLE Two

 

TRANSFER OF CONTRACTS

 

Section 2.01.         Closing. (a) On the Closing Date, the Trust Depositor shall transfer, assign, set over and otherwise convey to the Trust by execution of an assignment substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, without recourse other than as expressly provided herein, for a purchase price in cash of $549,973,105.62 (less fees and expenses in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes and the Reserve Fund Initial Deposit) and the Trust’s issuance of the Certificate to the Trust Depositor, (i) all right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Contracts listed on the List of Contracts delivered on the Closing Date (including, without limitation, all security interests created thereunder), (ii) all rights of the Trust Depositor to payments which are collected pursuant to such Contracts after the Cutoff Date, including any liquidation proceeds therefrom, (iii) all rights of the Trust Depositor under any theft, physical damage, credit life, disability or other individual insurance policy (and rights under a “forced placed” policy, if any), any voluntary protection products, any debt insurance policy or any debt cancellation agreement relating to any such Contract, an Obligor or a Motorcycle securing such Contract, (iv) all security interests in each such Motorcycle, (v) all documents contained in the related Contract Files, (vi) all rights of the Trust Depositor in the Lockbox, the Lockbox Account and the related Lockbox Agreement to the extent they relate to the Contracts (but excluding payments received on or before the Cutoff Date), (vii) all rights (but not the obligations) of the Trust Depositor under the Transfer and Sale Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s rights under Article V thereof, (viii) all remittances, deposits and payments made into the Trust Accounts from time to time and amounts in the Trust Accounts from time to time (and any investments of such amounts), (ix) all rights of the Trust Depositor to rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies, debt cancellation agreements, extended service contracts or other repair agreements and other items financed under such Contracts and (x) all proceeds and products of the foregoing (the property in clauses (i)-(x) above being the “Trust Corpus”). Although the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee agree that such transfer is intended to be a transfer of ownership of the Trust Corpus, rather than the granting of a security interest to secure a borrowing, and that the Trust Corpus shall not be property of the Trust Depositor, in the event such transfer is deemed to be of a mere grant of a security interest to secure a borrowing, the Trust Depositor shall be deemed to have granted the Trust a first priority security interest in such Trust Corpus and this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under applicable law.

 

Section 2.02.         Conditions to the Closing. On or before the Closing Date, the Trust Depositor shall deliver or cause to be delivered the following documents to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee:

 

(a)            The List of Contracts, certified by the Chairman of the Board, President or any Vice President of the Trust Depositor, together with an assignment substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.

 

(b)            A certificate of an officer of the Seller substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Transfer and Sale Agreement and a certificate of an officer of the Trust Depositor substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

 

(c)            Opinions of counsel for the Seller and the Trust Depositor in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters (and including as an addressee thereof each Rating Agency).

 

(d)            A letter or letters from Ernst & Young LLP, or another nationally recognized accounting firm, addressed to the Seller, the Trust Depositor and the Underwriters and stating that such firm has reviewed a sample of the Contracts and performed specific procedures for such sample with respect to certain contract terms and which identifies those Contracts which do not conform.

 

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(e)            Copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors or of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of each of the Seller/Servicer and the Trust Depositor approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which any of them is a party, as applicable, and the transactions contemplated hereunder and thereunder, certified in each case by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Seller/Servicer or the Trust Depositor, as applicable.

 

(f)             Officially certified, recent evidence of due incorporation and good standing of each of the Seller and the Trust Depositor under the laws of Nevada.

 

(g)            A UCC financing statement naming the Seller as debtor, naming the Trust Depositor and the Trust as assignor secured parties (and the Indenture Trustee as secured party) and identifying the Contract Assets as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Nevada; and a UCC financing statement naming the Trust Depositor as debtor, naming the Trust as assignor secured party (and the Indenture Trustee as secured party) and identifying the Trust Corpus as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Nevada; and a UCC financing statement naming the Trust as debtor, and naming the Indenture Trustee as secured party and identifying the Collateral as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Delaware.

 

(h)            An Officer’s Certificate listing the Servicer’s Servicing Officers.

 

(i)             Evidence of deposit in the Collection Account of all funds received with respect to the Contracts after the Cutoff Date, and prior to the Business Day before the Closing Date, together with an Officer’s Certificate from the Trust Depositor to the effect that such amount is correct.

 

(j)             The Officer’s Certificate of the Seller specified in Section 2.02(h) of the Transfer and Sale Agreement.

 

(k)            Evidence of deposit in the Reserve Fund of the Reserve Fund Initial Deposit by the Indenture Trustee.

 

(l)             A fully executed Transfer and Sale Agreement.

 

(m)           A fully executed Trust Agreement.

 

(n)            A fully executed Administration Agreement.

 

(o)            A fully executed Indenture.

 

(p)            A fully executed Asset Representations Review Agreement.

 

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ARTICLE Three

 

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

The Seller under the Transfer and Sale Agreement has made each of the representations and warranties set forth in Exhibit J hereto and has consented to the assignment by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer of the Trust Depositor’s rights with respect thereto. Such representations speak as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, but shall survive the transfer and assignment of the Contracts to the Trust. Pursuant to Section 2.01 of this Agreement, the Trust Depositor has assigned, transferred and conveyed to the Issuer as part of the Trust Corpus its rights under the Transfer and Sale Agreement, including without limitation, the representations and warranties of the Seller therein as set forth in Exhibit J attached hereto, together with all rights of the Trust Depositor with respect to any breach thereof including any right to require the Seller to reacquire any Contract in accordance with the Transfer and Sale Agreement. It is understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set forth or referred to in this Section shall survive delivery of the Contract Files to the Owner Trustee or any custodian.

 

The Trust Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee that it has entered into the Transfer and Sale Agreement with the Seller, that the Seller has made the representations and warranties in the Transfer and Sale Agreement as set forth in Exhibit J hereto, that such representations and warranties run to and are for the benefit of the Trust Depositor, and that pursuant to Section 2.01 of this Agreement the Trust Depositor has transferred and assigned to the Trust all rights of the Trust Depositor to cause the Seller under the Transfer and Sale Agreement to reacquire Contracts in the event of a breach of such representations and warranties.

 

Section 3.01.         Representations and Warranties Regarding the Trust Depositor. By its execution of this Agreement, the Trust Depositor represents and warrants to the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders that:

 

(a)            Assumption of Seller’s Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties set forth in Exhibit J are true and correct.

 

(b)            Organization and Good Standing. The Trust Depositor is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and has the corporate power to own its assets and to transact the business in which it is currently engaged. The Trust Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of the business transacted by it or properties owned or leased by it requires such qualification and in which the failure so to qualify would have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, or condition (financial or other) of the Trust Depositor or the Trust.

 

(c)            Authorization; Valid Sale; Binding Obligations. The Trust Depositor has the power and authority to make, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and all of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and to create the Trust and cause it to make, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and to cause the Trust to be created. This Agreement shall effect a valid transfer and assignment of the Trust Corpus, enforceable against the Trust Depositor and creditors of and purchasers from the Trust Depositor. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Trust Depositor is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Trust Depositor enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement of such terms may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

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(d)            No Consent Required. The Trust Depositor is not required to obtain the consent of any other party or any consent, license, approval or authorization from, or registration or declaration with, any governmental authority, bureau or agency in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

 

(e)            No Violations. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Trust Depositor and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, will not violate any provision of any existing law or regulation or any order or decree of any court or of any Federal or state regulatory body or administrative agency having jurisdiction over the Trust Depositor or any of its properties or the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Trust Depositor, or constitute a material breach of any mortgage, indenture, contract or other agreement to which the Trust Depositor is a party or by which the Trust Depositor or any of the Trust Depositor’s properties may be bound, or result in the creation or imposition of any security interest, lien, charge, pledge, preference, equity or encumbrance of any kind upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such mortgage, indenture, contract or other agreement, other than as contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

(f)             Litigation. No litigation or administrative proceeding of or before any court, tribunal or governmental body is currently pending, or to the knowledge of the Trust Depositor threatened, against the Trust Depositor or any of its properties or with respect to this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party or the Notes (1) which, if adversely determined, would in the opinion of the Trust Depositor have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Trust Depositor or the Trust or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents to which the Trust Depositor is a party or (2) seeking to adversely affect the federal income tax or other federal, state or local tax attributes of the Notes.

 

(g)            State of Incorporation; Name; No Changes. The Trust Depositor’s state of incorporation is the State of Nevada. The Trust Depositor’s exact legal name is as set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement. The Trust Depositor has not changed its name, whether by amendment of its Articles of Incorporation, by reorganization or otherwise, and has not changed the location of its place of business, within the four months preceding the Closing Date.

 

(h)            Solvency. The Trust Depositor, after giving effect to the conveyances made by it hereunder, is Solvent.

 

Such representations speak as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, but shall survive the transfer and assignment of the Contracts to the Trust.

 

Section 3.02.         Representations and Warranties Regarding the Servicer. The Servicer represents and warrants to the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders that:

 

(a)            Organization and Good Standing. The Servicer is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and has the corporate power to own its assets and to transact the business in which it is currently engaged. The Servicer is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of the business transacted by it or properties owned or leased by it requires such qualification and in which the failure so to qualify would have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Servicer or the Trust. The Servicer is properly licensed in each jurisdiction to the extent required by the laws of such jurisdiction to service the Contracts in accordance with the terms hereof other than such licenses the failure to obtain would not have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Servicer or on the ability of the Servicer to perform its obligations hereunder.

 

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(b)            Authorization; Binding Obligations. The Servicer has the power and authority to make, execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Servicer is a party and all of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Servicer is a party, and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Servicer is a party. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Servicer is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Servicer enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement of such terms may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

(c)            No Consent Required. The Servicer is not required to obtain the consent of any other party or any consent, license, approval or authorization from, or registration or declaration with, any governmental authority, bureau or agency in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Servicer is a party.

 

(d)            No Violations. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Servicer is a party by the Servicer will not violate any provisions of any existing law or regulation or any order or decree of any court or of any Federal or state regulatory body or administrative agency having jurisdiction over the Servicer or any of its properties or the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Servicer, or constitute a material breach of any mortgage, indenture, contract or other agreement to which the Servicer is a party or by which the Servicer or any of the Servicer’s properties may be bound, or result in the creation of or imposition of any security interest, lien, pledge, preference, equity or encumbrance of any kind upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such mortgage, indenture, contract or other agreement, other than this Agreement.

 

(e)            Litigation. No litigation or administrative proceeding of or before any court, tribunal or governmental body is currently pending, or to the knowledge of the Servicer threatened, against the Servicer or any of its properties or with respect to this Agreement, any other Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party which, if adversely determined, would in the opinion of the Servicer have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Servicer or the Trust or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party.

 

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ARTICLE Four

 

PERFECTION OF TRANSFER AND PROTECTION OF SECURITY INTERESTS

 

Section 4.01.         Custody of Contracts. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 4.01, the contents of each Contract File shall be held and controlled by the Servicer, or its custodian, for the benefit of, and as agent for, the Trust as the owner thereof and the Indenture Trustee.

 

(b)            The Servicer agrees to maintain the related Contract Files at its offices, or the offices of one of its custodians, where they are currently maintained, or at such other offices of the Servicer, or its custodian, as shall from time to time be identified to the Trustees by written notice except that in the case of any Contracts constituting “electronic chattel paper”, the “authoritative copy” thereof shall be maintained by the Servicer in a computer system such that the Servicer maintains “control” over such “authoritative copy” (terms in quotation marks have the meaning assigned to them in the UCC). The Servicer may temporarily move individual Contract Files or any portion thereof without notice as necessary to conduct collection and other servicing activities in accordance with its customary practices and procedures; provided, however, that the Servicer will take all action necessary to maintain the perfection of the Trust’s interest in the Contracts and the proceeds thereof. It is intended that, by the Servicer’s agreement pursuant to Section 4.01(a) above and this Section 4.01(b), the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have possession of the Contract Files for purposes of Section 9-313 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the state in which the Contract Files are located and control of the Contracts that represent electronic chattel paper for purposes of Section 9-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

(c)            As custodian, the Servicer shall have the following powers and perform the following duties:

 

(i)              hold, or cause the Servicer’s custodian to hold, the Contract Files on behalf of the Trust and the Indenture Trustee, maintain accurate records pertaining to each Contract to enable it to comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, maintain a current inventory thereof and certify to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee annually that it, or its custodian, continues to maintain possession of such Contract Files;

 

(ii)             implement policies and procedures in writing and signed by a Servicing Officer with respect to persons authorized to have access to the Contract Files on the Servicer’s premises and the receipting for Contract Files taken from their storage area by an employee of the Servicer for purposes of servicing or any other purposes;

 

(iii)            attend to all details in connection with maintaining custody of the Contract Files on behalf of the Trust; and

 

(iv)            at all times maintain, or cause the Servicer’s custodian to maintain, the original of the fully executed Contract (or, in the case of “electronic chattel paper”, the “authoritative copy” of such Contract) in accordance with its customary practices and procedures, except as may be necessary to conduct collection and servicing activities in accordance with its customary practices and procedures (terms in quotation marks have the meaning assigned to them in the UCC).

 

(d)            In performing its duties under this Section 4.01, the Servicer agrees to act with reasonable care, using that degree of skill and care that it exercises with respect to similar contracts for the financing of the purchase price of consumer goods owned and/or serviced by it, and in any event with no less degree of skill and care than would be exercised by a prudent servicer of promissory notes and security agreements. The Servicer shall promptly report to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee any failure by it, or its custodian, to hold the Contract Files as herein provided and shall promptly take appropriate action to remedy any such failure. In acting as custodian of the Contract Files, the Servicer further agrees not to assert any legal or beneficial ownership interest in the Contracts or the Contract Files, except as provided in Section 5.06. The Servicer agrees to indemnify the Noteholders, the Certificateholder, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee for any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, payments, costs, or expenses of any kind whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Noteholders, the Certificateholder, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee as the result of any act or omission by the Servicer relating to the maintenance and custody of the Contract Files; provided, however, that the Servicer will not be liable for any portion of any such amount resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of any Noteholder, the Certificateholder, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee. The Trustees shall have no duty to monitor or otherwise oversee the Servicer’s performance as custodian hereunder.

 

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Section 4.02.          Filing. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Servicer shall cause the UCC financing statement(s) referred to in Section 2.02(g) hereof to be filed and from time to time the Servicer shall take and cause to be taken such actions and execute such documents as are necessary or desirable or as the Owner Trustee or Indenture Trustee may reasonably request to perfect and protect the Trust’s first priority perfected interest in the Trust Corpus against all other persons, including, without limitation, the filing of financing statements, amendments thereto and continuation statements, the execution of transfer instruments and the making of notations on or taking possession of all records or documents of title. All financing statements filed or to be filed against the Seller in favor of the Trust Depositor or the Trust in connection herewith describing the Contract Assets as collateral shall contain a statement to the following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement, except as permitted in the Transfer and Sale Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, will violate the rights of the Secured Party.”

 

Section 4.03.         Name Change or Relocation. (a) During the term of this Agreement, neither the Seller nor the Trust Depositor shall change its name, identity or structure or change its state of incorporation without first giving at least 30 days’ prior written notice to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.

 

(b)            If any change in either the Seller’s or the Trust Depositor’s name, identity or structure or other action would make any financing or continuation statement or notice of lien filed under this Agreement seriously misleading within the meaning of applicable provisions of the UCC or any title statute, the Servicer, no later than five days after the effective date of such change, shall file such amendments, if any, as may be required to preserve and protect the Trust’s interests in the Trust Corpus and the proceeds thereof. In addition, neither the Seller nor the Trust Depositor shall change its state of incorporation unless it has first taken such action as is advisable or necessary to preserve and protect the Trust’s interest in the Trust Corpus. Promptly after taking any of the foregoing actions, the Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements or amendments necessary to preserve and protect the interests of the Trust in the Trust Corpus and the Indenture Trustee in the Collateral have been filed, and reciting the details of such filing.

 

Section 4.04.         Costs and Expenses. The Servicer agrees to pay all reasonable costs and disbursements in connection with the perfection and the maintenance of perfection, as against all third parties, of the Trust’s right, title and interest in and to the Contracts (including, without limitation, the security interest in the Motorcycles granted thereby).

  

ARTICLE Five

 

SERVICING OF CONTRACTS

 

Section 5.01.         Responsibility for Contract Administration. The Servicer will have the sole obligation to manage, administer, service and make collections on the Contracts and perform or cause to be performed all contractual and customary undertakings of the holder of the Contracts to the Obligor. The Owner Trustee, at the written request of a Servicing Officer, shall furnish the Servicer with any powers of attorney or other documents necessary or appropriate in the opinion of the Owner Trustee to enable the Servicer to carry out its servicing and administrative duties hereunder. The Servicer is hereby appointed the servicer hereunder until such time as any Servicing Transfer may be effected under Article Eight.

 

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Section 5.02.         Standard of Care. In managing, administering, servicing and making collections on the Contracts pursuant to this Agreement, the Servicer will exercise that degree of skill and care consistent with the skill and care that the Servicer exercises with respect to similar contracts serviced by the Servicer, and, in any event no less degree of skill and care than would be exercised by a prudent servicer of promissory notes and security agreements; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer shall not release or waive the right to collect the unpaid balance of any Contract except that with respect to a Contract that has become a Defaulted Contract, the Servicer, consistent with its collection policies, may release or waive the right to collect the unpaid balance of such Defaulted Contract in an effort to maximize collections thereon.

 

Section 5.03.         Records. The Servicer shall, during the period it is servicer hereunder, maintain such books of account and other records as will enable the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee to determine the status of each Contract.

 

Section 5.04.          Inspection. (a) At all times during the term hereof, the Servicer shall afford the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee and their respective authorized agents reasonable access during normal business hours to the Servicer’s records relating to the Contracts and will cause its personnel to assist in any examination of such records by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, or such authorized agents and allow copies of the same to be made. The examination referred to in this Section will be conducted in a manner which does not unreasonably interfere with the Servicer’s normal operations or customer or employee relations. Without otherwise limiting the scope of the examination the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee may, using generally accepted audit procedures, verify the status of each Contract and review the Computer File and records relating thereto for conformity to Monthly Reports prepared pursuant to Article Nine and compliance with the standards represented to exist as to each Contract in this Agreement.

 

(b)            At all times during the term hereof, the Servicer shall keep available a copy of the List of Contracts at its principal executive office for inspection by the Trustees.

 

Section 5.05.         Trust Accounts. (a) On or before the Closing Date, the Trust Depositor shall establish the Trust Accounts, each with and in the name of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders. The Administrator is hereby required to ensure that each of the Trust Accounts is established and maintained as an Eligible Account. In the event that a Trust Account does not satisfy the requirements set forth in the definition of Eligible Account, the Trust Depositor shall, with the assistance of the Indenture Trustee, as necessary, use reasonable efforts to cause such Trust Account to be moved to an account satisfying the requirements set forth in the definition of Eligible Account within sixty (60) days.

 

(b)            The Indenture Trustee shall deposit (or, except as provided in Section 5.05(e) hereof, the Servicer shall deposit, with respect to payments by or on behalf of the Obligors received directly by the Servicer) into the Collection Account as promptly as practical (but in any case not later than the second Business Day following the processing thereof):

 

(i)             With respect to principal and interest on the Contracts received after the Cutoff Date (which for the purpose of this paragraph (b)(i) shall include those monies in the Lockbox Account allocable to principal and interest on the Contracts), all such amounts received by the Owner Trustee or Servicer;

 

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(ii)            All Net Liquidation Proceeds related to the Contracts;

 

(iii)            The aggregate of the Purchase Prices for Contracts reacquired by the Trust Depositor as described in Section 7.08, and by the Seller as described in the Sale and Transfer Agreement;

 

(iv)            All Advances made by the Servicer pursuant to Section 7.03;

 

(v)            All amounts paid by the Servicer in connection with an optional purchase of the Contracts described in Section 7.10;

 

(vi)           The aggregate of the Purchase Prices for Contracts purchased by the Servicer as described in Section 7.11; and

 

(vii)          All amounts received in respect of interest, dividends, gains, income and earnings on investments of funds in the Collection Account and the Note Distribution Account as contemplated herein.

 

(c)            [Reserved].

 

(d)            The Servicer shall direct the Indenture Trustee to, and the Indenture Trustee shall, invest the amounts in the Trust Accounts in Qualified Eligible Investments that are payable on demand or that mature not later than one Business Day prior to the next succeeding Distribution Date. Once such funds are invested, the Indenture Trustee shall not change the investment of such funds. Any loss on such investments shall be charged to such Trust Account. Funds in the Trust Accounts not so invested must be insured to the extent permitted by law by the Deposit Insurance Fund of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Subject to the restrictions herein, the Indenture Trustee may purchase a Qualified Eligible Investment from itself or an Affiliate. Subject to the other provisions hereof, the Indenture Trustee shall have sole control over each such investment and the income thereon, and any certificate or other instrument evidencing any such investment, if any, shall be delivered directly to the Indenture Trustee or its agent, together with each document of transfer, if any, necessary to transfer title to such investment to the Indenture Trustee in a manner which complies with this Section 5.05(d). All interest, dividends, gains upon sale and other income from, or earnings on, investments of funds in the Trust Accounts (other than the Reserve Fund) shall be deposited in the Collection Account pursuant to Section 5.05(b) and distributed on the applicable Distribution Date pursuant to Section 7.05. The Trust Depositor and the Trust agree and acknowledge that the Indenture Trustee is to have “control” (within the meaning of Section 9-106 of the UCC) of collateral comprised of “investment property” (within the meaning of Section 9-102 of the UCC) for all purposes of this Agreement, it being understood that the Indenture Trustee shall make no investment decisions in connection therewith.

 

(e)            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Servicer may remit payments on the Contracts and Net Liquidation Proceeds to the Collection Account in next-day funds or immediately available funds no later than 10:00 a.m., Central time, on the Business Day prior to the next succeeding Distribution Date, but only for so long as the short-term debt security rating of the Servicer (or an Affiliate thereof acceptable to each Rating Agency) is at least “P-1” by Moody’s and “F1” by Fitch.

 

(f)            The Servicer shall apply collections received in respect of a Contract as follows:

 

(i)              First, to the scheduled payment (including accrued interest and principal) with respect to such Contract;

 

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(ii)            Second, to pay any expenses and unpaid late charges or fees (if any) due and owing under such Contract; and

 

(iii)           Third, to any remaining principal until such Contract is paid in full.

 

(g)            The Servicer will, from time to time as provided herein, be permitted to withdraw or request the withdrawal from the Collection Account any amount deposited therein that, based on the Servicer’s good-faith determination, was deposited in error.

 

Section 5.06.         Enforcement. (a) The Servicer will, consistent with Section 5.02, act with respect to the Contracts in such manner as in its judgment will maximize the receipt of all payments called for under the terms of the Contracts. The Servicer, acting as agent for the Trust pursuant to the Lockbox Agreement, shall use its best efforts to cause Obligors to make all payments on the Contracts to the Lockbox Account (either directly by remitting payments to the Lockbox, or indirectly by making payments through a direct debit, the telephone or the internet to an account of the Servicer which payments will be subsequently transferred from such account to the Lockbox Account). The Servicer will act in a commercially reasonable manner with respect to the repossession and disposition of a Motorcycle following a default under the related Contract with a view to realizing proceeds at least equal to the Motorcycle’s fair market value. If the Servicer determines that eventual payment in full of a Contract is unlikely, the Servicer will follow its normal practices and procedures to recover all amounts due upon that Contract, including repossessing and disposing of the related Motorcycle at a public or private sale or taking other action permitted by applicable law. The Servicer will be entitled to recover all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it in liquidating a Contract and disposing of the related Motorcycle.

 

(b)            The Servicer may sue to enforce or collect upon Contracts, in its own name, if possible, or as agent for the Trustees. If the Servicer elects to commence a legal proceeding to enforce a Contract, the act of commencement shall be deemed to be an automatic assignment of the Contract to the Servicer for purposes of collection only. If, however, in any enforcement suit or legal proceeding it is held that the Servicer may not enforce a Contract on the ground that it is not a real party in interest or a holder entitled to enforce the Contract, the Owner Trustee (or the Indenture Trustee) on behalf of the Trust shall, at the Servicer’s expense, take such steps as the Servicer deems reasonably necessary to enforce the Contract, including bringing suit in its name or the names of the Noteholders under the Indenture and the Certificateholder as owner of the Trust.

 

(c)            The Servicer shall exercise any rights of recourse against third persons that exist with respect to any Contract in accordance with the Servicer’s usual practice. In exercising recourse rights, the Servicer is authorized on the Trust’s and Indenture Trustee’s behalf to reassign the Defaulted Contract or the related Motorcycle to the Person against whom recourse exists at the price set forth in the document creating the recourse; provided, however, the Servicer in exercising recourse against any third persons as described in the immediately preceding sentence shall do so in such manner as in its judgment will maximize the aggregate recovery with respect to the Contract; and provided further, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing the Servicer in its capacity as such may exercise such recourse only if such Contract (i) was not required to be reacquired by the Seller pursuant to the Transfer and Sale Agreement or (ii) was required to be reacquired by the Seller and the Seller has defaulted on such reacquisition obligation.

 

(d)            The Servicer will not permit any rescission or cancellation of any Contract due to the acts or omissions of the Trust Depositor.

 

(e)            Subject to Section 5.02, the Servicer may grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Contract; provided, however, that if the Servicer extends the date for final payment by the Obligor of any Contract beyond the Class A-4 Final Distribution Date, it shall promptly purchase such Contract pursuant to Section 7.11.

 

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(f)             The Servicer will not add to the outstanding Principal Balance of any Contract the premium of any physical damage or other individual insurance on a Motorcycle securing such Contract it obtains on behalf of the Obligor under the terms of such Contract, but may create a separate Obligor obligation with respect to such premium if and as provided by the Contract.

 

(g)            If the Servicer shall have repossessed a Motorcycle on behalf of the Trust, the Servicer shall either (i) maintain at its expense physical damage insurance with respect to such Motorcycle, or (ii) indemnify the Trust against any damage to such Motorcycle prior to resale or other disposition. The Servicer shall not allow such repossessed Motorcycles to be used in an active trade or business, but rather shall dispose of the Motorcycle in a reasonable time in accordance with the Servicer’s normal business practices.

 

Section 5.07.         Trustees to Cooperate. Upon payment in full on any Contract, the Servicer shall (if the Servicer is not then in possession of the Contracts and Contract Files) notify the Trustees and request delivery of the Contract and Contract File to the Servicer. Upon receipt of such notice and request, the Trustees shall promptly release or cause to be released such Contract and Contract File to the Servicer. Upon receipt of such Contract and Contract File, each of the Trust Depositor and the Servicer is authorized to execute an instrument in satisfaction of such Contract and to do such other acts and execute such other documents as the Servicer deems necessary to discharge the Obligor thereunder and eliminate the security interest in the Motorcycle related thereto. The Servicer shall determine when a Contract has been paid in full; to the extent that insufficient payments are received on a Contract credited by the Servicer as prepaid or paid in full and satisfied, the shortfall shall be paid by the Servicer out of its own funds. From time to time as appropriate for servicing and repossession in connection with any Contract, if the Servicer is not then in possession of the Contracts and Contract Files, the Indenture Trustee shall, upon written request of a Servicing Officer and delivery to the Indenture Trustee of a receipt signed by such Servicing Officer, cause the original Contract and the related Contract File to be released to the Servicer and shall execute such documents as the Servicer shall deem reasonably necessary to the prosecution of any such proceedings. Such receipt shall obligate the Servicer to return the original Contract and the related Contract File to the Indenture Trustee when the need by the Servicer has ceased unless the Contract shall be acquired as described in Section 7.10 or 7.11. Upon request of a Servicing Officer, the Indenture Trustee shall perform such other acts as reasonably requested by the Servicer and otherwise cooperate with the Servicer in the enforcement of each Certificateholder’s rights and remedies with respect to the Contracts.

 

Section 5.08.         Costs and Expenses. All costs and expenses incurred by the Servicer in carrying out its duties hereunder, fees and expenses of accountants and payments of all fees and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement of Contracts (including enforcement of Defaulted Contracts and repossessions of Motorcycles securing such Contracts when such Contracts are not reacquired pursuant to Section 7.08) and all other fees and expenses not expressly stated hereunder to be for the account of the Trust shall be paid by the Servicer and the Servicer shall not be entitled to reimbursement hereunder.

 

Section 5.09.         Maintenance of Security Interests in Motorcycles. The Servicer shall take such steps as are necessary to maintain continuous perfection and the first priority of the security interest created by each Contract in the related Motorcycle. The Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee hereby authorize the Servicer to take such steps as are necessary to perfect such security interest and to maintain the first priority thereof in the event of a relocation of a Motorcycle or for any other reason.

 

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Section 5.10.         Successor Servicer/Lockbox Agreements. In the event the Servicer shall for any reason no longer be acting as such, the Successor Servicer shall thereupon assume all of the rights and obligations of the outgoing servicer under each Lockbox Agreement; provided, however, that the Successor Servicer shall not be liable for any acts or obligations of the Servicer arising prior to such succession. In such event, the Successor Servicer shall be deemed to have assumed all of the outgoing Servicer’s interest therein and to have replaced the outgoing Servicer as a party to each such Lockbox Agreement to the same extent as if such Lockbox Agreement had been assigned to the Successor Servicer, except that the outgoing Servicer shall not thereby be relieved of any liability or obligations on the part of the outgoing Servicer to a Lockbox Bank under such Lockbox Agreement. The outgoing Servicer shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, but at the expense of the outgoing Servicer, deliver to the Successor Servicer all documents and records relating to each such Lockbox Agreement and an accounting of amounts collected and held by a Lockbox Bank and otherwise use its best efforts to effect the orderly and efficient transfer of any Lockbox Agreement to the Successor Servicer.

 

Section 5.11.         Separate Entity Existence. The Servicer agrees to take or refrain from taking or engaging in with respect to the Trust Depositor, as applicable, each of the actions or activities specified in the “substantive consolidation” opinion of Foley & Lardner LLP (or in any related Certificate of the Servicer) delivered on the Closing Date, upon which the conclusions expressed therein are based.

 

ARTICLE Six

 

THE TRUST DEPOSITOR

 

Section 6.01.         Covenants of the Trust Depositor.

 

(a)            Existence. During the term of this Agreement, the Trust Depositor will keep in full force and effect its existence, rights and franchises as a corporation under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and each other instrument or agreement necessary or appropriate to the proper administration of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(b)            Arm’s Length Transactions. During the term of this Agreement, all transactions and dealings between the Trust Depositor and its Affiliates will be conducted on an arm’s-length basis.

 

(c)            No Other Business. The Trust Depositor shall not engage in any business other than financing, purchasing, owning, selling and managing the Contracts in the manner contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and activities incidental thereto; provided, however, that the Trust Depositor may purchase and transfer (or grant Liens in respect of) contracts and/or other related assets similar to the Contracts to other Persons in securitization or other non-recourse financing transactions involving the Seller or any of its Affiliates (or with respect to the Contract Assets themselves, following a release and reconveyance thereof from the Trust), on terms and conditions (with respect to the liabilities imposed upon the Trust Depositor by virtue of such transactions, as well as in respect of agreements or restrictions concerning activities of the Trust Depositor and its relations or interactions with the Seller or the Servicer or other applicable Affiliate relevant to “bankruptcy remoteness” or “substantive consolidation” analysis), in each case substantially similar to such terms and conditions applicable to the Trust Depositor hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents.

 

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(d)            No Borrowing. The Trust Depositor shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for (i) any Indebtedness except for any Indebtedness permitted by or arising under the Transaction Documents or (ii) obligations in connection with transactions described in the proviso of Section 6.01(c), as limited thereby. The proceeds of the Notes shall be used exclusively to fund the Trust Depositor’s purchase of the Contracts and the other assets specified in this Agreement, to pay the transactional expenses of the Trust Depositor and to make the required deposits to the Reserve Fund.

 

(e)            Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except as otherwise contemplated by the Transaction Documents or in connection with transactions described in Section 6.01(c), as limited thereby, the Trust Depositor shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuming another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.

 

(f)             Capital Expenditures. The Trust Depositor shall not make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty).

 

(g)            Restricted Payments. Except as permitted or contemplated by the Transaction Documents or in connection with transactions described in Section 6.01(c), the Trust Depositor shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to any owner of an equity interest in the Trust Depositor, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such equity interest or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose; it being understood that the Trust Depositor shall at all times have the right to distribute funds received pursuant to the Transaction Documents, and pursuant to documents entered into in connection with transactions described in Section 6.01(c), to its equity owner.

 

(h)            Separate Entity Existence. The Trust Depositor shall:

 

(i)            Maintain its own deposit account or accounts, separate from those of any Affiliate, with commercial banking institutions. The funds of the Trust Depositor will not be diverted to any other Person or for other than authorized uses of the Trust Depositor.

 

(ii)            Ensure that, to the extent that it shares the same officers or other employees as any of its members or Affiliates, the salaries of and the expenses related to providing benefits to such officers and other employees shall be fairly allocated among such entities, and each such entity shall bear its fair share of the salary and benefit costs associated with all such common officers and employees.

 

(iii)            Ensure that, to the extent that it jointly contracts with any of its members or Affiliates to do business with vendors or service providers or to share overhead expenses, the costs incurred in so doing shall be allocated fairly among such entities, and each such entity shall bear its fair share of such costs. To the extent that the Trust Depositor contracts or does business with vendors or service providers when the goods and services provided are partially for the benefit of any other Person, the costs incurred in so doing shall be fairly allocated to or among such entities for whose benefit the goods and services are provided, and each such entity shall bear its fair share of such costs. All material transactions between Trust Depositor and any of its Affiliates shall be only on an arm’s-length basis.

 

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(iv)            To the extent that the Trust Depositor and any of its members or Affiliates have offices in the same location, there shall be a fair and appropriate allocation of overhead costs among them, and each such entity shall bear its fair share of such expenses.

 

(v)            Conduct its affairs strictly in accordance with its By-laws and Articles of Incorporation, and observe all necessary, appropriate and customary corporate formalities, including, but not limited to, holding all regular and special stockholders’ and directors’ meetings appropriate to authorize all entity action, keeping separate and accurate records of such meetings and its actions, passing all resolutions or consents necessary to authorize actions taken or to be taken, and maintaining accurate and separate books, records and accounts, including, but not limited to, payroll and intercompany transaction accounts.

 

(vi)            Take or refrain from taking or engaging in, as applicable, each of the actions or activities specified in the “true sale” and “substantive consolidation” opinions of Foley & Lardner LLP delivered on the Closing Date (or in any related certificate delivered in connection therewith), upon which the conclusions expressed therein are based.

 

Section 6.02.         Liability of Trust Depositor; Indemnities. The Trust Depositor shall be liable in accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically undertaken by the Trust Depositor under this Agreement.

 

The Trust Depositor shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, Wilmington Trust, National Association, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer from and against any taxes that may at any time be asserted against any such Person as a result of or relating to the transactions contemplated herein and in the other Transaction Documents, including any sales, gross receipts, gross margin, general corporation, tangible personal property, New York personal property replacement privilege or license taxes (but, in the case of the Issuer, not including any taxes asserted with respect to, and as of the date of, the transfer of the Contracts to the Issuer or the issuance and original sale of the Securities, or federal or other income taxes arising out of distributions on the Notes or the Certificate) and costs and expenses in defending against the same.

 

The Trust Depositor shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, Wilmington Trust, National Association, the Indenture Trustee and the Securityholders from and against any loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of the Trust Depositor’s willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (other than errors in judgment) in the performance of its duties under this Agreement, or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement, including all reasonable and documented legal fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement of this indemnity.

 

The Trust Depositor shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, Wilmington Trust, National Association and the Indenture Trustee from and against all costs, expenses, losses, claims, damages and liabilities arising out of or incurred in connection with the acceptance or performance of the trusts and duties herein and, in the case of the Owner Trustee, in the Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Indenture Trustee, in the Indenture, except to the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim, damage or liability in the case of (i) the Owner Trustee or Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the case may be, shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence of the Owner Trustee or Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the case may be, or shall arise from the breach by the Owner Trustee or Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the case may be, of any of its representations or warranties set forth in Section 7.03 of the Trust Agreement, or (ii) the Indenture Trustee, shall be due to the willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence of the Indenture Trustee.

 

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The Trust Depositor shall be liable directly to and will indemnify any injured party or any other creditor of the Trust for all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses of the Trust to the extent that the Trust Depositor would be liable if the Trust were a partnership under the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act in which Trust Depositor were a general partner; provided, however, that Trust Depositor shall not be liable for any losses incurred by a Certificateholder in the capacity of any investor in the Trust Certificate or a Noteholder in the capacity of an investor in the Notes. In addition, any third party creditors of the Trust (other than in connection with the obligations described in the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence for which Trust Depositor shall not be liable) shall be deemed third party beneficiaries of this paragraph. The obligations of Trust Depositor under this paragraph shall be evidenced by the Trust Certificate described in the Trust Agreement.

 

Indemnification under this Section shall include, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation and shall survive the termination of the Trust and the resignation or removal of the Trustees. If the Trust Depositor shall have made any indemnity payments pursuant to this Section and the Person to or on behalf of whom such payments are made thereafter shall collect any of such amounts from others, such Person shall promptly repay such amounts to the Trust Depositor, without interest and the Trust Depositor may, as a condition to any such indemnification, require such Person to agree in writing to do so.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the obligations of the Trust Depositor under this Section are solely the corporate obligations of the Trust Depositor and shall be payable by it solely as provided in this Section. The Trust Depositor shall only be required to make such payments required under this Section, (a) from funds available to it pursuant to, and in accordance with the payment priorities set forth in Section 7.05 and (b) to the extent that it receives additional funds designated for such purposes or to the extent that it has additional funds available (other than funds described in the preceding clause (a)) that would be in excess of amounts that would be necessary to pay the debt and other obligations of the Trust Depositor incurred in accordance with its Articles of Incorporation and all financing documents to which it is a party as they come due. In addition, no amount owing by the Trust Depositor hereunder in excess of the liabilities that it is required to pay in accordance with the preceding sentence shall constitute a “claim” (as defined in Section 101(5) of the Bankruptcy Code) against it. No recourse shall be had for the payment of any amount owing hereunder or any other obligation of, or claim against the Trust Depositor arising out of or based upon this Section against any stockholder, employee, officer, agent, director or authorized person of the Trust Depositor or Affiliate thereof; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not relieve any such person or entity of any liability they might otherwise have as a result of fraudulent actions or omissions taken by them.

 

Section 6.03.         Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, Trust Depositor; Certain Limitations. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Section and any provision of law, the Trust Depositor shall not do any of the following:

 

(a)            engage in any business or activity other than as set forth in its Articles of Incorporation;

 

(b)            without the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Trust Depositor (which must include the affirmative vote of at least two duly appointed Independent directors) (i) dissolve or liquidate, in whole or in part, or institute proceedings to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, (ii) consent to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, (iii) file a petition seeking or consent to reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy, (iv) consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the corporation or a substantial part of its property, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (vi) admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or (vii) take any corporate action in furtherance of the actions set forth in clauses (i) through (vi) above; provided, however, that no director may be required by any shareholder of the Trust Depositor to consent to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Trust Depositor so long as it is solvent; or

 

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(c)            merge or consolidate with any other corporation, company or entity or sell all or substantially all of its assets or acquire all or substantially all of the assets or capital stock or other ownership interest of any other corporation, company or entity unless the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Trust Depositor has merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease substantially all the assets of the Trust Depositor as an entirety, can lawfully perform the obligations of the Trust Depositor hereunder and executes and delivers to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee which contains an assumption by such successor entity of the due and punctual performance and observance of each covenant and condition to be performed or observed by the Trust Depositor under this Agreement; provided that the Rating Agency Condition shall be satisfied with respect to any merger, consolidation or succession pursuant to this Section.

 

Section 6.04.         Limitation on Liability of Trust Depositor and Others. The Trust Depositor and any director or officer or employee or agent of the Trust Depositor may rely in good faith on any document of any kind, prima facie properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising hereunder. The Trust Depositor and any director or officer or employee or agent of the Trust Depositor shall be reimbursed by the Owner Trustee for any contractual damages, liability or expense incurred by reason of the Owner Trustee’s willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (except errors in judgment) in the performance of its duties hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents, or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents. The Trust Depositor shall not be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that shall not be incidental to its obligations under this Agreement, and that in its opinion may involve it in any expense or liability.

 

Section 6.05.         Trust Depositor Not to Resign. Subject to the provisions of Section 6.03, the Trust Depositor shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on it as Trust Depositor hereunder.

 

ARTICLE Seven

 

DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE FUND

 

Section 7.01.         Monthly Distributions. (a)  Each Noteholder and Certificateholder as of the related Record Date shall be paid on each Distribution Date by wire transfer if such Noteholder or Certificateholder provides written instructions to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, respectively, at least ten days prior to such Distribution Date.

 

(b)            The Indenture Trustee shall serve as the paying agent hereunder (the “Paying Agent”) and shall make the payments to or on behalf of the Noteholders and the Certificateholder required hereunder. The Indenture Trustee hereby agrees that all amounts held by it for payment hereunder will be held in trust for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificateholder.

 

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Section 7.02.         Fees. The Indenture Trustee shall be paid the Indenture Trustee Fee, the Asset Representations Reviewer shall be paid the Asset Representations Reviewer Annual Fee and the Asset Representations Reviewer Fee and the Servicer shall be paid the Monthly Servicing Fee. The Monthly Servicing Fee shall be paid solely from Available Monies and in accordance with the priorities described in Section 7.05(a) and Section 7.05(b), as applicable. The Indenture Trustee Fee and the Asset Representations Reviewer Fee shall be paid directly by the Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer, and the Asset Representations Reviewer Annual Fee shall be paid directly by the Servicer, on behalf of the Issuer, and, in each case, if not promptly paid thereby, from Available Monies and in accordance with the priorities described in Section 7.05(a) and Section 7.05(b), as applicable. No recourse may be had to the Seller, the Trust Depositor, the Trustees, the Servicer, or any of their respective Affiliates in the event that amounts available under Section 7.05(a) or Section 7.05(b), as applicable, are insufficient for payment of the Monthly Servicing Fee and any Indenture Trustee Fee or Asset Representations Reviewer Fee not paid by the Administrator.

  

Section 7.03.          Advances. On each Determination Date, the Servicer shall compute the amount of Delinquent Interest, if any, on the Contracts. Not later than each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall advance (each, an “Advance”) an amount equal to the Delinquent Interest for such Determination Date by depositing such amount in the Collection Account; provided, however, that the Servicer shall be obligated to advance Delinquent Interest only to the extent that the Servicer, in its sole discretion, expects that such advance will not become an Uncollectible Advance. The Servicer shall indicate on each Monthly Report (i) the amount of Delinquent Interest, if any, on the Contracts for the related Determination Date and (ii) the amount of the Advance, if any, made by the Servicer in respect of the Delinquent Interest pursuant to this Section 7.03. If the amount of such Advance is less than the amount of the Delinquent Interest, the relevant Monthly Report shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Servicing Officer setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for the determination by the Servicer that the portion of the Delinquent Interest not advanced would become an Uncollectible Advance. By each Determination Date, the Servicer shall determine the amount of prior unreimbursed Advances for which it shall be entitled to be reimbursed pursuant to the provisions of this Section (such amount, the “Reimbursement Amount”). The Servicer shall be entitled to be reimbursed for any outstanding Advance with respect to a Contract as provided in Section 7.05(a)(i).

 

Section 7.04.         [Reserved].

 

Section 7.05.         Distributions; Priorities.

 

(a)            Except as provided in Section 7.05(b), on each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee, at the Servicer’s direction, will make the following allocations and distributions of Available Monies, together with amounts withdrawn from the Reserve Fund, in the following order of priority:

 

(i)             to the Servicer, the Reimbursement Amount for Advances previously made;

 

(ii)            to the Servicer, the Monthly Servicing Fee, including any unpaid Monthly Servicing Fee with respect to one or more prior Distribution Dates;

 

(iii)            to the Indenture Trustee, to the extent not already paid by the Administrator on behalf of the Issuer, (A) the Indenture Trustee Fee, including any unpaid Indenture Trustee Fee with respect to one or more prior Distribution Dates, and (B) any unpaid indemnity and reimbursement amounts due to the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07 of the Indenture up to an amount not to exceed $150,000 per calendar year;

 

(iv)           to the Asset Representations Reviewer, to the extent not already paid by the Administrator or the Servicer, as applicable, on behalf of the Issuer, the Asset Representations Reviewer Annual Fee, the Asset Representations Reviewer Fee and expenses and indemnity amounts due and owing under the Asset Representations Review Agreement up to an amount not to exceed $200,000 per calendar year;

 

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(v)            to the Note Distribution Account, together with any amounts deposited therein pursuant to Section 7.06, the applicable Note Interest Distributable Amount with respect to such Distribution Date for further distribution to the Class A Noteholders; provided, however, that if there are insufficient Available Monies to pay the entire amount of the Note Interest Distributable Amount, then the remaining Available Monies shall be applied to the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, and the Class A-4 Notes, pro rata, on the basis of the Note Interest Distributable Amount for each such Class of Notes;

 

(vi)           to the Note Distribution Account, together with any amounts deposited therein pursuant to Section 7.06, the Principal Distributable Amount with respect to such Distribution Date for further distribution first, to the Class A-1 Noteholders until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes has been paid in full, second, to the Class A-2 Noteholders until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2 Notes has been paid in full, third, to the Class A-3 Noteholders until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-3 Notes has been paid in full, and fourth, to the Class A-4 Noteholders until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-4 Notes has been paid in full;

 

(vii)          any Excess Amounts to the Reserve Fund up to the amount, if any, necessary to increase the balance thereof to the Specified Reserve Fund Balance;

 

(viii)         to the Indenture Trustee, any fees, expenses and indemnity amounts due but not paid under clause (iii) above;

 

(ix)            to the Asset Representations Reviewer, any fees, expenses and indemnity amounts due but not paid under clause (iv) above; and

 

(x)            any remaining amounts to the Certificateholder as residual interestholder under the Trust Agreement.

 

(b)            If the Notes have been declared immediately due and payable as provided in the Indenture, then, until such time as the Notes have been paid in full, Available Monies shall be allocated and distributed in the following order of priority after payment of the amounts set forth in Section 7.05(a)(i) and (ii):

 

(i)             to the Indenture Trustee, to the extent not already paid by the Administrator on behalf of the Issuer, (A) the Indenture Trustee Fee, including any unpaid Indenture Trustee Fee with respect to one or more prior Distribution Dates, and (B) any unpaid indemnity and reimbursement amounts under Section 6.07 of the Indenture;

 

(ii)            to the Asset Representations Reviewer, to the extent not already paid by the Administrator or the Servicer, as applicable, on behalf of the Issuer, the Asset Representations Reviewer Annual Fee, the Asset Representations Reviewer Fee and expenses and indemnity amounts due and owing under the Asset Representations Review Agreement up to an amount not to exceed $200,000 per calendar year;

 

(iii)           to the Note Distribution Account, together with any amounts deposited therein pursuant to Section 7.06, the applicable Note Interest Distributable Amount with respect to such Distribution Date for further distribution to the Class A Noteholders; provided, however, that if there are insufficient Available Monies to pay the entire amount of the Note Interest Distributable Amount for the Class A Notes, then the remaining Available Monies shall be applied to the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, and the Class A-4 Notes, pro rata, on the basis of the Note Interest Distributable Amount for each such Class of Notes;

 

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(iv)            to the Note Distribution Account, together with any amounts deposited therein pursuant to Section 7.06, the Principal Distributable Amount with respect to such Distribution Date for further distribution first, to the Class A-1 Noteholders until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes has been paid in full, and second, to the Class A-2 Noteholders, the Class A-3 Noteholders, and the Class A-4 Noteholders, pro rata, based on the outstanding principal amount of the related Classes of Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of such Classes of Notes has been paid in full;

 

(v)            to the Asset Representations Reviewer, any fees, expenses and indemnity amounts due but not paid as provided in Section 7.05(a)(iv); and

 

(vi)           any remaining amounts to the Certificateholder as residual interestholder under the Trust Agreement.

 

Section 7.06.         Reserve Fund.

 

(a)            On the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Trust Depositor shall deposit the Reserve Fund Initial Deposit into the Reserve Fund from the net proceeds of the Notes.

 

(b)            The Servicer shall determine no later than 11:00 a.m., New York, New York time, on each Distribution Date (but after making, and taking into account, the transfers of funds contemplated in Section 7.05 above) whether there exists a Shortfall with respect to such Distribution Date. In the event that the Servicer determines that there exists a Shortfall, the Servicer shall direct the Indenture Trustee no later than 1:00 p.m., New York, New York time, on such Distribution Date to remit monies from the Reserve Fund in the following order of priority: first, to the Note Distribution Account the amount of such Shortfall relating to the Note Interest Distributable Amount, for such Distribution Date, and second, to the Note Distribution Account, the amount of such Shortfall relating to the Principal Distributable Amount.

 

(c)            The Indenture Trustee shall at the written direction of the Servicer invest the funds in the Reserve Fund in Qualified Eligible Investments selected by the Servicer. Funds in the Reserve Fund shall be invested in investments that are payable on demand or mature on or before the Business Day prior to each Distribution Date. Once such funds are invested, the Indenture Trustee shall not change the investment of such funds prior to maturity (unless directed to do so by the Servicer). Upon any such investment, the Indenture Trustee shall, consistent with the definition of Qualified Eligible Investment herein, make an appropriate notation of the security interest in such Qualified Eligible Investment on the Indenture Trustee’s records, by book entry or otherwise. All income and gain realized from any such investments as well as any interest earned on Reserve Fund Deposits shall be deposited and retained in the Reserve Fund (subject to Section 7.06(e)). Losses, if any, realized on amounts in the Reserve Fund invested pursuant to this paragraph shall first be credited against undistributed investment earnings on amounts in the Reserve Fund invested pursuant to this paragraph, and shall thereafter be deemed to reduce the amount on deposit in the Reserve Fund. Neither the Trust Depositor nor the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for the amount of any loss incurred in respect of any investment, or lack of investment, of funds held in the Reserve Fund. All income or loss on funds held in the Reserve Fund shall be taxable to the Certificateholder.

 

(d)            Any Excess Amounts will be applied as provided in Section 7.05(a)(vii) to increase the balance of the Reserve Fund to the Specified Reserve Fund Balance.

 

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(e)            On each Distribution Date on which the amount on deposit in the Reserve Fund (after giving effect to all deposits thereto and withdrawals therefrom on such Distribution Date) exceeds the Specified Reserve Fund Balance, the Indenture Trustee shall release such excess amounts to the Trust Depositor.

 

Section 7.07.         [Reserved].

 

Section 7.08.         Purchase of Contracts for Breach of Representations and Warranties.

 

(a)            If the Trust Depositor (i) has knowledge of a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller as set forth in Exhibit J hereto, (ii) receives notice from the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee of a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller as set forth in Exhibit J hereto, (iii) receives a Repurchase Request from the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee for a Contract or (iv) receives a Review Report that indicates a Test Fail for a Contract, then, in each case, the Trust Depositor will investigate the Contract to confirm the breach and determine if the breach has a material adverse effect on the Contract.  None of the Servicer, the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Administrator will have an obligation to investigate whether a breach of any representation or warranty has occurred or whether any Contract is required to be repurchased under this Section 7.08.

 

(b)            Upon a discovery by the Servicer, the Trust Depositor or the Trustees of a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller as set forth in Exhibit J hereto that materially adversely affects the Trust’s interest in such Contract (without regard to the benefits of the Reserve Fund), the party discovering the breach shall give prompt written notice to the other parties; provided, that the Trustees shall have no duty or obligation to inquire or to investigate the breach by the Seller of any of such representations or warranties. The Trust Depositor shall reacquire from the Trust, and the Trust Depositor shall cause the Seller to reacquire from the Trust Depositor, as provided in the Transfer and Sale Agreement and in accordance with this Section 7.08, a Contract at its Purchase Price (which shall be deposited into the Collection Account), not later than two Business Days prior to the first Distribution Date after the last day of the calendar month in which the Trust Depositor or the Seller become aware or receive written notice from the Trustees, the Servicer or the Trust Depositor of any breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller set forth in Article III of the Transfer and Sale Agreement that materially and adversely affects such Contract or the Trust’s interest in such Contract and which breach has not been cured; provided, however, that with respect to any Contract described on the List of Contracts with respect to an incorrect unpaid Principal Balance which the Seller would otherwise be required to reacquire under the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Seller may, in lieu of reacquiring such Contract, deposit in the Collection Account, not later than one Business Day prior to the first Distribution Date after the last day of the calendar month in which the Seller becomes aware of such inaccuracy, cash in an amount sufficient to cure any deficiency or discrepancy; and provided further that with respect to a breach of representation or warranty relating to the Contracts in the aggregate and not to any particular Contract the Seller may select Contracts (without adverse selection) to reacquire such that had such Contracts not been included as part of the Trust Corpus there would have been no breach of such representation or warranty.

 

(c)            If the Servicer determines in good faith that the representation and warranty of the Seller as set forth in Section 2(i) of Exhibit J hereto may have been violated with respect to one or more Contracts, and that amendment of the terms of such Contract(s) could better ensure compliance with applicable laws and if the Seller shall have notified the Servicer in writing of its intention to amend the terms of such Contract(s) to ensure compliance with applicable laws upon reacquisition pursuant to this Section 7.08(c) and the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Servicer shall give prompt written notice of such determination to the other parties. The Trust Depositor shall reacquire from the Trust, and the Trust Depositor shall cause the Seller to reacquire from the Trust Depositor, as provided in the Transfer and Sale Agreement and in accordance with this Section 7.08, a Contract at its Purchase Price (which shall be deposited into the Collection Account), not later than two Business Days prior to the first Distribution Date after the last day of the calendar month in which the Trust Depositor and the Seller receive the written notice from the Servicer described above; provided, however, that no Contract shall be reacquired pursuant to this Section 7.08(b) if, after giving effect to such reacquisition, the aggregate Principal Balance of the Contracts so reacquired, measured as of the Cutoff Date, would exceed 10% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision does not limit the obligation of the Seller to repurchase any Contract for which there is a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller as set forth in Exhibit J and there shall be no limitation on the Principal Balance or the number of Contracts that are required to be repurchased by the Seller in connection with a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller as set forth in Exhibit J.

 

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(d)            Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the obligations of the Seller under the Transfer and Sale Agreement and described in this Section 7.08 shall not terminate or be deemed released by any party hereto upon a Servicing Transfer pursuant to Article Eight. The reacquisition obligations described in this Section 7.08 are in no way to be satisfied with monies on deposit in the Reserve Fund. The sole remedy of the Issuer, the Trustees, and the Noteholders against the Seller with respect to a breach of a representation or warranty of the Seller shall be to require the Seller to reacquire the related Contract pursuant to this Section 7.08.

 

Section 7.09.         Reassignment of Reacquired Contracts. Upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee for deposit in the Collection Account of the Purchase Price as described in Section 7.08, Section 7.10 or Section 7.11, and upon receipt of a certificate of a Servicing Officer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G, the Indenture Trustee shall release its lien on and the Trust shall assign to the Trust Depositor, the Seller or the Servicer, as applicable, all of the Trust’s right, title and interest in the reacquired or purchased Contract without recourse, representation or warranty, except as to the absence of liens, charges or encumbrances created by or arising as a result of actions of the Trustees.

 

Section 7.10.         Servicer’s Purchase Option. On written notice to the Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee at least 20 days prior to a Distribution Date, and provided that the Pool Balance is then less than 10% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date, the Servicer may (but is not required to) purchase on that Distribution Date all outstanding Contracts (and related Contract Assets) at a price equal to the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes on the previous Distribution Date plus the aggregate of the Note Interest Distributable Amount for the current Distribution Date, the Reimbursement Amount (if any) as well as accrued and unpaid Monthly Servicing Fees and the Indenture Trustee Fee to the date of such purchase. Such price shall be deposited in the Collection Account not later than one (1) Business Day before such Distribution Date, against the Owner Trustee’s and Indenture Trustee’s release of the Contracts and the Contract Files to the Servicer.

 

Section 7.11.         Purchase of Contracts for Breach of Servicing Obligations. Upon a discovery by the Servicer or the Trustees of a breach of any of the covenants of the Servicer set forth in Sections 5.02, 5.06 or 5.09 that materially adversely affects the Trust’s interest in a Contract (without regard to the benefits of the Reserve Fund), the party discovering the breach shall give prompt written notice to the other parties; provided that the failure to maintain perfection of the security interest in the Motorcycle securing a Contract in accordance with Section 5.09, shall be deemed to be a breach materially and adversely affecting the Trust’s interest in the Contract or in the related Contracts; provided, further, that the Trustees shall have no duty or obligation to inquire or to investigate the breach by the Servicer of any of such covenants. The Servicer, in accordance with this Section 7.11, shall purchase such Contract at its Purchase Price, two Business Days prior to the first Distribution Date after the last day of the calendar month in which the Servicer becomes aware, or receives written notice from the Trustees of any breach described in the preceding sentence which breach has not been cured; provided, however, that with respect to a breach of any of the covenants of the Servicer set forth in Sections 5.02, 5.06 or 5.09 relating to the Contracts in the aggregate and not to any particular Contract the Servicer may select Contracts (without adverse selection) to purchase such that had such Contracts not been included as part of the Trust Corpus there would have been no breach of such covenant. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the obligation of the Servicer described in this Section 7.11 shall not terminate or be deemed released by any party hereto upon a Servicing Transfer pursuant to Article Eight. The purchase obligation described in this Section 7.11 is in no way to be satisfied with monies in the Reserve Fund. Upon Servicer’s payment of the Purchase Price of the Contract, any Event of Termination pursuant to Section 8.01(b) arising as a result of the Servicer’s breach of any of the covenants set forth in Sections 5.02, 5.06 or 5.09 with respect to such Contract shall be deemed not to have occurred.

 

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Section 7.12.         Dispute Resolution.

 

(a)           If the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee (acting at the written direction of a Noteholder) or a Noteholder (the “Requesting Party”) requests that the Trust Depositor and/or the Seller repurchase a Contract due to an alleged breach of a representation and warranty set forth on Exhibit J hereto or in Section 3.02 of the Sale and Transfer Agreement (each, a “Repurchase Request”), and the Repurchase Request has not been resolved within 180 days after the Trust Depositor or the Seller receives the Repurchase Request, the Requesting Party, including a Beneficial Owner of a Note, may refer the matter, in its discretion, to either mediation (including non-binding arbitration) or binding third-party arbitration.  The Requesting Party must start the mediation or arbitration proceeding according to the ADR Rules of the ADR Organization within 90 days after the end of the 180-day period.  The Trust Depositor and the Seller agree to participate in the dispute resolution method selected by the Requesting Party.

 

(b)           If the Requesting Party selects mediation for dispute resolution:

 

(i)            The mediation will be administered by the ADR Organization using its ADR Rules.  However, if any ADR Rules are inconsistent with the procedures for mediation stated in this Section 7.12, the procedures in this Section 7.12 will control.

 

(ii)            A single mediator will be selected by the ADR Organization from a list of neutrals maintained by it according to the ADR Rules.  The mediator must be impartial, an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York and have at least 15 years of experience in commercial litigation and, if possible, consumer finance or asset-backed securitization matters.

 

(iii)            The mediation will start within 15 days after the selection of the mediator and conclude within 30 days after the start of the mediation.

 

(iv)            Expenses of the mediation will be allocated to the parties as mutually agreed by them as part of the mediation.

 

(v)            If the parties fail to agree at the completion of the mediation, the Requesting Party may refer the Repurchase Request to arbitration under this Section 7.12 or may commence legal proceedings to resolve the dispute.

 

(c)           If the Requesting Party selects arbitration for dispute resolution:

 

(i)            The arbitration will be administered by the ADR Organization using its ADR Rules.  However, if any ADR Rules are inconsistent with the procedures for arbitration stated in this Section 7.12, the procedures in this Section 7.12 will control.

 

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(ii)            A single arbitrator will be selected by the ADR Organization from a list of neutrals maintained by it according to the ADR Rules.  The arbitrator must be impartial, an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York and have at least 15 years of experience in commercial litigation and, if possible, consumer finance or asset-backed securitization matters.  The arbitrator will be independent and impartial and will comply with the Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes in effect at the time of the arbitration.  Before accepting an appointment, the arbitrator must promptly disclose any circumstances likely to create a reasonable inference of bias or conflict of interest or likely to preclude completion of the proceedings within the stated time schedule.   The arbitrator may be removed by the ADR Organization for cause consisting of actual bias, conflict of interest or other serious potential for conflict.

 

(iii)            The arbitrator will have the authority to schedule, hear and determine any motions, according to New York law, and will do so at the motion of any party.  Discovery will be completed within 30 days of selection of the arbitrator and will be limited for each party to two witness depositions not to exceed five hours, two interrogatories, one document request and one request for admissions.  However, the arbitrator may grant additional discovery on a showing of good cause that the additional discovery is reasonable and necessary.  Briefs will be limited to no more than ten pages each, and will be limited to initial statements of the case, motions and a pre-hearing brief.  The evidentiary hearing on the merits will start no later than 60 days after selection of the arbitrator and will proceed for no more than six consecutive Business Days with equal time allocated to each party for the presentation of evidence and cross examination.  The arbitrator may allow additional time for discovery and hearings on a showing of good cause or due to unavoidable delays.

 

(iv)            The arbitrator will make its final determination no later than 90 days after its selection.  The arbitrator will resolve the dispute according to the terms of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, and may not modify or change this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents in any way.  The arbitrator will not have the power to award punitive damages or consequential damages in any arbitration conducted by them.  In its final determination, the arbitrator will determine and award the expenses of the arbitration (including filing fees, the fees of the arbitrator, expense of any record or transcript of the arbitration and administrative fees) to the parties in its reasonable discretion.  The determination of the arbitrator will be in writing and counterpart copies will be promptly delivered to the parties.  The final determination of the arbitrator in binding arbitration will be final and non-appealable, except for actions to confirm or vacate the determination permitted under federal or State law, and may be entered and enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(v)            By selecting binding arbitration, the Requesting Party is giving up the right to sue in court, including the right to a trial by jury.

 

(vi)           The Requesting Party may not bring a putative or certificated class action to arbitration.  If this waiver of class action rights is found to be unenforceable for any reason, the Requesting Party agrees that it will bring its claims in a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(d)           For each mediation or arbitration:

 

(i)             Any mediation or arbitration will be held in New York, New York at the offices of the mediator or arbitrator or at another location selected by the Trust Depositor or the Seller.  Any party or witness may participate by teleconference or video conference.

 

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(ii)            The Trust Depositor, the Seller and the Requesting Party will have the right to seek provisional relief from a competent court of law, including a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction or attachment order, if such relief is available by law.

 

(iii)            Neither the Trust Depositor nor the Seller will be required to produce personally identifiable customer information for purposes of any mediation or arbitration.  The existence and details of any unresolved Repurchase Request, any informal meetings, mediations or arbitration proceedings, the nature and amount of any relief sought or granted, any offers or statements made and any discovery taken in the proceeding will be confidential, privileged and inadmissible for any purpose in any other mediation, arbitration, litigation or other proceeding.  The parties will keep this information confidential and will not disclose or discuss it with any third party (other than a party’s attorneys, experts, accountants and other advisors, as reasonably required in connection with the mediation or arbitration proceeding under this Section 7.12), except as required by law, regulatory requirement or court order.  If a party to a mediation or arbitration proceeding receives a subpoena or other request for information from a third party (other than a governmental regulatory body) for confidential information of the other party to the mediation or arbitration proceeding, the recipient will promptly notify the other party and will provide the other party with the opportunity to object to the production of its confidential information.

 

(iv)            For the avoidance of doubt, the Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to be a Requesting Party in its individual capacity, but solely acting in its capacity as Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the requesting Noteholders.

 

ARTICLE Eight

 

EVENTS OF TERMINATION; SERVICE TRANSFER

 

Section 8.01.         Events of Termination. “Event of Termination” means the occurrence of any of the following:

 

(a)            Any failure by the Servicer to make any payment or deposit required to be made with respect to the Notes hereunder and the continuance of such failure for a period of four Business Days after the date on which a Servicing Officer discovers such failure or the Indenture Trustee provides written notice of such failure to the Servicer;

 

(b)            Failure on the Servicer’s part to observe or perform in any material respect any covenant or agreement in this Agreement (other than a covenant or agreement the breach of which is specifically addressed elsewhere in this Section) which failure shall (i) materially and adversely affect the rights of Noteholders and (ii) continue unremedied for a period of 60 days after the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given (A) to the Servicer by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or (B) to the Servicer and to the Indenture Trustee by the Holders of not less than 25% of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes;

 

(c)            An involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law shall have been commenced in respect of the Servicer or Trust Depositor and shall not have been dismissed within 90 days, or a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall have entered a decree or order for relief in respect of either the Servicer or Trust Depositor in an involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of either the Servicer or Trust Depositor, or for any substantial liquidation or winding up of their respective affairs;

 

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(d)            The Servicer or Trust Depositor shall have commenced a voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or shall have consented to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or shall have consented to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian or sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Servicer or Trust Depositor, as the case may be, or for any substantial part of their respective property, or shall have made any general assignment for the benefit of their respective creditors, or shall have failed to, or admitted in writing its inability to, pay its debts as they become due, or shall have taken any corporate action in furtherance of the foregoing; or

 

(e)            Any representation, warranty or statement of the Servicer made in this Agreement or any certificate, report or other writing delivered pursuant hereto shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have been made and the incorrectness of such representation, warranty or statement has a material adverse effect on the Trust and, within 30 days after written notice thereof shall have been given to the Servicer by the Indenture Trustee, the circumstances or condition in respect of which such representation, warranty or statement was incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured.

 

Section 8.02.         Waiver of Event of Termination. The Required Holders may, by written notice delivered to the parties hereto, waive any Event of Termination other than an Event of Termination described in Section 8.01(a).

 

Section 8.03.         Servicing Transfer. (a)  If an Event of Termination has occurred and is continuing and has not been waived pursuant to Section 8.02, (i) the Required Holders or (ii) the Indenture Trustee may, by written notice delivered to the parties hereto, terminate all (but not less than all) of the Servicer’s management, administrative, servicing, custodial and collection functions hereunder (provided, however, that any indemnification obligations of the Servicer that arose prior to such termination shall survive) (such termination being herein called a “Servicing Transfer”).

 

(b)            Upon receipt of the notice required by Section 8.03(a) (or, if later, on a date designated therein), all rights, benefits, fees, indemnities, authority and power of the Servicer under this Agreement, whether with respect to the Contracts, the Contract Files or otherwise, shall pass to and be vested in the Indenture Trustee (the “Successor Servicer”); and, without limitation, the Successor Servicer is authorized and empowered to execute and deliver on behalf of the Servicer, as attorney-in-fact or otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and to do any and all acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such notice of termination. The Servicer agrees to cooperate with the Successor Servicer in effecting the termination of the responsibilities and rights of the Servicer hereunder, including, without limitation, the transfer to the Successor Servicer for administration by it of all cash amounts which shall at the time be held by the Servicer for deposit, or have been deposited by the Servicer, in the Collection Account, or for its own account in connection with its services hereafter or thereafter received with respect to the Contracts. The Servicer shall transfer to the Successor Servicer (i) all records held by the Servicer relating to the Contracts in such electronic form as the Successor Servicer may reasonably request and (ii) any Contract Files in the Servicer’s possession. In addition, the Servicer shall permit access to its premises (including all computer records and programs) to the Successor Servicer or its designee, and shall pay the reasonable transition expenses of the Successor Servicer. Upon a Servicing Transfer, the Successor Servicer shall also be entitled to receive the Servicing Fee for performing the obligations of the Servicer.

 

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Section 8.04.         Successor Servicer to Act; Appointment of Successor Servicer. On or after a Servicing Transfer pursuant to Section 8.03, the Successor Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to the Servicer in its capacity as servicer under this Agreement, to the extent provided in Section 8.06, and the transactions set forth or provided for herein and shall be subject to all the responsibilities, duties and liabilities relating thereto placed on the Servicer by the terms and provisions hereof, and the terminated Servicer shall be relieved of such responsibilities, duties and liabilities arising after such Servicing Transfer; provided, however, that (i) the Successor Servicer will not assume any obligations of the Servicer described in Section 8.08 and (ii) the Successor Servicer shall not be liable for any acts or omissions of the Servicer occurring prior to such Servicing Transfer or for any breach by the Servicer of any of its representations and warranties contained herein or in any related document or agreement. Notwithstanding the above, if the Successor Servicer is legally unable or unwilling to act as Servicer, the Indenture Trustee or the Required Holders may appoint a successor servicer (other than the original Servicer or an Affiliate of the original Servicer) to act as Servicer. As compensation therefor, the successor servicer shall be entitled to receive reasonable compensation equal to the Servicing Fee. The Owner Trustee, Noteholders and the Indenture Trustee and such successor shall take such action, consistent with this Agreement, as shall be necessary to effectuate any such succession; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall not be required to make payment for compensation or any other payment in order to effectuate such succession. To the extent the terminated Servicer has made Advances, it shall be entitled to reimbursement of the same notwithstanding its termination hereunder, to the same extent as if it had continued to service the Contracts hereunder.

 

Section 8.05.         Notification to Noteholders. (a)  Promptly following the occurrence of any Event of Termination, the Servicer shall give written notice thereof to the Trustees, the Trust Depositor and each Rating Agency at the addresses described in Section 11.04 hereof and to the Noteholders at their respective addresses appearing on the Note Register.

 

(b)            Within 10 days following any termination or appointment of a Successor Servicer pursuant to this Article Eight, the Issuer shall give written notice thereof to each Rating Agency and the Trust Depositor at the addresses described in Section 11.04 hereof, and to the Noteholders at their addresses appearing on the Note Register.

 

(c)            As provided in Section 8(f) of the Administration Agreement, the Successor Servicer shall become the “Administrator” thereunder.

 

Section 8.06.         Effect of Transfer. (a)  After a Servicing Transfer, the terminated Servicer shall have no further obligations with respect to the management, administration, servicing, custody or collection of the Contracts and the Successor Servicer appointed pursuant to Section 8.04 shall have all of such obligations, except that the terminated Servicer will transmit or cause to be transmitted directly to the Successor Servicer for its own account, promptly on receipt and in the same form in which received, any amounts (properly endorsed where required for the Successor Servicer to collect them) received as payments upon or otherwise in connection with the Contracts.

 

(b)            A Servicing Transfer shall not affect the rights and duties of the parties hereunder (including but not limited to the indemnities of the Servicer) other than those relating to the management, administration, servicing, custody or collection of the Contracts.

 

Section 8.07.         Database File. The Servicer will provide the Successor Servicer with a data file (in a format reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer) containing the database file for each Contract (i) as of the Cutoff Date, (ii) thereafter, as of the last day of the preceding Due Period on each Determination Date prior to a Servicing Transfer, and (iii) on and as of the Business Day before the actual commencement of servicing functions by the Successor Servicer following the occurrence of a Servicing Transfer.

 

Section 8.08.         Successor Servicer Indemnification. The Servicer shall defend, indemnify and hold the Successor Servicer and any officers, directors, employees or agents of the Successor Servicer harmless against any and all claims, losses, penalties, fines, forfeitures, legal fees and related costs, judgments and any other costs, fees, and expenses that the Successor Servicer may sustain in connection with the claims asserted at any time by third parties against the Successor Servicer which result from (i) any willful or grossly negligent act taken or omission by the Servicer or (ii) a breach of any representations of the Servicer in Section 3.02 hereof. The indemnification provided by this Section 8.08 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

 

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Section 8.09.         Responsibilities of the Successor Servicer. The Successor Servicer will not be responsible for delays attributable to the Servicer’s failure to deliver information, defects in the information supplied by the Servicer or other circumstances beyond the control of the Successor Servicer.

 

The Successor Servicer will make arrangements with the Servicer for the prompt and safe transfer of, and the Servicer shall provide to the Successor Servicer, all necessary servicing files and records, including (as applicable and deemed necessary by the Successor Servicer at such time): (i) imaged Contract documentation, (ii) servicing system tapes, (iii) Contract payment history, (iv) collections history, and (v) the trial balances, as of the close of business on the day immediately preceding conversion to the Successor Servicer, reflecting all applicable Contract information.

 

The Successor Servicer shall have no responsibility and shall not be in default hereunder nor incur any liability for any failure, error, malfunction or any delay in carrying out any of its duties under this Agreement if any such failure or delay results from the Successor Servicer acting in accordance with information prepared or supplied by a Person other than the Successor Servicer or the failure of any such Person to prepare or provide such information. The Successor Servicer shall have no responsibility, shall not be in default and shall incur no liability (i) for any act or failure to act by any third party, including the Servicer, the Trust Depositor or the Trustees, or for any inaccuracy or omission in a notice or communication received by the Successor Servicer from any third party or (ii) which is due to or results from the invalidity, unenforceability of any Contract with applicable law or the breach or the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty made with respect to any Contract.

 

Section 8.10.         Limitation of Liability of Servicer. (a)  Neither the Servicer nor any of the directors, officers, employees or agents of the Servicer shall be under any liability to the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders, except as provided under this Agreement, for any action taken or for refraining from the taking of any action pursuant to this Agreement or for errors in judgment; provided, however, that this provision shall not protect the Servicer or any such person against any liability that would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties under this Agreement. The Servicer and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Servicer may rely in good faith on the advice of counsel or on any document of any kind, prima facie properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising under this Agreement.

 

(b)            Except as provided in this Agreement, the Servicer shall not be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that shall not be incidental to its duties to service the Contracts in accordance with this Agreement, and that in its opinion may cause it to incur any expense or liability; provided, however, that the Servicer may undertake any reasonable action that it may deem necessary or desirable in respect of the Transaction Documents and the rights and duties of the parties to the Transaction Documents and the interests of the Noteholders under the Indenture. In such event, the legal expenses and costs of such action and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities of the Servicer and the Servicer will not be entitled to be reimbursed therefor.

 

Section 8.11.         Merger or Consolidation of Servicer. Any Person into which the Servicer may be merged or consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger conversion or consolidation to which the Servicer shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the servicing business of the Servicer (which Person assumes the obligations of the Servicer), shall be the successor of the Servicer hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall give prior written notice of any such merger, consolidation, or succession to which it is a party to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies.

 

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Section 8.12.         Servicer Not to Resign. Subject to the provisions of Section 8.03, Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on it as Servicer under this Agreement except upon determination that the performance of its duties under this Agreement shall no longer be permissible under applicable law. Notice of any such determination permitting the resignation of Servicer shall be communicated to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at the earliest practicable time (and, if such communication is not in writing, shall be confirmed in writing at the earliest practicable time) and any such determination shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee concurrently with or promptly after such notice. No such resignation shall become effective until a successor servicer shall have assumed the responsibilities and rights of the predecessor Servicer in accordance with Section 8.04.

 

Section 8.13.         Appointment of Subservicer. So long as Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. acts as the Servicer, the Servicer may at any time without notice or consent perform specific duties as servicer under this Agreement through subcontractors; provided, however, that, in each case, no such delegation or subcontracting shall relieve the Servicer of its responsibilities with respect to such duties, as to which the Servicer shall remain primarily responsible with respect thereto.

 

ARTICLE Nine

 

REPORTS

 

Section 9.01.         Monthly Reports. No later than 11:00 a.m., New York, New York time, two Business Days prior to each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall deliver to the Trustees and each Rating Agency a Monthly Report.

 

Section 9.02.         Officer’s Certificate. Each Monthly Report delivered pursuant to Section 9.01 shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Servicing Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit D, certifying the accuracy of the Monthly Report and that no Event of Termination or event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Termination has occurred, or if such event has occurred and is continuing, specifying the event and its status.

 

Section 9.03.         Other Data. In addition, the Trust Depositor and the Servicer shall, upon the request of the Trustees or a Rating Agency, furnish the Trustees, or such Rating Agency, as the case may be, such underlying data as may be reasonably requested.

 

Section 9.04.         Report on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria and Attestation; Annual Officer’s Certificate.

 

(a)  The Servicer will:

 

(i)             deliver to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency within 90 days after the end of each calendar year a report on its assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to it during the preceding calendar year, including disclosure of any material instance of non-compliance identified by the Servicer, as required by Rule 13a-18 and 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB under the Securities Act;

 

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(ii)             cause a firm of registered public accountants that is qualified and independent within the meaning of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act to deliver to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency within 90 days after the end of each calendar year an attestation report that satisfies the requirements of Rule 13a-18 or Rule 15d-18 under the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB, as applicable, on the Servicer’s assessment of compliance with servicing criteria with respect to the prior calendar year; and

 

(iii)           deliver to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency within 90 days after the end of each calendar year, an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that (i) a review of the Servicer’s activities during the immediately preceding calendar year (or, in the case of the first certificate, since the Closing Date) and of its performance under this Agreement has been made under the supervision of the officer signing such certificate and (ii) to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Servicer has fulfilled in all material respects all of its obligations under this Agreement throughout such calendar year (or applicable portion of such calendar year), or, if there has been a failure to fulfill any such obligation in any material respect, specifying each such failure known to such officer and the nature and status of such failure.

 

(b)            If the Trust is not required to file periodic reports under the Exchange Act, or otherwise required by law to file the reports described in clause (a) above, such reports may be delivered on or before April 30 of each calendar year. A copy of such reports may be obtained by any Noteholder by a request in writing to the Indenture Trustee.

 

Section 9.05.         Monthly Reports to Noteholders. (a)  On or before two Business Days prior to each Distribution Date, the Servicer shall prepare and, concurrently with each distribution pursuant to Article Seven, deliver to the Indenture Trustee, in its capacity as Note Registrar and Paying Agent, to forward or otherwise make available via internet to each Noteholder, a statement as of the related Distribution Date substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto (the “Monthly Report”) setting forth at least the following information:

 

(i)             the amount of Noteholders’ principal distribution;

 

(ii)            the amount of Noteholders’ interest distribution;

 

(iii)           the amount of fees payable out of the Trust, separately identifying the Monthly Servicing Fee, the Asset Representations Reviewer Fee and the Indenture Trustee Fee;

 

(iv)           the amount of any Note Interest Carryover Shortfall on such Distribution Date and the change in such amount with respect to the immediately preceding Distribution Date;

 

(v)            the Note Pool Factor for each Class of Notes as of such Distribution Date;

 

(vi)           the amount of the distributions described in (i) or (ii) above payable pursuant to a claim on the Reserve Fund or from any other source not constituting Available Monies and the amount remaining in the Reserve Fund after giving effect to all deposits and withdrawals from the Reserve Fund on such Distribution Date;

 

(vii)          [reserved];

 

(viii)         [reserved];

 

(ix)            the remaining Outstanding Amount of each Class of Notes after giving effect to the distribution of principal to each Class of Notes to be made on such Distribution Date;

 

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(x)             the number and aggregate Principal Balance of Contracts delinquent 30-59 days, 60-89 days, 90-119 days and 120 or more days, assuming 30-day months, computed as of the end of the related Due Period;

 

(xi)            the number and aggregate Principal Balance of Contracts that became Liquidated Contracts during the related Due Period, the Net Liquidation Proceeds for such Due Period and the Net Liquidation Losses as of such Distribution Date;

 

(xii)           [reserved];

 

(xiii)          the number of Contracts and the aggregate Principal Balance of such Contracts, as of the first day of the related Due Period and as of the last day of the related Due Period (after giving effect to payments received during such Due Period);

 

(xiv)          the aggregate Principal Balance and number of Contracts that were reacquired by the Seller pursuant to the Transfer and Sale Agreement during the related Due Period, identifying the Purchase Price for such Contracts;

 

(xv)           the aggregate Principal Balance and number of Contracts that were repurchased by the Depositor or purchased by the Servicer pursuant to this Agreement during the related Due Period, identifying the Purchase Price for such Contracts;

 

(xvi)          the amount of Advances made by the Servicer in respect of the related Contracts and such Distribution Date and the amount, if any, of unreimbursed Advances in respect of prior Distribution Dates; and

 

(xvii)        such other customary factual information as is available to the Servicer as the Servicer deems necessary and can reasonably obtain from its existing database to enable the Noteholders and the Certificateholder to prepare their tax returns.

 

(b)            [Reserved].

 

(c)            The Indenture Trustee will make the statement to Noteholders available each month to Noteholders and other parties to the Transaction Documents via the Indenture Trustee’s internet website, which is presently located at http://sf.citidirect.com.

 

Persons who are unable to use the above website are entitled to have a paper copy mailed to them via first class mail by calling the Indenture Trustee at (713) 693-6677. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to change the way the statement to Noteholders is distributed in order to make such distribution more convenient and/or more accessible to the above parties and to the Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee shall provide timely and adequate notification to all above parties and to the Noteholders regarding any such change.

 

In connection with any electronic transmissions of information, including without limitation, the use of electronic mail or internet or intranet websites, the systems used in such transmissions are not fully tested by the Indenture Trustee and may not be completely reliable as to stability, robustness and accuracy. Accordingly, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that information electronically transmitted as described herein may not be relied upon as timely, accurate or complete and that the Indenture Trustee shall have no liability hereunder in connection with such information transmitted electronically. The parties hereto further acknowledge that any and all systems, software or hardware utilized in posting or retrieving any such information are utilized on an “as is” basis without representation or warranty as to the intended uses of such systems, software or hardware. The Indenture Trustee makes no representation or warranty that the systems and the related software used in connection with the electronic transmission of information are free and clear of threats known as software and hardware viruses, time bombs, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, or other malicious computer instructions, intentional devices or techniques which may cause a component or system to become erased, damaged, inoperable, or otherwise incapable of being used in the manner to which it is intended, or which would permit unauthorized access thereto.

 

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Section 9.06.         Regulation AB.

 

The parties hereto acknowledge that certain requirements of Regulation AB and interpretations thereof may change over time, whether due to interpretive guidance provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff, consensus among participants in the asset backed securities markets, advice of counsel, or otherwise, and agree to comply with reasonable requests (which are practical from a timing perspective) made by the Trust Depositor or the Servicer in good faith for delivery of information under these provisions on the basis of evolving interpretations of Regulation AB. In connection therewith, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall reasonably cooperate with the Servicer in connection with the satisfaction of the Trust Depositor’s and the Trust’s reporting requirements under the Exchange Act, subject to reimbursement of expenses in accordance with the Transaction Documents.

 

Section 9.07.         Information to Be Provided by the Indenture Trustee.

 

(a)           As soon as available but no later than March 15 of each calendar year for so long as the Issuer is required to report under the Exchange Act, commencing in 2025, the Indenture Trustee shall:

 

(i)             deliver to the Servicer a report regarding the Indenture Trustee’s assessment of compliance with the Servicing Criteria during the immediately preceding calendar year, as required under paragraph (b) of Rule 13a-18, Rule 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB. Such report shall be signed by an authorized officer of the Indenture Trustee, and shall address each of the Servicing Criteria specified in Exhibit E or such criteria as mutually agreed upon by the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee;

 

(ii)            deliver to the Servicer a report of a registered public accounting firm that attests to, and reports on, the assessment of compliance made by the Indenture Trustee and delivered pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Such attestation shall be in accordance with Rules 1-02(a)(3) and 2-02(g) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act; and

 

(iii)           deliver to the Servicer and any other Person that will be responsible for signing the certification required by Rules 13a-14(d) and 15d-14(d) under the Exchange Act (pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) (a “Sarbanes Certification”) on behalf of the Issuer or the Servicer a certification substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F in such form as mutually agreed upon by the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee.

 

The Indenture Trustee acknowledges that the parties identified in clause (iii) above may rely on the certification provided by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to such clause in signing a Sarbanes Certification and filing such with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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Section 9.08.         Exchange Act Reporting.

 

(a)            Form 10-D Filings. So long as the Issuer is required to report under the Exchange Act, no later than each Distribution Date, each of the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall notify the Servicer of any Form 10-D Disclosure Item with respect to such Person (to the extent there is any Form 10-D Disclosure Item), together with a description of any such Form 10-D Disclosure Item in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Servicer.

 

(b)            Form 8-K Filings. So long as the Issuer is required to report under the Exchange Act, each of the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall promptly notify the Servicer, but in no event later than one (1) Business Day after its occurrence, of any Reportable Event of which such Person (or in the case of the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, a Responsible Officer of such Person) has actual knowledge. Each Person shall have actual knowledge of any such event only to the extent that it relates to such Person or any action or failure to act by such Person.

 

(c)            Form 10-K Filings. So long as the Issuer is required to report under the Exchange Act, no later than March 15 of each year, commencing in 2025, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall notify the Servicer of any Form 10-K Disclosure Item known to any Responsible Officer thereof or relating to the Indenture Trustee or Owner Trustee, as applicable, together with a description of any such Form 10-K Disclosure Item in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Servicer.

 

(d)            Form ABS-15G Filings.  So long as any Note remains outstanding, no later than 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter, (1) the Indenture Trustee shall notify the Servicer of any Noteholder requests for a repurchase of contracts for breach of representation of warranty, as described in Section 7.08(a) herein, and (2) the Servicer shall notify the Trust Depositor of any notifications under subsection (1) of this paragraph and of any fulfilled and unfulfilled requests by the Indenture Trustee for the repurchase of contracts for breach of representation of warranty, as described in Section 7.08(a) herein. Promptly upon reasonable request by the Seller or Trust Depositor, the Indenture Trustee shall facilitate compliance by the Seller or the Trust Depositor, as the case may be, with Rule 15Ga-1 under the Exchange Act and Items 1104(e) and 1121(c) of Regulation AB. In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be deemed to be a “securitizer” as defined in Section 15G(a) of the Exchange Act with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, nor shall it have any responsibility for making any filing to be made by a securitizer under the Exchange Act or Regulation AB with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

ARTICLE Ten
TERMINATION

 

Section 10.01.        Sale of Trust Assets.

 

(a)            [Reserved].

 

(b)            As described in Article Nine of the Trust Agreement, notice of any termination of the Trust shall be given by the Servicer to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee as soon as practicable after the Servicer has received notice thereof.

 

(c)            Following the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and the payment in full of the principal of and interest on the Notes, the Certificateholder will succeed to the rights of the Noteholders hereunder and the Owner Trustee will succeed to the rights of, and assume the obligations of, the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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ARTICLE Eleven

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 11.01.       Amendment.

 

(a)            This Agreement may be amended by the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer, collectively, without the consent of any Securityholders, (i) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions in this Agreement which are inconsistent with the provisions herein or in the Prospectus, or to add any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement that shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement or the Prospectus, and (ii) to add or provide any credit enhancement for any Class of Notes; provided, however that any such action described in clause (i) above shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Securityholder that has not consented to such action.

 

(b)            This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer, with the consent of the Required Holders, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholder; provided, however, that no such amendment shall, without the consent of the Holders of all Notes of the relevant Classes then outstanding, (i)(A) reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on any Contracts or distributions that shall be required to be made on any Note, or (B) change any Interest Rate, (ii) adversely affect the priority of payment of principal or interest to the Noteholders of any Class, or (iii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Holders of which are required to consent to any such amendment, or any waiver pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(c)            Prior to the execution of any amendment or consent pursuant to this Section 11.01, the Issuer shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent, together with a copy thereof, to each Rating Agency.

 

(d)            Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Indenture Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each Noteholder. It shall not be necessary for the consent of Noteholders or Certificateholder pursuant to Section 11.01(b) to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the authorization by Noteholders or Certificateholder of the execution thereof shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Indenture Trustee may prescribe.

 

(e)            Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the Owner Trustee’s or the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

 

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Section 11.02.         Protection of Title to Trust.

 

(a)            The Servicer shall file such financing statements and cause to be filed such continuation statements, all in such manner and in such places as may be required by law fully to preserve, maintain and protect the interests of the Issuer, the Securityholders and the Indenture Trustee in the Contracts and in the proceeds thereof. The Servicer shall deliver (or cause to be delivered) to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee file-stamped copies of, or filing receipts for, any document filed as provided above, as soon as available following such filing. The Trust Depositor authorizes the Trust to file financing statements describing the Trust Corpus as collateral.

 

(b)            Neither the Seller, the Trust Depositor nor the Servicer shall change its name, identity or corporate structure in any manner that would, could or might make any financing statement or continuation statement filed in accordance with Section 4.02 seriously misleading within the meaning of § 9-507 of the UCC, unless it shall have given the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at least 30 days’ prior written notice thereof and shall have promptly filed appropriate amendments to all previously filed financing statements.

 

(c)            The Seller and the Trust Depositor shall give the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at least 30 days’ prior written notice of any change in its state of incorporation. The Servicer shall at all times maintain each office from which it shall service Contracts, and its principal executive office, within the United States.

 

(d)            The Servicer shall maintain or cause to be maintained accounts and records as to each Contract accurately and in sufficient detail to permit (i) the reader thereof to know at any time the status of such Contract, including payments and recoveries made and payments owing (and the nature of each) and (ii) reconciliation between payments or recoveries on (or with respect to) each Contract and the amounts from time to time deposited in or credited to the Collection Account in respect of each Contract.

 

(e)            The Servicer shall maintain or cause to be maintained its computer systems so that, from and after the time of transfer under this Agreement of the Contracts, the Servicer’s master computer records (including any backup archives) that shall refer to a Contract indicate clearly the interest of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee in such Contract and that such Contract is owned by the Issuer and has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee. Indication of the Issuer’s ownership of and the Indenture Trustee’s interest in a Contract shall be deleted from or modified on the Servicer’s computer systems when, and only when, the related Contract shall have been paid in full or reacquired or, in the case of the Indenture Trustee’s interest, when the Indenture shall have been discharged.

 

(f)             If at any time the Trust Depositor or the Servicer shall propose to sell, grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any interest in promissory notes and security agreements to any prospective purchaser, lender or other transferee, the Servicer shall give or cause to be given to such prospective purchaser, lender or other transferee computer tapes, records or print-outs (including any restored from back-up archives) that, if they shall refer in any manner whatsoever to any Contract, shall indicate clearly that such Contract has been transferred and is owned by the Issuer and has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee.

 

(g)            The Servicer shall permit the Owner Trustee and its agents, at any time during normal business hours, to inspect, audit and make copies of and abstracts from the Servicer’s records regarding any Contract.

 

(h)            Upon request, the Servicer shall furnish to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, within five Business Days, a list of all Contracts then held as part of the Trust Estate, together with a reconciliation of such list to the List of Contracts and to the most recent Monthly Report furnished before such request indicating any removal of Contracts from the Trust Corpus.

 

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(i)             The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency, promptly after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and of each amendment hereto, an Opinion of Counsel either (A) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements and continuation statements have been executed and filed that are necessary fully to preserve and protect the interest of the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee and reciting the details of such filings or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or (B) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action shall be necessary to preserve and protect such interest.

 

Section 11.03.       Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York and the obligations, rights, and remedies of the parties under the Agreement shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

 

Section 11.04.       Notices. All notices, demands, certificates, requests and communications hereunder (“notices”) shall be in writing and shall be effective (a) upon receipt when sent through the U.S. mail, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, with such receipt to be effective the date of delivery indicated on the return receipt, or (b) upon receipt when sent through an overnight courier, or (c) on the date personally delivered to an Authorized Officer of the party to which sent, or (d) on the date transmitted by electronic mail transmission with a confirmation of receipt, in all cases addressed to the recipient as follows:

 

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(i)            If to the Issuer:

 

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A 

c/o Wilmington Trust, National Association 

1100 North Market Street 

Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1605 

Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

 

with a copy to:

 

Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.

222 West Adams Street, Suite 3100

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Attention: David Viney, Vice President and Treasurer

Electronic Mail: david.viney@harley-davidson.com

 

(ii)           If to the Servicer, Administrator or Seller:

 

Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.

222 West Adams Street, Suite 3100

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Attention: David Viney, Vice President and Treasurer

Electronic Mail: david.viney@harley-davidson.com

 

(iii)          If to the Trust Depositor:

 

Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. 

9850 Double R Boulevard, Suite 200 

Reno, Nevada 89521

Attention: David Viney, Vice President and Treasurer

Electronic Mail: david.viney@harley-davidson.com

 

with a copy to:

 

Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.

222 West Adams Street, Suite 3100

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Attention: David Viney, Vice President and Treasurer

Electronic Mail: david.viney@harley-davidson.com

 

(iv)            If to the Indenture Trustee:

 

Citibank, N.A. 

388 Greenwich Street 

New York, New York 10013 

Attention: Agency & Trust HDMOT 2024-A 

Telecopier No.: (713) 693-6677

 

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(v)           If to the Owner Trustee:

 

Wilmington Trust, National Association 

1100 North Market Street 

Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1605 

Attention: Corporate Trust Administration 

Telecopier No.: (302) 636-4140

 

(vi)          If to Moody’s

 

Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. 

7 World Trade Center at 250 Greenwich Street 

New York, New York 10007 

Attention: ABS Monitoring Department 

Telecopier No.: (212) 298-7139 

Electronic Mail: servicerreports@moodys.com

 

(vii)         If to Fitch:

 

Fitch Ratings, Inc. 

One State Street 

New York, New York 10004 

Attention: Asset Backed Securities Group 

Email: notifications.abs@fitchratings.com

 

(viii)        If to Asset Representation Reviewer:

 

Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC 

720 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 200 

Glendale, Colorado 80246 

Attention: Legal Department 

Electronic Mail: ARRNotices@clayton.com

 

With a copy to:

 

Electronic Mail: legal@covius.com

 

(ix)           If to the Underwriters:

 

At the address set forth in the Underwriting Agreement

 

Each party hereto may, by notice given in accordance herewith to each of the other parties hereto, designate any further or different address to which subsequent notices shall be sent.

 

Section 11.05.       Severability of Provisions. If one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Notes or the rights of the Holders thereof.

 

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Section 11.06.       Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, but except as provided in Sections 6.03, 8.03, 8.11, and 8.12, this Agreement may not be assigned by the Trust Depositor or the Servicer without the prior written consent of Noteholders aggregating not less than 66-2/3% of each Class.

 

Section 11.07.       Third Party Beneficiaries. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, no third party shall be deemed a third party beneficiary of this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligors are not third party beneficiaries of this Agreement.

 

Section 11.08.       Counterparts; Originals. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The words “execution”, “signed”, “signature” and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Agreement shall include, in addition to manually executed signature pages, images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including “pdf”, “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, any State law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the UCC.

 

Section 11.09.       Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

Section 11.10.       No Bankruptcy Petition; Disclaimer and Subordination. (a) Each of the Seller, the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer and each Holder (by acceptance of the applicable Securities) covenants and agrees that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all amounts owing in respect of all outstanding Securities, it will not institute against the Trust Depositor, or the Trust, or join any other Person in instituting against the Trust Depositor or the Trust, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings or other similar proceedings under the laws of the United States or any state of the United States. This Section 11.10 will survive the termination of this Agreement.

 

(b)            The Trust acknowledges and agrees that each Certificate represents a beneficial interest in the Trust and Trust Corpus only and the Securities do not represent an interest in any assets of the Trust Depositor (including by virtue of any deficiency claim in respect of obligations not paid or otherwise satisfied from the Trust Corpus and proceeds thereof). In furtherance of and not in derogation of the foregoing, to the extent that the Trust Depositor enters into other securitization transactions, the Trust acknowledges and agrees that it shall have no right, title or interest in or to any assets (or interests therein), other than the Contracts and other assets included in the Trust Estate, conveyed or purported to be conveyed (whether by way of a sale, capital contribution or by the granting of a Lien) by the Trust Depositor to any Person other than the Trust (the “Other Assets”).

 

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To the extent that notwithstanding the agreements contained in this Section, the Trust or any Securityholder, either (i) asserts an interest in or claim to, or benefit from any Other Assets, whether asserted against or through the Trust Depositor or any other Person owned by the Trust Depositor, or (ii) is deemed to have any interest, claim or benefit in or from any Other Assets, whether by operation of law, legal process, pursuant to applicable provisions of insolvency laws or otherwise (including without limitation pursuant to Section 1111(b) of the federal Bankruptcy Code, as amended) and whether deemed asserted against or through the Trust Depositor or any other Person owned by the Trust Depositor, then the Trust and each Securityholder by accepting a Note or Certificate further acknowledges and agrees that any such interest, claim or benefit in or from the Other Assets is and shall be expressly subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full of all obligations and liabilities of the Trust Depositor which, under the terms of the documents relating to the securitization of the Other Assets, are entitled to be paid from, entitled to the benefits of, or otherwise secured by such Other Assets (whether or not any such entitlement or security interest is legally perfected or otherwise entitled to a priority of distribution under applicable law, including insolvency laws, and whether asserted against the Trust Depositor or any other Person owned by the Trust Depositor) including, without limitation, the payment of post-petition interest on such other obligations and liabilities. This subordination agreement shall be deemed a subordination agreement within the meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Each Securityholder is deemed to have acknowledged and agreed that no adequate remedy at law exists for a breach of this Section 11.10 and that the terms and provisions of this Section 11.10 may be enforced by an action for specific performance.

 

(c)            The provisions of this Section 11.10 shall be for the third party benefit of those expressly entitled to rely thereon and shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

 

Section 11.11.        Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee.

 

(a)            Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been executed by Wilmington Trust, National Association solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuer, and in no event shall or any beneficial owner of the Issuer have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuer. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles Six, Seven and Eight of the Trust Agreement.

 

(b)            Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been executed by Citibank, N.A. solely as Indenture Trustee, and in no event shall Citibank, N.A. have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuer.

 

[signature page follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A

 

  By: Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust
     
  By: /s/ Drew Davis
    Printed Name: Drew Davis
    Title: Vice President

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP., as Trust Depositor

 

  By: /s/ David Viney
    Printed Name: David Viney
    Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP., as Servicer

 

  By: /s/ David Viney
    Printed Name: David Viney
    Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

  CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee

 

  By: /s/ Trang Tran-Rojas
    Printed Name: Trang Tran-Rojas
    Title: Senior Trust Officer

 

  Signature Page to Sale & Servicing Agreement  

 

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Exhibit A

 

[Form of Assignment]

 

In accordance with the Sale and Servicing Agreement (the “Sale and Servicing Agreement”) dated as of May 1, 2024 made by and between the undersigned, as Trust Depositor (“Trust Depositor”), Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., as Servicer (“HDCC”), Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee and Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Trust”), as assignee thereunder, the undersigned does hereby sell, transfer, convey and assign, set over and otherwise convey to the Trust (i) all right, title and interest of the Trust Depositor in and to the Contracts listed on the List of Contracts delivered on the Closing Date (including, without limitation, all security interests created thereunder), (ii) all rights of the Trust Depositor to payments which are collected pursuant to the Contracts after the Cutoff Date, including any liquidation proceeds therefrom, (iii) all rights of the Trust Depositor under any theft, physical damage, credit life, disability or other individual insurance policy (and rights under any applicable “forced placed” policy, if any), any debt insurance policy or any debt cancellation agreement relating to any such Contract, an Obligor or a Motorcycle securing such Contract, (iv) all security interests in each such Motorcycle, (v) all documents contained in the related Contract Files, (vi) all rights of the Trust Depositor in the Lockbox, the Lockbox Account and related Lockbox Agreement to the extent they relate to such Contracts (but excluding payments received on or before the Cutoff Date), (vii) all rights (but not the obligations) of the Trust Depositor under the Transfer and Sale Agreement, including but not limited to the Trust Depositor’s rights under Article V thereof, (viii) all remittances, deposits and payments made into the Trust Accounts from time to time and amounts in the Trust Accounts from time to time (and any investments of such amounts), (ix) all rights of the Trust Depositor to certain rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies, debt cancellation agreements, extended service contracts or other repair agreements and other items financed under such Contracts, and (x) all proceeds and products of the foregoing.

 

This Assignment is made pursuant to and in reliance upon the representation and warranties on the part of the undersigned contained in Article Three of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and no others.

 

Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Assignment to be duly executed this _____ day of _____________.

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP.

 

  By:  

  Printed Name:  

  Title:  

 

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Exhibit B

 

[Form of Closing Certificate of Trust Depositor]

 

Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp.

 

Officer’s Certificate

 

The undersigned certifies that [s]he is [___________] of Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., a Nevada corporation (the “Trust Depositor”), and that as such is duly authorized to execute and deliver this certificate on behalf of the Trust Depositor in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Effective Date”) by and among the Trust Depositor, Citibank, N.A. (the “Indenture Trustee”), as Indenture Trustee, Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. (“Harley-Davidson Credit”), as Servicer, and Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (“Issuer”) (all capitalized terms used herein without definition have the respective meanings set forth in the Agreement), and further certifies as follows:

 

(1)            Attached hereto as Exhibit I is a true and correct copy of the Articles of Incorporation of the Trust Depositor, together with all amendments thereto as in effect on the date hereof.

 

(2)            There has been no other amendment or other document filed affecting the Articles of Incorporation of the Trust Depositor since May 12, 2000, and no such amendment has been authorized by the Board of Directors or shareholders of the Trust Depositor.

 

(3)            Attached hereto as Exhibit II is a Certificate of the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada dated as of a recent date stating that the Trust Depositor is duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada and is in good standing.

 

(4)            Attached hereto as Exhibit III is a true and correct copy of the By-laws of the Trust Depositor, which are in full force and effect on the date hereof.

 

(5)            Attached hereto as Exhibit IV is a true and correct copy of resolutions adopted pursuant to the unanimous written consent of the Board of Directors of the Trust Depositor relating to the execution, delivery and performance of the Agreement, the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Administration Agreement, and the Underwriting Agreement (collectively, the “Program Agreements”). Said resolutions have not been amended, modified, annulled or revoked, and are on the date hereof in full force and effect and are the only resolutions relating to these matters which have been adopted by the Board of Directors.

 

(6)            No event with respect to the Trust Depositor has occurred and is continuing which would constitute an Event of Termination or an event that, with notice or the passage of time or both, would become an Event of Termination under the Agreement. To the best of my knowledge after reasonable investigation, there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Trust Depositor, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Preliminary Prospectus (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) or the Prospectus and except as set forth therein.

 

(7)            All federal, state and local taxes of the Trust Depositor due and owing as of the date hereof have been paid.

 

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(8)            All representations and warranties of the Trust Depositor contained in the Program Agreements or any other related documents, or in any document, certificate or financial or other statement delivered in connection therewith are true and correct as of the date hereof.

  

(9)            There is no action, investigation or proceeding pending or, to my knowledge, threatened against the Trust Depositor before any court, administrative agency or other tribunal (a) asserting the invalidity of the Program Agreements; (b) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Program Agreements; or (c) which is likely materially and adversely to affect the Trust Depositor’s performance of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, the Program Agreements.

 

(10)          No consent, approval, authorization or order of, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental agency or body or state or federal court is required to be obtained by the Trust Depositor for the Trust Depositor’s consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Program Agreements, except such as have been obtained or made and such as may be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the issuance of the Certificate.

 

(11)           The Trust Depositor is not a party to any agreements or instruments evidencing or governing indebtedness for money borrowed or by which the Trust Depositor or its property is bound (other than the Program Agreements). Neither Harley-Davidson Credit’s transfer and assignment of the Contract Assets to the Trust Depositor, the Trust Depositor’s concurrent transfer and assignment of the Trust Corpus to the Issuer, nor the concurrent pledge of the Collateral by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee nor the issuance and sale of the Notes, nor the execution and delivery of the Program Agreements, nor the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated therein, will violate or conflict with any agreement or instrument to which the Trust Depositor is a party or by which it is otherwise bound.

 

(12)           In connection with the transfer of Contracts and related collateral contemplated in the Agreement, (a) the Trust Depositor has not made such transfer with actual intent to hinder, delay or defraud any creditor of the Trust Depositor, and (b) the Trust Depositor has not received less than a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for such transfer, is not on the date thereof insolvent (nor will become insolvent as a result thereof), is not engaged (or about to engage) in a business or transaction for which it has unreasonably small capital, and does not intend to incur or believe it will incur debts beyond its ability to pay when matured.

 

(13)           Each of the agreements and conditions of the Trust Depositor to be performed on or before the Closing Date pursuant to the Program Agreements have been performed in all material respects.

 

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In Witness Whereof, I have affixed my signature hereto this ___ day of _____________.

 

  By:  

    Printed Name:   

    Title:  

 

 

 

Exhibit C

 

[Form of Closing Certificate of Servicer/Seller]

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.

 

Officer’s Certificate

 

The undersigned certifies that [s]he is [_____________] of Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. (“Harley-Davidson Credit”), and that as such is duly authorized to execute and deliver this certificate on behalf of Harley-Davidson Credit, as Servicer, in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement (the “Sale and Servicing Agreement”) dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Effective Date”) by and among Harley-Davidson Credit, as Servicer, Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. (“CFC”), Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee and Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (“Issuer”), and as Seller in connection with the Transfer and Sale Agreement dated as of the Effective Date (the “Transfer and Sale Agreement”) by and between Harley-Davidson Credit and CFC (all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement), and further certifies as follows:

 

(1)            Attached hereto as Exhibit I is a true and correct copy of the Articles of Incorporation of Harley-Davidson Credit, together with all amendments thereto as in effect on the date hereof.

 

(2)            There has been no other amendment or other document filed affecting the Articles of Incorporation of Harley-Davidson Credit since August 9, 1999, and no such amendment has been authorized by the Board of Directors or shareholders of Harley-Davidson Credit.

 

(3)            Attached hereto as Exhibit II is a Certificate of the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada dated as of a recent date, stating that Harley-Davidson Credit is duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada and is in good standing.

 

(4)            Attached hereto as Exhibit III is a true and correct copy of the By-laws of Harley-Davidson Credit which were in full force and effect as of August 9, 1999 and at all times subsequent thereto.

 

(5)            Attached hereto as Exhibit IV is a true and correct copy of resolutions adopted pursuant to a unanimous written consent of the Board of Directors of Harley-Davidson Credit and relating to the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement and the Administration Agreement. Said resolutions have not been amended, modified, annulled or revoked, and are on the date hereof in full force and effect and are the only resolutions relating to these matters which have been adopted by the Board of Directors.

 

(6)            No event with respect to Harley-Davidson Credit has occurred and is continuing which would constitute an Event of Termination or an event that, with notice or the passage of time, would constitute an Event of Termination under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. To the best of my knowledge after reasonable investigation, there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of Harley-Davidson Credit, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Preliminary Prospectus (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) or the Prospectus and except as set forth therein.

 

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(7)            All federal, state and local taxes of Harley-Davidson Credit due and owing as of the date hereof have been paid.

 

(8)            All representations and warranties of Harley-Davidson Credit contained in the Transfer and Sale Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement and the Administration Agreement (collectively, the “Program Agreements) or in any document, certificate or financial or other statement delivered in connection therewith are true and correct as of the date hereof.

 

(9)            There is no action, investigation or proceeding pending or, to my knowledge, threatened against Harley-Davidson Credit before any court, administrative agency or other tribunal (a) asserting the invalidity of any Program Agreement to which Harley-Davidson Credit is a party; or (b) which is likely materially and adversely to affect Harley-Davidson Credit’s performance of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, the Program Agreements.

 

(10)          No consent, approval, authorization or order of, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental agency or body or state or federal court is required to be obtained by Harley-Davidson Credit for Harley-Davidson Credit’s consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Program Agreements, except such as have been obtained or made and such as may be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the issuance and sale of the Notes or the issuance of the Certificate.

 

(11)          Neither Harley-Davidson Credit’s transfer and assignment of the Contract Assets to CFC, CFC’s concurrent transfer and assignment of the Trust Corpus to the Issuer, nor the concurrent pledge by the Issuer of the Collateral to the Indenture Trustee, nor the issuance and sale of the Notes, the issuance of the Certificate or the entering into of the Program Agreements, nor the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated therein, will violate or conflict with any agreement or instrument to which Harley-Davidson Credit is a party or by which it is otherwise bound.

 

(12)          In connection with the transfers of Contracts and related assets contemplated in the Transfer and Sale Agreement, (a) Harley-Davidson Credit has not made such transfer with actual intent to hinder, delay or defraud any creditor of Harley-Davidson Credit, and (b) Harley-Davidson Credit has not received less than a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for such transfer, is not on the date hereof insolvent (nor will Harley-Davidson Credit become insolvent as a result thereof), is not engaged (or about to engage) in a business or transaction for which it has unreasonably small capital, and does not intend to incur or believe it will incur debts beyond its ability to pay when matured.

 

(13)           The sole shareholder of Harley-Davidson Credit is Harley-Davidson Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which has its chief executive office and only office in Chicago, Illinois, and has no other offices in any other state.

 

(14)           Each of the agreements and conditions of Harley-Davidson Credit to be performed or satisfied on or before the Closing Date under the Program Agreements has been performed or satisfied in all material respects.

 

(15)          Each Contract being transferred pursuant to the Transfer and Sale Agreement is evidenced by a written agreement providing for a repayment obligation as well as a security interest in the related Motorcycle securing such obligation.

 

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(16)           Harley-Davidson Credit has not authorized the filing of any UCC financing statements listing the Contract Assets as collateral other than financing statements relating to the transactions contemplated in the Transfer and Sale Agreement.

 

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In Witness Whereof, I have affixed my signature hereto this ___ day of [_____], 20[__]

 

  By:  

  Printed Name:  

  Title:  

 

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Exhibit D

 

[Form of Servicing Officer Certification as to Monthly Report]

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.

 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICING OFFICER

 

The undersigned certifies that [s]he is the [____________] of Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., a Nevada corporation, (the “Servicer”), and that as such he is duly authorized to execute and deliver this certificate on behalf of the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated as of May 1, 2024 by and among Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., as Trust Depositor, the Servicer and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee of Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings specified in the Agreement), and further certifies that:

 

1. The Monthly Report for the period from [________], 20[__] to [________], 20[__] attached to this certificate is complete and accurate in accordance with the requirements of Sections 9.01 and 9.02 of the Agreement; and

 

2. As of the date hereof, no Event of Termination event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Termination has occurred.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have affixed hereunto my signature this [__] day of [____], 20[__].

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.

 

  By:  
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

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Exhibit E

 

SERVICING CRITERIA TO BE ADDRESSED IN 

INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE

 

The assessment of compliance to be delivered by the Indenture Trustee shall address, at a minimum, the criteria identified as below as “Applicable Servicing Criteria” 1:

 

Servicing Criteria  

Applicable

Servicing

Criteria

Reference   Criteria    
    General Servicing Considerations    
1122(d)(1)(i)   Policies and procedures are instituted to monitor any performance or other triggers and events of default in accordance with the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(1)(ii)   If any material servicing activities are outsourced to third parties, policies and procedures are instituted to monitor the third party’s performance and compliance with such servicing activities.    
     
1122(d)(1)(iii)   Any requirements in the transaction agreements to maintain a back-up servicer for the pool assets are maintained.    
     
1122(d)(1)(iv)  

A fidelity bond and errors and omissions policy is in effect on the party participating in the servicing function throughout the reporting period in the amount of coverage required by and otherwise in accordance with the terms of the transaction agreements.

 

   

1122(d)(1)(v)

 

 

 

Aggregation of information, as applicable, is mathematically accurate and the information conveyed accurately reflects the information.

 

   
    Cash Collection and Administration    
     
1122(d)(2)(i)   Payments on pool assets are deposited into the appropriate custodial bank accounts and related bank clearing accounts no more than two business days following receipt, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.   ü2
     
1122(d)(2)(ii)   Disbursements made via wire transfer on behalf of an obligor or to an investor are made only by authorized personnel.   ü
     
1122(d)(2)(iii)   Advances of funds or guarantees regarding collections, cash flows or distributions, and any interest or other fees charged for such advances, are made, reviewed and approved as specified in the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(2)(iv)   The related accounts for the transaction, such as cash reserve accounts or accounts established as a form of overcollateralization, are separately maintained (e.g., with respect to commingling of cash) as set forth in the transaction agreements.   ü

 

  1 Each Assessment of compliance delivered by the Indenture Trustee shall be made only toward such portion(s) of servicing criteria applicable to the Indenture Trustee and not such other portion(s) applicable to other persons.
  2 Solely with regard to deposits made by the Indenture Trustee.

  

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Servicing Criteria  

Applicable

Servicing

Criteria

Reference   Criteria    
1122(d)(2)(v)   Each custodial account is maintained at a federally insured depository institution as set forth in the transaction agreements. For purposes of this criterion, “federally insured depository institution” with respect to a foreign financial institution means a foreign financial institution that meets the requirements of Rule 13k-1(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act.   ü3
     
1122(d)(2)(vi)   Unissued checks are safeguarded so as to prevent unauthorized access.    
     
1122(d)(2)(vii)   Reconciliations are prepared on a monthly basis for all asset-backed securities related bank accounts, including custodial accounts and related bank clearing accounts. These reconciliations (A) are mathematically accurate; (B) are prepared within 30 calendar days after the bank statement cutoff date, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements; (C) are reviewed and approved by someone other than the person who prepared the reconciliation; and (D) contain explanations for reconciling items. These reconciling items are resolved within 90 calendar days of their original identification, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.    
         
    Investor Remittances and Reporting    
     
1122(d)(3)(i)   Reports to investors, including those to be filed with the Commission, are maintained in accordance with the transaction agreements and applicable Commission requirements.  Specifically, such reports (A) are prepared in accordance with timeframes and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements; (B) provide information calculated in accordance with the terms specified in the transaction agreements; (C) are filed with the Commission as required by its rules and regulations; and (D) agree with investors’ or the trustee’s records as to the total unpaid principal balance and number of pool assets serviced by the Servicer.    
     
1122(d)(3)(ii)   Amounts due to investors are allocated and remitted in accordance with timeframes, distribution priority and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements.   ü
     
1122(d)(3)(iii)   Disbursements made to an investor are posted within two business days to the Servicer’s investor records, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(3)(iv)   Amounts remitted to investors per the investor reports agree with cancelled checks, or other form of payment, or custodial bank statements.   ü

 

3 Assessment to be given by Indenture Trustee shall be only with respect to Trust Accounts maintained by the Indenture Trustee under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

  

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Servicing Criteria  

Applicable

Servicing

Criteria

Reference   Criteria    
    Pool Asset Administration    
     
1122(d)(4)(i)   Collateral or security on pool assets is maintained as required by the transaction agreements or related asset pool documents.    
     
1122(d)(4)(ii)   Pool assets and related documents are safeguarded as required by the transaction agreements    
     
1122(d)(4)(iii)   Any additions, removals or substitutions to the asset pool are made, reviewed and approved in accordance with any conditions or requirements in the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(4)(iv)   Payments on pool assets, including any payoffs, made in accordance with the related pool asset documents are posted to the Servicer’s obligor records maintained no more than two business days after receipt, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements, and allocated to principal, interest or other items (e.g., escrow) in accordance with the related asset pool documents.    
     
1122(d)(4)(v)   The Servicer’s records regarding the accounts and the accounts agree with the Servicer’s records with respect to an obligor’s unpaid principal balance.    
     
1122(d)(4)(vi)   Changes with respect to the terms or status of an obligor’s account (e.g., loan modifications or re-agings) are made, reviewed and approved by authorized personnel in accordance with the transaction agreements and related pool asset documents.    
     
1122(d)(4)(vii)   Loss mitigation or recovery actions (e.g., forbearance plans, modifications and deeds in lieu of foreclosure, foreclosures and repossessions, as applicable) are initiated, conducted and concluded in accordance with the timeframes or other requirements established by the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(4)(viii)   Records documenting collection efforts are maintained during the period a pool asset is delinquent in accordance with the transaction agreements. Such records are maintained on at least a monthly basis, or such other period specified in the transaction agreements, and describe the entity’s activities in monitoring delinquent pool assets including, for example, phone calls, letters and payment rescheduling plans in cases where delinquency is deemed temporary (e.g., illness or unemployment).    
     
1122(d)(4)(ix)   Adjustments to interest rates or rates of return for pool assets with variable rates are computed based on the related pool asset documents.    

   

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Servicing Criteria  

Applicable

Servicing

Criteria

Reference   Criteria    
1122(d)(4)(x)   Regarding any funds held in trust for an obligor (such as escrow accounts): (A) such funds are analyzed, in accordance with the obligor’s Account documents, on at least an annual basis, or such other period specified in the transaction agreements; (B) interest on such funds is paid, or credited, to obligors in accordance with applicable Account documents and state laws; and (C) such funds are returned to the obligor within 30 calendar days of full repayment of the related Accounts, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(4)(xi)   Payments made on behalf of an obligor (such as tax or insurance payments) are made on or before the related penalty or expiration dates, as indicated on the appropriate bills or notices for such payments, provided that such support has been received by the servicer at least 30 calendar days prior to these dates, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(4)(xii)   Any late payment penalties in connection with any payment to be made on behalf of an obligor are paid from the servicer’s funds and not charged to the obligor, unless the late payment was due to the obligor’s error or omission.    
         
1122(d)(4)(xiii)   Disbursements made on behalf of an obligor are posted within two business days to the obligor’s records maintained by the servicer, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(4)(xiv)   Delinquencies, charge-offs and uncollectible accounts are recognized and recorded in accordance with the transaction agreements.    
     
1122(d)(4)(xv)   Any external enhancement or other support, identified in Item 1114(a)(1) through (3) or Item 1115 of Regulation AB, is maintained as set forth in the transaction agreements.    

  

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Exhibit F

 

FORM OF ANNUAL CERTIFICATION OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

 

Dated: [                      ]

 

Citibank, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), certifies to Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. (the “Servicer”), its officers and Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Issuer”), with the knowledge and intent that they will rely upon this certification, that:

 

(1)  It has reviewed the report on assessment of the Indenture Trustee’s compliance with the Servicing Criteria during the immediately preceding calendar year, as required under paragraph (b) of Rule 13a-18, Rule 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB, that was delivered by the Indenture Trustee to the Seller pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of May 1, 2024, among Harley- Davidson Customer Funding Corp., the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer (“Indenture Trustee Information”);

 

(2)  To the best of its knowledge, the Indenture Trustee Information, taken as a whole, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period of time covered by the Indenture Trustee Information (in making such statement, the Indenture Trustee makes no representation or warranty as to any information prepared or provided to it by a third person and upon which it relied in preparing our information); and

 

(3)  To the best of its knowledge, all of the Indenture Trustee Information required to be provided by the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture has been provided to the Servicer.

 

  Citibank, N.A., 
  as Indenture Trustee

 

  By:  
    Name:   
    Title:  

 

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Exhibit G

 

[Form of Certificate Regarding Reacquired Contracts]

 

Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.

 

Certificate Regarding Reacquired Contracts

 

The undersigned certifies that [s]he is the [________] of Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., a Nevada corporation (the “Servicer”), and that as such is duly authorized to execute and deliver this certificate on behalf of the Servicer pursuant to Section 7.08 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement (the “Agreement”) dated as of May 1, 2024 by and among Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., as Trust Depositor, the Servicer, Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, and Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the respective meanings specified in the Agreement), and further certifies that:

 

1.The Contracts on the attached schedule are to be [re]acquired by the [Seller/Servicer][Trust Depositor] on the date hereof pursuant to [Section 7.08[(a)][(b)] of the Agreement and Section 5.01 of the Transfer and Sale Agreement/Section 7.10 of the Agreement/Section 7.11 of the Agreement.]

 

2.[After giving effect to such reacquisition, the aggregate Principal Balance, as of the Cutoff Date, of all Contract(s) reacquired pursuant to Section 7.08(b) of the Agreement does not exceed [10]% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date.]

 

3.Upon deposit of the Purchase Price for such Contracts, such Contracts may, pursuant to Section 7.09 of the Agreement, be assigned by the Indenture Trustee to the Seller[/Servicer].

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have affixed hereunto my signature this ______ day of _____________.

 

  Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.

 

  By:  
    Printed Name:   

    Title:  

  

G-1

 

  

Exhibit H

 

[List of Contracts]

 

H-1

 

  

Exhibit I

 

[Form of Monthly Report to Noteholders]

 

[see attached]

 

I-1

 

 

Exhibit J

 

[Seller’s Representations and Warranties]

 

(1)            Representations and Warranties Regarding Seller. Seller represents and warrants, as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:

 

(a)            Organization and Good Standing. Seller is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and has the corporate power to own its assets and to transact the business in which it is currently engaged. Seller is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of the business transacted by it or properties owned or leased by it requires such qualification and in which the failure so to qualify would have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, or condition (financial or otherwise) of Seller or Trust Depositor.

 

(b)            Authorization; Binding Obligation. Seller has the power and authority to make, execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party and all of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party, and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of Seller enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement of such terms may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by the availability of equitable remedies.

 

(c)            No Consent Required. Seller is not required to obtain the consent of any other party or any consent, license, approval or authorization from, or registration or declaration with, any governmental authority, bureau or agency in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party.

 

(d)            No Violations. Seller’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party will not violate any provision of any existing law or regulation or any order or decree of any court or the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of Seller, or constitute a material breach of any mortgage, indenture, contract or other agreement to which Seller is a party or by which Seller or any of Seller’s properties may be bound.

 

(e)            Litigation. No litigation or administrative proceeding of or before any court, tribunal or governmental body is currently pending, or to the knowledge of Seller threatened, against Seller or any of its properties or with respect to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Seller is a party which, if adversely determined, would in the opinion of Seller have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets or condition (financial or other) of Seller or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Seller is a party.

 

(f)            State of Incorporation; Name; No Changes. Seller’s state of incorporation is the State of Nevada. Seller’s exact legal name is as set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement. Seller has not changed its name whether by amendment of its Articles of Incorporation, by reorganization or otherwise, and has not changed its state of incorporation within the four months preceding the Closing Date.

 

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(g)            Solvency. The Seller, after giving effect to the conveyances made by it hereunder, is Solvent.

 

(2)            Representations and Warranties Regarding Each Contract. Seller represents and warrants as to each Contract as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:

 

(a)            Payments. Except for a payment that is not more than 29 days delinquent as of the Cutoff Date, no payment default exists on the Contract.

 

(b)            No Waivers. As of the Cutoff Date, no material term of the Contract has been affirmatively amended or modified, except amendments and modifications indicated in the Servicer’s servicing system or in the Contract File.

 

(c)            Binding Obligation. The Contract is on a form of contract that includes rights and remedies allowing the holder to enforce the obligation and realize on the Motorcycle and represents the legal, valid and binding payment obligation of the Obligor, enforceable in all material respects by the holder of the Contract, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights or by general equitable principles and consumer protection laws.

 

(d)            No Defenses. As of the Cutoff Date, no right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or defense asserted or threatened with respect to such Contract was indicated in the Servicer’s servicing system or related Contract File.

 

(e)            Insurance. The terms of the Contract require that for the term of such Contract the Motorcycle securing such Contract will be covered by physical damage insurance.

 

(f)            Origination. The Contract (i) was originated in the United States (including U.S. military bases) by Eaglemark Savings Bank in the regular course of its business, (ii) was fully and properly executed by the parties thereto, and (iii) has been purchased by Seller in the regular course of its business.

 

(g)            Compliance with Law. At the time it was originated, the Contract complied in all material respects with all requirements of law in effect at the time.

 

(h)            Contract in Force. As of the Cutoff Date, the Servicer’s servicing system indicates that the Contract was not satisfied or subordinated in whole or in part or rescinded, and the related Motorcycle securing the Contract has not been released from the lien of the Contract in whole or in part.

 

(i)            Valid Security Interest. The Contract has created or shall create a valid, binding and enforceable first priority security interest in favor of the Seller in the Motorcycle, except as to priority for any Permitted Liens, which security interest is assignable by the Seller to the Depositor.

 

(j)            No Defaults. As of the Cutoff Date, no default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration was recorded in the Servicer’s servicing system with respect to any Contract. Seller has not waived any such default, breach, violation or event permitting acceleration. As of the Cutoff Date, no Motorcycle was in repossession.

 

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(k)            Installments. The Contract has a fixed Contract Rate and provides for monthly payments of principal and interest which, if timely made, would fully amortize the loan on a simple-interest basis over its term.

 

(l)            Owner of Record. The Seller is identified as the “owner of record” on all electronic chattel paper relating to the Contract, and the Seller has “control”, as defined in Section 9-105 of the UCC, of all electronic chattel paper relating to the Contract. The Contract does not have any marks or notations indicating that it has been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed by the Seller to any Person other than the Trust Depositor.

 

(m)            Good Title. Immediately before the sale and assignment under the Transfer and Sale Agreement and under this Agreement, the Seller has good and marketable title to the Contract, free and clear of any encumbrance or lien, except for any Permitted Liens, and, immediately upon the transfer of the Contract by the Seller, the Trust Depositor shall have good and marketable title to the Contract free and clear of any encumbrance or lien, except for any Permitted Liens, and, immediately upon the transfer of the Contract by the Trust Depositor, the Issuer shall have good and marketable title to the Contract free and clear of any encumbrance, equity, loan, pledge, charge, claim or security interest, other than the liens created by the Indenture and any Permitted Liens.

 

(n)            No Government Obligors. The Obligor is not the United States government or an agency, authority, instrumentality or other political subdivision of the United States government.

 

(o)            Obligor Bankruptcy. At the Cutoff Date, the Obligor was not the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, according to the records in Servicer’s servicing system.

 

(p)            Chattel Paper; One Original. The Contract is either “tangible chattel paper” or “electronic chattel paper”. The Contract is evidenced by either (i) one executed tangible record constituting or forming a part of the Contract that is “tangible chattel paper”, or (ii) a single “authoritative copy” of the electronic record constituting or forming a part of the Contract that is “electronic chattel paper”. Terms in quotation marks have the meaning assigned to them in the applicable UCC.

 

(q)            Selection Criteria. The Contract is secured by a new or used Motorcycle. No Contract has a Contract Rate less than 0.010%. The Contract amortizes the amount financed over an original term no greater than 84 months (excluding periods of deferral of first payment). The Contract has a Principal Balance of at least $500.00 as of the Cutoff Date.

 

(3)            Representations and Warranties Regarding the Contracts in the Aggregate. Seller represents and warrants, as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:

 

(a)            Amounts. The Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date equals or exceeds the aggregate principal amount of the Notes on the Closing Date.

 

(b)            Characteristics. The Contracts have the following characteristics: (i) all the Contracts are secured by Motorcycles; (ii) no Contract has a remaining maturity of more than 84 months; and (iii) the final scheduled payment on the Contract with the latest maturity is due no later than May 10, 2031. Approximately 70.47% of the Pool Balance as of the Cutoff Date is attributable to loans for purchases of new Motorcycles and approximately 29.53% is attributable to loans for purchases of used Motorcycles. No Contract was originated after the Cutoff Date. No Contract has a Contract Rate less than 0.010%.

 

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(c)            Marking Records. As of the Closing Date, Seller has caused the Computer File relating to the Contracts sold hereunder and concurrently reconveyed by the Trust Depositor to the Trust and pledged by the Trust to the Indenture Trustee to be clearly and unambiguously marked to indicate that such Contracts constitute part of the Trust Corpus, are owned by the Trust and constitute security for the Notes.

 

(d)            No Adverse Selection. No selection procedures adverse to Noteholders have been employed in selecting the Contracts.

 

(e)            True Sale. The transactions contemplated by the Transfer and Sale Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement constitute valid sales, transfers and assignments from Seller to Trust Depositor and from Trust Depositor to the Trust of all of Seller’s right, title and interest in the Contract Assets as of the Closing Date.

 

(f)             All Filings Made. All filings (including, without limitation, UCC filings) required to be made by any Person and actions required to be taken or performed by any Person in any jurisdiction to give the Indenture Trustee a first priority perfected security interest (subject only to Permitted Liens) in the Contracts, the proceeds thereof and the rest of the Collateral have been made, taken or performed. All financing statements filed or to be filed against the Seller in favor of the Trust Depositor in connection herewith describing the Contracts contain a statement to the following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement, except as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, will violate the rights of the Issuer.”

 

(g)            List of Contracts. The information set forth in the List of Contracts is true, complete and correct in all material respects as of the Cutoff Date.

 

(h)            Lockbox Bank. All Obligors have been instructed to make payments to a Lockbox Account (either directly by remitting payments to a Lockbox, or indirectly by making payments through direct debit, the telephone or the internet to an account of the Servicer which payments will be subsequently transferred from such account to one or more Lockbox Banks), and no person claiming through or under Seller has any claim or interest in a Lockbox Account other than the related Lockbox Bank; provided, however, that other Persons may have an interest in certain other collections therein not related to the Contracts.

 

(4)            Representations and Warranties Regarding the Contract Files. Seller represents and warrants as of the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, that:

 

(a)            Possession. Immediately prior to the Closing Date, the Servicer or its custodian will have possession of each original Contract and the related complete Contract File. Each of such documents which is required to be signed by the Obligor has been signed by the Obligor in the appropriate spaces. All blanks on any form have been properly filled in and each form has otherwise been correctly prepared. The complete Contract File for each Contract currently is in the possession of the Servicer or its custodian.

 

(b)            Bulk Transfer Laws. The transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Contracts and the Contract Files by Seller pursuant to the Transfer and Sale Agreement and by Trust Depositor pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement is not subject to the bulk transfer or any similar statutory provisions in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.

 

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Exhibit K

 

[Lockbox Bank and Lockbox Account]

 

Lockbox

 

  For Standard U.S. Mail:   
  Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.   
  Department 15129   
  Palatine, IL 60055-5129  
     
  For UPS and FedEx:   
  Harley-Davidson Credit Corp.   
  Department 15129   
  5505 N. Cumberland Avenue, Suite 307   
  Chicago, IL 60656-1471  

 

Lockbox Bank  

 

The Bank of New York Mellon  

 

K-1

 

EX-10.3 7 tm2413280d9_ex10-3.htm EXHIBIT 10.3

 

Exhibit 10.3

 

 

ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT

 

among

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A,

 

as Issuer,

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP.,

 

as Administrator,

 

HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP.,

 

as Trust Depositor,

 

and

 

CITIBANK, N.A.,

 

as Indenture Trustee

 

Dated as of May 1, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Section 1. Duties of the Administrator 1
Section 2. Records 7
Section 3. Compensation 7
Section 4. Additional Information to be Furnished to the Issuer 7
Section 5. Independence of the Administrator 7
Section 6. No Joint Venture 7
Section 7. Other Activities of Administrator 8
Section 8. Term of Agreement; Resignation and Removal of Administrator 8
Section 9. Action upon Termination, Resignation or Removal 9
Section 10. Notices 9
Section 11. Amendments 9
Section 12. Successors and Assigns 10
Section 13. Governing Law 10
Section 14. Headings 10
Section 15. Counterparts; Originals 10
Section 16. Severability 10
Section 17. Not Applicable to Harley-Davidson in Other Capacities 10
Section 18. Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee 11
Section 19. Third-party Beneficiary 11
Section 20. Survivability 11

 

 

 

 

This Administration Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of May 1, 2024, among Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Issuer”), Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. (together with its successors and assigns “Harley-Davidson Credit” and in its capacity as administrator, the “Administrator”), Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp. (the “Trust Depositor”), and Citibank, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee (together with its successors and assigns, the “Indenture Trustee”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H:

 

WHEREAS, the Issuer is issuing the Notes pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of the date hereof (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee (capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement);

 

WHEREAS, the Issuer has entered into certain agreements in connection with the issuance of the Notes including (i) a Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “Sale and Servicing Agreement”), among the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Trust Depositor and Harley-Davidson Credit, as servicer (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Servicer”), and (ii) the Indenture (collectively referred to hereinafter as the “Transaction Documents”);

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Transaction Documents, the Issuer and the Owner Trustee are required to perform certain duties in connection with (i) the Notes and the collateral therefor pledged pursuant to the Indenture (the “Collateral”) and (ii) the beneficial ownership interest in the Issuer;

 

WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Owner Trustee desire to have the Administrator perform certain of the duties of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee referred to in the preceding clause and to provide such additional services consistent with the terms of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents as the Issuer and the Owner Trustee may from time to time request; and

 

WHEREAS, the Administrator has the capacity to provide the services required hereby and is willing to perform such services for the Issuer and the Owner Trustee on the terms set forth herein;

 

NOW, THEREAFTER, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

Section 1.              Duties of the Administrator.

 

(a)           Duties with respect to the Indenture.

 

(i)            The Administrator agrees to perform all its duties as Administrator and the duties of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee under the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. In addition, the Administrator shall consult with the Owner Trustee regarding the duties of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee under the Indenture. The Administrator shall monitor the performance of the Issuer and shall advise the Owner Trustee when action is necessary to comply with the respective duties of the Issuer and the Owner Trustee under the Indenture. The Administrator shall prepare for execution by the Issuer, or shall cause the preparation by other appropriate persons of, all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions that it shall be the duty of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Indenture. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Administrator shall take all appropriate action that the Issuer or the Owner Trustee is required to take pursuant to the Indenture including, without limitation, such of the following as are required with respect to the foregoing matters under the Indenture (references are to Sections of the Indenture):

 

(A)          the duty to cause the Note Register to be kept and to give the Indenture Trustee notice of any appointment of a new Note Registrar and the location, or change in location, of the Note Register (Section 2.04);

 

 

 

 

(B)          the notification of Noteholders of the final principal payment on their Notes (Section 2.07(b));

 

(C)          the fixing or causing to be fixed of any special record date and the notification of the Indenture Trustee and Noteholders with respect to special payment dates, if any (Section 2.07(c));

 

(D)          the preparation of or obtaining of the documents and instruments required for execution and authentication of the Notes and delivery of the same to the Indenture Trustee (Section 2.02);

 

(E)           the preparation, obtaining or filing of the instruments, opinions and certificates and other documents required for the release of Collateral (Section 2.12);

 

(F)           the maintenance of an office for registration of transfer or exchange of Notes (Section 3.02);

 

(G)          the duty to cause newly appointed Paying Agents, if any, to deliver to the Indenture Trustee the instrument specified in the Indenture regarding funds held in trust (Section 3.03);

 

(H)          the direction to the Indenture Trustee to deposit monies with Paying Agents, if any, other than the Indenture Trustee (Section 3.03);

 

(I)            the obtaining and preservation of the Issuer’s qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument and agreement included in the Collateral (Section 3.04);

 

(J)            the preparation of all supplements and amendments to the Indenture and all financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments and the taking of such other action as is necessary or advisable to protect the Collateral other than as prepared by the Servicer (Section 3.05);

 

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(K)          the delivery of the Opinion of Counsel on the Closing Date and certain other statements as to compliance with the Indenture (Sections 3.06 and 3.09);

 

(L)           the identification to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer’s Certificate of a Person with whom the Issuer has contracted to perform its duties under the Indenture (Section 3.07(b));

 

(M)         the notification of the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency of an Event of Termination under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and of the appointment of a Successor Servicer (Section 3.07(d));

 

(N)          the duty to cause the Servicer to comply with Article Five and Article Nine of the Sale and Servicing Agreement (Section 3.14);

 

(O)          the preparation and obtaining of documents and instruments required for the release of the Issuer from its obligations under the Indenture (Section 3.10(b) and Section 3.11(b));

 

(P)           the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency of each Event of Default under the Indenture and each Event of Termination by the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement (Section 3.18);

 

(Q)          the delivery of written notice to each Rating Agency of amendments to the Sale and Servicing Agreement (Section 3.21);

 

(R)           the monitoring of the Issuer’s obligations as to the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and the preparation of an Officer’s Certificate and the obtaining of the Opinion of Counsel and the Independent Certificate relating thereto (Section 4.01);

 

(S)           the compliance with any written directive of the Indenture Trustee with respect to the sale of the Collateral in a commercially reasonable manner if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the delivery of written notice of such sale to the Rating Agencies (Section 5.04);

 

(T)           the preparation and delivery of notice to Noteholders of the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee (Section 6.08);

 

(U)          the preparation of any written instruments required to confirm more fully the authority of any co-trustee or separate trustee and any written instruments necessary in connection with the resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee or any co-trustee or separate trustee (Sections 6.08 and 6.10);

 

(V)           the delivery of notice to the Rating Agencies of a successor Indenture Trustee by merger, conversion or consolidation of the Indenture Trustee (Section 6.09);

 

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(W)         the furnishing of the Indenture Trustee with the names and addresses of Noteholders during any period when the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar (Section 7.01);

 

(X)          the opening of one or more accounts in the Indenture Trustee’s name, the preparation and delivery of Issuer Orders, Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel and all other actions necessary with respect to investment and reinvestment of funds in the Trust Accounts (Sections 8.02 and 8.03);

 

(Y)           the preparation of an Issuer Request and Officer’s Certificate and the obtaining of an Opinion of Counsel and Independent Certificates, if necessary, for the release of the Collateral (Sections 8.04 and 8.05);

 

(Z)           the preparation of Issuer Orders and the obtaining of Opinions of Counsel with respect to the execution of supplemental indentures and the mailing to the Rating Agencies and the Noteholders of notices with respect to such supplemental indentures (Sections 9.01, 9.02 and 9.03);

 

(AA)       the execution and delivery of new Notes conforming to any supplemental indenture (Section 9.06);

 

(BB)        the duty to notify each Rating Agency and the Indenture Trustee of redemption of the Notes (Section 10.01);

 

(CC)        the preparation and delivery of all Officer’s Certificates, Opinions of Counsel and Independent Certificates with respect to any requests by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under the Indenture (Section 11.01(a));

 

(DD)       the preparation and delivery of Officer’s Certificates and the obtaining of Independent Certificates, if necessary, for the release of property from the lien of the Indenture (Section 11.01(b));

 

(EE)         the preparation and delivery to Noteholders and the Indenture Trustee of any agreements with respect to alternate payment and notice provisions (Section 11.06);

 

(FF)         the recording of the Indenture, if applicable (Section 11.15); and

 

(GG)        the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee (Section 6.08).

 

(ii)           The Administrator will:

 

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

 

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(B)          indemnify the Indenture Trustee and its agents for, and hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the transactions contemplated by the Indenture, including the reasonable costs and expenses of (i) defending themselves against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties under the Indenture and (ii) enforcing this indemnity;

 

(C)          indemnify the Owner Trustee and its agents for, and hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the transactions contemplated by the Trust Agreement, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties under the Trust Agreement;

 

(D)          maintain the effectiveness of all of the Issuer’s licenses required under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act in connection with the Indenture and the transactions contemplated thereby until the lien and security interest of the Indenture shall no longer be in effect in accordance with the terms thereof; and

 

(E)          (1) pay the Asset Representations Reviewer’s Review Fee and (2) reimburse the Asset Representation Reviewer’s travel expenses and dispute resolution expenses, in each case, as set forth in the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

 

(b)           Additional Duties.

 

(i)            In addition to the duties set forth in Section 1(a)(i), the Administrator (A) shall perform such calculations and shall prepare or shall cause the preparation by other appropriate persons of, and shall execute on behalf of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee, all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions that the Issuer or the Owner Trustee are required to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Transaction Documents or under Section 5.03 of the Trust Agreement; (B) shall deliver on behalf of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee, all notices required to be delivered to the Rating Agencies pursuant to the Transaction Documents and the Trust Agreement; and (C) at the request of the Owner Trustee shall take all appropriate action that the Issuer or the Owner Trustee are required to take pursuant to the Transaction Documents. In furtherance thereof, the Owner Trustee shall, on behalf of the Issuer, execute and deliver to the Administrator and to each successor Administrator appointed pursuant to the terms hereof, one or more powers of attorney substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, appointing the Administrator the attorney-in-fact of the Issuer for the purpose of executing on behalf of the Owner Trustee and the Issuer all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions. Subject to Section 5, and in accordance with the directions of the Issuer, the Administrator shall administer, perform or supervise the performance of such other activities in connection with the Collateral (including the Transaction Documents) as are not covered by any of the foregoing provisions and as are expressly requested by the Issuer and are reasonably within the capability of the Administrator.

 

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(ii)           Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Transaction Documents to the contrary, the Administrator shall be responsible for promptly notifying the Owner Trustee in the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust’s payments (or allocations of income) to a Certificateholder as contemplated in Section 5.01(d) of the Trust Agreement. Any such notice shall specify the amount of any withholding tax required to be withheld by the Owner Trustee pursuant to such provision.

 

(iii)          Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Transaction Documents to the contrary, the Administrator shall be responsible for performance of the duties of the Owner Trustee set forth in Section 5.03(a), (c), (d), and (e), and the penultimate sentence of Section 5.03 of the Trust Agreement with respect to, among other things, accounting and reports to the Certificateholders; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall retain responsibility for the distribution of information forms necessary to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.

 

(iv)          If the Administrator or any of its Affiliates is not the sole Certificateholder, the Administrator shall satisfy its obligations with respect to clauses (ii) and (iii) above by retaining, at the expense of the Trust payable by the Administrator, a firm of independent public accountants acceptable to the Owner Trustee, which shall perform the obligations of the Administrator thereunder.

 

(v)           The Administrator shall perform the duties of the Administrator specified in Section 10.02 of the Trust Agreement required to be performed in connection with the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee, and any other duties expressly required to be performed by the Administrator under the Trust Agreement.

 

(vi)          In carrying out the foregoing duties or any of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator may enter into transactions or otherwise deal with any of its Affiliates; provided, however, that the terms of any such transactions or dealings shall be in accordance with any directions received from the Issuer and shall be, in the Administrator’s opinion, no less favorable to the Issuer than would be available from unaffiliated parties.

 

(c)            Non-Ministerial Matters.

 

(i)            With respect to matters that in the reasonable judgment of the Administrator are non-ministerial, the Administrator shall not take any action unless, within a reasonable time before the taking of such action, the Administrator shall have notified the Owner Trustee of the proposed action and the Owner Trustee shall not have withheld consent or provided an alternative direction. For the purpose of the preceding sentence, “non-ministerial matters” shall include, without limitation:

 

(A)          the amendment of or any supplement to the Indenture;

 

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(B)           the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Issuer and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Issuer (other than in connection with the collection of the Contracts);

 

(C)           the amendment, change or modification of any other Transaction Documents;

 

(D)          the appointment of successor Note Registrars, successor Paying Agents and successor Indenture Trustees pursuant to the Indenture or the appointment of successor Administrators or a successor Servicer, or the consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee of its obligations under the Indenture; and

 

(E)           the removal of the Indenture Trustee.

 

(ii)           Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Administrator shall not be obligated to, and shall not, (A) make any payments to the Noteholders under the Transaction Documents, (B) sell the Collateral pursuant to clause (iv) of Section 5.04 of the Indenture, (C) take any other action that the Issuer directs the Administrator not to take on its behalf or (D) take any other action which may be construed as having the effect of varying the investment of the Holders.

 

Section 2.              Records. The Administrator shall maintain appropriate books of account and records relating to services performed hereunder, which books of account and records shall be accessible for inspection by the Issuer and the Owner Trustee at any time during normal business hours.

 

Section 3.              Compensation. As compensation for the performance of the Administrator’s obligations under this Agreement and as reimbursement for its expenses related thereto, the Administrator shall be entitled to a monthly fee which shall be solely an obligation of the Trust Depositor and shall be in an amount as shall be agreeable to the Trust Depositor and the Administrator.

 

Section 4.              Additional Information to be Furnished to the Issuer. The Administrator shall furnish to the Issuer from time to time such additional information regarding the Collateral as the Issuer shall reasonably request.

 

Section 5.              Independence of the Administrator. For all purposes of this Agreement, the Administrator shall be an independent contractor and shall not be subject to the supervision of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee with respect to the manner in which it accomplishes the performance of its obligations hereunder. Unless expressly authorized by the Issuer, the Administrator shall have no authority to act for or represent the Issuer or the Owner Trustee in any way and shall not otherwise be deemed an agent of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee.

 

Section 6.              No Joint Venture. Nothing contained in this Agreement (i) shall constitute the Administrator and either of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee as members of any partnership, joint venture, association, syndicate, unincorporated business or other separate entity, (ii) shall be construed to impose any liability as such on any of them, or (iii) shall be deemed to confer on any of them any express, implied or apparent authority to incur any obligation or liability on behalf of the others.

 

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Section 7.             Other Activities of Administrator. Nothing herein shall prevent the Administrator or any Affiliate from engaging in other business or, in its sole discretion, from acting in a similar capacity as an administrator for any other Person or entity even though such person or entity may engage in business activities similar to those of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee.

 

Section 8.              Term of Agreement; Resignation and Removal of Administrator. This Agreement shall continue in force until the termination of the Issuer, upon which event this Agreement shall automatically terminate.

 

(a)           Subject to Section 8(d) and Section 8(e), the Administrator may resign its duties hereunder by providing the Issuer with at least sixty (60) days’ prior written notice.

 

(b)           Subject to Section 8(d) and Section 8(e), the Issuer may remove the Administrator without cause by providing the Administrator with at least sixty (60) days’ prior written notice.

 

(c)           Subject to Section 8(d) and Section 8(e), at the sole option of the Issuer, the Administrator may be removed immediately upon written notice of termination from the Issuer to the Administrator if any of the following events shall occur:

 

(i)            the Administrator shall default in the performance of any of its duties under this Agreement and, after notice of such default, shall not cure such default within ten (10) days (or, if such default cannot be cured in such time, shall not give within ten (10) days such assurance of cure as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer);

 

(ii)           a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a decree or order for relief, and such decree or order shall not have been vacated within sixty (60) days, in respect of the Administrator in any involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or appoint a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for the Administrator or any substantial part of its property or order the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs; or

 

(iii)          the Administrator shall commence a voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or similar official for the Administrator or any substantial part of its property, shall consent to the taking of possession by any such official of any substantial part of its property, shall make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due.

 

The Administrator agrees that if any of the events specified in clauses (ii) or (iii) above shall occur, it shall give written notice thereof to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee within seven (7) days after the occurrence of such event.

 

(d)           No resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to this Section shall be effective until (i) a successor Administrator shall have been appointed by the Issuer and (ii) such successor Administrator shall have agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in the same manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder.

 

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(e)           The appointment of any successor Administrator shall be effective only after the satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition with respect to the proposed appointment.

 

(f)            Subject to Section 8(d) and 8(e), the Administrator acknowledges that upon the appointment of a Successor Servicer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Administrator shall immediately resign and such Successor Servicer shall automatically become the Administrator under this Agreement.

 

Section 9.              Action upon Termination, Resignation or Removal. Promptly upon the effective date of termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 8 or the resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to Section 8(a), (b), (c) or (f), the Administrator shall be entitled to be paid all fees and reimbursable expenses accruing to it to the date of such termination, resignation or removal. The Administrator shall forthwith upon such termination pursuant to Section 8 deliver to the Issuer all property and documents of or relating to the Collateral then in the custody of the Administrator. In the event of the resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to Section 8(a), (b), (c) or (f), respectively, the Administrator shall cooperate with the Issuer and take all reasonable steps requested to assist the Issuer in making an orderly transfer of the duties of the Administrator.

 

Section 10.           Notices. All notices, demands, certificates, requests and communications hereunder (“notices”) shall be in writing and shall be effective (a) upon receipt when sent through the U.S. mail, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, with such receipt to be effective the date of delivery indicated on the return receipt, or (b) upon receipt when sent through an overnight courier, or (c) on the date personally delivered to an Authorized Officer of the party to which sent, or (d) on the date transmitted by legible telecopier or electronic mail transmission with a confirmation of receipt, in all cases addressed to the recipient at the address for such recipient set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

Each party hereto may, by notice given in accordance herewith to each of the other parties hereto, designate any further or different address to which subsequent notices shall be sent.

 

Section 11.           Amendments. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by a written amendment duly executed and delivered by the parties hereto, with the written consent of the Owner Trustee but without the consent of the Noteholders, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders; provided that such amendment will not, in the Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, materially and adversely affect the interest of any Noteholder. This Agreement may also be amended by the parties hereto with the written consent of the Owner Trustee and the Required Holders for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of Noteholders; provided, however, that no such amendment may (i) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on the Contracts or distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of the Noteholders or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the holders of Notes which are required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all outstanding Notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrator may not amend this Agreement without the permission of the Trust Depositor, which permission shall not be unreasonably withheld.

 

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Section 12.           Successors and Assigns. This Agreement may not be assigned by the Administrator unless such assignment is previously consented to in writing by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee and subject to the satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition in respect thereof. An assignment with such consent and satisfaction, if accepted by the assignee, shall bind the assignee hereunder in the same manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be assigned by the Administrator without the consent of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee to a corporation or other organization that is a successor (by merger, consolidation or purchase of assets) to the Administrator; provided that such successor organization executes and delivers to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, in which such corporation or other organization agrees to be bound hereunder by the terms of said assignment in the same manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall bind any successors or assigns of the parties hereto.

 

Section 13.           Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

 

Section 14.            Headings. The section and subsection headings hereof have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be construed to affect the meaning, construction or effect of this Agreement.

 

Section 15.           Counterparts; Originals. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same agreement. The words “execution”, “signed”, “signature” and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Agreement shall include, in addition to manually executed signature pages, images of manually executed signatures transmitted by facsimile or other electronic format (including “pdf”, “tif” or “jpg”) and other electronic signatures (including DocuSign and AdobeSign). The use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, any State law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the UCC.

 

Section 16.           Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

Section 17.           Not Applicable to Harley-Davidson Credit in Other Capacities. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any obligation Harley-Davidson Credit may have in any other capacity.

 

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Section 18.           Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee.

 

(a)           Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this instrument has been countersigned by Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuer and in no event shall Wilmington Trust, National Association in its individual capacity or any beneficial owner of the Issuer have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuer. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles Six, Seven and Eight of the Trust Agreement.

 

(b)           Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been countersigned by Citibank, N.A. not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee and in no event shall Citibank, N.A. have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuer.

 

Section 19.           Third-party Beneficiary. The Owner Trustee is a third-party beneficiary to this Agreement and is entitled to the rights and benefits hereunder and may enforce the provisions hereof as if it were a party hereto.

 

Section 20.           Survivability. The obligations of the Administrator described in Section 1(a)(ii) hereof shall survive termination of this Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE TRUST 2024-A
   
  By: Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
   
  By: /s/ Drew Davis
    Printed Name:  Drew Davis
    Title:  Vice President

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CUSTOMER FUNDING CORP., as Trust Depositor
   
  By: /s/ David Viney
    Printed Name: David Viney
    Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

  CITIBANK, N.A., 
not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee
   
  By: /s/ Trang Tran-Rojas
    Printed Name: Trang Tran-Rojas
    Title: Senior Trust Officer

 

  HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP., as Administrator
   
  By: /s/ David Viney
    Printed Name: David Viney
    Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

Signature Page to Administration Agreement

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

State of Illinois)

) SS.

County of Cook)

 

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association (the “Owner Trustee”), whose principal executive office is located at 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware Attention: Trust Administration, by and through its duly elected and authorized officer, _________________________________________, on behalf of itself and of Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2024-A (the “Issuer”), as Issuer, under the Administration Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2024 (the “Administration Agreement”), among the Issuer, Harley-Davidson Customer Funding Corp., Citibank, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, and Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., as Administrator, does hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Harley-Davidson Credit Corp., a Nevada corporation, each of its officers from time to time and each of its employees authorized by it from time to time to act hereunder, jointly and each of them severally, together or acting alone, its true and lawful attorney-in-fact, for the Owner Trustee and the Issuer in their name, place and stead, in the sole discretion of such attorney-in-fact, to perform such calculations and prepare or cause the preparation by other appropriate persons of, and to execute on behalf of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee, all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions that the Issuer or the Owner Trustee is required to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Administration Agreement, and to take any and all other action, as such attorney-in-fact may deem necessary or desirable in accordance with the directions of the Owner Trustee and in connection with its duties as Administrator or successor Administrator under the Administration Agreement. Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Administration Agreement.

 

The Owner Trustee hereby ratifies and confirms the execution, delivery and performance (whether before or after the date hereof) of the above-mentioned documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions, by the attorney-in-fact and all that the attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

The Owner Trustee hereby agrees that no person or other entity dealing with the attorney-in-fact shall be bound to inquire into such attorney-in-fact’s power and authority hereunder and any such person or entity shall be fully protected in relying on such power of authority.

 

This Limited Power of Attorney may not be assigned without the prior written consent of the Owner Trustee. It is effective immediately and will continue until it is revoked.

 

 

 

 

This Limited Power of Attorney shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without reference to principles of conflicts of law.

 

Executed as of this 1st day of May, 2024.

 

  WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
   
  By:  
    Printed Name:
    Title:

 

 

 

 

CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF

 

NOTARY PUBLIC

 

State of Delaware)

) SS.

County of New Castle)

 

On _______ __, 2024 before me,                                                                                                                            

 

[Insert name and title of notary]

 

personally appeared                                                                                          

 

¨            personally known to me, or

 

¨            proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are

 

subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ties), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which person(s) acted, executed the instrument.

 

WITNESS my hand and official seal.

 

  Signature:  
    Notary Public, State of Delaware
    My Commission Expires                              [SEAL]