S-3

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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Utah	87-0342734
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

7043 South 300 West

Midvale, Utah  84047

Telephone:  (801) 566-1200

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Kevin L. Cornwell, Chief Executive Officer

Utah Medical Products, Inc.

7043 South 300 West

Midvale, Utah  84047

Telephone:  (801) 566-1200

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

James R. Kruse

Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, LLC

136 East South Temple, Twenty-First Floor

Salt Lake City, Utah  84111

Telephone:  (801) 531-7090

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Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:  From time to time after the effectiveness of this registration statement as determined by market conditions.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  x

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer  o	Accelerated filer  x
Non-accelerated filer  o	Smaller reporting company  ¨

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of each class of  securities to be registered	Amount to be registered(1)			Proposed Maximum  offering price per unit(2)		Proposed Maximum  aggregate offering price(1)			Amount of registration fee(1)
Common stock, $0.01 par value		(2)			--			(2)			(2)
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value			(2)		--			(2)			(2)
Warrants			(2)		--			(2)			(2)
Senior Debt Securities			(2)		--			(2)			(2)
Subordinated Debt Securities			(2)		--			(2)			(2)
Preferred share purchase rights(3)			(4)		--			(4)			(4)
Total	$	2,000,000			--	$	2,000,000		$	229	(5)

(1)	This registration statement covers such indeterminate principal amount or number of shares of common stock and preferred stock, senior and subordinated debt securities, and number of warrants of the registrant with an aggregate initial offering price not to exceed $102,000,000.  The securities registered hereunder are to be issued from time to time and at prices to be determined.  Any securities registered under this registration statement may be sold separately or as units with other securities registered under this registration statement.  The securities registered hereunder also include: (i) an indeterminate number of shares of common stock or preferred stock, number of warrants, and principal amount of senior and subordinated debt securities as may, from time to time, be issued upon conversion or exchange of any preferred stock, warrants, or senior or subordinated debt securities registered hereunder, for which no separate consideration will be payable; and (ii) securities that may be purchased by underwriters to cover over-allotments, if any.
(2)	Omitted pursuant to General Instruction II(D) of Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
(3)	Each share of the registrant’s common stock registered under this registration statement, if issued prior to the termination of the registrant’s rights agreement, dated as of July 30, 2004, as amended, between the registrant and the rights agent named therein, includes Series A Participating Preferred Stock purchase rights (the “Rights”).  Prior to the occurrence of certain events, the Rights will not be exercisable or evidenced separately from the registrant’s common stock and have no value except as reflected in the market price of the shares of the registrant’s common stock to which they are attached.
(4)	The Rights will be issued for no additional consideration and, therefore, no additional registration fee is required.
(5)	Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act.  Pursuant to the notes for the calculation of the registration fee of Form S-3 and Rule 415(a)(6), the registration fee respecting the $100,000,000 in unsold securities registered on Form S-3, SEC File No. 333-153361, was previously paid and is carried forward, leaving a balance of $229.20 to be paid with this filing.

THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT THAT SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(A) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(A), MAY DETERMINE.

Subject to Completion, Dated June 12, 2012

The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed.  We may not sell any of the securities being registered until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective.  This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities, and it is not soliciting offers to buy these securities, in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

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$102,000,000

Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Warrants,

Senior Debt Securities, and Subordinated Debt Securities

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We may offer common stock, preferred stock, warrants, senior debt securities, and subordinated debt securities consisting of a combination of any of these securities at an aggregate initial offering price not to exceed $102,000,000.  The debt securities that we may offer may consist of senior debt securities or subordinated debt securities, in each case consisting of notes or other evidence of indebtedness in one or more series.  The warrants that we may offer will consist of warrants to purchase any of the other securities that may be sold under this prospectus.  The securities offered under this prospectus may be offered separately, together, or in separate series, and in amounts, at prices, and on terms to be determined at the time of sale.  A prospectus supplement that will set forth the terms of the offering of any securities will accompany this prospectus.  You should read this prospectus and any supplement carefully before you invest.

Our common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “UTMD.”  On June 11, 2012, the closing price of our common stock was $34.805 per share.  As of the date of this prospectus, none of the other securities that we may offer by this prospectus is listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation system.

You should refer to the risk factors included in the periodic reports and other information that are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and carefully consider that information before buying our securities.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus.  Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

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This prospectus may not be used to consummate the sale of any securities unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement relating to the securities offered.

The date of this prospectus is ____________, 2012.

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You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement, including the information incorporated by reference herein as described under “Information Incorporated by Reference.”  We have not authorized anyone to provide you with information different from that contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement.  This prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement may be used only for the purposes for which they have been published, and no person has been authorized to give any information not contained in, or incorporated by reference into, this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement.  If you receive any other information, you should not rely on it.

The information contained in this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement is accurate only as of the dates on the cover pages of this prospectus or the accompanying prospectus supplement, as applicable.  The information incorporated by reference into this prospectus or the accompanying prospectus supplement is accurate only as of the date of the document incorporated by reference.  Any statement made in this prospectus, the accompanying prospectus supplement, or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in this prospectus, the accompanying prospectus supplement, or in any other subsequently filed document that is also incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus modifies or supersedes that statement.  Any statement so modified or superseded will be deemed to constitute a part of this prospectus only to the extent so modified or superseded.  See “Information Incorporated by Reference.”

We are not making an offer of these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer is not permitted.

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement on Form S-3 that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which we refer to as the SEC, using a “shelf” registration, or continuous offering, process.  Under this shelf registration process, we may issue and sell any combination of the securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings with a maximum aggregate offering price of up to $102,000,000.

This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we may offer.  Each time we sell securities under this shelf registration, we will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering, including a description of any risks relating to the offering if those terms and risks are not described in this prospectus.  A prospectus supplement may also add, update, or change information contained in this prospectus.  If there is any inconsistency between the information in this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement, you should rely on the information in the prospectus supplement.  The registration statement we filed with the SEC includes exhibits that provide more details of the matters discussed in this prospectus.  You should read this prospectus and the related exhibits filed with the SEC and the accompanying prospectus supplement together with additional information described under the headings “Available Information” and “Information Incorporated by Reference” before investing in any of the securities offered.

We may sell securities to or through underwriters or dealers and also may sell securities directly to other purchasers or through agents.  To the extent not described in this prospectus, the names of any underwriters, dealers, or agents employed by us in the sale of the securities covered by this prospectus, the principal amounts or number of shares or other securities, if any, to be purchased by such underwriters or dealers, and the compensation, if any, of such underwriters, dealers, or agents will be set forth in an accompanying prospectus supplement.

Unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this prospectus to “us,” “our,” “we,” “the “Company,” or other similar terms are to Utah Medical Products, Inc.

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AVAILABLE INFORMATION

We are a public company and are required to file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements, and other information with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act.  You may read and copy any document we file at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20549.  You can request copies of these documents by writing to the SEC and paying a fee for the copying cost.  Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for more information about the operation of the public reference room.  Our SEC filings are also available to the public on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.  In addition, because our stock is listed for trading on the NASDAQ Global Market, you can read and copy reports and other information concerning us at the offices of the NASDAQ Stock Market located at One Liberty Plaza, 165 Broadway, New York, NY 10006.

We filed a registration statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act with the SEC respecting the securities being offered pursuant to this prospectus.  This prospectus is only part of the registration statement and omits certain information contained in the registration statement, as permitted by the SEC.  You should refer to the registration statement, including the exhibits, for further information about us and the securities being offered pursuant to this prospectus.  Statements in this prospectus regarding the provisions of certain documents filed with, or incorporated by reference in, the registration statement are not necessarily complete and each statement is qualified in all respects by that reference.  You may:

· inspect a copy of the registration statement, including the exhibits and schedules, without charge at the SEC’s Public Reference Room;

· obtain a copy from the SEC upon payment of the fees prescribed by the SEC; or

· obtain a copy from the SEC website.

General information, financial news releases, and filings with the SEC, including annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and all amendments to these reports, are available free of charge on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.  We are not including the information contained on our website as part of, or incorporating it by reference into, this prospectus.

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THE COMPANY

Utah Medical Products, Inc., produces high quality, cost-effective medical devices that are predominantly proprietary, disposable, and for hospital use.  We believe success depends on (1) recognizing needs of clinicians and patients; (2) rapidly designing or acquiring economical solutions that gain premarketing regulatory concurrence; (3) reliably producing products that meet those clinical needs, and then (4) selling through:

(a)	our own direct channels into markets where we enjoy an established reputation and have a critical mass of sales and support resources, or
(b)	establishing relationships with other medical companies that have the resources to effectively introduce and support our products.

We manufacture and market products in four general categories:  (1) gynecology/electrosurgery/ urology, which accounted for approximately 51% of 2011 revenues, comprised of tools for gynecological procedures associated with cervical/uterine disease, including LETZ, endometrial sampling, transvaginal uterine sonography, diagnostic laparoscopy, and other minimally invasive surgical procedures; female surgical contraception (tubal ligation); specialty excision and incision tools; conservative urinary incontinence therapy devices; and urology tools; (2) obstetrics, which accounted for approximately 15% of 2011 revenues, comprised of labor and delivery management tools for monitoring fetal and maternal well-being, for reducing risk in performing difficult delivery procedures, and for improving clinician and patient safety; (3) neonatal care, which accounted for approximately 18% of 2011 revenues, comprised of devices that provide developmental-friendly care to the most critically ill babies, including providing vascular access and enteral feeding, administering vital fluids, maintaining a neutral thermal environment, providing protection, and assisting in specialized applications; and (4) blood pressure monitoring/ accessories/other, which accounted for approximately 16% of 2011 revenues, comprised of specialized components as well as molded parts sold on an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) basis to other companies.

In these four categories, our primary revenue contributors enjoy a significant market share and may have differentiated product features protected by patents.

Of our 2011 international revenues, approximately 68% were derived from gynecology, electrosurgery, and urology sales; 21% were derived from blood pressure monitoring and accessories sales; 7% were derived from neonatal care; and 4% were derived from obstetrics.

We were formed as a Utah corporation in 1978.  We publicly raised equity capital one time in 1982.  In 1994, we acquired all of the tangible and intangible assets of OB Tech, Inc., a Huntington Beach, California company, the original owner of the Cordguard(R) concept.  In 1995, Utah Medical Products Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary located in Ireland, was formed to establish an international manufacturing capability.  In 1997, we purchased Columbia Medical, Inc., a Redmond, Oregon company specializing in silicone injection molding, assembly, and marketing of vacuum-assisted obstetrical delivery systems.  In 1998, we acquired the neonatal product line of Gesco International, a subsidiary of Bard Access Systems and C.R. Bard, Inc.  On March 8, 2000, we returned to the NASDAQ Stock Market after trading on the New York Stock Exchange for about three years.  We were previously listed on NASDAQ for 14 years.  In 2004, we acquired Abcorp, Inc., our supplier of fetal monitoring belts.  In March 2011, we acquired Femcare Holdings Limited, which manufactures and sells the Filshie Clip System, a female surgical contraception device (tubal ligation) placed on the fallopian tubes.

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Our corporate offices are located at 7043 South 300 West, Midvale, Utah  84047 USA.  The corporate telephone number is (801) 566-1200.  Ireland operations are located at the Athlone Business and Technology Park, Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland.  The telephone number in Ireland is 353 (90) 647-3932.  Femcare’s UK headquarters are located at Stuart Court, Spursholt Place, Salisbury Road, Romsey, Hampshire, UK.  The UK phone number is 44 (179) 452-5100.

For additional information concerning our business and affairs, please refer to the documents incorporated by reference that are listed under the caption “Information Incorporated by Reference.”

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Statements included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus include both historical and “forward-looking” statements under federal securities laws.  These statements are based on current expectations and projections about future results and include the discussion of our business strategies and expectations concerning future operations, margins, profitability, liquidity, and capital resources.  In addition, in certain portions of this prospectus, the documents incorporated by reference, and any prospectus supplement, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “may,” “expect,” “plan,” “intend,” and similar expressions, as they relate to us or our management, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.  These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.  These statements are based upon the beliefs and assumptions of, and on information available to, our management.  Although we have attempted to identify important factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause the forward-looking statement not to come true as anticipated, believed, projected, expected, or intended.  Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, projected, estimated, expected, or intended.  The estimates and assumptions that we use in the preparation of our financial statements are subject to change and are not intended to be relied upon as predictions of future operating results, and we assume no obligation to update or disclose revisions to those estimates.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those referred to under “Risk Factors.”  Unless required by law, we do not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements based on unanticipated events or changed expectations.  However, you should carefully review the reports and documents we file from time to time with the SEC, particularly our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and any current reports on Form 8-K.

RISK FACTORS

An investment in our securities involves risks.  You should carefully consider the risk factors incorporated by reference to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012, and the other information contained in this prospectus, as updated by our subsequent filings under the Exchange Act, and the risk factors and other information contained in the applicable prospectus supplement before acquiring any of our securities.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

Unless otherwise indicated in an accompanying prospectus supplement, the net proceeds from the sale of the securities offered hereby will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, capital expenditures, development costs, strategic investments, and possible acquisitions.  We have not allocated any portion of the net proceeds for any particular use at this time.  The net proceeds may be invested temporarily until they are used for their stated purpose.  Specific information concerning the use of proceeds from the sale of any securities will be included in the prospectus supplement relating to such securities.

RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

The following table sets forth our historical ratio of earnings to fixed charges and ratio of earnings to combined fixed charges for the periods indicated.  We had no preferred stock outstanding and did not pay preferred stock dividends during these periods.

	Three Months Ended March 31,		Year Ended December 31,
	2012		2011		2010		2009		2008		2007
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges		18.3		12.9		162.3		90.3		43.2		37.9

The ratio of earnings to fixed charges has been computed on a consolidated basis.  Earnings consists of pre-tax income from continuing operations before fixed charges, amortization of capitalized interest, and minority interest minus interest capitalized.  Fixed charges consist of the sum of interest expensed and capitalized, amortized premiums, discounts, and capitalized expenses relating to indebtedness, and an estimate of the interest within rental expense.

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The following description of our common stock and our preferred stock is a summary.  You should refer to our articles of incorporation and our bylaws for the actual terms of our capital stock.

Common Stock

We are authorized to issue 50,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value.  On June 11, 2012, there were 3,685,000 outstanding shares of our common stock.  Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders and may not cumulate votes for the election of directors.  Common stockholders have the right to receive dividends when, as, and if declared by the board of directors from funds legally available therefor.  Holders of common stock have no preemptive rights and have no rights to convert their common stock into any other securities.

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Preferred Stock

We are authorized to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.01 par value.  As of June 11, 2012, there were no preferred shares issued or outstanding.  The shares of preferred stock have such rights and preferences as our board of directors shall determine from time to time.  Our common stock is subject to the express terms of our preferred stock and any series thereof.  The issuance of preferred stock, while providing desirable flexibility in connection with possible acquisition and other corporate purposes, could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire, or discourage a third party from acquiring, a majority of our outstanding common stock.  Our board of directors may issue preferred stock with voting and conversion rights that could adversely affect the voting power of the holders of our common stock.  There are no current agreements or understandings for the issuance of preferred stock, and our board of directors has no present intention to issue any shares of preferred stock.

If we offer a series of preferred stock, we will describe the specific terms of that series in a prospectus supplement, including:

· the title of the series of preferred stock and the number of shares offered;

· the price at which the preferred stock will be issued;

· the dividend rate, if any, the dates on which the dividends will be payable, and other terms relating to the payment of dividends on the preferred stock;

· the voting rights of the preferred stock;

· whether the preferred stock is redeemable or subject to a sinking fund, and the terms of any such redemption or sinking fund;

· whether the preferred stock is convertible into any other securities, and the terms and conditions of any such conversion;

· the liquidation preference of the preferred stock; and

· any additional rights, preferences, and limitation of the preferred stock.

The description of the terms of a series of preferred stock to be set forth in an applicable prospectus supplement will not be complete and will be subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the certificate of designation relating to that series of preferred stock.  The registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part will include the certificate of designation as an exhibit or as a document incorporated by reference.

Any preferred stock will, when issued, be fully paid and nonassessable.

Series A Participating Preferred Stock

We are authorized to issue 500,000 shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock, par value $0.01.  Such preferred stock is nonredeemable and subordinate to any other series of our preferred stock that may at any time be issued.  We currently do not have any preferred stock outstanding.  The Series A Participating Preferred Stock is authorized for issuance pursuant to the preferred stock purchase rights that trade with the common stock, as described below.  Each share of Series A Participating Preferred Stock is entitled to receive, when, as and if declared, a dividend in an amount equal to 100 times the cash dividend declared on each share of common stock and 100 times any noncash dividends declared with respect to each share of common stock, in like kind, other than a dividend payable in shares of common stock.  In the event of liquidation, the holder of each share of Series A Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive a liquidation payment in an amount equal to 100 times the liquidation payment made per share of our common stock.  Each share of Series A Participating Preferred Stock has 100 votes, voting together with the common stock and not as a separate class, unless otherwise required by law or our articles of incorporation.  In the event of any merger, consolidation, or other transaction in which shares of our common stock are exchanged, each share of Series A Participating Preferred Stock is entitled to receive 100 times the amount received per share of our common stock.

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Each share of our common stock includes one right (a Right) that entitles the registered holder to purchase from us one one-hundredth (1/100) of a share of Series A Participating Preferred Stock at an exercise price of $100 per Right, subject to adjustment to prevent dilution.  Initially the Rights will not be exercisable, certificates for the Rights will not be issued, and unless and until the Rights become exercisable, they will be transferred with and only with the shares of common stock.  The Rights are exercisable on the separation date, which will occur on the earlier of: (i) 10 calendar days following a public announcement that certain persons or groups have acquired 20% or more of our outstanding voting shares; (ii) 10 calendar days following the commencement or public announcement of the intent of any person to acquire 20% or more of our outstanding voting shares; or (iii) such later date as may be fixed by the board of directors.  Following the separation date, certificates representing the Rights will be mailed to holders of record of common stock and thereafter such certificates alone will evidence the Rights.  If any person acquires more than 20% of our outstanding common stock or we engage in certain business combinations, other than pursuant to a tender or exchange offering for all shares of common stock approved by the board of directors, the Rights become exercisable for common stock, in lieu of Series A Participating Preferred Stock, by paying one half of the exercise price of the Right for a number of shares of our common stock having an aggregate market price equal to such exercise price.  Any Rights that are or were beneficially owned by a person that has acquired 20% or more of the outstanding common stock will become void.

We may redeem the Rights at $0.01 per Right at any time until 10 business days after public announcement that a person has acquired 20% or more of the outstanding shares of our common stock, provided that the redemption is approved by our Rights Redemption Committee, a committee consisting of at least three continuing directors, a majority of whom are not our employees.  The Rights will expire on October 28, 2014, unless earlier redeemed by us.  Unless the Rights have been previously redeemed, all shares of common stock issued by us will include Rights.  As long as the Rights are redeemable, the Rights Redemption Committee without further stockholder approval may, except with respect to the exercise price or expiration date of the Rights, amend the Rights in any matter that, in the opinion of the board of directors, does not materially adversely affect the interests of holders of the Rights.

The stockholders’ Rights Agreement contemplates that we will reserve a sufficient number of authorized but unissued shares of common stock to permit the exercise in full of the Rights granted to the current stockholders should these Rights become exercisable.

Transfer Agent and Registrar

The transfer agent and registrar for our stock is Registrar and Transfer Company, 10 Commerce Street, Cranford, New Jersey 07016, and can be reached at (800) 368-5948.

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DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS

General Description of Warrants

We may issue warrants for the purchase of debt securities, preferred stock, or common stock, or any combination of these securities.  Warrants may be issued independently or together with other securities and may be attached to, or separate from, any offered securities.  Each series of warrants will be issued under a separate warrant agreement to be entered into between a warrant agent and us.  The warrant agent will act solely as our agent in connection with the warrants and will not have any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders or beneficial owners of warrants.  The following outlines some of the general terms and provisions of the warrants that we may issue from time to time.  Additional terms of the warrants and the applicable warrant agreement will be set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement.  The following description, and any description of the warrants included in a prospectus supplement, may not be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms and provisions of the applicable warrant agreement, which we will file with the SEC in connection with any offering of warrants.

Debt Warrants

The prospectus supplement relating to a particular issue of warrants exercisable for debt securities will describe the terms of those warrants, including the following:

· the title of the warrants;

· the offering price for the warrants, if any;

· the aggregate number of the warrants;

· the designation and terms of the debt securities purchasable upon exercise of the warrants;

· if applicable, the designation and terms of the securities that the warrants are issued with and the number of warrants issued with each security;

· if applicable, the date from and after which the warrants and any securities issued with the warrants will be separately transferable;

· the principal amount and price of debt securities that may be purchased upon exercise of a warrant;

· the dates on which the right to exercise the warrants commences and expires;

· if applicable, the minimum or maximum amount of the warrants that may be exercised at any one time;

· whether the warrants represented by the warrant certificates or debt securities that may be issued upon exercise of the warrants will be issued in registered or bearer form;

· information relating to book-entry procedures, if any;

· if applicable, a discussion of material U.S. federal income tax considerations;

· antidilution provisions of the warrants if any;

· redemption or call provisions, if any, applicable to the warrants; and

· any additional terms of the warrants, including terms, procedures, and limitations relating to the exchange and exercise of the warrants.

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Stock Warrants

The prospectus supplement relating to a particular issue of warrants exercisable for common stock or preferred stock will describe the terms of the common stock warrants and preferred stock warrants, including the following:

· the title of the warrants;

· the offering price for the warrants, if any;

· the aggregate number of the warrants;

· the designation and terms of the common stock or preferred stock that may be purchased upon exercise of the warrants;

· if applicable, the designation and terms of the securities that the warrants are issued with and the number of warrants issued with each security;

· if applicable, the date from and after which the warrants and any securities issued with the warrants will be separately transferable;

· the number of shares and price of common stock or preferred stock that may be purchased upon exercise of a warrant;

· the dates on which the right to exercise the warrants commences and expires;

· if applicable, the minimum or maximum amount of the warrants that may be exercised at any one time;

· if applicable, a discussion of material U.S. federal income tax considerations;

· antidilution provisions of the warrants, if any;

· redemption or call provisions, if any, applicable to the warrants; and

· any additional terms of the warrants, including terms, procedures, and limitations relating to the exchange and exercise of the warrants.

Exercise of Warrants

Each warrant will entitle the holder of the warrant to purchase, at the exercise price set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement, the principal amount of debt securities or shares of common stock or preferred stock being offered.  Holders may exercise warrants at any time up to the close of business on the expiration date set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement.  After the close of business on theexpiration date, unexercised warrants will be void.  Holders may exercise warrants as set forth in the prospectus supplement relating to the warrants being offered.

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Until a holder exercises the warrants to purchase any securities underlying the warrants, the holder will not have any rights as a holder of the underlying securities by virtue of ownership of warrants.

DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES

This section describes the general terms and provisions of the debt securities that we may issue separately upon conversion or exchange of preferred stock or upon exercise of a debt warrant, any of which may be issued as convertible or exchangeable debt securities.  We will set forth the particular terms of the debt securities we offer in a prospectus supplement.  The extent, if any, to which the following general provisions apply to particular debt securities will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.  The following descriptions of general terms relating to the debt securities and the indentures under which the debt securities will be issued are summaries only and therefore are not complete.  You should read the indenture and the prospectus supplement regarding any particular issuance of debt securities.  The debt securities will represent our unsecured general obligations, unless otherwise provided in the prospectus supplement.

The debt securities will be issued under indentures, between us and a trustee, which will be named in the applicable prospectus supplement, and may be supplemented or amended from time to time following their execution.  The indentures and any supplemental indentures thereto will be subject to, and governed by, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.

The forms of indentures give us broad authority to set the particular terms of each series of debt securities issued thereunder, including the right to modify certain of the terms contained in the indentures.

Except to the extent set forth in a prospectus supplement, the indentures do not contain any covenants or restrictions that afford holders of the debt securities special protection in the event of a change of control or highly leveraged transaction.

General

The indentures will not limit the aggregate principal amount of debt securities that may be issued under them and will provide that debt securities may be issued in one or more series, in such form or forms, with such terms and up to the aggregate principal amount that we may authorize from time to time.  Our board of directors will establish the terms of each series of debt securities, and such terms will be set forth or determined in the manner provided in an officers’ certificate or by a supplemental indenture.  The particular terms of the debt securities offered pursuant to any prospectus supplement will be described in the prospectus supplement.  All debt securities of one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened, without the consent of any holder, for issuances of additional debt securities of that series.

The applicable prospectus supplement will describe the following terms of any series of debt securities that we may offer (to the extent applicable to the debt securities):

· the title and designation of the debt securities (which shall distinguish debt securities of one series from debt securities of any other series), including whether the debt securities shall be issued as senior debt securities, senior subordinated debt securities, or subordinated debt securities; any subordination provisions particular to such series of debt securities; and whether such debt securities are convertible and/or exchangeable for other securities;

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· the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities and any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities;

· the date or dates (whether fixed or extendable) on which the principal of the debt securities is payable or the method of determination thereof;

· the rate or rates (which may be fixed, floating, or adjustable) at which the debt securities shall bear interest, if any, the method of calculating the rates, the date or dates from which interest shall accrue or the manner of determining those dates, the interest payment dates on which interest shall be payable, the record dates for the determination of holders to whom interest is payable, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year;

· the place or places where the principal and premium, if any, make-whole amount, if any, and interest on the debt securities, if any, shall be payable, where the holders may surrender debt securities for conversion, transfer, or exchange, and where notices or demands to or upon us may be served;

· any provisions relating to the issuance of the debt securities at an original issue discount;

· the price or prices at which, the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which we may redeem the debt securities, in whole or in part, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise (including the form or method of payment if other than in cash);

· our obligation, if any, to redeem, purchase, or repay the debt securities pursuant to any mandatory redemption, sinking fund, or analogous provisions, or at the option of a holder, the price at which, the period within which, and the terms and conditions upon which the debt securities shall be redeemed, purchased, or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation (including the form or method of payment thereof if other than in cash) and any provisions for the remarketing of the debt securities;

· if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which the debt securities of the series shall be issuable;

· if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the debt securities that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity or provable in bankruptcy, or if applicable, the portion of the principal amount that is convertible or exchangeable in accordance with the provisions of the debt securities, the resolution of our board of directors, or any supplemental indenture pursuant to which such debt securities are issued;

· any events of default with respect to the debt securities, in lieu of or in addition to those set forth in the indentures, and the remedies therefor;

· our obligation, if any, to permit the conversion or exchange of the debt securities of such series into common shares or other capital stock or property, or combination thereof, and the terms and conditions upon which such conversion shall be effected (including the initial conversion or exchange price or rate, the conversion or exchange period, the provisions for conversion or exchange price or rate adjustments, and any other provision relative to such obligation) and any limitations on the ownership or transferability of the securities or property into which holders may convert or exchange the debt securities;

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· any trustees, authenticating or paying agents, transfer agents or registrars, or any other agents with respect to the debt securities;

· the currency or currency units, including composite currencies, in which the debt securities shall be denominated if other than the currency of the United States of America;

· if other than the currency or currency units in which the debt securities are denominated, the currency or currency units in which payment of the principal of, premium, if any, make-whole amount, if any, or interest on the debt securities shall be payable (and the manner in which the equivalent of the principal amount thereof in the currency of the United States of America is to be determined for any purpose, including for the determination of the principal amount outstanding);

· if the principal of, premium, if any, make-whole amount, if any, or interest on the debt securities is to be payable, at our election or the election of a holder, in currency or currency units other than that in which the debt securities are denominated or stated, the period within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made, the time and manner of such election, and identity of the exchange-rate agent with responsibility for determining the exchange rate between the currency or currency units in which the debt securities are denominated or stated to be payable and the currency or currency units in which the debt securities will be payable;

· if the amount of the payments of principal of, premium, if any, make-whole amount, if any, and interest on the debt securities may be determined with reference to an index, the manner in which the amount shall be determined from that index;

· whether and under what circumstances we will pay additional amounts on the debt securities held by foreign holders in respect of any tax, assessment, or governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether we will have the option to redeem the debt securities rather than pay such additional amounts;

· if receipt of certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions will be necessary for any purpose, including as a condition to the issuance of the debt securities in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary debt security), the form and terms of such certificates, documents, or conditions;

· any other affirmative or negative covenants with respect to the debt securities, including certain financial covenants;

· whether the debt securities shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more global securities and the depositary for the global securities or debt securities, the circumstances under which any global security may be exchanged for debt securities registered in the name of any person other than the depositary or its nominee, and any other provisions regarding the global securities;

· whether the debt securities are defeasible; and

· any other terms of a particular series.

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Unless otherwise indicated in the prospectus supplement relating to the debt securities, the principal amount of and any premium, make-whole amount, or interest on the debt securities will be payable, and the debt securities will be exchangeable and transfers thereof will be registrable, at the office of the trustee.  However, at our option, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as it appears in the debt security register.  Any payment of principal and any premium, make-whole amount, or interest required to be made on an interest payment date, redemption date, or at maturity that is not a business day 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 applicable date, and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such date.

Unless otherwise indicated in the prospectus supplement relating to debt securities, the debt securities will be issued only in fully registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof.  No service charge will be made for any transfer or exchange of the debt securities, but we may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection with a transfer or exchange.

Debt securities may bear interest at fixed or floating rates.  We may issue our debt securities at an original issue discount, bearing no interest or bearing interest at a rate that at the time of issuance is below market rate, to be sold at a substantial discount below their stated principal amount.  Generally speaking, if our debt securities are issued at an original issue discount and there is an event of default or acceleration of their maturity, holders will receive an amount less than their principal amount.  Tax and other special considerations applicable to any series of debt securities, including original issue discount debt, will be described in the prospectus supplement in which we offer those debt securities.  In addition, certain United States federal income tax or other considerations, if any, applicable to any debt securities that are denominated in a currency or currency unit other than United States dollars may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Global Securities

The debt securities of a series may be issued in the form of one or more global securities that will be deposited with a depositary or its nominees identified in the prospectus supplement relating to the debt securities.  In such a case, one or more global securities will be issued in a denomination or aggregate denominations equal to the portion of the aggregate principal amount of outstanding debt securities of the series to be represented by such global security or securities.

Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for debt securities in definitive registered form, a global security may not be registered for transfer or exchange except as a whole by the depositary for such global security to a nominee of the depositary and except in the circumstances described in the prospectus supplement relating to the debt securities.  The specific terms of the depositary arrangement with respect to a series of debt securities will be described in the prospectus supplement relating to such series.

Modification of the Indentures

We and the trustee may modify the indentures with respect to the debt securities of any series, with or without the consent of the holders of debt securities, under certain circumstances to be described in a prospectus supplement.

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Defeasance; Satisfaction and Discharge

The prospectus supplement will outline the conditions under which we may elect to have certain of our obligations under the indentures discharged and under which the indenture obligations will be deemed to be satisfied.

Defaults and Notice

The debt securities of any series will contain events of default to be specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, including:

· failure to pay the principal of, or premium or make-whole amount, if any, on any debt security of such series when due and payable (whether at maturity, by call for redemption, through any mandatory sinking fund, by redemption at the option of the holder, by declaration or acceleration, or otherwise);

· failure to make a payment of any interest on any debt security of such series when due;

· our failure to perform or observe any other covenants or agreements in the indenture with respect to the debt securities of such series;

· certain events relating to our bankruptcy, insolvency, or reorganization; and

· certain cross defaults.

If an event of default with respect to debt securities of any series shall occur and be continuing, the trustee or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then-outstanding debt securities of such series may declare the principal amount (or if the debt securities of such series are issued at an original issue discount, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of the debt securities of such series) of all debt securities of such series or such other amount or amounts as the debt securities or supplemental indenture with respect to such series may provide, to be due and payable immediately.

The trustee under the indenture shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of a default, give to holders of debt securities of any series notice of all uncured defaults with respect to such series known to it.  However, in the case of a default that results from the failure to make any payment of the principal of, premium or make-whole amount, if any, or interest on the debt securities of any series, or in the payment of any mandatory sinking fund installment with respect to debt securities of such series, the trustee may withhold such notice if it in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the holders of debt securities of such series.

The indenture will contain a provision entitling the trustee to be indemnified by holders of debt securities before proceeding to exercise any trust or power under the indenture at the request of such holders.  The indenture will provide that the holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then-outstanding debt securities of any series may direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceedings for any remedy available to the trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred upon the trustee with respect to the debt securities of such series.  However, the trustee may decline to follow any such direction if, among other reasons, the trustee determines in good faith that the actions or proceedings as directed may not lawfully be taken, would involve the trustee in personal liability, or would be unduly prejudicial to the holders of the debt securities of such series not joining in such direction.

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The right of a holder to institute a proceeding with respect to the indenture is subject to certain conditions, including that the holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities of such series then outstanding make a written request upon the trustee to exercise its power under the indenture, indemnify the trustee, and afford the trustee reasonable opportunity to act.  Even so, the holder has an absolute right to receive the principal of, premium or make-whole amount, if any, and interest when due, to require conversion or exchange of debt securities if the indenture provides for convertibility or exchangeability at the option of the holder, and to institute suit for the enforcement of such rights.

Conversion or Exchange Rights

If debt securities of any series are convertible or exchangeable, the applicable prospectus supplement will specify:

· the type of securities into which they may be converted or exchanged;

· the conversion price or exchange ratio, or its method of calculation;

· whether conversion or exchange is mandatory or at the holder’s election;

· how and when the conversion price or exchange ratio may be adjusted; and

· any other important terms concerning the conversion or exchange rights.

Concerning the Trustee

We will provide the name of the trustee in any prospectus supplement related to the issuance of debt securities, and we will also provide certain other information related to the trustee, including describing any relationship we have with the trustee, in such prospectus supplement.

Governing Law

The indentures and the debt securities will be governed by the laws of the state of Utah.

MATERIAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES

Information regarding material United States federal income tax consequences to persons investing in the securities offered by this prospectus will be set forth in an applicable prospectus supplement.  Prospective purchasers of securities are urged to consult their own tax advisers prior to any acquisition of securities.

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We may sell the securities in one or more of the following ways from time to time:

· through underwriters or dealers for resale to the public or to institutional investors;

· directly to a limited number of institutional purchasers or to a single purchaser;

· through agents; or

· if indicated in the prospectus supplement, pursuant to delayed delivery contracts, by remarketing firms, or by other means.

Any dealer or agent, in addition to any underwriter, may be deemed to be an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act, and any discounts or commissions they receive from us and any profit on the resale of the offered securities by them may be treated as underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act.  The terms of the offering of the securities with respect to which this prospectus is being delivered will be set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement and will include:

· the name or names of any underwriters, dealers, or agents;

· the purchase price of such securities and the proceeds to us from such sale;

· any underwriting discounts, agency fees, and other items constituting underwriters’ or agents’ compensation;

· the public offering price;

· any discounts or concessions that may be allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers and any securities exchanges on which the securities may be listed; and

· the securities exchange on which the securities may be listed, if any.

If underwriters are used in the sale of securities, such securities will be acquired by the underwriters for their own account and may be resold from time to time in one or more transactions, including negotiated transactions, at a fixed public offering price or at varying prices determined at the time of sale.  The securities may be offered to the public either through underwriting syndicates represented by managing underwriters or directly by one or more underwriters acting alone.  Unless otherwise set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement, the obligations of the underwriters to purchase the securities described in the applicable prospectus supplement will be subject to certain conditions precedent, and the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all such securities if any are so purchased by them.  Any public offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers may be changed from time to time.

The securities may be sold directly by us or through agents designated by us from time to time.  Any agents involved in the offer or sale of the securities in respect of which this prospectus is being delivered, and any commissions payable by us to such agents, will be set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement.  Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, any such agent will be acting on a best-efforts basis for the period of its appointment.

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If dealers are used in the sale of any securities, we will sell the securities to the dealers as principals.  Any dealer may resell the securities to the public at varying prices to be determined by the dealer at the time of resale.  The name of any dealer and the terms of the transaction will be set forth in the prospectus supplement with respect to the securities being offered.

Securities may also be offered and sold, if so indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, in connection with a remarketing upon their purchase in accordance with a redemption or repayment pursuant to their terms or otherwise by one or more firms, which we refer to herein as the “remarketing firms,” acting as principals for their own accounts or as our agents, as applicable.  Any remarketing firm will be identified and the terms of its agreement, if any, with us and its compensation will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Remarketing firms may be deemed to be underwriters, as that term is defined in the Securities Act, in connection with the securities remarketed thereby.

If so indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will authorize agents, underwriters, or dealers to solicit offers by certain specified institutions to purchase the securities to which this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement relate from us at the public offering price set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement, plus, if applicable, accrued interest pursuant to delayed delivery contracts providing for payment and delivery on a specified date in the future.  Such contracts will be subject only to those conditions set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement, and the applicable prospectus supplement will set forth the commission payable for solicitation of such contracts.

Underwriters will not be obligated to make a market in any securities.  We can give no assurance regarding the activity of trading in, or liquidity of, any securities.

Agents, dealers, underwriters, and remarketing firms may be entitled under agreements entered into with us to indemnification by us, as applicable, against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribution to payments they may be required to make in respect thereof.  Agents, dealers, underwriters, and remarketing firms may be customers of, engage in transactions with, or perform services for us in the ordinary course of business.

Each series of securities will be a new issue and other than the common stock, which is quoted on the NASDAQ Global Market, will have no established trading market.  We may elect to list any series of securities on an exchange, and in the case of the common stock, on any additional exchange, but unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, we shall not be obligated to do so.  Any underwriters to whom securities are sold for public offering and sale may make a market in the securities, but the underwriters will not be obligated to do so and may discontinue any market making at any time without notice.  The securities may or may not be listed on a national securities exchange or a foreign securities exchange.  No assurance can be given as to the liquidity of the trading market for any of the securities.

The place, time of delivery, and other terms of the offered securities will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

LEGAL MATTERS

Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, will pass upon the validity of any securities that we offer pursuant to this prospectus.  If the securities are being distributed in an underwritten offering, certain legal matters will be passed upon for the underwriters by counsel identified in the applicable prospectus supplement.

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EXPERTS

The financial statements incorporated in this prospectus by reference from our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, have been audited by Jones Simkins, P.C., our independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in its report, which is incorporated herein by reference.  Such financial statements have been so incorporated in reliance upon the report of such firm given upon its authority as an expert in accounting and auditing.

INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” certain of our publicly filed documents into this prospectus, which means that information included in those documents is considered part of this prospectus.

Information that we file with the SEC after the date of this prospectus will automatically update and supersede this information.  We incorporate by reference the documents listed below and any future filings made with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act until the termination of the offering of the securities covered by this prospectus.

The following documents filed with the SEC are incorporated by reference in this prospectus (other than, in each case, documents or information therein deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with SEC rules):

· our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011;

· our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2012; and

· our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on January 31, April 25, and May 8, 2012.

We will provide without charge to any person to whom this prospectus is delivered, on the written or oral request of such person, a copy of any or all of the foregoing documents incorporated by reference, excluding exhibits, unless we have specifically incorporated an exhibit in the incorporated document.  Written requests should be directed to:  Utah Medical Products, Inc., 7043 South 300 West, Midvale, Utah  84047, telephone number (801) 566-1200.

Each document or report subsequently filed by us pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof and prior to the termination of the offering of the securities shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus and to be a part of this prospectus from the date of filing of such document, unless otherwise provided in the relevant document.  Any statement contained herein, or in a document all or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of the registration statement and this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein, or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of the registration statement or this prospectus.

The information relating to Utah Medical Products, Inc., contained in this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement is not comprehensive, and you should read it together with the information contained in the incorporated documents.

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UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.
Table of Contents
Section Page About this Prospectus.................................... 2 Available Information.......................................3 The Company ...................................................4 Forward-Looking Statements..........................5 Risk Factors.......................................................5 Use of Proceeds................................................6 Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges................6 Description of Capital Stock...........................6 Description of Warrants..................................9 Description of Debt Securities......................11 Material Federal Income    Tax Consequences..................................... 16 Plan of Distribution........................................17 Legal Matters..................................................18 Experts.............................................................19 Information Incorporated    by Reference................................................19	$102,000,000 Common Stock Preferred Stock Warrants Senior Debt Securities Subordinated Debt Securities
	PROSPECTUS
Investors should rely on the information contained in this prospectus.  We have not authorized anyone to provide different information.  This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities covered by this prospectus in any state or other jurisdiction to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation in such state or jurisdiction.	______________, 2012

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 14.  Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

We will pay all expenses incident to the offering and sale to the public of the securities being registered other than any commissions and discounts of underwriters, dealers, or agents and any transfer taxes.  Such expenses are set forth in the following table:

Securities and Exchange Commission filing fee*	$	229
Printing expenses		--
Counsel fees and expenses		20,000
Accounting fees and expenses		1,500
Stock exchange listing fees		--
Fees of trustee, registrar and transfer agent		--
Miscellaneous expenses		1,500
Total	$	23,229

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*Actual expenses; all other expenses are estimates.

Item 15.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Article V of our articles of incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act or any other applicable law as now in effect or as it may hereafter be amended, a director of the Corporation shall have no personal liability to the Corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for any action taken or any failure to take any action as a director.

Section 16-10a-902 of the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act provides that a corporation may indemnify a director if: (a) his conduct was in good faith; (b) he reasonably believed that his conduct was in, or not opposed to, the corporation’s best interests; and (c) in the case of any criminal proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful as long as the director is not adjudged liable to the corporation or the director is adjudged liable on the basis that he derived an improper personal benefit.

Section 16-10a-907 of the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act further provides that a corporation may: (a) indemnify and advance expenses to an officer, employee, fiduciary, or agent of the corporation to the same extent as to a director; and(b) also indemnify and advance expenses to an officer, employee, fiduciary, or agent who is not a director to a greater extent, if not inconsistent with public policy, and if provided for by its articles of incorporation, bylaws, general or specific action of its board of directors, or contract.

Section 5.1 of our bylaws provides that we shall indemnify any individual made a party to a proceeding because such individual was a director of the corporation to the extent permitted by and in accordance with Section 16-10a-901, et seq. of the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act or any amendments or successor sections of like tenor.  Further, to the extent permitted by Section 16-10a-904 of the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act or any section of like tenor as amended from time to time, we may pay for or reimburse the reasonable expenses incurred by a director who is a party to a proceeding in advance of final disposition of the proceeding, if:  (a) the director furnishes the corporation a written affirmation of his good faith belief that he has met the standard of conduct described in the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act; (b) the director furnishes the corporation a written undertaking, executed personally or on his behalf, to repay advances if it is ultimately determined that he did not meet the standard of conduct (which undertaking must be an unlimited general obligation of the director but need not be secured and may be accepted without reference to financial ability to make repayment); and (c) a determination is made that the facts then known to those making the determination would not preclude indemnification under Utah law.

Finally, our bylaws state that unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, the board of directors may authorize the corporation to indemnify and advance expenses to any officer, employee, or agent of the corporation who is not a director of the corporation, to the extent permitted by the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, may be permitted to directors, officers, and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  (See “Item 17. Undertakings,” page II-4.)

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Item 16.  Exhibits

The following documents are included as exhibits to this Registration Statement, pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-K:

Exhibit Number*	Title of Document	Location
Item 1.	Underwriting Agreement
1.01	Form of Underwriting Agreement	To be filed, if applicable, subsequent to the effectiveness of this registration statement by an amendment to the registration statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a current report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of securities.
Item 4.	Instruments Defining the Rights of Holders, Including Indentures
4.01	Specimen stock certificate	Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.04 to the Registrant’s Form S-8 filed August 30, 2005, Reg. No. 333-127946.
4.02	Amendment to Articles of Incorporation Designating Rights, Privileges, and Preferences of Series “A” Preferred Stock	This filing.
4.03	Form of Indenture for Senior Debt Securities	This filing.
4.04	Form of Indenture for Subordinated Debt Securities	This filing.
4.05	Form of Supplemental Indenture or other instrument establishing the issuance of one or more series of debt securities (including form of debt security)	To be filed, if applicable, subsequent to the effectiveness of this registration statement by an amendment to the registration statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a current report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of securities.
4.06	Form of Certificate of Designation of one or more series of Preferred Stock	To be filed, if applicable, subsequent to the effectiveness of this registration statement by an amendment to the registration statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a current report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of securities.
4.07	Form of Warrant	To be filed, if applicable, subsequent to the effectiveness of this registration statement by an amendment to the registration statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a current report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of securities.
Item 5.	Opinion re:  Legality
5.01	Opinion of Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, LLC	Form of opinion in this filing; signed opinion to be filed, if applicable, subsequent to the effectiveness of this registration statement by an amendment to the registration statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a current report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of securities.
Item 12.	Statements re:  Computation of Ratios
12.01	Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges	This filing.
Item 23.	Consents of Experts and Counsel
23.01	Consent of Jones Simkins, P.C., Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm	This filing.
23.03	Consent of Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, LLC (contained in the opinion, filed as Exhibit 5.01)	To be included in the executed opinion to be filed, if applicable, subsequent to the effectiveness of this registration statement by an amendment to the registration statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a current report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of securities.
Item 24.	Power of Attorney
24.01	Power of Attorney (included on the signature page)	This filing.
Item 25.	Statement of Eligibility of Trustee
25.01	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, of Trustee under the Indenture	To be filed pursuant to Section 305(b)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.

* The number preceding the decimal indicates the applicable SEC reference number in Item 601, and the number following the decimal indicating the sequence of the particular document.

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Item 17.  Undertakings.

(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

(i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

(ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

(iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement.

Provided, however, that:

(A)           Paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the Registration Statement is on Form S-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement; and

(B)           Paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 or F-3 and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

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(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser:

(i) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus.  As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.  Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

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(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

(d) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:

(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

(2) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities as that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Salt Lake City, state of Utah, on June 12, 2012.

	UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.
Date:  June 12, 2012	By:	/s/  Kevin L. Cornwell
		Kevin L. Cornwell
		Chief Executive Officer
Date:  June 12, 2012	By:	/s/ Paul O. Richins
		Paul O. Richins
		Principal Financial Officer

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below, other than Kevin L. Cornwell, constitutes and appoints Kevin L. Cornwell, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement on Form S-3, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on June 12, 2012:

Signature	Title
/s/ James H. Beeson	Director
James H. Beeson
/s/ Kevin L. Cornwell	Director
Kevin L. Cornwell
/s/ Ernst G. Hoyer	Director
Ernst G. Hoyer
/s/ Barbara A. Payne	Director
Barbara A. Payne
/s/ Paul O. Richins	Director
Paul O. Richins

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EX-4.2

Exhibit 4.02

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

AMENDMENT TO ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

DESIGNATING RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, AND PREFERENCES OF

SERIES “A” PREFERRED STOCK

Pursuant to the provisions of the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act, section 16-10a-602, of the corporation laws of the state of Utah, the undersigned corporation hereby adopts the following Amendment to Articles of Incorporation Designating Rights, Privileges, and Preferences of Series “A” Preferred Stock (the “Designation”):

FIRST:  The name of the Corporation is Utah Medical Products, Inc.

SECOND:  The following resolution amending the articles of incorporation establishing a series of preferred stock designated as the “Series A Participating Preferred Stock” consisting of 500,000 shares, par value $0.01, was duly adopted by the board of directors of the Corporation on January 28, 1994, in accordance with the articles of incorporation of the Corporation and the corporation laws of the state of Utah:

RESOLVED, there is hereby created a series of preferred stock of the Corporation to be designated as the “Series “A” Preferred Stock” consisting of 500,000 shares, par value $0.01, with the following powers, preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations, and restrictions:

1.           Liquidation.

1.01           In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation (whether complete or partial), dissolution, or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of the Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be entitled to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its shareholders, whether from capital, surplus, or earnings, an amount in cash equal to all unpaid dividends, whether or not previously declared, accrued thereon to the date of final distribution subject to the priority distribution required respecting any issued and outstanding shares of any series of preferred stock authorized prior to the date hereof plus an amount per share equal to 100 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to the holders of shares of Common Stock of the Corporation.  No distribution shall be made on any common stock or other subsequent series of preferred stock of the Corporation by reason of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation (whether complete or partial), dissolution, or winding up of the Corporation unless each holder of any Series “A” Preferred Stock shall have received all amounts to which such holder shall be entitled under this subsection 1.01.

1.02           If on any liquidation (whether complete or partial), dissolution, or winding up of the Corporation, the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to holders of Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be insufficient to pay the holders of outstanding Series “A” Preferred Stock the full amounts to which they otherwise would be entitled under subsection 1.01, the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to holders of Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be distributed to them pro rata on the basis of the number of shares of Series “A” Preferred Stock held by each such holder.

2.           Voting Rights.  The Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be voted with the Common Stock as a single class and shall not be entitled to vote as a separate class, except to the extent that the consent of the holders of the Series “A” Preferred Stock, voting as a class, is specifically required by the provisions of the corporation laws of the state of Utah, as now existing or as hereafter amended.  Each holder of Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be entitled to 100 votes for each share of such stock held on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation.

3.           Dividends.

3.01           The Corporation shall pay to the holders of the Series “A” Preferred Stock out of the assets of the Corporation at any time available for the payment of dividends at the times and in the amounts provided for in this section 3.

3.02           Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of preferred stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series “A” Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of the shares of Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, in preference to the holders of Common Stock and any other junior stock, dividends payable on the dates on which a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock is payable (other than a dividend payable in Common Stock), commencing on the first date on which such a dividend is payable after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series “A” Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends and 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, by reclassification or otherwise) declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding dividend payment date on the Common Stock, or, if later, the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series “A” Preferred Stock.

3.03           Any payment of dividends declared and due under this section 3 with respect to any shares of Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be made by means of a check drawn on funds immediately available for the payment thereof to the order of the record holder of such share at the address for such record holder shown on the stock records maintained by or for the Corporation, which check shall be mailed by United States first class mail, postage prepaid.  Any such payment shall be deemed to have been paid by the Corporation on the date that such payment is deposited in the United States mail as provided above; provided, that in the event the check or other medium by which any payment shall be made shall prove not to be immediately collectible on the date of payment, such payment shall not be deemed to have been made until cash in the amount of such payment shall actually be received by the person entitled to receive such payment.

3.04           Registration of transfer of any share of Series “A” Preferred Stock on the stock records maintained by or for the Corporation to a person other than the transferor shall constitute a transfer of any right which the transferor may have had to receive any accrued but unpaid dividends as of the date of transfer, whether declared or undeclared, and the Corporation shall have no further obligation to the transferor with respect to such accrued and unpaid dividends.  Any shares of Series “A” Preferred Stock represented by a new certificate issued to a new holder shall continue to accrue dividends as provided in this section 3.

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4.           Certain Restrictions.

4.01           Whenever any dividends or other distributions payable on the Series “A” Preferred Stock as provided herein are in arrears, until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series “A” Preferred Stock outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Corporation shall not:

(a)           declare or pay dividends on or make any other distributions on any shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series “A” Preferred Stock;

(b)           declare or pay dividends on or make any other distributions on any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series “A” Preferred Stock except dividends paid ratably on the Series “A” Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;

(c)           redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series “A” Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such junior stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the Corporation ranking junior (both as to dividends and upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series “A” Preferred Stock; or

(d)           redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of Series “A” Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series “A” Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of Series “A” Preferred Stock and other such shares (if any) upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual preferences of the respective series and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or classes.

5.           Redemption.  The Corporation shall not have the right to redeem shares of Series “A” Preferred Stock.

6.           Additional Provisions.

6.01           No change in the provisions of the Series “A” Preferred Stock set forth in this Designation affecting any interests of the holders of any shares of Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be binding or effective unless such change shall have been approved or consented to by the holders of a majority of the Series “A” Preferred Stock in the manner provided in the corporation laws of the state of Utah, as the same may be amended from time to time.

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6.02           A share of Series “A” Preferred Stock shall be transferable only on the books of the Corporation maintained at its principal office, on delivery thereof duly endorsed by the holder or by his duly authorized attorney or representative or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment, or authority to transfer.  In all cases of transfer by an attorney, the original letter of attorney, duly approved, or an official copy thereof, duly certified, shall be deposited and remain with the Corporation.  In case of transfer by executors, administrators, guardians, or other legal representatives, duly authenticated evidence of their authority shall be produced and may be required to be deposited and remain with the Corporation in its discretion.  On any registration or transfer, the Corporation shall deliver a new certificate representing the share of Series “A” Preferred Stock so transferred to the person entitled thereto.

6.03           Any notice required or permitted to be given to the holders of the Series “A” Preferred Stock under this Designation shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed by first class mail, postage prepared to such holders at their respective addresses appearing on the stock records maintained by or for the Corporation and shall be deemed to have been given as of the date deposited in the United States mail.

THIRD:  This amendment was duly adopted by the board of directors without shareholder action, and shareholder action was not required.

FOURTH:  This amendment does not alter the preferences, limitations, or relative rights granted to or imposed upon any wholly unissued class of shares or any wholly unissued series of any class of shares.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the foregoing Amendment to Articles of Incorporation Designating Rights, Privileges, and Preferences of Series “A” Preferred Stock of the Corporation has been executed this 28th day of January, 1995, by the undersigned, who affirms and acknowledges, under penalties of perjury, that the foregoing is the undersigned’s act and deed and that the facts stated herein are true.

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

By: /s/ Kevin L. Cornwell

Kevin L. Cornwell, President

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EX-4.3

Exhibit 4.03

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

TO

TRUSTEE

INDENTURE

Dated as of _________________

Senior Debt Securities

Table of Contents

		Page
ARTICLE ONE	DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION	1
Section 101.	Definitions	1
Section 102.	Compliance Certificates and Opinions	8
Section 103.	Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee	9
Section 104.	Acts of Holders	9
Section 105.	Notices, etc., to Trustee and Corporation	11
Section 106.	Notice to Holders; Waiver	11
Section 107.	Effect of Headings and Table of Contents	12
Section 108.	Successors and Assigns	12
Section 109.	Separability Clause	12
Section 110.	Benefits of Indenture	12
Section 111.	No Personal Liability	12
Section 112.	Governing Law	13
Section 113.	Legal Holidays	13
ARTICLE TWO	SECURITIES FORMS	13
Section 201.	Forms of Securities	13
Section 202.	Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication	14
Section 203.	Securities Issuable in Global Form	14
ARTICLE THREE	THE SECURITIES	15
Section 301.	Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series	15
Section 302.	Denominations	18
Section 303.	Execution, Authentication Delivery, and Dating	18
Section 304.	Temporary Securities	20
Section 305.	Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange	22
Section 306.	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost, and Stolen Securities	25
Section 307.	Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved	26
Section 308.	Persons Deemed Owners	27
Section 309.	Cancellation	28
Section 310.	Computation of Interest	28
ARTICLE FOUR	SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE	28
Section 401.	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	28
Section 402.	Application of Corporation Funds	29
ARTICLE FIVE	REMEDIES	30
Section 501.	Events of Default	30
Section 502.	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	31
Section 503.	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee	32
Section 504.	Trustee May File Proofs of Claim	33
Section 505.	Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities or Coupons	33
Section 506.	Application of Money Collected	33
Section 507.	Limitation on Suits	34

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Section 508.	Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, Interest, and Additional Amounts	34
Section 509.	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	35
Section 510.	Rights and Remedies Cumulative	35
Section 511.	Delay or Omission Not Waiver	35
Section 512.	Control by Holders of Securities	35
Section 513.	Waiver of Past Defaults	36
Section 514.	Undertaking for Costs	36
ARTICLE SIX	THE TRUSTEE	36
Section 601.	Notice of Defaults	36
Section 602.	Certain Rights of Trustee	37
Section 603.	Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities	38
Section 604.	May Hold Securities	38
Section 605.	Money Held in Trust	38
Section 606.	Compensation and Reimbursement	38
Section 607.	Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting Interests	39
Section 608.	Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor	39
Section 609.	Acceptance of Appointment by Successor	40
Section 610.	Merger, Conversion, Consolidation, or Succession to Business	41
Section 611.	Appointment of Authenticating Agent	41
ARTICLE SEVEN	HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND CORPORATION	43
Section 701.	Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders	43
Section 702.	Reports by Trustee	43
Section 703.	Reports by the Corporation	43
Section 704.	Corporation to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders	44
ARTICLE EIGHT	CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE, OR CONVEYANCE	44
Section 801.	Consolidations and Mergers of Corporation and Sales, Leases, and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions	44
Section 802.	Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation	44
Section 803.	Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel	45
ARTICLE NINE	SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES	45
Section 901.	Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders	45
Section 902.	Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders	46
Section 903.	Execution of Supplemental Indentures	47
Section 904.	Effect of Supplemental Indentures	47
Section 905.	Conformity with Trust Indenture Act	48
Section 906.	Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures	48
Section 907.	Notice of Supplemental Indentures	48
ARTICLE TEN	COVENANTS	48
Section 1001.	Payment of Principal, Premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, Interest, and Additional Amounts	48
Section 1002.	Maintenance of Office or Agency	48
Section 1003.	Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust	50

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Section 1004.	Existence	51
Section 1005.	Maintenance of Properties	51
Section 1006.	Insurance	51
Section 1007.	Payment of Taxes and Other Claims	51
Section 1008.	Provision of Financial Information	52
Section 1009.	Statement as to Compliance	52
Section 1010.	Additional Amounts	52
Section 1011.	Waiver of Certain Covenants	53
ARTICLE ELEVEN	REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES	53
Section 1101.	Applicability of Article	53
Section 1102.	Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee	53
Section 1103.	Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed	54
Section 1104.	Notice of Redemption	54
Section 1105.	Deposit of Redemption Price	55
Section 1106.	Securities Payable on Redemption Date	55
Section 1107.	Securities Redeemed in Part	56
ARTICLE TWELVE	SINKING FUNDS	56
Section 1201.	Applicability of Article	56
Section 1202.	Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities	57
Section 1203.	Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund	57
ARTICLE THIRTEEN	REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS	57
Section 1301.	Applicability of Article	57
Section 1302.	Repayment of Securities	58
Section 1303.	Exercise of Option	58
Section 1304.	When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable	58
Section 1305.	Securities Repaid in Part	59
ARTICLE FOURTEEN	DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE	59
Section 1401.	Applicability of Article; Corporation’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance	59
Section 1402.	Defeasance and Discharge	60
Section 1403.	Covenant Defeasance	60
Section 1404.	Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance	61
Section 1405.	Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions	62
ARTICLE FIFTEEN	MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES	63
Section 1501.	Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called	63
Section 1502.	Call, Notice, and Place of Meetings	63
Section 1503.	Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings	64
Section 1504.	Quorum; Action	64
Section 1505.	Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings	65
Section 1506.	Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings	65
Section 1507.	Evidence of Action Taken By Holders	66
Section 1508.	Proof of Execution of Instruments	66

TESTIMONIUM

SIGNATURES AND SEALS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EXHIBIT A — FORMS OF CERTIFICATION

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

Reconciliation and tie between the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (“Trust Indenture Act”), and Indenture, dated as of _____________.

Trust Indenture Act Section		Indenture Section
Section 310	(a)(1)	607(a)
	(a)(2)	607(a)
	(b)	607(b), 608
Section 312	(c)	701
Section 314	(a)	703
	(a)(4)	1009
	(c)(1)	102
	(c)(2)	102
	(e)	102
Section 315	(b)	601
Section 316	(a) (last sentence)	101 (“Outstanding”)
	(a)(1)(A)	502, 512
	(a)(1)(B)	513
	(b)	508
Section 317	(a)(1)	503
	(a)(2)	504
Section 318	(a)	112
	(c)	112

NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.  Attention should also be directed to Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, which provides that the provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317 of the Trust Indenture Act are a part of and govern every qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained therein.

INDENTURE, dated as of ______________, between UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC., a Utah corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation”), having its principal office at 7043 South 300 West, Midvale, Utah 84047, and ______________, a ___________ banking corporation, as Trustee hereunder (hereinafter called the “Trustee”), having its Corporate Trust Office at ______________.

RECITALS OF THE CORPORATION

The Corporation deems it necessary to issue from time to time for its lawful purposes senior debt securities (hereinafter called the “Securities”) evidencing its unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness, and has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of the Securities, unlimited as to aggregate principal amount, to bear interest at the rates or formulas, to mature at such times and to have such other provisions as shall be fixed therefor as hereinafter provided.

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

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

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

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 101.  Definitions

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

(1)           The terms defined in this article have the meanings assigned to them in this article, and include the plural as well as the singular.

(2)           All other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein, and the terms “cash transaction” and “self-liquidating paper,” as used in TIA Section 311, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the rules of the SEC adopted under the Trust Indenture Act.

(3)           All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP.

(4)           The words “herein,” “hereof,” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular article, section, or other subdivision.

Certain terms, used principally in Article Three, Article Five, Article Six, and Article Ten, are defined in those articles.  In addition, the following terms shall have the indicated respective meanings:

“Act” has the meaning specified in Section 104.

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“Additional Amounts” means any additional amounts that are required by a Security, under circumstances specified therein, to be paid by the Corporation in respect of certain taxes imposed on certain Holders and which are owing to such Holders.

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

“Authenticating Agent” means any authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 611.

“Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper, printed in the English language or in an official language of the country of publication, customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays, and of general circulation in each place in connection with which the term is used or in the financial community of each such place.  Whenever successive publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be made in the same or in different Authorized Newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day.

“Bankruptcy Law” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

“Bearer Security” means a Security that is payable to bearer.

“Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation, the executive committee, or any other committee of that board duly authorized to act for it in respect hereof.

“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

“Business Day,” when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or particular location are authorized or required by law, regulation, or executive order to close.

“Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any capital stock (including preferred stock), shares, interests, participations, or other ownership interests (however designated) of such Person and any rights (other than debt securities convertible or exchangeable for corporate stock), warrants, or options to purchase any thereof.

“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, S.A., and its successor.

“Common Depositary” has the meaning specified in Section 304(2).

“Conversion Event” means the cessation of use of: (i) a Foreign Currency (other than the Euro or other currency unit) both by the government of the country that issued such currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other public institutions of, or within, the international banking community; (ii) the Euro both within the Eurozone exchange rate mechanism and for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of, or within, the

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Eurozone; or (iii) any currency unit (or composite currency) other than the Euro for the purposes for which it was established.

“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, at which the principal of (and Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of, Securities of, or within, a series shall be payable and any Registered Securities of, or within, such series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and at which notices or demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of, or within, a series and this Indenture may be served, which office at the date hereof is located at ___________________.

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

“Corporation Request” and “Corporation Order” mean, respectively, a written request or order signed in the name of the Corporation by two Officers and delivered to the Trustee.

“Coupon” means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security.

“Custodian” has the meaning set forth in Section 501.

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

“Dollar” or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.

“Euro” means the common currency adopted by Eurozone.

“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., or its successor as operator of the Euroclear System.

“European Union” is an economic and political union of 27 member states, located primarily in Europe, established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993, upon the foundations of the preexisting European Economic Community.

“Eurozone” (officially the Euro Area) is a currency union of 17 European Union states that have adopted the Euro as their sole legal tender.  It currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.  Other states are obliged to adopt the zone once they fulfill the strict entry criteria.  Monetary policy of the zone is the responsibility of the European Central Bank, though there is no common representation, governance, or fiscal policy for the currency union.

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Article Five.

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the SEC.

“Exchange Date” has the meaning specified in Section 304(2).

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“Foreign Currency” means any currency, currency unit, or composite currency, including, without limitation, the Euro, issued by the government of one or more countries other than the United States of America or by any recognized confederation or association of such governments.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as used in the United States applied on a consistent basis as in effect from time to time; provided, that solely for purposes of any calculation required by the financial covenants contained herein, “GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles as used in the United States from time to time applied on a consistent basis.

“Government Obligations” means securities that are: (i) direct obligations of the United States of America or the government that issued the Foreign Currency in which the Securities of a particular series are payable, for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged; or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America or such government that issued the Foreign Currency in which the Securities of such series are payable, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America or such other government, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on, or principal of, any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on, or principal of, the Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

“Holder” means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the case of a Bearer Security, the bearer thereof, and when used with respect to any Coupon, shall mean the bearer thereof.

“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301; provided, however, that, if at any time more than one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument, “Indenture” shall mean, with respect to any one or more series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of the, or those particular, series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms that relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is not Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted, and exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such Person had become such Trustee but to which such Person, as such Trustee, was not a party.

“Indexed Security” means a Security the terms of which provide that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less than the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.

“Interest” when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security (which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity), shall mean interest payable after Maturity, and when used with respect to a Security that provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1010, includes such Additional Amounts.

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

“Make-Whole Amount” means the amount, if any, in addition to principal that is required by a Security, under the terms and conditions specified therein or as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, to be paid by the Corporation to the Holder thereof in connection with any optional redemption or accelerated payment of such Security.

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

“Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the chairman of the board, the principal executive officer, the president, the principal operating officer, the principal financial officer, the principal accounting officer, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the controller, the secretary, or any vice-president of such Person.

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate to be delivered upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in this Indenture, signed on behalf of the Corporation by two Officers of the Corporation, one of whom must be the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer, or the principal accounting officer of the Corporation.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel for the Corporation or other counsel satisfactory to the Trustee.

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

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

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

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

(iii)           Securities, except solely to the extent provided in Section 1402 or 1403, as applicable, with respect to which the Corporation has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen;

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

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(v)           Securities converted into Capital Stock of the Corporation pursuant to or in accordance with this Indenture if the terms of such Securities provide for convertibility pursuant to Section 301;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver hereunder or are present at a meeting of Holders for quorum purposes, and for the purpose of making the calculations required by TIA Section 313: (x) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that would be (or shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at the time of such determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502; (xi) the principal amount of any Security denominated in a Foreign Currency that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the Dollar equivalent, determined pursuant to Section 301 as of the date such Security is originally issued by the Corporation, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent as of such date of original issuance of the amount determined as provided in clause (x) above) of such Security; (xii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided with respect to such Indexed Security pursuant to Section 301; and (xiii) Securities owned by the Corporation, any other obligor upon the Securities, or any Affiliate of the Corporation or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making such calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver, only Securities that the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Corporation or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Corporation or of such other obligor.

“Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Corporation to pay the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest on, any Securities or Coupons on behalf of the Corporation, or if no such Person is authorized, the Corporation.

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

“Place of Payment” means, when used with respect to the Securities of, or within, any series, the place or places where the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, such Securities are payable as specified as contemplated by Sections 301 and 1002.

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

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

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

“Registered Security” means any Security that is registered in the Security Register.

“Regular Record Date” for the installment of interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Registered Securities of, or within, any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301, whether or not a Business Day.

“Repayment Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid or repurchased at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such repayment or repurchase by or pursuant to this Indenture.

“Repayment Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid or purchased at the option of the Holder, the price at which it is to be repaid or repurchased by or pursuant to this Indenture.

“Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters.

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

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the SEC.

“Security” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and, more particularly, means any Security or Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture, “Securities” with respect to the Indenture as to which such Person is Trustee shall have the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and shall more particularly mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of, or within, any series as to which such Person is not Trustee.

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

“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is a “significant subsidiary” (within the meaning of Regulation S-X, promulgated under the Securities Act) of the Corporation.

“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Registered Securities of, or within, any series means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.

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

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“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation or other entity of which a majority of: (i) the voting power of the voting equity securities; or (ii) the outstanding equity interests, is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person.  For the purposes of this definition, “voting equity securities” means equity securities having voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of security has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in Section 905.

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

“United States” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions, and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.

“United States person” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States; a corporation, partnership, or other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States; or an estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source.

“Yield to Maturity” means the yield to Maturity, computed at the time of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such Security) and as set forth in such Security in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles.

Section 102.  Compliance Certificates and Opinions

Upon any application or request by the Corporation to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Corporation shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture (including covenants, compliance with which constitute conditions precedent) relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, 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 relating to such particular application or request, 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 (excluding certificates delivered pursuant to Section 1010) shall include:

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

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

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

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

Section 103.  Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

In any case when 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 as to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

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

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

Section 104.  Acts of Holders

(1)           Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of the Outstanding Securities of all series or one or more series, as the case may be, may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing.  If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of Securities of such series may, alternatively, be embodied in and evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities of such series voting in favor thereof, whether in person or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities of such series duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article Fifteen, or a combination of such instruments and any such record.  Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments or record, or both instruments and record, are delivered to the Trustee and, when it is hereby expressly required, to the Corporation.  Such instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Corporation and any agent of the Trustee or the Corporation, if made in the manner provided in this section. The record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 1506.

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

(3)           The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

(4)           The ownership of Bearer Securities may be proved by the production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory.  The Trustee and the Corporation may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until: (i) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced; (ii) such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person; (iii) such Bearer Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security; or (iv) such Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding.  The ownership of Bearer Securities may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient.

(5)           If the Corporation shall solicit from the Holders of Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act, the Corporation may, at its option, in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act, but the Corporation shall have no obligation to do so.  Notwithstanding TIA Section 316(c), such record date shall be the record date specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a date not earlier than the date 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders generally in connection therewith and not later than the date such solicitation is completed.  If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization, agreement, or consent by the Holders on such record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than 11 months after the record date.

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

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Section 105.  Notices, etc., to Trustee and Corporation

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made, given, furnished, or filed shall be deemed to have been given as of the date so delivered, if personally served; as of the date so sent, if transmitted by facsimile and receipt is confirmed by the facsimile operator of the recipient; as of the date so sent, if sent by electronic mail and receipt is acknowledged by the recipient; one day after the date so sent, if delivered by overnight courier service; or three days after the date so mailed, if mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed:

(1)           to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Operations; or

(2)           to the Corporation at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture or at any other address subsequently furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Corporation.

Section 106.  Notice to Holders; Waiver

When this Indenture provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities by the Corporation or the Trustee, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each such Holder affected by such event, at its address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.  In any case when notice to Holders of Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided herein.  Any notice mailed to a Holder in the manner herein prescribed shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such Holder, whether or not such Holder actually receives such notice.

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

Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, when this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Bearer Securities of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given if published in an Authorized Newspaper in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in such other city or cities as may be specified in such Securities, and if the Securities of such series are listed on any stock exchange outside the United States, in any place at which such Securities are listed on a securities exchange to the extent that such securities exchange so requires, on a Business Day, such publication to be not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.  Any such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the date of such publication or, if published more than once, on the date of the first such publication.

If by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such Holders for every purpose hereunder.  Neither the failure to give notice by publication to any particular Holder of Bearer Securities as provided above nor any defect in any notice so published shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Bearer Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Registered Securities given as provided herein.

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Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the country of publication.

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

Section 107.  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 108.  Successors and Assigns

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

Section 109.  Separability Clause

In case any provision in this Indenture or in any Security or Coupon 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 110.  Benefits of Indenture

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities or Coupons appertaining thereto, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent, and their successors hereunder, and the Holders any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy, or claim under this Indenture.

Section 111.  No Personal Liability

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant, or agreement contained in this Indenture, in any Security or Coupon appertaining thereto, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any promoter, as such, or against any past, present, or future shareholder, Officer, or director, as such, of the Corporation or of any successor, either directly or through the Corporation or any successor, under any rule of law, statute, or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 112.  Governing Law

This Indenture and the Securities and Coupons shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Utah.  This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

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Section 113.  Legal Holidays

In any case when any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity, or Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security or Coupon other than a provision in the Securities of any series that specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof), payment of interest or any Additional Amounts or principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity, or Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity, or Maturity, as the case may be.

ARTICLE TWO

SECURITIES FORMS

Section 201.  Forms of Securities

The Registered Securities, if any, of each series and the Bearer Securities, if any, and related Coupons of each series, shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established in or pursuant to one or more indentures supplemental hereto or Board Resolutions; shall have such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto; and may have such letters, numbers, or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as the Corporation may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on which the Securities may be listed, or to conform to usage.

Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, Bearer Securities shall have interest Coupons attached.

The definitive Securities and Coupons shall be printed, lithographed, or engraved, or produced by any combination of these methods, on a steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officers executing such Securities or Coupons, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or Coupons.

Section 202.  Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

Subject to Section 611, the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

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

 _____________________________, as Trustee

By   __________________________                                                   

Authorized Signatory

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Section 203.  Securities Issuable in Global Form

If Securities of, or within, a series are issuable in global form, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (8) of Section 301 and the provisions of Section 302, any such Security shall represent such of the Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series represented thereby may from time to time be increased or decreased to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Corporation Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or 304. Subject to the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Corporation Order. If a Corporation Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Corporation with respect to endorsement, delivery, or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.

The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply to any Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never issued and sold by the Corporation and the Corporation delivers to the Trustee the Security in global form together with written instructions (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section 303.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 307, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of, and any premium or Make-Whole Amount and interest on, any Security in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 308 and except as provided in the preceding paragraph, the Corporation, the Trustee, and any agent of the Corporation and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security: (1) in the case of a permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such permanent global Security in registered form; or (2) in the case of a permanent global Security in bearer form, Euroclear or Clearstream.

ARTICLE THREE

THE SECURITIES

Section 301.  Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

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

The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions or indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, any or all of the following, as applicable (each of which (except for the matters set forth in clauses (1), (2), and (15) below), if so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Corporation with respect to unissued Securities of, or within, the series when issued from time to time):

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(1)           the title of the Securities of, or within, the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of such series from all other series of Securities);

(2)           any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of, or within, the series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of other Securities of, or within, the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107, or 1305);

(3)           the date or dates, or the method by which such date or dates will be determined, on which the principal of the Securities of, or within, the series shall be payable and the amount of principal payable thereon;

(4)           the rate or rates at which the Securities of, or within, the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest will be payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date or the method by which such date shall be determined, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year consisting of 12 30-day months;

(5)           the place or places where the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of, Securities of, or within, the series shall be payable, any Registered Securities of, or within, the series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and notices or demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of, or within, the series and this Indenture may be served;

(6)           the period or periods within which, the price or prices (including the premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) at which, the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which, and other terms and conditions upon which Securities of, or within, the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Corporation, if the Corporation is to have the option;

(7)           the obligation, if any, of the Corporation to redeem, repay, or purchase Securities of, or within, the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provision or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which or the date or dates on which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which, and other terms and conditions upon which Securities of, or within, the series shall be redeemed, repaid, or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

(8)           if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Registered Securities of, or within, the series shall be issuable and, if other than the denomination of $5,000, the denomination or denominations in which any Bearer Securities of, or within, the series shall be issuable;

(9)           if other than the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar and/or Paying Agent;

(10)         if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of, or within, the series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or the method by which such portion shall be determined;

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(11)           if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency or Currencies in which payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest or Additional Amounts on, if any, the Securities of, or within, the series shall be payable or in which the Securities of, or within, the series shall be denominated;

(12)          whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest on, if any, the Securities of, or within, the series may be determined with reference to an index, formula, or other method (which index, formula, or method may be based, without limitation, on one or more currencies, currency units, composite currencies, commodities, equity indices, or other indices), and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

(13)          whether the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest or Additional Amounts on, if any, the Securities of, or within, the series are to be payable, at the election of the Corporation or a Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies other than that in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable, the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time and manner of, and identity of the exchange rate agent with responsibility for, determining the exchange rate between the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable and the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which such Securities are to be so payable;

(14)          provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders of Securities of, or within, the series upon the occurrence of such events as may be specified;

(15)          any deletions from, modifications of, or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Corporation with respect to Securities of, or within, the series, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein;

(16)           whether Securities of, or within, the series are to be issuable as Registered Securities, Bearer Securities (with or without Coupons), or both, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale, or delivery of Bearer Securities and the terms upon which Bearer Securities of, or within, the series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of, or within, the series and vice versa (if permitted by applicable laws and regulations), whether any Securities of, or within, the series are to be issuable initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of, or within, the series are to be issuable in permanent global form (with or without Coupons) and, if so, whether beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent global Security may exchange such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in Section 305, and if Registered Securities of, or within, the series are to be issuable as a global Security, the identity of the depositary for such series;

(17)           the date as of which any Bearer Securities of, or within, the series and any temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of, or within, the series shall be dated if other than the date of original issuance of the first Security of the series to be issued;

(18)           the Person to whom any interest on any Registered Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, the manner in which, or the Person to whom, any interest on any Bearer Security of the series shall be payable, if otherwise than upon presentation and surrender of the Coupons appertaining thereto as they severally mature, and the extent to which, or the manner in which, any interest payable on a temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than in the manner provided in Section 304;

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(19)           the applicability, if any, of Sections 1402 and/or 1403 to the Securities of, or within, the series and any provisions in modification of, in addition to, or in lieu of any of the provisions of Article Fourteen;

(20)           if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and/or terms of such certificates, documents, or conditions;

(21)           if the Securities of, or within, the series are to be issued upon the exercise of debt warrants, the time, manner, and place for such Securities to be authenticated and delivered;

(22)          whether and under what circumstances the Corporation will pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1010 on the Securities of, or within, the series to any Holder that is not a United States person (including any modification to the definition of such term) in respect of any tax, assessment, or governmental charge and, if so, whether the Corporation will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such option);

(23)          the obligation, if any, of the Corporation to permit the conversion of the Securities of such series into shares of Capital Stock of the Corporation and the terms and conditions upon which such conversion shall be effected (including, without limitation, the initial conversion price or rate, the conversion period, any adjustment of the applicable conversion price or rate, and any requirements relative to the reservation of such shares for purposes of conversion); and

(24)          any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).

All Securities of any one series and the Coupons appertaining to any Bearer Securities of such series, if any, shall be substantially identical except, in the case of Registered or Bearer Securities issued in global form, as to denomination, and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened, without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of additional Securities of such series.

If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are established by action taken pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions or supplemental indentures, a copy of an appropriate record of such action(s) shall be certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Corporation and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Corporation Order for authentication and delivery of such Securities.

Section 302. Denominations

The Securities of each series shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. With respect to Securities of any series denominated in Dollars, in the absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Registered Securities of such series, other than Registered Securities issued in global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, and the Bearer Securities of such series, other than Bearer Securities issued in global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in denominations of $5,000.

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Section 303.  Execution, Authentication Delivery, and Dating

The Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed on behalf of the Corporation by two Officers.  The signature of any of these Officers on the Securities and Coupons may be manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such authorized Officer and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.

Securities or Coupons appertaining thereto bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper Officers of the Corporation shall bind the Corporation, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities or Coupons.

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Corporation may deliver Securities of any series, together with any Coupon appertaining thereto, executed by the Corporation to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Corporation Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Corporation Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that, in connection with its original issuance, no Bearer Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States; and provided further that, unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, a Bearer Security may be delivered in connection with its original issuance only if the Person entitled to receive such Bearer Security shall have furnished a certificate to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture or such other certificate as may be specified with respect to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the earlier of the date on which such Bearer Security is delivered and the date on which any temporary Security first becomes exchangeable for such Bearer Security in accordance with the terms of such temporary Security and this Indenture. Except as permitted by Section 306, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security unless all appurtenant Coupons for interest then matured have been detached and cancelled.

If all of the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time and if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series shall so permit, such Corporation Order may set forth procedures acceptable to the Trustee for the issuance of such Securities and determining the terms of particular Securities of such series, such as interest rate or formula, maturity date, date of issuance, and date from which interest shall accrue.  In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d)) shall be fully protected in relying upon:

(1)           an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 102 and stating that:

(i)           the form or forms of such Securities and any Coupons have been, or will have been upon compliance with such procedures as may be specified therein, established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

(ii)           the terms of such Securities and any Coupons have been, or will have been upon compliance with such procedures as may be specified therein, established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and

(iii)          such Securities, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, when completed pursuant to such procedures as may be specified therein, and executed and delivered by the Corporation to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with this Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with this Indenture and issued by the Corporation in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Corporation, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and to general equitable principles and to such other matters as may be specified therein; and

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(2)           an Officers’ Certificate complying with Section 102 and stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of such Securities have been, or will have been upon compliance with such procedures as may be specified therein, complied with and that, to the best of the knowledge of the signers of such certificate, no Event of Default with respect to such Securities shall have occurred and be continuing.

The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties, obligations, or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner that is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a Corporation Order, an Opinion of Counsel, or an Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to the preceding paragraph at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but such order, opinion, and certificate, with appropriate modifications to cover such future issuances, shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.

Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified as contemplated by Section 301.

No Security or Coupon appertaining thereto shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security or the Security to which such Coupon appertains a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized officer, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Corporation, and the Corporation shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued or sold by the Corporation, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

Section 304.  Temporary Securities

(1)           Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Corporation may execute, and upon Corporation Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed, or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form or, if authorized, in bearer form, with one or more Coupons or without Coupons, and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other variations as the Officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities.  In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities may be in global form.

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Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be exchanged in accordance with Section 304(2) or as otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution), if temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Corporation will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.  After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Corporation in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied by any unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto), the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor, a like principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered Security; and provided further that a definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security only in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 303.  Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.

(2)           Unless otherwise provided as contemplated in Section 301, this Section 304(2) shall govern the exchange of temporary Securities issued in global form other than through the facilities of DTC.  If any such temporary Security is issued in global form, then such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be delivered to the London office of a depositary or common depositary (the “Common Depositary”), for the benefit of Euroclear or Clearstream.

Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary global Security (the “Exchange Date”), the Corporation shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such temporary global Security, executed by the Corporation.  On or after the Exchange Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Corporation’s agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for definitive Securities without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each portion of such temporary global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of, or within, the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such temporary global Security to be exchanged.  The definitive Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such temporary global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent global bearer form, or permanent global registered form, or any combination thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, and if any combination thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial owner thereof; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, upon such presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary global Security is accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by Euroclear as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged and a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by Clearstream as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged, each in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture or in such other form as may be established pursuant to Section 301; and provided further that definitive Bearer Securities shall be delivered in exchange for a portion of a temporary global Security only in compliance with the requirements of Section 303.

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Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, the interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor following the Exchange Date when the account holder instructs Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, to request such exchange on its behalf and delivers to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other form as may be established pursuant to Section 301), dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the Exchange Date, copies of which certificate shall be available from the offices of Euroclear or Clearstream, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent appointed for such series of Securities, and each Paying Agent.  Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, any such exchange shall be made free of charge to the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security, except that a Person receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage, transportation, and the like unless such Person takes delivery of such definitive Securities in person at the offices of Euroclear or Clearstream.  Definitive Securities in bearer form to be delivered in exchange for any portion of a temporary global Security shall be delivered only outside the United States.

Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, interest payable on a temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series occurring prior to the applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to Euroclear or Clearstream on such Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euroclear or Clearstream to the Trustee of a certificate or certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section 301), for credit without further interest on or after such Interest Payment Date to the respective accounts of Persons who are the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security on such Interest Payment Date and who have each delivered to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the Interest Payment Date occurring prior to such Exchange Date in the form set forth as Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section 301). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, the certifications made pursuant to this paragraph shall satisfy the certification requirements of the preceding two paragraphs of this Section 304(2) and of the third paragraph of Section 303 of this Indenture, and the interests of the Persons who are the beneficial owners of the temporary global Security with respect to which such certification was made will be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor on the Exchange Date or the date of certification if such date occurs after the Exchange Date, without further act or deed by such beneficial owners. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, no payments of principal or interest owing with respect to a beneficial interest in a temporary global Security will be made unless and until such interest in such temporary global Security shall have been exchanged for an interest in a definitive Security. Any interest so received by Euroclear or Clearstream and not paid as herein provided shall be returned to the Trustee prior to the expiration of two years after such Interest Payment Date in order to be repaid to the Corporation.

Section 305.  Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange

(1)           The Corporation shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any office or agency of the Corporation in a Place of Payment a register for each series of Securities (the registers maintained in such office or in any such office or agency of the Corporation in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes referred to collectively as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Corporation shall provide for the registration of Registered Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities. The Security Register shall be in written form or any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities on such Security Register as herein provided. In the event that the Trustee shall cease to be Security Registrar, it shall have the right to examine the Security Register at all reasonable times.

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(2)           Subject to the provisions of this Section 305, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series at any office or agency of the Corporation in a Place of Payment for that series, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, and containing identical terms and provisions.

(3)           Subject to the provisions of this Section 305, at the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination or denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency.  Whenever any such Registered Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.  Unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities as contemplated by Section 301, Bearer Securities may not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities.

(4)           If (but only if) permitted as contemplated by Section 301, at the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency, with all unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining.  If the Holder of a Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured Coupon or Coupons or matured Coupon or Coupons in default, any such permitted exchange may be effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Corporation in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing Coupon or Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Corporation and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless.  If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such missing Coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, interest represented by Coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of those Coupons at an office or agency located outside the United States.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered at any such office or agency in a permitted exchange for a Registered Security of the same series and like tenor after the close of business at such office or agency on: (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date; or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, and interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.  Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities that the holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

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(5)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph.  If the depositary for any permanent global Security is DTC, then, unless the terms of such global Security expressly permit such global Security to be exchanged in whole or in part for definitive Securities, a global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part, only to a nominee of DTC, or by a nominee of DTC to DTC, or to a successor to DTC for such global Security selected and approved by the Corporation or to a nominee of such successor to DTC.  If at any time DTC notifies the Corporation that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the applicable global Security or Securities or if at any time DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act if so required by applicable law or regulation, the Corporation shall appoint a successor depositary with respect to such global Security or Securities.  If: (i) a successor depositary for such global Security or Securities is not appointed by the Corporation within 90 days after the Corporation receives such notice or becomes aware of such unwillingness, inability, or ineligibility; (ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the beneficial owners representing a majority in principal amount of the applicable series of Securities represented by such global Security or Securities advise DTC to cease acting as depositary for such global Security or Securities; or (iii) the Corporation, in its sole discretion, determines at any time that all Outstanding Securities (but not less than all) of any series issued or issuable in the form of one or more global Securities shall no longer be represented by such global Security or Securities (provided, however, the Corporation may not make such determination during the 40-day restricted period provided by Rule 903(b) of Regulation S under the Securities Act or during any other similar period during which the Securities must be held in global form as may be required by the Securities Act), then the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, definitive Securities of like series, rank, tenor, and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such global Security or Securities.  If any beneficial owner of an interest in a permanent global Security is otherwise entitled to exchange such interest for Securities of such series and of like tenor and principal amount of another authorized form and denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 301 and provided that any applicable notice provided in the permanent global Security shall have been given, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which such interest may be so exchanged, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, definitive Securities in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such beneficial owner’s interest in such permanent global Security.  On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such permanent global Security shall be surrendered for exchange by DTC or such other depositary as shall be specified in the Corporation Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the Corporation’s agent for such purpose; provided, however, that no such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before any selection of Securities to be redeemed and ending on the relevant Redemption Date if the Security for which exchange is requested may be among those selected for redemption; and provided further that no Bearer Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States.  If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent global Security after the close of business at the office or agency where such exchange occurs on: (x) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date; or (xi) any Special Record Date and the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such permanent global Security is payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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

(7)           Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange or redemption shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing.

(8)           No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Corporation may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1107, or 1305 not involving any transfer.

(9)           The Corporation or the Trustee, as applicable, shall not be required: (i) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Security if such Security may be among those selected for redemption during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before selection of the Securities to be redeemed under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on: (a) if such Securities are issuable only as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption; and (b) if such Securities are issuable as Bearer Securities, the day of the first publication of the relevant notice of redemption or, if such Securities are also issuable as Registered Securities and there is no publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption; or (ii) to register the transfer of, or exchange, any Registered Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except in the case of any Registered Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed; or (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so selected for redemption, except that such a Bearer Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security of that series and like tenor; provided that such Registered Security shall be simultaneously surrendered for redemption; or (iv) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Security that has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so repaid.

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

If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated Coupon appertaining to it is surrendered to the Trustee or the Corporation, together with, in proper cases, such security or indemnity as may be required by the Corporation or the Trustee to save each of them or any agent of either of them harmless, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor, a new Security of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.

If there shall be delivered to the Corporation and to the Trustee: (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss, or theft of any Security or Coupon; and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of actual notice to the Corporation or the Trustee that such Security or Coupon has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Corporation shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost, or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon appertains (with all appurtenant Coupons not destroyed, lost, or stolen), a new Security of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost, or stolen Security or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon appertains.

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Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous two paragraphs, in case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Security or Coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, the Corporation in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost, or stolen Security or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon appertains, pay such Security or Coupon; provided, however, that payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), any interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, any interest on Bearer Securities shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the Coupons appertaining thereto.

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this section, the Corporation may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Security of any series with its Coupons, if any, issued pursuant to this section in lieu of any destroyed, lost, or stolen Security, or in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Corporation, whether or not the destroyed, lost, or stolen Security and its Coupons, if any, or the destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series and their Coupons, if any, 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 Securities or Coupons.

Section 307.  Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in accordance with the provisions of Section 301, interest on any Registered Security that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest at the office or agency of the Corporation maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that each installment of interest on any Registered Security may at the Corporation’s option be paid by mailing a check for such interest, payable to or upon the written order of the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 308, to the address of such Person as it appears on the Security Register, or transfer to an account maintained by the payee located inside the United States.

Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to the Securities of any series, payment of interest may be made, in the case of a Bearer Security, by transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located outside the United States.

Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301, every permanent global Security will provide that interest, if any, payable on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to DTC, Euroclear, or Clearstream, as the case may be, with respect to that portion of such permanent global Security held for its account by Cede & Co. or the Common Depositary, as the case may be, for the purpose of permitting such party to credit the interest received by it in respect of such permanent global Security to the accounts of the beneficial owners thereof.

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In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of business (at an office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series) on any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business (at such office or agency) on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in accordance with the provisions of Section 301, any interest on any Registered Security of any series that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder thereof on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Corporation, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:

(1)           The Corporation may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Corporation shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Registered Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment (which shall not be less than 20 days after such notice is received by the Trustee), and at the same time the Corporation shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Corporation of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Corporation, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Registered Securities of such series at its address as it appears in the Security Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Corporation, cause a similar notice to be published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in each place of payment, but such publications shall not be a condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2). In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series in exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of business at such office or agency on any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such proposed date of payment and Defaulted Interest will not be payable on such proposed date of payment in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section and Section 305, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other Security.

Section 308.  Persons Deemed Owners

Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Corporation, the Trustee, and any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Registered Security be overdue, and neither the Corporation, the Trustee, nor any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Title to any Bearer Security and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall pass by delivery.  The Corporation, the Trustee, and any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee may treat the Holder of any Bearer Security and the Holder of any Coupon as the absolute owner of such Security or Coupon for the purpose of receiving payment thereof, on account thereof, and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security or Coupon be overdue, and neither the Corporation, the Trustee, nor any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

None of the Corporation, the Trustee, any Paying Agent, or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Security in global form or for maintaining, supervising, or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any global Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Corporation, the Trustee, or any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy, or other authorization furnished by any depositary, as a Holder, with respect to such global Security or impair, as between such depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such global Security, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of such global Security.

Section 309.  Cancellation

All Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder, registration of transfer or exchange, or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities and Coupons and Securities and Coupons surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly cancelled by it.  The Corporation may, at any time, deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Corporation may have acquired in any manner whatsoever and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder that the Corporation has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee.  If the Corporation shall so acquire any of the Securities, however, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of, or in exchange for, any Securities cancelled as provided in this section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. Cancelled Securities and Coupons held by the Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee and the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of such destruction to the Corporation, unless by a Corporation Order the Corporation directs their return to it.

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Section 310.  Computation of Interest

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of 12 30-day months.

ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 401.  Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

This Indenture shall, upon Corporation Request, cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Corporation Request (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series herein expressly provided for and any right to receive Additional Amounts as provided in Section 1010), and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Corporation Request and at the expense of the Corporation, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series when:

(1)           either:

(i)           all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered and all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than (a) Coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities surrendered for exchange for Registered Securities and maturing after such exchange whose surrender is not required or has been waived as provided in Section 305; (b) Securities and Coupons of such series that have been destroyed, lost, or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306; (c) Coupons appertaining to Securities called for redemption and maturing after the relevant Redemption Date whose surrender has been waived as provided in Section 1106; and (d) Securities and Coupons of such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Corporation and thereafter repaid to the Corporation for discharge from such trust as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(ii)           all Securities of such series and in the case of (a) and (b) below, any Coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation: (a) have become due and payable; (b) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year; or (c) if redeemable at the option of the Corporation, are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Corporation, and the Corporation, in the case of (a), (b), or (c) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds, in trust for the purpose an amount in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable, sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities and such Coupons not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium or Make Whole Amount, if any), interest, and any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities that have become due and payable) or the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

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

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

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Corporation to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 606, the obligations of the Corporation to any Authenticating Agent under Section 611, and if money shall have been deposited with and held by the Trustee pursuant to clause (2) of this section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.

Section 402.  Application of Corporation Funds

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities, the Coupons, and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Corporation acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and any interest and Additional Amounts for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

ARTICLE FIVE

REMEDIES

Section 501.  Events of Default

Subject to any modifications, additions, or deletions relating to any series of Securities as contemplated pursuant to Section 301, “Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to any particular series of Securities, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether or not it shall be voluntary or involuntary or 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):

(1)           default in the payment of any interest upon, or any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, any Security of, or within, that series, or of any Coupon appertaining thereto, when such interest, Additional Amounts, or Coupon becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days;

(2)           default in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, on) any Security of that series when due and payable at its Maturity;

(3)           default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the terms of any Security of that series;

(4)           default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Corporation in this Indenture with respect to any Security of that series (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this section specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Corporation by the Trustee or to the Corporation and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

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(5)           the Corporation or any Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

(i)           commences a voluntary case;

(ii)           consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case;

(iii)           consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property; or

(iv)           makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;

(6)           a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

(i)           is for relief against the Corporation or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case;

(ii)           appoints a Custodian of the Corporation or any Significant Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of either of its property; or

(iii)           orders the liquidation of the Corporation or any Significant Subsidiary and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days; or

(7)           any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.

As used in this Section 501, the term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors, and the term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, or other similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

Section 502.  Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or 501(6)) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of, and the Make-Whole Amount on, if any, all the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Corporation (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal or specified portion thereof shall become immediately due and payable.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or 501(6) with respect to Securities of any series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable.

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

(1)           the Corporation has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay in the currency, currency unit, or composite currency in which the Securities of such series is payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series):

(i)           all overdue installments of interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, all Outstanding Securities of that series and any related Coupons;

(ii)           the principal of, and premium or Make-Whole Amount on, if any, any Outstanding Securities of that series that have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities;

(iii)           to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest and any Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities; and

(iv)           all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee, its agents, and counsel; and

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

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

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

The Corporation covenants that if:

(1)           default is made in the payment of any installment of interest or Additional Amounts, if any, on any Security of any series and any related Coupon when such interest or Additional Amount becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or

(2)           default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, on) any Security of any series at its Maturity;

then the Corporation will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities of such series and Coupons, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities and coupons for principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and Additional Amount, with interest upon any overdue principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest or Additional Amounts, if any, at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel.

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

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

Section 504.  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition, or other judicial proceeding relative to the Corporation or any other obligor upon the Securities, or the property of the Corporation or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities of any series shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Corporation for the payment of overdue principal, premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

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

(2)           to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator, or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder of Securities of such series and Coupons to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee, and their agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 606.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize, consent to, accept, or adopt, on behalf of any Holder of a Security or Coupon, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, or composition affecting the Securities or Coupons or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a Security or Coupon in any such proceeding.

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Section 505.  Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities or Coupons

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

Section 506.  Application of Money Collected

Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee, and in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) or interest and any Additional Amounts, upon presentation of the Securities or Coupons, or both, as the case may be, and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

FIRST: to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 606;

SECOND: to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Securities and coupons for principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and any Additional Amounts payable, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the aggregate amounts due and payable on such Securities and coupons for principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and Additional Amounts, respectively; and

THIRD: to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Corporation or any other Person or Persons entitled thereto.

Section 507.  Limitation on Suits

No Holder of any Security of any series or any related Coupon 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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Section 508.  Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, Interest, and Additional Amounts

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security or Coupon shall have the absolute and unconditional right to receive payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, such Security or payment of such Coupon on the respective due dates expressed in such Security or Coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

Section 509.  Restoration of Rights and Remedies

If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security or Coupon has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, the Corporation, the Trustee, and the Holders of Securities and Coupons 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 Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

Section 510.  Rights and Remedies Cumulative

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

Section 511.  Delay or Omission Not Waiver

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security or Coupon to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute waiver of any such Event of Default or acquiescence therein.  Every right and remedy given by this article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or Coupons, as the case may be.

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Section 512.  Control by Holders of Securities

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that

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

(2)           the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction; and

(3)           the Trustee need not take any action that might involve it in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of Securities of such series not joining therein (but the Trustee shall have no obligation as to the determination of such undue prejudice).

Section 513.  Waiver of Past Defaults

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

(1)           in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or Additional Amounts payable in respect of, any Security of such series or any related Coupons; or

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

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

Section 514.  Undertaking for Costs

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by its 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 Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as 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, all in accordance with the Trust Indenture Act.

ARTICLE SIX

THE TRUSTEE

Section 601.  Notice of Defaults

Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security of such series, or in the payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to the Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Securities and Coupons of such series; and provided further that in the case of any default or breach of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to the Securities and Coupons of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 90 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this section, the term “default” means any event that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series.

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Section 602.  Certain Rights of Trustee

Subject to the provisions of TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d):

(1)           The Trustee shall perform only such duties as are expressly undertaken by it to perform under this Indenture.

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

(3)           Any request or direction of the Corporation mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Corporation Request or Corporation Order (other than delivery of any Security, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 303, which shall be sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution.

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

(5)           The Trustee may consult with counsel and as a condition to the taking, suffering, or omission of any action hereunder may demand an Opinion of Counsel, and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered, or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon.

(6)           The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related Coupons pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses, and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

(7)           The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records, and premises of the Corporation, personally or by agent or attorney.

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

(9)           The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.

The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

Section 603.  Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, and in any Coupons shall be taken as the statements of the Corporation, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or Coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities, and perform its obligations hereunder.  Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Corporation of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

Section 604.  May Hold Securities

The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent, or any other agent of the Corporation, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and Coupons and, subject to TIA Sections 310(b) and 311, may otherwise deal with the Corporation with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent, or such other agent.

Section 605.  Money Held in Trust

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on, or investment of, any money received by it hereunder.

Section 606.  Compensation and Reimbursement

The Corporation agrees:

(1)           to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder, including extraordinary services rendered in connection with or during the continuation of a default hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

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

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(3)           to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability, or expense arising out of, or in connection with, the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts or the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder except to the extent any such loss, liability, or expense may be attributable to its own negligence or bad faith.

As security for the performance of the obligations of the Corporation under this section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest on, particular Securities or any Coupons.

The provisions of this section shall survive the termination of this Indenture.

Section 607.  Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting Interests

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that shall be eligible to act as Trustee under TIA Section 310(a)(1) and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000.  If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of federal, state, territorial, or District of Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes 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.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this article.

Section 608.  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

(1)           No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 609.

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

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

(4)           If, at any time:

(i)           the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of TIA Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Corporation or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months;

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(ii)           the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 607 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Corporation or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months; or

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

then, in any such case: (x) the Corporation by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities; or (xi) subject to TIA Section 315(e), any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

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

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

Section 609.  Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

(1)           In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all or a series of Securities, every such successor Trustee shall execute, acknowledge, and deliver to the Corporation and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed, or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts, and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Corporation or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers, and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer, and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its claim, if any, provided for in Section 606.

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

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

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

Section 610.  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation, or Succession to Business

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

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Section 611.  Appointment of Authenticating Agent

At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities, which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of transfer, or partial redemption or repayment thereof, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder.  Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly furnished to the Corporation.  Whenever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.  Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Corporation and, except as may otherwise be provided pursuant to Section 301, shall at all times be a bank or trust company or corporation organized and doing business and in good standing under the laws of the United States of America, or of any state or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities.  If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  In case at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this section.

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

An Authenticating Agent for any series of Securities may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee for such series and to the Corporation.  The Trustee for any series of Securities may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Corporation.  Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this section, the Trustee for such series may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent, which shall be acceptable to the Corporation, and shall give notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of, or within, the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the manner set forth in Section 106.  Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers, and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent herein.  No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this section.

The Corporation agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent, from time to time, reasonable compensation including reimbursement of its reasonable expenses for its services under this section.

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

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

                                _________________________________, as

Trustee

By  ______________________________                                                              

Authorized Signatory

ARTICLE SEVEN

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND CORPORATION

Section 701.  Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders

Every Holder of Securities or Coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Corporation and the Trustee that neither the Corporation nor the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, or any Security Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with TIA Section 312, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under TIA Section 312(b).

Section 702.  Reports by Trustee

Within 60 days after September 1 of each year commencing with the first September 1 after the first issuance of Securities pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities as provided in TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such September 1 if required by TIA Section 313(a).

Section 703.  Reports by the Corporation

The Corporation will:

(1)           file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Corporation is required to file the same with the SEC, 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 SEC may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) that the Corporation may be required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or if the Corporation is not required to file information, documents, or reports pursuant to either of such sections, then it will file with the Trustee and the SEC, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the SEC, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents, and reports that may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations;

(2)           file with the Trustee (which shall send copies to the Holders of Securities) and the SEC, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the SEC, such additional information, documents, and reports with respect to compliance by the Corporation with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

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(3)           transmit by mail to the Trustee (which shall send copies to the Holders of Securities), within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), such summaries of any information, documents, and reports required to be filed by the Corporation pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the SEC.

Section 704.  Corporation to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

The Corporation will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

(1)           semiannually, not later than 15 days after the Regular Record Date for interest for each series of Securities, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Registered Securities of such series as of such Regular Record Date, or if there is no Regular Record Date for interest for such series of Securities, semiannually, upon such dates as are set forth in the Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such series; and

(2)           at such other times as the Trustee may reasonably request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Corporation of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

ARTICLE EIGHT

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE, OR CONVEYANCE

Section 801.  Consolidations and Mergers of Corporation and Sales, Leases, and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions

The Corporation may consolidate with, or sell, lease, or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into any other Person, provided that in any such case: (1) either the Corporation shall be the continuing entity or the successor (if other than the Corporation) entity shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States or a state thereof, and such successor entity shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and any interest (including all Additional Amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 1010) on, all of the Securities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Corporation by supplemental indenture, complying with Article Nine hereof, satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such Person; and (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the Corporation or any Subsidiary as a result thereof as having been incurred by the Corporation or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no Event of Default and no event that, after notice or the lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

Section 802.  Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation

In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, or conveyance and upon any such assumption by the successor entity, such successor entity shall succeed to and be substituted for the Corporation, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part, and the predecessor entity, except in the event of a lease, shall be relieved of any further obligation under this Indenture and the Securities.  Such successor entity thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Corporation, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder that theretofore shall not have been signed by the Corporation and delivered to the Trustee; and upon the order of such successor entity, instead of the Corporation, and subject to all the terms, conditions, and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Corporation to the Trustee for authentication and any Securities that such successor entity thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.

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In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, or conveyance, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

Section 803.  Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel

Any consolidation, merger, sale, lease, or conveyance permitted under Section 801 is also subject to the condition that the Trustee receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, or conveyance, and the assumption by any successor entity, complies with the provisions of this article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 901.  Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders

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

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

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

(3)           to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series); provided, however, that in respect of any such additional Events of Default such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such default or may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of that or those series of Securities to which such additional Events of Default apply to waive such default;

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(4)           to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal; to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of, or any premium, Make-Whole Amount, or interest on, Bearer Securities; to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered Securities; to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations; or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form, provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related Coupons in any material respect;

(5)           to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture that is entitled to the benefit of such provision;

(6)           to secure the Securities;

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

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

(9)           to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture that shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture or to make any other changes, provided that, in each case, such provisions shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related Coupons in any material respect;

(10)           to close this Indenture with respect to the authentication and delivery of additional series of Securities or to qualify, or maintain qualification of, this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; or

(11)           to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Sections 401, 1402, and 1403; provided in each case that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series and any related Coupons or any other series of Securities in any material respect.

Section 902.  Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

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

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(1)           change the Stated Maturity of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, on), or any installment of principal of, or interest on, any Security; or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate or amount of interest thereon or any Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof, or any premium or Make-Whole Amount payable upon the redemption thereof, or change any obligation of the Corporation to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1010 (except as contemplated by Section 801(1) and permitted by Section 901(1)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or Make-Whole Amount, if any, that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 504 or adversely affect any right of repayment at the option of the Holder of any Security, or change any Place of Payment where, or the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which, the principal of any Security or any premium or Make-Whole Amount or any Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof or the interest thereon is payable; or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder, on or after the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the case may be);

(2)           reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver with respect to such series (or compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or reduce the requirements of Section 1504 for quorum or voting; or

(3)           modify any of the provisions of this section, Section 513, or Section 1011, except to increase the required percentage to effect such action or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders 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.

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

Section 903.  Execution of Supplemental Indentures

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this article or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and 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 and that all conditions precedent to the execution of such supplemental indenture have been complied with.  The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

Section 904.  Effect of Supplemental Indentures

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

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Section 905.  Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

Section 906.  Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

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

Section 907.  Notice of Supplemental Indentures

Promptly after the execution by the Corporation and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of Section 902, the Corporation shall give notice thereof to the Holders of each Outstanding Security affected, in the manner provided for in Section 106, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture.

ARTICLE TEN

COVENANTS

Section 1001.  Payment of Principal, Premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, Interest, and Additional Amounts

The Corporation covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such series of Securities, any Coupons appertaining thereto, and this Indenture.  Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, any interest due on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, Bearer Securities on or before Maturity, other than Additional Amounts, if any, payable as provided in Section 1010 in respect of principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, on) such a Security, shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several Coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature.  Unless otherwise specified with respect to Securities of any series pursuant to Section 301, at the option of the Corporation, all payments of principal may be paid by check to the registered Holder of the Registered Security or other Person entitled thereto against surrender of such Security.

Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency

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If Securities of a series are issuable only as Registered Securities, the Corporation shall maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Corporation will maintain: (1) in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, New York, an office or agency where any Registered Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where any Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served, and where Bearer Securities of that series and related Coupons may be presented or surrendered for payment in the circumstances described in the following paragraph (and not otherwise); (2) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series that is located outside the United States, an office or agency where Securities of that series and related Coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any Additional Amounts payable on Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1010); provided, however, that if the Securities of that series are listed on any stock exchange located outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Corporation will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in any required city located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities of that series are listed in such exchange; and (3) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series located outside the United States an office or agency where any Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served.  The Corporation will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of each such office or agency.  If at any time the Corporation shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices, and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of that series and the related Coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any Additional Amounts payable on Bearer Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1010) at the offices specified in the Security and the Corporation hereby appoints the same as its agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices, and demands, and the Corporation hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices, and demands.

Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, no payment of principal, premium, Make-Whole Amount, interest on, or Additional Amounts in respect of, Bearer Securities shall be made at any office or agency of the Corporation in the United States or by check mailed to any address in the United States or by transfer to an account maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided, however, that, if the Securities of a series are payable in Dollars, payment of principal of, and any premium and interest on, any Bearer Security (including any Additional Amounts or Make-Whole Amount payable on Securities of such series pursuant to Section 1010) shall be made at the office of the Corporation’s Paying Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium, interest, Additional Amounts, or Make-Whole Amount, as the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained for the purpose by the Corporation in accordance with this Indenture, is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.

The Corporation may from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series and related Coupons, if any, may be presented or surrendered for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Corporation of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of any series for such purposes.  The Corporation will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.  Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a series of Securities, the Corporation hereby designates as Places of Payment for each series of Securities the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee and the office or agency of ___________________________________________ at ___________________________________________, initially appoints the Trustee as a Paying Agent in ________________________________________, and ________________________________________, as Paying Agent in ___________, ___________, and appoints each as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices, and demands.

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Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, if and so long as the Securities of any series are denominated in a Foreign Currency or may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long as it is required under any other provision of the Indenture, then the Corporation will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required, at least one exchange rate agent.

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

If the Corporation shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of any Securities and any related Coupons, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or Additional Amounts in respect of, any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, or Additional Amounts so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

Whenever the Corporation shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities and any related Coupons, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or Additional Amounts in respect of, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum (in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to pay the principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, or Additional Amounts so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium, Make-Whole Amount, interest, or Additional Amounts, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Corporation will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

The Corporation will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this section, that such Paying Agent will:

(1)           hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest on, Securities or Additional Amounts 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;

(2)           give the Trustee notice of any default by the Corporation (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any such payment of principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, or Additional Amounts; and

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

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

Except as otherwise provided in the Securities of any series, any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Corporation, in trust for the payment of the principal of  (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premiums or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, or Additional Amounts have become due and payable shall be paid to the Corporation upon Corporation Request or (if then held by the Corporation) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Corporation for payment of such principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security, without interest thereon, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Corporation as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Corporation cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Corporation.

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Section 1004.  Existence

Subject to Article Eight, the Corporation will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect the existence, rights (charter and statutory), and franchises of the Corporation and its Significant Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Corporation shall not be required to preserve any right or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Corporation and its Subsidiaries as a whole and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders of Securities of any series.

Section 1005.  Maintenance of Properties

The Corporation will cause all of its properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair, and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments, and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Corporation may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prevent the Corporation or any Subsidiary from selling or otherwise disposing of for value its properties in the ordinary course of its business.

Section 1006.  Insurance

The Corporation will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep all of its insurable properties insured against loss or damage at least equal to their then full insurable value with financially sound and reputable insurance companies.

Section 1007.  Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

The Corporation will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent: (1) all taxes, assessments, and governmental charges levied or imposed upon it or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits, or property of the Corporation or any Subsidiary; and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials, and supplies that, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Corporation or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Corporation shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge, or claim whose amount, applicability, or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.

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Section 1008.  Provision of Financial Information

Whether or not the Corporation is subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Corporation will, to the extent permitted under the Exchange Act, file with the SEC the annual reports, quarterly reports, and other documents that the Corporation would have been required to file with the SEC pursuant to such Section 13 or 15(d) if the Corporation were so subject, such documents to be filed with the SEC on or prior to the respective dates (the “Required Filing Dates”) by which the Corporation would have been required so to file such documents if the Corporation were so subject.

The Corporation will also in any event: (1) within 15 days of each Required Filing Date (i) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, without cost to such Holders, copies of the annual reports and quarterly reports that the Corporation would have been required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act if the Corporation were subject to such sections; and (ii) file with the Trustee copies of annual reports, quarterly reports, and other documents that the Corporation would have been required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act if the Corporation were subject to such sections; and (2) if filing such documents by the Corporation with the SEC is not permitted under the Exchange Act, promptly upon written request and payment of the reasonable cost of duplication and delivery, supply copies of such documents to any prospective Holder.

Section 1009.  Statement as to Compliance

The Corporation will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer, or principal accounting officer as to his knowledge of the Corporation’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture and, in the event of any noncompliance, specifying such noncompliance and the nature and status thereof.  For purposes of this Section 1009, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.

Section 1010.  Additional Amounts

If any Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Corporation will pay to the Holder of any Security of such series or any Coupon appertaining thereto Additional Amounts as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301.  Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context except in the case of Section 502(1), the payment of the principal or of any premium, Make-Whole Amount, or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any series or payment of any related Coupon or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301 to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were, or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, if the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and any premium is made) and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal and any premium or Make-Whole Amount or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers’ Certificate, the Corporation will furnish the Trustee and the Corporation’s principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers’ Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of, and any premium or interest on, the Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series or any related Coupons that are not United States persons without withholding for, or on account of, any tax, assessment, or other governmental charge described in the Securities of, or within, the series. If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officers’ Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities of that series or related Coupons, and the Corporation will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Securities. In the event that the Trustee or any Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall not so receive the above-mentioned certificate, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall be entitled: (1) to assume that no such withholding or deduction is required with respect to any payment of principal or interest with respect to any Securities of a series or related Coupons until it shall have received a certificate advising otherwise; and (2) to make all payments of principal and interest with respect to the Securities of a series or related Coupons without withholding or deductions until otherwise advised. The Corporation covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability, or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of, or in connection with, actions taken or omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officers’ Certificate furnished pursuant to this section or in reliance on the Corporation’s not furnishing such an Officers’ Certificate.

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Section 1011.  Waiver of Certain Covenants

The Corporation may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision, or condition set forth in Sections 1004 to 1007, inclusive, and with any other term, provision, or condition with respect to the Securities of any series specified in accordance with Section 301 (except any such term, provision, or condition that could not be amended without the consent of all Holders of Securities of such series pursuant to Section 902), if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of all outstanding Securities of such series, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to, or affect, such covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Corporation and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision, or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

ARTICLE ELEVEN

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

Section 1101.  Applicability of Article

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

Section 1102.  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

The election of the Corporation to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution.  In case of any redemption at the election of the Corporation of less than all of the Securities of any series, the Corporation shall, at least 45 days prior to the giving of the notice of redemption in Section 1104 (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed.  In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Corporation shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.

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Section 1103.  Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

If less than all the Securities of any series issued on the same day with the same terms are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series issued on such date with the same terms not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series.

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Corporation and the Security Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

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

Section 1104.  Notice of Redemption

Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 30 days or more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, but failure to give such notice in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other such Security or portion thereof.

Any notice that is mailed to the Holders of Registered Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives the notice.

All notices of redemption shall state:

(1)           the Redemption Date;

(2)           the Redemption Price, accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 1106, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any;

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

(4)           in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the holder will receive, without a charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed;

(5)           that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 1106, if any, will become due and payable upon each such Security, or the portion thereof, to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date;

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(6)           the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities, together in the case of Bearer Securities with all Coupons appertaining thereto, if any, maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, or for conversion;

(7)           that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case;

(8)           that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer Securities of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be accompanied by all Coupons maturing subsequent to the date fixed for redemption or the amount of any such missing Coupon or Coupons will be deducted from the Redemption Price, unless security or indemnity satisfactory to the Corporation, the Trustee for such series, and any Paying Agent is furnished;

(9)           if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and any Registered Securities of such series are not to be redeemed, and if such Bearer Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities not subject to the redemption on this Redemption Date pursuant to Section 305 or otherwise, the last date, as determined by the Corporation, on which such exchanges may be made;

(10)           the CUSIP number of such Security, if any, provided that neither the Corporation nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility for any such CUSIP number; and

(11)           if applicable, that a Holder of Securities that desires to convert Securities to be redeemed must satisfy the requirements for conversion contained in such Securities, the then-existing conversion price or rate, and the date and time when the option to convert shall expire.

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

Section 1105.  Deposit of Redemption Price

On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Corporation shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Corporation is acting as its own Paying Agent, which it may not do in the case of a sinking fund payment under Article Twelve, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions thereof that are to be redeemed on that date.

Section 1106.  Securities Payable on Redemption Date

Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) (together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Corporation shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and the Coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed, except to the extent provided below, shall be void.  Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security shall be paid by the Corporation at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of Coupons for such interest; and provided further that, installments of interest on Registered Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.

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If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Corporation and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing Coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented by Coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those Coupons.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security.

Section 1107.  Securities Redeemed in Part

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

ARTICLE TWELVE

SINKING FUNDS

Section 1201.  Applicability of Article

The provisions of this article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment,” and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.”  If provided for by the terms of any Securities of any series, the cash amount of any mandatory sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202.  Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series.

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Section 1202.  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

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

Section 1203.  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking payment date for Securities of any series, the Corporation will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, that is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) and the portion thereof, if any, that is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1202, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered and credited.  If such Officers’ Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Corporation shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified.  Not less than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Corporation in the manner provided in Section 1104.  Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS

Section 1301.  Applicability of Article

Repayment of Securities of any series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders thereof shall be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities, if any, and (except as otherwise specified by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301) in accordance with this article.

Section 1302.  Repayment of Securities

Securities of any series subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders thereof will, unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price equal to the principal amount thereon, together with interest, if any, thereof accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities.  The Corporation covenants that on or before the Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Corporation is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the Securities of any series, a percentage of the principal) of, and (except if the Repayment Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid on such date.

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Section 1303.  Exercise of Option

Securities of any series subject to repayment at the option of the Holders thereof will contain an “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse of such Securities.  In order for any Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the Trustee must receive at the Place of Payment therefor specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place or places of which the Corporation shall from time to time notify the Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 60 days or later than 30 days prior to the Repayment Date: (1) the Security so providing for such repayment together with the “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse thereof duly completed by the Holder (or by the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing); or (2) a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or a letter from a member of a national securities exchange or a commercial bank or trust company in the United States setting forth the name of the Holder of the Security, the principal amount of the Security, the principal amount of the Security to be repaid, the CUSIP number, if any, or a description of the tenor and terms of the Security, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby and a guarantee that the Security to be repaid, together with the duly completed form entitled “Option to Elect Repayment” on the reverse of the Security, will be received by the Trustee not later than the fifth Business Day after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or letter; provided, however, that such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or letter shall only be effective if such Security and form duly completed are received by the Trustee by such fifth Business Day.  If less than the entire principal amount of such Security is to be repaid in accordance with the terms of such Security, the principal amount of such Security to be repaid, in increments of the minimum denomination for Securities of such series, and the denomination or denominations of the Security or Securities to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the principal amount of such Security surrendered that is not to be repaid, must be specified.  The principal amount of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof may not be repaid in part if, following such repayment, the unpaid principal amount of such Security would be less than the minimum authorized denomination of Securities of, or within, the series of which such Security to be repaid is a part.  Except as otherwise may be provided by the terms of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof, exercise of the repayment option by the Holder shall be irrevocable unless waived by the Corporation.

Section 1304.  When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable

If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the option of the Holders thereof shall have been surrendered as provided in this article and as provided by or pursuant to the terms of such Securities, such Securities or the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and payable and shall be paid by the Corporation on the Repayment Date therein specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Corporation shall default in the payment of such Securities on such Repayment Date) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and the Coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be repaid, except to the extent provided below, shall be void.  Upon surrender of any such Security for repayment in accordance with such provisions, together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Repayment Date, the principal amount of such security so to be repaid shall be paid by the Corporation, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Repayment Date; provided, however, that Coupons whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of such Coupons; and provided further that, in the case of Registered Securities, installments of interest, if any, whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable (but without interest thereon, unless the Corporation shall default in the payment thereof) to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.

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If any Bearer Security surrendered for repayment shall not be accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after the Repayment Date, such Security may be paid after deducting from the amount payable therefor as provided in Section 1302 an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Corporation and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless.  If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing Coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made as provided in the preceding sentence, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented by Coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those Coupons.

If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for repayment shall not be so repaid upon surrender thereof, such principal amount (together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to such Repayment Date) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Repayment Date at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) set forth in such Security.

Section 1305.  Securities Repaid in Part

Upon surrender of any Registered Security that is to be repaid in part only, the Corporation shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Corporation, a new Registered Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination specified by the Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal of such Security so surrendered that is not to be repaid.

ARTICLE FOURTEEN

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

Section 1401.  Applicability of Article; Corporation’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

If, pursuant to Section 301, provision is made for either or both of: (1) defeasance of the Securities of, or within, a series under Section 1402; or (2) covenant defeasance of the Securities of, or within, a series under Section 1403 to be applicable to the Securities of any series, then the provisions of such section or sections, as the case may be, together with the other provisions of this article (with such modifications thereto as may be specified pursuant to Section 301 with respect to any Securities), shall be applicable to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and the Corporation may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, elect to defease such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto pursuant to Section 1402 (if applicable) or Section 1403 (if applicable) upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this article.

Section 1402.  Defeasance and Discharge

Upon the Corporation’s exercise of the above option applicable to this section with respect to any Securities of, or within, a series, the Corporation shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, “defeasance”).  For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Corporation shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 1405 and the other sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have satisfied all of its other obligations under such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture insofar as such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Corporation, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1404 and as more fully set forth in such section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, if any, such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto when such payments are due; (2) the Corporation’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 305, 306, 1002, and 1003 and with respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by Section 1011; (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties, and immunities of the Trustee hereunder; and (4) this article. Subject to compliance with this Article Fourteen, the Corporation may exercise its option under this section notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1403 with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto.

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Section 1403.  Covenant Defeasance

Upon the Corporation’s exercise of the above option applicable to this section with respect to any Securities of, or within, a series, the Corporation shall be released from its obligations under Sections 1004 to 1008, inclusive, and, if specified pursuant to Section 301, its obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, “covenant defeasance”), and such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall thereafter be deemed to be not “Outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent, or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with Sections 1004 to 1008, inclusive, or such other covenant, but shall continue to be deemed “Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder.  For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, the Corporation may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition, or limitation set forth in any such section or such other covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or such other covenant or by reason of reference in any such section or such other covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a default or an Event of Default under Section 501(4) or 501(9) or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be unaffected thereby.

Section 1404.  Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

The following shall be the conditions to application of Section 1402 or Section 1403 to any Outstanding Securities of, or within, a series and any Coupons appertaining thereto:

(1)           The Corporation shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 607 that shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article Fourteen applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto: (i) an amount in such currency, currencies, or currency unit in which such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity; or (ii) Government Obligations applicable to such Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto (determined on the basis of the currency, currencies, or currency unit in which such Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity), which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, if any, such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, money in an amount; or (iii) a combination thereof in an amount, sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment of such principal and interest, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge: (a) the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, if any, such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest; and (b) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto; provided, that the Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply such money or the proceeds of such Government Obligations to said payments with respect to such Securities. Before such a deposit, the Corporation may give to the Trustee, in accordance with Section 1102 hereof, a notice of its election to redeem all or any portion of such Outstanding Securities at a future date in accordance with the terms of the Securities of such series and Article Eleven hereof, which notice shall be irrevocable. Such irrevocable redemption notice, if given, shall be given effect in applying the foregoing.

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(2)           Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Corporation is a party or by which it is bound (and shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest pursuant to Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any Security of the Corporation).

(3)           No Event of Default or event that with notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as Sections 501(7) and 501(8) are concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).

(4)           In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Corporation shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that: (i) the Corporation has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling; or (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize income, gain, or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner, and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred.

(5)           In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Corporation shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize income, gain, or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner, and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.

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(6)           The Corporation shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance under Section 1402 or the covenant defeasance under Section 1403 (as the case may be) have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that either: (i) as a result of a deposit pursuant to subsection (1) above and the related exercise of the Corporation’s option under Section 1402 or Section 1403 (as the case may be) registration is not required under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, by the Corporation, with respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the Trustee for such trust funds; or (ii) all necessary registrations under the Investment Company Act of 1940 have been effected.

(7)           After the 91st day following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally.

(8)           Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions, or limitations that may be imposed on the Corporation in connection therewith pursuant to Section 301.

Section 1405.  Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant to Section 301) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 1405, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1404 in respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Corporation acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security pursuant to Section 301, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 1404(1) has been made: (1) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 301 or the terms of such Security to receive payment in a currency or currency unit other than that in which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(1) has been made in respect of such Security; or (2) a Conversion Event occurs in respect of the currency or currency unit in which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(1) has been made, the indebtedness represented by such Security and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, if any, such Security as the same becomes due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as specified below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited in respect of such Security into the currency or currency unit in which such Security becomes payable as a result of such election or Conversion Event based on the applicable market exchange rate for such currency or currency unit in effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, except, with respect to a Conversion Event, for such currency or currency unit in effect (as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.

The Corporation shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee, or other charge imposed on, or assessed against, the Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1404 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof, other than any such tax, fee, or other charge that by law is for the account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto.

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Anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Corporation from time to time, upon Corporation Request, any money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 1404 that, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect a defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this article.

ARTICLE FIFTEEN

MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES

Section 1501.  Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called

A meeting of Holders of Securities of any series may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this article to make, give, or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be made, given, or taken by Holders of Securities of such series.

Section 1502.  Call, Notice, and Place of Meetings

(1)           The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series for any purpose specified in Section 1501, to be held at such time and at such place in the state of Utah, as the Trustee shall determine.  Notice of every meeting of Holders of Securities of any series setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and, in general terms, the action proposed to be taken at such meeting shall be given, in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 21 or more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

(2)           In case at any time the Corporation, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose specified in Section 1501, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the Corporation or the Holders of Securities of such series in the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in subsection (1) of this section.

Section 1503.  Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings

To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, a Person shall be: (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series; or (2) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by such Holder or Holders.  The only Persons that shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel, and any representatives of the Corporation and its counsel.

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Section 1504.  Quorum; Action

The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to a consent or waiver, which this Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not less than a specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series, the Persons entitled to vote such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall constitute a quorum.  In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes after the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be dissolved.  In any other case, the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting.  In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.  Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 1502(1), except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened.  Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series that shall constitute a quorum.

Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; provided, however, that except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action that this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given, or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series.

Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this section shall be binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the related Coupons, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1504, if any action is to be taken at a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action that this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given, or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in principal amount of all Outstanding Securities affected thereby, or of the Holders of such series and one or more additional series:

(1)           there shall be no minimum quorum requirement for such meeting; and

(2)           the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series that vote in favor of such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action shall be taken into account in determining whether such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action has been made, given, or taken under this Indenture.

Section 1505.  Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings

(1)            Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders of Securities of a series in regard to proof of the holding of Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 or by having the signature of the Person executing the proxy witnessed or guaranteed by any trust company, bank, or banker authorized by Section 104 to certify to the holding of Bearer Securities. Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or other proof.

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(2)           The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Corporation or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 1502(2), in which case, the Corporation or the Holders of Securities of, or within, the series calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman.  A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.

(3)           At any meeting, each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding.  The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.

(4)           Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called pursuant to Section 1502 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

Section 1506.  Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings

The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them.  The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes, who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting.  A record, at least in duplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the fact, setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1502 and, if applicable, Section 1504.  Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to the Corporation and another to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.  Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.

Section 1507.  Evidence of Action Taken by Holders

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified percentage in principal amount of the Holders of any or all series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such specified percentage of Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Article Six) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Corporation, if made in the manner provided in this article.

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Section 1508.  Proof of Execution of Instruments

Subject to Article Six, the execution of any instrument by a Holder or his agent or proxy may be proved in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee.

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

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

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

By:

Name:

Title:

as Trustee

By:

Name:

Title:

STATE OF UTAH )

  :

COUNTY OF SALT LAKE                                                      )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this ___ day of ___________________, _____, in the County of Salt Lake, State of Utah, by ____________________________________, [title], of Utah Medical Products, Inc., a Utah corporation, on behalf of the corporation.

Notary Public

STATE OF UTAH )

  :

COUNTY OF SALT LAKE                                                      )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this ___ day of ____________________, _____, in the County of _______________, State of _______________, by _______________________, [title], of [trustee name], a __________ [corporation], on behalf of the [trustee name].

Notary Public

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EXHIBIT A

FORMS OF CERTIFICATION

EXHIBIT A-1

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY PERSON ENTITLED

TO RECEIVE BEARER SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST

PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE

CERTIFICATE

[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]

This is to certify that, as of the date hereof, and except as set forth below, the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account: (1) are owned by Persons that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations, or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source (“United States persons”); (2) are owned by United States persons that are: (i) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as “financial institutions”) purchasing for their own account or for resale; or (ii) United States persons that acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and that hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (i) or (ii), each such United States financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or through its agent, that you may advise _________________________ or its agent that such financial institution will provide a certificate within a reasonable time stating that it agrees to comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder); or (3) are owned by a financial institution for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and such financial institution described in clause (3) above (whether or not also described in clause (1) or (2)), certifies that it has not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.

As used herein, “United States” means the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia); and its “possessions” include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands.  We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex on or prior to the date on which you intend to submit your certification relating to the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account in accordance with your operating procedures if any applicable statement herein is not correct on such date, and in the absence of any such notification it may be assumed that this certification applies as of such date.

This certificate excepts and does not relate to US$__________ of such interest in the above-captioned Securities in respect of which we are not able to certify and as to which we understand an exchange for an interest in a Permanent Global Security or an exchange for and delivery of definitive Securities (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) cannot be made until we do so certify.

We understand that this certificate may be required in connection with certain tax legislation in the United States.  If administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.

Dated:  ___________, 20__

[To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior

to the earlier of (i) the Exchange Date or

(ii) the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring

prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable]

[Name of Person Making Certification]

(Authorized Signatory)

Name:

Title:

EXHIBIT A-2

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR AND CLEARSTREAM IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE OF A PORTION OF A TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE

CERTIFICATE

[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]

This is to certify that, based solely on written certifications that we have received in writing, by tested telex or by electronic transmission from each of the persons appearing in our records as persons entitled to a portion of the principal amount set forth below (our “Member Organizations”) substantially in the form attached hereto, as of the date hereof, US$__________ principal amount of the above-captioned Securities: (1) is owned by persons that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations, or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source (“United States persons”); (2) is owned by United States persons that are: (I) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as “financial institutions”) purchasing for their own account or for resale; or (ii) United States persons that acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and that hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (i) or (ii), each such financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that we may advise ___________________________ or its agent that such financial institution will provide a certificate within a reasonable time stating that it agrees to comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B), or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder); or (3) is owned by a financial institution for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and that such financial institutions described in clause (3) above (whether or not also described in clause (1) or (2)) have certified that they have not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.

As used herein, “United States” means the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia); and its “possessions” include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

We further certify that we are not making available herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) any portion of the temporary global Security representing the above-captioned Securities excepted in the above-referenced certificates of Member Organizations, and as of the date hereof, we have not received any notification from any of our Member Organizations to the effect that the statements made by such Member Organizations with respect to any portion of the part submitted herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) are no longer true and cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.

We understand that this certification is required in connection with certain tax legislation in the United States.  If administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.

Dated:  ________________

[To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior

to the earlier of (i) the Exchange Date or

(ii) the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring

prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable]

[Name of Person Making Certification]

(Authorized Signatory)

Name:

Title:

REGISTERED	PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NO.:______________
CUSIP NO.: _________

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

[Designation of Senior Security]

Utah Medical Products, Inc., a Utah corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation,” which term shall include any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to _____________________________, or registered assigns, upon presentation, the principal sum of _____________________________ DOLLARS on ____________, and to pay interest on the outstanding principal amount thereon from _____________, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually in arrears on _____________ and __________ in each year, commencing ___________, at the rate of ___% per annum, until the entire principal amount hereof is paid or made available for payment.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Senior Security (or one or more Predecessor Senior Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ___________ or _________ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date, and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Senior Security (or one or more Predecessor Senior Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Senior Securities of this series not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Senior Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.  Payment of the principal of, Make-Whole Amount on, if any, and interest on, this Senior Security will be made at the office or agency of the Corporation maintained for that purpose in the City of ______________, or State of _____________, or elsewhere as provided in the Indenture, 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; provided, however, that at the option of the Corporation, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register kept for the Senior Securities pursuant to Section 305 of the Indenture (the “Security Register”), or transfer to an account of the Person entitled thereto located inside the United States.

This Senior Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Corporation (herein called the “Senior Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of ______________, (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Corporation and _____________ (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture with respect to the Senior Securities), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties, and immunities thereunder of the Corporation, the Trustee, and the Holders of the Senior Securities and of the terms upon which the Senior Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Senior Security is one of the series designated as the “[designation of Senior Securities],” limited in aggregate principal amount to $________________.

The Senior Securities may be redeemed at any time at the option of the Corporation, in whole or in part, upon notice of not more than 60 or less than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, at a redemption price equal to the sum of (i) the principal amount of the Senior Securities being redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to the Redemption Date, and (ii) the Make-Whole Amount, if any, with respect to such Senior Securities.

The following definitions apply with respect to any redemption of the Senior Securities of this series at the option of the Corporation:

“Make-Whole Amount” means, in connection with any optional redemption or accelerated payment of any Senior Security, the excess, if any, of (1) the aggregate present value as of the date of such redemption or accelerated payment of each Dollar of principal being redeemed or paid and the amount of interest (exclusive of any interest accrued to the date of redemption or accelerated payment) that would have been payable in respect of such Dollar if such redemption or accelerated payment had not been made, determined by discounting, on a semiannual basis, such principal and interest at the Reinvestment Rate (determined on the third Business Day preceding the date such notice of redemption is given or declaration of acceleration is made) from the respective dates on which such principal and interest would have been payable if such redemption or accelerated payment had not been made, over (2) the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Securities being redeemed or paid.

“Reinvestment Rate” means 0.25% (one-fourth of one percent) plus the arithmetic mean of the yields under the respective headings “This Week” and “Last Week” published in the Statistical Release under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity (rounded to the nearest month) corresponding to the remaining life to maturity, as of the payment date of the principal being redeemed or paid.  If no maturity exactly corresponds to such maturity, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to such maturity shall be calculated pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence and the Reinvestment Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding in each of such relevant periods to the nearest month.  For the purposes of calculating the Reinvestment Rate, the most recent Statistical Release published prior to the date of determination of the Make-Whole Amount shall be used.

“Statistical Release” means the statistical release designated “H.15 (519)” or any successor publication that is published weekly by the Federal Reserve System and that establishes yields on actively traded United States government securities adjusted to constant maturities or, if such statistical release is not published at the time of any determination under the Indenture, then such other reasonably comparable index, which shall be designated by the Corporation.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of the Corporation on this Senior Security and certain restrictive covenants and the related defaults and Events of Default applicable to the Corporation, in each case, upon compliance by the Corporation with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture, which provisions apply to this Senior Security.

If an Event of Default with respect to the Senior Securities shall occur and be continuing, the principal of, and the Make-Whole Amount, if any, on, the Senior Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Senior Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Senior Securities, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Senior Securities at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Senior Securities at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request, and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Senior Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any interest on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

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

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Senior Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Corporation, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, Make-Whole Amount on, if any, and interest on, this Senior Security at the times, place, and rate and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Senior Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Senior Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Corporation in any Place of Payment where the principal of, Make-Whole Amount on, if any, and interest on, this Senior Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Corporation and the Security Registrar for the Senior Securities (the “Security Registrar”) duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Senior Securities of this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Senior Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without Coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Senior Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Senior Securities of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Corporation may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

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

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant, or agreement contained in the Indenture or in this Senior Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any promoter, as such, or against any past, present, or future shareholder, Officer, or director, as such, of the Corporation or of any successor, either directly or through the Corporation or any successor, under any rule of law, statute, or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of this Senior Security by the Holder thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Senior Securities.

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

THE INDENTURE AND THE SENIOR SECURITIES, INCLUDING THIS SENIOR SECURITY, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF UTAH.

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Corporation has caused “CUSIP” numbers to be printed on the Senior Securities as a convenience to the Holders of the Senior Securities.  No representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such CUSIP numbers as printed on the Senior Securities, and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal this day of _________________.

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

By:

Name:

Title:

EX-4.4

Exhibit 4.04

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

TO

TRUSTEE

INDENTURE

Dated as of _________________

Subordinated Debt Securities

Table of Contents

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ARTICLE ONE	DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION	1
Section 101.	Definitions	1
Section 102.	Compliance Certificates and Opinions	9
Section 103.	Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee	10
Section 104.	Acts of Holders	10
Section 105.	Notices, etc., to Trustee and Corporation	12
Section 106.	Notice to Holders; Waiver	12
Section 107.	Effect of Headings and Table of Contents	13
Section 108.	Successors and Assigns	13
Section 109.	Separability Clause	13
Section 110.	Benefits of Indenture	13
Section 111.	No Personal Liability	14
Section 112.	Governing Law	14
Section 113.	Legal Holidays	14
ARTICLE TWO	SECURITIES FORMS	14
Section 201.	Forms of Securities	14
Section 202.	Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication	15
Section 203.	Securities Issuable in Global Form	15
ARTICLE THREE	THE SECURITIES	16
Section 301.	Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series	16
Section 302.	Denominations	19
Section 303.	Execution, Authentication Delivery, and Dating	19
Section 304.	Temporary Securities	21
Section 305.	Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange	23
Section 306.	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost, and Stolen Securities	26
Section 307.	Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved	27
Section 308.	Persons Deemed Owners	29
Section 309.	Cancellation	29
Section 310.	Computation of Interest	30
ARTICLE FOUR	SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE	30
Section 401.	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	30
Section 402.	Application of Corporation Funds	31
ARTICLE FIVE	REMEDIES	31
Section 501.	Events of Default	31
Section 502.	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	32
Section 503.	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee	33
Section 504.	Trustee May File Proofs of Claim	34
Section 505.	Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities or Coupons	35
Section 506.	Application of Money Collected	35
Section 507.	Limitation on Suits	35
Section 508.	Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, Interest, and Additional Amounts	36

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Section 509.	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	36
Section 510.	Rights and Remedies Cumulative	36
Section 511.	Delay or Omission Not Waiver	37
Section 512.	Control by Holders of Securities	37
Section 513.	Waiver of Past Defaults	37
Section 514.	Undertaking for Costs	38
ARTICLE SIX	THE TRUSTEE	38
Section 601.	Notice of Defaults	38
Section 602.	Certain Rights of Trustee	38
Section 603.	Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities	39
Section 604.	May Hold Securities	40
Section 605.	Money Held in Trust	40
Section 606.	Compensation and Reimbursement	40
Section 607.	Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting Interests	40
Section 608.	Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor	41
Section 609.	Acceptance of Appointment by Successor	42
Section 610.	Merger, Conversion, Consolidation, or Succession to Business	43
Section 611.	Appointment of Authenticating Agent	43
ARTICLE SEVEN	HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND CORPORATION	44
Section 701.	Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders	44
Section 702.	Reports by Trustee	45
Section 703.	Reports by the Corporation	45
Section 704.	Corporation to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders	45
ARTICLE EIGHT	CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE, OR CONVEYANCE	46
Section 801.	Consolidations and Mergers of Corporation and Sales, Leases, and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions	46
Section 802.	Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation	46
Section 803.	Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel	47
ARTICLE NINE	SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES	47
Section 901.	Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders	47
Section 902.	Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders	48
Section 903.	Execution of Supplemental Indentures	49
Section 904.	Effect of Supplemental Indentures	49
Section 905.	Conformity with Trust Indenture Act	49
Section 906.	Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures	50
Section 907.	Notice of Supplemental Indentures	50
ARTICLE TEN	COVENANTS	50
Section 1001.	Payment of Principal, Premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, Interest, and Additional Amounts	50
Section 1002.	Maintenance of Office or Agency	50
Section 1003.	Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust	52
Section 1004.	Existence	53
Section 1005.	Maintenance of Properties	53
Section 1006.	Insurance	53

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Section 1007.	Payment of Taxes and Other Claims	53
Section 1008.	Provision of Financial Information	54
Section 1009.	Statement as to Compliance	54
Section 1010.	Additional Amounts	54
Section 1011.	Waiver of Certain Covenants	55
Section 1012.	Costs and Expenses of Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trusts	55
ARTICLE ELEVEN	REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES	56
Section 1101.	Applicability of Article	56
Section 1102.	Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee	56
Section 1103.	Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed	56
Section 1104.	Notice of Redemption	56
Section 1105.	Deposit of Redemption Price	58
Section 1106.	Securities Payable on Redemption Date	58
Section 1107.	Securities Redeemed in Part	59
ARTICLE TWELVE	SINKING FUNDS	59
Section 1201.	Applicability of Article	59
Section 1202.	Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities	59
Section 1203.	Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund	60
ARTICLE THIRTEEN	REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS	60
Section 1301.	Applicability of Article	60
Section 1302.	Repayment of Securities	60
Section 1303.	Exercise of Option	60
Section 1304.	When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable	61
Section 1305.	Securities Repaid in Part	62
ARTICLE FOURTEEN	DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE	62
Section 1401.	Applicability of Article; Corporation’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance	62
Section 1402.	Defeasance and Discharge	62
Section 1403.	Covenant Defeasance	63
Section 1404.	Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance	63
Section 1405.	Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions	65
ARTICLE FIFTEEN	MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES	66
Section 1501.	Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called	66
Section 1502.	Call, Notice, and Place of Meetings	66
Section 1503.	Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings	66
Section 1504.	Quorum; Action	66
Section 1505.	Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings	67
Section 1506.	Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings	68
Section 1507.	Evidence of Action Taken By Holders	68
Section 1508.	Proof of Execution of Instruments	69

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ARTICLE SIXTEEN	SUBORDINATION	69
Section 1601.	Agreement to Subordinate	69
Section 1602.	Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy	69
Section 1603.	Default on Senior Debt	69
Section 1604.	Acceleration of Securities	70
Section 1605.	When Distribution Must Be Paid Over	70
Section 1606.	Notice by the Corporation	70
Section 1607.	Subrogation	70
Section 1608.	Relative Rights	70
Section 1609.	Subordination May Not be Impaired by the Corporation	71
Section 1610.	Distribution or Notice to Representative	71
Section 1611.	Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent	71

TESTIMONIUM

SIGNATURES AND SEALS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EXHIBIT A — FORMS OF CERTIFICATION

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

Reconciliation and tie between the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (“Trust Indenture Act”), and Indenture, dated as of _____________.

Trust Indenture Act Section		Indenture Section
Section 310	(a)(1)	607(a)
	(a)(2)	607(a)
	(b)	607(b), 608
Section 312	(c)	701
Section 314	(a)	703
	(a)(4)	1009
	(c)(1)	102
	(c)(2)	102
	(e)	102
Section 315	(b)	601
Section 316	(a) (last sentence)	101 (“Outstanding”)
	(a)(1)(A)	502, 512
	(a)(1)(B)	513
	(b)	508
Section 317	(a)(1)	503
	(a)(2)	504
Section 318	(a)	112
	(c)	112

NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.  Attention should also be directed to Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, which provides that the provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317 of the Trust Indenture Act are a part of and govern every qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained therein.

INDENTURE, dated as of ______________, between UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC., a Utah corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation”), having its principal office at 7043 South 300 West, Midvale, Utah 84043, and ___________________, a ___________ banking corporation, as Trustee hereunder (hereinafter called the “Trustee”), having its Corporate Trust Office at ______________.

RECITALS OF THE CORPORATION

The Corporation deems it necessary to issue from time to time for its lawful purposes subordinated debt securities (hereinafter called the “Securities”) evidencing its unsecured and subordinated indebtedness, and has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of the Securities, unlimited as to aggregate principal amount, to bear interest at the rates or formulas, to mature at such times and to have such other provisions as shall be fixed therefor as hereinafter provided.

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

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

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

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 101.  Definitions

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

(1)           The terms defined in this article have the meanings assigned to them in this article, and include the plural as well as the singular.

(2)           All other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein, and the terms “cash transaction” and “self-liquidating paper,” as used in TIA Section 311, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the rules of the SEC adopted under the Trust Indenture Act.

(3)           All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP.

(4)           The words “herein,” “hereof,” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular article, section, or other subdivision.

Certain terms, used principally in Article Three, Article Five, Article Six, and Article Ten, are defined in those articles.  In addition, the following terms shall have the indicated respective meanings:

“Act” has the meaning specified in Section 104.

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“Additional Amounts” means any additional amounts that are required by a Security, under circumstances specified therein, to be paid by the Corporation in respect of certain taxes imposed on certain Holders and which are owing to such Holders.

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

“Authenticating Agent” means any authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 611.

“Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper, printed in the English language or in an official language of the country of publication, customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays, and of general circulation in each place in connection with which the term is used or in the financial community of each such place.  Whenever successive publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be made in the same or in different Authorized Newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day.

“Bankruptcy Law” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

“Bearer Security” means a Security that is payable to bearer.

“Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation, the executive committee, or any other committee of that board duly authorized to act for it in respect hereof.

“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

“Business Day,” when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or particular location are authorized or required by law, regulation, or executive order to close.

“Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any capital stock (including preferred stock), shares, interests, participations, or other ownership interests (however designated) of such Person and any rights (other than debt securities convertible or exchangeable for corporate stock), warrants, or options to purchase any thereof.

“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, S.A., and its successor.

“Common Depositary” has the meaning specified in Section 304(2).

“Conversion Event” means the cessation of use of: (i) a Foreign Currency (other than the Euro or other currency unit) both by the government of the country that issued such currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other public institutions of, or within, the international banking community; (ii) the Euro both within the Eurozone exchange rate mechanism and for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of, or within, the Eurozone; or (iii) any currency unit (or composite currency) other than the Euro for the purposes for which it was established.

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“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, at which the principal of (and Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of, Securities of, or within, a series shall be payable and any Registered Securities of, or within, such series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and at which notices or demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of, or within, a series and this Indenture may be served, which office at the date hereof is located at ___________________.

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

“Corporation Request” and “Corporation Order” mean, respectively, a written request or order signed in the name of the Corporation by two Officers and delivered to the Trustee.

“Coupon” means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security.

“Custodian” has the meaning set forth in Section 501.

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

“Dollar” or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.

“Euro” means the common currency adopted by Eurozone.

“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., or its successor as operator of the Euroclear System.

“European Union” is an economic and political union of 27 member states, located primarily in Europe, established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993, upon the foundations of the preexisting European Economic Community.

“Eurozone” (officially the Euro Area) is a currency union of 17 European Union states that have adopted the Euro as their sole legal tender.  It currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.  Other states are obliged to adopt the zone once they fulfill the strict entry criteria.  Monetary policy of the zone is the responsibility of the European Central Bank, though there is no common representation, governance, or fiscal policy for the currency union.

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Article Five.

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“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the SEC.

“Exchange Date” has the meaning specified in Section 304(2).

“Foreign Currency” means any currency, currency unit, or composite currency, including, without limitation, the Euro, issued by the government of one or more countries other than the United States of America or by any recognized confederation or association of such governments.

“Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust” means one or more statutory business trusts created under Utah law pursuant to a trust agreement executed by the Corporation, as depositor of such Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust, and the trustees of such Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust named therein and pursuant to a certificate of trust filed with the [______________________________], which Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust exists for the purposes of: (i) issuing and selling its Trust Securities; (ii) using the proceeds from the sale of such Trust Securities to acquire a series of Securities issued by the Corporation under this Indenture; and (iii) engaging in only those other activities necessary, convenient, or incidental thereto.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as used in the United States applied on a consistent basis as in effect from time to time; provided, that solely for purposes of any calculation required by the financial covenants contained herein, “GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles as used in the United States from time to time applied on a consistent basis.

“Government Obligations” means securities that are: (i) direct obligations of the United States of America or the government that issued the Foreign Currency in which the Securities of a particular series are payable, for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged; or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America or such government that issued the Foreign Currency in which the Securities of such series are payable, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America or such other government, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on, or principal of, any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on, or principal of, the Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

“Holder” means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the case of a Bearer Security, the bearer thereof, and when used with respect to any Coupon, shall mean the bearer thereof.

“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301; provided, however, that, if at any time more than one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument, “Indenture” shall mean, with respect to any one or more series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of the, or those particular, series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms that relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is not Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted, and exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such Person had become such Trustee but to which such Person, as such Trustee, was not a party.

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“Indexed Security” means a Security the terms of which provide that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less than the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.

“Interest” when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security (which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity), shall mean interest payable after Maturity, and when used with respect to a Security that provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1010, includes such Additional Amounts.

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

“Make-Whole Amount” means the amount, if any, in addition to principal that is required by a Security, under the terms and conditions specified therein or as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, to be paid by the Corporation to the Holder thereof in connection with any optional redemption or accelerated payment of such Security.

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

“Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the chairman of the board, the principal executive officer, the president, the principal operating officer, the principal financial officer, the principal accounting officer, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the controller, the secretary, or any vice-president of such Person.

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate to be delivered upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in this Indenture, signed on behalf of the Corporation by two Officers of the Corporation, one of whom must be the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer, or the principal accounting officer of the Corporation.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel for the Corporation or other counsel satisfactory to the Trustee.

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

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

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

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

(iii)           Securities, except solely to the extent provided in Section 1402 or 1403, as applicable, with respect to which the Corporation has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen;

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

(v)           Securities converted into Capital Stock of the Corporation pursuant to or in accordance with this Indenture if the terms of such Securities provide for convertibility pursuant to Section 301;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver hereunder or are present at a meeting of Holders for quorum purposes, and for the purpose of making the calculations required by TIA Section 313: (x) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that would be (or shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at the time of such determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502; (xi) the principal amount of any Security denominated in a Foreign Currency that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the Dollar equivalent, determined pursuant to Section 301 as of the date such Security is originally issued by the Corporation, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent as of such date of original issuance of the amount determined as provided in clause (x) above) of such Security; (xii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided with respect to such Indexed Security pursuant to Section 301; and (xiii) Securities owned by the Corporation, any other obligor upon the Securities, or any Affiliate of the Corporation or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making such calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver, only Securities that the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.  Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Corporation or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Corporation or of such other obligor.

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“Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Corporation to pay the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest on, any Securities or Coupons on behalf of the Corporation, or if no such Person is authorized, the Corporation.

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

“Place of Payment” means, when used with respect to the Securities of, or within, any series, the place or places where the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, such Securities are payable as specified as contemplated by Sections 301 and 1002.

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

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

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

“Registered Security” means any Security that is registered in the Security Register.

“Regular Record Date” for the installment of interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Registered Securities of, or within, any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301, whether or not a Business Day.

“Repayment Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid or repurchased at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such repayment or repurchase by or pursuant to this Indenture.

“Repayment Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid or purchased at the option of the Holder, the price at which it is to be repaid or repurchased by or pursuant to this Indenture.

“Representative” means the indenture trustee or other trustee, agent, or representative for an issue of Senior Debt.

“Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters.

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

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the SEC.

“Security” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and, more particularly, means any Security or Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture, “Securities” with respect to the Indenture as to which such Person is Trustee shall have the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and shall more particularly mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of, or within, any series as to which such Person is not Trustee.

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

“Senior Debt” means the principal of, and interest on, or substantially similar payments to be made by the Corporation in respect of, the following, whether outstanding at the date of execution of this Indenture or thereafter incurred, created, or assumed: (i) indebtedness of the Corporation for money borrowed or represented by purchase-money obligations; (ii) indebtedness of the Corporation evidenced by notes, debentures, or bonds, or other securities issued under the provisions of an indenture, fiscal agency agreement, or other instrument; (iii) obligations of the Corporation as lessee under leases of property either made as part of any sale and lease-back transaction to which the Corporation is a party or otherwise; (iv) indebtedness of partnerships and joint ventures that is included in the Corporation’s consolidated financial statements; (v) indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities of others in respect of which the Corporation is liable contingently or otherwise to pay or advance money or property or as guarantor, endorser, or otherwise or which the Corporation has agreed to purchase or otherwise acquire; and (vi) any binding commitment of the Corporation to fund any real estate investment or to fund any investment in any entity making such real estate investment; but excluding, however: (a) any such indebtedness, obligation, or liability referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) above as to which, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, it is provided that such indebtedness, obligation, or liability is not superior in right of payment to the Securities, or ranks pari passu with the Securities; (b) any such indebtedness, obligation, or liability that is subordinated to indebtedness of the Corporation to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Securities are subordinated; and (c) the Securities.  As used in the preceding sentence, the term “purchase-money obligations” shall mean indebtedness or obligations evidenced by a note, debenture, bond, or other instrument (whether or not secured by any lien or other security interest but excluding indebtedness or obligations for which recourse is limited to the property purchased) issued or assumed as all or a part of the consideration for the acquisition of property, whether by purchase, merger, consolidation, or otherwise, but shall not include any trade accounts payable.  A distribution may consist of cash, securities, or other property.

“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is a “significant subsidiary” (within the meaning of Regulation S-X, promulgated under the Securities Act) of the Corporation.

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“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Registered Securities of, or within, any series means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.

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

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation or other entity of which a majority of: (i) the voting power of the voting equity securities; or (ii) the outstanding equity interests, is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person.  For the purposes of this definition, “voting equity securities” means equity securities having voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of security has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

“Trust Creditor” has the meaning set forth in Section 1012.

“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in Section 905.

“Trust Securities” means securities issued by an Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust.

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

“United States” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions, and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.

“United States person” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States; a corporation, partnership, or other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States; or an estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source.

“Yield to Maturity” means the yield to Maturity, computed at the time of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such Security) and as set forth in such Security in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles.

Section 102.  Compliance Certificates and Opinions

Upon any application or request by the Corporation to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Corporation shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture (including covenants, compliance with which constitute conditions precedent) relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, 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 relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

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Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (excluding certificates delivered pursuant to Section 1010) shall include:

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

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

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

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

Section 103.  Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

In any case when 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 as to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

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

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

Section 104.  Acts of Holders

(1)            Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of the Outstanding Securities of all series or one or more series, as the case may be, may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders of Securities of such series may, alternatively, be embodied in and evidenced by the record of Holders of Securities of such series voting in favor thereof, whether in person or by proxies duly appointed in writing, at any meeting of Holders of Securities of such series duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article Fifteen, or a combination of such instruments and any such record. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments or record, or both instruments and record, are delivered to the Trustee and, when it is hereby expressly required, to the Corporation. Such instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Corporation and any agent of the Trustee or the Corporation, if made in the manner provided in this section. The record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 1506.

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

(3)           The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

(4)           The ownership of Bearer Securities may be proved by the production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory.  The Trustee and the Corporation may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until: (i) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced; (ii) such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person; (iii) such Bearer Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security; or (iv) such Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding.  The ownership of Bearer Securities may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient.

(5)           If the Corporation shall solicit from the Holders of Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act, the Corporation may, at its option, in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act, but the Corporation shall have no obligation to do so.  Notwithstanding TIA Section 316(c), such record date shall be the record date specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a date not earlier than the date 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders generally in connection therewith and not later than the date such solicitation is completed.  If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization, agreement, or consent by the Holders on such record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than 11 months after the record date.

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

Section 105.  Notices, etc., to Trustee and Corporation

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made, given, furnished, or filed shall be deemed to have been given as of the date so delivered, if personally served; as of the date so sent, if transmitted by facsimile and receipt is confirmed by the facsimile operator of the recipient; as of the date so sent, if sent by electronic mail and receipt is acknowledged by the recipient; one day after the date so sent, if delivered by overnight courier service; or three days after the date so mailed, if mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed:

(1)           to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Operations; or

(2)           to the Corporation at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture or at any other address subsequently furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Corporation.

Section 106.  Notice to Holders; Waiver

When this Indenture provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities by the Corporation or the Trustee, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each such Holder affected by such event, at its address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.  In any case when notice to Holders of Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided herein.  Any notice mailed to a Holder in the manner herein prescribed shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such Holder, whether or not such Holder actually receives such notice.

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

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Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, when this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Bearer Securities of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given if published in an Authorized Newspaper in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in such other city or cities as may be specified in such Securities, and if the Securities of such series are listed on any stock exchange outside the United States, in any place at which such Securities are listed on a securities exchange to the extent that such securities exchange so requires, on a Business Day, such publication to be not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.  Any such notice shall be deemed to have been given on the date of such publication or, if published more than once, on the date of the first such publication.

If by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such Holders for every purpose hereunder.  Neither the failure to give notice by publication to any particular Holder of Bearer Securities as provided above nor any defect in any notice so published shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Bearer Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Registered Securities given as provided herein.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the country of publication.

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

Section 107.  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 108.  Successors and Assigns

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

Section 109.  Separability Clause

In case any provision in this Indenture or in any Security or Coupon 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 110.  Benefits of Indenture

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities or Coupons appertaining thereto, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent, and their successors hereunder, and the Holders any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy, or claim under this Indenture.

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Section 111.  No Personal Liability

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant, or agreement contained in this Indenture, in any Security or Coupon appertaining thereto, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any promoter, as such, or against any past, present, or future shareholder, Officer, or director, as such, of the Corporation or of any successor, either directly or through the Corporation or any successor, under any rule of law, statute, or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 112.  Governing Law

This Indenture and the Securities and Coupons shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Utah.  This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

Section 113.  Legal Holidays

In any case when any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity, or Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security or Coupon other than a provision in the Securities of any series that specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof), payment of interest or any Additional Amounts or principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity, or Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity, or Maturity, as the case may be.

ARTICLE TWO

SECURITIES FORMS

Section 201.  Forms of Securities

The Registered Securities, if any, of each series and the Bearer Securities, if any, and related Coupons of each series, shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established in or pursuant to one or more indentures supplemental hereto or Board Resolutions; shall have such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto; and may have such letters, numbers, or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as the Corporation may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on which the Securities may be listed, or to conform to usage (including to permit or facilitate the issuance of such Securities to an Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust, if required).  Any indenture supplemental hereto or Board Resolutions establishing Securities to be issued to an Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust shall provide for the forms of the related trust agreement and guarantee agreement relating thereto.

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Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, Bearer Securities shall have interest Coupons attached.

The definitive Securities and Coupons shall be printed, lithographed, or engraved, or produced by any combination of these methods, on a steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officers executing such Securities or Coupons, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or Coupons.

Section 202.  Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

Subject to Section 611, the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

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

____________________________, as Trustee

By __________________________                                                     

Authorized Signatory

Section 203.  Securities Issuable in Global Form

If Securities of, or within, a series are issuable in global form, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, then, notwithstanding clause (8) of Section 301 and the provisions of Section 302, any such Security shall represent such of the Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series represented thereby may from time to time be increased or decreased to reflect exchanges.  Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Corporation Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 303 or 304.  Subject to the provisions of Section 303 and, if applicable, Section 304, the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Corporation Order.  If a Corporation Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Corporation with respect to endorsement, delivery, or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.

The provisions of the last sentence of Section 303 shall apply to any Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never issued and sold by the Corporation and the Corporation delivers to the Trustee the Security in global form together with written instructions (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section 303.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 307, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, payment of principal of, and any premium or Make-Whole Amount and interest on, any Security in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.

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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 308 and except as provided in the preceding paragraph, the Corporation, the Trustee, and any agent of the Corporation and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security: (1) in the case of a permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such permanent global Security in registered form; or (2) in the case of a permanent global Security in bearer form, Euroclear or Clearstream.

ARTICLE THREE

THE SECURITIES

Section 301.  Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

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

The Securities may be issued in one or more series.  There shall be established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions or indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, any or all of the following, as applicable (each of which (except for the matters set forth in clauses (1), (2), and (15) below), if so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Corporation with respect to unissued Securities of, or within, the series when issued from time to time):

(1)           the title of the Securities of, or within, the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of such series from all other series of Securities);

(2)           any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of, or within, the series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of other Securities of, or within, the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107, or 1305);

(3)           the date or dates, or the method by which such date or dates will be determined, on which the principal of the Securities of, or within, the series shall be payable and the amount of principal payable thereon;

(4)           the rate or rates at which the Securities of, or within, the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest will be payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date or the method by which such date shall be determined, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year consisting of 12 30-day months;

(5)           the place or places where the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of, Securities of, or within, the series shall be payable, any Registered Securities of, or within, the series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and notices or demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of, or within, the series and this Indenture may be served;

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(6)           the period or periods within which, the price or prices (including the premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) at which, the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which, and other terms and conditions upon which Securities of, or within, the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Corporation, if the Corporation is to have the option;

(7)           the obligation, if any, of the Corporation to redeem, repay, or purchase Securities of, or within, the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provision or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which or the date or dates on which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which, and other terms and conditions upon which Securities of, or within, the series shall be redeemed, repaid, or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

(8)           if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Registered Securities of, or within, the series shall be issuable and, if other than the denomination of $5,000, the denomination or denominations in which any Bearer Securities of, or within, the series shall be issuable;

(9)           if other than the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar and/or Paying Agent;

(10)           if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of, or within, the series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or the method by which such portion shall be determined;

(11)           if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency or Currencies in which payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest or Additional Amounts on, if any, the Securities of, or within, the series shall be payable or in which the Securities of, or within, the series shall be denominated;

(12)           whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest on, if any, the Securities of, or within, the series may be determined with reference to an index, formula, or other method (which index, formula, or method may be based, without limitation, on one or more currencies, currency units, composite currencies, commodities, equity indices, or other indices), and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

(13)           whether the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest or Additional Amounts on, if any, the Securities of, or within, the series are to be payable, at the election of the Corporation or a Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies other than that in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable, the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time and manner of, and identity of the exchange rate agent with responsibility for, determining the exchange rate between the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable and the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which such Securities are to be so payable;

(14)           provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders of Securities of, or within, the series upon the occurrence of such events as may be specified;

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(15)           any deletions from, modifications of, or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Corporation with respect to Securities of, or within, the series, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein;

(16)           whether Securities of, or within, the series are to be issuable as Registered Securities, Bearer Securities (with or without Coupons), or both, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale, or delivery of Bearer Securities and the terms upon which Bearer Securities of, or within, the series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of, or within, the series and vice versa (if permitted by applicable laws and regulations), whether any Securities of, or within, the series are to be issuable initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of, or within, the series are to be issuable in permanent global form (with or without Coupons) and, if so, whether beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent global Security may exchange such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in Section 305, and if Registered Securities of, or within, the series are to be issuable as a global Security, the identity of the depositary for such series;

(17)           the date as of which any Bearer Securities of, or within, the series and any temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of, or within, the series shall be dated if other than the date of original issuance of the first Security of the series to be issued;

(18)           the Person to whom any interest on any Registered Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, the manner in which, or the Person to whom, any interest on any Bearer Security of the series shall be payable, if otherwise than upon presentation and surrender of the Coupons appertaining thereto as they severally mature, and the extent to which, or the manner in which, any interest payable on a temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than in the manner provided in Section 304;

(19)           the applicability, if any, of Sections 1402 and/or 1403 to the Securities of, or within, the series and any provisions in modification of, in addition to, or in lieu of any of the provisions of Article Fourteen;

(20)           if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and/or terms of such certificates, documents, or conditions;

(21)           if the Securities of, or within, the series are to be issued upon the exercise of debt warrants, the time, manner, and place for such Securities to be authenticated and delivered;

(22)           whether and under what circumstances the Corporation will pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1010 on the Securities of, or within, the series to any Holder that is not a United States person (including any modification to the definition of such term) in respect of any tax, assessment, or governmental charge and, if so, whether the Corporation will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such option);

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(23)           the obligation, if any, of the Corporation to permit the conversion of the Securities of such series into shares of Capital Stock of the Corporation and the terms and conditions upon which such conversion shall be effected (including, without limitation, the initial conversion price or rate, the conversion period, any adjustment of the applicable conversion price or rate, and any requirements relative to the reservation of such shares for purposes of conversion); and

(24)           any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).

All Securities of any one series and the Coupons appertaining to any Bearer Securities of such series, if any, shall be substantially identical except, in the case of Registered or Bearer Securities issued in global form, as to denomination, and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.  All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened, without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of additional Securities of such series.

If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are established by action taken pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions or supplemental indentures, a copy of an appropriate record of such action(s) shall be certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the Corporation and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Corporation Order for authentication and delivery of such Securities.

Section 302.  Denominations

The Securities of each series shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301.  With respect to Securities of any series denominated in Dollars, in the absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Registered Securities of such series, other than Registered Securities issued in global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, and the Bearer Securities of such series, other than Bearer Securities issued in global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in denominations of $5,000.

Section 303.  Execution, Authentication Delivery, and Dating

The Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed on behalf of the Corporation by two Officers.  The signature of any of these Officers on the Securities and Coupons may be manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such authorized Officer and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.

Securities or Coupons appertaining thereto bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper Officers of the Corporation shall bind the Corporation, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities or Coupons.

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Corporation may deliver Securities of any series, together with any Coupon appertaining thereto, executed by the Corporation to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Corporation Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Corporation Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that, in connection with its original issuance, no Bearer Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States; and provided further that, unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, a Bearer Security may be delivered in connection with its original issuance only if the Person entitled to receive such Bearer Security shall have furnished a certificate to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture or such other certificate as may be specified with respect to any series of Securities pursuant to Section 301, dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the earlier of the date on which such Bearer Security is delivered and the date on which any temporary Security first becomes exchangeable for such Bearer Security in accordance with the terms of such temporary Security and this Indenture.  Except as permitted by Section 306, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security unless all appurtenant Coupons for interest then matured have been detached and cancelled.

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If all of the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time and if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series shall so permit, such Corporation Order may set forth procedures acceptable to the Trustee for the issuance of such Securities and determining the terms of particular Securities of such series, such as interest rate or formula, maturity date, date of issuance, and date from which interest shall accrue.  In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d)) shall be fully protected in relying upon:

(1)           an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 102 and stating that:

(i)           the form or forms of such Securities and any Coupons have been, or will have been upon compliance with such procedures as may be specified therein, established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

(ii)           the terms of such Securities and any Coupons have been, or will have been upon compliance with such procedures as may be specified therein, established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and

(iii)           such Securities, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, when completed pursuant to such procedures as may be specified therein, and executed and delivered by the Corporation to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with this Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with this Indenture and issued by the Corporation in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Corporation, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and to general equitable principles and to such other matters as may be specified therein; and

(2)           an Officers’ Certificate complying with Section 102 and stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of such Securities have been, or will have been upon compliance with such procedures as may be specified therein, complied with and that, to the best of the knowledge of the signers of such certificate, no Event of Default with respect to such Securities shall have occurred and be continuing.

The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties, obligations, or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner that is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a Corporation Order, an Opinion of Counsel, or an Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to the preceding paragraph at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but such order, opinion, and certificate, with appropriate modifications to cover such future issuances, shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.

Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified as contemplated by Section 301.

No Security or Coupon appertaining thereto shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security or the Security to which such Coupon appertains a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized officer, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Corporation, and the Corporation shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued or sold by the Corporation, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

Section 304.  Temporary Securities

(1)           Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Corporation may execute, and upon Corporation Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed, or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form or, if authorized, in bearer form, with one or more Coupons or without Coupons, and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other variations as the Officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities.  In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities may be in global form.

Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be exchanged in accordance with Section 304(2) or as otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution), if temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Corporation will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.  After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Corporation in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied by any unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto), the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor, a like principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered Security; and provided further that a definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security only in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 303.  Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.

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(2)           Unless otherwise provided as contemplated in Section 301, this Section 304(2) shall govern the exchange of temporary Securities issued in global form other than through the facilities of DTC.  If any such temporary Security is issued in global form, then such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be delivered to the London office of a depositary or common depositary (the “Common Depositary”), for the benefit of Euroclear or Clearstream.

Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary global Security (the “Exchange Date”), the Corporation shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such temporary global Security, executed by the Corporation.  On or after the Exchange Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Corporation’s agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for definitive Securities without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for each portion of such temporary global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of, or within, the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such temporary global Security to be exchanged.  The definitive Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such temporary global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent global bearer form, or permanent global registered form, or any combination thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 301, and if any combination thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial owner thereof; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, upon such presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary global Security is accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by Euroclear as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged and a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by Clearstream as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged, each in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture or in such other form as may be established pursuant to Section 301; and provided further that definitive Bearer Securities shall be delivered in exchange for a portion of a temporary global Security only in compliance with the requirements of Section 303.

Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, the interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor following the Exchange Date when the account holder instructs Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, to request such exchange on its behalf and delivers to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other form as may be established pursuant to Section 301), dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the Exchange Date, copies of which certificate shall be available from the offices of Euroclear or Clearstream, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent appointed for such series of Securities, and each Paying Agent.  Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, any such exchange shall be made free of charge to the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security, except that a Person receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage, transportation, and the like unless such Person takes delivery of such definitive Securities in person at the offices of Euroclear or Clearstream.  Definitive Securities in bearer form to be delivered in exchange for any portion of a temporary global Security shall be delivered only outside the United States.

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Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, interest payable on a temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series occurring prior to the applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to Euroclear or Clearstream on such Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euroclear or Clearstream to the Trustee of a certificate or certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section 301), for credit without further interest on or after such Interest Payment Date to the respective accounts of Persons who are the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security on such Interest Payment Date and who have each delivered to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the Interest Payment Date occurring prior to such Exchange Date in the form set forth as Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section 301).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, the certifications made pursuant to this paragraph shall satisfy the certification requirements of the preceding two paragraphs of this Section 304(2) and of the third paragraph of Section 303 of this Indenture, and the interests of the Persons who are the beneficial owners of the temporary global Security with respect to which such certification was made will be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor on the Exchange Date or the date of certification if such date occurs after the Exchange Date, without further act or deed by such beneficial owners.  Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, no payments of principal or interest owing with respect to a beneficial interest in a temporary global Security will be made unless and until such interest in such temporary global Security shall have been exchanged for an interest in a definitive Security.  Any interest so received by Euroclear or Clearstream and not paid as herein provided shall be returned to the Trustee prior to the expiration of two years after such Interest Payment Date in order to be repaid to the Corporation.

Section 305.  Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange

(1)           The Corporation shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any office or agency of the Corporation in a Place of Payment a register for each series of Securities (the registers maintained in such office or in any such office or agency of the Corporation in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes referred to collectively as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Corporation shall provide for the registration of Registered Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities.  The Security Register shall be in written form or any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time.  The Trustee is hereby initially appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities on such Security Register as herein provided.  In the event that the Trustee shall cease to be Security Registrar, it shall have the right to examine the Security Register at all reasonable times.

(2)           Subject to the provisions of this Section 305, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series at any office or agency of the Corporation in a Place of Payment for that series, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, and containing identical terms and provisions.

(3)           Subject to the provisions of this Section 305, at the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination or denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency.  Whenever any such Registered Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.  Unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities as contemplated by Section 301, Bearer Securities may not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities.

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(4)           If (but only if) permitted as contemplated by Section 301, at the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of any series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency, with all unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining.  If the Holder of a Bearer Security is unable to produce any such unmatured Coupon or Coupons or matured Coupon or Coupons in default, any such permitted exchange may be effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Corporation in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing Coupon or Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Corporation and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless.  If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such missing Coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, interest represented by Coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of those Coupons at an office or agency located outside the United States.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered at any such office or agency in a permitted exchange for a Registered Security of the same series and like tenor after the close of business at such office or agency on: (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date; or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, and interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.  Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities that the holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

(5)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, any permanent global Security shall be exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph.  If the depositary for any permanent global Security is DTC, then, unless the terms of such global Security expressly permit such global Security to be exchanged in whole or in part for definitive Securities, a global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part, only to a nominee of DTC, or by a nominee of DTC to DTC, or to a successor to DTC for such global Security selected and approved by the Corporation or to a nominee of such successor to DTC.  If at any time DTC notifies the Corporation that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the applicable global Security or Securities or if at any time DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act if so required by applicable law or regulation, the Corporation shall appoint a successor depositary with respect to such global Security or Securities.  If: (i) a successor depositary for such global Security or Securities is not appointed by the Corporation within 90 days after the Corporation receives such notice or becomes aware of such unwillingness, inability, or ineligibility; (ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the beneficial owners representing a majority in principal amount of the applicable series of Securities represented by such global Security or Securities advise DTC to cease acting as depositary for such global Security or Securities; or (iii) the Corporation, in its sole discretion, determines at any time that all Outstanding Securities (but not less than all) of any series issued or issuable in the form of one or more global Securities shall no longer be represented by such global Security or Securities (provided, however, the Corporation may not make such determination during the 40-day restricted period provided by Rule 903(b) of Regulation S under the Securities Act or during any other similar period during which the Securities must be held in global form as may be required by the Securities Act), then the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, definitive Securities of like series, rank, tenor, and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such global Security or Securities.  If any beneficial owner of an interest in a permanent global Security is otherwise entitled to exchange such interest for Securities of such series and of like tenor and principal amount of another authorized form and denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 301 and provided that any applicable notice provided in the permanent global Security shall have been given, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which such interest may be so exchanged, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, definitive Securities in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such beneficial owner’s interest in such permanent global Security.  On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such permanent global Security shall be surrendered for exchange by DTC or such other depositary as shall be specified in the Corporation Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the Corporation’s agent for such purpose; provided, however, that no such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before any selection of Securities to be redeemed and ending on the relevant Redemption Date if the Security for which exchange is requested may be among those selected for redemption; and provided further that no Bearer Security delivered in exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States.  If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent global Security after the close of business at the office or agency where such exchange occurs on: (x) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date; or (xi) any Special Record Date and the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such permanent global Security is payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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

(7)           Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange or redemption shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing.

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(8)           No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Corporation may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1107, or 1305 not involving any transfer.

(9)           The Corporation or the Trustee, as applicable, shall not be required: (i) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Security if such Security may be among those selected for redemption during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before selection of the Securities to be redeemed under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on: (a) if such Securities are issuable only as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption; and (b) if such Securities are issuable as Bearer Securities, the day of the first publication of the relevant notice of redemption or, if such Securities are also issuable as Registered Securities and there is no publication, the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption; or (ii) to register the transfer of, or exchange, any Registered Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except in the case of any Registered Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed; or (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so selected for redemption, except that such a Bearer Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security of that series and like tenor; provided that such Registered Security shall be simultaneously surrendered for redemption; or (iv) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Security that has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so repaid.

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

If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated Coupon appertaining to it is surrendered to the Trustee or the Corporation, together with, in proper cases, such security or indemnity as may be required by the Corporation or the Trustee to save each of them or any agent of either of them harmless, the Corporation shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor, a new Security of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security.

If there shall be delivered to the Corporation and to the Trustee: (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss, or theft of any Security or Coupon; and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of actual notice to the Corporation or the Trustee that such Security or Coupon has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Corporation shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost, or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon appertains (with all appurtenant Coupons not destroyed, lost, or stolen), a new Security of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost, or stolen Security or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon appertains.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous two paragraphs, in case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Security or Coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, the Corporation in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, with Coupons corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost, or stolen Security or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon appertains, pay such Security or Coupon; provided, however, that payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), any interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in Section 1002, be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, any interest on Bearer Securities shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the Coupons appertaining thereto.

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Upon the issuance of any new Security under this section, the Corporation may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Security of any series with its Coupons, if any, issued pursuant to this section in lieu of any destroyed, lost, or stolen Security, or in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Corporation, whether or not the destroyed, lost, or stolen Security and its Coupons, if any, or the destroyed, lost, or stolen Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series and their Coupons, if any, 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 Securities or Coupons.

Section 307.  Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in accordance with the provisions of Section 301, interest on any Registered Security that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest at the office or agency of the Corporation maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that each installment of interest on any Registered Security may at the Corporation’s option be paid by mailing a check for such interest, payable to or upon the written order of the Person entitled thereto pursuant to Section 308, to the address of such Person as it appears on the Security Register, or transfer to an account maintained by the payee located inside the United States.

Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to the Securities of any series, payment of interest may be made, in the case of a Bearer Security, by transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located outside the United States.

Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301, every permanent global Security will provide that interest, if any, payable on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to DTC, Euroclear, or Clearstream, as the case may be, with respect to that portion of such permanent global Security held for its account by Cede & Co. or the Common Depositary, as the case may be, for the purpose of permitting such party to credit the interest received by it in respect of such permanent global Security to the accounts of the beneficial owners thereof.

In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of business (at an office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series) on any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business (at such office or agency) on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date and interest will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in accordance with the provisions of Section 301, any interest on any Registered Security of any series that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder thereof on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Corporation, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:

(1)           The Corporation may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.  The Corporation shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Registered Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment (which shall not be less than 20 days after such notice is received by the Trustee), and at the same time the Corporation shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided.  Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment.  The Trustee shall promptly notify the Corporation of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Corporation, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Registered Securities of such series at its address as it appears in the Security Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date.  The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Corporation, cause a similar notice to be published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in each place of payment, but such publications shall not be a condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date.  Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).  In case a Bearer Security of any series is surrendered at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for such series in exchange for a Registered Security of such series after the close of business at such office or agency on any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such proposed date of payment and Defaulted Interest will not be payable on such proposed date of payment in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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

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Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section and Section 305, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other Security.

Section 308.  Persons Deemed Owners

Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Corporation, the Trustee, and any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Registered Security be overdue, and neither the Corporation, the Trustee, nor any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Title to any Bearer Security and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall pass by delivery.  The Corporation, the Trustee, and any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee may treat the Holder of any Bearer Security and the Holder of any Coupon as the absolute owner of such Security or Coupon for the purpose of receiving payment thereof, on account thereof, and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security or Coupon be overdue, and neither the Corporation, the Trustee, nor any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

None of the Corporation, the Trustee, any Paying Agent, or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Security in global form or for maintaining, supervising, or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any global Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Corporation, the Trustee, or any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy, or other authorization furnished by any depositary, as a Holder, with respect to such global Security or impair, as between such depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such global Security, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of such global Security.

Section 309.  Cancellation

All Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder, registration of transfer or exchange, or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities and Coupons and Securities and Coupons surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly cancelled by it.  The Corporation may, at any time, deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Corporation may have acquired in any manner whatsoever and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder that the Corporation has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee.  If the Corporation shall so acquire any of the Securities, however, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation.  No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of, or in exchange for, any Securities cancelled as provided in this section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.  Cancelled Securities and Coupons held by the Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee and the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of such destruction to the Corporation, unless by a Corporation Order the Corporation directs their return to it.

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Section 310.  Computation of Interest

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of 12 30-day months.

ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 401.  Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

This Indenture shall, upon Corporation Request, cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Corporation Request (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series herein expressly provided for and any right to receive Additional Amounts as provided in Section 1010), and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Corporation Request and at the expense of the Corporation, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series when:

(1)           either:

(i)           all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered and all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than (a) Coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities surrendered for exchange for Registered Securities and maturing after such exchange whose surrender is not required or has been waived as provided in Section 305; (b) Securities and Coupons of such series that have been destroyed, lost, or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306; (c) Coupons appertaining to Securities called for redemption and maturing after the relevant Redemption Date whose surrender has been waived as provided in Section 1106; and (d) Securities and Coupons of such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Corporation and thereafter repaid to the Corporation for discharge from such trust as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(ii)           all Securities of such series and in the case of (a) and (b) below, any Coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation: (a) have become due and payable; (b) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year; or (c) if redeemable at the option of the Corporation, are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Corporation, and the Corporation, in the case of (a), (b), or (c) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds, in trust for the purpose an amount in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable, sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities and such Coupons not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities that have become due and payable) or the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

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

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

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Corporation to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 606, the obligations of the Corporation to any Authenticating Agent under Section 611, and if money shall have been deposited with and held by the Trustee pursuant to clause (2) of this section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.

Section 402.  Application of Corporation Funds

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities, the Coupons, and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Corporation acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and any interest and Additional Amounts for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

ARTICLE FIVE

REMEDIES

Section 501.  Events of Default

Subject to any modifications, additions, or deletions relating to any series of Securities as contemplated pursuant to Section 301, “Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to any particular series of Securities, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether or not it shall be voluntary or involuntary or 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):

(1)           default in the payment of any interest upon, or any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, any Security of, or within, that series, or of any Coupon appertaining thereto, when such interest, Additional Amounts, or Coupon becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days;

(2)           default in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, on) any Security of that series when due and payable at its Maturity;

(3)           default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the terms of any Security of that series;

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(4)           default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Corporation in this Indenture with respect to any Security of that series (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this section specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Corporation by the Trustee or to the Corporation and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

(5)           the Corporation or any Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

(i)           commences a voluntary case;

(ii)           consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case;

(iii)           consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property; or

(iv)           makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;

(6)           a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

(i)           is for relief against the Corporation or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case;

(ii)           appoints a Custodian of the Corporation or any Significant Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of either of its property; or

(iii)           orders the liquidation of the Corporation or any Significant Subsidiary and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days; or

(7)           any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.

As used in this Section 501, the term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors, and the term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, or other similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

Section 502.  Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or 501(6)) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series (or, in the case of a series issued to an Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust, so long as any of the related preferred securities of such Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust remain outstanding, if, upon such Event of Default, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of such series fail to declare the principal of all the Securities of such series to be so immediately due and payable, the holders of 25% in aggregate liquidation amount of such preferred securities then outstanding) may declare the principal (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of, and the Make-Whole Amount on, if any, all the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Corporation (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal or specified portion thereof shall become immediately due and payable.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or 501(6) with respect to Securities of any series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable.

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

(1)           the Corporation has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay in the currency, currency unit, or composite currency in which the Securities of such series is payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series):

(i)           all overdue installments of interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, all Outstanding Securities of that series and any related Coupons;

(ii)           the principal of, and premium or Make-Whole Amount on, if any, any Outstanding Securities of that series that have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities;

(iii)           to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest and any Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities; and

(iv)           all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee, its agents, and counsel; and

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

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

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

The Corporation covenants that if:

(1)           default is made in the payment of any installment of interest or Additional Amounts, if any, on any Security of any series and any related Coupon when such interest or Additional Amount becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or

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(2)           default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, on) any Security of any series at its Maturity;

then the Corporation will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities of such series and Coupons, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities and coupons for principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and Additional Amount, with interest upon any overdue principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest or Additional Amounts, if any, at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel.

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

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

Section 504.  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition, or other judicial proceeding relative to the Corporation or any other obligor upon the Securities, or the property of the Corporation or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities of any series shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Corporation for the payment of overdue principal, premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

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

(2)           to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator, or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder of Securities of such series and Coupons to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee, and their agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 606.

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Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize, consent to, accept, or adopt, on behalf of any Holder of a Security or Coupon, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, or composition affecting the Securities or Coupons or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a Security or Coupon in any such proceeding.

Section 505.  Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities or Coupons

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

Section 506.  Application of Money Collected

Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee, and in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) or interest and any Additional Amounts, upon presentation of the Securities or Coupons, or both, as the case may be, and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

FIRST: to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 606;

SECOND: to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Securities and coupons for principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and any Additional Amounts payable, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the aggregate amounts due and payable on such Securities and coupons for principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and Additional Amounts, respectively; and

THIRD: to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Corporation or any other Person or Persons entitled thereto.

Section 507.  Limitation on Suits

No Holder of any Security of any series or any related Coupon 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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Section 508.  Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, Interest, and Additional Amounts

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security or Coupon (or, in the case of a series issued to Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust, any Holder of the preferred securities of such Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust) shall have the absolute and unconditional right to receive payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, such Security or payment of such Coupon (or the aggregate liquidation amount of such preferred securities held by such Holder) on the respective due dates expressed in such Security or Coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

Section 509.  Restoration of Rights and Remedies

If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security or Coupon has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, the Corporation, the Trustee, and the Holders of Securities and Coupons 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 Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

Section 510.  Rights and Remedies Cumulative

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Securities or Coupons in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities or Coupons 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.

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Section 511.  Delay or Omission Not Waiver

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security or Coupon to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute waiver of any such Event of Default or acquiescence therein.  Every right and remedy given by this article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities or Coupons, as the case may be.

Section 512.  Control by Holders of Securities

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that

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

(2)           the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction; and

(3)           the Trustee need not take any action that might involve it in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of Securities of such series not joining therein (but the Trustee shall have no obligation as to the determination of such undue prejudice).

Section 513.  Waiver of Past Defaults

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series (or, in the case of a series issued to Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust, so long as any of the related preferred securities of such Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust remain outstanding, the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of such preferred securities then outstanding) may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series and any related Coupons waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default:

(1)           in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or Additional Amounts payable in respect of, any Security of such series or any related Coupons; or

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

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

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Section 514.  Undertaking for Costs

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by its 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 Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as 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, all in accordance with the Trust Indenture Act.

ARTICLE SIX

THE TRUSTEE

Section 601.  Notice of Defaults

Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security of such series, or in the payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to the Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Securities and Coupons of such series; and provided further that in the case of any default or breach of the character specified in Section 501(4) with respect to the Securities and Coupons of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 90 days after the occurrence thereof.  For the purpose of this section, the term “default” means any event that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series.

Section 602.  Certain Rights of Trustee

Subject to the provisions of TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d):

(1)           The Trustee shall perform only such duties as are expressly undertaken by it to perform under this Indenture.

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

(3)           Any request or direction of the Corporation mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Corporation Request or Corporation Order (other than delivery of any Security, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 303, which shall be sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution.

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

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(5)           The Trustee may consult with counsel and as a condition to the taking, suffering, or omission of any action hereunder may demand an Opinion of Counsel, and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered, or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon.

(6)           The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related Coupons pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses, and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

(7)           The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records, and premises of the Corporation, personally or by agent or attorney.

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

(9)           The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.

The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

Section 603.  Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, and in any Coupons shall be taken as the statements of the Corporation, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or Coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities, and perform its obligations hereunder.  Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Corporation of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

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Section 604.  May Hold Securities

The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent, or any other agent of the Corporation, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and Coupons and, subject to TIA Sections 310(b) and 311, may otherwise deal with the Corporation with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent, or such other agent.

Section 605.  Money Held in Trust

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on, or investment of, any money received by it hereunder.

Section 606.  Compensation and Reimbursement

The Corporation agrees:

(1)           to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder, including extraordinary services rendered in connection with or during the continuation of a default hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

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

(3)           to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability, or expense arising out of, or in connection with, the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts or the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder except to the extent any such loss, liability, or expense may be attributable to its own negligence or bad faith.

As security for the performance of the obligations of the Corporation under this section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest on, particular Securities or any Coupons.

The provisions of this section shall survive the termination of this Indenture.

Section 607.  Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting Interests

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that shall be eligible to act as Trustee under TIA Section 310(a)(1) and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000.  If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of federal, state, territorial, or District of Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes 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.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this article.

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Section 608.  Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

(1)           No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 609.

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

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

(4)           If, at any time:

(i)           the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of TIA Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Corporation or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months;

(ii)           the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 607 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Corporation or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months; or

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

then, in any such case: (x) the Corporation by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities; or (xi) subject to TIA Section 315(e), any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

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

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

Section 609.  Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

(1)           In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all or a series of Securities, every such successor Trustee shall execute, acknowledge, and deliver to the Corporation and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed, or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts, and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Corporation or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers, and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer, and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its claim, if any, provided for in Section 606.

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

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

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

Section 610.  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation, or Succession to Business

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

Section 611.  Appointment of Authenticating Agent

At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities, which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of transfer, or partial redemption or repayment thereof, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder.  Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly furnished to the Corporation.  Whenever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.  Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Corporation and, except as may otherwise be provided pursuant to Section 301, shall at all times be a bank or trust company or corporation organized and doing business and in good standing under the laws of the United States of America, or of any state or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities.  If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  In case at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this section.

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

An Authenticating Agent for any series of Securities may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee for such series and to the Corporation.  The Trustee for any series of Securities may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Corporation.  Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this section, the Trustee for such series may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent, which shall be acceptable to the Corporation, and shall give notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of, or within, the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the manner set forth in Section 106.  Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers, and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent herein.  No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this section.

The Corporation agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent, from time to time, reasonable compensation including reimbursement of its reasonable expenses for its services under this section.

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

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

____________________________________, as

Trustee______________________________

By                                                                

Authorized Signatory

ARTICLE SEVEN

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND CORPORATION

Section 701.  Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders

Every Holder of Securities or Coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Corporation and the Trustee that neither the Corporation nor the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, or any Security Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with TIA Section 312, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under TIA Section 312(b).

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Section 702.  Reports by Trustee

Within 60 days after September 1 of each year commencing with the first September 1 after the first issuance of Securities pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities as provided in TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such September 1 if required by TIA Section 313(a).

Section 703.  Reports by the Corporation

The Corporation will:

(1)           file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Corporation is required to file the same with the SEC, 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 SEC may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) that the Corporation may be required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or if the Corporation is not required to file information, documents, or reports pursuant to either of such sections, then it will file with the Trustee and the SEC, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the SEC, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents, and reports that may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations;

(2)           file with the Trustee (which shall send copies to the Holders of Securities) and the SEC, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the SEC, such additional information, documents, and reports with respect to compliance by the Corporation with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

(3)           transmit by mail to the Trustee (which shall send copies to the Holders of Securities), within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), such summaries of any information, documents, and reports required to be filed by the Corporation pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the SEC.

Section 704.  Corporation to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

The Corporation will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

(1)           semiannually, not later than 15 days after the Regular Record Date for interest for each series of Securities, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Registered Securities of such series as of such Regular Record Date, or if there is no Regular Record Date for interest for such series of Securities, semiannually, upon such dates as are set forth in the Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such series; and

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(2)           at such other times as the Trustee may reasonably request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Corporation of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

ARTICLE EIGHT

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE, OR CONVEYANCE

Section 801.  Consolidations and Mergers of Corporation and Sales, Leases, and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions

The Corporation may consolidate with, or sell, lease, or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into any other Person, provided that in any such case: (1) either the Corporation shall be the continuing entity or the successor (if other than the Corporation) entity shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States or a state thereof, and such successor entity shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and any interest (including all Additional Amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 1010) on, all of the Securities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Corporation by supplemental indenture, complying with Article Nine hereof, satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such Person; and (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the Corporation or any Subsidiary as a result thereof as having been incurred by the Corporation or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no Event of Default and no event that, after notice or the lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

Section 802.  Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation

In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, or conveyance and upon any such assumption by the successor entity, such successor entity shall succeed to and be substituted for the Corporation, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part, and the predecessor entity, except in the event of a lease, shall be relieved of any further obligation under this Indenture and the Securities.  Such successor entity thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Corporation, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder that theretofore shall not have been signed by the Corporation and delivered to the Trustee; and upon the order of such successor entity, instead of the Corporation, and subject to all the terms, conditions, and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Corporation to the Trustee for authentication and any Securities that such successor entity thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose.  All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.

In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, or conveyance, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

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Section 803.  Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel

Any consolidation, merger, sale, lease, or conveyance permitted under Section 801 is also subject to the condition that the Trustee receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, or conveyance, and the assumption by any successor entity, complies with the provisions of this article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 901.  Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders

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

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

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

(3)           to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series); provided, however, that in respect of any such additional Events of Default such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such default or may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of that or those series of Securities to which such additional Events of Default apply to waive such default;

(4)           to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal; to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of, or any premium, Make-Whole Amount, or interest on, Bearer Securities; to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered Securities; to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations; or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form, provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related Coupons in any material respect;

(5)           to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture that is entitled to the benefit of such provision;

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(6)           to secure the Securities;

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

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

(9)           to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture that shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture or to make any other changes, provided that, in each case, such provisions shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related Coupons in any material respect;

(10)           to close this Indenture with respect to the authentication and delivery of additional series of Securities or to qualify, or maintain qualification of, this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; or

(11)           to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Sections 401, 1402, and 1403; provided in each case that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series and any related Coupons or any other series of Securities in any material respect.

Section 902.  Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

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

(1)           change the Stated Maturity of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, on), or any installment of principal of, or interest on, any Security; or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate or amount of interest thereon or any Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof, or any premium or Make-Whole Amount payable upon the redemption thereof, or change any obligation of the Corporation to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1010 (except as contemplated by Section 801(1) and permitted by Section 901(1)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or Make-Whole Amount, if any, that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 504 or adversely affect any right of repayment at the option of the Holder of any Security, or change any Place of Payment where, or the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which, the principal of any Security or any premium or Make-Whole Amount or any Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof or the interest thereon is payable; or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment at the option of the Holder, on or after the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the case may be);

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(2)           reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver with respect to such series (or compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or reduce the requirements of Section 1504 for quorum or voting; or

(3)           modify any of the provisions of this section, Section 513, or Section 1011, except to increase the required percentage to effect such action or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders 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.

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

Section 903.  Execution of Supplemental Indentures

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this article or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and 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 and that all conditions precedent to the execution of such supplemental indenture have been complied with.  The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

Section 904.  Effect of Supplemental Indentures

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

Section 905.  Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

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Section 906.  Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

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

Section 907.  Notice of Supplemental Indentures

Promptly after the execution by the Corporation and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of Section 902, the Corporation shall give notice thereof to the Holders of each Outstanding Security affected, in the manner provided for in Section 106, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture.

ARTICLE TEN

COVENANTS

Section 1001.  Payment of Principal, Premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, Interest, and Additional Amounts

The Corporation covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such series of Securities, any Coupons appertaining thereto, and this Indenture.  Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, any interest due on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, Bearer Securities on or before Maturity, other than Additional Amounts, if any, payable as provided in Section 1010 in respect of principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any, on) such a Security, shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the several Coupons for such interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they severally mature.  Unless otherwise specified with respect to Securities of any series pursuant to Section 301, at the option of the Corporation, all payments of principal may be paid by check to the registered Holder of the Registered Security or other Person entitled thereto against surrender of such Security.

Section 1002.  Maintenance of Office or Agency

If Securities of a series are issuable only as Registered Securities, the Corporation shall maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served.  If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Corporation will maintain: (1) in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, New York, an office or agency where any Registered Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where any Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served, and where Bearer Securities of that series and related Coupons may be presented or surrendered for payment in the circumstances described in the following paragraph (and not otherwise); (2) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series that is located outside the United States, an office or agency where Securities of that series and related Coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any Additional Amounts payable on Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1010); provided, however, that if the Securities of that series are listed on any stock exchange located outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Corporation will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in any required city located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities of that series are listed in such exchange; and (3) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series located outside the United States an office or agency where any Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Corporation in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served.  The Corporation will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of each such office or agency.  If at any time the Corporation shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices, and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of that series and the related Coupons may be presented and surrendered for payment (including payment of any Additional Amounts payable on Bearer Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1010) at the offices specified in the Security and the Corporation hereby appoints the same as its agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices, and demands, and the Corporation hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices, and demands.

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Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, no payment of principal, premium, Make-Whole Amount, interest on, or Additional Amounts in respect of, Bearer Securities shall be made at any office or agency of the Corporation in the United States or by check mailed to any address in the United States or by transfer to an account maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided, however, that, if the Securities of a series are payable in Dollars, payment of principal of, and any premium and interest on, any Bearer Security (including any Additional Amounts or Make-Whole Amount payable on Securities of such series pursuant to Section 1010) shall be made at the office of the Corporation’s Paying Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium, interest, Additional Amounts, or Make-Whole Amount, as the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained for the purpose by the Corporation in accordance with this Indenture, is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.

The Corporation may from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series and related Coupons, if any, may be presented or surrendered for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Corporation of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of any series for such purposes.  The Corporation will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.  Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a series of Securities, the Corporation hereby designates as Places of Payment for each series of Securities the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee and the office or agency of ___________________________________________ at ___________________________________________, initially appoints the Trustee as a Paying Agent in ________________________________________, and ________________________________________, as Paying Agent in ___________, ___________, and appoints each as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices, and demands.

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Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, if and so long as the Securities of any series are denominated in a Foreign Currency or may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long as it is required under any other provision of the Indenture, then the Corporation will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required, at least one exchange rate agent.

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

If the Corporation shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of any Securities and any related Coupons, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or Additional Amounts in respect of, any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, or Additional Amounts so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

Whenever the Corporation shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities and any related Coupons, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or Additional Amounts in respect of, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum (in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to pay the principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, or Additional Amounts so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium, Make-Whole Amount, interest, or Additional Amounts, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Corporation will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

The Corporation will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this section, that such Paying Agent will:

(1)           hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), or interest on, Securities or Additional Amounts 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;

(2)           give the Trustee notice of any default by the Corporation (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any such payment of principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, or Additional Amounts; and

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

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

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Except as otherwise provided in the Securities of any series, any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Corporation, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premiums or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, or Additional Amounts have become due and payable shall be paid to the Corporation upon Corporation Request or (if then held by the Corporation) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Corporation for payment of such principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest on, or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security, without interest thereon, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Corporation as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Corporation cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Corporation.

Section 1004.  Existence

Subject to Article Eight, the Corporation will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect the existence, rights (charter and statutory), and franchises of the Corporation and its Significant Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Corporation shall not be required to preserve any right or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Corporation and its Subsidiaries as a whole and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders of Securities of any series.

Section 1005.  Maintenance of Properties

The Corporation will cause all of its properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair, and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments, and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Corporation may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prevent the Corporation or any Subsidiary from selling or otherwise disposing of for value its properties in the ordinary course of its business.

Section 1006.  Insurance

The Corporation will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep all of its insurable properties insured against loss or damage at least equal to their then full insurable value with financially sound and reputable insurance companies.

Section 1007.  Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

The Corporation will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent: (1) all taxes, assessments, and governmental charges levied or imposed upon it or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits, or property of the Corporation or any Subsidiary; and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials, and supplies that, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Corporation or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Corporation shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge, or claim whose amount, applicability, or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.

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Section 1008.  Provision of Financial Information

Whether or not the Corporation is subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Corporation will, to the extent permitted under the Exchange Act, file with the SEC the annual reports, quarterly reports, and other documents that the Corporation would have been required to file with the SEC pursuant to such Section 13 or 15(d) if the Corporation were so subject, such documents to be filed with the SEC on or prior to the respective dates (the “Required Filing Dates”) by which the Corporation would have been required so to file such documents if the Corporation were so subject.

The Corporation will also in any event: (1) within 15 days of each Required Filing Date (i) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, without cost to such Holders, copies of the annual reports and quarterly reports that the Corporation would have been required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act if the Corporation were subject to such sections; and (ii) file with the Trustee copies of annual reports, quarterly reports, and other documents that the Corporation would have been required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act if the Corporation were subject to such sections; and (2) if filing such documents by the Corporation with the SEC is not permitted under the Exchange Act, promptly upon written request and payment of the reasonable cost of duplication and delivery, supply copies of such documents to any prospective Holder.

Section 1009.  Statement as to Compliance

The Corporation will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer, or principal accounting officer as to his knowledge of the Corporation’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture and, in the event of any noncompliance, specifying such noncompliance and the nature and status thereof.  For purposes of this Section 1009, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.

Section 1010.  Additional Amounts

If any Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Corporation will pay to the Holder of any Security of such series or any Coupon appertaining thereto Additional Amounts as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301.  Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context except in the case of Section 502(1), the payment of the principal or of any premium, Make-Whole Amount, or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any series or payment of any related Coupon or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301 to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were, or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, if the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and any premium is made) and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal and any premium or Make-Whole Amount or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers’ Certificate, the Corporation will furnish the Trustee and the Corporation’s principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers’ Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of, and any premium or interest on, the Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series or any related Coupons that are not United States persons without withholding for, or on account of, any tax, assessment, or other governmental charge described in the Securities of, or within, the series.  If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officers’ Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities of that series or related Coupons, and the Corporation will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Securities.  In the event that the Trustee or any Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall not so receive the above-mentioned certificate, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall be entitled: (1) to assume that no such withholding or deduction is required with respect to any payment of principal or interest with respect to any Securities of a series or related Coupons until it shall have received a certificate advising otherwise; and (2) to make all payments of principal and interest with respect to the Securities of a series or related Coupons without withholding or deductions until otherwise advised.  The Corporation covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability, or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of, or in connection with, actions taken or omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officers’ Certificate furnished pursuant to this section or in reliance on the Corporation’s not furnishing such an Officers’ Certificate.

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Section 1011.  Waiver of Certain Covenants

The Corporation may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision, or condition set forth in Sections 1004 to 1007, inclusive, and with any other term, provision, or condition with respect to the Securities of any series specified in accordance with Section 301 (except any such term, provision, or condition that could not be amended without the consent of all Holders of Securities of such series pursuant to Section 902), if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of all outstanding Securities of such series, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to, or affect, such covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Corporation and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision, or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

Section 1012.  Costs and Expenses of Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trusts.

The Corporation shall pay all debts and obligations (other than with respect to the Trust Securities) and all costs and expenses of any Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust (including all costs and expenses relating to the organization of the applicable Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust, the fees and expenses of any trustee or trustees for the Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust, and all costs and expenses relating to the operation of the applicable Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust (other than with respect to the Trust Securities)) and shall pay any and all taxes, duties, assessments, or other governmental charges of whatever nature (other than United States withholding taxes) imposed by the United States or any other taxing authority, so that the net amounts received and retained by the applicable Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust after paying such fees, expenses, debts, and obligations will be equal to the amounts the applicable Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust would have received and retained had no such fees, expenses, debts, and obligations been incurred by or imposed on the applicable Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust.  The foregoing obligations of the Corporation are for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by, any Person to whom such fees, expenses, debts, and obligations are owed (each, a “Trust Creditor”), whether or not such Trust Creditor has received notice thereof.  Any such Trust Creditor may enforce such obligations of the Corporation directly against the Corporation, and the Corporation irrevocably waives any right or remedy to require that any such Trust Creditor take any action against the applicable Utah Medical Products, Inc. Trust or any other Person before proceeding against the Corporation.  The Corporation shall execute such additional agreements as may be necessary to give full effect to the foregoing.

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ARTICLE ELEVEN

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

Section 1101.  Applicability of Article

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

Section 1102.  Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

The election of the Corporation to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution.  In case of any redemption at the election of the Corporation of less than all of the Securities of any series, the Corporation shall, at least 45 days prior to the giving of the notice of redemption in Section 1104 (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed.  In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Corporation shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.

Section 1103.  Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

If less than all the Securities of any series issued on the same day with the same terms are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series issued on such date with the same terms not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series.

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Corporation and the Security Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

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

Section 1104.  Notice of Redemption

Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 30 days or more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, but failure to give such notice in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other such Security or portion thereof.

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Any notice that is mailed to the Holders of Registered Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives the notice.

All notices of redemption shall state:

(1)           the Redemption Date;

(2)           the Redemption Price, accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 1106, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any;

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

(4)           in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the holder will receive, without a charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed;

(5)           that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 1106, if any, will become due and payable upon each such Security, or the portion thereof, to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date;

(6)           the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities, together in the case of Bearer Securities with all Coupons appertaining thereto, if any, maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, or for conversion;

(7)           that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case;

(8)           that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer Securities of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be accompanied by all Coupons maturing subsequent to the date fixed for redemption or the amount of any such missing Coupon or Coupons will be deducted from the Redemption Price, unless security or indemnity satisfactory to the Corporation, the Trustee for such series, and any Paying Agent is furnished;

(9)           if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and any Registered Securities of such series are not to be redeemed, and if such Bearer Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities not subject to the redemption on this Redemption Date pursuant to Section 305 or otherwise, the last date, as determined by the Corporation, on which such exchanges may be made;

(10)           the CUSIP number of such Security, if any, provided that neither the Corporation nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility for any such CUSIP number; and

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(11)           if applicable, that a Holder of Securities that desires to convert Securities to be redeemed must satisfy the requirements for conversion contained in such Securities, the then-existing conversion price or rate, and the date and time when the option to convert shall expire.

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

Section 1105.  Deposit of Redemption Price

On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Corporation shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Corporation is acting as its own Paying Agent, which it may not do in the case of a sinking fund payment under Article Twelve, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions thereof that are to be redeemed on that date.

Section 1106.  Securities Payable on Redemption Date

Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) (together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Corporation shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and the Coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed, except to the extent provided below, shall be void.  Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security shall be paid by the Corporation at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of Coupons for such interest; and provided further that, installments of interest on Registered Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.

If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Corporation and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless.  If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing Coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented by Coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those Coupons.

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If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security.

Section 1107.  Securities Redeemed in Part

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

ARTICLE TWELVE

SINKING FUNDS

Section 1201.  Applicability of Article

The provisions of this article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series.

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment,” and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.”  If provided for by the terms of any Securities of any series, the cash amount of any mandatory sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202.  Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series.

Section 1202.  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

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

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Section 1203.  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking payment date for Securities of any series, the Corporation will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, that is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) and the portion thereof, if any, that is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1202, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered and credited.  If such Officers’ Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Corporation shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified.  Not less than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Corporation in the manner provided in Section 1104.  Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS

Section 1301.  Applicability of Article

Repayment of Securities of any series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders thereof shall be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities, if any, and (except as otherwise specified by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 301) in accordance with this article.

Section 1302.  Repayment of Securities

Securities of any series subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders thereof will, unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price equal to the principal amount thereon, together with interest, if any, thereof accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities.  The Corporation covenants that on or before the Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Corporation is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units, or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the Securities of any series, a percentage of the principal) of, and (except if the Repayment Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid on such date.

Section 1303.  Exercise of Option

Securities of any series subject to repayment at the option of the Holders thereof will contain an “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse of such Securities.  In order for any Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the Trustee must receive at the Place of Payment therefor specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place or places of which the Corporation shall from time to time notify the Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 60 days or later than 30 days prior to the Repayment Date: (1) the Security so providing for such repayment together with the “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse thereof duly completed by the Holder (or by the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing); or (2) a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or a letter from a member of a national securities exchange or a commercial bank or trust company in the United States setting forth the name of the Holder of the Security, the principal amount of the Security, the principal amount of the Security to be repaid, the CUSIP number, if any, or a description of the tenor and terms of the Security, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby and a guarantee that the Security to be repaid, together with the duly completed form entitled “Option to Elect Repayment” on the reverse of the Security, will be received by the Trustee not later than the fifth Business Day after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or letter; provided, however, that such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, or letter shall only be effective if such Security and form duly completed are received by the Trustee by such fifth Business Day.  If less than the entire principal amount of such Security is to be repaid in accordance with the terms of such Security, the principal amount of such Security to be repaid, in increments of the minimum denomination for Securities of such series, and the denomination or denominations of the Security or Securities to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the principal amount of such Security surrendered that is not to be repaid, must be specified.  The principal amount of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof may not be repaid in part if, following such repayment, the unpaid principal amount of such Security would be less than the minimum authorized denomination of Securities of, or within, the series of which such Security to be repaid is a part.  Except as otherwise may be provided by the terms of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof, exercise of the repayment option by the Holder shall be irrevocable unless waived by the Corporation.

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Section 1304.  When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable

If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the option of the Holders thereof shall have been surrendered as provided in this article and as provided by or pursuant to the terms of such Securities, such Securities or the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and payable and shall be paid by the Corporation on the Repayment Date therein specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Corporation shall default in the payment of such Securities on such Repayment Date) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest and the Coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be repaid, except to the extent provided below, shall be void.  Upon surrender of any such Security for repayment in accordance with such provisions, together with all Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Repayment Date, the principal amount of such security so to be repaid shall be paid by the Corporation, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Repayment Date; provided, however, that Coupons whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of such Coupons; and provided further that, in the case of Registered Securities, installments of interest, if any, whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable (but without interest thereon, unless the Corporation shall default in the payment thereof) to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.

If any Bearer Security surrendered for repayment shall not be accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after the Repayment Date, such Security may be paid after deducting from the amount payable therefor as provided in Section 1302 an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Corporation and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless.  If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing Coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made as provided in the preceding sentence, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest represented by Coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States (except as otherwise provided in Section 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only upon presentation and surrender of those Coupons.

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If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for repayment shall not be so repaid upon surrender thereof, such principal amount (together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to such Repayment Date) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Repayment Date at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) set forth in such Security.

Section 1305.  Securities Repaid in Part

Upon surrender of any Registered Security that is to be repaid in part only, the Corporation shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Corporation, a new Registered Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination specified by the Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal of such Security so surrendered that is not to be repaid.

ARTICLE FOURTEEN

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

Section 1401.  Applicability of Article; Corporation’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

If, pursuant to Section 301, provision is made for either or both of: (1) defeasance of the Securities of, or within, a series under Section 1402; or (2) covenant defeasance of the Securities of, or within, a series under Section 1403 to be applicable to the Securities of any series, then the provisions of such section or sections, as the case may be, together with the other provisions of this article (with such modifications thereto as may be specified pursuant to Section 301 with respect to any Securities), shall be applicable to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and the Corporation may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, elect to defease such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto pursuant to Section 1402 (if applicable) or Section 1403 (if applicable) upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this article.

Section 1402.  Defeasance and Discharge

Upon the Corporation’s exercise of the above option applicable to this section with respect to any Securities of, or within, a series, the Corporation shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, “defeasance”).  For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Corporation shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 1405 and the other sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have satisfied all of its other obligations under such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture insofar as such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Corporation, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:  (1) the rights of Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1404 and as more fully set forth in such section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, if any, such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto when such payments are due; (2) the Corporation’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 305, 306, 1002, and 1003 and with respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by Section 1011; (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties, and immunities of the Trustee hereunder; and (4) this article.  Subject to compliance with this Article Fourteen, the Corporation may exercise its option under this section notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1403 with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto.

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Section 1403.  Covenant Defeasance

Upon the Corporation’s exercise of the above option applicable to this section with respect to any Securities of, or within, a series, the Corporation shall be released from its obligations under Sections 1004 to 1008, inclusive, and, if specified pursuant to Section 301, its obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1404 are satisfied (hereinafter, “covenant defeasance”), and such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall thereafter be deemed to be not “Outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent, or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with Sections 1004 to 1008, inclusive, or such other covenant, but shall continue to be deemed “Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder.  For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, the Corporation may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition, or limitation set forth in any such section or such other covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or such other covenant or by reason of reference in any such section or such other covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a default or an Event of Default under Section 501(4) or 501(9) or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be unaffected thereby.

Section 1404.  Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

The following shall be the conditions to application of Section 1402 or Section 1403 to any Outstanding Securities of, or within, a series and any Coupons appertaining thereto:

(1)           The Corporation shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 607 that shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article Fourteen applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto: (i) an amount in such currency, currencies, or currency unit in which such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity; or (ii) Government Obligations applicable to such Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto (determined on the basis of the currency, currencies, or currency unit in which such Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity), which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, if any, such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, money in an amount; or (iii) a combination thereof in an amount, sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment of such principal and interest, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge: (a) the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, if any, such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest; and (b) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto; provided, that the Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply such money or the proceeds of such Government Obligations to said payments with respect to such Securities.  Before such a deposit, the Corporation may give to the Trustee, in accordance with Section 1102 hereof, a notice of its election to redeem all or any portion of such Outstanding Securities at a future date in accordance with the terms of the Securities of such series and Article Eleven hereof, which notice shall be irrevocable.  Such irrevocable redemption notice, if given, shall be given effect in applying the foregoing.

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(2)           Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Corporation is a party or by which it is bound (and shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest pursuant to Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any Security of the Corporation).

(3)           No Event of Default or event that with notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as Sections 501(7) and 501(8) are concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).

(4)           In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Corporation shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that: (i) the Corporation has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling; or (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize income, gain, or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner, and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred.

(5)           In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Corporation shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize income, gain, or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner, and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.

(6)           The Corporation shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance under Section 1402 or the covenant defeasance under Section 1403 (as the case may be) have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that either: (i) as a result of a deposit pursuant to subsection (1) above and the related exercise of the Corporation’s option under Section 1402 or Section 1403 (as the case may be) registration is not required under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, by the Corporation, with respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the Trustee for such trust funds; or (ii) all necessary registrations under the Investment Company Act of 1940 have been effected.

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(7)           After the 91st day following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally.

(8)           Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions, or limitations that may be imposed on the Corporation in connection therewith pursuant to Section 301.

Section 1405.  Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant to Section 301) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 1405, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1404 in respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Corporation acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), interest, and Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security pursuant to Section 301, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 1404(1) has been made: (1) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 301 or the terms of such Security to receive payment in a currency or currency unit other than that in which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(1) has been made in respect of such Security; or (2) a Conversion Event occurs in respect of the currency or currency unit in which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(1) has been made, the indebtedness represented by such Security and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any), and interest on, if any, such Security as the same becomes due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as specified below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited in respect of such Security into the currency or currency unit in which such Security becomes payable as a result of such election or Conversion Event based on the applicable market exchange rate for such currency or currency unit in effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, except, with respect to a Conversion Event, for such currency or currency unit in effect (as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.

The Corporation shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee, or other charge imposed on, or assessed against, the Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1404 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof, other than any such tax, fee, or other charge that by law is for the account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto.

Anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Corporation from time to time, upon Corporation Request, any money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 1404 that, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect a defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this article.

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ARTICLE FIFTEEN

MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES

Section 1501.  Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called

A meeting of Holders of Securities of any series may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this article to make, give, or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be made, given, or taken by Holders of Securities of such series.

Section 1502.  Call, Notice, and Place of Meetings

(1)           The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series for any purpose specified in Section 1501, to be held at such time and at such place in the state of Utah, as the Trustee shall determine.  Notice of every meeting of Holders of Securities of any series setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and, in general terms, the action proposed to be taken at such meeting shall be given, in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 21 or more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

(2)           In case at any time the Corporation, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose specified in Section 1501, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the Corporation or the Holders of Securities of such series in the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in subsection (1) of this section.

Section 1503.  Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings

To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, a Person shall be: (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series; or (2) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by such Holder or Holders.  The only Persons that shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel, and any representatives of the Corporation and its counsel.

Section 1504.  Quorum; Action

The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to a consent or waiver, which this Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not less than a specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series, the Persons entitled to vote such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall constitute a quorum.  In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes after the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be dissolved.  In any other case, the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting.  In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.  Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 1502(1), except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened.  Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series that shall constitute a quorum.

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Except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; provided, however, that except as limited by the proviso to Section 902, any resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action that this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given, or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series.

Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this section shall be binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series and the related Coupons, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1504, if any action is to be taken at a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action that this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given, or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in principal amount of all Outstanding Securities affected thereby, or of the Holders of such series and one or more additional series:

(1)           there shall be no minimum quorum requirement for such meeting; and

(2)           the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series that vote in favor of such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action shall be taken into account in determining whether such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action has been made, given, or taken under this Indenture.

Section 1505.  Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings

(1)           Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders of Securities of a series in regard to proof of the holding of Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate.  Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 104 or by having the signature of the Person executing the proxy witnessed or guaranteed by any trust company, bank, or banker authorized by Section 104 to certify to the holding of Bearer Securities.  Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 104 or other proof.

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(2)           The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Corporation or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 1502(2), in which case, the Corporation or the Holders of Securities of, or within, the series calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman.  A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.

(3)           At any meeting, each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding.  The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.

(4)           Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called pursuant to Section 1502 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

Section 1506.  Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings

The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them.  The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes, who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting.  A record, at least in duplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the fact, setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 1502 and, if applicable, Section 1504.  Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to the Corporation and another to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.  Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.

Section 1507.  Evidence of Action Taken by Holders

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified percentage in principal amount of the Holders of any or all series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such specified percentage of Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee.  Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Article Six) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Corporation, if made in the manner provided in this article.

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Section 1508.  Proof of Execution of Instruments

Subject to Article Six, the execution of any instrument by a Holder or his agent or proxy may be proved in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee.

ARTICLE SIXTEEN

SUBORDINATION

Section 1601.  Agreement to Subordinate

The Company agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Security agrees, that the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities is subordinated in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner provided in this article, to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt and that the subordination is for the benefit of the holders of Senior Debt.

Section 1602.  Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy

Upon any distribution to creditors of the Corporation in a liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership, or similar proceeding relating to the Corporation or its property:

(1)           holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive payment in full in cash of the principal of, and interest (including interest accruing after the commencement of any such proceeding) to the date of payment on, the Senior Debt before Holders shall be entitled to receive any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Securities;

(2)           until the Senior Debt is paid in full in cash, any distribution to which Holders would be entitled but for this article shall be made to holders of Senior Debt as their interests may appear, except that Holders may receive securities that are subordinated to Senior Debt to at least the same extent as the Securities; and

(3)           the Trustee is entitled to rely upon an order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, or a certificate of a bankruptcy trustee or other similar official, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of Senior Debt and other Corporation debt, the amount thereof or payable thereon, and all other pertinent facts relating to the Trustee’s obligations under this Article Sixteen.

Section 1603.  Default on Senior Debt

The Corporation may not pay principal of, or interest on, the Securities and may not acquire any Securities for cash or property other than capital stock of the Corporation if:

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(1)           a default on Senior Debt occurs and is continuing that permits holders of such Senior Debt to accelerate its maturity; and

(2)           the default is the subject of judicial proceedings or the Corporation receives a notice of the default from a Person that may give it pursuant to Section 1611.  If the Corporation receives any such notice, a similar notice received within nine months thereafter relating to the same default on the same issue of Senior Debt shall not be effective for purposes of this section.

The Corporation may resume payments on the Securities and may acquire them when the default is cured or waived or 120 days pass after the notice is given if the default is not the subject of judicial proceedings, if this article otherwise permits the payment or acquisition at that time.

Section 1604.  Acceleration of Securities

If payment of the Securities is accelerated because of an Event of Default, the Corporation shall promptly notify holders of Senior Debt of the acceleration.  The Corporation may pay the Securities when 120 days pass after the acceleration occurs if this article permits the payment at that time.

Section 1605.  When Distribution Must Be Paid Over

If a distribution is made to Holders that because of this article should not have been made to them, the Holders that receive the distribution shall hold it in trust for holders of Senior Debt and pay it over to them as their interests may appear.

Section 1606.  Notice by the Corporation

The Corporation shall promptly notify the Trustee and any Paying Agent of any facts known to the Corporation that would cause a payment of principal of, or interest on, Securities to violate this article.

Section 1607.  Subrogation

After all Senior Debt is paid in full and until the Securities are paid in full, Holders shall be subrogated to the rights of holders of Senior Debt to receive distributions applicable to Senior Debt to the extent that distributions otherwise payable to the Holders have been applied to the payment of Senior Debt.  A distribution made under this article to holders of Senior Debt that otherwise would have been made to Holders is not, as between the Corporation and Holders, a payment by the Corporation on Senior Debt.

Section 1608.  Relative Rights

This article defines the relative rights of Holders and holders of Senior Debt.  Nothing in this Indenture shall:

(1)           impair, as between the Corporation and Holders, the obligation of the Corporation, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay principal of, and interest on, the Securities in accordance with their terms;

(2)           affect the relative rights of Holders and creditors of the Corporation other than holders of Senior Debt; or

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(3)           prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising its available remedies upon an Event of Default, subject to the rights of holders of Senior Debt to receive distributions otherwise payable to Holders.

If the Corporation fails because of this article to pay principal of, or interest on, a Security on the due date, the failure is still a default.

Section 1609.  Subordination May Not Be Impaired by the Corporation

No right of any holder of Senior Debt to enforce the subordination of the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities shall be impaired by any act or failure to act by the Corporation or by its failure to comply with this Indenture.

Section 1610.  Distribution or Notice to Representative

Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders of Senior Debt, the distribution may be made and the notice given to their Representative.

Section 1611.  Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent

The Trustee or any Paying Agent may continue to make payments on the Securities until it receives written notice of facts that would cause a payment of principal of, or interest on, the Securities to violate this article.  Only the Corporation, a Representative, or a holder of an issue of Senior Debt that has no Representative may give the written notice.

The Trustee has no fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt other than as created under this Indenture.  The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may hold Senior Debt with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

The Corporation’s obligation to pay, and the Corporation’s payment of, the Trustee’s fees pursuant to Section 606 are excluded from the operation of this Article Sixteen.

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

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

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

By:

Name:

Title:

as Trustee

By:

Name:

Title:

STATE OF UTAH )

  :

COUNTY OF SALT LAKE                                                      )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this ___ day of ___________________, _____, in the County of Salt Lake, State of Utah, by ____________________________________, [title], of Utah Medical Products, Inc., a Utah corporation, on behalf of the corporation.

Notary Public

STATE OF UTAH )

  :

COUNTY OF SALT LAKE                                                      )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this ___ day of ____________________, _____, in the County of _______________, State of _______________, by _______________________, [title], of [trustee name], a __________ [corporation], on behalf of the [trustee name].

Notary Public

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EXHIBIT A

FORMS OF CERTIFICATION

EXHIBIT A-1

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY PERSON ENTITLED

TO RECEIVE BEARER SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST

PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE

CERTIFICATE

[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]

This is to certify that, as of the date hereof, and except as set forth below, the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account: (1) are owned by Persons that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations, or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source (“United States persons”); (2) are owned by United States persons that are: (i) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as “financial institutions”) purchasing for their own account or for resale; or (ii) United States persons that acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and that hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (i) or (ii), each such United States financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or through its agent, that you may advise _________________________ or its agent that such financial institution will provide a certificate within a reasonable time stating that it agrees to comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder); or (3) are owned by a financial institution for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and such financial institution described in clause (3) above (whether or not also described in clause (1) or (2)), certifies that it has not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.

As used herein, “United States” means the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia); and its “possessions” include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands.  We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex on or prior to the date on which you intend to submit your certification relating to the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account in accordance with your operating procedures if any applicable statement herein is not correct on such date, and in the absence of any such notification it may be assumed that this certification applies as of such date.

This certificate excepts and does not relate to US$__________ of such interest in the above-captioned Securities in respect of which we are not able to certify and as to which we understand an exchange for an interest in a Permanent Global Security or an exchange for and delivery of definitive Securities (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) cannot be made until we do so certify.

We understand that this certificate may be required in connection with certain tax legislation in the United States.  If administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.

Dated:  ___________, 20__

[To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior

to the earlier of (i) the Exchange Date or

(ii) the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring

prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable]

[Name of Person Making Certification]

(Authorized Signatory)

Name:

Title:

EXHIBIT A-2

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR AND CLEARSTREAM IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE OF A PORTION OF A TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE

CERTIFICATE

[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]

This is to certify that, based solely on written certifications that we have received in writing, by tested telex or by electronic transmission from each of the persons appearing in our records as persons entitled to a portion of the principal amount set forth below (our “Member Organizations”) substantially in the form attached hereto, as of the date hereof, US$__________ principal amount of the above-captioned Securities: (1) is owned by persons that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations, or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source (“United States persons”); (2) is owned by United States persons that are: (I) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as “financial institutions”) purchasing for their own account or for resale; or (ii) United States persons that acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and that hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (i) or (ii), each such financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that we may advise ___________________________ or its agent that such financial institution will provide a certificate within a reasonable time stating that it agrees to comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B), or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder); or (3) is owned by a financial institution for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and that such financial institutions described in clause (3) above (whether or not also described in clause (1) or (2)) have certified that they have not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.

As used herein, “United States” means the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia); and its “possessions” include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

We further certify that we are not making available herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) any portion of the temporary global Security representing the above-captioned Securities excepted in the above-referenced certificates of Member Organizations, and as of the date hereof, we have not received any notification from any of our Member Organizations to the effect that the statements made by such Member Organizations with respect to any portion of the part submitted herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) are no longer true and cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.

We understand that this certification is required in connection with certain tax legislation in the United States.  If administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.

Dated:  ________________

[To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior

to the earlier of (i) the Exchange Date or

(ii) the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring

prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable]

[Name of Person Making Certification]

(Authorized Signatory)

Name:

Title:

REGISTERED	PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NO.:______________
CUSIP NO.: _________

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

[Designation of Subordinated Security]

Utah Medical Products, Inc., a Utah corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation,” which term shall include any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to _____________________________, or registered assigns, upon presentation, the principal sum of _____________________________ DOLLARS on ____________, and to pay interest on the outstanding principal amount thereon from _____________, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually in arrears on _____________ and __________ in each year, commencing ___________, at the rate of ___% per annum, until the entire principal amount hereof is paid or made available for payment.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Subordinated Security (or one or more Predecessor Subordinated Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ___________ or _________ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date, and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Subordinated Security (or one or more Predecessor Subordinated Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Subordinated Securities of this series not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Subordinated Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.  Payment of the principal of, Make-Whole Amount on, if any, and interest on, this Subordinated Security will be made at the office or agency of the Corporation maintained for that purpose in the City of ______________, or State of _____________, or elsewhere as provided in the Indenture, 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; provided, however, that at the option of the Corporation, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register kept for the Subordinated Securities pursuant to Section 305 of the Indenture (the “Security Register”), or transfer to an account of the Person entitled thereto located inside the United States.

This Subordinated Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Corporation (herein called the “Subordinated Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of ______________, (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Corporation and _____________ (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture with respect to the Subordinated Securities), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties, and immunities thereunder of the Corporation, the Trustee, and the Holders of the Subordinated Securities and of the terms upon which the Subordinated Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Subordinated Security is one of the series designated as the “[designation of Subordinated Securities],” limited in aggregate principal amount to $________________.

The Subordinated Securities may be redeemed at any time at the option of the Corporation, in whole or in part, upon notice of not more than 60 or less than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, at a redemption price equal to the sum of (i) the principal amount of the Subordinated Securities being redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to the Redemption Date, and (ii) the Make-Whole Amount, if any, with respect to such Subordinated Securities.

The following definitions apply with respect to any redemption of the Subordinated Securities of this series at the option of the Corporation:

“Make-Whole Amount” means, in connection with any optional redemption or accelerated payment of any Subordinated Security, the excess, if any, of (1) the aggregate present value as of the date of such redemption or accelerated payment of each Dollar of principal being redeemed or paid and the amount of interest (exclusive of any interest accrued to the date of redemption or accelerated payment) that would have been payable in respect of such Dollar if such redemption or accelerated payment had not been made, determined by discounting, on a semiannual basis, such principal and interest at the Reinvestment Rate (determined on the third Business Day preceding the date such notice of redemption is given or declaration of acceleration is made) from the respective dates on which such principal and interest would have been payable if such redemption or accelerated payment had not been made, over (2) the aggregate principal amount of the Subordinated Securities being redeemed or paid.

“Reinvestment Rate” means 0.25% (one-fourth of one percent) plus the arithmetic mean of the yields under the respective headings “This Week” and “Last Week” published in the Statistical Release under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity (rounded to the nearest month) corresponding to the remaining life to maturity, as of the payment date of the principal being redeemed or paid.  If no maturity exactly corresponds to such maturity, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to such maturity shall be calculated pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence and the Reinvestment Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding in each of such relevant periods to the nearest month.  For the purposes of calculating the Reinvestment Rate, the most recent Statistical Release published prior to the date of determination of the Make-Whole Amount shall be used.

“Statistical Release” means the statistical release designated “H.15 (519)” or any successor publication that is published weekly by the Federal Reserve System and that establishes yields on actively traded United States government securities adjusted to constant maturities or, if such statistical release is not published at the time of any determination under the Indenture, then such other reasonably comparable index, which shall be designated by the Corporation.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of the Corporation on this Subordinated Security and certain restrictive covenants and the related defaults and Events of Default applicable to the Corporation, in each case, upon compliance by the Corporation with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture, which provisions apply to this Subordinated Security.

If an Event of Default with respect to the Subordinated Securities shall occur and be continuing, the principal of, and the Make-Whole Amount, if any, on, the Subordinated Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Subordinated Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Subordinated Securities, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Subordinated Securities at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Subordinated Securities at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request, and offer of indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Subordinated Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any interest on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

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

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Subordinated Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Corporation, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, Make-Whole Amount on, if any, and interest on, this Subordinated Security at the times, place, and rate and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Subordinated Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Subordinated Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Corporation in any Place of Payment where the principal of, Make-Whole Amount on, if any, and interest on, this Subordinated Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Corporation and the Security Registrar for the Subordinated Securities (the “Security Registrar”) duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Subordinated Securities of this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Subordinated Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without Coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Subordinated Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Subordinated Securities of this series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Corporation may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

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

The Holder of this Subordinated Security by the acceptance thereof agrees that the indebtedness evidenced by this Subordinated Security is subordinated in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner provided in Article Sixteen of the Indenture, to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt and that the subordination is for the benefit of the holders of Senior Debt.  The Holder hereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effect such subordination as provided in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for such purpose.  “Senior Debt” is defined in the Indenture as the principal of, and interest on, or substantially similar payments to be made by the Corporation in respect of, the following, whether outstanding at the date of execution of the Indenture or thereafter incurred, created, or assumed:  (a) indebtedness of the Corporation for money borrowed or represented by purchase-money obligations; (b) indebtedness of the Corporation evidenced by notes, debentures, or bonds, or other securities issued under the provisions of an indenture, fiscal agency agreement, or other instrument; (c) obligations of the Corporation as lessee under leases of property either made as part of any sale and lease-back transaction to which the Corporation is a party or otherwise; (d) indebtedness of partnerships and joint ventures that is included in the Corporation’s consolidated financial statements; (e) indebtedness, obligations, and liabilities of others in respect of which the Corporation is liable contingently or otherwise to pay or advance money or property or as guarantor, endorser, or otherwise or which the Corporation has agreed to purchase or otherwise acquire; and (f) any binding commitment of the Corporation to fund any real estate investment or to fund any investment in any entity making such real estate investment; but excluding, however: (1) any such indebtedness, obligation, or liability referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above as to which, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, it is provided that such indebtedness, obligation, or liability is not superior in right of payment to the Subordinated Securities, or ranks pari passu with the Subordinated Securities; (2) any such indebtedness, obligation, or liability that is subordinated to indebtedness of the Corporation to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Subordinated Securities are subordinated; and (3) the Subordinated Securities.  As used in the preceding sentence, the term “purchase-money obligations” shall mean indebtedness or obligations evidenced by a note, debenture, bond, or other instrument (whether or not secured by any lien or other security interest but excluding indebtedness or obligations for which response is limited to the property purchased) issued or assumed as all or a part of the consideration for the acquisition of property, whether by purchase, merger, consolidation, or otherwise, but shall not include any trade accounts payable.  A distribution may consist of cash, securities, or other property.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant, or agreement contained in the Indenture or in this Subordinated Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any promoter, as such, or against any past, present, or future shareholder, Officer, or director, as such, of the Corporation or of any successor, either directly or through the Corporation or any successor, under any rule of law, statute, or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of this Subordinated Security by the Holder thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Subordinated Securities.

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

THE INDENTURE AND THE SUBORDINATED SECURITIES, INCLUDING THIS SUBORDINATED SECURITY, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF UTAH.

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Corporation has caused “CUSIP” numbers to be printed on the Subordinated Securities as a convenience to the Holders of the Subordinated Securities.  No representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such CUSIP numbers as printed on the Subordinated Securities, and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal this day of _________________.

UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

By:

Name:

Title:

EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.01

Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, LLC
136 EAST SOUTH TEMPLE, TWENTY-FIRST FLOOR
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH  84111-1124
MAILING ADDRESS:
ATTORNEYS AT LAW	Post Office Box 45561	TELEPHONE:  (801) 531-7090
www.klmrlaw.com	Salt Lake City, Utah  84145-0561	TELECOPY:  (801) 531-7091

June 12, 2012

Utah Medical Products, Inc.

7043 South 300 West

Midvale, Utah  84047

Re:	Registration Statement on Form S-3
	¨	Common Stock, par value $0.01
	¨	Preferred Stock Purchase Rights
	¨	Preferred Stock, par value $0.01
	¨	Warrants
	¨	Senior Debt Securities
	¨	Subordinated Debt Securities

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel for Utah Medical Products, Inc., a Utah corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”), on a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) of the offer and sale from time to time pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of the following securities for an aggregate initial offering price not to exceed $102,000,000:  (i) shares of common stock, par value $0.01, of the Company (“Common Stock”); (ii) preferred stock purchase rights pursuant to the Company’s Designation Rights Agreement dated July 30, 2004 (“Preferred Stock Purchase Rights”); (iii) shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01, of the Company (“Preferred Stock”); (iv) warrants to purchase Senior Debt Securities (as hereinafter defined), Subordinated Debt Securities (as hereinafter defined), Preferred Stock, or Common Stock (the “Warrants”); (v) senior debt securities (“Senior Debt Securities”); and (vi) subordinated debt securities (“Subordinated Debt Securities” and, together with the Common Stock, Preferred Stock Purchase Rights, Preferred Stock, Warrants, and Senior Debt Securities, the “Securities”).

For purposes of rendering the opinions contained in this letter, we have reviewed those agreements, records and documents as we have deemed relevant in order to render the opinions set forth herein, including the articles of incorporation and the bylaws of the Company in effect as of the date hereof and the Indentures in the form of Exhibits 4.03 and 4.04 to the Registration Statement to be executed by the Company and the trustee (the “Indentures”), pursuant to which debt securities may be issued.

Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, llc

Utah Medical Products, Inc.

June 12, 2012

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As to certain questions of fact material to our opinions that we have not independently established, we have relied upon certificates from officers of the Company and upon certificates of public officials.

In rendering the following opinions, we have assumed: (a) all information contained in all documents reviewed by us is true and correct; (b) the genuineness of all signatures on all documents reviewed by us; (c) the authenticity and completeness of all documents submitted to us as originals; (d) the conformity to authentic originals of all documents submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies; (e) each natural person signing any document reviewed by us had the legal capacity to do so; and (f) each person signing in a representative capacity any document reviewed by us had authority to sign in such capacity.

Based on the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, exceptions, and qualifications stated below, we are of the opinion that:

1.           With respect to shares of Common Stock and the associated Preferred Stock Purchase Rights, when both: (a) the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance of and the terms of the offering of the shares of Common Stock and the associated Preferred Stock Purchase Rights and related matters; and (b) certificates representing the shares of Common Stock have been duly executed, countersigned, registered, and delivered or such shares have been duly issued and delivered in certificateless form either: (i) in accordance with the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, or similar agreement approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration therefor (not less than the par value of the Common Stock) provided for therein; or (ii) upon conversion or exercise of any other security, in accordance with the terms of such security or the instrument governing such security providing for such conversion or exercise as approved by the Board, for the consideration approved by the Board (not less than the par value of the Common Stock), then the shares of Common Stock and the associated Preferred Stock Purchase Rights will duly authorized and validly issued, and the Common Stock will be fully paid and nonassessable.

2.           With respect to shares of Preferred Stock, when both: (a) the Board has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of the shares of Preferred Stock, the terms of the offering thereof, and related matters, including the adoption of a designation of rights, privileges, and preferences relating to such Preferred Stock (a “Designation”) and the filing of the Designation with the Utah Secretary of State; and (b) certificates representing the shares of Preferred Stock have been duly executed, countersigned, registered, and delivered or such shares have been duly issued and delivered in certificateless form either: (i) in accordance with the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, or similar agreement approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration therefor (not less than the par value of the Preferred Stock) provided for therein; or (ii) upon conversion or exercise of any other security, in accordance with the terms of such security or the instrument governing such security providing for such conversion or exercise as approved by the Board, for the consideration approved by the Board (not less than the par value of the Preferred Stock), then the shares of Preferred Stock will be legally issued, fully paid, and nonassessable.

Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, llc

Utah Medical Products, Inc.

June 12, 2012

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3.           With respect to the Warrants, when: (a) the Board has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the creation of and the issuance and terms of the Warrants, the terms of the offering thereof, and related matters; (b) the warrant agreement or agreements relating to the Warrants have been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the Company and the warrant agent appointed by the Company; and (c) the Warrants or certificates representing the Warrants have been duly executed, countersigned, registered, and delivered or such Warrants have been duly issued and delivered in certificateless form in accordance with the appropriate warrant agreement or agreements and the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, or similar agreement approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration therefor provided for therein, the Warrants will be legally issued and binding obligations of the Company.

4.           With respect to Senior Debt Securities to be issued under the applicable Indenture, when: (a) the Indenture has been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the Company to the trustee; (b) the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; (c) the Board has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of such Senior Debt Securities, the terms of the offering thereof, and related matters; and (d) such Senior Debt Securities have been duly executed, authenticated, issued, and delivered or such securities have been delivered in certificateless form in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, or similar agreement approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration therefor provided for therein, such Senior Debt Securities will be legally issued and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

5.           With respect to Subordinated Debt Securities to be issued under the applicable Indenture, when: (a) the Indenture has been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the Company to the trustee; (b) the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; (c) the Board has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of such Subordinated Debt Securities, the terms of the offering thereof, and related matters; and (d) such Subordinated Debt Securities have been duly executed, authenticated, issued, and delivered or such securities have been delivered in certificateless form in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting, or similar agreement approved by the Board upon payment of the consideration therefor provided for therein, such Subordinated Debt Securities will be legally issued and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

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The opinions expressed above are subject in all respects to the following assumptions, exceptions, and qualifications:

A.           We have assumed that: (i) the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) will have become effective and comply with all applicable laws; (ii) the Registration Statement will be effective and will comply with all applicable laws at the time the Securities are offered or issued as contemplated by the Registration Statement (if such offering or issuance requires the delivery of a prospectus under the Securities Act or pursuant to any other law); (iii) a Prospectus Supplement will have been prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission describing the Securities offered thereby and will comply with all applicable laws; (iv) all Securities will be issued and sold in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and in the manner stated in the Registration Statement and the appropriate Prospectus Supplement; (v) a definitive purchase, underwriting, or similar agreement with respect to any Securities offered or issued will have been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto;

and (vi) any Securities issuable upon conversion, exchange, or exercise of any security being offered or issued will be duly authorized, created, and if appropriate, reserved for issuance upon such conversion, exchange, or exercise.

Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, llc

Utah Medical Products, Inc.

June 12, 2012

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B.           In rendering the opinions in paragraphs 4 and 5, we have assumed that the trustee is or, at the time the Indenture is signed, will be qualified to act as trustee under the Indenture and that the trustee has or will have duly executed and delivered the Indenture.

C.           The enforceability of the Indenture and provisions thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, moratorium, or other similar laws now or hereinafter in effect relating to or affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).  Such principles or equity include concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith, and fair dealing, and also the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief.

D.           We express no opinion respecting: (i) the enforceability of provisions in the Indenture, or any other agreement or instrument with respect to delay or omission of enforcement of rights or remedies, or waivers of notices or defenses, or waivers of benefits of, or other rights that cannot be effectively waived under, applicable laws; (ii) the enforceability of indemnification provisions to the extent they purport to relate to liabilities resulting from or based upon negligence or any violation of federal or state securities or blue sky laws; or (iii) the enforceability of Sections 2.18, 11.07 and 14.11 of the Indenture.

E.           We note that the terms of the Warrants, when determined, may be governed by the laws of a jurisdiction other than the state of Utah.  We express no opinion with respect to the laws of such other jurisdictions in rendering these opinions.  We understand that the Company will obtain and file all necessary legal opinions when the jurisdiction applicable to the warrant is determined.

F.           The opinions expressed in this letter are limited to the laws of the state of Utah and the federal laws of the United States of America.

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We consent to the filing of this opinion of counsel as Exhibit 5.01 to the Registration Statement.  We also consent to the reference to this firm under the heading “Legal Opinions” in the Prospectus forming a part of the Registration Statement.  In giving this consent, we do not admit that this firm is in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder.

Kruse Landa Maycock & Ricks, llc

Utah Medical Products, Inc.

June 12, 2012

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This opinion is rendered on the date hereof, and we disclaim any duty to advise you regarding any changes in the matters addressed herein.

Sincerely,

KRUSE, LANDA MAYCOCK & RICKS, LLC

KLMR/JRK/vs

EX-12.1

Exhibit 12.1

Utah Medical Products, Inc.
Exhibit 12 to Registration Statement on Form S-3
Calculation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges pursuant to Item 503(d) of Regulation S-K
	Three months
	ended		Year ended December 31,
	31-Mar-12		2011		2010		2009		2008		2007
Fixed charges
(a) interest expensed and capitalized	$	188,527	$	859,366	$	25,077	$	51,088	$	198,154	$	270,315
(b)  amortized premiums, discounts and caaitalized expenses related to indebtedness		-		-		-		-		-		-
(c) estimated interest within rental expense		38,739		73,390		30,956		56,204		57,122		56,048
(d)  preference security dividend requirements of subsidiaries		-		-		-		-		-		-
Total fixed charges	$	227,266	$	932,756	$	56,033	$	107,292	$	255,276	$	326,363
Earnings
Total of:
(a)  Pretax income from continuing operations:	$	3,936,829	$	11,079,889	$	9,040,579	$	9,579,656	$	10,776,683	$	12,038,193
(b)  fixed charges		227,266		932,756		56,033		107,292		255,276		326,363
(c)  amortization of capitalized interest		-		-		-		-		-		-
(d)  distrubuted income of equity investees		-		-		-		-		-		-
(e)  issuer's share of of pre-tax losses of equity investees		-		-		-		-		-		-
		4,164,095		12,012,645		9,096,612		9,686,948		11,031,959		12,364,556
Less:
(a)  interest capitalized		-		-		-		-		-		-
(b)  preference security dividend requiremtns of consolidated subsidiaries		-		-		-		-		-		-
(c)  minority interest in pre-tax income of subsidiaries that have not incurred fixed charges		-		-		-		-		-		-
		-		-		-		-		-		-
Total Earnings	$	4,164,095	$	12,012,645	$	9,096,612	$	9,686,948	$	11,031,959	$	12,364,556
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges		18.3		12.9		162.3		90.3		43.2		37.9

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our reports dated March 5, 2012, on the financial statements and internal control over financial reporting of Utah Medical Products, Inc., which reports appear in the annual report on Form 10-K of Utah Medical Products, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2011, and to the reference to our Firm under the caption “Experts” in the Prospectus.

/s/ Jones Simkins, P.C.

JONES SIMKINS, P.C.

Logan, Utah

June 12, 2012