-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, VSYgKFp1D2N/zrHlEGPug371JIcIBipnxxBDtZYVMkWgNDUOC2VUaROYfkiTFe+b GLDpJCqD4YG4vnupJU3R5g== 0000928385-98-000086.txt : 19980121 0000928385-98-000086.hdr.sgml : 19980121 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000928385-98-000086 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 12 FILED AS OF DATE: 19980120 SROS: AMEX FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NVR INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000906163 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OPERATIVE BUILDERS [1531] IRS NUMBER: 541394360 STATE OF INCORPORATION: VA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-3 SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-44515 FILM NUMBER: 98509236 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7601 LEWISVILLE RD STREET 2: STE 300 CITY: MCLEAN STATE: VA ZIP: 22102 BUSINESS PHONE: 7037612000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7601 LEWINSVILLE RD CITY: MCLEAN STATE: VA ZIP: 22102 S-3 1 FORM S-3 As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 20, 1998 Registration No. 333- ================================================================================ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 ----------- FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ----------- NVR, INC. (Name of Primary Registrant as Specified in its Charter) Virginia (State of Incorporation ) 54-1394360 (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
State of I.R.S. Employer Names of Additional Registrants Incorporation Identification Number - ------------------------------- ------------- --------------------- NVR Financial Services, Inc. Pennsylvania 25-1203734 NVR Homes, Inc. Virginia 25-1709930 RVN, Inc. Delaware 51-0378026 NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. Tennessee 62-1715049 7601 Lewinsville Road, Suite 300 McLean, Virginia 22102 (703) 761-2000 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) * * * * * * Agent for Service: With Copies to: ----------------- -------------- Mr. Dwight C. Schar J. Warren Gorrell, Jr., Esq. Chief Executive Officer Eve N. Howard, Esq. NVR, Inc. Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. 7601 Lewinsville Road, Suite 300 555 Thirteenth Street, N.W. McLean, Virginia 22102 Washington, D.C. 20004-1109 (703) 761-2000 (202) 637-5600
Approximate Date of Commencement of Proposed Sale to the Public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement and from time to time 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 delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box. [_] THE REGISTRANTS HEREBY AMEND THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANTS SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(a) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR UNTIL THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(a), MAY DETERMINE.
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE =========================================================================================================================== Proposed maximum Title of each class of aggregate offering Amount of registration securities to be registered price (1) fee - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debt Securities(2)........................................... $400,000,000(3) $118,000 Debt Guarantees.............................................. (4) (4) ===========================================================================================================================
(1) The proposed maximum offering price per unit has been omitted pursuant to Instruction II.D of Form S-3, and will be determined in connection with the issuance of the securities registered hereunder from time to time. (2) An indeterminate number of debt securities, which may be issued and sold in one or more series from time to time, is being registered hereunder. (3) In U.S. Dollars or the equivalent thereof in another currency based on the exchange rate at the time of sale. (4) The additional registrants are registering guarantees of the payment and other obligations of the primary registrant under the Debt Securities being registered hereby. Under Rule 457(n), no registration fee is payable with respect to the guarantees. EXPLANATORY NOTE This Registration Statement relates to securities that may be offered from time to time. This Registration Statement contains a form of basic prospectus relating to the Registrants, which will be used in connection with one or more offerings of securities. The specific terms of the securities to be offered will be set forth in a Prospectus Supplement relating to such securities. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS SUBJECT TO COMPLETION OR AMENDMENT. A + +REGISTRATION STATEMENT RELATING TO THESE SECURITIES HAS BEEN FILED WITH THE + +SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. THESE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD NOR MAY + +OFFERS TO BUY BE ACCEPTED BEFORE THE TIME THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT BECOMES + +EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE + +SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY NOR SHALL THERE BE ANY SALE OF THESE + +SECURITIES IN ANY STATE IN WHICH SUCH OFFER, SOLICITATION OR SALE WOULD BE + +UNLAWFUL BEFORE REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY+ +SUCH STATE. + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Subject to Completion Preliminary Prospectus Dated January 20, 1998 PROSPECTUS [LOGO] $400,000,000 NVR, INC. DEBT SECURITIES NVR, Inc. ("NVR" or the "Company") may from time to time offer in one or more separate series unsecured, non-convertible debt securities ("Debt Securities") with an aggregate public offering price of up to $400,000,000 (or its equivalent in another currency based on the exchange rate at the time of sale) in amounts, at prices and on terms to be determined at the time of offering. The Debt Securities may be offered, separately or together, in amounts, at prices, with subsidiary guarantees and on other terms to be set forth in one or more supplements to this Prospectus (each, a "Prospectus Supplement"). The specific terms of the Debt Securities in respect of which this Prospectus is being delivered will be set forth in the applicable Prospectus Supplement and will include, where applicable, the specific title, aggregate principal amount, currency, form (which may be registered or bearer, or certificated or global), authorized denominations, maturity, rate (or manner of calculation thereof) and time of payment of interest, terms for redemption at the option of the Company or repayment at the option of the holder, terms for sinking fund payments, covenants and initial public offering price. The Debt Securities may be offered directly, through agents designated from time to time by the Company, or to or through underwriters or dealers. If any agents or underwriters are involved in the sale of any of the Debt Securities, their names, and any applicable purchase price, fee, commission or discount arrangement between or among them, will be set forth, or will be calculable from the information set forth, in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. See "Plan of Distribution." No Debt Securities may be sold without delivery of the applicable Prospectus Supplement describing the method and terms of the offering of such series of Debt Securities. THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION, NOR HAS THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE. The date of this Prospectus is [ ], 1998. WHERE TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Company files annual, quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and other information with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" or "Commission"). You may read and copy any document the Company has filed with the SEC at the SEC's public reference rooms in Washington, D.C., New York, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on its public reference rooms. The Company's SEC filings are available to the public from the SEC's world wide web site at http://www.sec.gov. You may obtain a copy of the Company's SEC filings at no cost by writing or telephoning the Company's Corporate Secretary at: Corporate Secretary NVR, Inc. 7601 Lewinsville Road, Suite 300 McLean, Virginia 22102 (703) 761-2000 In addition, since the Company's Common Stock is listed on the American Stock Exchange, its SEC filings may be inspected and copied at the offices of the American Stock Exchange at 86 Trinity Place, New York, New York 10006. The SEC allows the Company to "incorporate by reference" certain information it files with the SEC, which means that the Company may disclose important information in this Prospectus by referring the reader to the documents that contain the information. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this Prospectus, and later information filed with the SEC will update and supersede this information. The Company incorporates 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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 until the offering of Debt Securities covered by this Prospectus is completed: (1) the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1996; and (2) the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 1997, June 30, 1997, and September 30, 1997; and (3) the portions of the Company's Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for the Annual Meeting of the Company's Shareholders held on May 6, 1997 that have been incorporated by reference into the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1996. The Company has filed with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933 relating to the Debt Securities offered by this Prospectus. This Prospectus is a part of the Registration Statement, but does not contain all of the information in the Registration Statement. For further information concerning the Company and the Debt Securities, reference is made to the Registration Statement and the exhibits filed with it, which may be examined at the locations listed in the first paragraph under this heading. Readers should rely only on the information provided or incorporated by reference in this Prospectus or in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. Readers should not assume that the information in the Prospectus and the applicable Prospectus Supplement is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front cover of the document. The Company is not making an offer to sell the Debt Securities in any state where an offer is not permitted. -2- THE COMPANY The Company, formed in 1980 as NVHomes, Inc., is a holding company that currently operates, through its subsidiaries, in two business segments: (1) the construction and marketing of homes and (2) financial services, including a mortgage banking operation. Unless the context otherwise requires, references to "NVR" or the "Company" include its subsidiaries. NVR is one of the largest homebuilders in the United States and in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan areas, where NVR derived approximately 72% of its 1996 homebuilding revenues. NVR's homebuilding operations construct and sell single-family detached homes, townhomes and condominium buildings in two distinct product lines, through two divisions: Ryan Homes and NVHomes. Ryan Homes builds moderately priced homes in 16 metropolitan areas located in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware and Tennessee, and markets its homes primarily to first-time buyers. NVHomes builds homes largely in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and markets its homes primarily to move-up buyers. In addition to building and selling homes, NVR provides a number of mortgage-related services through its national mortgage banking operations, which operate in 14 states. NVR's mortgage banking operations provide financing to a substantial portion of NVR's homebuilding customers. NVR's mortgage banking business sells all of the mortgage loans it closes into the secondary markets, but it retains the servicing rights associated with a small portion of those loans. NVR's mortgage banking business generates revenues primarily from origination fees, gains on marketing of loans, title fees, and sales of servicing rights. The Company is a Virginia corporation. Its executive offices are located at 7601 Lewinsville Road, Suite 300, McLean, Virginia 22102 and its telephone number is (703) 761-2000. THE GUARANTORS The following direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company are guarantors: NVR Financial Services, Inc., NVR Homes, Inc., RVN, Inc. and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. (the "Guarantors"). If so provided in a Prospectus Supplement, each of the Guarantors would fully and unconditionally guarantee on a joint and several basis the Company's obligations under the Debt Securities being offered and sold, subject (a) to any subordination provisions described in the Prospectus Supplement, and (b) in the case of the guarantees generally, to such guarantee not constituting or resulting in a violation of any applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law of any relevant jurisdiction, in which case, the liability of the Guarantor under its guarantee will be reduced to the maximum amount, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor (which generally consists of indebtedness and other obligations of such Guarantor, including trade payables), permissible under applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law. USE OF PROCEEDS Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the Company intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of Debt Securities for general corporate purposes. -3- RATIOS OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES The Company's ratio of earnings to fixed charges, and the ratio of earnings to fixed charges of its homebuilding operations, was as set forth below for each period indicated:
Nine Three Nine Months Months Months Year Ended Year Ended Dec. 31, Ended Ended Ended Sept. 30, ---------------------------- Dec. 31, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993(1) 1993(1) 1992(1) ---- ---- ---- ---- ------- ------- ------- Homebuilding operations (excluding the Company's mortgage banking subsidiaries, limited purpose financing operations, and reorganization items)(2).................... 4.4 3.8 2.9 2.1 (3) 2.8 1.1 Total consolidated Company(4)............... 3.7 2.0 1.6 1.6 (5) (5)(6) (5)(6)
- ----------------------------- (1) Effective September 30, 1993, NVR L.P., which was a master limited partnership, was reorganized as NVR, Inc. under a plan of reorganization. (2) For purposes of computing the ratio of earnings to fixed charges of the Company's homebuilding segment, the segment's earnings have been calculated by adding its fixed charges to its pre-tax income from continuing operations. The homebuilding segment's fixed charges consist of its interest costs, whether expensed or capitalized, the interest component of rental expense and the amortization of debt issuance costs. Effective October 1, 1993, the Company discontinued the capitalization of interest costs into inventory. (3) Homebuilding earnings were insufficient to cover homebuilding fixed charges for the three months ended December 31, 1993 by $5.2 million. The ratio for the three months ended December 31, 1993 was adversely affected by a $9 million non-cash charge related to the "step-up" of inventory for fresh start accounting and reporting in accordance with AICPA Statement of Position 90-7. (4) For purposes of computing the Company's consolidated ratio of earnings to fixed charges, consolidated earnings have been calculated by adding fixed charges to pre-tax income from continuing operations. Fixed charges consist of interest costs, whether expensed or capitalized, the interest component of rental expense and amortization of debt issuance costs. Effective October 1, 1993, the Company discontinued the capitalization of interest costs into inventory. (5) Consolidated earnings were insufficient to cover fixed charges for the three months ended December 31, 1993, the nine months ended September 30, 1993 and the year ended December 31, 1992 by $9.1 million, $4.4 million and $5.4 million, respectively. (6) Reorganization costs related to the Company's bankruptcy proceedings totaled approximately $25 million and $14.3 million for the nine-month period ended September 30, 1993 and the year ended December 31, 1992, respectively. DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES The following discussion describes certain general provisions of the Debt Securities to which this Prospectus and any applicable Prospectus Supplement may relate. The particular terms of the Debt Securities being offered and the extent to which these general provisions may apply will be set forth in the indenture or supplemental indenture under which the particular Debt Securities are issued, and will be described in a Prospectus Supplement relating to such Debt Securities. A form of the Senior Indenture (as defined herein) and a form of the Subordinated Indenture (as defined herein) under which Debt Securities may be issued have been filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement of which this Prospectus is a part, and can be examined at the locations listed above under "Where to Obtain Additional Information." All section references appearing in this Prospectus are to sections of each Indenture unless otherwise indicated, and capitalized terms used but not defined below shall have the respective meanings set forth in each Indenture. -4- General The Debt Securities will be nonconvertible, unsecured general obligations of the Company and may be either senior Debt Securities ("Senior Securities") or subordinated Debt Securities ("Subordinated Securities"). The Debt Securities will be issued under one or more indentures (the "Indentures"). Senior Securities and Subordinated Securities will be issued under separate indentures (respectively, a "Senior Indenture" and a "Subordinated Indenture"), in each case between the Company and a trustee (a "Trustee"). The Indentures will be subject to and governed by the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. The statements made under this heading relating to the Debt Securities and the Indentures are summaries of their anticipated provisions, do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Indentures and Debt Securities themselves. The indebtedness represented by Subordinated Securities will be subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full of the Senior Debt of the Company, as described below under "-- Ranking." A substantial portion of the Company's operations are conducted through subsidiaries. If so provided in a Prospectus Supplement, the Debt Securities will have the benefit of guarantees from the Guarantors, all of which are direct or indirect subsidiaries of the Company. The Company's subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal entities and have no obligation, contingent or otherwise, to pay any amounts due pursuant to the Debt Securities or to make any funds available therefor, whether by dividends, loans or other payments, other than as expressly provided in a guarantee. The payment of dividends or the making of loans and advances to the Company by its subsidiaries may be subject to contractual, statutory or regulatory restrictions, which, if material, would be disclosed in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. Moreover, such payments, loans and advances would be contingent upon the earnings of the subsidiaries. Any right of the Company to receive assets of any of its subsidiaries upon liquidation or recapitalization of the subsidiaries (and the consequent right of the holders of Debt Securities to participate in those assets) will be subject to the claims of the subsidiaries' creditors. In the event that the Company is recognized as a creditor of a subsidiary, the Company's claims would still be subject to any security interest in the assets of such subsidiary and any indebtedness of such subsidiary senior to that of the Debt Securities, and would be dependent primarily upon the receipt of funds from its subsidiaries. Except as set forth in the applicable Indenture or in one or more supplemental indentures and described in an applicable Prospectus Supplement, the Debt Securities may be issued without limit as to aggregate principal amount, in one or more series, in each case as established from time to time in or under authority granted by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company or as established in the applicable Indenture or in one or more supplemental indentures. 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 the Holders of the Debt Securities of such series, for issuances of additional Debt Securities of such series. It is expected that each Indenture will provide that there may be more than one Trustee thereunder, each with respect to one or more series of Debt Securities. Any Trustee under an Indenture may resign or be removed with respect to one or more series of Debt Securities, and a successor Trustee may be appointed to act with respect to such series. In the event that two or more persons are acting as Trustee with respect to different series of Debt Securities, each such Trustee will be a trustee of a trust under the applicable Indenture separate and apart from the trust administered by any other Trustee, and, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture or supplemental indenture, any action permitted to be taken by each Trustee may be taken by each such Trustee with respect to, and only with respect to, the one or more series of Debt Securities for which it is Trustee under the applicable Indenture. The Prospectus Supplement relating to any series of Debt Securities being offered will contain the specific terms thereof, including, without limitation, the following: (1) The title of such Debt Securities and whether such Debt Securities are Senior Securities or Subordinated Securities; (2) The aggregate principal amount of such Debt Securities and any limit on such aggregate principal amount; -5- (3) The percentage of the principal amount at which such Debt Securities will be issued and, if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof; (4) The date or dates, or the method for determining such date or dates, on which the principal of such Debt Securities will be payable; (5) The rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable), or the method by which such rate or rates are to be determined, at which such Debt Securities will bear interest, if any; (6) The date or dates, or the method for determining such date or dates, from which any such interest will accrue, the dates on which any such interest will be payable, the regular record dates for such interest payment dates, or the method by which record dates may be determined, the persons to whom such interest will be payable, and the basis upon which interest is to be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months; (7) The place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Debt Securities will be payable, where such Debt Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices or demands to or upon the Company in respect of such Debt Securities and the applicable Indenture may be served; (8) The period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions upon which such Debt Securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, if the Company is to have such an option; (9) The obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase such Debt Securities 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 and dates on which, the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions upon which such Debt Securities will be redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation; (10) If other than U.S. dollars, the currency or currencies in which such Debt Securities are denominated and payable, which may be a foreign currency or units of two or more foreign currencies or a composite currency or currencies, and the terms and conditions relating thereto; (11) Whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on such Debt Securities may be determined with reference to an index, formula or other method (which index, formula or method may, but need not be, based on a currency, currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies) and the manner in which such amounts are to be determined; (12) Any additions to, modifications of or deletions from the terms of such Debt Securities with respect to Events of Default or covenants set forth in the applicable Indenture; (13) Whether such Debt Securities will be issued in certificate or book-entry form; (14) Whether such Debt Securities will be in registered or bearer form and, if in registered form, the denominations thereof if other than $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and, if in bearer form, the denominations thereof and terms and conditions relating thereto; (15) The applicability, if any, of the defeasance and covenant defeasance provisions of the Indenture; -6- (16) Whether and under what circumstances the Company will pay any additional amounts on such Debt Securities in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge and, if so, whether the Company will have the option to redeem such Debt Securities in lieu of making such payment; (17) Whether and the extent to which such Debt Securities are guaranteed by the Guarantors and the form of any such Guarantee; and (18) Any other terms of such Debt Securities not inconsistent with the provisions of the applicable Indenture (Section 301). The Debt Securities may provide for less than the entire principal amount thereof to be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof ("Original Issue Discount Securities"). Special federal income tax, accounting and other considerations applicable to Original Issue Discount Securities will be described in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. Except as set forth in the applicable Indenture or in one or more supplemental indentures, the applicable Indenture will not contain any provisions that would limit the ability of the Company to incur indebtedness or that would afford Holders of Debt Securities protection in the event of a highly leveraged or similar transaction involving the Company or in the event of a change of control. Reference is made to the applicable Prospectus Supplement for information with respect to any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Company that are described below, including any addition of a covenant or other provision providing event risk or similar protection. If specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the Company's obligations under the Debt Securities will be guaranteed by four of its subsidiaries, NVR Financial Services, Inc., NVR Homes, Inc., RVN, Inc. and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. (the "Guarantors"). See "-- Guarantees" below. "Significant Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary that is a "significant subsidiary" (within the meaning of Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933) of the Company. "Subsidiary" means a corporation or a partnership a majority of the outstanding voting stock or partnership interests, as the case may be, of which is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock having voting power for the election of directors, or trustees, as the case may be, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency. Denomination, Interest, Registration and Transfer Unless otherwise described in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the Debt Securities will be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof (Section 302). Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the principal of (and applicable premium, if any) and interest on any series of Debt Securities will be payable at the corporate trust office of the Trustee, the address of which will be stated in the applicable Prospectus Supplements. At the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as it appears in the applicable register for such Debt Securities or by wire transfer of funds to such person at an account maintained within the United States (Sections 301, 305, 306, 307 and 1002). Any interest not punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date with respect to a Debt Security ("Defaulted Interest") will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the applicable regular record date and may either be paid to the person in whose name such Debt Security is registered at the close of business on a special record date (the "Special Record Date") for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof is to be given to the Holder of such Debt Security not less than ten days before to such Special -7- Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful manner, all as more completely described in the applicable Indenture or supplemental indenture (Section 307). Subject to certain limitations imposed upon Debt Securities issued in book-entry form, the Debt Securities of any series will be exchangeable for other Debt Securities of the same series and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor of different authorized denominations upon surrender of such Debt Securities at the corporate trust office of the applicable Trustee. In addition, subject to certain limitations imposed upon Debt Securities issued in book-entry form, the Debt Securities of any series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange thereof at the corporate trust office of the applicable Trustee. Every Debt Security surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange must be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer. No service charge will be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of any Debt Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. If the applicable Prospectus Supplement refers to any transfer agent (in addition to the applicable Trustee) initially designated by the Company with respect to any series of Debt Securities, the Company may at any time rescind the designation of such transfer agent or approve a change in the location through which any such transfer agent acts, except that the Company will be required to maintain a transfer agent in each place of payment for such series. The Company may at any time designate additional transfer agents with respect to any series of Debt Securities (Section 1002). Neither the Company nor any Trustee will be required to (1) issue, register the transfer of or exchange Debt Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before any selection of Debt Securities of that series to be redeemed and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the relevant notice of redemption; (2) register the transfer of or exchange any Debt Security, or portion thereof, called for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any Debt Security being redeemed in part; or (3) issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Debt Security that has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Debt Security not to be repaid (Section 305). Merger, Consolidation or Sale The Company will be permitted to consolidate with, or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into, any other entity provided that (1) either the Company is the continuing entity, or the successor entity (if other than the Company) formed by or resulting from any such consolidation or merger or which has received the transfer of such assets expressly assumes payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all of the outstanding Debt Securities and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions contained in each Indenture; (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary as a result thereof as having been incurred by the Company or a Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no Event of Default under the Indentures or supplemental indentures, and no event which, after notice or the lapse of time, or both, would become such an Event of Default, will have occurred and be continuing; and (3) an officer's certificate and legal opinion covering such conditions is to be delivered to each Trustee (Sections 801 and 803). Certain Covenants Existence. Except as described above under "Merger, Consolidation or Sale," the Company will be required to do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence, rights (by articles of incorporation, by-laws and statute) and franchises, but the Company will not be required to preserve any right or franchise if it determines that its preservation is no longer desirable in the conduct of the Company's business and that its loss is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders of the Debt Securities. Insurance. The Company will be required to, and will be required to 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. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims. The Company will be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same become delinquent, (i) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges -8- levied or imposed upon it or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (ii) all material lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies that, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary; but the Company will 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 in appropriate proceedings (Section 1007). Additional Covenants and/or Modifications to the Covenants Described Above Any additional covenants of the Company and/or modifications to the covenants described above with respect to any series of Debt Securities, including any covenants relating to limitations on incurrence of indebtedness or other financial covenants, will be set forth in the applicable Indenture or supplemental indenture and described in the Prospectus Supplement relating thereto. Guarantees In order to enable the Company to obtain more favorable interest rates and terms with respect to Debt Securities, payment of the principal of (and any premium) and interest on offered Debt Securities may (if so specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement) be guaranteed jointly and severally by the Guarantors. Each guarantee will be an unsecured obligation of the Guarantor issuing the guarantee. The ranking of any guarantees of the Debt Securities and the terms of the subordination, if any, will be set forth in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. The Indenture will provide that, in the event of any guarantee of the Debt Securities by a Guarantor would constitute or result in a violation of any applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law of any relevant jurisdiction, the liability of the Guarantor under such guarantee will be reduced to the maximum amount, after giving effect to all other contingent and other liabilities of such Guarantor permissible under the applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law. Events of Default, Notice and Waiver Each Indenture will provide that the following events are "Events of Default" with respect to any series of Debt Securities issued thereunder: (1) default for 30 days in the payment of any installment of interest on any Debt Security of such series; (2) default in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Debt Security of such series at its maturity; (3) default in making any sinking fund payment as required for any Debt Security of such series; (4) default in the performance or breach of any other covenant or warranty of the Company contained in the applicable Indenture (other than a covenant added to the Indenture solely for the benefit of a series of Debt Securities issued thereunder other than such series), continued for 60 days after written notice as provided in the applicable Indenture; (5) default in the payment of an aggregate principal amount exceeding $10,000,000 of any indebtedness of the Company or any mortgage, indenture or other instrument under which such indebtedness is issued or by which such indebtedness is secured, such default having occurred after the expiration of any applicable grace period and having resulted in the acceleration of the maturity of such indebtedness, but only if such indebtedness is not discharged or such acceleration is not rescinded or annulled; (6) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, or court appointment of a receiver, liquidator or trustee of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or either of their property; and (7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to a particular series of Debt Securities (Section 501). If an Event of Default under any Indenture with respect to Debt Securities of any series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the applicable Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% of the principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities of that series will have the right to declare the principal amount (or, if the Debt Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities or indexed securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the Debt Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately by written notice thereof to the Company (and to the applicable Trustee if given by the Holders). At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Debt Securities of such series (or of all Debt Securities then outstanding under any Indenture, as the case may be) has been made, but before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the applicable Trustee, however, the Holders of -9- not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities of such series (or of all Debt Securities then outstanding under the applicable Indenture, as the case may be) may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if (1) the Company has deposited with the applicable Trustee all required payments of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Debt Securities of such series (or of all Debt Securities then outstanding under the applicable Indenture, as the case may be), plus certain fees, expenses, disbursements and advances of the applicable Trustee and (2) all events of default, other than the non-payment of accelerated principal (or specified portion thereof), with respect to Debt Securities of such series (or of all Debt Securities then outstanding under the applicable Indenture, as the case may be) have been cured or waived as provided in such Indenture (Section 502). Each Indenture also will provide that the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities of any series (or of all Debt Securities then outstanding under the applicable Indenture, as the case may be) may waive any past default with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default (1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Debt Security of such series or (2) in respect of a covenant or provision contained in the applicable Indenture that cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Debt Security affected thereby (Section 513). Each Trustee will be required to give notice to the Holders of the applicable Debt Securities within 90 days of a default under the applicable Indenture unless such default has been cured or waived; but the Trustee may withhold notice of any default (except a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on such Debt Securities or in the payment of any sinking fund installment in respect of such Debt Securities) if specified responsible officers of such Trustee consider such withholding to be in the interest of such Holders (Section 601). Each Indenture will provide that no Holders of Debt Securities of any series may institute any proceedings, judicial or otherwise, with respect to such Indenture or for any remedy thereunder, except in the cases of failure of the applicable Trustee, for 60 days, to act after it has received a written request to institute proceedings in respect of an Event of Default from the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities of such series, as well as an offer of indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it (Section 507). This provision will not prevent any Holder of Debt Securities from instituting suit for the enforcement of payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Debt Securities at the respective due dates thereof (Section 508). Subject to provisions in each Indenture relating to its duties in case of default, no Trustee will be under any obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under an Indenture at the request or direction of any Holders of any series of Debt Securities then outstanding under such Indenture, unless such Holders offer to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity (Section 602). The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities of any series (or of all Debt Securities then outstanding under an Indenture, as the case may be) will have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the applicable Trustee, or of exercising any trust or power conferred upon such Trustee. A Trustee may refuse, however, to follow any direction that is in conflict with any law or the applicable Indenture that may involve such Trustee in personal liability or may be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of Debt Securities of such series not joining therein (Section 512). Within 180 days after the close of each fiscal year, the Company will be required to deliver to each Trustee a certificate, signed by one of several specified officers, stating whether or not such officer has knowledge of any default under the applicable Indenture and, if so, specifying each such default and the nature and status thereof (Section 1008). Modification of the Indentures Modifications and amendments of an Indenture will be permitted to be made only with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all outstanding Debt Securities issued under such Indenture that are affected by such modification or amendment; but no such modification or amendment may, without the consent of the Holder of each such Debt Security affected thereby, (1) change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest (or the premium, if any) on, any such Debt Security; (2) reduce the principal amount of, or the rate or amount of interest on, or any premium payable on redemption of, any such Debt Security, or re- -10- duce the amount of principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof or would be provable in bankruptcy, or adversely affect any right of repayment of the Holder of any such Debt Security; (3) change the place of payment, or the coin or currency for payment, of principal (or premium, if any) or interest on any such Debt Security; (4) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to any such Debt Security; (5) reduce the percentage of outstanding Debt Securities of any series necessary to modify or amend the applicable Indenture, to waive compliance with certain provisions thereof or certain defaults and consequences thereunder or to reduce the quorum or voting requirements set forth in the applicable Indenture; or (6) modify any of the foregoing provisions or any of the provisions relating to the waiver of certain past defaults or certain covenants, except to increase the required percentage to effect such action or to provide that certain other provisions may not be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of such Debt Security (Section 902). The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities of each series affected thereby will have the right to waive compliance by the Company with certain covenants in such Indenture (Section 1010). Modifications and amendments of an Indenture will be permitted to be made by the Company and the respective Trustee thereunder without the consent of any Holder of Debt Securities for any of the following purposes: (1) to evidence the succession of another person to the Company as obligor under such Indenture; (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Debt Securities or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company in the Indenture; (3) to add Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Debt Securities; (4) to add or change any provisions of an Indenture to facilitate the issuance of, or to liberalize certain terms of, Debt Securities in bearer form, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Debt Securities in uncertificated form, provided that such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Debt Securities of any series in any material respect; (5) to change or eliminate any provisions of an Indenture, if such change or elimination becomes effective only when there are no Debt Securities outstanding of any series created prior thereto that are entitled to the benefit of such provision; (6) to secure the Debt Securities; (7) to establish the form or terms of Debt Securities of any series; (8) to provide for the acceptance of appointment by a successor Trustee or facilitate the administration of the trusts under an Indenture by more than one Trustee; (9) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency in an Indenture, if such action does not adversely affect the interests of Holders of Debt Securities of any series issued under such Indenture in any material respect; (10) to supplement any of the provisions of an Indenture to the extent necessary to permit or facilitate defeasance and discharge of any series of such Debt Securities, if such action does not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Debt Securities of any series in any material respect; or (11) to make any change that does not adversely affect the legal rights under an Indenture of any Holder of Debt Securities of any series issued thereunder (Section 901). Each Indenture will provide that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Debt Securities of a series have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver thereunder or whether a quorum is present at a meeting of Holders of Debt Securities, (1) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that is deemed to be outstanding will be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof, (2) the principal amount of any Debt Security denominated in a foreign currency that is deemed outstanding will be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined on the issue date for such Debt Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of Original Issue Discount Security, the U.S. dollar equivalent on the issue date of such Debt Security of the amount determined as provided in (1) above), (3) the principal amount of an indexed security that is deemed outstanding will be the principal face amount of such indexed security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided with respect to such indexed security under the applicable Indenture, and (4) Debt Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Debt Securities or any affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor are to be disregarded. Ranking Upon any distribution to creditors of the Company in a liquidation, dissolution or reorganization, the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on any Subordinated Securities will be subordinated to -11- the extent provided in the applicable Indenture in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt (Sections 1601 and 1602 of the Subordinated Indenture), but the obligation of the Company to make payment of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest on such Subordinated Securities will not otherwise be affected (Section 1608 of the Subordinated Indenture). No payment of principal (or premium, if any) or interest will be permitted to be made on Subordinated Securities at any time if a default on Senior Debt exists that permits the Holders of such Senior Debt to accelerate its maturity and the default is the subject of judicial proceedings or the Company receives notice of the default (Section 1602 of the Subordinated Indenture). After all Senior Debt is paid in full and until the Subordinated Securities are paid in full, Holders will be subrogated to the right of Holders of Senior Debt to the extent that distributions otherwise payable to Holders have been applied to the payment of Senior Debt (Section 1607 of the Subordinated Indenture). By reason of such subordination, in the event of a distribution of assets upon insolvency, certain general creditors of the Company may recover more, ratably, than Holders of Subordinated Securities. Senior Debt will be defined in the Subordinated Indenture as the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on, or substantially similar payments to be made by the Company in respect of, the following, whether outstanding at the date of execution of the applicable Indenture or thereafter incurred, created or assumed: (1) indebtedness of the Company for money borrowed or represented by purchase-money obligations, (2) indebtedness of the Company evidenced by notes, debentures, or bonds or other securities issued under the provisions of an indenture, fiscal agency agreement or other agreement, (3) obligations of the Company as lessee under leases of property either made as part of a sale and leaseback transaction to which the Company is a party or otherwise, (4) indebtedness of partnerships and joint ventures which is included in the consolidated financial statements of the Company, (5) indebtedness, obligations and liabilities of others in respect of which the Company is liable contingently or otherwise to pay or advance money or property or as guarantor, endorser or otherwise or which the Company has agreed to purchase or otherwise acquire, and (6) any binding commitment of the Company to fund a real estate investment or to fund an investment in an entity making a real estate investment, in each case other than (i) any such indebtedness, obligation or liability referred to in clauses (1) through (6) above as to which, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same 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 equally with the Subordinated Securities, (ii) any such indebtedness, obligation or liability which is subordinated to indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as or to a greater extent than the Subordinated Securities are subordinated, and (iii) the Subordinated Securities. As used in the preceding sentence, the term "purchase money obligations" is defined to mean indebtedness or obligations evidenced by a note, debenture, bond or other instrument (whether or not secured by a 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 does not include any trade accounts payable. There will not be any restrictions in an Indenture relating to Subordinated Securities upon the creation of additional Senior Debt. If this Prospectus Supplement is being delivered in connection with a series of Subordinated Securities, the applicable Prospectus Supplement or the information incorporated herein by reference will contain the approximate amount of Senior Debt outstanding as of the end of the Company's most recent fiscal quarter. Discharge, Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance The Company may be permitted under the applicable Indenture to discharge certain obligations to Holders of any series of Debt Securities issued thereunder that have not already been delivered to the applicable Trustee for cancellation and that either have become due and payable or will become due and payable within one year (or scheduled for redemption within one year) by irrevocably depositing with the applicable Trustee, in trust, funds in such currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which such Debt Securities are payable in an amount sufficient to pay the entire indebtedness on such Debt Securities in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (if such Debt Securities have become due and payable) or to the stated maturity or redemption date, as the case may be. -12- Each Indenture will provide that, if the provisions relating to defeasance and covenant defeasance are made applicable to the Debt Securities of or within any series, the Company may elect either (1) to defease and be discharged from any and all obligations with respect to such Debt Securities (except for the obligation to pay additional amounts, if any, upon the occurrence of certain events of tax, assessment or governmental charge with respect to payments on such Debt Securities, and the obligations to register the transfer or exchange of such Debt Securities, to replace temporary or mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Securities, to maintain an office or agency in respect of such Debt Securities and to hold moneys for payment in trust) ("defeasance") (Section 1402) or (2) to be released from its obligations with respect to such Debt Securities under certain specified sections of Article Ten of such Indenture as described in the applicable Prospectus Supplement and any omission to comply with such obligations shall not constitute an Event of Default with respect to such Debt Securities ("covenant defeasance") (Section 1403), in either case upon the irrevocable deposit by the Company with the applicable Trustee, in trust, of an amount, in such currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which such Debt Securities are payable at stated maturity, or Government Obligations (defined as described below), or both, applicable to such Debt Securities which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in accordance with their terms will provide money in an amount sufficient without reinvestment to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Debt Securities, and any mandatory sinking fund or analogous payments thereon, on the scheduled due dates therefor. Such a trust will only be permitted to be established if, among other things, the Company has delivered to the applicable Trustee an opinion of counsel (as specified in the applicable Indenture) to the effect that the Holders of such Debt Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance or 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 defeasance or covenant defeasance had not occurred, and such opinion of counsel, in the case of defeasance, will be required to refer to and be based upon a ruling of the Internal Revenue Service or a change in applicable U.S. federal income tax law occurring after the date of the Indenture (Section 1404). "Government Obligations" is defined to mean securities that are (1) direct obligations of the United States of America or the government that issued the foreign currency in which the Debt Securities of a particular series are payable, for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (2) 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 Debt Securities of such series are payable, the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of the United States of America or such government, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and also includes 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, if (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 (Section 101 of each Indenture). Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, if after the Company has deposited funds and/or Government Obligations to effect defeasance or covenant defeasance with respect to Debt Securities of any series, (1) the Holder of a Debt Security of such series is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to the applicable Indenture or the terms of such Debt Security to receive payment in a currency, currency unit or composite currency other than that in which such deposit has been made in respect of such Debt Security, or (2) a Conversion Event (as defined below) occurs in respect of the currency, currency unit or composite currency in which such deposit has been made, the indebtedness represented by such Debt Security will be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Debt Security as they become due out of the proceeds yielded by converting the amount so deposited in respect of such Debt Security into the currency, currency unit or composite currency in which such Debt Security becomes payable as a result of such election or such cessation of usage based on the applicable market exchange rate. "Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (1) a currency, currency unit or composite currency both by the government of the country that issued such currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other public institu- -13- tions of or within the international banking community, (2) the ECU both within the European Monetary System and for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the European Communities or (3) any currency unit or composite currency other than the ECU for the purposes for which it was established. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, all payments of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on any Debt Security that is payable in a foreign currency that ceases to be used by its government of issuance shall be made in U.S. dollars. In the event the Company effects covenant defeasance with respect to any Debt Securities and such Debt Securities are declared due and payable because of the occurrence of an Event of Default other than the Event of Default described in clause (4) above in the first paragraph under the caption "Events of Default, Notice and Waiver" with respect to certain specified sections of Article Ten of each Indenture (which sections would no longer be applicable to such Debt Securities as a result of such covenant defeasance) or described in clause (7) above in the first paragraph under "Events of Default, Notice and Waiver" with respect to any other covenant as to which there has been covenant defeasance, the amount in such currency, currency unit or composite currency in which such Debt Securities are payable, and Government Obligations on deposit with the applicable Trustee, will be sufficient to pay amounts due on such Debt Securities at the time of their stated maturity but may not be sufficient to pay amounts due on such Debt Securities at the time of the acceleration resulting from such Default. The Company would remain liable, however, to make payment of such amounts due at the time of acceleration. The applicable Prospectus Supplement may further describe the provisions, if any, permitting such defeasance or covenant defeasance, including any modifications to the provisions described above, with respect to the Debt Securities of or within a particular series. No Conversion Rights None of the Debt Securities will be convertible into or exchangeable for common stock or any other securities or property of the Company or any Subsidiary. Redemption of Securities The Indenture provides that the Debt Securities may be redeemed at any time at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, at the prescribed redemption price, except as may otherwise be provided in connection with any Debt Securities or series thereof. From and after notice has been given as provided in the Indenture, if funds for the redemption of any Debt Securities called for redemption have been made available on such redemption date, such Debt Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for such redemption specified in such notice, and the only right of the Holders of the Debt Securities will be to receive payment of the Redemption Price. Notice of any optional redemption by the Company of any Debt Securities is required to be given to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register, not more than 60 nor less than 30 days before the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will be required to specify, among other items, the Redemption Price and the principal amount of the Debt Securities held by such Holder to be redeemed. If the Company elects to redeem Debt Securities, it will be required to notify the Trustee at least 45 days before the redemption date (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities to be redeemed and the redemption date. If fewer than all the Debt Securities are to be redeemed, the Trustee is required to select the Debt Securities to be redeemed pro rata, by lot or in such manner as it deems fair and appropriate. Global Securities The Debt Securities of a series may be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more global securities (the "Global Securities") to be deposited with, or on behalf of, a depository identified in the applicable Prospec- -14- tus Supplement relating to such series. Global Securities may be issued in either registered or bearer form and in either temporary or permanent form. The specific terms of the depository arrangement with respect to a series of Debt Securities will be described in the applicable Prospectus Supplement relating to such series. PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION The Company may sell the Debt Securities to or through underwriters, and also may sell them directly to other purchasers or through agents. The distribution of the Debt Securities may be effected from time to time in one or more transactions at a fixed price or prices, which may be changed, or at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to such prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices. In connection with the sale of the Debt Securities, underwriters may receive compensation from the Company or from purchasers of Debt Securities for whom they may act as agents, in the form of discounts, concessions, or commissions. Underwriters may sell the Debt Securities to or through dealers, and such dealers may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions, or commissions from the underwriters and/or commissions from the purchasers for whom they may act as agents. Underwriters, dealers, and agents that participate in the distribution of the Debt Securities may be deemed to be underwriters, and any discounts or commissions they receive from the Company, and any profit on the resale of the Debt Securities they realize may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions, under the Securities Act. Any such underwriter or agent will be identified, and any such compensation received from the Company will be described, in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, each series of Debt Securities will be a new issue with no established trading market. The Company may elect to list any series of Debt Securities on an securities exchange, but is not obligated to do so. It is possible that one or more underwriters may make a market in a series of the Debt Securities, but will not be obligated to do so and may discontinue any market making at any time without notice. Therefore, no assurance can be given as to the liquidity of the trading market for the Debt Securities. Under agreements the Company and the Guarantors may enter into, underwriters, dealers, and agents who participate in the distribution of the Debt Securities may be entitled to indemnification by the Company and the Guarantors against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. Underwriters, dealers and agents may engage in transactions with, or perform services for, or be customers of, the Company and the Guarantors in the ordinary course of business. If so indicated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement, the Company will authorize underwriters or other persons acting as the Company's agents to solicit offers by certain institutions to purchase the Debt Securities from the Company at the public offering price set forth in such Prospectus Supplement pursuant to delayed delivery contracts ("Contracts") providing for payment and delivery on the date or dates stated in such Prospectus Supplement. Each Contract will be for an amount not less than, and the aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities sold pursuant to Contracts will be neither less nor more than, the respective amounts stated in the applicable Prospectus Supplement. Institutions with whom Contracts, when authorized, may be made include savings banks, insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies, educational and charitable institutions, and other institutions, but will in all cases be subject to the approval of the Company. Contracts will not be subject to any conditions except (i) the purchase by an institution of the Debt Securities covered by its Contracts may not at the time of delivery be prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction in the United States to which such institution is subject, and (ii) if the Debt Securities are being sold to underwriters, the Company must have sold to such underwriters the total principal amount of such Debt Securities less the principal amount thereof covered by Contracts. -15- EXPERTS The financial statements incorporated in this Prospectus by reference to the 1996 Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company have been so incorporated in reliance on the reports of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, independent auditors, incorporated by reference herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting. The reports of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP covering the consolidated financial statements of NVR, Inc. and NVR Financial Services, Inc. contain an explanatory paragraph as to the adoption, effective January 1, 1995, of the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 122, "Accounting for Mortgage Servicing Rights." LEGAL MATTERS The legality of the securities covered by this Prospectus will be passed upon by Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Washington, D.C., counsel to the Company and the Guarantors. -16- ================================================================================ No dealer, salesperson or other individual has been authorized to give any information or to make any representations not contained or incorporated by reference in this Prospectus in connection with any offering to be made by the Prospectus. If given or made, such information or representations must not be relied upon as having been authorized by the Company. This Prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any security in any jurisdiction where, or to any person to whom, it is unlawful to make any such offer or solicitation. Neither the delivery of this Prospectus nor any offer or sale made hereunder shall, under any circumstance, create an implication that there has been no change in the facts set forth in this Prospectus or in the affairs of the Company since the date hereof. -------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS PROSPECTUS
Page ---- Where to Obtain Additional Information................................... 2 The Company.............................................................. 3 The Guarantors........................................................... 3 Use of Proceeds.......................................................... 3 Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges...................................... 4 Description of Debt Securities .......................................... 4 Plan of Distribution..................................................... 15 Experts.................................................................. 16 Legal Matters............................................................ 16
================================================================================ ================================================================================ NVR, Inc. $400,000,000 DEBT SECURITIES ----------------------------------- PROSPECTUS ----------------------------------- ___________ __, 1998 ================================================================================ - 1 - PART II INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS ITEM 14. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION The following table sets forth the various expenses in connection with the issuance and distribution of the Debt Securities, other than underwriting discounts and commissions. All of the amounts shown are estimated except the Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee.
SEC registration fee..........................................$118,000 Blue Sky fees and expenses.......................................3,000 Printing and engraving expenses................................100,000 Legal fees and expenses........................................150,000 Accounting fees and expenses....................................50,000 Miscellaneous...................................................34,000 ------ Total.......................................................$455,000 ===== ========
ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS Each director and officer of the Company is insured and indemnified against liability incurred by him or her in his or her capacity as an officer and/or director, pursuant to the following: (a) Articles 8 and 9 of the Company's Articles of Incorporation, entitled "Indemnification" and "Limitation of Liability of Officers and Directors," respectively, which are set forth in Exhibit 3.1 to this Registration Statement and are incorporated herein by reference; and (b) Sections 13.1-692.1, 13.1-697, 13.1-698, 13.1-702, 13.1-703 and 13.1-704 of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act, which are set forth in Exhibit 99.1 to this Registration Statement and are incorporated herein by reference. Each director and officer of NVR Financial Services, Inc. is insured and indemnified against liability incurred by him or her in his or her capacity as an officer and/or director, pursuant to the following: (a) Section 3.15 of the Bylaws of NVR Financial Services, Inc., entitled "Indemnification of Directors, Officers and Licensees," which is set forth in Exhibit 3.6 to this Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference; and (b) Sections 1741 to 1749 of the of the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law, which are set forth in Exhibit 99.2 to this Registration Statement and are incorporated herein by reference. Each director and officer of NVR Homes, Inc. is insured and indemnified against liability incurred by him or her in his or her capacity as an officer and/or director, pursuant to the following: (a) Articles 6 and 7 of the NVR Homes, Inc.'s Articles of Incorporation, entitled "Indemnification" and "Limitation of Liability of Officers and Directors," respectively, which are set forth in Exhibit 3.3 to this Registration Statement and are incorporated herein by reference; and (b) Sections 13.1-692.1, 13.1-697, 13.1-698, 13.1-702, 13.1-703 and 13.1-704 of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act, which are set forth in Exhibit 99.1 to this Registration Statement and are incorporated herein by reference. II-1 Each director and officer of RVN, Inc. is insured and indemnified against liability incurred by him or her in his or her capacity as an officer and/or director, pursuant to the following: (a) Article Fifth of RVN Inc.'s Certificate of Incorporation, which is set forth in Exhibit 3.7 to this Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference; (b) Article VII of RVN Inc.'s Bylaws, entitled "Indemnification and Insurance," which is set forth in Exhibit 3.8 to this Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by this reference; and (c) Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which is set forth in Exhibit 99.3 to this Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference. Each director and officer of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. is insured and indemnified against liability incurred by him or her in his or her capacity as an officer and/or director, pursuant to the following: (a) Article Seventh of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc.'s Charter, which is set forth in Exhibit 3.9 to this Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference. (b) Sections 48-18-501 to 48-18-509 of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act, which are set forth in Exhibit 99.4 to this Registration Statement and are incorporated herein by reference. ITEM 16. EXHIBITS The exhibits to this registration statement are listed in the Exhibits Index, which appears immediately after the signature page and is incorporated in this Item 16 by reference. ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS (a) The undersigned registrants hereby undertake: (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 of 1933; (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 and of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement. (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 paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by a registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement. II-2 (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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. (b) The undersigned registrants hereby undertake that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"), each filing of an annual report of a registrant pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, 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 registrants pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, the registrants 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. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by a 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 registrants hereby undertake that: (1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrants 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 the purpose 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 herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. II-3 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, each 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, on the dates indicated.
REGISTRANT DATE ---------- ---- NVR, INC. By: /s/ Dwight C. Schar January 19, 1998 ------------------------------------------------- Dwight C. Schar Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer NVR FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. By: /s/ William J. Inman * January 19, 1998 ------------------------------------------------- William J. Inman President NVR HOMES, INC. By: /s/ Dwight C. Schar January 19, 1998 ------------------------------------------------- Dwight C. Schar Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President RVN, INC. By: /s/ William J. Inman * January 19, 1998 ------------------------------------------------ William J. Inman President NVR FOX RIDGE, INC. By: /s/ Dwight C. Schar January 19, 1998 ------------------------------------------------- Dwight C. Schar Chairman of the Board
* Pursuant to Power of Attorney. See Exhibit 24.1. II-4 Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
SIGNATURE CAPACITY DATE - --------- -------- ---- /s/ Dwight C. Schar Chairman of the Board of January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- Directors, President and Dwight C. Schar Chief Executive Officer of the Company; Director of NVR Financial Services, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President of NVR Homes, Inc.; Chairman of the Board and Director of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. /s/ C. Scott Bartlett, Jr. * Director of the Company January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- C. Scott Bartlett, Jr. /s/ Manuel H. Johnson * Director of the Company January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- Manuel H. Johnson /s/ William A. Moran * Director of the Company January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- William A. Moran /s/ Richard H. Norair, Sr. * Director of the Company January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- Richard H. Norair, Sr. /s/ David A. Preiser * Director of the Company January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- David A. Preiser /s/ George E. Slye * Director of the Company January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- George E. Slye /s/ John M. Toups * Director of the Company January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- John M. Toups /s/ Paul C. Saville Senior Vice President, January 19, 1998 Paul C. Saville Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company; Director of NVR Financial Services, Inc.; Senior Vice Presi- dent Finance, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Director of NVR Homes, Inc.; Vice Presi- dent (Principal Financial Officer) and Director of RVN, Inc; Direc- tor of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. (and Principal Financial and Account- ing Officer)
II-5 /s/ William J. Inman * President and Director of NVR January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- William J. Inman Financial Services, Inc.; Director of NVR Homes, Inc.; Director of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc.; President of RVN, Inc. /s/ Michael J. Cannizzo * Director of NVR January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- Financial Services, Inc.; Director Michael J. Cannizzo of NVR Homes, Inc. /s/ Peter J. Fitzsimmons * Treasurer of NVR January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- Financial Services, Inc. Peter J. Fitzsimmons /s/ Thomas Ruck * Director of RVN, Inc. January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ruck /s/ Frank Stagno * Director of RVN, Inc. January 19, 1998 - ------------------------------------------------- Frank Stagno
* Pursuant to Power of Attorney. See Exhibit 24.1. II-6 EXHIBITS INDEX
EXHIBIT NUMBER DESCRIPTION ------ ----------- 3.1 Restated Articles of Incorporation of NVR, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.7 in NVR, Inc.'s 1993 Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 33-63190) ("1993 Registration Statement").) 3.2 Bylaws of NVR, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.8 in NVR, Inc.'s 1993 Registration Statement.) 3.3 Restated Articles of Incorporation of NVR Homes, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.9 in NVR, Inc.'s 1993 Registration Statement.) 3.4 Bylaws of NVR Homes, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.10 in NVR, Inc.'s 1993 Registration Statement.) 3.5 Articles of Incorporation of NVR Financial Services, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.5 and 3.11 in NVR, Inc.'s 1993 Registration Statement.) 3.6 Bylaws of NVR Financial Services, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.6 in NVR, Inc.'s 1993 Registration Statement.) 3.7 Certificate of Incorporation of RVN, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.7 in NVR, Inc.'s Annual Report on From 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1996.) 3.8 Bylaws of RVN, Inc. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.8 in NVR, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1996.) 3.9* Charter of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. 3.10* Bylaws of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. 4.1* Form of Senior Indenture among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee 4.2* Form of Subordinate Indenture among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee 5.1* Opinion of Hogan & Hartson regarding the validity of the securities being registered 12.1* Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges 23.1* Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP (independent auditors) 23.2* Consent of Hogan & Hartson (Included as part of its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1.) 24.1* Powers of Attorney 25.1** Statement of Eligibility of Trustee on Form T-1 99.1 Sections 13.1-692.1, 13.1-697, 13.1-698, 13.1-702, 13.1-703 and 13.1-704 of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 in the Company's June 13, 1997 Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-29241).) 99.2* Sections 1741 to 1749 of the of the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law 99.3* Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law 99.4* Sections 48-18-501 to 48-18-509 of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act
* Filed herewith. ** To be filed by amendment. II-7 EX-3.9 2 EXHIBIT 3.9 EXHIBIT 3.9 CHARTER OF NVR FOX RIDGE, INC. The undersigned, an individual, does hereby act as incorporator in adopting the following Charter for the purpose of organizing a corporation for profit, pursuant to the provisions of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act. FIRST: The corporate name for the corporation (hereinafter called the ----- "Corporation") is NVR FOX RIDGE, INC. SECOND: The number of shares which the corporation is authorized to issue ------ is 100,000, all of which are of a par value of $0.01 dollars each and are of the same class and are to be Common shares. THIRD: The street address and zip code of the initial registered office ----- of the corporation in the State of Tennessee is 500 Tallan Building, Two Union Square, Chattanooga, County of Hamilton, Tennessee 37402-2571. The name of the initial registered agent of the corporation at the said registered office is Corporation Service Company. FOURTH: The name and address and zip code of the incorporator are: ------ Victoria A. Nelson, 8300 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1080, McLean, Virginia 22102. FIFTH: The street address and zip code of the initial principal office ----- of the corporation are 7601 Lewinsville Road, Suite 300, McLean, Virginia 22102. SIXTH: The corporation is for profit. ----- SEVENTH: The corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the ------- provisions of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said provisions from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities, or other matters referred to in or covered by said provisions, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any Bylaw, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of such a person. EIGHTH: The personal liability of the directors of the corporation is ------ eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the provisions of the Tennessee Business Corporation Act, as the same may be amended and supplemented. NINTH: The duration of the corporation shall be perpetual. ----- SIGNED on October 14, 1997. - -------------------------------- Victoria A. Nelson, Incorporator EX-3.10 3 EXHIBIT 3.10 Exhibit 3.10 B Y - L A W S OF NVR FOX RIDGE, INC. ----------- ARTICLE I - OFFICES SECTION 1.1 OFFICES. - The initial office of the corporation shall be located at 7601 Lewinsville Road, Suite 300, McLean, Virginia 22102. The corporation may have such offices and places of business within and/or without the State of Tennessee as the Board of Directors shall determine. ARTICLE II - STOCKHOLDERS SECTION 2.1 PLACE OF MEETINGS. - Meetings of the stockholders may be held at such place or places within or without the State of Tennessee as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting. SECTION 2.2 ANNUAL MEETINGS. - An annual meeting of stockholders for the election of directors and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting shall be held on such date and at such times as the Board of Directors shall fix within thirteen (13) months of incorporation or the most recent annual meeting, whichever applies. SECTION 2.3 SPECIAL MEETINGS. - Special Meetings of stockholders for any purpose(s) may be called by the Board of Directors, and must be called at the written request, stating the purpose(s) of the meeting, of stockholders owning a majority of the stock then outstanding and entitled to vote. SECTION 2.4 NOTICES OF MEETINGS. - Notice stating the time and place, and in the case of a special meeting the purpose(s) thereof and by whom called, shall be delivered to each stockholder entitled to vote, not less than three nor more than ninety days prior to the meeting. SECTION 2.5 QUORUM AND ACTION. - (a) At any duly held meeting of stockholders, the presence in person or by proxy of stockholders entitled to cast a majority of the votes thereat shall constitute a quorum, except as otherwise provided by law or the Charter. (b) A majority number of the votes cast at a duly held meeting of stockholders at which a quorum is present (stockholders represented by valid proxies shall be deemed present) shall be required to take or authorize action upon any matter which may properly come before the meeting, unless a greater vote, or voting by classes, is required by law or by the Charter or by these By- Laws on any question, and except that in election of directors those receiving the greatest number of votes shall be deemed elected even though not receiving a majority. SECTION 2.6 VOTING. - At each meeting of the stockholders, every holder of stock then entitled to vote may vote in person or by proxy and, except as may be otherwise provided by the Charter, shall have one vote for each share of stock registered in his name. No proxy shall be valid after eleven months from the date of its execution, unless a longer period is provided in the proxy. SECTION 2.7 ADJOURNED MEETINGS. - Any duly called meeting of stockholders may, by announcement thereat, be adjourned to a designated time (not more than ninety days later) and place by vote of the holders of a majority of the shares present and entitled to vote thereat, even though less than a quorum is so present. An adjourned meeting may reconvene as designated, and when a quorum is present any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called. SECTION 2.8 ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT IN LIEU OF MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. - See Section 6.6 of these By-Laws. ARTICLE III - DIRECTORS SECTION 3.1 NUMBER. - The number of directors comprising the Board of Directors shall be no fewer than three. Said number may be changed from time to time by action of the Board of Directors. The newly elected director(s) shall hold office for the term of one year and until his or their successor(s) are elected and qualified. Directors need not be stockholders. SECTION 3.2 POWERS. - The management of all the business, property and affairs of the corporation shall be vested in the Board of Directors. The Board may exercise all of the powers of the corporation and do all lawful acts and things (including the adoption of such rules and regulations for the conduct of its business, the exercise of its powers, and the management of the corporation, as it may deem proper), consistent with the statute, the Charter, and these By- Laws, and not thereby conferred upon or reserved to the stockholders. SECTION 3.3 MEETINGS. - Each annual meeting of the Board of Directors may be held without notice immediately after the annual meeting of stockholders. Regular meetings of the Board may be established by the Board. Special meetings of the Board may be called by the Chairman of the Board (if any), or his designee, and shall be called at the written request of not less than a majority of the directors. Meetings of the Board may be held at any place within or outside of the State of Tennessee. SECTION 3.4 QUORUM AND ACTION. - A majority of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. At any duly held meeting at which a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of no fewer than a majority of the directors present shall be the act of the Board of Directors on any question. SECTION 3.5 ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT IN LIEU OF MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. - See Section 6.6 of these By-Laws. SECTION 3.6 VACANCIES. - Any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors, including a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number of directors, may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors, though less than a quorum. SECTION 3.7 REMOVAL. - Except where the Charter, or an amendment thereto, contains provisions authorizing cumulative voting or the election of one or more directors by class or their election by holders of bonds, or requires all action by stockholders to be by a greater vote, any one or more of the directors may be removed at any time for or without cause by vote of the stockholders holding no less than a majority of the outstanding stock of the corporation entitled to vote, present in person or by proxy, at a meeting the notice of which announces the intended removal. SECTION 3.8 COMMITTEES. - The Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board, may designate from its members any committee consisting of two or more directors, with such powers and authority (to the extent permitted by law) as may be provided in said resolution. ARTICLE IV - OFFICERS SECTION 4.1 EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. - The executive officers of the corporation shall be a President, an Executive Vice President, Vice Presidents and a Secretary, all of whom shall be elected or appointed annually by the Board, and shall hold office during the pleasure of the Board. In addition, the Board may elect or appoint a Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, additional Vice Presidents and such assistant officers as it shall choose. Any two or more offices may be held by one person but no person shall execute any instrument in more than one capacity; provided, however, if a corporation has only one stockholder such stockholder may hold and execute all offices. All vacancies occurring among any of the officers shall be filled by the Board. Any officer may be removed and/or replaced at any time by the Board. SECTION 4.2 OTHER OFFICERS. - The Board may appoint, remove and replace such other officers and agents with such powers and duties as it shall deem necessary. The Board may by resolution authorize the President to appoint and remove such other officers and agents. SECTION 4.3 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. - The Chairman of the Board of Directors, if one be elected, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors, and of the stockholders if the directors so resolve, and he shall have and perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors. In the absence of the Chairman, another Board member or officer so appointed by the Board shall preside at such meetings of the Board of Directors and/or stockholders. SECTION 4.4 THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. - The Chief Executive Officer shall have such general management and control of the business and affairs of the corporation as determined by the Board of Directors. SECTION 4.5 THE PRESIDENT. - The duties of the President shall be to manage the daily operations of the corporation under the direction of the Chief Executive Officer. SECTION 4.6 THE VICE PRESIDENT. - The Vice President, if any, or if there be more than one, the Executive Vice President as determined by the Board of Directors, shall in the absence or disability of the President, exercise the powers and perform the duties of the President, and each Vice President shall exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed by the Board. SECTION 4.7 THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. - The Chief Financial Officer, if any, shall have custody of all funds, securities and evidences of indebtedness of the corporation; he or she shall receive and give receipts and acquittances for moneys paid in on account of the corporation, and shall pay out of the funds on hand all bills, payrolls and other just debts of the corporation, of whatever nature, upon maturity; he or she shall enter regularly in books to be kept by him for that purpose, full and accurate accounts of all moneys received and paid out by him on account of the corporation, and he shall perform all other duties incident to the office of Chief Financial Officer and as may be prescribed by the Board. SECTION 4.8 THE SECRETARY. - The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all proceedings of the Board of Directors and of the stockholders; he shall attend to the giving and serving of all notices to the stockholders and directors or other notice required by law, or by these By-Laws; he shall affix the seal of the corporation to deeds, contracts and others instruments in writing requiring a seal, when duly signed or when so ordered by the Board of Directors; he shall have charge of the certificate books and stock books and such other books and papers as the Board may direct, and he shall perform all other duties incident to the office of secretary. SECTION 4.9 SALARIES. - The salaries of all officers, if any, shall be fixed by the Board of Directors, and the Board has the authority by majority vote to reimburse expenses and to establish reasonable compensation of all directors for services to the corporation as director, officers, or otherwise. ARTICLE V - CAPITAL STOCK SECTION 5.1 FORM AND EXECUTION OF CERTIFICATES. - The shares of the corporation shall be represented by certificates which shall be in the form required by the laws of Tennessee and shall be adopted by the Board of Directors. They shall be numbered and registered in the order issued; shall be signed by the Chief Executive Officer, President or the Executive Vice President and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and shall be sealed with the corporate seal or a facsimile thereof. When such a certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar, the signatures of any such officers may be facsimile. SECTION 5.2 TRANSFER. - Transfer of shares shall be made only upon the books of the corporation by the registered holder in person or by attorney, duly authorized, and upon surrender of the certificate or certificates for such shares properly assigned for transfer. SECTION 5.3 LOST OR DESTROYED CERTIFICATES. - The holder of any certificate representing shares of stock of the corporation may notify the corporation of any loss, theft or destruction thereof, and the Board of Directors may thereupon, in its discretion, cause a new certificate for the same number of shares to be issued to such holder upon satisfactory proof of such loss, theft or destruction, and the deposit of indemnity by way of bond or otherwise, in such form and amount and with such surety or sureties as the Board may require, to indemnify the corporation against loss or liability by reason of the issuance of such new certificate. SECTION 5.4 RECORD DATE - (a) In order to make a determination of stockholders for any proper purpose, the directors may close the stock transfer books for a stated period not to exceed fifty days; and if the purpose of the closing is to determine stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders, the books shall be closed for at least ten days immediately preceding such meetings. (b) In lieu of closing the books, the directors may fix in advance a record date for determination of stockholders for any proper purpose, such date to be not more than fifty days, and in case of a meeting of stockholders, not less than ten days, prior to the date on which the particular action, requiring such determination of stockholders, is to be taken. (c) In the absence of such closing or fixed record date, the date for determination of stockholders entitled (1) to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders, or (2) to receive a dividend or any right, shall be the close of business on the day on which (i) notice of the meeting is mailed, or thirty days before the meeting, whichever is closer to the meeting, or (ii) the date the Board resolved to declare such dividend or allot such right. ARTICLE VI - MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 6.1 DIVIDENDS. - The Board of Directors may declare dividends from time to time on the outstanding shares of the corporation from the surplus or net profits legally available therefor. SECTION 6.2 SEAL. - The Board shall provide a suitable corporate seal stating the corporate name, and state and year of incorporation, which shall be in the charge of the Secretary and/or General Counsel and shall be used as authorized by these By-Laws. SECTION 6.3 FISCAL YEAR. - The fiscal year of the corporation shall close annually on December 31. SECTION 6.4 CHECKS, NOTES, ETC. - (a) Checks, notes, drafts, bills of exchange and orders for the payment of money shall be signed or endorsed in such manner as shall be determined by the Board. (b) The funds of the corporation shall be deposited in such bank or trust company, and checks drawn against such funds shall be signed in such manner as may be determined from time to time by the Board. SECTION 6.5 NOTICE AND WAIVER OF NOTICE. - (a) Any notice of meetings required to be given under these By-Laws to stockholders and/or directors may be waived in writing signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein. (b) All notices required by these By-Laws shall be printed or written and shall be delivered either personally, by telegraph or cable, or by mail, and, if mailed, shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the stockholders or director at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation. SECTION 6.6 ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT IN LIEU OF MEETINGS. - Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the stockholders or of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing setting forth the action so taken shall be signed by all of the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof, or by all of the members of the Board or of such committee, as the case may be, and such consent shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote. ARTICLE VII - BY-LAWS SECTION 7.1 AMENDMENTS. - These By-Laws may be altered, amended or repealed: (a) At any duly held stockholders' meeting by vote of the owners of no less than all of the outstanding stock, present in person or by proxy, provided notice of the amendment is included in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting, and (b) At any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by a majority (unless the Articles of Incorporation require a larger vote) of the entire Board, but any By-Laws so made by the Board may be altered or repealed by the stockholders. Adopted by the Board of Directors By Unanimous Written Consent Without A Meeting by Resolution dated October 20, 1997. ---------------------------------- Assistant Secretary EX-4.1 4 EXHIBIT 4.1 Exhibit 4.1 NVR, INC. AS PRIMARY OBLIGOR NVR FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. NVR HOMES, INC. RVN, INC. and NVR FOX RIDGE, INC. AS GUARANTORS and [BANK] AS TRUSTEE ------------------------- INDENTURE DATED AS OF ___________ __, 1998 --------------------------------------------------------- Senior Debt Securities --------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page ---- PARTIES.....................................................................2 RECITALS....................................................................2 ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION..............................................................2 SECTION 101. Definitions................................................2 Act.................................................................3 Additional Amounts..................................................3 Affiliate...........................................................3 Authenticating Agent................................................3 Authorized Newspaper................................................3 Bankruptcy Law......................................................3 Bearer Security.....................................................3 Board of Directors..................................................3 Board Resolution....................................................3 Business Day........................................................3 Capital Stock.......................................................4 CEDEL...............................................................4 Commission..........................................................4 Company.............................................................4 Company Request.....................................................4 Conversion Event....................................................4 Corporate Trust Office..............................................4 Corporation.........................................................4 Coupon..............................................................4 Custodian...........................................................4 Debt................................................................4 Defaulted Interest..................................................5 DTC.................................................................5 Dollar or "$".......................................................5 ECU.................................................................5 Euroclear...........................................................5 European Community..................................................5 European Monetary System............................................5 European Union......................................................5 Event of Default....................................................5 Exchange Act........................................................5 Foreign Currency....................................................5 GAAP................................................................6 Government Obligations..............................................6 Guaranteed Obligations..............................................6 Guarantees..........................................................6 Guarantors..........................................................6 Holder..............................................................6 Indenture...........................................................6 Indexed Security....................................................7 Interest............................................................7 Interest Payment Date...............................................7
Legal Holiday.......................................................7 Make-Whole Amount...................................................7 Maturity............................................................7 Officers' Certificate...............................................7 Opinion of Counsel..................................................7 Original Issue Discount Security....................................7 Outstanding.........................................................7 Paying Agent........................................................8 Person..............................................................8 Place of Payment....................................................8 Predecessor Security................................................8 Premium.............................................................9 Recourse Indebtedness...............................................9 Redemption Date.....................................................9 Redemption Price....................................................9 Registered Security.................................................9 Regular Record Date.................................................9 Repayment Date......................................................9 Repayment Price.....................................................9 Responsible Officer.................................................9 Secured Debt........................................................9 Securities Act......................................................10 Security............................................................10 Security Register and Security Registrar............................10 Significant Subsidiary..............................................10 Special Record Date.................................................10 Stated Maturity.....................................................10 Statistical Release.................................................10 Subsidiary..........................................................10 Trust Indenture Act or TIA..........................................10 Trustee.............................................................10 United States.......................................................11 United States Person................................................11 Yield to Maturity...................................................11 SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.......................11 SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.....................11 SECTION 104. Acts of Holders............................................12 SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company......................13 SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.................................13 SECTION 107. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents...................14 SECTION 108. Successors and Assigns.....................................14 SECTION 109. Separability Clause........................................14 SECTION 110. Benefits of Indenture......................................14 SECTION 111. No Personal Liability......................................14 SECTION 112. Governing Law..............................................15 SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.............................................15 ARTICLE TWO SECURITIES FORMS...............................................15 SECTION 201. Forms of Securities........................................15 SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication............15 SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form.........................16 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......................................28 SECTION 309. Cancellation...............................................29 SECTION 310. Computation of Interest....................................29 ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE....................................29 SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture....................29 SECTION 402. Application of Trust Funds.................................30 ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES......................................................30 SECTION 501. Events of Default..........................................30 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...........................33 SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities or Coupons...............................................34 SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.............................34 SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits........................................35 SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal (Premium, if any) and Interest......................................35 SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.........................35 SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.............................35 SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver...............................36 SECTION 512. Control by Holders of Securities...........................36 SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults....................................36 SECTION 514. Waiver of Usury Stay or Extension Laws.....................36 SECTION 515. Undertaking for Costs......................................37 ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE....................................................37 SECTION 601. Notice of Defaults.........................................37 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........................................39 SECTION 606. Compensation and Reimbursement.............................37 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 Authentication Agent........................42 ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.............................................................43
SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders...............43 SECTION 702. Reports by Trustee.........................................43 SECTION 703. Reports by Company.........................................43 SECTION 704. The Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.............................................................44 ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE..........................................................44 SECTION 801. Consolidations and Mergers of Company and Sales, Leases and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions.............44 SECTION 802. Rights and Duties of Successor Entity......................45 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 906. Notice of Supplemental Indentures..........................48 ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS......................................................48 SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal (and Premium, if any) and Interest...48 SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency...........................48 SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.........50 SECTION 1004. Existence.................................................51 SECTION 1005. Maintenance of Properties.................................51 SECTION 1006. Insurance.................................................50 SECTION 1007. Payments of Taxes and Other Claims........................50 SECTION 1008. Statement as to Compliance................................50 SECTION 1009. Additional Amounts........................................50 SECTION 1010. Waiver of Certain Covenants...............................51 ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES....................................52 SECTION 1101. Applicability of Article..................................52 SECTION 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.....................53 SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.........53 SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption......................................53 SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price...............................54 SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.....................54 SECTION 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part...............................55 ARTICLE TWELVE GUARANTEES..................................................55 SECTION 1201. Guarantee..................................................55 SECTION 1202. Obligations Unconditional..................................57 SECTION 1203. Execution of Guarantee.....................................57 SECTION 1204. Withholding................................................57 SECTION 1205. Limitation of Guarantee....................................58
SECTION 1206. Release of Guarantee......................................58 ARTICLE THIRTEEN REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS........................59 SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article..................................59 SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities...................................59 SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option........................................59 SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable.............................................................60 SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part.................................61 ARTICLE FOURTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE........................61 SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance...................................61 SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge..................................61 SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance.......................................61 SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance...........62 SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions............................63
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the "TIA" or "Trust Indenture Act") and this Indenture, dated as of ___________ __, 1998.
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section (S) 310 (a)(1).................................607 (a)(2).................................607 (b)....................................607, 608 (S) 312 (c)....................................701 (S) 313 (a)....................................702 (c)....................................702 (S) 314 (a)....................................703 (a)(4).................................1006 (c)(1).................................102 (c)(2).................................102 (e)....................................102 (S) 315 (b)....................................601 (S) 316 (a) (last sentence)....................101 ("Outstanding") (a)(1)(A)..............................502, 512 (a)(1)(B)..............................513 (b)....................................508 (S) 317 (a)(1).................................503 (a)(2).................................504 (S) 318 (a)....................................111 (c)....................................111
- ---------------------- NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of this 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. -1- Indenture (this "Indenture"), dated as of _________ __, 1998, by and between NVR, Inc., a Virginia corporation, as primary obligor (the "Company"); ------- NVR Financial Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, NVR Homes, Inc., a Virginia corporation, RVN, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, as guarantors (each, a "Guarantor"); , and --------- [BANK], a national bank organized under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee hereunder (the "Trustee"), having its Corporate Trust ------- Office (as defined below) at __________________________________________________. RECITALS The Company deems it necessary to issue from time to time for its lawful purposes senior debt securities (the "Securities") evidencing its unsecured senior 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 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 for such Securities as hereinafter provided. This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, that are deemed to be incorporated into this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions. All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company and the Guarantors, 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 unless 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 which are defined in the TIA, 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 Commission adopted under the TIA; (3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP; and (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. -2- Certain terms, used principally in Article Three, Article Five, Article Six and Article Ten, are defined in those Articles. In addition, the following terms have the respective meanings indicated. "Act," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified --- in Section 104. "Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which are required ------------------ by a Security or by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, under circumstances specified therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes, assessments or other governmental charges imposed on certain Holders and which are owing to such Holders. "Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or --------- indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing. "Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to -------------------- act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series. "Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, printed in the English -------------------- language or in an official language of the place of publication, customarily published on each day that is a Business Day in the place of publication, whether or not published on days that are Legal Holidays in the place of publication, 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 day that is a Business Day in the place of publication. "Bankruptcy Law" has the meaning specified in Section 501. -------------- "Bearer Security" means any Security established pursuant to Section --------------- 201 which is payable to bearer. "Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or ------------------ any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder, as the case may be. "Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution of the Company, ---------------- certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company 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 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, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or location are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close. "Capital Stock" means with respect to any Person, any and all shares, ------------- interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated, whether voting or non-voting) in equity of such Person, whether now outstanding or issued after the Closing Date, including, without limitation, all common stock and preferred stock. -3- "CEDEL" means Central de Livraison de Valeurs Mobilieres, S.A., or its ----- successor. "Commission" means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as ---------- from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after execution of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date. "Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first ------- paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Company shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean such successor Company. "Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, a written --------------- ------------- request or order signed in the name of and on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. "Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign ---------------- Currency both by the government of the country or confederation 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 ECU both within the European Monetary System and for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the European Union or (iii) any currency unit (or composite currency) other than the ECU for the purposes for which it was established. "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust office ---------------------- of the Trustee at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be administered principally, which office at the date hereof is located at ___________________________, except that for purposes of Section 1002, such term shall mean the office or agency of the Trustee in the ___________________________, which office at the date hereof is located at __________________ ________________________________. "corporation" includes corporations, limited liability companies, ----------- partnerships, associations, companies and business and real estate investment trusts. "coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security. ------ "Custodian" has the meaning specified in Section 501. --------- "Debt" of the Company or any Subsidiary means any indebtedness of the ---- Company or any Subsidiary, whether or not contingent, in respect of (i) borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (ii) indebtedness secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance or any security interest existing on property owned by the Company or any Subsidiary, (iii) letters of credit or amounts representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property except any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable or (iv) any lease of property by the Company or any Subsidiary as lessee which is reflected on the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheet as a capitalized lease in accordance with GAAP, in the case of items of indebtedness under (i) through (iii) above to the extent that any such items (other than letters of credit) would appear as a liability on the Company's consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, and also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by the Company or any Subsidiary to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of business), indebtedness of another person (other than the Company or any Subsidiary) (it being understood that "Debt" shall be deemed to be incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis whenever the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis shall create, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable in respect thereof; Debt of a Subsidiary of the Company existing prior to the time it became a Subsidi- -4- ary of the Company shall be deemed to be incurred upon such Subsidiary's becoming a Subsidiary of the Company; and Debt of a Person existing prior to a merger or consolidation of such Person with the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in which such Person is the successor of the Company or such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be incurred upon the consummation of such merger or consolidation; provided, however, that the term "Debt" shall not include any -------- ------- indebtedness that has been the subject of an "in substance" defeasance in accordance with GAAP. "Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307. ------------------ "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company for so long as it shall be a --- clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, or such successor as the Company shall designate from time to time in an Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee. "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 the payment of public and private debts. "ECU" means European Currency Units as defined and revised from time --- to time by the Council of the European Community. "Euroclear" means Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels --------- Office, or its successor as operator of the Euroclear System. "European Community" means the European Economic Community. ------------------ "European Monetary System" means the European Monetary System ------------------------ established by the Resolution of December 5, 1978 of the Council of the European Community. "European Union" means the European Community, the European Coal and -------------- Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community. "Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article Five. ---------------- "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any ------------ successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. "Foreign Currency" means any currency, currency unit or composite ---------------- currency, including, without limitation, the ECU, 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 in effect ---- from time to time, as used in the United States applied on a consistent basis; 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 on the date hereof, applied on a consistent basis. "Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct ---------------------- obligations of the United States of America or the government which 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 which 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 -5- 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. "Guaranteed Obligations" has the meaning specified in Section 1201. ---------------------- "Guarantees" means the guarantee of each of the Guarantors, as set ---------- forth in Article Twelve, in one or more supplemental indentures hereto, or in any additional guarantee of the Securities executed under the terms of this Indenture. "Guarantors" means, collectively, NVR Financial Services, Inc., NVR ---------- Homes, Inc., RVN, Inc., NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., or any Person that executes a Guarantee. "Holder" means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in ------ whose name such 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 30l; 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 particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established as contemplated by Section 331, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is 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 which provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1007, includes such Additional Amounts. "Interest Payment Date" when used with respect to any Security, means --------------------- the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security. "Legal Holiday" means a day that is not a Business Day. ------------- "Make-Whole Amount" means the amount, if any, in addition to principal ----------------- which is required under the terms and conditions specified in a Security or as otherwise specified as contem- -6- plated by Section 301, to be paid by the Company to the Holder thereof in connection with any optional redemption or accelerated payment of such Security. "Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on -------- which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption or repurchase, notice of option to elect repayment or otherwise, and includes the Redemption Date. "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of --------------------- the Board of Directors, the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be ------------------ counsel for the Company or an employee of the Company and who shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. "Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides -------------------------------- for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502. "Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the ----------- date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except: ------ (i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or the Security Registrar or delivered to the Trustee or Security Registrar 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 Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company 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 provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; (iii) Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections 1402 and 1403, with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen; and (iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite - -------- ------- principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, and for the purpose of making the calculations required by TIA Section 313, (i) 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 or calculation, upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, (ii) 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 -7- to Section 301 as of the date such Security is originally issued by the Company, 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 (i) above) of such Security, (iii) 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 Security pursuant to Section 301, and (iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making such determination or calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor. "Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the ------------ principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities or coupons on behalf of the Company. "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited ------ liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, real estate investment trust or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. "Place of Payment" when used with respect to any Security, means the ---------------- place or places where the principal of (and premium, 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 purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security 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. "Premium" when used with respect to a Security which by its terms ------- provides for the payment of a Make-Whole Amount, includes such Make-Whole Amount. "Recourse Indebtedness" means Debt other than Secured Debt as to which --------------------- the liability of the obligor thereon is limited to its interest in the collateral securing such Secured Debt; provided that no Debt shall constitute -------- Recourse Indebtedness solely by reason of provisions therein for imposition of full recourse liability on the obligor for certain wrongful acts, environmental liabilities, or other customary exclusions from the scope of so-called "non- recourse" provisions. "Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be --------------- redeemed, in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security. "Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be ---------------- redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture or such Security. "Registered Security" means any Security which is registered in the ------------------- Security Register. -8- "Regular Record Date" for the 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," when used with respect to any Security to be repaid -------------- at the option of the Holder, means the date fixed for such repayment by or pursuant to this Indenture. "Repayment Price," when used with respect to any Security to be repaid --------------- at the option of the Holder, means the price at which it is to be repaid by or pursuant to this Indenture. "Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee, means the ------------------- chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or vice- chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the president, any vice president (whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title "vice president"), the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge and familiarity with the particular subject. "Secured Debt" means, without duplication, Debt that is secured by a ------------ mortgage, trust deed, deed of trust, deed to secure Debt, security agreement, pledge, conditional sale or other title retention agreement, capitalized lease, or other like agreement granting or conveying security title to or a security interest in real property or other tangible assets. "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any successor -------------- statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. "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 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 which is a "significant ---------------------- subsidiary" (as defined in Article I, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated under the Securities Act) of the Company. "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," when used with respect to any Security or any --------------- installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means 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. "Statistical Release" means the statistical release designated ------------------- "H.15(519)" or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Federal Reserve System and which establishes -9- 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 Company. "Subsidiary" means a corporation or a partnership a majority of the ---------- outstanding voting stock or partnership interests, as the case may be, of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock having voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency. "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 who 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 any series shall mean only the Trustee with respect to 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 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 Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture 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 (including certificates delivered pursuant to Section 1011) 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; -10- (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable the 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 -------------------------------------- where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion 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 Company 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 or her certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel or certificate or representations may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information as to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or opinion or representations as to such matters are erroneous. Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument. SECTION 104. Acts of Holders. (a) 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. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 602) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any agent of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where 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 which the Trustee deems sufficient. Subject to Article Six, the execution of any instrument by a Holder or his agent 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. -11- (c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the Security Register. (d) 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 Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until (1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced, or (2) such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) such Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding. The ownership of Bearer Securities may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient. (e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company 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 Company 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 eleven months after the record date. (f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security. SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company. Any request, ------------------------------------- demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with, (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or (2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company. -12- SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture -------------------------- provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities by the Company 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 his 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 where 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, where 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 The City of New York and in such other city or cities as may be specified in such Securities 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. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. 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 Company shall be binding on their successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. -13- 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, in --------------------- the Securities or coupons, 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 Company or of any successor, either directly or through the Company 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 hall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York. This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the TIA 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 where 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 which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof), payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date or sinking fund payment date, or at the 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, of each series and related coupons shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto or approved from time to time by or pursuant to a Board Resolution in accordance with this Indenture, 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 Company 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. -14- 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. [BANK], 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 Company 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 Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or 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 Company and the Company 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 premium, if any) 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 Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security (i) in the case of a permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such permanent global Security in registered form, or (ii) in the case of a permanent global Security in bearer form, Euroclear or CEDEL. -15- ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate ------------------------------------ principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in one or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Board Resolutions and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more 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 Company with respect to unissued Securities of the series when issued from time to time): (1) the title of the Securities of 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 the series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to 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 the series shall be payable; (4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of 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 of twelve 30-day months; (5) the place or places, if any, other than or in addition to the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, where any principal of (and premium) and interest payable in respect of Securities of the series shall be payable, any Registered Securities of the series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange or conversion and notices or demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of the series and this Indenture may be served; (6) the period or periods within which, the price or prices (including, 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 the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, if the Company is to have the option; (7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any provision or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which or the date of 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 the series shall be redeemed, repaid or purchased (including without limitation whether, and the extent to which, the premium shall be payable in connection therewith), in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation. -16- (8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Registered Securities of the series shall be issuable and, if other than the denomination of $5,000, the denomination or denominations in which any Bearer Securities of 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 the series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or, if applicable, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series that is convertible in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, 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, if any) or interest on the Securities of the series shall be payable or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated; (12) whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of 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, if any) or interest on the Securities of the series are to be payable, at the election of the Company, 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 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 Company with respect to Securities of 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 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 the series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the series and vice versa (if permitted by applicable laws and regulations), whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of 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 the series are to be issuable as a global Security, the identity of the depositary for such series; -17- (17) the date as of which any Bearer Securities of the series and any temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of 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 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 the series are to be issued upon the exercise of warrants, the time, manner and place for such Securities to be authenticated and delivered; (22) whether and under what circumstances the Company will pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1009 on the Securities of the series to any Holder who 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 Company will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such option); (23) 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 shall be substantially identical except, in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution (subject to Section 303) and set forth in such Officers' Certificate 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, a copy of an appropriate record of such action(s) shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the Securities of such series. 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 -18- issued in global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in a denomination of $5,000. SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The ---------------------------------------------- Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed by the Company's Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Senior Vice Presidents, and its Chief Financial Officer. 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 bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities 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 Company may deliver Securities of any series, together with any coupon appertaining thereto, executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company 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 CEDEL, 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. If any Security shall be represented by a permanent global Bearer Security, then, for purposes of this Section and Section 304, the notation of a beneficial owner's interest therein upon original issuance of such Security or upon exchange of a portion of a temporary global Security shall be deemed to be delivery in connection with its original issuance of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global Security. 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 canceled. If all 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 Company 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, (i) an Opinion of Counsel stating that (a) the form or forms of such Securities and any coupons have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; (b) the terms of such Securities and any coupons have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and -19- (c) such Securities, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, when completed by appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by the Company 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 Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, 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 (ii) an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of the Securities have been complied with and that, to the best of the knowledge of the signers of such certificate, that no Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities shall have occurred and be continuing. If such form or terms have been so established, 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 which 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 an Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or a Company Order, or 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 certificates, 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 shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security or 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 signatory, 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 Company, and the Company 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 and sold by the Company, 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. (a) Pending the preparation of -------------------- definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which 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. -20- Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be exchanged in accordance with Section 304(b) or as otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution), if temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied by any non-matured coupons appertaining thereto), the Company 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. (b) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, this Section 304(b) shall govern the exchange of temporary Securities issued in global form other than through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company. 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 and CEDEL, for credit to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such other accounts as they may direct). 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 Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities, in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such temporary global Security, executed by the Company. On or after the Exchange Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company'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 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 CEDEL 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 CEDEL, as the case may be, to request such exchange on his behalf and delivers to Euroclear or CEDEL, 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 ear- -21- lier than 15 days prior to the Exchange Date, copies of which certificate shall be available from the offices of Euroclear and CEDEL, 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 CEDEL. 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 and CEDEL on such Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euroclear and CEDEL 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 he 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 CEDEL, 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(b) 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 and CEDEL 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 Company. SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The --------------------------------------------------- Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any office or agency of the Company 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 Company 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 Company 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, at its Corporate Trust Office, 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. 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 Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the -22- 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. 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 Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which 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. If (but only if) permitted by the applicable Board Resolution and (subject to Section 303) set forth in the applicable Officers' Certificate, or in any indenture supplemental hereto, delivered 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 Company 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 Company 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 Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such successor to DTC. If at any time DTC notifies the Company 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 Company shall appoint a successor depositary with -23- respect to such global Security or Securities. If (x) a successor depositary for such global Security or Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such unwillingness, inability or ineligibility, (y) 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 (z) the Company, 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, then the Company 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 Company 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 Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the Company'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 (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 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. All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company or the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company 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. -24- The Company, 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 which 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 Company, together with, in proper cases, such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of them or any agent of either of them harmless, the Company 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 Company 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 notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company 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 Company 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 the principal of (and premium, if ----------------- any) and interest on 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 Company 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. -25- 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 Company, 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 Company maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that each ----------------- installment of interest on any Registered Security may at the Company's option be paid by (i) 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 (ii) 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 and/or CEDEL, 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. 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 Company at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below: (1) The Company 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 De- -26- faulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each 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 Company 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 Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first- class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Registered Securities of such series at his 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 Company, 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 Company 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 Company 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 or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security. SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of a --------------------- Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such 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 none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. -27- Title to any Bearer Security and any coupons appertaining thereto shall pass by delivery. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company 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 or on account thereof and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security or coupon be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. None of the Company, 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 Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company, or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification 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 canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. If the Company 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 canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. Canceled 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 Company, unless by the Company Order, the Company directs their return to it. 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 twelve 30-day months. ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture --------------------------------------- shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Company 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 1007), and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series when, -28- (1) either (A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than (i) 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, (ii) Securities and coupons of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306, (iii) 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 (iv) Securities and coupons of such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i) or (ii) below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable, or (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or (iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense of the Company, and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) 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, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be; (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 606, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 611 and, if money shall have been deposited with and held by the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive. SECTION 402. Application of Trust 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 Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any), and any interest for whose payment such money has deposited with -29- 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. "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 be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body) unless such event is specifically deleted or modified in or pursuant to the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of such series pursuant to this Indenture: (1) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that series or of any coupon appertaining thereto, when such interest or coupon becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or (2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make- Whole Amount, if any, on) any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable at its Maturity; or (3) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company 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 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail to the Company, by the Trustee or to the Company, 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; or (4) a default under any evidence of Recourse Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor, or under any mortgage, indenture or other instrument of the Company or any Guarantor (including a default with respect to Securities of any series other than that series) under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured any Recourse Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor (or by any Subsidiary of the Company or a Guarantor, the repayment of which the Company or the Guarantor has guaranteed or for which the Company or the Guarantor is directly responsible or liable as obligor or guarantor), whether such Recourse Indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, which default shall constitute a failure to pay an aggregate principal amount exceeding $5,000,000 of Recourse Indebtedness of any or all such Persons when due and payable after the expiration of any applicable grace period with respect thereto and shall have resulted in such Recourse Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $5,000,000 becoming or being declared due and payable before the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable, without such Recourse Indebtedness having been discharged; or (5) the Company, a Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law: (A) commences a voluntary case, (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case, -30- (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property, or (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (6) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that: (A) is for relief against the Company, a Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case, (B) appoints a Custodian of the Company, a Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of either of its property, or (C) orders the liquidation of the Company, a Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary, and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days; or (7) the guarantee of any security by a Guarantor ceases to be, or is asserted in writing by the Company or any Guarantor not to be, in full force and effect or enforceable in accordance with its terms, or (8) 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 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) and premium (if any) of all the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company, (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal and premium (if any) or specified portion thereof shall become immediately due and payable. At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if: (1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay in the currency, currency unit or composite currency in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series): (A) all overdue installments of interest on all Outstanding Securities of that series and any related coupons, -31- (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Outstanding Securities of that series which 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, (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and (2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon. SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by ------------------------------------------------------- Trustee. The Company covenants that if: - ------- (1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on any Security of any series and any related coupon when such interest 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 , if any, on) any Security of any series at its Maturity, then the Company 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, if any) and interest, with interest upon any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest, 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, its agents and counsel. If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Company, 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 Company 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 Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or -32- the property of the Company 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 Company 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: (i) 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, if any) and interest 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, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and (ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder 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, 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 or consent to or 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, its agents and counsel, before 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, if any) or interest, 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, if any) and interest 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, if any) and interest, respectively; and -33- THIRD: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the 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 indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee 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, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders. SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal --------------------------------------------------- (Premium, if any) and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this - ------------------------------ Indenture, the Holder of any Security or coupon shall have the right which is absolute and unconditional to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on 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 Company, 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 eq- -34- uity 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 a waiver of any such Event of Default or an 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 which is not inconsistent with such direction, and (3) the Trustee need not take any action which might involve it in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of Securities of such series not joining therein. 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, if any) or interest on 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. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. The Company --------------------------------------- covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted. SECTION 515. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture --------------------- agree, and each Holder of any Security by his 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, -35- 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 any undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date). 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, if any) or interest on 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(3) with respect to the Securities and coupons of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to 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 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; (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company 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; (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate; (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the 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; -36- (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction; (6) 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 Company personally or by agent or attorney; (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder; and (8) 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. Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee undertakes to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. 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 Company 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 Company 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 Company, 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 Company with the same rights it would have if it were not the 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 any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company. SECTION 606. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company agrees: ------------------------------ -37- (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and (3) to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its own part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts 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. When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law. As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company 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, 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 which 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. (a) ------------------------------------------------- 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. (b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If 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. (c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Trustee and the Company. -38- (d) If at any time: (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of TIA Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 607 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any such case, (i) the Company by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) 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. (e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, 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 Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance or 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 Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company 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. (f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series 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. (a) In case of -------------------------------------- the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and 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 Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee -39- all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its claim, if any, provided for in Section 606. (b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of 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 (1) 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, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company, or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates. (c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be. (d) 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 of 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 which 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 -40- 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 Company. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a 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 Company. 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 the Company. 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 Company and shall give notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of 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 Company 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: -41- This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within mentioned Indenture. [BANK], as Trustee By: ---------------------------------, as Authenticating Agent By: ---------------------------------, Authorized Signatory ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders. Every -------------------------------------------- Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent nor any Paying Agent nor 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 October 1 of ------------------ each year commencing with the first October 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 October 1 if required by TIA Section 313(a). SECTION 703. Reports by Company. The Company will: ------------------ (1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of such Sections, then it will file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations; (2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and (3) transmit by mail 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 Company pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission. -42- SECTION 704. The Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of ----------------------------------------------------- Holders. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee: - ------- (a) semi-annually, not later than 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, semi- annually, upon such dates as are set forth in the Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such series, and (b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in Writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 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 Company and Sales, Leases ------------------------------------------------------- and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions. The Company or any - ------------------------------------------------------- Guarantor may consolidate with, or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into any other entity, provided that in any such case, (1) either the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, will be the continuing entity, or the successor entity will be an entity organized and existing under the laws of the United States or a State thereof and such successor entity expressly assumes the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by supplemental indenture, complying with Article Nine hereof, satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such entity and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company, a Guarantor or any Subsidiary as a result thereof as having been incurred by the Company, the Guarantor or such Subsidiary at the time or such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, 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 Entity. 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 Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, and the predecessor entity, except in the event of a lease, shall be relieved of any further obligation under this Indenture and the Securities. Any such successor entity of the Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor entity, instead of the Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which 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. -43- 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 Company, 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 Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities contained; or (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or (3) to add any additional Events of Default 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; or (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 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; or (5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions or 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 which is entitled to the benefit of such provision; or -44- (6) to secure the Securities; or (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series and any related coupons as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or (9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which 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 which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, provided such provisions do not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material respect; or (10) 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 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; or (11) to make any change that does not adversely affect the legal rights under this Indenture of any Holder of Debt Securities of any series; or (12) to add a Guarantor. 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 Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of 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, 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 premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change any obligation of the Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1007 (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 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, any Security or any premium 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), or (2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver with respect to such series (or compliance with -45- certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or (3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 513, 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, or (4) release the Guarantors from their Guarantees. 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 which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series. 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. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution --------------------------------- of any supplemental indenture under this Article, 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. 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 Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and 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 Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of Section 902, the Company 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. -46- ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal (and Premium, if any) and ---------------------------------------------- Interest. The Company 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, if any) and interest on 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 1007 in respect of principal of (or premium, 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 Company, 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 Company 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 or conversion, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company will maintain: (A) in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where any Registered Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment or conversion, where any Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Company 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 or conversion in the circumstances described in the following paragraph (and not otherwise); (B) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series which 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 1007) or conversion; provided, however, that -------- ------- if the Securities of that series are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in Luxembourg or any other required city located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities of that series are listed on such exchange; and (C) 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 Registered 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 Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of each such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, 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 1007) or conversion at the offices specified in the Security, in London, England, and the Company hereby appoint the same as its agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and demands, and the Company hereby appoint the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. -47- Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, no payment of principal, premium or interest on Bearer Securities shall be made at any office or agency of the Company 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 payable on Securities of such series pursuant to Section 1007) shall be made at the office of the Company's Paying Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium or interest, as the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained for the purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture, is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions. The Company may from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all 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 Company 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 Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a series of Securities, the Company hereby designates as a Place of Payment for each series of Securities the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office as Paying Agent in such city and as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, if and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated in a Foreign Currency or (ii) may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long as it is required under any other provision of the Indenture, then the Company 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 Company 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, if any), or interest on, any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum 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, if any) or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. Whenever the Company shall have one or more 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, if any) or interest on, 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, if any) or interest, so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal (and premium, if any) or interest and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. The Company will cause each Paying Agent 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 -48- (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 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 Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any such payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest; 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 Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such 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 Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) and interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company upon Company Request or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment of such principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on 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 Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee -------- ------- or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in 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 Company. SECTION 1004. Existence. Subject to Article Eight, the Company will --------- do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect the existence, rights and franchises of itself and of each Guarantor; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any right - -------- ------- or franchise if the Board of Directors determines that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and the Guarantors taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders; and provided further that any Guarantor may -------- ------- consolidate with, merge into, or sell convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or part of its property and assets to the Company or any other Guarantor. SECTION 1005. Maintenance of Properties. The Company will cause all ------------------------- of the properties of itself and of each Subsidiary 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 Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, -------- however, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be prevented from - ------- discontinuing the operation and maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders. -49- SECTION 1006. Insurance. The Company 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. SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and other Claims. The Company will --------------------------------- pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon it or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2) all material lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that the -------- ------- Company 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. SECTION 1008. Statement as to Compliance. The Company will deliver -------------------------- to the Trustee, within 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, a brief certificate from its principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Company's and each Guarantor'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 1006, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture. SECTION 1009. Additional Amounts. If any Securities of a series ------------------ provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company 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 of or any premium 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 interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certificate, the Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company'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 who are not United States persons without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of 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 Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Securities. If 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 (i) 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 (ii) to make all payments of principal and interest with respect to -50- the Securities of a series or related coupons without withholding or deductions until otherwise advised. The Company 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 or in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section or in reliance on the Company's not furnishing such an Officers' Certificate. SECTION 1010. Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may omit in --------------------------- any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 1004 and 1005, inclusive, 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 Company 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 ------------------------ which 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 Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all of the Securities of any series, the Company 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 Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction. SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. If ------------------------------------------------- less than all the Securities of any series 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 Company 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 which has been or is to be redeemed. -51- SECTION 1104. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall be -------------------- given in the manner provided in Section 106, not less than 30 days nor 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, the notice which relates to such Security shall state 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, 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 Company and the Trustee for such series and any Paying Agent is furnished, (8) 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 redemption on this Redemption Date pursuant to Section 305 or otherwise, the last date, as determined by the Company, on which such exchanges may be made, (9) the CUSIP number of such Security, if any, and (10) if applicable, that a Holder of Securities who desires to convert Securities for redemption 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. -52- Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company. SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price. At least one Business Day --------------------------- prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money 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 which are to be redeemed on that date. SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of ------------------------------------- redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified 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 Company 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 Company 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 Company 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 Registered Security --------------------------- which is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article) shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the -53- 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 GUARANTEES SECTION 1201. Guarantee. Subject to the provisions of this Article --------- Twelve, each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally, fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to each Holder and to the Trustee on behalf of the Holders: (i) the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued interest on each Security, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, the due and punctual payment of interest on the overdue principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities, to the extent lawful, and the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee, all in accordance with the terms of such Security and this Indenture and (ii) in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Securities or any of such other obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, at Stated Maturity, by acceleration or otherwise (the obligations in subsections (i) and (ii) hereof being the "Guaranteed Obligations"). Each Guarantor hereby waives ---------------------- diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of merger or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, the benefit of discussion, protest or notice with respect to any such Security or the debt evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that its Guarantee will not be discharged as to any such Security except by payment in full of the principal thereof and interest thereon and as provided in Section 4.01, Section 14.02 and Section 14.03. The maturity of the Securities may be accelerated as provided in Article Five for the purposes of this Article Twelve. In the event of any declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article Five, the Securities (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by each Guarantor jointly and severally, for the purpose of this Article Eleven. In addition, without limiting the foregoing provisions, upon the effectiveness of an acceleration under Article Five, the Trustee shall promptly make a demand for payment on the Securities under each Guarantee provided for in this Article Twelve. If the Trustee or the Holder of any Security is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company or any Guarantor, or any custodian, receiver, liquidator, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official acting in relation to the Company or such Guarantor, any amount paid to the Trustee or such Holder in respect of a Security, this Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect. Each Guarantor further agrees, to the fullest extent that it may lawfully do so, that, as between it, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article Five hereof for the purposes of its Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition extant under any applicable bankruptcy law preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby. Each Guarantor hereby further agrees that its obligations under this Indenture and the Securities shall be unconditional, regardless of the validity, regularity or enforceability of this Indenture or the Securities, the absence of any action to enforce this Indenture or the Securities, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions of this Indenture or the Securities, any modification or amendment of, or supplement to, this Indenture or the Securities, the recovery of any judgment against the Company or any action to enforce any such judgment, or any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor. -54- Each Guarantor that makes or is required to make any payment in respect of its Guarantee shall be entitled to seek contribution from the other Guarantors to the extent permitted by applicable law; provided that each -------- Guarantor agrees that any such claim for contribution that such Guarantor may have against any other Guarantor shall be subrogated to the prior payment in full, in cash, of all obligations owed to Holders under or in respect of the Securities. Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any claim or other rights that it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of its obligations under its Guarantee and this Indenture, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution, indemnification, any right to participate in any claim or remedy of the Holders against the Company or any collateral that any such Holder or the Trustee on behalf of such Holder hereafter acquires, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Company, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim or other rights. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence and the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for the benefit of, the Holders, and shall forthwith be paid to the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders to be credited and applied upon the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the issuance of the Securities pursuant to this Indenture and that the waivers set forth in this Section 12.01 are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits. Each Guarantee set forth in this Section 12.01 shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose with respect to a Security until the certificate of authentication on such Security shall have been signed by or on behalf of the Trustee. SECTION 1202. Obligations Unconditional. Subject to Section 12.05, ------------------------- nothing contained in this Article Twelve or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among each Guarantor and the Holders, the obligation of each Guarantor, which is absolute and unconditional, upon failure by the Company, to pay to the Holders the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of each Guarantor, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent any Holder or the Trustee on its behalf from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture. Without limiting the foregoing, nothing contained in this Article Twelve will restrict the right of the Trustee or the Holders to take any action to declare the Guarantee to be due and payable prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities pursuant to Section 5.02 or to pursue any rights or remedies hereunder. SECTION 1203. Execution of Guarantee. To evidence its obligations ---------------------- under this Article Twelve, each Guarantor hereby agrees to execute a guarantee in a form set forth in the supplemental indenture for each series of Securities guaranteed by the Guarantor, to be endorsed on each Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee. The signature of any officer of a Guarantor on the Securities may be manual or facsimile. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in this Article Twelve shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse such Guarantee on any series of Securities. SECTION 1204. Withholding. All payments made by a Guarantor with ----------- respect to the Guarantees will be made without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by -55- or on behalf of any country (other than the United States) or any political subdivision thereof or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax, unless the withholding or deduction of such taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges is then required by law. In the event that any country (other than the United States) or any political subdivision thereof, or any authority therein or thereof, imposes any such withholding or deduction on (a) any payments made by a Guarantor with respect to the Guarantees or (b) any net proceeds on the sale to or exchange with any Guarantor of the Securities, such Guarantor will pay such additional amounts as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received in respect to such payments or sale or exchange by the Holders or the Trustee, as the case may be, after such withholding or deduction shall equal the respective amounts that would have been received in respect of such payments or sale or exchange in the absence of such withholding or deduction; except that no such additional amounts shall be payable with respect to any series of Securities held by or on behalf of a Holder who is liable for such taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges in respect of such Security by reason of his being a citizen or resident of, or carrying on a business in, the country of residence of any Guarantor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Guarantor making a payment on the Securities pursuant to the Guarantee shall not be required to pay any additional amounts if (x) the beneficial holder of a Security received by certified mail (evidenced by a return receipt signed by such beneficial holder) (i) written notice from such Guarantor no less than 60 days in advance of making such payment and (ii) the appropriate forms or instructions necessary to enable such beneficial holder to certify or document the availability of an exemption from, or reduction of, the withholding or deduction of such taxes under applicable law, which such instructions shall clearly specify that additional amounts under this Section 1204 may not be paid if such forms are not completed by such beneficial holder, and (y) the Guarantor that would otherwise have to pay such additional amounts establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee that the obligation to pay such additional amounts would not have risen but for the failure of such beneficial holder to (i) duly complete such forms as were actually received by such beneficial holder or respond to such instructions and (ii) provide to such Guarantor such duly completed forms or responses to instructions. Without prejudice to the survival of any of the agreements of the Guarantors hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Guarantors contained in this Section 1204 shall survive the payment in full of Securities and all other amounts payable under this Guarantee. SECTION 1205. Limitation of Guarantee. The Company and each Holder ----------------------- by his or her acceptance thereof, hereby confirm that it is the intention of all such parties that any Guarantee of the Securities executed by a Guarantor under this Indenture and the terms of a supplemental indenture for any series of Securities not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or any similar federal or state law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, in the event that any such Guarantee would constitute or result in a violation of any applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law of any relevant jurisdiction, the liability of the Guarantor under such Guarantee shall be reduced to the maximum amount, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor, permissible under the applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law. SECTION 1206. Release of Guarantee. (a) Concurrently with the -------------------- payment in full of all of the Securities, the Guarantors shall be released from and relieved of their obligations under this Article Twelve. Upon the delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers' Certificate and, if requested by the Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the transaction giving rise to the release of such obligations was made by the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of the Guarantors from their obligations. If any of the Guaranteed Obligations are revived and reinstated after the termination of this Guarantee, then all of the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guarantee shall be revived and reinstated as if this Guarantee had not been terminated until such time as the Guaranteed Obligations are again terminated, and the Guarantors shall enter into an amendment to this Guarantee, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, evidencing such revival and reinstatement. -56- (b) Upon the sale or disposition of all the Capital Stock of a Guarantor (by merger or otherwise) to a Person other than the Company or any other Guarantor and which sale or disposition is otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture, such Guarantor shall be deemed released from all obligations under this Article Twelve; provided, however, that any such ----------------- termination upon such sale or disposition shall occur if and only to the extent that all obligations of such Guarantor under all of its guarantees of, and under all of its pledges of assets or other security interests which secure indebtedness of the Company or any other Guarantor shall also terminate upon such sale or disposition. Upon the delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers' Certificate and, if requested by the Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the transaction giving rise to the release of such obligations was made in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of such Guarantor from its obligations. Any Guarantor not so released remains liable for the full amount of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as provided in this Article Twelve. (c) Nothing contained in this Indenture or in the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or another Guarantor, or shall prevent the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of a Guarantor to the Company or another Guarantor. Upon any such consolidation, merger, transfer or sale, the Guarantee of such Guarantor shall no longer have any force or effect. 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 thereof, together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants that at least one Business Day prior to the Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money 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 there for specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 60 days nor 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 -57- telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or a letter from a member of a national securities exchange, or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"), 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 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 Company. SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and ------------------------------------------------------ Payable. If Securities of any series provide 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 portion thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repayment Date therein specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Company 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 coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Repayment Date, the principal amount of such Security so to be repaid paid by the Company, together with accrued interest, if any, Repayment Date; provided, however, that coupons whose Stated -------- ------- Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable 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 with interest thereon, unless the Company 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 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 Company and the Trustee if there be furnished to it such security or indemnity as they may require to save it 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 -58- 1002) and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, only 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 which is to be repaid in part only, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Company, 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 which is not to be repaid. ARTICLE FOURTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect ---------------------------------------------------- Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. If, pursuant to Section 301, provision is - --------------------------------- made for either or both of (a) defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1402 or (b) covenant defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1403, 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 Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 1402 (if applicable) or Section 1403 (if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article. SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's exercise ------------------------ of the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company and the Guarantors shall be deemed to have been discharged from their 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 Company 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 (A) and (B) 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 Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) 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, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto when such payments are due, (B) the Company'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 1007, (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article Fourteen, the Company may exercise its option under this Section notwithstanding -59- the prior exercise of its option under Section 1403 with respect to such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto. SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise of ------------------- the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company and the Guarantors shall be released from their obligations under Sections 1004 and 1005, inclusive and, if specified pursuant to Section 301, their obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and 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 and 1005, 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 Company and the Guarantors 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 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(3) or 501(7) otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, 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: (a) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 607 who 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, a dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, (1) 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 (2) 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 the 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, if any, on such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, money in an amount, or (3) a combination thereof, any case, 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 the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and interest, if any, on such Outstanding Securities and any coupons, appertaining thereto on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest 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. (b) 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 Company is a party or by which it is bound. -60- (c) No Event of Default or event which 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(6) and 501(7) 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). (d) In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the Company 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 de- feasance had not occurred. (e) In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Company 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. (f) The Company 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 (a) above and the related exercise of the Company'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 Company with respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the Trustee for such trust funds or (ii) all necessary registrations under said Act have been effected. (g) 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 which may be imposed on the Company 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 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, if any) and interest, 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(a) has been made, (a) 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 -61- pursuant to Section 1404(a) has been made in respect of such Security, or (b) a Conversion Event occurs in respect of the currency or currency unit in which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(a) 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, if any, on 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 Company 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 which 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, subject to Section 606, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the Company Request any money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 1404 which, 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 which would then be required to be deposited to effect a defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this Article. ************ 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. -62- IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written. NVR, INC. By: ---------------------------------- Name: Title: [BANK], as Trustee By: ---------------------------------- Name: Title: Vice President The Guarantors -------------- NVR FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. RVN, INC. By: By: -------------------------- ---------------------------------- Name: Name: Title: Title: NVR HOMES, INC. NVR FOX RIDGE, INC. By: By: -------------------------- ---------------------------------- Name: Name: Title: Title: -63- STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of NVR, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------ Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of NVR Financial Services, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------ Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of NVR Homes, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------ Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES -64- STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of RVN, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------ Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------ Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES -65- STATE OF NEW YORK ) ) ss: COUNTY OF NEW YORK ) On the _________ day of _________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________________, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that she/he resides at ___________________________, that she/he is a __________________ of [Bank], one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] --------------------------------------- Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES: -66- 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 (i) are owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic companies, or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source ("United States person(s)"), (ii) are owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 2.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as "financial institutions") purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such United States financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or through its agent, that you may NVR, Inc. or its agent that such financial institution will 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 (iii) are owned by United States or foreign financial institution(s) 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, in addition, if the owner is a United States or foreign financial institution described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)), this is to further certify that such financial institution 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 "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 absent of any such notification it may be assumed that this certification applies as of such date. This certificate excepts and does not relate to [U.S. $]________ 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:________________, 19__ [To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior to (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: -2- EXHIBIT A-2 FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR AND CEDEL S.A. 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, [U.S. $]_____ ____________________amount of the above-captioned Securities (i) is owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic companies, 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 person(s)"), (ii) is owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in U.S. 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 (b) United States person(s) who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that we may advise NVR, Inc. or its agent that such financial institution will 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 (iii) is owned by United States or foreign financial institution(s) 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, to the further effect, that financial institutions described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)) 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 (i) 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 (ii) 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:___________ 19__ [To be dated no earlier than the Exchange Date or the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable] [Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels Office,] as Operator of the Euroclear System [Cedel S.A.] By: ----------------------------------------- -2- EX-4.2 5 EXHIBIT 4.2 Exhibit 4.2 NVR, INC. AS PRIMARY OBLIGOR NVR FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. NVR HOMES, INC. RVN, INC. and NVR FOX RIDGE, INC. AS GUARANTORS and [BANK] AS TRUSTEE ------------------------- INDENTURE DATED AS OF ___________ __, 1998 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subordinated Debt Securities - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page ---- PARTIES.....................................................................2 RECITALS....................................................................2 ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION.............................................................2 SECTION 101. Definitions...............................................2 Act...............................................................3 Additional Amounts................................................3 Affiliate.........................................................3 Authenticating Agent..............................................3 Authorized Newspaper..............................................3 Bankruptcy Law....................................................3 Bearer Security...................................................3 Board of Directors................................................3 Board Resolution..................................................3 Business Day......................................................3 Capital Stock.....................................................4 CEDEL.............................................................4 Commission........................................................4 Company...........................................................4 Company Request...................................................4 Conversion Event..................................................4 Corporate Trust Office............................................4 corporation.......................................................4 coupon............................................................4 Custodian.........................................................4 Debt..............................................................4 Defaulted Interest................................................5 DTC...............................................................5 Dollar or "$".....................................................5 ECU...............................................................5 Euroclear.........................................................5 European Community................................................5 European Monetary System..........................................5 European Union....................................................5 Event of Default..................................................5 Exchange Act......................................................5 Foreign Currency..................................................5 GAAP..............................................................6 Government Obligations............................................6 Guaranteed Obligations............................................6 Guarantees........................................................6 Guarantors........................................................6 Holder............................................................6 Indenture.........................................................6 Indexed Security..................................................7 interest..........................................................7
Interest Payment Date.............................................7 Legal Holiday.....................................................7 Make-Whole Amount.................................................7 Maturity..........................................................7 Officers' Certificate.............................................7 Opinion of Counsel................................................7 Original Issue Discount Security..................................7 Outstanding.......................................................7 Paying Agent......................................................8 Person............................................................8 Place of Payment..................................................8 Predecessor Security..............................................8 premium...........................................................9 Recourse Indebtedness.............................................9 Redemption Date...................................................9 Redemption Price..................................................9 Registered Security...............................................9 Regular Record Date...............................................9 Repayment Date....................................................9 Repayment Price...................................................9 Responsible Officer...............................................9 Secured Debt......................................................9 Securities Act...................................................10 Security.........................................................10 Security Register and Security Registrar.........................10 Senior Debt......................................................10 Significant Subsidiary...........................................10 Special Record Date..............................................10 Stated Maturity..................................................10 Statistical Release..............................................11 Subsidiary.......................................................11 Trust Indenture Act or TIA.......................................11 Trustee..........................................................11 United States....................................................11 United States Person.............................................11 Yield to Maturity................................................11 SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.....................11 SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee...................12 SECTION 104. Acts of Holders..........................................12 SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company....................13 SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver...............................14 SECTION 107. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.................15 SECTION 108. Successors and Assigns...................................15 SECTION 109. Separability Clause......................................15 SECTION 110. Benefits of Indenture....................................15 SECTION 111. No Personal Liability....................................15 SECTION 112. Governing Law............................................15 SECTION 113. Legal Holidays...........................................15 ARTICLE TWO SECURITIES FORMS..............................................15 SECTION 201. Forms of Securities......................................15 SECTION 202. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..........16 SECTION 203. Securities Issuable in Global Form.......................16
ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES..............................................17 SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited, Issuable in Series.....................17 SECTION 302. Denominations............................................20 SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating...........20 SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.....................................22 SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange......24 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 Trust 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............................................34 SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected...........................35 SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits......................................35 SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal (Premium, if any) and Interest...................................36 SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.......................36 SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative...........................36 SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.............................36 SECTION 512. Control by Holders of Securities.........................36 SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults..................................36 SECTION 514. Waiver of Usury Stay or Extension Laws...................37 SECTION 515. Undertaking for Costs....................................37 ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE...................................................37 SECTION 601. Notice of Defaults.......................................37 SECTION 602. Certain Rights of Trustee................................38 SECTION 603. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities...39 SECTION 604. May Hold Securities......................................39 SECTION 605. Money Held in Trust......................................39 SECTION 606. Compensation and Reimbursement...........................39 SECTION 607. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility; Conflicting Interests........................................................40 SECTION 608. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor........40 SECTION 609. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor...................41 SECTION 610. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.........................................................42 SECTION 611. Appointment of Authentication Agent......................42 ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY................................................................43
SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders.............43 SECTION 702. Reports by Trustee.......................................44 SECTION 703. Reports by Company.......................................44 SECTION 704. The Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders..........................................................44 ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE............45 SECTION 801. Consolidations and Mergers of Company and Sales, Leases and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions..........45 SECTION 802. Rights and Duties of Successor Entity....................45 SECTION 803. Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel.............45 ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES......................................46 SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.......46 SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders..........47 SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.....................48 SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures........................48 SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act......................48 SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.......48 SECTION 906. Notice of Supplemental Indentures........................48 ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS.....................................................48 SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal (and Premium, if any) and Interest.48 SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.........................49 SECTION 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.......50 SECTION 1004. Existence...............................................51 SECTION 1005. Maintenance of Properties...............................51 SECTION 1006. Insurance...............................................52 SECTION 1007. Payments of Taxes and Other Claims......................52 SECTION 1008. Statement as to Compliance..............................52 SECTION 1009. Additional Amounts......................................52 SECTION 1010. 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.......53 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 GUARANTEES.................................................56 SECTION 1201. Guarantee................................................56 SECTION 1202. Obligations Unconditional................................57 SECTION 1203. Execution of Guarantee...................................57 SECTION 1204. Withholding..............................................58 SECTION 1205. Limitation of Guarantee..................................58
SECTION 1206. Release of Guarantee.....................................58 ARTICLE THIRTEEN REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS.......................59 SECTION 1301. Applicability of Article................................59 SECTION 1302. Repayment of Securities.................................59 SECTION 1303. Exercise of Option......................................60 SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable..........................................................60 SECTION 1305. Securities Repaid in Part...............................61 ARTICLE FOURTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE.......................61 SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance................................61 SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge................................61 SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance.....................................62 SECTION 1404. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.........62 SECTION 1405. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions............................64 ARTICLE FIFTEEN INTENTIONALLY OMITTED.....................................64 ARTICLE SIXTEEN SUBORDINATION.............................................65 SECTION 1601. Agreement to Subordinate................................65 SECTION 1602. Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy....................65 SECTION 1603. Default on Senior Debt..................................65 SECTION 1604. Acceleration of Securities..............................66 SECTION 1605. When Distribution Must Be Paid Over.....................66 SECTION 1605. Notice by Company.......................................66 SECTION 1607. Subrogation.............................................66 SECTION 1608. Relative Rights.........................................66 SECTION 1609. Subordination May Not Be Impaired By Company............66 SECTION 1610. Distribution or Notice to Representative................66 SECTION 1611. Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent......................66
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the "TIA" or "Trust Indenture Act") and this Indenture, dated as of ___________ __, 1998.
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section (S) 310 (a)(1).................................................. 607 (a)(2).................................................. 607 (b)..................................................... 607, 608 (S) 312 (c)..................................................... 701 (S) 313 (a)..................................................... 702 (c)..................................................... 702 (S) 314 (a)..................................................... 703 (a)(4).................................................. 1006 (c)(1).................................................. 102 (c)(2).................................................. 102 (e)..................................................... 102 (S) 315 (b)..................................................... 601 (S) 316 (a) (last sentence)..................................... 101 ("Outstanding") (a)(1)(A)............................................... 502, 512 (a)(1)(B)............................................... 513 (b)..................................................... 508 (S) 317 (a)(1).................................................. 503 (a)(2).................................................. 504 (S) 318 (a)..................................................... 111 (c)..................................................... 111
- ---------------------- NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of this 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. - 1 - Indenture (this "Indenture"), dated as of _________ __, 1998, by and between NVR, Inc., a Virginia corporation, as primary obligor (the "Company"); ------- NVR Financial Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, NVR Homes, Inc., a Virginia corporation, RVN, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, as guarantors (each, a "Guarantor"); and --------- [BANK], a national bank organized under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee hereunder (the "Trustee"), having its Corporate Trust ------- Office (as defined below) at _________________________________________________. RECITALS The Company deems it necessary to issue from time to time for its lawful purposes subordinated debt securities (the "Securities") evidencing its unsecured 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 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 for such Securities as hereinafter provided. This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, that are deemed to be incorporated into this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions. All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company and the Guarantors, 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 unless 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 which are defined in the TIA, 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 Commission adopted under the TIA; (3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP; and (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. -2- Certain terms, used principally in Article Three, Article Five, Article Six and Article Ten, are defined in those Articles. In addition, the following terms have the respective meanings indicated. "Act," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified --- in Section 104. "Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which are required ------------------ by a Security or by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, under circumstances specified therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes, assessments or other governmental charges imposed on certain Holders and which are owing to such Holders. "Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or --------- indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing. "Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to -------------------- act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series. "Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper, printed in the English -------------------- language or in an official language of the place of publication, customarily published on each day that is a Business Day in the place of publication, whether or not published on days that are Legal Holidays in the place of publication, 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 day that is a Business Day in the place of publication. "Bankruptcy Law" has the meaning specified in Section 501. -------------- "Bearer Security" means any Security established pursuant to Section --------------- 201 which is payable to bearer. "Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or ------------------ any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder, as the case may be. "Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution of the Company, ---------------- certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company 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 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, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or location are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close. "Capital Stock" means with respect to any Person, any and all shares, ------------- interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated, whether voting or non-voting) in equity of such Person, whether now outstanding or issued after the Closing Date, including, without limitation, all common stock and preferred stock. -3- "CEDEL" means Central de Livraison de Valeurs Mobilieres, S.A., or its ----- successor. "Commission" means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as ---------- from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after execution of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date. "Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first ------- paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Company shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean such successor Company. "Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, a written --------------- ------------- request or order signed in the name of and on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. "Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign ---------------- Currency both by the government of the country or confederation 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 ECU both within the European Monetary System and for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the European Union or (iii) any currency unit (or composite currency) other than the ECU for the purposes for which it was established. "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust office ---------------------- of the Trustee at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be administered principally, which office at the date hereof is located at ___________________________, except that for purposes of Section 1002, such term shall mean the office or agency of the Trustee in the ___________________________, which office at the date hereof is located at ___________________________________________________. "corporation" includes corporations, limited liability companies, ----------- partnerships, associations, companies and business and real estate investment trusts. "coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security. ------ "Custodian" has the meaning specified in Section 501. --------- "Debt" of the Company or any Subsidiary means any indebtedness of the ---- Company or any Subsidiary, whether or not contingent, in respect of (i) borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (ii) indebtedness secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance or any security interest existing on property owned by the Company or any Subsidiary, (iii) letters of credit or amounts representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property except any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable or (iv) any lease of property by the Company or any Subsidiary as lessee which is reflected on the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheet as a capitalized lease in accordance with GAAP, in the case of items of indebtedness under (i) through (iii) above to the extent that any such items (other than letters of credit) would appear as a liability on the Company's consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, and also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by the Company or any Subsidiary to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of business), indebtedness of another person (other than the Company or any Subsidiary) (it being understood that "Debt" shall be deemed to be incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis whenever the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis shall create, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable in respect thereof; Debt of a Subsidiary of the Company existing prior to the time it became a Subsidi- -4- ary of the Company shall be deemed to be incurred upon such Subsidiary's becoming a Subsidiary of the Company; and Debt of a Person existing prior to a merger or consolidation of such Person with the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in which such Person is the successor of the Company or such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be incurred upon the consummation of such merger or consolidation; provided, however, that the term "Debt" shall not include any -------- ------- indebtedness that has been the subject of an "insubstance" defeasance in accordance with GAAP. "Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307. ------------------ "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company for so long as it shall be a --- clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, or such successor as the Company shall designate from time to time in an Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee. "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 the payment of public and private debts. "ECU" means European Currency Units as defined and revised from time --- to time by the Council of the European Community. "Euroclear" means Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels --------- Office, or its successor as operator of the Euroclear System. "European Community" means the European Economic Community. ------------------ "European Monetary System" means the European Monetary System ------------------------ established by the Resolution of December 5, 1978 of the Council of the European Community. "European Union" means the European Community, the European Coal and -------------- Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community. "Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article Five. ---------------- "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any ------------ successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. "Foreign Currency" means any currency, currency unit or composite ---------------- currency, including, without limitation, the ECU, 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 in effect ---- from time to time, as used in the United States applied on a consistent basis; 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 on the date hereof, applied on a consistent basis. "Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct ---------------------- obligations of the United States of America or the government which 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 which 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 -5- 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. "Guaranteed Obligations" has the meaning specified in Section 1201. ---------------------- "Guarantees" means the guarantee of each of the Guarantors, as set ---------- forth in Article Twelve, in one or more supplemental indentures hereto, or in any additional guarantee of the Securities executed under the terms of this Indenture. "Guarantors" means, collectively, NVR Financial Services, Inc., NVR ---------- Homes, Inc., RVN, Inc., NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., or any Person that executes a Guarantee. "Holder" means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in ------ whose name such 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 30l; 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 particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established as contemplated by Section 331, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is 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 which provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1007, includes such Additional Amounts. "Interest Payment Date" when used with respect to any Security, means --------------------- the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security. "Legal Holiday" means a day that is not a Business Day. ------------- "Make-Whole Amount" means the amount, if any, in addition to principal ----------------- which is required under the terms and conditions specified in a Security or as otherwise specified as contem- -6- plated by Section 301, to be paid by the Company to the Holder thereof in connection with any optional redemption or accelerated payment of such Security. "Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on -------- which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption or repurchase, notice of option to elect repayment or otherwise, and includes the Redemption Date. "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of --------------------- the Board of Directors, the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be ------------------ counsel for the Company or an employee of the Company and who shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. "Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides -------------------------------- for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502. "Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the ----------- date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except: ------ (i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or the Security Registrar or delivered to the Trustee or Security Registrar 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 Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company 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 provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; (iii) Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections 1402 and 1403, with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen; and (iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite - ----------------- principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, and for the purpose of making the calculations required by TIA Section 313, (i) 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 or calculation, upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, (ii) 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 -7- to Section 301 as of the date such Security is originally issued by the Company, 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 (i) above) of such Security, (iii) 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 Security pursuant to Section 301, and (iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making such determination or calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor. "Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the ------------ principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities or coupons on behalf of the Company. "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited ------ liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, real estate investment trust or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. "Place of Payment," when used with respect to any Security, means the ---------------- place or places where the principal of (and premium, 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 purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security 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. "premium," when used with respect to a Security which by its terms ------- provides for the payment of a Make-Whole Amount, includes such Make-Whole Amount. "Recourse Indebtedness" means Debt other than Secured Debt as to which --------------------- the liability of the obligor thereon is limited to its interest in the collateral securing such Secured Debt; provided that no Debt shall constitute -------- Recourse Indebtedness solely by reason of provisions therein for imposition of full recourse liability on the obligor for certain wrongful acts, environmental liabilities, or other customary exclusions from the scope of so-called "non- recourse" provisions. "Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be --------------- redeemed, in whole or in part, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security. "Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be ---------------- redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture or such Security. "Registered Security" means any Security which is registered in the ------------------- Security Register. -8- "Regular Record Date" for the 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," when used with respect to any Security to be repaid -------------- at the option of the Holder, means the date fixed for such repayment by or pursuant to this Indenture. "Repayment Price," when used with respect to any Security to be repaid --------------- at the option of the Holder, means the price at which it is to be repaid by or pursuant to this Indenture. "Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee, means the -------------------- chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or vice- chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the president, any vice president (whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title "vice president"), the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge and familiarity with the particular subject. "Secured Debt" means, without duplication, Debt that is secured by a ------------ mortgage, trust deed, deed of trust, deed to secure Debt, security agreement, pledge, conditional sale or other title retention agreement, capitalized lease, or other like agreement granting or conveying security title to or a security interest in real property or other tangible assets. "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any successor -------------- statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. "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 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 premium, if any) and ----------- interest on, or substantially similar payments to be made by the Company in respect of, the following, whether outstanding at the date of execution of this Indenture or thereafter incurred, created or assumed: (a) indebtedness of the Company for money borrowed or represented by purchase-money obligations, (b) indebtedness of the Company 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 Company as lessee under leases of property either made as part of a sale and leaseback transaction to which the Company is a party or otherwise, (d) indebtedness of partnerships and joint ventures which is included in the Company's consolidated financial statements, (e) indebtedness, obligations and liabilities of others in respect of which the Company is liable contingently or otherwise to pay or advance money or property or as guarantor, endorser or otherwise or which the Company has agreed to purchase or otherwise acquire, and (f) any binding commitment of the Company to fund a real estate investment or to fund an investment in an entity making a real estate investment; but excluding, however, (1) any such indebtedness, obligation or liability referred to in clauses (a) -9- 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 Securities, or ranks pari passu with the Securities, (2) any such in- debtedness, obligation or liability which is subordinated to indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as or to a greater extent than the Securities are subordinated and (3) 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 a 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 which is a "significant ---------------------- subsidiary" (as defined in Article I, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated under the Securities Act) of the Company. "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," when used with respect to any Security or any --------------- installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means 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. "Statistical Release" means the statistical release designated ------------------- "H.15(519)" or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Federal Reserve System and which 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 Company. "Subsidiary" means a corporation or a partnership a majority of the ---------- outstanding voting stock or partnership interests, as the case may be, of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock having voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency. "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 who 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 any series shall mean only the Trustee with respect to 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 corpo- -10- ration 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 Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture 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 (including certificates delivered pursuant to Section 1011) 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, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable the 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 -------------------------------------- where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion 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 Company 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 or her certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel or certificate or representations may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information as to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or opinion or representations as to such matters are erroneous. Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument. -11- SECTION 104. Acts of Holders. (a) 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. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 602) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any agent of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where 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 which the Trustee deems sufficient. Subject to Article Six, the execution of any instrument by a Holder or his agent 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. (c) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the Security Register. (d) 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 Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until (1) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced, or (2) such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person, or (3) such Bearer Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security, or (4) such Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding. The ownership of Bearer Securities may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient. (e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company 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 Company 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 re- -12- quest, 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 eleven months after the record date. (f) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security. SECTION 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company. Any request, ------------------------------------- demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with, (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or (2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company. SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture -------------------------- provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities by the Company 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 his 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 where 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, where 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 The City of New York and in such other city or cities as may be specified in such Securities 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 no- -13- tice 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. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. 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 Company shall be binding on their 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, in --------------------- the Securities or coupons, 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 Company or of any successor, either directly or through the Company 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 hall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York. This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the TIA 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 where 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 which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof), payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be -14- 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 or sinking fund payment date, or at the 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, Re payment 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, of each series and related coupons shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto or approved from time to time by or pursuant to a Board Resolution in accordance with this Indenture, 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 Company 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. [BANK], 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 Company 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 -15- form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section 303 or 304 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or 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 Company and the Company 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 premium, if any) 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 Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security (i) in the case of a permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such permanent global Security in registered form, or (ii) in the case of a permanent global Security in bearer form, Euroclear or CEDEL. ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES SECTION 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate ------ ----------------------------- principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in one or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Board Resolutions and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more 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 Company with respect to unissued Securities of the series when issued from time to time): (1) the title of the Securities of 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 the series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to 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 the series shall be payable; (4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of 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 Inter- -16- est 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 of twelve 30-day months; (5) the place or places, if any, other than or in addition to the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, where any principal of (and premium) and interest payable in respect of Securities of the series shall be payable, any Registered Securities of the series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange or conversion and notices or demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of the series and this Indenture may be served; (6) the period or periods within which, the price or prices (including, 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 the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, if the Company is to have the option; (7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any provision or at the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which or the date of 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 the series shall be redeemed, repaid or purchased (including without limitation whether, and the extent to which, the premium shall be payable in connection therewith), 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 the series shall be issuable and, if other than the denomination of $5,000, the denomination or denominations in which any Bearer Securities of 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 the series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or, if applicable, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series that is convertible in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, 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, if any) or interest on the Securities of the series shall be payable or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated; (12) whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of 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, if any) or interest on the Securities of the series are to be payable, at the election of the Company, 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 -17- 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 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 Company with respect to Securities of 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 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 the series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the series and vice versa (if permitted by applicable laws and regulations), whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of 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 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 the series and any temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of 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 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 the series are to be issued upon the exercise of warrants, the time, manner and place for such Securities to be authenticated and delivered; (22) whether and under what circumstances the Company will pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1009 on the Securities of the series to any Holder who 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 Company will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such option); -18- (23) 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 shall be substantially identical except, in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution (subject to Section 303) and set forth in such Officers' Certificate 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, a copy of an appropriate record of such action(s) shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the Securities of such series. 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 a denomination of $5,000. SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The ---------------------------------------------- Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be executed by the Company's Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Senior Vice Presidents, and its Chief Financial Officer. 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 bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities 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 Company may deliver Securities of any series, together with any coupon appertaining thereto, executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company 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 CEDEL, 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. If any Security shall be represented by a permanent global Bearer Security, then, for purposes of this Section and Section 304, the notation of a beneficial owner's interest therein upon original issuance of such -19- Security or upon exchange of a portion of a temporary global Security shall be deemed to be delivery in connection with its original issuance of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global Security. 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 canceled. If all 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 Company 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, (i) an Opinion of Counsel stating that (a) the form or forms of such Securities and any coupons have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; (b) the terms of such Securities and any coupons have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and (c) such Securities, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, when completed by appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by the Company 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 Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, 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 (ii) an Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of the Securities have been complied with and that, to the best of the knowledge of the signers of such certificate, that no Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities shall have occurred and be continuing. If such form or terms have been so established, 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 which 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 an Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or a Company Order, or 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 certificates, 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. -20- No Security or coupon shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security or 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 signatory, 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 Company, and the Company 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 and sold by the Company, 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. (a) Pending the preparation of -------------------- definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which 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(b) or as otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution), if temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied by any non-matured coupons appertaining thereto), the Company 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. (b) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, this Section 304(b) shall govern the exchange of temporary Securities issued in global form other than through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company. 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 and CEDEL, for credit to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such other accounts as they may direct). 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 Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities, in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such temporary global Security, executed by the Company. On or after the Exchange Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the Common Depositary to the -21- to the Trustee, as the Company'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 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 Euro- clear 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 CEDEL 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 CEDEL, as the case may be, to request such exchange on his behalf and delivers to Euroclear or CEDEL, 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 and CEDEL, 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 CEDEL. 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 and CEDEL on such Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euroclear and CEDEL 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 CEDEL, 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(b) 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 -22- 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 and CEDEL 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 Company. SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The --------------------------------------------------- Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any office or agency of the Company 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 Company 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 Company 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, at its Corporate Trust Office, 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. 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 Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new 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. 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 Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which 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. If (but only if) permitted by the applicable Board Resolution and (subject to Section 303) set forth in the applicable Officers' Certificate, or in any indenture supplemental hereto, delivered 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 Company 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 Company 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 -23- 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 Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such successor to DTC. If at any time DTC notifies the Company 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 Company shall appoint a successor depositary with respect to such global Security or Securities. If (x) a successor depositary for such global Security or Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such unwillingness, inability or ineligibility, (y) 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 act ing as depositary for such global Security or Securities or (z) the Company, 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, then the Company 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 Company 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 Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the Company'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 (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 the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest or Defaulted -24- 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. All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company or the Security Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company 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. The Company, 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 which 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 Company, together with, in proper cases, such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of them or any agent of either of them harmless, the Company 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 Company 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 notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company 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 -25- 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 Company 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 the principal of (and premium, if ----------------- any) and interest on 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 Company 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 Company, 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 Company maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that each ----------------- installment of interest on any Registered Security may at the Company's option be paid by (i) 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 (ii) 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 and/or CEDEL, 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 -26- 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. 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 Company at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below: (1) The Company 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 Company 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 Company 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 Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Registered Securities of such series at his 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 Company, 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 -27- 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 Company 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 Company 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 or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security. SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of a --------------------- Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such 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 none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company 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 Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company 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 or on account thereof and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security or coupon be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. None of the Company, 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 Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company, or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification 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 canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. If the Company 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 -28- cancellation. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. Canceled 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 Company, unless by the Company Order, the Company directs their return to it. 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 twelve 30-day months. ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture --------------------------------------- shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Company 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 1007), and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series when, (1) either (A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than (i) 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, (ii) Securities and coupons of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306, (iii) 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 (iv) Securities and coupons of such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i) or (ii) below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable, or (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or (iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense of the Company, and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) 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, if any) and in- -29- terest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be; (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 606, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 611 and, if money shall have been deposited with and held by the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive. SECTION 402. Application of Trust 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 Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any), and any interest for whose payment such money has 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. "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 be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body) unless such event is specifically deleted or modified in or pursuant to the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of such series pursuant to this Indenture: (1) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that series or of any coupon appertaining thereto, when such interest or coupon becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or (2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make- Whole Amount, if any, on) any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable at its Maturity; or (3) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company 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 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail to the Company, by the Trustee or to the Company, 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; or -30- (4) a default under any evidence of Recourse Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor, or under any mortgage, indenture or other instrument of the Company or any Guarantor (including a default with respect to Securities of any series other than that series) under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured any Recourse Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor (or by any Subsidiary of the Company or a Guarantor, the repayment of which the Company or the Guarantor has guaranteed or for which the Company or the Guarantor is directly responsible or liable as obligor or guarantor), whether such Recourse Indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, which default shall constitute a failure to pay an aggregate principal amount exceeding $5,000,000 of Recourse Indebtedness of any or all such Persons when due and payable after the expiration of any applicable grace period with respect thereto and shall have resulted in such Recourse Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $5,000,000 becoming or being declared due and payable before the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable, without such Recourse Indebtedness having been discharged; or (5) the Company, a Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law: (A) commences a voluntary case, (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case, (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property, or (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (6) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that: (A) is for relief against the Company, a Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case, (B) appoints a Custodian of the Company, a Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of either of its property, or (C) orders the liquidation of the Company, a Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary, and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days; or (7) the guarantee of any security by a Guarantor ceases to be, or is asserted in writing by the Company or any Guarantor not to be, in full force and effect or enforceable in accordance with its terms, or (8) 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 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 -31- 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) and premium (if any) of all the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company, (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal and premium (if any) or specified portion thereof shall become immediately due and payable. At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if: (1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay in the currency, currency unit or composite currency in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for the Securities of such series): (A) all overdue installments of interest on all Outstanding Securities of that series and any related coupons, (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Outstanding Securities of that series which 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, (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and (2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon. SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by ------------------------------------------------------- Trustee. The Company covenants that if: - ------- (1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on any Security of any series and any related coupon when such interest 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 , if any, on) any Security of any series at its Maturity, then the Company 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, if any) and interest, with interest upon any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest, at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further -32- amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel. If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Company, 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 Company 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 Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company 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 Company 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: (i) 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, if any) and interest 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, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and (ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder 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, 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 or consent to or 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 -33- 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, 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, if any) or interest, 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, if any) and interest 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, if any) and interest, respectively; and THIRD: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the 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 indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee 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, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders. SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal --------------------------------------------------- (Premium, if any) and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this - ------------------------------ Indenture, the Holder of any Secu- -34- rity or coupon shall have the right which is absolute and unconditional to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 305 and 307) interest on 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 Company, 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 a waiver of any such Event of Default or an 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 which is not inconsistent with such direction, and (3) the Trustee need not take any action which might involve it in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of Securities of such series not joining therein. 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, if any) or interest on any Security of such series or any related coupons, or -35- (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. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. The Company --------------------------------------- covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted. SECTION 515. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture --------------------- agree, and each Holder of any Security by his 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 any undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date). 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, if any) or interest on 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(3) with respect to the Securities and coupons of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series. SECTION 602. Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the provisions of ------------------------- TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d): -36- (1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, 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; (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company 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; (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate; (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon; (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction; (6) 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 Company personally or by agent or attorney; (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder; and (8) 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. Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee undertakes to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. 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 -37- coupons shall be taken as the statements of the Company 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 Company 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 Company, 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 Company with the same rights it would have if it were not the 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 any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company. SECTION 606. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company agrees: ------------------------------ (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and (3) to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its own part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts 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. When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law. As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company 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, 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 which 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 -38- 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. (a) ------------------------------------------------- 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. (b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If 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. (c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Trustee and the Company. (d) If at any time: (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of TIA Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 607 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any such case, (i) the Company by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) 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. (e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, 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 Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance or 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 Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, -39- any Holder of a Security who has been a bonafide 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. (f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series 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. (a) In case of -------------------------------------- the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and 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 Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers 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. (b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of 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 (1) 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, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company, or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates. (c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be. (d) 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. -40- 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 of 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 which 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 Company. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a 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 Company. 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 the Company. 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 Company and shall -41- give notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of 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 Company 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. [BANK], as Trustee By: , ------------------------------- as Authenticating Agent By: , ------------------------------- Authorized Signatory ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY SECTION 701. Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders. Every -------------------------------------------- Holder of Securities or coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent nor any Paying Agent nor 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 October 1 of ------------------ each year commencing with the first October 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 October 1 if required by TIA Section 313(a). SECTION 703. Reports by Company. The Company will: ------------------ (1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of such Sections, then it will file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by -42- the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations; (2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and (3) transmit by mail 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 Company pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission. SECTION 704. The Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of ----------------------------------------------------- Holders. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee: - ------- (a) semi-annually, not later than 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, semi- annually, upon such dates as are set forth in the Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such series, and (b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in Writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 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 Company and Sales, Leases ------------------------------------------------------- and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions. The Company or any - ------------------------------------------------------- Guarantor may consolidate with, or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into any other entity, provided that in any such case, (1) either the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, will be the continuing entity, or the successor entity will be an entity organized and existing under the laws of the United States or a State thereof and such successor entity expressly assumes the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by supplemental indenture, complying with Article Nine hereof, satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such entity and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company, a Guarantor or any Subsidiary as a result thereof as having been incurred by the Company, the Guarantor or such Subsidiary at the time or such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, 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 Entity. 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 Company or the Guarantor, as the -43- case may be, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, and the predecessor entity, except in the event of a lease, shall be relieved of any further obligation under this Indenture and the Securities. Any such successor entity of the Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor entity, instead of the Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which 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. 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 Company, 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 Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities contained; or (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or (3) to add any additional Events of Default 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; or -44- (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 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; or (5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions or 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 which is entitled to the benefit of such provision; or (6) to secure the Securities; or (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series and any related coupons as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or (9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which 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 which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, provided such provisions do not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series or any related coupons in any material respect; or (10) 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 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; or (11) to make any change that does not adversely affect the legal rights under this Indenture of any Holder of Debt Securities of any series; or (12) to add a Guarantor. 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 Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of 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, 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 premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change any obligation of the Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1007 (except as con- -45- templated by Section 801(1) and permitted by Section 901(1)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or 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, any Security or any premium 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), or (2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver 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 (3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 513, 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, or (4) release the Guarantors from their Guarantees. 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 which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series. 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. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution --------------------------------- of any supplemental indenture under this Article, 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. 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 -46- Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and 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 Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of Section 902, the Company 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 (and Premium, if any) and ---------------------------------------------- Interest. The Company 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, if any) and interest on 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 1007 in respect of principal of (or premium, 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 Company, 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 Company 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 or conversion, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company will maintain: (A) in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where any Registered Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment or conversion, where any Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this In denture may be served and where Bearer Securities of that series and related coupons may be presented or surrendered for payment or conversion in the circumstances described in the following paragraph (and not otherwise); (B) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, in a Place of Payment for that series which 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 1007) or conversion; provided, however, that if the -------- ------- Securities of that series are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in Luxembourg or any other required city located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities of that series are listed on such exchange; and (C) 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 Registered Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of -47- transfer, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of each such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, 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 1007) or conversion at the offices specified in the Security, in London, England, and the Company hereby appoint the same as its agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and demands, and the Company hereby appoint 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 or interest on Bearer Securities shall be made at any office or agency of the Company 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 payable on Securities of such series pursuant to Section 1007) shall be made at the office of the Company's Paying Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium or interest, as the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained for the purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture, is illegal or effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions. The Company may from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all 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 Company 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 Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301 with respect to a series of Securities, the Company hereby designates as a Place of Payment for each series of Securities the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office as Paying Agent in such city and as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 301, if and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated in a Foreign Currency or (ii) may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long as it is required under any other provision of the Indenture, then the Company 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 Company 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, if any), or interest on, any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Per sons 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, if any) or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. -48- Whenever the Company 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, if any) or interest on, 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 pre- ceding paragraph) sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest, so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal (and premium, if any) or interest and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. The Company will cause each Paying Agent 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 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 Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any such payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest; 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 Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such 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 Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) and interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company upon Company Request or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment of such principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on 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 Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee ----------------- or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in 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 Company. SECTION 1004. Existence. Subject to Article Eight, the Company will --------- do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect the existence, rights and franchises of itself and of each Guarantor; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any right - ----------------- or franchise if the Board of Directors determines that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and the Guarantors taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders; and provided further that any Guarantor may -------- ------- consolidate with, merge into, or sell convey, -49- transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or part of its property and assets to the Company or any other Guarantor. SECTION 1005. Maintenance of Properties. The Company will cause all ------------------------- of the properties of itself and of each Subsidiary 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 Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, --------- however, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be prevented from - ------- discontinuing the operation and maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.. SECTION 1006. Insurance. The Company 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. SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and other Claims. The Company will --------------------------------- pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon it or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2) all material lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that the ----------------- Company 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. SECTION 1008. Statement as to Compliance. The Company will deliver -------------------------- to the Trustee, within 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, a brief certificate from its principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Company's and each Guarantor'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 1006, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture. SECTION 1009. Additional Amounts. If any Securities of a series ------------------ provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company 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 of or any premium 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 interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certifi- -50- cate, the Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company'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 who are not United States persons without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of 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 Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Securities. If 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 (i) 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 (ii) 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 Company 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 them or in reliance on any Officers' Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section or in reliance on the Company's not furnishing such an Officers' Certificate. SECTION 1010. Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may omit in --------------------------- any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 1004 and 1005, inclusive, 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 Company 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 ------------------------ which 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 Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any reedemption at the election of the Company of less than all of the Securities of any series, the Company 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 Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction. SECTION 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. If ------------------------------------------------- less than all the Securities of any series 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 -51- 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 Company 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 which 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 nor 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, the notice which relates to such Security shall state 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, -52- (7) 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 Company and the Trustee for such series and any Paying Agent is furnished, (8) 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 redemption on this Redemption Date pursuant to Section 305 or otherwise, the last date, as determined by the Company, on which such exchanges may be made, (9) the CUSIP number of such Security, if any, and (10) if applicable, that a Holder of Securities who desires to convert Securities for redemption 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 Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company. SECTION 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price. At least one Business Day --------------------------- prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money 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 which are to be redeemed on that date. SECTION 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of ------------------------------------- redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified 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 Company 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 Company 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 Company and the Trustee if -53- 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 Registered Security --------------------------- which is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article) shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge a new Security or Securities of the same series, 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 GUARANTEES SECTION 1201. Guarantee. Subject to the provisions of this Article --------- Twelve, each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally, fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to each Holder and to the Trustee on behalf of the Holders: (i) the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued interest on each Security, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, the due and punctual payment of interest on the overdue principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities, to the extent lawful, and the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee, all in accordance with the terms of such Security and this Indenture and (ii) in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Securities or any of such other obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, at Stated Maturity, by acceleration or otherwise (the obligations in subsections (i) and (ii) hereof being the "Guaranteed Obligations"). Each Guarantor hereby waives ---------------------- diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of merger or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, the benefit of discussion, protest or notice with respect to any such Security or the debt evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that its Guarantee will not be discharged as to any such Security except by payment in full of the principal thereof and interest thereon and as provided in Section 4.01, Section 14.02 and Section 14.03. The maturity of the Securities may be accelerated as provided in Article Five for the purposes of this Article Twelve. In the event of any declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article Five, the Securities (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by each Guarantor jointly and severally, for the purpose of this Article Eleven. In addition, without limiting the foregoing provisions, upon the effectiveness of an acceleration under Article Five, the Trustee shall promptly make a demand for payment on the Securities under each Guarantee provided for in this Article Twelve. If the Trustee or the Holder of any Security is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company or any Guarantor, or any custodian, receiver, liquidator, trustee, sequestrator -54- or other similar official acting in relation to the Company or such Guarantor, any amount paid to the Trustee or such Holder in respect of a Security, this Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect. Each Guarantor further agrees, to the fullest extent that it may lawfully do so, that, as between it, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article Five hereof for the purposes of its Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition extant under any applicable bankruptcy law preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby. Each Guarantor hereby further agrees that its obligations under this Indenture and the Securities shall be unconditional, regardless of the validity, regularity or enforceability of this Indenture or the Securities, the absence of any action to enforce this Indenture or the Securities, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions of this Indenture or the Securities, any modification or amendment of, or supplement to, this Indenture or the Securities, the recovery of any judgment against the Company or any action to enforce any such judgment, or any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor. Each Guarantor that makes or is required to make any payment in respect of its Guarantee shall be entitled to seek contribution from the other Guarantors to the extent permitted by applicable law; provided that each -------- Guarantor agrees that any such claim for contribution that such Guarantor may have against any other Guarantor shall be subrogated to the prior payment in full, in cash, of all obligations owed to Holders under or in respect of the Securities. Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any claim or other rights that it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of its obligations under its Guarantee and this Indenture, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution, indemnification, any right to participate in any claim or remedy of the Holders against the Company or any collateral that any such Holder or the Trustee on behalf of such Holder hereafter acquires, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Company, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim or other rights. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence and the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for the benefit of, the Holders, and shall forthwith be paid to the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders to be credited and applied upon the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the issuance of the Securities pursuant to this Indenture and that the waivers set forth in this Section 12.01 are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits. Each Guarantee set forth in this Section 12.01 shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose with respect to a Security until the certificate of authentication on such Security shall have been signed by or on behalf of the Trustee. SECTION 1202. Obligations Unconditional. Subject to Section 12.05, ------------------------- nothing contained in this Article Twelve or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among each Guarantor and the Holders, the obligation of each Guarantor, which is absolute and unconditional, upon failure by the Company, to pay to the Holders the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of each Guarantor, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent any Holder or the Trustee on its behalf from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture. -55- Without limiting the foregoing, nothing contained in this Article Twelve will restrict the right of the Trustee or the Holders to take any action to declare the Guarantee to be due and payable prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities pursuant to Section 5.02 or to pursue any rights or remedies hereunder. SECTION 1203. Execution of Guarantee. To evidence its obligations ---------------------- under this Article Twelve, each Guarantor hereby agrees to execute a guarantee in a form set forth in the supplemental indenture for each series of Securities guaranteed by the Guarantor, to be endorsed on each Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee. The signature of any officer of a Guarantor on the Securities may be manual or facsimile. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in this Article Twelve shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse such Guarantee on any series of Securities. SECTION 1204. Withholding. All payments made by a Guarantor with ----------- respect to the Guarantees will be made without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of any country (other than the United States) or any political subdivision thereof or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax, unless the withholding or deduction of such taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges is then required by law. In the event that any country (other than the United States) or any political subdivision thereof, or any authority therein or thereof, imposes any such withholding or deduction on (a) any payments made by a Guarantor with respect to the Guarantees or (b) any net proceeds on the sale to or exchange with any Guarantor of the Securities, such Guarantor will pay such additional amounts as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received in respect to such payments or sale or exchange by the Holders or the Trustee, as the case may be, after such withholding or deduction shall equal the respective amounts that would have been received in respect of such payments or sale or exchange in the absence of such withholding or deduction; except that no such additional amounts shall be payable with respect to any series of Securities held by or on behalf of a Holder who is liable for such taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges in respect of such Security by reason of his being a citizen or resident of, or carrying on a business in, the country of residence of any Guarantor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Guarantor making a payment on the Securities pursuant to the Guarantee shall not be required to pay any additional amounts if (x) the beneficial holder of a Security received by certified mail (evidenced by a return receipt signed by such beneficial holder) (i) written notice from such Guarantor no less than 60 days in advance of making such payment and (ii) the appropriate forms or instructions necessary to enable such beneficial holder to certify or document the availability of an exemption from, or reduction of, the withholding or deduction of such taxes under applicable law, which such instructions shall clearly specify that additional amounts under this Section 1204 may not be paid if such forms are not completed by such beneficial holder, and (y) the Guarantor that would otherwise have to pay such additional amounts establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee that the obligation to pay such additional amounts would not have risen but for the failure of such beneficial holder to (i) duly complete such forms as were actually received by such beneficial holder or respond to such instructions and (ii) provide to such Guarantor such duly completed forms or responses to instructions. Without prejudice to the survival of any of the agreements of the Guarantors hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Guarantors contained in this Section 1204 shall survive the payment in full of Securities and all other amounts payable under this Guarantee. SECTION 1205. Limitation of Guarantee. The Company and each Holder ----------------------- by his or her acceptance thereof, hereby confirm that it is the intention of all such parties that any Guarantee of the Securities executed by a Guarantor under this Indenture and the terms of a supplemental indenture for any series of Securities not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or any similar federal or state law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, in the event that any such Guarantee would constitute or result in a violation of any applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law of any relevant jurisdiction, the liability of the Guarantor under such Guarantee shall be reduced to the maximum amount, after -56- giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor, permissible under the applicable fraudulent conveyance or similar law. SECTION 1206. Release of Guarantee. (a) Concurrently with the -------------------- payment in full of all of the Securities, the Guarantors shall be released from and relieved of their obligations under this Article Twelve. Upon the delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers' Certificate and, if requested by the Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the transaction giving rise to the release of such obligations was made by the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of the Guarantors from their obligations. If any of the Guaranteed Obligations are revived and reinstated after the termination of this Guarantee, then all of the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guarantee shall be revived and reinstated as if this Guarantee had not been terminated until such time as the Guaranteed Obligations are again terminated, and the Guarantors shall enter into an amendment to this Guarantee, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, evidencing such revival and reinstatement. (b) Upon the sale or disposition of all the Capital Stock of a Guarantor (by merger or otherwise) to a Person other than the Company or any other Guarantor and which sale or disposition is otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture, such Guarantor shall be deemed released from all obligations under this Article Twelve; provided, however, that any such ----------------- termination upon such sale or disposition shall occur if and only to the extent that all obligations of such Guarantor under all of its guarantees of, and under all of its pledges of assets or other security interests which secure, indebtedness of the Company or any other Guarantor shall also terminate upon such sale or disposition. Upon the delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers' Certificate and, if requested by the Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the transaction giving rise to the release of such obligations was made in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of such Guarantor from its obligations. Any Guarantor not so released remains liable for the full amount of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as provided in this Article Twelve. (c) Nothing contained in this Indenture or in the Securities shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or another Guarantor, or shall prevent the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of a Guarantor to the Company or another Guarantor. Upon any such consolidation, merger, transfer or sale, the Guarantee of such Guarantor shall no longer have any force of effect. 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 thereof, together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants that at least one Business Day prior to the Repayment Date it -57- will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money 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 there for specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 60 days nor 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 the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"), 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 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 Company. SECTION 1304. When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and ------------------------------------------------------ Payable. If Securities of any series provide 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 portion thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repayment Date therein specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Company 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 coupons, if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Repayment Date, the principal amount of such Security so to be repaid paid by the Company, together with accrued interest, if any, Repayment Date; provided, however, that coupons whose Stated ----------------- Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable 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 -------- ------- -58- 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 with interest thereon, unless the Company 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 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 Company and the Trustee if there be furnished to it such security or indemnity as they may require to save it 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 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 which is to be repaid in part only, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Company, 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 which is not to be repaid. ARTICLE FOURTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE SECTION 1401. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect ---------------------------------------------------- Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. If, pursuant to Section 301, provision is - --------------------------------- made for either or both of (a) defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1402 or (b) covenant defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 1403, 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 Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 1402 (if applicable) or Section 1403 (if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article. SECTION 1402. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's exercise ------------------------ of the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company and the Guarantors shall be deemed to have been discharged from their 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 defea- -59- sance means that the Company 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 (A) and (B) 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 Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) 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, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto when such payments are due, (B) the Company'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 1007, (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article Fourteen, the Company 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. SECTION 1403. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise of ------------------- the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company and the Guarantors shall be released from their obligations under Sections 1004 and 1005, inclusive and, if specified pursuant to Section 301, their obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and 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 and 1005, 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 Company and the Guarantors 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 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(3) or 501(7) otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, 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: (a) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 607 who 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, a dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, (1) 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 (2) 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 the terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any -60- payment of principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, money in an amount, or (3) a combination thereof, any case, 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 the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) and interest, if any, on such Outstanding Securities and any coupons, appertaining thereto on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest 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. (b) 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 Company is a party or by which it is bound. (c) No Event of Default or event which 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(6) and 501(7) 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). (d) In the case of an election under Section 1402, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the Company 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. (e) In the case of an election under Section 1403, the Company 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. (f) The Company 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 (a) above and the related exercise of the Company'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 Company with respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the Trustee for such trust funds or (ii) all necessary registrations under said Act have been effected. (g) 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 which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section 301. -61- 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 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, if any) and interest, 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(a) has been made, (a) 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(a) has been made in respect of such Security, or (b) a Conversion Event occurs in respect of the currency or currency unit in which the deposit pursuant to Section 1404(a) 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, if any, on 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 Company 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 which 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, subject to Section 606, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the Company Request any money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 1404 which, 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 which would then be required to be deposited to effect a defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this Article. ARTICLE FIFTEEN INTENTIONALLY OMITTED -62- 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 Company in a liquidation or dissolution of the Company or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding relating to the Company or its property: (1) Holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive payment in full in cash of the principal of (and premium or Make-Whole Amount, if any) 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 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 Company 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 Company 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 Company if: (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 Company receives a notice of the default from a person who may give it pursuant to Section 1611. If the Company 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 Company may resume payments on the Securities and may acquire them when: (a) the default is cured or waived, or (b) 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. -63- SECTION 1604. Acceleration of Securities. If payment of the -------------------------- Securities is accelerated because of an Event of Default, the Company shall promptly notify Holders of Senior Debt of the acceleration. The Company 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 who 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 Company. The Company shall promptly notify ------------------ the Trustee and any Paying Agent of any facts known to them 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 which otherwise would have been made to Holders is not, as between the Company and Holders, a payment by the Company 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 Company and Holders, the obligation of the Company, 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 Company other than Holders of Senior Debt; or (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 Company 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 Company. 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 Company 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 the Article. Only the Company, a Representative or a Holder of an issue of Senior Debt that has no Representative may give the written notice. -64- 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 Company's obligation to pay, and the Company's payment of, the Trustee's fees pursuant to Section 606 are excluded from the operation of this Article Sixteen. ************ 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. -65- IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written. NVR, INC. By: ------------------------------------ Name: Title: [BANK], as Trustee By: ------------------------------------ Name: Title: Vice President The Guarantors -------------- NVR FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. RVN, INC. By: By: ----------------------------- ------------------------------- Name: Name: Title: Title: NVR HOMES, INC. NVR FOX RIDGE, INC. By: By: ----------------------------- ------------------------------- Name: Name: Title: Title: -66- STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of NVR, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------- Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of NVR Financial Services, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------- Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of NVR Homes, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------- Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES -67- STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of RVN, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------- Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES STATE OF ) ) ss: COUNTY OF ) On the __th day of __________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________ who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she resides in _________________________________, that he/she is the ___________________ of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------- Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES -68- STATE OF NEW YORK ) ) ss: COUNTY OF NEW YORK ) On the _________ day of _________, 199__, before me personally came to me known, _____________________, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that she/he resides at ___________________________, that she/he is a __________________ of [Bank], one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by authority of said corporation. [Notarial Seal] ------------------------------------------- Notary Public COMMISSION EXPIRES: -69- 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 (i) are owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic companies, or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source ("United States person(s)"), (ii) are owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 2.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as "financial institutions") purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such United States financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or through its agent, that you may NVR, Inc. or its agent that such financial institution will 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 (iii) are owned by United States or foreign financial institution(s) 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, in addition, if the owner is a United States or foreign financial institution described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)), this is to further certify that such financial institution 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 "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 absent of any such notification it may be assumed that this certification applies as of such date. This certificate excepts and does not relate to [U.S. $] 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: _________________, 19__ [To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior to (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: -2- EXHIBIT A-2 FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR AND CEDEL S.A. 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, [U.S. $] _____________________principal amount of the above-captioned Securities (i) is owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic companies, 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 person(s)"), (ii) is owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in U.S. 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 (b) United States person(s) who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that we may advise NVR, Inc. or its agent that such financial institution will 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 (iii) is owned by United States or foreign financial institution(s) 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, to the further effect, that financial institutions described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)) 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 (i) 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 (ii) 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: 19 ------------ -- [To be dated no earlier than the Exchange Date or the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable] [Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels Office,] as Operator of the Euroclear System [Cedel S.A.] By: ------------------------------------------- -2- EX-5.1 6 EXHIBIT 5.1 Exhibit 5.1 HOGAN & HARTSON L.L.P Columbia Square 555 THIRTEENTH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20004-1109 (202) 637-5600 (202) 637-5910 January 20, 1998 The Respective Boards of Directors of NVR, Inc. NVR Financial Services, Inc. NVR Homes, Inc. RVN, Inc. NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. 7601 Lewinsville Road, Suite 300 McLean, Virginia 22102 Ladies and Gentlemen: We are acting as special counsel to NVR, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Company"), and to NVR Financial Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation ("NVR Financial"), NVR Homes, Inc., a Virginia corporation ("NVR Homes"), RVN, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("RVN"), and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., a Tennessee corporation ("Fox Ridge" and, together with NVR Financial, NVR Homes and RVN, the "Guarantors") in connection with the filing of the registration statement of the Company and the Guarantors on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement") with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), relating to the proposed public offering and sale, from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the 1933 Act, of up to $400,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company's unsecured, nonconvertible debt securities (the "Debt Securities"), which may be guaranteed by one or more of the Guarantors. This opinion letter is furnished to you at your request to enable you to fulfill the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K, 17 C.F.R. (S) 229.601(b)(5), in connection with the Registration Statement. For purposes of this opinion letter, we have examined copies of the following documents: 1. An executed copy of the Registration Statement. January 20, 1998 Page 2 2. The Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as certified by the State Corporation Commission of the Commonwealth of Virginia on January 16, 1998 and by the Assistant Secretary of the Company on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 3. The Bylaws of the Company, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of the Company on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 4. The Articles of Incorporation of NVR Financial, as certified by the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on January 16, 1998 and by the Assistant Secretary of NVR Financial on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 5. The Bylaws of NVR Financial, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of NVR Financial on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 6. The Restated Articles of Incorporation of NVR Homes, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of NVR Homes on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 7. The Bylaws of NVR Homes, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of NVR Homes on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 8. The Certificate of Incorporation of RVN, as certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on January 15, 1998 and by the Assistant Secretary of RVN on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 9. The Bylaws of RVN, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of RVN on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 10. The Charter of Fox Ridge, as certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Tennessee on January 20, 1998 and by the Assistant Secretary of Fox Ridge on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. 11. The Bylaws of Fox Ridge, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of Fox Ridge on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect. January 20, 1998 Page 3 12. The proposed form of indenture for senior Debt Securities to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. 13. The proposed form of indenture for subordinated Debt Securities to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. 14. Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company adopted by unanimous written consent on January 13, 1998, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of the Company on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect, relating to the filing of the Registration Statement and arrangements in connection therewith. 15. Resolutions of the Board of Directors of NVR Financial adopted by unanimous written consent on January 13, 1998, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of NVR Financial on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect, relating to the filing of the Registration Statement and arrangements in connection therewith. 16. Resolutions of the Board of Directors of NVR Homes adopted by unanimous written consent on January 13, 1998, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of NVR Homes on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect, relating to the filing of the Registration Statement and arrangements in connection therewith. 17. Resolutions of the Board of Directors of RVN adopted by unanimous written consent on January 13, 1998, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of RVN on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect, relating to the filing of the Registration Statement and arrangements in connection therewith. 18. Resolutions of the Board of Directors of Fox Ridge adopted by unanimous written consent on January 13, 1998, as certified by the Assistant Secretary of Fox Ridge on the date hereof as being complete, accurate and in effect, relating to the filing of the Registration Statement and arrangements in connection therewith. In our examination of these documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of natural persons, the authenticity, accuracy and completeness of all documents submitted to us, and the conformity with original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies (including telecopies). This opinion letter is delivered, and all statements herein are made, in the context of the foregoing. January 20, 1998 Page 4 This opinion letter is based as to matters of law solely on applicable provisions of (i) the Virginia Stock Corporation Act, (ii) the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law, (iii) the Delaware General Corporation Law, (iv) the Tennessee Business Corporation Act, and (v) New York contract law (but not including any statutes, ordinances, administrative decisions, rules or regulations of any political subdivision of the State of New York). We express no opinion herein as to any other laws, statutes, regulations or ordinances. Furthermore, the Debt Securities may be issued from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, and any opinion expressed in this letter is limited to laws as in effect on the date hereof. To the extent that the obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under an indenture covering the Debt Securities may be dependent upon such matters, we assume for purposes of this opinion that the trustee under the indenture will be duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization; that the trustee will be duly qualified to engage in the activities contemplated by the indenture; that the indenture will have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the trustee and will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the trustee enforceable in accordance with its terms; and that the trustee will be in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations relating to its acting as a trustee under the indenture. Based upon, subject to and limited by the foregoing, we are of the opinion that, following (i) effectiveness of the Registration Statement, (ii) final action by the Board of Directors of the Company, or by a duly authorized committee of the Board of Directors or officer of the Company in accordance with the Virginia Stock Corporation Act and the Company's Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, fixing and approving the rank and terms of the Debt Securities, including the form or forms of note to evidence the Debt Securities, in a manner that does not violate any applicable law, governmental or court-imposed order or restriction or agreement or instrument then binding on the Company, or otherwise impair the legal and binding nature of the obligations represented by the Debt Securities, (iii) final action by the Board of Directors of each Guarantor that is to provide a guarantee with respect to the Debt Securities, or by a duly authorized committee of such board or officer of such Guarantor, fixing and approving the terms and conditions of its guarantee of the Debt Securities, in a manner that does not violate any applicable law, governmental or court-imposed order or restriction or agreement or instrument then binding on the Guarantor, or otherwise impair the legal and binding nature of the obligations of the Guarantor with respect to the Debt Securities, (iv) qualification of the indenture or indentures under which the Debt Securities are to be issued under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and due execution and delivery thereof by duly authorized officers of the Company, each Guarantor that is to provide a guarantee with respect to the Debt Securities, and the trustee in the form or forms filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement, with items shown in such exhibits as subject to completion January 20, 1998 Page 5 completed in a satisfactory manner, (v) due execution and authentication of the Debt Securities in accordance with the terms of such indenture or indentures, (vi) delivery to the purchasers of the Debt Securities upon payment of the consideration fixed therefor by the Board of Directors of the Company, or by a duly authorized committee of the Board or officer of the Company in accordance with the Virginia Stock Corporation Act and the Company's Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, and in accordance with the terms and conditions of any applicable underwriting agreement and of any applicable resolution of the Board of Directors of any Guarantor that provides a guarantee with respect to the Debt Securities, or of a duly authorized committee of such board or officer of such Guarantor, all as contemplated in the Registration Statement and in any applicable prospectus and prospectus supplement filed as part of the Registration Statement, the Debt Securities will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, and the guarantee of any Guarantor that provides a guarantee with respect to the Debt Securities will constitute a valid and binding obligation of such Guarantor, enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors' rights (including, without limitation, the effect of statutory and other law regarding fraudulent conveyances, fraudulent transfers and preferential transfers) and as may be limited by the exercise of judicial discretion and the application of principles of equity including, without limitation, requirements of good faith, fair dealing, conscionability and materiality (regardless of whether the Debt Securities or any such guarantee is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). The opinions expressed in the preceding paragraph shall be understood to mean only that if there is a default in performance of an obligation, (i) if a failure to pay or other damage can be shown and (ii) if the defaulting party can be brought into a court that will hear the case and apply the governing law, then, subject to the availability of defenses and to the exceptions set forth in such opinion, the court will provide a money damage (or perhaps injunctive or specific performance) remedy. We assume no obligation to advise you of any changes in the foregoing after the delivery of this opinion letter. This opinion letter has been prepared solely for your use in connection with the filing of the Registration Statement on the date hereof and should not be quoted in whole or in part or otherwise be referred to, or filed with or furnished to any governmental agency or other person or entity, without the prior written consent of this firm. We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the caption "Legal January 20, 1998 Page 6 Matters" in the prospectus constituting a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are an "expert" within the meaning of the 1933 Act. Very truly yours, /s/ Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. HOGAN & HARTSON L.L.P. EX-12.1 7 EXHIBIT 12.1 NVR, Inc. Exhibit 12.1 Fixed Charge Coverage Ratios Consolidated
Nine Three Nine Months Ended Year Year Year Months Ended Months Ended September 30, Ended Ended Ended December 31, September 30, 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1993 1992 ------------ -------- --------- -------- ----------- ------------ --------- Consolidated Fixed Charges - --------------------------------------- Interest Expense - Homebuilding $12,257 $16,611 $17,166 $20,208 $ 5,281 $ 5,573 $20,608 Interest Expense - Mortgage Banker 2,333 2,249 2,090 2,364 1,557 2,296 3,874 Interest Expense - LPFS 1,787 6,398 8,124 14,319 4,785 18,787 40,296 Capitalized interest amortized to COS 0 0 0 0 8,438 14,100 Change in capitalized interest 0 0 0 0 0 (4,700) (4,300) ------------ -------- --------- -------- ----------- ------------ --------- $16,377 $25,258 $27,380 $36,891 $11,623 $30,394 $74,578 ============ ======== ========= ======== =========== ============ ========= Pre-tax income from continuing operations $44,751 $25,781 $16,400 $22,161 ($9,089) ($9,130) ($9,674) Add : Net decrease (increase) in Capitalized interest 0 0 0 0 0 4,700 4,300 Add: Fixed charges 16,377 25,258 27,380 36,891 11,623 30,394 74,578 ------------ -------- --------- -------- ----------- ------------ --------- Earnings before fixed charges $61,128 $51,039 $43,780 $59,052 $ 2,534 $25,964 $69,204 ============ ======== ========= ======== =========== ============ ========= Ratio 3.7 2.0 1.6 1.6 Deficient Deficient Deficient ============ ======== ========= ======== =========== ============ ========= Deficiency in dollars $ 9,089 $ 4,430 $ 5,374 =========== ============ =========
NVR, Inc. Exhibit 12.1 Fixed Charge Coverage Ratios Homebuilding Operations
Nine Three Nine Months Ended Year Year Year Months Ended Months Ended September 30, Ended Ended Ended December 31, September 30, 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1993 1992 Excluding Financial Sevices ---------- ---------- --------- --------- ------------ ------------ --------- and reorganization items Fixed Charges - -------------------------------------- Interest Expense - Homebuilding $12,257 $16,611 $17,166 $20,208 $5,281 $5,573 $20,608 Capitalized interest amortized to COS 0 0 0 0 0 8,438 14,100 Change in capitalized interest 0 0 0 0 0 (4,700) (4,300) ---------- ---------- --------- --------- ----------- ---------- ---------- $12,257 $16,611 $17,166 $20,208 $5,281 $9,311 $30,408 ========== ========== ========= ========= =========== ========== ========== Pre-tax income from continuing operations $41,640 $46,114 $32,247 $22,253 ($5,227) $11,645 ($1,073) Add: Net decrease (increase) in Capitalized interest 0 0 0 0 0 4,700 4,300 Add: Fixed charges 12,257 16,611 17,166 20,208 5,281 9,311 30,408 ---------- ---------- --------- --------- ----------- ---------- ---------- Earnings before fixed charges $53,897 $62,725 $49,413 $42,461 $54 $25,656 $33,635 ========== ========== ========= ========= =========== ========== ========== Ratio 4.4 3.8 2.9 2.1 Deficient 2.8 1.1 ========== ========== ========= ========= =========== ========== ========== Deficiency in dollars $5,227 ===========
EX-23.1 8 EXHIBIT 23.1 Exhibit 23.1 Consent of Independent Auditors ------------------------------- The Board of Directors NVR, Inc.: We consent to the use of our reports incorporated herein by reference and to the reference to our firm under the heading "Experts" in the prospectus. Each of our reports for NVR, Inc. and NVR Financial Services, Inc. incorporated herein by reference contains an explanatory paragraph as to the adoption, effective January 1, 1995, of the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 122, "Accounting for Mortgage Servicing Rights." ---------------------------------------- KPMG Peat Marwick LLP Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania January 19, 1998 EX-24.1 9 EXHIBIT 24.1 Exhibit 24.1 POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors of NVR, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Corporation"), constitutes and appoints Dwight C. Schar and Paul C. Saville, and each of them, 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 the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of the Corporation covering the offer and sale, from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, of debt securities in the aggregate principal amount of approximately $400,000,000, and any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) and subsequent registration statements filed by the Corporation under Rule 462(b) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE - --------- ----- ---- /s/ C. Scott Bartlett, Jr. Director January 13, 1998 - ----------------------------- C. Scott Bartlett, Jr. /s/ Manuel H. Johnson Director January 13, 1998 - ----------------------------- Manuel H. Johnson /s/ William A. Moran Director January 13, 1998 - ----------------------------- William A. Moran /s/ Richard H. Norair, Sr. Director January 13, 1998 - ----------------------------- Richard H. Norair, Sr. /s/ David A. Preiser Director January 13, 1998 - ----------------------------- David A. Preiser /s/ George E. Slye Director January 13, 1998 - ----------------------------- George E. Slye /s/ John M. Toups Director January 13, 1998 - ----------------------------- John M. Toups
POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors and/or officers of NVR Financial Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (the "Corporation"), constitutes and appoints Dwight C. Schar and Paul C. Saville, and each of them, 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 the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of NVR, Inc., as primary obligor, and of the Corporation, NVR Homes, Inc., RVN, Inc. and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., as guarantors, covering the offer and sale, from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, of debt securities in the aggregate principal amount of approximately $400,000,000, and any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) and subsequent registration statements filed by the registrants under Rule 462(b) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE - --------- ----- ---- /s/ William J. Inman President and Director January 13, 1998 - --------------------- William J. Inman /s/ Michael J. Cannizzo Director January 13, 1998 - -------------------------- Michael J. Cannizzo /s/ Peter J. Fitzsimmons Treasurer January 13, 1998 - --------------------------- Peter J. Fitzsimmons
POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors of NVR Homes, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Corporation"), constitutes and appoints Dwight C. Schar and Paul C. Saville, and each of them, 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 the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of NVR, Inc., as primary obligor, and of the Corporation, NVR Financial Services, Inc., RVN, Inc. and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., as guarantors, covering the offer and sale, from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, of debt securities in the aggregate principal amount of approximately $400,000,000, and any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) and subsequent registration statements filed by the registrants under Rule 462(b) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. SIGNATURE TITLE DATE - --------- ----- ---- /s/ William J. Inman Director January 13, 1998 - ----------------------- William J. Inman /s/ Michael J. Cannizzo Director January 13, 1998 - -------------------------- Michael J. Cannizzo POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned directors and/or officers of RVN, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), constitutes and appoints Dwight C. Schar and Paul C. Saville, and each of them, 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 the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of NVR, Inc., as primary obligor, and of the Corporation, NVR Financial Services, Inc., NVR Homes, Inc. and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., as guarantors, covering the offer and sale, from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, of debt securities in the aggregate principal amount of approximately $400,000,000, and any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) and subsequent registration statements filed by the registrants under Rule 462(b) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. SIGNATURE TITLE DATE - --------- ----- ---- /s/ William J. Inman President January 13, 1998 - --------------------- William J. Inman /s/ Thomas Ruck Director January 13, 1998 - --------------------- Thomas Ruck /s/ Frank Stagno Treasurer January 13, 1998 - --------------------- Frank Stagno POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., a Tennessee corporation (the "Corporation"), constitutes and appoints Dwight C. Schar and Paul C. Saville, and each of them, 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 the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of NVR, Inc., as primary obligor, and of the Corporation, NVR Financial Services, Inc., NVR Homes, Inc. and RVN, Inc., as guarantors, covering the offer and sale, from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, of debt securities in the aggregate principal amount of approximately $400,000,000, and any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) and subsequent registration statements filed by the registrants under Rule 462(b) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. SIGNATURE TITLE DATE - --------- ----- ---- /s/ William J. Inman Director January 13, 1998 - ---------------------------- William J. Inman POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned officer and/or director of NVR, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Corporation"); NVR Financial Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation; NVR Homes, Inc., a Virginia corporation; and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, constitutes and appoints Paul C. Saville 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 the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of the Corporation, as primary obligor, and of NVR Financial Services, Inc., NVR Homes, Inc., RVN, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., as guarantors, covering the offer and sale, from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, of debt securities in the aggregate principal amount of approximately $400,000,000, and any and all amendments thereto (including post- effective amendments) and subsequent registration statements filed by the registrants under Rule 462(b) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), 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 and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or any of his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE - --------- ----- ---- /s/ Dwight C. Schar Chairman of the Board of January 13, 1998 - ------------------------------ Directors, President and Dwight C. Schar Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation; Director of NVR Financial Services, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President of NVR Homes, Inc.; Chairman of the Board and Director of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc.
POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned officer and/or director of NVR, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the "Corporation"); NVR Financial Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation; NVR Homes, Inc., a Virginia corporation; RVN, Inc., a Delaware corporation; and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, constitutes and appoints Dwight C. Schar 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 the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of the Corporation, as primary obligor, and of NVR Financial Services, Inc., NVR Homes, Inc., RVN, Inc., and NVR Fox Ridge, Inc., as guarantors, covering the offer and sale, from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, of debt securities in the aggregate principal amount of approximately $400,000,000, and any and all amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments) and subsequent registration statements filed by the registrants under Rule 462(b) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), 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 and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or any of his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE - --------- ----- ---- /s/ Paul C. Saville Senior Vice President, January 13, 1998 - ---------------------- Chief Financial Officer Paul C. Saville and Treasurer of the Corporation; Director of NVR Financial Services, Inc.; Senior Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Director of NVR Homes, Inc.; Vice President (Principal Financial Officer) and Director of RVN, Inc; Director of NVR Fox Ridge, Inc. (and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
EX-99.2 10 EXHIBIT 99.2 Exhibit 99.2 ------------ PURDON'S PENNSYLVANIA CONSOLIDATED STATUTES ANNOTATED TITLE 15. CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS PART II. CORPORATIONS SUBPART B. BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ARTICLE B. DOMESTIC BUSINESS CORPORATIONS GENERALLY CHAPTER 17. OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS SUBCHAPTER D. INDEMNIFICATION (S) 1741. Third-party actions Unless otherwise restricted in its bylaws, a business corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation), by reason of the fact that he is or was a representative of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a representative of another domestic or foreign corporation for profit or not-for-profit, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the action or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or conviction or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent shall not of itself create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner that he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. (S) 1742. Derivative and corporate actions Unless otherwise restricted in its bylaws, a business corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any threatened, pending or completed action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a representative of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a representative of another domestic or foreign corporation for profit or not-for-profit, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of the action if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation. Indemnification shall not be made under this section in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which the person has been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the court of common pleas of the judicial district embracing the county in which the registered office of the corporation is located or the court in which the action was brought determines upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for the expenses that the court of common pleas or other court deems proper. (S) 1743. Mandatory indemnification To the extent that a representative of a business corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action or proceeding referred to in section 1741 (relating to third-party actions) or 1742 (relating to derivative and corporate actions) or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorney fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith. (S) 1744. Procedure for effecting indemnification Unless ordered by a court, any indemnification under section 1741 (relating to third-party actions) or 1742 (relating to derivative and corporate actions) shall be made by the business corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the representative is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in those sections. The determination shall be made: (1) by the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to the action or proceeding; (2) if such a quorum is not obtainable or if obtainable and a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion; or (3) by the shareholders. (S) 1745. Advancing expenses Expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in defending any action or proceeding referred to in this subchapter may be paid by a business corporation in advance of the final disposition of the action or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the representative to repay the amount if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this subchapter or otherwise. (S) 1746. Supplementary coverage (a) General rule.--The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other sections of this subchapter shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a person seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding that office. Section 1728 (relating to interested directors or officers; quorum) and, in the case of a registered corporation, section 2538 (relating to approval of transactions with interested shareholders) shall be applicable to any bylaw, contract or transaction authorized by the directors under this section. A corporation may create a fund of any nature, which may, but need not be, under the control of a trustee, or otherwise secure or insure in any manner its indemnification obligations, whether arising under or pursuant to this section or otherwise. (b) When indemnification is not to be made.--Indemnification pursuant to subsection (a) shall not be made in any case where the act or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification is determined by a court to have constituted willful misconduct or recklessness. The articles may not provide for indemnification in the case of willful misconduct or recklessness. (c) Grounds.--Indemnification pursuant to subsection (a) under any bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or directors or otherwise may be granted for any action taken and may be made whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify the person under any other provision of law except as provided in this section and whether or not the indemnified liability arises or arose from any threatened, pending or completed action by or in the right of the corporation. Such indemnification is declared to be consistent with the public policy of this Commonwealth. (S) 1747. Power to purchase insurance Unless otherwise restricted in its bylaws, a business corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a representative of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a representative of another domestic or foreign corporation for profit or not-for-profit, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify him against that liability under the provisions of this subchapter. Such insurance is declared to be consistent with the public policy of this Commonwealth. (S) 1748. Application to surviving or new corporations For the purposes of this subchapter, references to "the corporation" include all constituent corporations absorbed in a consolidation, merger or division, as well as the surviving or new corporations surviving or resulting therefrom, so that any person who is or was a representative of the constituent, surviving or new corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the constituent, surviving or new corporation as a representative of another domestic or foreign corporation for profit or not-for-profit, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this subchapter with respect to the surviving or new corporation as he would if he had served the surviving or new corporation in the same capacity. (S) 1749. Application to employee benefit plans For purposes of this subchapter: (1) References to "other enterprises" shall include employee benefit plans and references to "serving at the request of the corporation" shall include any service as a representative of the business corporation that imposes duties on, or involves services by, the representative with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries. (2) Excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan pursuant to applicable law shall be deemed "fines." (3) Action with respect to an employee benefit plan taken or omitted in good faith by a representative of the corporation in a manner he reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan shall be deemed to be action in a manner that is not opposed to the best interests of the corporation. (S) 1750. Duration and extent of coverage The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this subchapter shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a representative of the corporation and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and personal representative of that person. EX-99.3 11 EXHIBIT 99.3 Exhibit 99.3 ------------ MICHIE'S DELAWARE CORPORATION LAWS ANNOTATED TITLE 8. CORPORATIONS CHAPTER 1. GENERAL CORPORATION LAW (S) 145. Indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents; insurance. (a) A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person's conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the person's conduct was unlawful. (b) A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper. (c) To the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith. (d) Any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of this section (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination, (1) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (2) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (3) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (4) by the stockholders. (e) Expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by an officer or director in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this section. Such expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by former directors and officers or other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the corporation deems appropriate. (f) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other subsections of this section shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person's official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office. (g) A corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person's status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under this section. (h) For purposes of this section, references to "the corporation" shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under this section with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued. (i) For purposes of this section, references to "other enterprises" shall include employee benefit plans; references to "fines" shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan; and references to "serving at the request of the corporation" shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner "not opposed to the best interests of the corporation" as referred to in this section. (j) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this section shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person. (k) The Court of Chancery is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all actions for advancement of expenses or indemnification brought under this section or under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise. The Court of Chancery may summarily determine a corporation's obligation to advance expenses (including attorneys' fees). EX-99.4 12 EXHIBIT 99.4 Exhibit 99.4 ------------ TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED TITLE 48 CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS CORPORATIONS CHAPTER 18 DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS Part 5-- Indemnification 48-18-501 Definitions. In this part: (1) "Corporation" includes any domestic or foreign predecessor entity of a corporation in a merger or other transaction in which the predecessor's existence ceased upon consummation of the transaction; (2) "Director" means an individual who is or was a director of a corporation, including individuals acting pursuant to (S) 48-18-101, or an individual who, while a director of a corporation, is or was serving at the corporation's request as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise. A director is considered to be serving an employee benefit plan at the corporation's request if the director's duties to the corporation also impose duties on or otherwise involve services by the director to the plan or to participants in or beneficiaries of the plan. "Director" includes, unless the context requires otherwise, the estate or personal representative of a director; (3) "Expenses" includes counsel fees; (4) "Liability" means the obligation to pay a judgment, settlement, penalty, fine (including an excise tax assessed with respect to an employee benefit plan), or reasonable expenses incurred with respect to a proceeding; (5) "Official capacity" means: (A) When used with respect to a director, the office of director in a corporation; and (B) When used with respect to an individual other than a director, as contemplated in (S) 48-18-507, the office in a corporation held by the officer or the employment or agency relationship undertaken by the employee or agent on behalf of the corporation. "Official capacity" does not include service for any other foreign or domestic corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise; (6) "Party" includes an individual who was, is, or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding; and (7) "Proceeding" means any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative and whether formal or informal. 48-18-502 Authority to indemnify. (a) Except as provided in subsection (d), a corporation may indemnify an individual made a party to a proceeding because the individual is or was a director against liability incurred in the proceeding if: (1) The individual's conduct was in good faith; and (2) The individual reasonably believed: (A) In the case of conduct in the individual's official capacity with the corporation, that the individual's conduct was in its best interest; and (B) In all other cases, that the individual's conduct was at least not opposed to its best interests; and (3) In the case of any criminal proceeding, the individual had no reasonable cause to believe the individual's conduct was unlawful. (b) A director's conduct with respect to an employee benefit plan for a purpose the director reasonably believed to be in the interests of the participants in and beneficiaries of the plan is conduct that satisfies the requirement of subdivision (a)(2)(B). (c) The termination of a proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent is not, of itself, determinative that the director did not meet the standard of conduct described in this section. (d) A corporation may not indemnify a director under this section: (1) In connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation in which the director was adjudged liable to the corporation; or (2) In connection with any other proceeding charging improper personal benefit to the director, whether or not involving action in the director's official capacity, in which the director was adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by the director. 48-18-503 Mandatory indemnification. Unless limited by its charter, a corporation shall indemnify a director who was wholly successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which the director was a party because the director is or was a director of the corporation against reasonable expenses incurred by the director in connection with the proceeding. 48-18-504 Advance for expenses. (a) A corporation 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: (1) The director furnishes the corporation a written affirmation of the director's good faith belief that the director has met the standard of conduct described in (S) 48-18-502; (2) The director furnishes the corporation a written undertaking, executed personally or on the director's behalf, to repay the advance if it is ultimately determined that the director is not entitled to indemnification; and (3) A determination is made that the facts then known to those making the determination would not preclude indemnification under this part. (b) The undertaking required by subdivision (a)(2) 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. (c) Determinations and authorizations of payments under this section shall be made in the manner specified in (S) 48-18-506. 48-18-505 Court ordered indemnification. Unless a corporation's charter provides otherwise, a director of the corporation who is a party to a proceeding may apply for indemnification to the court conducting the proceeding or to another court of competent jurisdiction. On receipt of an application, the court, after giving any notice the court considers necessary, may order indemnification if it determines the director is: (1) Entitled to mandatory indemnification under (S) 48-18-503, in which case the court shall also order the corporation to pay the director's reasonable expenses incurred to obtain court-ordered indemnification; or (2) Fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification in view of all the relevant circumstances, whether or not the director met the standard of conduct set forth in (S) 48-18-502 or was adjudged liable as described in (S) 48-18- 502(d), but if the director was adjudged so liable the director's indemnification is limited to reasonable expenses incurred. 48-18-506 Determination and authorization of indemnification. (a) A corporation may not indemnify a director under (S) 48-18-502 unless authorized in the specific case after a determination has been made that indemnification of the director is permissible in the circumstances because the director has met the standard of conduct set forth in (S) 48-18-502. (b) The determination shall be made: (1) By the board of directors by majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors not at the time parties to the proceeding; (2) If a quorum cannot be obtained under subdivision (b)(1), by majority vote of a committee duly designated by the board of directors (in which designation directors who are parties may participate), consisting solely of two (2) or more directors not at the time parties to the proceeding; (3) By independent special legal counsel: (A) Selected by the board of directors or its committee in the manner prescribed in subdivision (1) or (2); or (B) If a quorum of the board of directors cannot be obtained under subdivision (b)(1) and a committee cannot be designated under subdivision (b)(2), selected by majority vote of the full board of directors (in which selection directors who are parties may participate); or (4) By the shareholders, but shares owned by or voted under the control of directors who are at the time parties to the proceeding may not be voted on the determination. (c) Authorization of indemnification and evaluation as to reasonableness of expenses shall be made in the same manner as the determination that indemnification is permissible, except that if the determination is made by special legal counsel, authorization of indemnification and evaluation as to reasonableness of expenses shall be made by those entitled under subdivision (b)(3) to select counsel. [48-18-507 Indemnification of officers, employees, and agents. Unless a corporation's charter provides otherwise: (1) An officer of the corporation who is not a director is entitled to mandatory indemnification under (S) 48-18-503, and is entitled to apply for court-ordered indemnification under (S) 48-18-505, in each case to the same extent as a director; (2) The corporation may indemnify and advance expenses under this part to an officer, employee, or agent of the corporation who is not a director to the same extent as to a director; and (3) A corporation may also indemnify and advance expenses to an officer, employee, or agent who is not a director to the extent, consistent with public policy, that may be provided by its charter, bylaws, general or specific action of its board of directors, or contract. 48-18-508 Insurance. A corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, or who, while a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise, against liability asserted against or incurred by the individual in that capacity or arising from the individual's status as a director, officer, employee, or agent, whether or not the corporation would have power to indemnify the individual against the same liability under (S) 48-18-502 or (S) 48- 18-503. 48-18-509 Application of part. (a) The indemnification and advancement of expenses granted pursuant to, or provided by, chapters 11-27 of this title shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a director seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled, whether contained in chapters 11-27 of this title, the charter, or the bylaws or, when authorized by such charter or bylaws, in a resolution of shareholders, a resolution of directors, or an agreement providing for such indemnification; provided, that no indemnification may be made to or on behalf of any director if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the director establishes the director's liability: (1) For any breach of the duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders; (2) For acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; or (3) Under (S) 48-18-304. Nothing contained in chapters 11-27 of this title shall affect any rights to indemnification to which corporate personnel, other than directors, may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law. If the charter limits indemnification or advance for expenses, indemnification and advance for expenses are valid only to the extent consistent with the charter. (b) This part does not limit a corporation's power to pay or reimburse expenses incurred by a director in connection with the director's appearance as a witness in a proceeding at a time when the director has not been made a named defendant or respondent to the proceeding. -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----