As of 2/23/2015
NOTE: The attached document is the Bond Trust Indenture for the CDFI Bond
Guarantee Program. This is the document that the Master Servicer/Trustee will enter into
with each Qualified Issuer under the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program.
QUALIFIED ISSUER] Future Advance Promissory Bond, [YEAR]-[BOND #] ([ELIGIBLE CDFI])
CDFI BOND GUARANTEE PROGRAM
BOND TRUST INDENTURE
As Between
[QUALIFIED ISSUER],
as Qualified Issuer
and
The Bank of New York Mellon,
as Master Servicer/Trustee
Dated as of _________________, 20___
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS .........................................................................................................6
Section 101. Definitions ........................................................................................................6
Section 102. Rules of Construction .....................................................................................16
ARTICLE II THE BONDS .........................................................................................................17
Section 201. Amount, Terms, and Issuance of Bonds .........................................................17
Section 202. Designation, Maturity Dates and Interest Rates of the Bonds .......................17
Section 203. [Reserved]. .....................................................................................................18
Section 204. Execution; Authentication ..............................................................................18
Section 205. Paying Agent; Payment of Principal and Interest; Source of Payment;
Limited Obligation; Rights to Receive Payments Preserved .........................18
Section 206. Transfer of Bonds Restricted ..........................................................................19
Section 207. Mutilated, Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Bonds ..................................................19
Section 208. Cancellation of Surrendered Bonds ................................................................20
Section 209. Conditions of Issuance ...................................................................................20
ARTICLE III PROJECT FUND; RISK-SHARE POOL FUND; BOND ISSUANCE
FEES FUND; RELENDING FUND ...........................................................................................22
Section 301. Creation of Project Fund and Deposits Thereto .............................................22
Section 302. Advances Charged Against the Project Fund on Account of Bonds ..............22
Section 303. Master Servicer/Trustee May Rely on Requisitions and Advance
Requests ..........................................................................................................24
Section 304. Transfers to the Debt Service Fund ................................................................25
Section 305. Reports and Audits. ........................................................................................25
Section 306. Creation of and Deposit to the Risk-Share Pool Fund ...................................26
Section 307. Bond Issuance Fees Fund ...............................................................................28
Section 308. Relending Fund. .............................................................................................29
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ARTICLE IV REVENUES AND APPLICATION THEREOF; DEBT SERVICE
FUND ............................................................................................................................................30
Section 401. Revenues to Be Paid Over to Master Servicer/Trustee ..................................30
Section 402. The Revenue Fund ..........................................................................................30
Section 403. Creation of and Deposits to the Debt Service Fund and the Interest Sub-
account, Principal Sub-account, and Redemption Sub-account of each
Debt Service Account within the Debt Service Fund. ....................................32
Section 404. Funds Remaining in Principal, Interest and Redemption Sub-accounts ........34
Section 405. Payments from Debt Service Fund; Application of Payments .......................34
ARTICLE V DEPOSITARIES OF MONIES, SECURITY FOR DEPOSITS AND
INVESTMENT OF FUNDS ........................................................................................................34
Section 501. Security for Deposits ......................................................................................34
Section 502. Investments of Monies ...................................................................................34
ARTICLE VI PREPAYMENT OF BONDS .............................................................................35
Section 601. Prepayment Dates and Prices .........................................................................35
Section 602. Selection of Advances to be Called for Prepayment ......................................36
Section 603. Notice of Prepayment .....................................................................................36
ARTICLE VII PARTICULAR COVENANTS AND PROVISIONS .....................................37
Section 701. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest ......................................37
Section 702. Performance of Covenants .............................................................................37
Section 703. Instruments of Further Assurance ..................................................................38
Section 704. Inspection of Books ........................................................................................38
Section 705. Advise the Qualified Issuer and CDFI Fund of Material Events. ..................38
Section 706. Rights Under Agreement ................................................................................40
Section 707. Recording and Filing ......................................................................................40
Section 708. Encumbrances. ...............................................................................................40
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ARTICLE VIII DEFAULT AND REMEDIES .........................................................................41
Section 801. Defaults ..........................................................................................................41
Section 802. Acceleration and Annulment Thereof ............................................................41
Section 803. Other Remedies; Special Servicing ................................................................42
Section 804. Legal Proceedings by Master Servicer/Trustee ..............................................43
Section 805. Discontinuance of Proceedings by Master Servicer/Trustee ..........................43
Section 806. Bondholder May Direct Proceedings .............................................................44
Section 807. Limitations of Actions by Bondholder ...........................................................44
Section 808. Master Servicer/Trustee May Enforce Rights Without Possession of
Bonds ..............................................................................................................44
Section 809. Remedies Not Exclusive ................................................................................44
Section 810. Delays and Omissions Not to Impair Rights ..................................................44
Section 811. Application of Monies in Event of Default ....................................................45
Section 812. Master Servicer/Trustee May File Claim in Bankruptcy ...............................45
Section 813. Receiver ..........................................................................................................46
Section 814. Guarantor Deemed Bondholder ......................................................................46
Section 815. Environmental Audit. .....................................................................................47
ARTICLE IX CONCERNING THE MASTER SERVICER/TRUSTEE ..............................47
Section 901. Acceptance of Trusts by Master Servicer/Trustee .........................................47
Section 902. Master Servicer/Trustee to Give Notice .........................................................48
Section 903. Master Servicer/Trustee and Qualified Issuer Entitled to Indemnity .............49
Section 904. Master Servicer/Trustee Not Responsible for Insurance, Taxes,
Execution of Agreement, Acts of the Qualified Issuer or Application of
Monies Applied in Accordance with this Bond Indenture .............................50
Section 905. Compensation .................................................................................................50
Section 906. Master Servicer/Trustee to Preserve Records ................................................51
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Section 907. Master Servicer/Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals ..................................51
Section 908. No Responsibility for Recording or Filing .....................................................51
Section 909. Master Servicer/Trustee May Rely on Bonds ................................................51
Section 910. Qualification of the Master Servicer/Trustee .................................................53
Section 911. Resignation and Removal of Master Servicer/Trustee ...................................53
Section 912. Successor Master Servicer/Trustee ................................................................54
Section 913. Co-Master Servicer/Trustee ...........................................................................55
Section 914. Review of Master Servicer/Trustee ................................................................56
Section 915. Subcontracting Relationships of the Master Servicer/Trustee. ......................56
ARTICLE X EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS BY BONDHOLDER AND PROOF
OF OWNERSHIP OF BONDS ...................................................................................................57
Section 1001. Execution of Instruments by Bondholder and Proof of Ownership of
Bonds ..............................................................................................................57
ARTICLE XI AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS; DISCHARGE ...............................57
Section 1101. Amendments and Supplements Without Bondholder’s Consent ...................57
Section 1102. Amendments With Bondholder’s Consent .....................................................58
Section 1103. Amendments to Bond Loan Agreement Not Requiring Consent of
Bondholder .....................................................................................................58
Section 1104. Amendments to Bond Loan Agreement Requiring Consent of
Bondholder .....................................................................................................59
Section 1105. Opinion of Bond Counsel Required ...............................................................59
Section 1106. Discharge of Bond Indenture. ........................................................................59
Section 1107. Notice of Amendments and Supplements. .....................................................60
ARTICLE XII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ................................................................61
Section 1201. Covenants of the Qualified Issuer to Bind its Successors ..............................61
Section 1202. Notices ............................................................................................................62
Section 1203. Master Servicer/Trustee as Paying Agent and Registrar ................................65
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Section 1204. Rights Under Bond Indenture .........................................................................65
Section 1205. Reliance upon Bond and other Instruments ...................................................65
Section 1206. Severability .....................................................................................................65
Section 1207. Covenants of the Qualified Issuer; Not Covenants of Officials
Individually ....................................................................................................65
Section 1208. Governing Law ...............................................................................................66
Section 1209. Payments or Performance Due on Days Other Than Business Days .............66
Section 1210. Execution in Counterparts. .............................................................................66
Section 1211. Waiver of Trial by Jury. .................................................................................66
Section 1212. Form of Documents to be delivered to Master Servicer/Trustee. ..................66
Section 1213. Conflicts. ........................................................................................................66
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BOND TRUST INDENTURE
THIS BOND TRUST INDENTURE, dated as of _____________, 20__ (Bond Indenture),
between [QUALIFIED ISSUER], a __________ organized under the laws of ____________
(Qualified Issuer), and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York corporation, having its
principal corporate trust office in New York, as master servicer and trustee (Master
Servicer/Trustee);
RECITALS:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, Pub. L. 111-240, section
1134, 12 U.S.C. § 4713a, as amended (the Act), the Secretary of the Treasury (the Secretary)
has entered into an Agreement to Guarantee dated as of ___________________, with the
Qualified Issuer (such agreement, as it may be amended from time to time, being the Agreement
to Guarantee); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Act and subject to the terms and conditions of the
Agreement to Guarantee, the Secretary has agreed to guarantee the timely payment of qualified
Bonds to be issued by the Qualified Issuer as part of a Bond Issue in an amount of at least
$100,000,000, but not exceeding $[750,000,000], plus interest and Call Premiums (the
Guarantee); and
WHEREAS, the Bonds are authorized to be issued to obtain funds for making certain
bond loans (in each case, the Bond Loan) to certain Eligible CDFIs in order for such Eligible
CDFIs to (i) finance or Refinance for community or economic development purposes described
in 12 U.S.C. § 4707(b) including, but not limited to, community or economic development
purposes in Low-Income Areas or Underserved Rural Areas, as deemed eligible by the CDFI
Fund in its sole discretion; (ii) pay Bond Issuance Fees in an amount not to exceed one percent
(1%) of Bond Loan proceeds; and (iii) capitalize loan loss reserves in an amount that is up to five
percent (5%) of the par amount of the Bond Loan, or such other amount that is determined by the
CDFI Fund in its sole discretion; and
WHEREAS, the Agreement to Guarantee provides that the Secretary will guarantee a
Bond Issue, issued by the Qualified Issuer to obtain funds for making Bond Loans, in an
aggregate principal amount equal to not less than $100,000,000; and
WHEREAS, the Agreement to Guarantee further provides that each Bond Loan shall be
made under a separate and distinct loan agreement (in each case, the Bond Loan Agreement)
between the Qualified Issuer and the respective Eligible CDFI, pursuant to which (i) the
Qualified Issuer will lend to the respective Eligible CDFI, and the respective Eligible CDFI will
borrow from the Qualified Issuer, an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
particular portion of a Bond Issue attributable to the making of the respective Bond Loan, and
(ii) the respective Eligible CDFI will agree to repay the respective Bond Loan in such amounts
and at such times as needed to enable the Qualified Issuer to, together with the payments
received on the other Bond Loans arising out of the Bond Issue, pay the principal of, the interest
on, and any Call Premiums with respect to the particular Bond issued to obtain funds for making
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the respective Bond Loan, when and as due, whether at maturity, upon prepayment, by
acceleration or otherwise; and
WHEREAS, the Agreement to Guarantee also provides that the obligation of each
Eligible CDFI to repay the respective Eligible CDFIs Bond Loan will (i) be evidenced by a
promissory note (in each case, the Note) made by the respective Eligible CDFI payable to the
Qualified Issuer in the maximum principal amount of the maximum amount that may be
advanced under the particular Bond Loan Agreement relating to the respective Bond Loan, and
(ii) be secured by a first Lien on such collateral as may be required by the CDFI Fund in
accordance with the Act and the Agreement to Guarantee; and
[WHEREAS, the Qualified Issuer, the Assignor Qualified Issuer, and the Secretary
entered into the Assignment and Performance Guarantee pursuant to which the Assignor
Qualified Issuer assigned to the Qualified Issuer all of CRF’s rights, and duties under the
Agreement to Guarantee, other than the Guarantee Obligations (as defined in the Agreement to
Guarantee), and the Qualified Issuer accepted such assignment and agreed to be bound by all of
the terms, conditions and agreements of the Agreement to Guarantee and any subsequent
amendments thereto, and to perform all of the Qualified Issuer’s duties under the Agreement to
Guarantee, other than the Guarantee Obligations; and ]
WHEREAS, the Qualified Issuer has determined to secure the repayment of each Bond
by the assignments contained herein from the Qualified Issuer to the Master Servicer/Trustee,
pursuant to which the Qualified Issuer (i) assigns to the Master Servicer/Trustee, for the benefit
of the Bondholder, certain of its rights under this Bond Indenture and the particular Bond Loan
Agreement and the collateral relating to the respective Bond Loan, and (ii) endorses without
recourse to the order of, and pledges and assigns to, the Master Servicer/Trustee, for the benefit
of the Bondholder, the particular Note relating to the respective Bond Loan; provided, however,
that each Bond Issue shall be nonrecourse to the Qualified Issuer; and
WHEREAS, the Master Servicer/Trustee has accepted the trusts created by this Bond
Indenture and in evidence thereof has joined in the execution hereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, of the acceptance by the Master
Servicer/Trustee of the trusts hereby created, of the purchase and acceptance of the Bonds by the
Bondholder, and of the issuance by the Secretary of the Guarantee and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and for the purpose
of fixing and declaring the terms and conditions upon which the Bonds are to be issued,
delivered, secured and accepted by the Bondholder, and in order to secure the payment of the
Bonds at any time issued and outstanding hereunder, the Call Premium, if any, and the interest
thereon according to their tenor, purport and effect, and in order to secure the performance and
observance of all the covenants, agreements and conditions therein and herein contained;
THE QUALIFIED ISSUER DOES HEREBY PLEDGE AND ASSIGN, and grant a
security interest unto the Master Servicer/Trustee and its successors and assigns for the benefit of
the Bondholder, all right, title and interest of the Qualified Issuer presently owned or hereafter
acquired in and to the following (collectively, the Trust Estate):
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(a) Each Bond Loan Agreement (as the same may from time to time be
supplemented or amended), including, but not limited to, all payments of principal, Call
Premium, if any, and interest due and to become due under each respective Note related to such
Bond Loan Agreement and under such Bond Loan Agreement whether made at their respective
due dates or as prepayments permitted or required by such Bond Loan Agreement, together with
full power and authority, in the name of the Qualified Issuer or otherwise, to demand,
receive, enforce, collect or receipt for any or all of the foregoing, to endorse or execute any
checks or other instruments or orders, to file any claims and to take any action which the
Master Servicer/Trustee may deem necessary or advisable in connection therewith, and the
Qualified Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints the Master Servicer/Trustee attorney-in-fact of the
Qualified Issuer for such purposes, which appointment is coupled with an interest and is
irrevocable; provided, however, that the Qualified Issuer shall continue to have all the rights,
together with the Master Servicer/Trustee, contained in each Bond Loan Agreement and
described below:
(i) All rights described in Article 3 pertaining to Advances under the
Loan;
(ii) All rights described in Section 5.1 pertaining to the Qualified
Issuer’s right to receive and request certain information;
(iii) All rights described in Section 5.2 pertaining to the Qualified
Issuer’s right of access to inspect and review the particular Eligible CDFI
described in the respective Bond Loan Agreement and certain records;
(iv) All rights described in Section 5.4 pertaining to the Qualified
Issuer’s right to be advised of material events;
(v) All rights described in Section 5.6 pertaining to insurance
requirements;
(vi) All rights described in Section 5.16(f) pertaining to the approval of
the Eligible CDFI’s engagement of the Escrow Agent;
(vii) All rights described in Section 6.3(a) and (e) pertaining to the
merger, consolidation or transfer of an Eligible CDFI;
(viii) All rights described in Section 8.1 pertaining to reasonable
requests to the Eligible CDFI for further assurances;
(ix) All rights described in Section 8.3 pertaining to waiver of rights by
failure or indulgence;
(x) All rights to receive notices required to be given to the Qualified
Issuer; and
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provided, further, that the Qualified Issuer shall continue to have all the rights,
exclusive of the Master Servicer/Trustee, contained in the Bond Loan Agreement and described
below:
(xi) The right to receive the Qualified Issuer Fee described in Section
2.6(b) and any other fees and expenses, specifically payable to the Qualified
Issuer including, but not limited to, the rights described in Section 5.11 pertaining
to the Qualified Issuer’s right to receive payment for costs and expenses, the
rights described in Section 8.4 pertaining to the Qualified Issuer’s right to
reimbursement of fees and expenses, as well as any remedies available to the
Qualified Issuer under the Bond Loan Agreement to recover the foregoing fees,
costs, and expenses; and
(xii) The rights described in Section 5.12 pertaining to the Qualified
Issuer’s right to certain indemnities (exclusive of the Master Servicer/Trustee’s
rights to certain indemnities); items (a) (i) through (xii) are hereafter referred to as
the “Bond Loan Agreement Reserved Rights”.
(b) Each Note of the Eligible CDFI payable to the Qualified Issuer evidencing such
Eligible CDFIs obligation to repay its Bond Loan made by the Qualified Issuer to such Eligible
CDFI pursuant to the respective Bond Loan Agreement, together with interest thereon, Call
Premium, if any, and other amounts with respect thereto, as provided for in such Bond Loan
Agreement, the Qualified Issuer hereby agreeing to endorse, pledge and assign such Note
without recourse to the order of, and to deliver the same to, the Master Servicer/Trustee as
security for the obligations of the Qualified Issuer to the Master Servicer/Trustee hereinafter
referred to;
(c) Each Escrow Agreement (as the same may from time to time be supplemented or
amended) entered into pursuant to Section 5.16(f) of the Bond Loan Agreement; provided,
however, that the Qualified Issuer shall continue to have all the rights, together with the Master
Servicer/Trustee, contained in each Escrow Agreement (such rights of the Qualified Issuer being
the “Escrow Agreement Reserved Rights”);
(d) [Each Custody Agreement (as the same may from time to time be supplemented
or amended) entered into pursuant to Section 5.16(g) of the Bond Loan Agreement; provided,
however, that the Qualified Issuer shall continue to have all the rights, together with the Master
Servicer/Trustee, contained in each Custody Agreement (such rights of the Qualified Issuer
being the “Custody Agreement Reserved Rights”); the Custody Agreement Reserved Rights,
together with the Bond Loan Agreement Reserved Rights and the Escrow Agreement Reserved
Rights are hereafter referred to as the Reserved Rights;]
(e) All money or securities at any time from time to time held by the Master
Servicer/Trustee under the terms of this Bond Indenture including such monies on deposit in, in
transit to or credited to any account or fund created hereunder, including without limitation the
Revenue Fund, the Project Fund, the Risk-Share Pool Fund, the Relending Fund, the Bond
Issuance Fees Fund and the Debt Service Fund;
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(f) The Revenues;
(g) All money or securities at any time from time to time held by [the][each] Escrow
Agent under the terms of [the][each] Escrow Agreement excluding, however, such monies on
deposit in, in transit to or credited to any account or fund created thereunder required to be set
aside in segregated accounts for taxes, insurance, replacement, operating or other reserves; and
(h) Any and all Collateral,
and it is so mutually agreed and covenanted by and between the parties hereto for the equal and
proportionate benefit and security of the Bondholder, except as hereinafter provided, without
preference or priority of any one Bond over any other Bond, by reason of priority in the issue,
sale or negotiation thereof or otherwise, and as security for the fulfillment of the obligations of
the Qualified Issuer hereunder, provided, however, that, except as provided in Section 403,
nothing contained herein, shall be deemed to grant to the Bondholder (or to the Master
Servicer/Trustee for the benefit of the Bondholder) a security interest in the collateral described
above that relates to a different Bond;
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same forever, subject, however, to the exceptions,
reservations (including the Reserved Rights) and matters therein and herein recited but IN
TRUST, nevertheless, for the benefit and security of the Bondholder from time to time of the
Bonds delivered hereunder and issued by the Qualified Issuer and outstanding;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if, after the right, title and interest of the Master
Servicer/Trustee in and to the Trust Estate pledged and assigned to it under this Bond Indenture
shall have ceased, terminated and become void in accordance with Section 1106
hereof, the
principal of and interest on the Bonds and any other obligations arising hereunder shall have
been paid to the Bondholder or shall have been paid by the Eligible CDFI pursuant to Section
1106 hereof, then, this Bond Indenture and all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the
Qualified Issuer hereunder shall cease, terminate and be void, and thereupon the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall cancel and discharge this Bond Indenture and execute and deliver to the
Qualified Issuer and each Eligible CDFI such instruments in writing as shall be required to
evidence the discharge hereof; otherwise, this Bond Indenture shall be and remain in full force
and effect; and
PROVIDED, FURTHER, that the Master Servicer/Trustee does not undertake or
assume any obligations of the Qualified Issuer except as set forth in this Bond Indenture;
provided, however, the Master Servicer/Trustee does hereby undertake and assume all the rights
of the Qualified Issuer (except Reserved Rights) as set forth in the Bond Loan Agreement.
This Bond Indenture FURTHER WITNESSETH, and it is expressly declared, that the
Bonds issued and secured hereunder are to be issued and delivered and the Trust Estate and other
revenues and funds herein pledged and assigned are to be dealt with and disposed of under, upon
and subject to the terms, conditions, stipulations, covenants, agreements, trusts, uses and
purposes as hereinafter expressed, and the Qualified Issuer has agreed and covenants, and does
hereby agree and covenant, with the Master Servicer/Trustee and with the Bondholder, as
follows, that is to say:
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ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 101. Definitions. All words and terms defined in Article 1 of the Bond
Loan Agreement shall have the same meanings in this Bond Indenture, unless otherwise
specifically defined herein. In addition, the following words and terms as used in this Bond
Indenture shall have the following meanings unless some other meaning is plainly intended:
Act means section 114A of the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory
Improvement Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-325, 108 Stat. 2160), as added by section 1134 of the
Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (Pub. L. No. 111-240, 124 Stat. 2504, 2515), codified at 12
U.S.C. § 4713a.
“Advance” means the funds actually advanced by the Bondholder pursuant to a request
for an advance of funds submitted by the Qualified Issuer under Section 302 of this Bond
Indenture.
Affiliatemeans any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control
with, another entity. Control means (1) ownership, control or power to vote twenty-five percent
(25%) or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities (as defined in 12 C.F.R.
§ 1805.104(mm)) of any legal entity, directly or indirectly or acting through one or more other
person; or (2) control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors, trustee, or
general partners (or individual exercising similar functions) of any legal entity; or (3) the power
to exercise directly or indirectly, a controlling influence, as determined by the CDFI Fund, over
the management, credit decisions, investment decisions, or policies of any legal entity. The
terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Agency Administrative Fee” means a fee in an amount equal to ten (10) basis points (0.1
percent) of the amount of the unpaid principal of the Bond Issue, payable annually to the CDFI
Fund by the Qualified Issuer, as provided in Section 402 hereof.
Agreement to Guaranteemeans the written agreement, dated as of ___________, 20__,
between the Guarantor and the Qualified Issuer which sets forth the terms and conditions on
which the Guarantor will provide the Guarantee as now or hereafter amended or supplemented
from time to time.
Approved Disbursement Amountshall have the meaning ascribed thereto in each Bond
Loan Agreement, as applicable.
[“Assignment and Performance Guarantee” shall mean the Assignment and Performance
Guarantee Agreement and Consent to Assignment dated ________________, by and among
CRF, the Qualified Issuer and the Secretary, as now or hereafter amended, restated or
supplemented.]
“Bankruptcy Related Event” means (a) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or
an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in
respect of the Eligible CDFI, the Qualified Issuer or any of either of their debts, or of a
substantial part of the assets of the Eligible CDFI or the Qualified Issuer, respectively, under any
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Insolvency Law, or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian, sequestrator,
conservator or similar official for the Eligible CDFI or the Qualified Issuer, respectively, or for a
substantial part of the assets of the Eligible CDFI or the Qualified Issuer, respectively, and, in
any case referred to in the foregoing subclauses (i) and (ii), such proceeding or petition shall
continue undismissed for sixty (60) days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the
foregoing shall be entered; or (b) the Eligible CDFI or the Qualified Issuer shall (i) apply for or
consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian, sequestrator, conservator
or similar official for the Eligible CDFI or the Qualified Issuer, respectively, or for a substantial
part of the assets of the Eligible CDFI or the Qualified Issuer, or (ii) generally not be paying its
debts as they become due unless such debts are the subject of a bona fide dispute, or become
unable to pay its debts generally as they become due, or (iii) make a general assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or (iv) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and
appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition with respect to it described in clause (a) of this
definition, or (v) commence a voluntary proceeding under any Insolvency Law, or file a
voluntary petition seeking liquidation, reorganization, an arrangement with creditors or an order
for relief under any Insolvency Law, or (vi) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a
petition filed against it in any proceeding referred to in the foregoing subclauses (i) through (v),
inclusive, of this clause (b), or (vii) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the
foregoing.
“Bond” or “Bonds” means the $________ [QUALIFIED ISSUER] Future Advance
Promissory Bonds, [YEAR-__] ([NAME OF ELIGIBLE CDFI]), constituting a security, in the
form of a draw-down bond or note issued by the Qualified Issuer, with each Advance thereunder
bearing interest at an applicable Bond Rate established by the Bond Purchaser in accordance
with Section 1808.300 of the Regulations, as may be amended, and sold to the Bond Purchaser,
the proceeds of which will be used for Eligible Purposes, and which benefits from a Guarantee,
and as is more fully described in
Article II hereof.
Bond Counselmeans initially, ____________, or any other law firm having a national
reputation in the field of public finance law, whose opinions are generally accepted by
bondholders, appointed by resolution of the Qualified Issuer with the approval of the CDFI Fund.
“Bond Documents” mean the respective Bonds, Bond Purchase Agreement, Bond
Indenture, Agreement to Guarantee, [Assignment and Performance Guarantee, ]Guarantee,
Reimbursement Note, and all other instruments and documentation pertaining to the issuance of
the respective Bonds.
“Bond Indenture” means this Bond Trust Indenture dated as of ______________, 2014,
between the Lender and the Master Servicer/Trustee, as amended or supplemented.
“Bond Issuance Fees” means amounts paid or owed by an Eligible CDFI for reasonable
and necessary expenses, administrative costs, and fees for services incurred in connection with
the issuance of the Bonds (but not including the Agency Administrative Fee) and the making of
the Bond Loan and shall include, but not be limited to, document printing and reproduction costs,
filing and recording fees, initial fees and charges of the Master Servicer/Trustee, legal fees and
charges, professional consultants’ fees, fees and charges for execution, transportation and
safekeeping of the Bonds, premiums, fees and charges for insurance of the Bonds, costs and
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expenses of refunding the Bond and other costs, charges and fees, including those of the
Qualified Issuer, the Master Servicer/Trustee, and their respective counsel, advisors, in
connection with the foregoing. The “FFB Financing Option Fees” paid to the Federal Financing
Bank for the right to prepay any Bond, as provided in the Bond Purchase Agreement, shall not be
treated as Bond Issuance Fees.
“Bond Issuance Fees Fund” means the trust fund so designated which is established
pursuant to Section 307 hereof.
“Bond Issuemeans at least $100,000,000, and no more than $750,000,000, in aggregate
principal amount of Bonds covered by a single Guarantee; each Bond in the Bond Issue being in
the minimum principal amount of at least $10,000,000.
“Bond Issue Datemeans the date on which the Bond is deemed to be issued or
originated and is the effective date of the Bond Documents.
“Bond Loan” means a loan of Bond Proceeds by the Qualified Issuer to an Eligible CDFI,
in an initial principal amount that is not less than $10,000,000 and Bond Loan proceeds must be
used for Eligible Purposes.
“Bond Loan Agreement” means an agreement between the Qualified Issuer and each
Eligible CDFI receiving a Bond Loan, the provisions of which shall govern the terms and
conditions of such Bond Loan, the terms of which agreement (and any amendments thereto) shall
have been approved in advance and in writing by the CDFI Fund.
“Bond Loan Documents” means the Bond Documents together with the Bond Loan
Agreement, the Note and any other agreement, document or instrument, made or executed
pursuant to the Bond Loan.
“Bond Loan Payment Default Rate” means, in the event of a Bond Loan payment default,
the applicable interest rate on any overdue amount from its due date to the date of actual
payment and shall be calculated in the same manner as a late charge rate is calculated in the
underlying Bond.
“Bond Loan Rate” means the rate of interest for each advance of funds under a Bond
Loan. The Bond Loan Rate shall at all times equal the Bond Rate.
“Bond Loan Requirements” means the credit criteria established by the CDFI Fund for
assessing the creditworthiness and capacity of each Eligible CDFI applicant to receive a Bond
Loan.
“Bond Proceeds” means the funds that are advanced by the Bondholder to the Qualified
Issuer under a Bond.
“Bond Purchase Agreement” means an agreement executed by the Qualified Issuer, the
Bondholder, the Guarantor, and the CDFI Fund, the provisions of which shall govern the terms
and conditions of the purchase of Bonds.
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Bond Rate means the rate of interest for each advance of funds under a Bond.
“Bondholder” means the Federal Financing Bank, the body corporate and instrumentality
of the Federal Government created by the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 (12 U.S.C. §
2281 et seq.), its successors and assigns.
Business Dayshall mean any day on which both the Federal Financing Bank and the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York are open for business.
“Call Premium” means, with respect to any 2014-[ ] Bond, the premium, if any, that is
due as a result of the prepayment of such 2014-[ ] Bond.
“Certified CDFI” means a financing entity that has a primary mission of promoting
community development and that has been certified by the CDFI Fund as meeting the eligibility
requirements set forth in 12 C.F.R. § 1805.201, as amended.
“CDFI” means a Community Development Financial Institution, a financing entity that
has a primary mission of promoting community development.
“CDFI Bond Guarantee Program” means the program created by the Act.
“CDFI Fund” means the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, the U.S.
Department of the Treasury, established under the Riegle Community Development Banking and
Financial Institutions Act of 1994 12 U.S.C. § 4701 et seq., as amended.
“Collateral” means all real and personal property which is subject to the senior security
interests or first Liens granted under any security document, including (a) the “Bond Loan
Collateral”, as defined in each Bond Loan Agreement relating to any Bond and (b) the Trust
Estate, including the Proceeds thereof.
Costor Costsor “Costs of the Eligible Purpose” means all costs, as determined by
the Qualified Issuer, properly allocated to or necessary in connection with an Eligible Purpose,
including but not limited to, as applicable:
(A) The principal balance or acquisition price with respect to the financing or
Refinancing of a Secondary Loan;
(B) The prefunding of the first monthly principal, interest or debt service installment
payment related to the Bond;
(C) the capitalization of Loan Loss Reserves in an amount that is up to five percent
(5%) of the par amount of the Bond Loan, or such other amount that is determined
by the CDFI Fund in its sole discretion;
(D) any sums required to reimburse the Secondary Borrower, the Eligible CDFI or the
Qualified Issuer for advances made by any of them for costs of services or
materials incurred for work done by the Secondary Borrower in connection with
the Eligible Purpose; and
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(E) Bond Issuance Fees.
Credit Enhancement means such instrument or document proffered by an Eligible
CDFI to enhance the credit quality of the Bond and/or Bond Loan. Credit Enhancements
include, but are not limited to pledges of financial resources and lines and letters of credit issued
by an Eligible CDFI; an Affiliate; a regulated financial institution; a foundation; or another
entity. The Risk-Share Pool Fund is not a form of Credit Enhancement.
“Custody Agreement” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in each Bond Loan
Agreement, as applicable.
“Debt Service Account” means the applicable debt service account of the Debt Service
Fund established pursuant to Section 403(a) hereof.
Debt Service Fundmeans the trust fund so designated which is established pursuant
to Section 403(a) hereof.
Due Dateshall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 403(d) hereof.
Eligible CDFI means a Certified CDFI that has submitted an application to the
Qualified Issuer for a Bond Loan, has been deemed creditworthy based on the Bond Loan
Requirements, and has received a Bond Loan.
Eligible CDFI Representative” means any officer of the Eligible CDFI, any other person
designated in writing by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, or comparable officer
of the Eligible CDFI, or any other person or entity expressly named in the Eligible CDFI’s
organizational documents, to act as its authorized representative, for the purpose of taking all
actions and making all certifications required to be taken and made by the Eligible CDFI
Representative under the provisions of the Bond Loan Documents, the identity of such Eligible
CDFI Representatives and specimen signatures thereof to be evidenced by an incumbency
certificate executed by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary or comparable officer of the Eligible
CDFI and delivered to the Master Servicer/Trustee and the Qualified Issuer.
“Eligible Community or Economic Development Purpose” or “Eligible Purpose” means
the allowable uses of Bond Proceeds and Bond Loan Proceeds, which include: (i) financing or
Refinancing community or economic development purposes described in 12 U.S.C. § 4707(b)
including, but not limited to, community or economic development purposes in Low-Income
Areas or Underserved Rural Areas, as deemed eligible by the CDFI Fund in its sole discretion;
(ii) Bond Issuance Fees in an amount not to exceed one percent (1%) of Bond Loan proceeds;
and (iii) capitalization of Loan Loss Reserves in an amount that is up to five percent (5%) of the
par amount of the respective Bond Loan, or such other amount that is determined by the CDFI
Fund in its sole discretion. The financing or Refinancing (which includes acquisition) of
Secondary Loans by the Eligible CDFI shall also constitute an Eligible Purpose.
“Escrow Agent” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in each Bond Loan Agreement,
as applicable.
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“Escrow Agreement” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in each Bond Loan
Agreement, as applicable.
Event of Default”, with respect to a Bond, means any of the events with respect to such
Bond specified in Section 801 hereof (or in the Supplemental Indenture for such Bond) to be an
Event of Default.
“Excess Interest Account” means the trust account of the Risk-Share Pool Fund which is
established pursuant to Section 306 hereof.
Government Obligationsmeans a direct obligation of the United States, an obligation
guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States, an obligation (other than an
obligation subject to variation in principal repayment) to which the full faith and credit of the
United States are pledged, and a certificate or other instrument which evidences ownership of, or
the right to receive all or a portion of the payment of the principal of or interest on, direct
obligations of the United States.
“Governmental Authority” means any nation, state, sovereign or government, any
federal, regional, state or local government or political subdivision thereof or any other entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or
pertaining to government and having jurisdiction over the Person or matters in question.
“Guarantee” means the guarantee, issued by the Guarantor pursuant to the Agreement to
Guarantee, of the repayment of one hundred percent (100%) of the Verifiable Losses of
Principal, Interest, and Call Premium, if any, on the corresponding Bonds issued as part of a
Bond Issue, as described in the preamble hereof.
“Guarantee Application” means the application document that a Qualified Issuer submits
in order to apply for a Guarantee.
“Guarantor” means the Secretary or the Secretary’s designee.
“Insolvency Laws” means the United States Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., as
from time to time amended and in effect, and any state bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or
similar law now or hereafter in effect.
Interest Sub-account” means the interest sub-account of the applicable Debt Service
Account within the Debt Service Fund established pursuant to Section 403 hereof.
Interest Payment Datemeans each of the payment dates set forth on the first page of
the Bond.
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, lien, judgment lien, easement, or
other encumbrance on title, including, but not limited to, any mortgage or pledge of, security
interest in or lien or encumbrance on any Bond Loan Collateral of the respective Eligible CDFI
which secures any Debt or any obligation of any person other than an obligation to the respective
Eligible CDFI.
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Loan Deposit,” with respect to a Bond Loan, shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in
the Bond Loan Agreement for such Bond Loan.
“Loan Loss Reserves” means the use of proceeds of a Bond Loan (secured by a Principal
Loss Collateral Provision) for a set aside in the form of cash reserves that serve as a safeguard to
protect the Eligible CDFI against future losses for any loans for community or economic
development purposes described in 12 U.S.C. 4707 (b), including community or economic
development purposes in Low-Income Areas or Underserved Rural Areas, within the Eligible
CDFI’s portfolio.
“Low-Income Areas” means a census tract or block numbering area in which the median
income does not exceed 80 percent of the median income for the area in which such census tract
or block numbering area is located. With respect to a census tract or block numbering area
located within a Metropolitan Area, the median family income shall be at or below 80 percent of
the Metropolitan Area median family income or the national Metropolitan Area median family
income, whichever is greater. In the case of a census tract or block numbering area located
outside of a Metropolitan Area, the median family income shall be at or below 80 percent of the
statewide non-Metropolitan Area median family income or the national non-Metropolitan Area
median family income, whichever is greater.
“Master Servicer/Trustee” means The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking
corporation, and its successors in the trust hereunder.
Maturity Date,” for each Bond, means the date on which the final payment of principal
is due and payable on each Advance of such Bond, as provided in the particular Supplemental
Indenture authorizing the issuance of such Bond, which date shall, in any event, not be later than
twenty-nine and one-half (29.5) years after the Bond Issue Date.
“Metropolitan Area” means an area that contains an urban core based statistical area of
50,000 or more population and is designated as such by the Office of Management and Budget
pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3504(e), 31 U.S.C. 1104(d) and Executive Order 10253 (3 CFR, 1949
1953 Comp., p. 758), as amended.
“Moody’s” means Moodys Investors Service, Inc., a Delaware corporation, its
successors and assigns, if such corporation shall be dissolved or liquidated or shall no longer
perform the functions of a securities rating agency.
Note” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the sixth recital paragraph hereof.
“Other Pledged Loans” means other loans pledged as Bond Loan Collateral, owned by
the Eligible CDFI the terms of which comply with the Secondary Loan Requirements such that
they would be classified as Secondary Loans if they were made from Bond Loan proceeds. The
Other Pledged Loans, as of any date, shall be such loans as are set forth in an Itemization of
Collateral in effect as of such date, accompanied by a Certification of Collateral, including
delivery of the related promissory notes.
Outstanding,” in connection with Bonds means, as of the time in question, all Bonds
delivered under this Bond Indenture, except:
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(i) Bonds theretofore canceled or required to be canceled under Section 208 hereof;
(ii) Bonds which are deemed to have been paid in accordance with Section 1106
hereof; and
(iii) Bonds in substitution for which other Bonds have been delivered pursuant to
Article II hereof.
Payment Datemeans any Principal Payment Date or any Interest Payment Date.
Principal Sub-account” means the principal sub-account of the applicable Debt Service
Account within the Debt Service Fund established pursuant to Section 403 hereof.
“Principal Loss Collateral Provision” means a cash or cash equivalent guarantee or
facility provided in lieu of (or in addition to) pledged collateral set forth in the Bond Documents
or Bond Loan Documents.
Principal Officeof the Master Servicer/Trustee means the office which, at the time in
question, is designated as its corporate trust office from which its business hereunder is
principally conducted, which office, at the date hereof, is the office of the Master
Servicer/Trustee referred to in Section 1202 of this Bond Indenture.
Principal Payment Date,” for each Bond, means the date on which principal or
prepayment price is due and payable on the Bond, as provided in the particular Supplemental
Indenture authorizing the issuance of such Bond.
“Proceeds” means “proceeds” as such term is defined in the UCC or under other relevant
law and, in any event, shall include, but shall not be limited to, (i) any and all proceeds of, or
amounts (in whatsoever form, whether cash, securities, property or other assets) received under
or with respect to, any insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty payable to the Eligible CDFI
or the Master Servicer/Trustee from time to time, and claims for insurance, indemnity, warranty
or guaranty effected or held for the benefit of the Eligible CDFI or the Master Servicer/Trustee,
in each case with respect to any of the Collateral, (ii) any and all payments (in any form
whatsoever, whether cash, securities, property or other assets) made or due and payable to the
Eligible CDFI or the Master Servicer/Trustee from time to time in connection with any
requisition, confiscation, condemnation, seizure or forfeiture of all or any part of the Collateral
by any Governmental Authority (or any person acting under color of Governmental Authority),
and (iii) any and all other amounts (in any form whatsoever, whether cash, securities, property or
other assets) from time to time paid or payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral
(whether or not in connection with the sale, lease or other disposition of the Collateral).
“Project Fund” means the trust fund so designated which is established pursuant
to Section 301(a)
hereof.
“Qualified Issuer” means [INSERT QUALIFIED ISSUER], the entity that meets the
qualification requirements set forth in section 1808.200 of the Regulations, and that has been
approved as such by the CDFI Fund pursuant to review and evaluation of the Qualified Issuer
Application.
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“Qualified Issuer Fee,” for any Bond Loan, shall have the definition contained in the
applicable Bond Loan Agreement.
“Qualified Issuer Representative” means the Authorized Representative of the Qualified
Issuer, as named in the Agreement to Guarantee, the identity of such Qualified Issuer
Representative and any Qualified Issuer Representative referred to in the following sentence and
the specimen signatures thereof to be evidenced by an incumbency certificate executed by the
Secretary or Assistant Secretary or comparable officer of the Qualified Issuer and delivered to
the Master Servicer/Trustee and CDFI Fund. The term shall include any other officer or officers
of the Qualified Issuer who are authorized in writing to act on behalf of the Qualified Issuer
whenever, by reason of absence, illness, replacement or other reason, the Authorized
Representative of the Qualified Issuer is unable to act.
“Redemption Sub-account” means the redemption sub-account of the applicable Debt
Service Account within the Debt Service Fund established pursuant to Section 403 hereof.
“Refinance” means the use of Bond Proceeds to refinance an Eligible CDFI’s or
Secondary Borrower’s existing loan, which loan must have been used for an Eligible Purpose.
“Regulations” means the regulations governing the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program set
forth at 12 C.F.R. Part 1808, as they may be amended from time to time.
“Reimbursement Note” means the note executed and delivered by each Eligible CDFI to
the United States of America, to evidence such Eligible CDFI’s obligation to reimburse the
Guarantor for any payments made by the Guarantor pursuant to a Guarantee.
“Relending Account Maximum” has the meaning given such term in Section 308
hereof.
“Relending Fund” means the trust fund so designated which is established pursuant
to Section 308 hereof.
Representativemeans either the Eligible CDFI Representative or the Qualified Issuer
Representative, as applicable.
Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Master Servicer/Trustee, means
any vice president, any assistant vice president, any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or
assistant trust officer, any associate or senior associate or any other officer of the Master
Servicer/Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the
above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any
other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity
with the particular subject and who, in each case, shall have direct responsibility for the
administration of this Bond Indenture, the identity of such Responsible Officers referred to in
this sentence and the specimen signatures thereof, to be evidenced by an incumbency certificate
executed by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Master Servicer/Trustee or other
corporate officer of the Master Servicer/Trustee and delivered to the Qualified Issuer and the
CDFI Fund; and when used with respect to the Qualified Issuer, means any officer or any vice
president and also means, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
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Revenue Fund means the trust fund so designated which is established pursuant
to Section 402 hereof.
“Revenues” means (a) all Loan Deposits and all other amounts payable to the Master
Servicer/Trustee with respect to the principal, Call Premium, if any, or interest on, the Bonds (i)
by the Eligible CDFIs under the Notes, and (ii) by transfer from the Project Fund pursuant
to Section 304 hereof, and (b) investment income with respect to any monies held by the Master
Servicer/Trustee in the Debt Service Fund.
“Risk-Share Pool Fund” means the trust fund so designated which is established pursuant
to Section 306 hereof.
“Risk-Share Pool Requirement,” for any Bond Loan, means, in the case of each Advance,
an amount equal to three percent (3%) of the respective Approved Disbursement Amount.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of McGraw-Hill, Inc., its
successors and assigns, if such corporation shall be dissolved or liquidated or shall no longer
perform the functions of a securities rating agency.
“Secondary Borrower” means an entity that has made application to the Eligible CDFI
for a Secondary Loan, been deemed creditworthy by the Eligible CDFI, meets the criteria set
forth in the applicable Secondary Loan Requirements to receive a Secondary Loan, and has
received a Secondary Loan.
“Secondary Loan” means the use of Bond Loan proceeds by an Eligible CDFI to finance
or Refinance a loan to a Secondary Borrower for Eligible Purposes, which meets the applicable
Secondary Loan Requirements.
Secondary Loan Documents means the promissory note, loan agreement and any other
documents executed by each Secondary Borrower in connection with the making of each
Secondary Loan by the Eligible CDFI.
“Secondary Loan Requirements” means the minimum required criteria, such as is in
effect at the time the loan is made with Bond Loan proceeds or when it becomes an Other
Pledged Loan or Secondary Loan, established by the CDFI Fund and used by the Eligible CDFI
(in addition to the Eligible CDFI’s underwriting criteria) to evaluate a request by a Secondary
Borrower applicant for a Secondary Loan.
“Secretary” means the Secretary of the Treasury, or his designee.
Statemeans the District of Columbia.
“Sub-servicer” means the sub-servicer selected by the Master Servicer/Trustee pursuant
to Section 915 hereof.
Supplemental Indenturemeans any trust agreement supplemental or amendatory to this
Bond Indenture which authorizes the issuance of a particular Bond.
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“Underserved Rural Areas” means an area that has significant unmet needs for loans,
Equity Investments, or Financial Services (as those terms are defined in 12 C.F.R. § 1805.104)
and is not contained within either a Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area or Primary
Metropolitan Statistical Area, as such areas are defined in OMB Bulletin No. 99-04 (Revised
Statistical Definitions of Metropolitan Areas and Guidance on Uses of MA Definitions).
“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in
effect from time to time in the applicable state.
“Verifiable Losses of Principal, Interest, and Call Premium” means any portion of
required debt payments related to or arising out of a Bond and Bond Loan, or the enforcement of
either of them, that the Qualified Issuer is unable to satisfy.
Section 102. Rules of Construction.
(a) Words of the masculine gender shall be deemed and construed to include
correlative words of the feminine and neuter genders. Unless the context shall otherwise
indicate, the words “Bond,” “Bondholder,” and “person” shall include the plural as well as the
singular number; the word “person” shall include any individual, corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. References to any
person hereunder shall include such person's duly authorized successors and assigns.
(b) The words herein,” hereof,” hereto,” and “hereunder,” and words of similar
import, refer to this Bond Indenture in its entirety.
(c) All references herein to particular articles or sections are references to articles or
sections of this Bond Indenture unless some other reference is indicated.
(d) All references herein to time shall be to Washington, D.C. time.
(e) References to documents and agreements herein shall be deemed to include all
duly adopted amendments, restatements or supplements to such documents and
agreements, which due adoption shall include any consent required with respect thereto.
(f) Notwithstanding the references herein to sub-accounts of the various funds and
accounts established hereby (including accounts within such funds or accounts), the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall be entitled to establish such sub-accounts and accounts, not as sub-
accounts of, or as accounts within, such funds or accounts, but as separate and distinct accounts,
if so required by its internal procedures; provided, however, the names of said accounts shall be
substantially similar to those set forth in this Bond Indenture.
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ARTICLE II
The Bonds
Section 201. Amount, Terms, and Issuance of Bonds. For the purpose of providing
funds for the making of all or part of the Bond Loans, Bonds are hereby authorized to be issued
under and secured by this Bond Indenture subject to the conditions hereinafter provided in
Section 209 of this Bond Indenture. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall maintain in its books a
log which shall reflect the portion of the purchase price of each Bond advanced by the
Bondholder from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Bond Indenture (the
“Schedule of Advances”). The principal amount due on any Bonds shall be only such amount as
has been advanced by the Bondholder with respect to such Bonds and not otherwise redeemed or
paid pursuant to the terms of this Bond Indenture. The Master Servicer/ Trustee shall keep a
record of all Advances made. Each Bond shall contain substantially the terms related to
advances, maturity, interest, and payment set forth in this Bond Indenture and the particular
Supplemental Indenture authorizing the issuance of such Bond, including the form of such Bond
attached to such Supplemental Indenture. No Bonds may be issued under this Bond Indenture
except in accordance with this Article II.
The Bonds may bear such endorsement or legend as may be required to conform to usage
or law with respect thereto.
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 209 hereof applicable to the
issuance of each Bond, the Qualified Issuer shall issue the Bonds, and the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall, at the request of, and upon execution by, a Qualified Issuer
Representative, authenticate and deliver such Bonds to the Bondholder as specified in the
request.
The principal of and the interest on each Bond, together with any applicable Call
Premium, shall be payable solely from the particular sub-accounts of the applicable Debt Service
Account of the Debt Service Fund relating to such Bond and shall be nonrecourse to the
Qualified Issuer.
Section 202. Designation, Maturity Dates and Interest Rates of the Bonds. Each Bond
issued hereunder shall be authorized by a separate and distinct Supplemental Indenture. Each
Bond shall be designated “[QUALIFIED ISSUER] Future Advance Promissory Bonds,
[YEAR - _ ] ([NAME OF ELIGIBLE CDFI])”, or such appropriate variation thereof as
contained herein or in any Supplemental Indenture, in each case inserting an identifying year.
(a) Each Advance made under any Bonds shall bear interest from its respective date
of disbursement. The Bonds shall mature, subject to prior prepayment as provided in Article VI
hereof, on the date provided in the particular Supplemental Indenture authorizing the respective
Bond.
(b) Interest Rates; Debt Service Schedule. Each Advance made under any Bond shall
bear interest at the Bond Rate established as provided in the respective Bond. On each Interest
Payment Date, interest accrued on (but excluding) such Advance date through (and including)
the respective Interest Payment Date shall be payable. Interest on each Advance made under any
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Bond shall be a fixed rate of interest computed as provided in each such Bond. Variable rates of
interest are not permitted. Interest for the full term of the Bond shall be due and payable
currently and shall not be capitalized.
A principal and interest payment schedule (Debt Service Schedule) shall be determined
by the Bondholder and delivered to the Qualified Issuer and the Master Servicer/Trustee for each
Advance made under a Bond based on the Bond Rate established for each such Advance.
Following the last Advance, a final Debt Service Schedule representing the aggregate of amounts
due pursuant to all Advances under each Bond, as shall be determined by the Bondholder, shall
be delivered to the Qualified Issuer and the Master Servicer/Trustee. The Qualified Issuer shall
provide all related Debt Service Schedules to the respective Eligible CDFI. The principal amount
under each Bond shall amortize in level debt service payments due quarterly or semiannually, as
determined by the Qualified Issuer and the Bondholder, as set forth in the Bond.
Section 203. [Reserved].
Section 204. Execution; Authentication. Each Bond shall be executed by the manual
signature of the Qualified Issuer Representative, and shall be attested by the manual signature of
the secretary or assistant secretary of the Qualified Issuer. Following such execution, the
relevant Bond shall be delivered to the Master Servicer/Trustee, who shall authenticate it
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Bond Indenture, and shall deliver it to the
Bondholder in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof. Only if a certificate of
authentication has been executed by the Master Servicer/Trustee by manual signature and
attached thereto shall any Bonds be valid or obligatory for any purpose or be secured by this
Bond Indenture or be entitled to any right or benefit hereunder. Such authentication by the
Master Servicer/Trustee upon a Bond shall be conclusive evidence and the only evidence that the
Bond so authenticated has been duly issued hereunder and the Bondholder is entitled to the
benefit of the trust hereby created. The Master Servicer/Trustee’s certificate of authentication on
the Bonds shall be executed by a Responsible Officer of the Master Servicer/Trustee, but it shall
not be necessary that the same officer or signatory sign the certificate of authentication on each
Bond issued hereunder. Each Bond shall be dated its date of authentication.
Bonds executed as above provided may be issued, notwithstanding that any officer
signing such Bonds shall have ceased to hold office at the time of issuance or shall not have held
office at the date of the Bond.
Section 205. Paying Agent; Payment of Principal and Interest; Source of Payment;
Limited Obligation; Rights to Receive Payments Preserved. The Master Servicer/Trustee is
hereby appointed as paying agent for the Bonds. As provided in each Bond, principal
installments, Call Premium, if any, and interest accrued on the unpaid principal amount of each
Advance made under a Bond shall be payable on each Payment Date by wire transfer of
immediately available funds on the respective Payment Date to the account of the Bondholder
which account, and the related wire instructions, has been designated by the Bondholder in
writing on the closing date. In the event the Bondholder desires to change or update the account,
and the related the wire instructions, such change must be furnished in writing to the Master
Servicer/Trustee at least five (5) Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date. If any
Payment Date is not a Business Day, the respective installment of principal, Call Premium, if
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any, and accrued interest payable on such Payment Date shall be sent by wire transfer on the next
succeeding Business Day, provided that interest shall accrue for the period of any such
extension.
THE BONDS, THE PRINCIPAL OF, THE CALL PREMIUM, IF ANY, AND THE
INTEREST THEREON, TOGETHER WITH ALL OTHER PECUNIARY OBLIGATIONS
UNDER THIS BOND INDENTURE ARE SPECIAL LIMITED OBLIGATIONS OF THE
QUALIFIED ISSUER, WITHOUT RECOURSE, PAYABLE SOLELY FROM THE
REVENUES AND ASSETS OF THE QUALIFIED ISSUER PLEDGED TO SUCH
PURPOSES IN THE MANNER AND TO THE EXTENT PROVIDED IN THIS BOND
INDENTURE AND NO OTHER REVENUES OR ASSETS OF THE QUALIFIED ISSUER
SHALL BE PLEDGED TO OR AVAILABLE FOR SUCH PURPOSES.
Installments of principal, Call Premium, if any, of and accrued interest on any Bond
which are payable, and are punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Payment Date shall be
paid to the Bondholder.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 205, each Bond delivered under this
Bond Indenture as replacement for or in lieu of any other Bond shall carry the rights to interest
accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, on such other Bond.
Section 206. Transfer of Bonds Restricted. The Bonds are not transferable, except as
provided by law.
Section 207. Mutilated, Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Bonds. In the event that the Bond
outstanding under this Bond Indenture shall become lost, stolen, destroyed, or mutilated, the
Qualified Issuer shall, upon the written request of the Bondholder, with a copy to the Secretary
and the CDFI Fund, execute, and the Master Servicer/Trustee shall deliver, in replacement
thereof, a new Bond of like tenor. Such replacement Bond shall be dated and shall bear interest
from the date to which interest has been paid on such lost, stolen, destroyed, or mutilated Bond
or, if no interest has been paid thereon, dated the same date as such lost, stolen, destroyed, or
mutilated Bond. Upon delivery of such replacement Bond, the Qualified Issuer shall be released
and discharged from any further liability on account of the lost, stolen, or destroyed Bond. If the
Bond being replaced has been mutilated, such mutilated Bond shall be surrendered to the Master
Servicer/Trustee for cancellation and the Master Servicer/Trustee shall, forthwith, furnish a copy
thereof to the Qualified Issuer. The Secretary shall deliver to the Bondholder a written
confirmation that the Secretary’s Guarantee related to the lost, stolen, destroyed, or mutilated
Bond remains in full force and effect with respect to the replacement Bond If any such
mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Bond shall have matured or be about to mature, the Qualified
Issuer may, with the consent of the Bondholder, pay to the Bondholder the principal amount,
Call Premium, if any, and accrued interest of such Bond upon the maturity thereof and upon the
compliance with the aforesaid conditions by the Bondholder, without the issuance of a substitute
Bond therefor.
Every substitute Bond issued pursuant to this Section 207 shall constitute an additional
contractual obligation of the Qualified Issuer, whether or not the Bond alleged to have been lost,
stolen or destroyed shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all of the
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benefits of this Bond Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Bonds duly
issued hereunder.
All Bonds shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing
provisions are, to the extent permitted by law, exclusive with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Bonds and shall preclude any and all other rights
or remedies.
Section 208. Cancellation of Surrendered Bonds. Bonds surrendered for payment,
prepayment, or replacement and Bonds surrendered to the Master Servicer/Trustee by the
Qualified Issuer or by an Eligible CDFI for cancellation shall be canceled by the Master
Servicer/Trustee, and a certificate evidencing such cancellation shall be furnished by the Master
Servicer/Trustee to the Qualified Issuer and the respective Eligible CDFI.
Section 209. Conditions of Issuance. Prior to or simultaneously with the delivery of
each Bond by the Master Servicer/Trustee, there shall be filed with the Master Servicer/Trustee
the following:
(a) A fully executed copy of this Bond Indenture;
(b) A fully executed copy of the particular Supplemental Indenture authorizing the
respective Bond, certified by the Qualified Issuer Representative to be a true and correct
executed copy thereof, which shall among other provisions, specify: (A) the authorized
maximum principal amount and designation of such Bond; (B) purposes for which such Bond is
being issued; (C) the date of the Bond; (D) the Principal Payment Dates and the Maturity Date of
the Bond; (E) the manner in which the interest rate or rates of the Bond shall be determined and
the Interest Payment Dates therefor; (F) the manner of dating (if other than the date of
authentication) and numbering of the Bond; (G) the place of payment of the principal and Call
Premium, if any, of, and interest on, the Bond; (H) the prepayment price or prices, if any, and
subject to Article VI hereof, the prepayment terms for the Bond; and (I) the form of the Bond
and the certificates of authentication to be endorsed thereon;
(c) An opinion of Bond Counsel substantially to the effect that the Bonds constitute
legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Qualified Issuer and concerning the due
authorization, execution and delivery for the respective Bond;
(d) A fully executed copy of each of the particular Bond Loan Agreements between
the Qualified Issuer and the respective Eligible CDFIs relating to the respective Bond;
(e) A Note executed by the respective Eligible CDFI relating to the respective Bond
Loan and assignment of the Note by the Qualified Issuer to the Master Servicer/Trustee for such
Bond Loan;
(f) A fully executed Bond Purchase Agreement;
(g) Evidence satisfactory to the Qualified Issuer, the Guarantor, and the CDFI Fund
that each Eligible CDFI has the authority to enter into the Bond Loan, has secured the Credit
Enhancement, if any, and has demonstrated a reasonable prospect of repayment of the Bond
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Loan, and pledged the applicable Bond Loan Collateral (including a fully executed Collateral
Assignment, and fully executed copies of notes, mortgages and other security documents
evidencing Secondary Loans and Other Pledged Loans [pledged at the time of closing], as
applicable, and any UCC-1 financing statements);
(h) A fully executed copy of the Agreement to Guarantee;
(i) Complete and accurate Guarantee Application materials, submitted in a timely
manner, demonstrating each of the Eligible CDFI’s ability to repay its Bond Loan;
(j) An opinion of counsel to each of the respective Eligible CDFIs as to, among other
things, due authorization, execution and delivery of the respective Bond Loan Documents and
the legality, validity, and enforceability thereof, as to perfection of the Collateral and as to
litigation and legal capacity to fulfill requirements;
(k) Copies of organizational documents of the Eligible CDFIs, certified by the
secretary of the Eligible CDFI;
(l) A request and authorization of the Qualified Issuer, signed by a Qualified Issuer
Representative, directing the Master Servicer/Trustee to authenticate and deliver the Bonds to the
Bondholder, in each case, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 209; and
delivery of the items set forth in this Section 209;
(m) Copies of such items as are required pursuant to the Agreement to Guarantee,
relating to the respective Eligible Purpose, including: each respective Eligible CDFIs
application for the Bond Loan for the respective Eligible Purpose; and detailed plans relating to
the Eligible Purpose of the Bond Loan, including a Secondary Capital Distribution Plan;
(n) A copy of the certification by the Qualified Issuer and the Eligible CDFIs that
proceeds of the Bond will not be used for lobbying in accordance with applicable Federal Laws;
(o) As set forth in the Bond Loan Agreement, a statement from the Qualified Issuer
and each Eligible CDFI that no default, event of default, or due and unsatisfied liability has
occurred and is continuing with respect to any obligations of the Qualified Issuer and each
respective Eligible CDFI, as applicable to the CDFI Fund, the Guarantor, the Bondholder, the
U.S. Internal Revenue Service, or any other agency, authority or instrumentality of the Federal
Government;
(p) Such further resolutions, certificates and opinions of the Qualified Issuer, the
Master Servicer/Trustee and the respective Eligible CDFI as Bond Counsel may reasonably
require;
(q) Such further documents, monies and securities as may be required by the
provisions of the particular Supplemental Indenture authorizing the respective Bond; and
(r) An executed copy of a certificate of a Qualified Issuer Representative to the effect
that all conditions precedent provided for in this Bond Indenture to the authentication and
delivery of such Bond has been complied with.
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When the documents mentioned in clauses (a) through (r) of this Section 209 shall have
been filed with the Master Servicer/Trustee, as applicable, and when the Bond shall have been
executed as required by Section 204 of this Bond Indenture, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver such Bond to or upon the order of the Bondholder.
ARTICLE III
Project Fund; Risk-Share Pool Fund; Bond Issuance Fees Fund; Relending Fund
Section 301. Creation of Project Fund and Deposits Thereto.
(a) A special fund is hereby created and designated Project Fund [2014-[FIRST
BOND #] 2014-[LAST BOND #]](the Project Fund) to the credit of which such deposits
shall be made as are required by the provisions of this Bond Indenture. There shall be created by
each Supplemental Indenture authorizing the issuance of a Bond a separate and distinct account
within the Project Fund for each Bond. No commingling of monies is permissible among such
accounts. Any monies received by the Qualified Issuer or by the Master Servicer/Trustee from
any source for payment of the Costs of any Eligible Purpose, including Proceeds relating to such
Eligible Purpose, shall be deposited to the credit of the particular account of the Project Fund
relating to the respective Bond. Any interest earned on the investment of funds in any account of
the Project Fund shall be credited to such account.
(b) The monies in each account of the Project Fund shall be held by the Master
Servicer/Trustee in trust and, subject to the provisions of Section 304 hereof, shall be applied to
the payment of the Costs of the particular Eligible Purposes to which the respective account
relates and, pending such application, shall be and are hereby made subject to a Lien and charge
in favor of the Bondholder and for the further security of the Bondholder until paid out or
transferred as herein provided.
Section 302. Advances Charged Against the Project Fund on Account of Bonds.
(a) In the case of each Eligible Purpose to be financed by a Bond Loan to be made
from the proceeds of a Bond, payment of the Costs allocated to the respective Eligible Purpose
shall be made from Advances made directly by the Bondholder upon authorization from the
CDFI Fund as hereinafter provided, and each portion of such Advance constituting the Approved
Disbursement Amount shall be charged against the particular account of the Project Fund
relating to the respective Bond. All portions of Advances authorized to be charged against an
account of the Project Fund shall be subject to the provisions and restrictions set forth in this
Article III, and the Master Servicer/Trustee covenants that it will not authorize the disbursement
of any portion of an Advance to be charged against any account of the Project Fund except in
accordance with such provisions and restrictions.
(b) Pursuant to Article 7 of the Bond Purchase Agreement, the CDFI Fund shall
authorize the Bondholder to make an Advance in part to pay the Costs of the particular Eligible
Purpose relating to such Bond, and the Master Servicer/Trustee is authorized and directed to
charge such Advance against the particular account of the Project Fund relating to such Eligible
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Purpose, in accordance herewith, but in the case of each such authorization only upon receipt of
the documents described as follows, as applicable:
(i) A requisition for payment (substantially in the form of the requisition
attached to each Bond Loan Agreement as Exhibit C and hereby deemed incorporated
herein), signed by the respective Eligible CDFI Representative and otherwise in
compliance with Article 3 of the Bond Loan Agreement.
(ii) A requisition approval notice signed by the Qualified Issuer
Representative (substantially in the form of the notice located at the end of the requisition
attached to each Bond Loan Agreement as Exhibit C and hereby deemed incorporated
herein) and otherwise in compliance with Article 3 of the Bond Loan Agreement.
(iii) A request for an Advance signed by the Qualified Issuer Representative
and substantially in the form of the “Advance Request” attached to the applicable
Supplemental Indenture, setting forth the following:
(A) The total amount of funds that are requested to be disbursed as an
Advance;
(B) The date on which the requested Advance is requested to be made;
and
(C) The appropriate bank accounts to which funds constituting the
requested Advance are to be disbursed;
(iv) An Advance request approval notice (substantially in the form of the
notice located at the end of the “Advance Request” attached to the applicable
Supplemental Indenture) signed by an authorized CDFI Fund official; and
(v) A copy of the particular Bond Loan Agreement between the Qualified
Issuer and the respective Eligible CDFI relating to the respective Bond (which shall only
be necessary at the time of the initial Advance).
(c) As soon as practicable, and in any event not later than seven (7) Business Days
after receipt of the documents required by this subsection to be delivered in connection with each
request for an Advance, the CDFI Fund shall deliver to the Bondholder (with a copy to the
Master Servicer/Trustee) a fully-executed copy of the Advance Request which shall authorize the
Bondholder to disburse the Approved Disbursement Amount to the particular account of the
Project Fund held by the Master Servicer/Trustee relating to the respective Bond.
(d) Upon receipt of each authorization by the CDFI Fund to make a requested
Advance under any Bond, the Bondholder shall, FIRST, disburse by wire transfer an amount of
funds equal to the Approved Disbursement Amount to the Master Servicer/Trustee for deposit to
the applicable account of the Project Fund, as specified by the Qualified Issuer in its request for
an Advance, and charge such Approved Disbursement Amount against the particular account of
the Project Fund held by the Master Servicer/Trustee relating to the respective Bond; and
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SECOND, provide the Master Servicer/Trustee with written confirmation notice of each such
disbursement constituting an Advance, which notice shall:
(i) Specify the following:
(A) The Approved Disbursement Amount that the Bondholder
disbursed as part of the Advance to pay Costs of the Eligible Purpose;
(B) The date on which the Bondholder disbursed the Advance
comprised of the amounts described in clause (A) above; and
(C) The respective interest rate that shall apply to the Advance
comprised of the amounts described in clause (A) above; and
(ii) Confirm that the Bondholder disbursed the Approved Disbursement
Amount to the particular account of the Project Fund held by the Master Servicer/Trustee
relating to the respective Bond.
(e) Upon receipt of the wire transfer of funds from the Bondholder in an amount
equal to the Approved Disbursement Amount and upon deposit of such amount in the applicable
account of the Project Fund relating to the respective Bond, as specified by the Qualified Issuer,
the Master Servicer/Trustee shall promptly disburse by wire transfer an amount of funds equal to
such Approved Disbursement Amount from the applicable account of the Project Fund to the
accounts specified by the Eligible CDFI in its requisition delivered to the Qualified Issuer,
including the transfer to the respective Bond Issuance Fees Fund of any amounts of Bond
proceeds, not in excess of one percent (1%) of the maximum principal amount of the applicable
Bonds, designated thereby to pay Bond Issuance Fees.
(f) Notwithstanding Section 302(e) above, in the event that an Advance has been
approved for a disbursement date during the forty-five (45) days immediately preceding any
Payment Date, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall not disburse the Approved Disbursement
Amount from the applicable account of the Project Fund until the Eligible CDFI has deposited
sufficient funds with the Master Servicer/Trustee (for application to the applicable Interest Sub-
account and Principal Sub-account of the Debt Service Account) to pay the special supplemental
invoice generated by the Master Servicer/Trustee pursuant to Section 2.6(c) of the Bond Loan
Agreement.
Section 303. Master Servicer/Trustee May Rely on Requisitions and Advance Requests.
Each requisition of an Eligible CDFI in the form provided by Section 302 hereof, each request
for an Advance of the Qualified Issuer reciting the information described in Section 302 hereof,
and all other statements, orders, certifications and approvals received by the Master
Servicer/Trustee, as required by this Article III to be delivered in connection with each request
for a disbursement of funds, may be conclusively relied upon by the Master Servicer/Trustee,
and shall be retained by the Master Servicer/Trustee, subject at all reasonable times to
examination by the respective Eligible CDFI (so long as the respective Bond Loan Agreement
shall remain in force and effect), the Qualified Issuer, the Bondholder and the agents and
representatives thereof.
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Section 304. Transfers to the Debt Service Fund. In the event that any Eligible CDFI
should elect or be required to prepay its Note in its entirety pursuant to Section 2.9 of the Bond
Loan Agreement or that the Master Servicer/Trustee shall declare the particular Bond issued to
fund the respective Bond Loan to such Eligible CDFI to be due and payable pursuant to
Section 802 hereof, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall, without further authorization, forthwith
transfer any balance remaining in the particular account of the Project Fund relating to such
Eligible CDFIs Eligible Purpose to the Redemption Sub-account of the applicable Debt Service
Account relating to the respective Bond.
Section 305. Reports and Audits. The monitoring and financial reporting requirements
of each year in which a Bond Loan is outstanding shall include the following and such other
financial reporting requirements reasonably determined by the CDFI Fund to be necessary and
appropriate:
(A) Monthly Requirements. The Master Servicer/Trustee at the close of each month
shall provide the Qualified Issuer and the CDFI Fund with an aggregate statement of activity for
portfolio management and loan monitoring purposes. These activity reports of the Master
Servicer/ Trustee include but are not limited to:
(1) Summary of current balances for all Funds, Accounts and Sub-accounts
maintained in the Trust Estate;
(2) Summary of activity at the Bond Loan level, including: outstanding balances,
prepayments, repayments, or missed payments for all Bond Loans in each
Bond Issuance and for the entire portfolio of Bond Loans;
(3) The “OC Test Notice,” as described in Section 5.21 of the Bond Loan
Agreement, which will rely on information furnished to the Master
Servicer/Trustee by the Qualified Issuer via the process and information
collection instruments referenced in Section 5.21 of the Bond Loan
Agreement; and
(4) The “Monthly Invoice,” as detailed in Section 2.6(c) of the Bond Loan
Agreement, setting forth the amount of the next succeeding Loan Deposit
required to be paid by the Eligible CDFI pursuant to Sections 2.6(a) and (b) of
the Bond Loan Agreement.
(B) Additional Requirements. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall provide such reports
to the CDFI Fund and the Qualified Issuer and maintain such records that are necessary to:
(1) Satisfy an annual Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements SSAE
16 (Type II) report describing the design and effectiveness of its system of
internal controls over financial reporting;
(2) Provide the CDFI Fund, Qualified Issuer and each respective Eligible CDFI,
an aggregated annual statement of activity of Bond Loans for the preceding
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calendar year. This report shall be delivered by February 28
th
following each
year in which a Bond Loan is outstanding; and
(3) Accomplish such other purposes that the CDFI Fund or Qualified Issuer may
deem appropriate.
In connection with its preparation of the reports set forth in this paragraph (B), each of the
Master Servicer/Trustee and Qualified Issuer shall be entitled to reasonably rely on information
provided to it by third parties engaged by the Eligible CDFI, the Qualified Issuer, or the
Bondholder, as the case may be, in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner with
respect to matters of which no Responsible Officer of the Master Servicer/Trustee or Qualified
Issuer has direct knowledge.
Section 306. Creation of and Deposit to the Risk-Share Pool Fund.
(a) A special fund is hereby created and designated “Risk-Share Pool Fund
[YEAR]” (the “Risk-Share Pool Fund”), and therein an “Excess Interest Account,” to the credit
of which such deposits shall be made as are required by the provisions of this Bond Indenture.
There shall be created by each Supplemental Indenture authorizing the issuance of a Bond a
separate and distinct account of the Risk-Share Pool Fund for the respective Bond authorized by
such Supplemental Indenture. The Risk-Share Pool Fund must remain in place throughout the
term of the Guarantee, and, in any event, amounts in the Risk Share Pool Fund will not be
returned to Eligible CDFIs until maturity of all of the Bonds, and termination of all of the Bond
Loans, within a Bond Issue.
(b) Not later than the time of each disbursement of the Bond Loan proceeds, the
applicable Eligible CDFI shall deposit an amount that is equal to three percent (3%) of such
disbursement, for a total of three percent (3%) of the guaranteed amount outstanding of the
Bond, from monies other than Bond Loan proceeds, together with the certification required
by Section 2.14 of the Bond Loan Agreement, into the applicable account of the Risk-Share Pool
Fund. Such monies shall remain in said account throughout the term of the Bond Issue, unless
applied as provided in this
Section 306. The Master Servicer/Trustee and Qualified Issuer shall
be entitled to conclusively assume that any monies delivered for deposit into the Risk-Share Pool
Fund together with the certification required by
Section 2.14 of the Bond Loan Agreement, are
not derived from Bond Loan proceeds.
(c) Any interest on a Bond Loan in excess of the Bond Loan Rate derived by the
Qualified Issuer during any period during which the Bond Loan Payment Default Rate applies
shall also be deposited in the Excess Interest Account of the Risk-Share Pool Fund.
(d) The Risk-Share Pool Fund shall be applied by the Master Servicer/Trustee to
payments of debt service on the Bond Issue in the event that an Eligible CDFI defaults in the
corresponding payment of debt service on a Bond Loan in accordance with paragraph (g) of
this Section 306. Monies on deposit in the Risk-Share Pool Fund shall be applied to such
payments and shall be depleted in full prior to any draw on the Guarantee.
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(e) In accordance with the Bond Loan Agreement, Eligible CDFIs (excluding the
Eligible CDFI in default and responsible for a draw) shall not be required to replenish the Risk-
Share Pool Fund in the event of a draw.
(f) The deposit of funds by an Eligible CDFI to the applicable account of the Risk
Share Pool Fund in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section 306 shall be sufficient
Collateral to secure any Advance made solely for the purposes of paying the Bond Issuance Fees.
(g) Subject to the provisions in Sections 403(d) and (e) hereof, in the event of a
payment default on a Bond Loan by an Eligible CDFI, the Master Servicer/Trustee, as assignee
of the Qualified Issuer shall, with notification to the CDFI Fund, the Qualified Issuer, and each
Eligible CDFI in the Bond Issue, draw from the Risk-Share Pool Fund to cover any default of
principal and interest payments due to the Bondholder. Thereafter, the monies in each account
of the Risk-Share Pool Fund relating to a Bond shall be applied pursuant to Section 403(d) and
(e) hereof if the amounts in the particular account of the Debt Service Fund relating to such Bond
available therefor shall be insufficient to pay in full on a Payment Date the amount then due on
the Bond. In drawing on the Risk-Share Pool Fund pursuant to Sections 403(d) and (e) hereof,
the Master Servicer/Trustee shall, with notification to the CDFI Fund, the Qualified Issuer, and
each Eligible CDFI in the Bond Issue, draw first from amounts in the particular account of the
Risk-Share Pool Fund relating to the defaulting Eligible CDFI until such amounts are depleted
and second from amounts on deposit in the Excess Interest Account. If such amounts are
insufficient to pay on a Payment Date the full amount due on the Bond, then the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall draw an amount equal to the product of the amount of the deficiency and
the fraction, the numerator of which is the amount on deposit in the respective account of the
Risk-Share Pool Fund and the denominator of which is the aggregate amount on deposit in all of
the accounts of the Risk-Share Pool Fund relating to the other Bonds (the “Proportional Risk-
Share Pool Amount”) from each of its other accounts of the Risk-Share Pool Fund relating to the
other Bonds. Amounts received by the Master Servicer/Trustee pursuant to Section 2.14 of the
Bond Loan Agreement requiring that an Eligible CDFI reimburse the Risk-Share Pool Fund for
any amounts withdrawn from it as a result of the Eligible CDFI’s default under the Bond Loan
Agreement immediately, but in any event not later than the next Bond Loan payment date, shall
be applied first to reimburse on a pro rata basis each of the accounts in the Risk-Share Pool Fund
other than the account corresponding to the Eligible CDFI until the amounts withdrawn from
such accounts as a result of such Eligible CDFI’s default have been reimbursed, and the balance,
if any, shall be deposited in the account in the Risk-Share Pool Fund corresponding to such
Eligible CDFI.
On an annual basis, by February 28 of each year, after the establishment of the Risk-
Share Pool Fund, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall review the amounts on deposit in each
account of the Risk-Share Pool Fund and report the balance to each respective Eligible CDFI and
the Qualified Issuer not later than fifteen (15) Business Days following such examination date.
Upon payment in full by all Eligible CDFIs of a Bond Issue of all amounts of principal, interest,
and Call Premium due on account of all Bond Loans made pursuant to such Bond Issue, any
amounts remaining in the particular account of the Risk-Share Pool Fund relating to the
particular Bond that funded each Bond Loan shall be promptly returned to the respective Eligible
CDFI. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively assume that upon payment
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of all amounts owing on a Bond, all amounts of principal, interest, and Call Premium (if any) due
on account of all related Bond Loans have been paid in full.
Amounts remaining in the Risk-Share Pool Fund will not be returned to Eligible CDFIs
until payment in full of all amounts due and payable under all of the Bonds and termination of all
of the Bond Loans within a Bond Issue. Upon payment in full of all amounts due and payable
under the Bonds and termination of the Bond Loans within a Bond Issue, the pro rata amount
remaining of each Eligible CDFI’s payments in the Risk-Share Pool shall be returned to each
Eligible CDFI; provided, however, that such Eligible CDFI has properly replenished any draws
on the Risk-Share Pool attributed to nonpayment of its Bond Loan and the corresponding Bonds.
Section 307. Bond Issuance Fees Fund.
(a) A special fund is hereby created and designated “Bond Issuance Fees Fund
[YEAR]” (the “Bond Issuance Fees Fund”) to the credit of which such deposits shall be made as
are required by the provisions of this Bond Indenture. There shall be created by each
Supplemental Indenture authorizing the issuance of a Bond a separate and distinct account of the
Bond Issuance Fees Fund for the respective Bond authorized by such Supplemental Indenture.
No comingling of monies is permissible among such accounts.
(b) Amounts transferred to the Bond Issuance Fees Fund from the Project Fund
pursuant to a Supplemental Indenture shall be applied by the Master Servicer/Trustee towards
the payment of certain costs incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds. Amounts not
to exceed one percent (1%) of proceeds of the Bonds may, at the direction of the applicable
Eligible CDFI, be applied to pay Bond Issuance Fees. Proceeds of the Bonds that are applied to
pay Bond Issuance Fees shall be applied in the following order of priority: FIRST to pay
reasonable transaction fees and expenses of the Qualified Issuer, its advisors and consultants
related to the issuance of the Bond and the making of the Bond Loan (specifically excluding any
salaries or administrative costs of the Qualified Issuer unrelated to the issuance of the Bond),
SECOND to pay reasonable transaction fees and expenses of the Master Servicer/Trustee, its
advisors and consultants, related to the issuance of the Bonds, and THIRD to pay reasonable
transaction fees and expenses of the Eligible CDFI, its advisors and consultants, and the Sub-
servicer, related to the issuance of the Bond and the making of the Bond Loan. The Master
Servicer/Trustee shall promptly disburse by wire transfer the amount of funds attributable to
Bond Issuance Fees in accordance with this Section 307, from the applicable account of the
Bond Issuance Fees Fund as specified by the Eligible CDFI in its requisition delivered to the
Qualified Issuer pursuant to Section 302 hereof and Article 3 of the Bond Loan Agreement.
(c) Any Bond Issuance Fees in excess of one percent (1%) of the proceeds of the
Bonds must be paid by the Eligible CDFI from monies other than proceeds of the Bond Loan.
The Master Servicer/ Trustee may conclusively assume that any such Bond Issuance Fees in
excess of one percent (1%) of the proceeds of a Bond Issue have been paid from monies other
than proceeds of the related Bond Loan.
(d) Any amounts (including investment proceeds) remaining in the Bond Issuance
Fees Fund on the date which is six (6) months following the Bond Issue Date for any Bond, after
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the payment of the Bond Issuance Fees of such Bond, shall be transferred to the applicable
account of the Project Fund and applied in accordance therewith.
Section 308. Relending Fund.
(a) A special fund is hereby created and designated “Relending Fund – [YEAR]” (the
“Relending Fund”) to the credit of which such deposits shall be made as are required by the
provisions of this Bond Indenture. There shall be created by each Supplemental Indenture
authorizing the issuance of a Bond a separate and distinct account of the Relending Fund for the
respective Bond authorized by such Supplemental Indenture. No comingling of monies is
permissible among such accounts. The balance of monies on deposit in the Relending Account
related to any Bond shall not, in any event, equal more than ten percent (10%) of the Outstanding
principal amount of such Bond minus the amount on deposit in the account of the Risk-Share
Pool Fund related to such Bond (and specifically excluding amounts on deposit in the Excess
Interest Account) as of the Calculation Date (as hereinafter defined) (the “Relending Account
Maximum”). The determination of the actual amount on deposit in each Relending Account as
of the Calculation Date shall exclude amounts then obligated pursuant to any executed notes in
connection with Secondary Loans, not then disbursed (the “Undisbursed Secondary Loans”).
The amount of Undisbursed Secondary Loans as of any Calculation Date shall be determined by
the Qualified Issuer and provided to the Master Servicer/Trustee.
(b) The Master Servicer/ Trustee shall monitor the balance in the Relending Account
on an on-going basis and shall promptly notify the Qualified Issuer, CDFI Fund, and Eligible
CDFI when the account has exceeded the applicable Relending Account Maximum.
(c)
For purposes of this Section 308 and Section 601 of this Indenture, “Calculation
Date” means, following the Notification Date (as hereinafter defined), the earlier of: (i) the date
on which the balance in the applicable Relending Account becomes less than or equal to the
applicable Relending Account Maximum or (ii) six (6) months following the Notification Date.
Notification Date” means the date on which the Master Servicer/Trustee, in accordance with the
preceding paragraph, notifies the Eligible CDFI that the balance in the applicable Relending
Account exceeds the applicable Relending Account Maximum.
(d) Each Supplemental Indenture shall provide that as each Bond Loan is repaid, such
amounts in excess of amounts required to pay Debt Service on the Bond, the Agency
Administrative Fee, the Qualified Issuer Fee, the Master Servicer/Trustee’s fees, and other
amounts required pursuant to the Bond Documents or Bond Loan Agreement, shall, immediately
upon receipt from the Secondary Borrower, be delivered to the Master Servicer/Trustee for
deposit in the applicable Relending Account. For the avoidance of doubt, servicing fees
attributable to servicing of Secondary Loan proceeds or collection of Secondary Loans shall not
be taken into account. Amounts on deposit in the Relending Fund pursuant to a Supplemental
Indenture shall, subject to the requirements of Section 3.4 of the Bond Loan Agreement, be
applied by the Master Servicer/Trustee, at the direction of the Eligible CDFI, towards the making
of additional Secondary Loans, the maturity of which shall not exceed the Maturity Date of the
corresponding Bond and which meet the preconditions for such Secondary Loans as set forth in
Section 1808.308 of the Regulations and the Bond Loan Agreement for the related Bond Loan.
Any such direction shall be accompanied by a certificate from the Eligible CDFI stating that all
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conditions precedent provided for in this Bond Indenture and the applicable Bond Loan
Agreement to the making of such Secondary Loan and to the compliance by the Master
Servicer/Trustee with such direction have been complied with.
(e) Any amounts (including investment proceeds) retained in the applicable account
of the Relending Fund that exceed the applicable Relending Account Maximum by $100,000 or
more as of the applicable Calculation Date shall be transferred to the Redemption Sub-account of
the applicable Debt Service Account within the Debt Service Fund and applied in accordance
therewith to effectuate a mandatory prepayment of Bonds pursuant to Section 601(b) hereof.
(f) So long as an Event of Default with respect to a Bond has occurred and is
continuing, and the Risk-Share Pool Fund is wholly depleted such that the balance therein is zero
(0), the Qualified Issuer, at the direction of the CDFI Fund in its sole discretion, may direct the
Master Servicer/Trustee as to application of moneys on deposit in the Relending Account related
to such Bond, or any account thereof.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Bond Indenture to the contrary, so long as the
Eligible CDFI is in compliance with the Required Overcollateralization as set forth in Section
5.21 of the Bond Loan Agreement, the Eligible CDFI shall not be subject to the covenant and
requirements related to the Relending Account set forth in the Bond Loan Agreement; provided,
however, that the Relending Account shall be established by the Master Servicer/Trustee
pursuant to this Bond Indenture, in any event.
ARTICLE IV
Revenues and Application Thereof; Debt Service Fund
Section 401. Revenues to Be Paid Over to Master Servicer/Trustee. Pursuant to this
Bond Indenture, the Qualified Issuer has caused the Revenues to be paid directly to the Master
Servicer/Trustee, or its Sub-servicer. If, notwithstanding these arrangements, the Qualified
Issuer receives any payments on account of any Note with respect to the principal or redemption
price of or interest on any Bonds, the Qualified Issuer shall immediately pay over such payment
to the Master Servicer/Trustee, or such Sub-servicer, to be held as Revenues.
Section 402. The Revenue Fund. There is hereby established with the Master
Servicer/Trustee a special fund to be designated Revenue Fund(the Revenue Fund) to the
credit of which such deposits shall be made as are required by the provisions of this Bond
Indenture. There shall be established by each Supplemental Indenture authorizing an issuance of
a Bond a separate and distinct account for each Bond. All monies received pursuant to Section
401 hereof, including the Revenues from each Eligible CDFI and any other monies, which by
any of the provisions of the respective Eligible CDFIs Bond Loan Agreement and the payment
schedules are required to be paid by the respective Eligible CDFI, shall, subject to Section 915,
be deposited to the particular account of the Revenue Fund relating to the respective Eligible
CDFIs Bond. Subject to Section 905 hereof and, with respect to any Event of Default, Section
811 hereof, all monies in a particular account of the Revenue Fund relating to any Bond shall be
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paid by the Master Servicer/Trustee (as soon as reasonably possible after deposit therein) in the
following order of priority:
FIRST, to the Interest Sub-account of the applicable Debt Service Account within
the Debt Service Fund relating to the Bond issued to fund the Bond Loan made to
finance the Eligible Purpose, the amount necessary to make the amount on deposit
therein equal to the total amount of interest in respect of the Bonds required to
have been paid by the Eligible CDFI under the Bond Loan Agreement through
such date (less any prior withdrawals to pay interest on such Bonds);
SECOND, to the Principal Sub-account of the applicable Debt Service Account
within the Debt Service Fund relating to the Bond issued to fund the Bond Loan
made to finance the Eligible Purpose, the amount necessary to make the amount
on deposit therein equal to the total amount of principal in respect of the Bonds
required to have been paid by the Eligible CDFI under the Bond Loan Agreement
through such date (less any prior withdrawals to pay principal on such Bonds);
THIRD, to the Redemption Sub-account of the applicable Debt Service Account
within the Debt Service Fund relating to the Bond issued to fund the Bond Loan
made to finance the Eligible Purpose, the amount, if any, of principal, accrued
interest, and any Call Premium paid by the Eligible CDFI under the Bond Loan
Agreement identified as being paid for mandatory or optional prepayment of
Bonds;
FOURTH, to the Guarantor if there has been a payment under the Guarantee, the
amount paid due to the respective Eligible CDFI’s default except that if the
available amount is insufficient to cover such amount, the available amount shall
be applied towards such payment and the balance shall be collected under the
order specified within this Section 402 from the next payment of Revenues
attributable to the Eligible CDFI whose default resulted in the draw on the
Guarantee;
FIFTH, to the extent there has been a withdrawal from the particular account of
the Risk-Share Pool Fund relating to a Bond due to the respective Eligible CDFI’s
default, an amount to replenish such account of the Risk-Share Pool Fund;
provided that if funds were drawn from accounts of the Risk-Share Pool Fund
relating to other Bonds pursuant to Sections 403(d) and (e) hereof, such other
accounts of the Risk-Share Pool shall be replenished prior to replenishment of the
account relating to the defaulting Eligible CDFI;
SIXTH, to the particular Relending Account, pursuant to Section 308 hereof;
SEVENTH, to the Qualified Issuer, an amount equal to the Qualified Issuer Fee;
and
EIGHTH, to the CDFI Fund, an amount equal to the Agency Administrative Fee.
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Section 403. Creation of and Deposits to the Debt Service Fund and the Interest Sub-
account, Principal Sub-account, and Redemption Sub-account of each Debt Service Account
within the Debt Service Fund.
(a) A special fund is hereby created and designated Debt Service Fund(the Debt
Service Fund) to the credit of which such deposits shall be made as are required by the
provisions of this Bond Indenture. There shall be created by each Supplemental Indenture
authorizing the issuance of a Bond a separate and distinct account (the “[ELIGIBLE CDFI] Debt
Service Account”) for each Bond and three accounts therein the Interest Sub-account, the
Principal Sub-account, and the Redemption Sub-account for the respective Bond authorized by
such Supplemental Indenture.
(b) There shall be deposited to the credit of the particular Interest Sub-account,
Principal Sub-account, and Redemption Sub-account of the Debt Service Account within the
Debt Service Fund relating to each Bond, from time to time, in the order prescribed in Section
402 hereof, the following:
(1) All payments of principal of, Call Premium, if any, of, and interest on, the
particular Note relating to the particular Bond Loan funded by the respective Bond; and
(2) All other monies received by the Master Servicer/Trustee under and
pursuant to the provisions of this Bond Indenture or any of the provisions of the
particular Note or Bond Loan Agreement relating to the particular Bond Loan funded by
the respective Bond, when accompanied by written directions from the person depositing
such monies that such monies are to be deposited to the credit of such sub-accounts of the
Debt Service Fund.
(c) Except as provided in Section 811 hereof, monies in the Debt Service Fund
relating to a Bond shall be used solely to pay the principal or prepayment price of such Bond, as
they mature or come due and the interest on such Bond as it becomes payable.
(d) Subject to the provisions in Section 306(g) hereof, not later than 5:00 p.m. on the
thirtieth (30
th
) day preceding any Payment Date of any Bond (such thirtieth (30
th
) preceding day
being the Due Date”), if the amounts in the particular sub-accounts of the applicable Debt
Service Account within the Debt Service Fund relating to such Bond available therefor shall be
insufficient to pay on such Payment Date the full amount that will be due on the Bond on such
Payment Date due to the respective Eligible CDFIs delinquency, the Master Servicer/Trustee
will, within three (3) days of such Due Date, notify the Guarantor, the CDFI Fund, the Eligible
CDFI, and the Qualified Issuer in writing of such delinquency and, as assignee of the Qualified
Issuer, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the amounts due and owing from the
respective Eligible CDFI, and shall continue such efforts for at least twelve (12) days. If such
efforts are unsuccessful, on the sixteenth (16
th
) day after the Due Date, the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall, acting as assignee of the Qualified Issuer and with notification to the
CDFI Fund and the Qualified Issuer, draw from the particular account of the Risk-Share Pool
Fund related to such Bond, to the extent available, an amount equal to the difference between (i)
the amount needed to pay in full on such Payment Date the amount that will be due on the Bond
on such Payment Date, and (ii) the amounts available to make such payment from (A) loan
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payments in the particular sub-accounts of the applicable Debt Service Account within the Debt
Service Fund relating to such Bond, if any, (B) amounts available to be applied from any Credit
Enhancement (including, but not limited to, cash collateral or a parent guarantee), or any
Principal Loss Collateral Provision, in accordance with documents governing any of the same, as
applicable, and (C) collection efforts pursuant to the preceding sentence. If such amounts are
insufficient to pay on such Payment Date the full amount that will be due on the Bond on such
Payment Date, then the Master Servicer/Trustee shall draw from each of the other accounts of
the Risk-Share Pool Fund relating to the other Bonds in the related Bond Issue an amount equal
to the Proportional Risk-Share Pool Amount. Upon any draw from the Risk-Share Pool Fund, the
Master Servicer/Trustee shall provide written notification of such draw to the Guarantor, the
CDFI Fund, each Eligible CDFI under the Bond Issue, and the Qualified Issuer.
(e) In the event of any Advance made pursuant to Section 302(f) of this Indenture,
and subject to the provisions of Section 306(g) hereof, not later than 5:00pm on the third
Business Day after such Advance date, if the amounts in the particular sub-accounts of the
applicable Debt Service Account within the Debt Service Fund relating to such Bond available
therefor shall be insufficient to pay on such Payment Date the full amount that will be due on the
Bond on such Payment Date due to the respective Eligible CDFI’s delinquency, the Master
Servicer/Trustee will notify the Guarantor, the CDFI Fund, the Eligible CDFI, and the Qualified
Issuer in writing of such delinquency and the Master Servicer/Trustee shall, acting as assignee of
the Qualified Issuer and with notification to the CDFI Fund and the Qualified Issuer, draw from
the particular account of the Risk-Share Pool Fund related to such Bond, to the extent available,
an amount equal to the difference between (i) the amount needed to pay in full on such Payment
Date the amount that will be due on the Bond on such Payment Date, and (ii) the amounts
available to make such payment from (A) loan payments in the particular sub-accounts of the
applicable Debt Service Account within the Debt Service Fund relating to such Bond, if any, and
(B) amounts available to be applied from any Credit Enhancement (including, but not limited to,
cash collateral or a parent guarantee), or any Principal Loss Collateral Provision, in accordance
with documents governing any of the same, as applicable. If such amounts are insufficient to
pay on such Payment Date the full amount that will be due on the Bond on such Payment Date,
then the Master Servicer/Trustee shall draw from each of the other accounts of the Risk-Share
Pool Fund relating to the other Bonds in the related Bond Issue an amount equal to the
Proportional Risk-Share Pool Amount. Upon any draw from the Risk-Share Pool Fund, the
Master Servicer/Trustee shall provide written notification of such draw to the Guarantor, the
CDFI Fund, each Eligible CDFI under the Bond Issue, and the Qualified Issuer.
(f) If, after the exhaustion of efforts pursuant to subsections (d) and (e) above, there
remains a deficiency in the monies available to pay in full on such Payment Date the amount that
will be due on the Bond on such Payment Date, the Master Servicer/Trustee, as assignee for the
Qualified Issuer, shall on the tenth (10
th
) day before the Payment Date:
(i) Notify the Guarantor that (A) there is a delinquency in the repayment of
the Bond Loan; and (B) there are insufficient funds to make a scheduled payment on a
Payment Date available in the particular sub-accounts of the applicable Debt Service
Account within the Debt Service Fund relating to the respective Bond from transfers of
loan payments and collection efforts; and
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(ii) Upon the receipt by the Guarantor of the notice described in clause (i),
draw or cause to be drawn under the Guarantee an amount equal to the difference
between (A) the amount needed to pay in full on such Payment Date the amount that will
be due on the Bond on such Payment Date, and (B) the amounts available from loan
payments and collection efforts.
(g) Amounts drawn under the Guarantee shall be paid by an internal transfer of funds
on the books of the United States Department of the Treasury from the account of the United
States Department of the Treasury to the account of the Federal Financing Bank.
Section 404. Funds Remaining in Principal, Interest and Redemption Sub-accounts.
Subject to the certifications set forth below, if, after all amounts due and payable under the Bond
Documents, including, but not limited to, each Bond, the Bond Loan Documents, and all
amounts (if any) due and payable under each related Reimbursement Note, have been paid in
full, there are any funds remaining in the related Principal Sub-account, the related Interest Sub-
account or the related Redemption Sub-account, such funds shall be paid to the respective
Eligible CDFI. Prior to any disbursements pursuant to this Section 404, the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall receive a certification from (i) the CDFI Fund to the effect that no
amounts remain outstanding under the Reimbursement Note and (ii) the Qualified Issuer to the
effect that no amounts are owed to the Qualified Issuer.
Section 405. Payments from Debt Service Fund; Application of Payments. On each
Principal Payment Date, Interest Payment Date, and date Bonds are subject to prepayment, the
Master Servicer/Trustee shall pay to the Bondholder all principal, interest, and any Call
Premium, due to the Bondholder from the particular Principal, Interest and Redemption Sub-
accounts, respectively, of the applicable Debt Service Account within the Debt Service Fund
relating to the Bond relating to such Eligible Purpose. Each payment in respect of a Bond shall
be applied as provided in the Supplemental Indenture.
ARTICLE V
Depositaries of Monies, Security for Deposits
and Investment of Funds
Section 501. Security for Deposits. All monies deposited with the Master
Servicer/Trustee under the provisions of this Bond Indenture or any Bond Loan Agreement shall
be held in trust and applied only in accordance with the provisions of this Bond Indenture and
such Bond Loan Agreement and shall not be subject to any Lien (other than the Lien created
hereby) or attachment by any creditor of the Master Servicer/Trustee, the Qualified Issuer, or any
Eligible CDFI.
Section 502. Investments of Monies. At the request and the direction of any Eligible
CDFI Representative (confirmed in writing), monies held for the credit of the particular accounts
of the Project Fund, the Revenue Fund, Debt Service Fund, Risk-Share Pool Fund, and
Relending Fund, relating to such Eligible CDFIs Bond shall be invested and reinvested by the
Master Servicer/Trustee in Government Obligations which shall mature not later than the
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respective dates when the monies held for the credit of said Funds will be required for the
purposes intended. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall be entitled to rely on instructions from the
applicable Eligible CDFI Representative. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall be fully protected in
relying solely upon the directions of any Eligible CDFI Representative in making investments of
funds held hereunder. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall have no obligation to invest any funds
in the applicable account in the Project Fund, the Revenue Fund, Debt Service Fund, Risk-Share
Pool Fund, and Relending Fund absent written direction of the related Eligible CDFI
Representative. Monies on deposit in the Bond Issuance Fee Fund shall remain uninvested.
Obligations so purchased as an investment of monies in any such fund or account shall be
deemed at all times to be a part of such fund or account, and, unless otherwise provided for
herein, the interest accruing thereon and any profit realized from such investment shall be
credited to such fund or account, and any loss resulting from such investment shall be charged to
such fund or account. Any money earned from the investment of funds in the particular account
of the Revenue Fund and the particular Principal, Interest or Redemption Sub-accounts of the
Debt Service Account within the Debt Service Fund relating to the Bond that funded a Bond
Loan to the respective Eligible CDFI shall be deposited in the appropriate account in the
Revenue Fund and applied as provided in Section 402. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall sell at
market price or present for prepayment any obligation so purchased whenever it shall be
necessary so to do in order to provide cash to meet any payment or transfer from any such fund
and account. Neither the Master Servicer/Trustee nor the Qualified Issuer shall be liable or
responsible for any loss resulting from any such investment or the sale of any such investment
made pursuant to the terms of this Section 502.
For the purpose of the Master Servicer/Trustee’s determination of the amount on deposit
to the credit of any such fund or account, investments and accrued interest shall be deemed a part
thereof and obligations in which monies in such fund and account have been invested shall be
valued at the lower of cost or market.
The Master Servicer/Trustee may make any and all investments permitted by
this Section 502 through its own bond or investment department, unless otherwise directed in
writing by the Eligible CDFI Representative.
ARTICLE VI
Prepayment of Bonds
Section 601. Prepayment Dates and Prices. The Bonds and the Advances made
thereunder shall be subject to prepayment prior to maturity in the amounts, at the times and in the
manner provided in this Article VI and any provision governing prepayment of the Bond set
forth in the particular Supplemental Indenture authorizing the issuance of such Bond. In the
event of a conflict between the provisions of this Article VI and the Supplemental Indenture
authorizing the issuance of a Bond, the provisions of such Supplemental Indenture shall control
with respect to such Bond. Payments of the prepayment price of any Bond shall be made
without the prior surrender of such Bond, provided that the Bondholder agrees with the Master
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Servicer/Trustee to surrender such Bond promptly after receiving payment of the prepayment
price.
(a) Optional Prepayment. Subject to Call Premium, if any, or discounts as are set
forth in the Bonds, the Bonds and the Advances made thereunder shall be subject to prepayment,
in whole or in part, at the option and upon the written direction of the Qualified Issuer, given at
the request of the respective Eligible CDFI at any time in the minimum principal amount of
$100,000 per Advance selected for redemption, in the manner set forth in the Bond or the
particular Supplemental Indenture authorizing the issuance of such Bond; provided, however,
any prepayment date hereunder must be a Business Day on which the Master Servicer/Trustee is
open for business.
(b) Mandatory Prepayment. Subject to such Call Premiums or discounts as are set
forth in the Bonds, the Bonds and the Advances made thereunder shall be subject to prepayment,
in whole or in part, as follows: on the Calculation Date (as defined in Section 308 hereof) of
each calendar year, such amounts as are on deposit in the applicable Relending Account of the
Relending Fund that exceeds the applicable Relending Account Maximum (as defined in Section
308 hereof) by $100,000 or more shall be transferred to the Redemption Sub-account of the
applicable Debt Service Account and applied in accordance therewith on the date set for
prepayment, which date shall be the next succeeding Payment Date; provided that the sum of
such amounts transferred from the applicable Relending Account of the Relending Fund shall
constitute the requisite amounts of principal, together with any interest and Call Premiums or
discounts, necessary to effectuate such mandatory prepayment on the date set for prepayment
such that no additional funds shall be required in order to do so.
Section 602. Selection of Advances to be Called for Prepayment. Except as otherwise
provided herein or in the Supplemental Indenture authorizing the issuance of a Bond, if less than
the full amount of any Bond is to be prepaid or redeemed, the partial redemption or prepayment
shall: (i) in the event of an optional prepayment, be applied to the Advance(s) identified by the
Eligible CDFI in its prepayment notice in inverse order of maturity, or (ii) in the event of a
mandatory prepayment, shall be applied in the inverse order of maturity of all outstanding
Advances.
Section 603. Notice of Prepayment.
When required to redeem Bonds under any provision of this Article VI, or when directed
to do so by the Qualified Issuer or the Eligible CDFI at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the
prepayment date, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall cause notice of the prepayment to be given
not more than sixty (60) days and not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the prepayment
date by faxing a copy of all notices of prepayment to the Bondholder to the fax number in
Section 1202. Failure to fax any such notice or any defect in the faxing thereof in respect of any
Bond shall not affect the validity of the prepayment of any other Bond. Any such notice shall be
given in the name of, and signed by, the Qualified Issuer, and any such notice or direction from
the Qualified Issuer to the Master Servicer/Trustee and any notice of prepayment to the
Bondholder shall identify the particular Bond to be redeemed (and, in the case of partial
prepayment of the Bonds, the respective Advance and principal amounts of such Advances
thereof to be redeemed), shall specify the prepayment date (which shall be a Business Day), and
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shall state that on the prepayment date the prepayment price of the Bonds called for prepayment
will be payable at the principal corporate trust office of the Master Servicer/Trustee and that
from that date interest will cease to accrue.
If at the time of faxing of notice of any optional prepayment, there shall not have been
deposited with the Master Servicer/Trustee monies sufficient to redeem all the Bonds called for
prepayment, such notice may state that it is conditional on the deposit of sufficient monies with
the Master Servicer/Trustee not later than the prepayment date, and such notice shall be of no
effect unless such monies are so deposited.
ARTICLE VII
Particular Covenants and Provisions
Section 701. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest. The Qualified Issuer
covenants that it will cause to be paid promptly the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
every Bond issued under this Bond Indenture at the place, on the dates, and in the manner
provided herein and in said Bonds according to the true intent and meaning thereof, but solely
from the amounts pledged therefor which are from time to time held by the Master
Servicer/Trustee in the various accounts of the Debt Service Fund.
The Qualified Issuer shall not be obligated to pay the principal of or the premium, if any,
or the interest on the Bonds except from the proceeds of the Bonds (to the extent any such
proceeds are on deposit under this Bond Indenture) and from (i) amounts to be paid under the
particular Bond Loan Agreement relating to the Bond Loan funded by such Bond, (ii) monies
derived from enforcement of the particular Collateral relating to the Bond Loan funded by such
Bond, (iii) payments made pursuant to the Agreement to Guarantee, (iv) monies on deposit in the
Relending Fund as specified by this Bond Indenture in connection with any mandatory
prepayment of the Bonds pursuant to Section 601(b) hereof, and (v) any other money or security
held by the Master Servicer/Trustee under the particular Bond Loan Agreement or this Bond
Indenture relating to the Bond Loan funded by each Bond for such purpose which amounts are
hereby specifically pledged to the payment thereof, including the Trust Estate, in the manner and
to the extent herein specified, and nothing in the Bonds or in this Bond Indenture shall be
construed as pledging any other funds or assets of the Qualified Issuer to pay amounts owed on
the Bonds or any other amount relating thereto.
Section 702. Performance of Covenants. The Qualified Issuer covenants that it will
faithfully perform at all times any and all covenants, undertakings, stipulations and provisions
contained in this Bond Indenture and in each Bond Loan Agreement, in any and every Bond
executed and delivered hereunder and in all of its proceedings pertaining hereto. The Qualified
Issuer covenants that it is duly authorized under state law, to issue the Bonds authorized hereby
and to execute this Bond Indenture, to assign each Bond Loan Agreement, and to pledge the
amounts to be paid under each Bond Loan Agreement and other amounts hereby pledged in the
manner and to the extent herein set forth, that all action on its part necessary to authorize for the
issuance of the Bonds and the execution and delivery of this Bond Indenture has been duly and
effectively taken.
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Section 703. Instruments of Further Assurance. The Qualified Issuer will do, execute,
acknowledge and deliver or cause to be done, executed, acknowledged and delivered, such
indentures supplemental hereto and such further acts, instruments and transfers as are necessary
or as the Master Servicer/Trustee or the CDFI Fund may reasonably require for the better
assuring, transferring, conveying, pledging, assigning and confirming unto the Master
Servicer/Trustee all and singular the amounts pledged hereby to the payment of the principal,
Call Premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds, including, as necessary, or as directed or
required by the Master Servicer/Trustee or the CDFI Fund, the filing of initial UCC financing
statements in all appropriate jurisdictions. The filing and maintenance of any subsequent UCC
financing statements (including, but not limited to, continuation, amendment and termination
statements) shall be the responsibility of the Master Servicer/Trustee pursuant to Section 707
hereof and Section 2.19 of the Bond Loan Agreement. The Qualified Issuer shall deliver to the
Master Servicer/Trustee copies of financing statements received by the Qualified Issuer in
connection with the Secondary Loan collateral (including, but not limited to, initial continuation,
amendment and termination statements), and the Master Servicer/Trustee shall maintain copies
of the same. The Qualified Issuer, except as provided herein or in any document related to the
Collateral and in any Bond Loan Agreement provided, will not sell, convey, mortgage, encumber
or otherwise dispose of any part of the amounts, revenues and receipts payable under any Bond
Loan Agreement or its rights under any Bond Loan Agreement.
Section 704. Inspection of Books. All books and records, if any, in the Qualified
Issuers possession relating to each Eligible Purpose and the amounts derived from each Eligible
Purpose shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection at the principal office of the Qualified
Issuer during normal business hours and upon reasonable notice by such accountants or other
agents as the Master Servicer/Trustee may from time to time designate. Such books and records
shall be maintained by the Qualified Issuer for at least six (6) years following the retirement of
the last outstanding Bond issued hereunder.
Section 705. Advise the Qualified Issuer and CDFI Fund of Material Events. The
Master Servicer/Trustee shall advise the Qualified Issuer, each Eligible CDFI, and CDFI Fund,
in writing in reasonable detail, within thirty (30) days of the event, of any of the following
Material Events of which a Responsible Officer of the Master Servicer/Trustee shall have actual
knowledge (it being agreed that the Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be required to undertake
any independent investigation in order to provide such advice):
(a) Any fact, circumstance, event, change, occurrence, condition, or development of
which the Master Servicer/Trustee is aware and which, individually, or in the
aggregate, has had or would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse
effect upon an organization’s business operation;
(b) Any proceeding instituted against the Master Servicer/Trustee in, by or before any
court, governmental or administrative body or agency, which proceeding or its
outcome could have a material adverse effect upon the operations, assets or
properties of the Master Servicer/Trustee;
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(c) Any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or
operations of the Master Servicer/Trustee that would impair the Master
Servicer/Trustee’s ability to fulfill its obligations under this Bond Indenture;
(d) Any substantial change in the business of the Master Servicer/Trustee;
(e) Any assessment (other than assessments provided by an Appropriate Federal or
State Banking Agency that are prohibited by applicable law or regulation from
disclosure to the Department of the Treasury) of significant or material
weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls that are reasonably
likely to adversely affect the Master Servicer/Trustee’s abilities to record,
process, summarize, and report financial information;
(f) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
of the Master Servicer/Trustee who have a significant role in internal controls
over financial reporting;
(g) Any qualified audit opinions received by the Master Servicer/Trustee or
pronouncements of non-reliance on previously issued financial statements by the
Master Servicer/Trustee’s board of directors or a committee of the board of
directors;
(h) Any changes in key personnel of the Master Servicer/Trustee; key personnel
means any employee or contractor of the Master Servicer/Trustee involved in the
day to day administration of the duties, responsibilities, and obligations under this
Bond Indenture;
(i) The loss of the Master Servicer/Trustee’s Insured Credit Union status as defined
in 12 U.S.C. § 1752(7) (if applicable);
(j) The occurrence of any Event of Default, as that term is defined in Section 801
hereof, or any event which upon notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute
an Event of Default;
(k) The merger, consolidation or acquisition of the Master Servicer/Trustee by or
with another entity, if the Master Servicer/Trustee is not the surviving entity;
(l) Loss of the Master Servicer/Trustee’s Depository Institution Holding Company
status under 12 USC § 1813(w)(1) or Insured Depository Institution status under
12 USC § 1813(c)(2) (if applicable); or
(m) The debarment, suspension, exclusion or disqualification, by the Department of
the Treasury, or any other Federal department or agency, of the Master
Servicer/Trustee (or principal thereof).
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Section 706. Rights Under Agreement. Each Bond Loan Agreement, each security
agreement related to the Collateral and the Agreement to Guarantee, a duly executed counterpart
of each of which has been filed with the Master Servicer/Trustee, sets forth the covenants and
obligations of the Qualified Issuer and the respective Eligible CDFI, and reference is hereby
made to each Bond Loan Agreement, each security agreement related to the Collateral and the
Agreement to Guarantee for a detailed statement of said covenants and obligations of the
respective Eligible CDFI and the Qualified Issuer thereunder, and the Qualified Issuer agrees that
the Master Servicer/Trustee in its name or in the name of the Qualified Issuer may enforce all
rights (other than Reserved Rights) of the Qualified Issuer and all obligations of each respective
Eligible CDFI under and pursuant to each Bond Loan Agreement, each security agreement
related to the Collateral and the Agreement to Guarantee for and on behalf of the Bondholder
that funds the Bond Loan relating to the respective Bond Loan Agreement and security
agreement related to the Collateral, whether or not the Qualified Issuer is in default hereunder.
Notwithstanding anything in this Bond Indenture to the contrary, the Qualified Issuer shall not be
required to exercise remedies under a Bond Loan Agreement (including acceleration of a Bond
Loan) in an Event of Default by an Eligible CDFI, except as instructed to do so by the Guarantor
or CDFI Fund, and such instruction has been confirmed in writing by the CDFI Fund, provided
that it is the intention of the parties hereto that the Qualified Issuer shall not be required to
expend or risk its own funds in connection therewith.
Section 707. Recording and Filing. The Qualified Issuer, and pursuant to Section 2.19
of the Bond Loan Agreement, the Eligible CDFI, shall file, at the expense of the respective
Eligible CDFI, in the appropriate state and local governmental offices for the recordation of
documents where the respective Eligible CDFI is located initial UCC financing statements,
prepared in accordance with the applicable law, with respect to the security interests granted by
the respective Eligible CDFI and other parties showing the Qualified Issuer as the assignor and
the Master Servicer/Trustee as the secured party. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall file, at the
expense of the respective Eligible CDFI, in the appropriate land and chattel records, and UCC
filing offices, all UCC financing statements other than the initial UCC financing statement
(including, but not limited to, continuation, amendment and termination statements) with respect
to the Qualified Issuer’s and the Master Servicer/Trustee’s security interests under this Bond
Indenture and each Bond Loan Agreement showing the Master Servicer/Trustee as the secured
party. Financing or continuation statements shall be filed or refiled by the Qualified Issuer or the
Master Servicer/Trustee, as applicable, at the expense of the respective Eligible CDFI, whenever
necessary to preserve the security interests created by the respective Eligible CDFIs Bond Loan
Agreement and this Bond Indenture and such Eligible CDFI shall do whatever is necessary to
assist the Qualified Issuer or Master Servicer/Trustee in preparing and effectuating such filing.
Nothing in this Section 707 is intended to obligate the Master Servicer/Trustee or the Qualified
Issuer to file UCC financing statements or continuation statements with respect to specific
collateral comprising the Secondary Loan collateral in which the Eligible CDFI is or should be
the secured party of record.
Section 708. Encumbrances. The Qualified Issuer and the Master Servicer/Trustee each
covenant and agree that, at all times that Bonds are outstanding, each shall keep this Bond
Indenture in full force and effect, shall not encumber the Trust Estate and, to the extent it has
authority hereunder to do so, the Qualified Issuer shall, as directed by the CDFI Fund, enforce
the Master Servicer/Trustee's covenants and agreements in this Bond Indenture.
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ARTICLE VIII
Default and Remedies
Section 801. Defaults. Each of the following events is hereby declared an Event of
Defaultsolely with respect to the Bond to which such event relates:
(a) Payment of interest on any Bond shall not be made when the same shall become
due; or
(b) Payment of the principal or prepayment price of any Bond shall not be made
when the same shall become due, whether at maturity or upon call for prepayment or otherwise;
or
(c) An Event of Default under the related Bond Loan Agreement shall have
occurred and not have been waived or cured; or
(d) the Qualified Issuer shall default in the due and punctual performance of any of
the covenants, conditions, agreements and provisions contained in any Bond or in this Bond
Indenture on the part of the Qualified Issuer to be performed other than as referred to in the
preceding paragraphs of this Section 801; or
(e) a Bankruptcy Related Event; or
(f) Any additional Event of Defaultspecified in the Supplemental Indenture for the
Bond to which such event relates;
provided, however, that no default described in clause (d) of this Section 801
shall constitute
such an Event of Default with respect to any Bond until written notice specifying such default
and requiring the same to be remedied shall have been given to the respective Eligible CDFI and
the Qualified Issuer by the Master Servicer/Trustee, at the written direction of the Guarantor or at
the written direction of the Bondholder, and the Eligible CDFI and the Qualified Issuer shall
have had thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice to correct said default and shall not have
corrected said default within the applicable period, provided, further, such period may be
extended in the sole discretion of the CDFI Fund.
An Event of Default with respect to any Bond shall not trigger a cross default with
respect to any other Bond.
Section 802. Acceleration and Annulment Thereof. Upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default with respect to any Bond, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall upon (i) the written request
of the Guarantor, (ii) the written request of the Bondholder, or (iii) the occurrence of an Event of
Default described in clause (a), (b) or (e) of Section 801 hereof, by notice to the Qualified Issuer
and the respective Eligible CDFI, declare the entire unpaid principal of and interest on such
Bond due and payable; and upon such declaration, the said principal, together with interest
accrued thereon, shall become payable immediately at the place of payment provided therein,
anything in this Bond Indenture or in such Bond to the contrary notwithstanding. Upon the
occurrence of any acceleration hereunder, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall immediately
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exercise such rights as it may have as the holder of the particular Note relating to the Bond Loan
funded by such Bond to declare all payments thereunder to be due and payable immediately.
Immediately after any acceleration, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall notify in writing the
Qualified Issuer and the respective Eligible CDFI of the occurrence of such acceleration. Within
five (5) days of the occurrence of any acceleration hereunder, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall
notify by first class mail, postage prepaid, the Bondholder of the occurrence of such acceleration.
If, after the principal of any Bond has become due and payable, all arrears of interest
upon the Bond and arrears of principal determined to be due thereon by the Bondholder as of the
date of rescission (other than principal due solely by such acceleration) are paid by the Qualified
Issuer from the Trust Estate or from funds provided by or on behalf of the Eligible CDFI, and the
Qualified Issuer also performs all other things with respect to which it may have been in default
hereunder and pays from the Trust Estate the reasonable charges of the Master Servicer/Trustee
and the Bondholder, including reasonable attorneysfees and expenses, then, and in every such
case, the Bondholder, by written notice to the Qualified Issuer and to the Master
Servicer/Trustee, may annul such acceleration and its consequences, and such annulment shall be
binding upon the Master Servicer/Trustee and upon the Bondholder. In the event that the
Bondholder determines to rescind the acceleration and that less than all arrears of principal is due
and payable (other than principal due solely by such acceleration) at the time of such rescission,
the Qualified Issuer shall deliver to the Master Servicer/Trustee, in writing, notice of the amount
determined by the Bondholder to be so due and payable.
The Master Servicer/Trustee shall forward a copy of any notice from the Bondholder
received by it pursuant to the preceding paragraph to the respective Eligible CDFI. Immediately
upon such annulment, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall cancel, by notice to the Eligible CDFI,
any declaration made by the Master Servicer/Trustee pursuant to this Section 802 with respect to
the particular Note relating to the Bond Loan funded by such Bond.
Section 803. Other Remedies; Special Servicing.
(a) If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to any Bond, the Master
Servicer/Trustee, before or after the principal of such Bond becomes immediately due
and payable, may enforce each and every right and remedy granted to it as the holder
of the particular Note and under the particular Bond Loan Agreement both relating to
the Bond Loan funded by such Bond and any supplements or amendments thereto.
Pursuant to Section 6.12 of the Agreement to Guarantee and subject to other
provisions of the Agreement to Guarantee, such rights may include, but are not
limited to, enforcing the Lien on or foreclosing on any property which secures the
related Bond Loan and bidding for and purchasing any property securing such Bond
Loan. In exercising such rights and remedies and the rights and remedies given the
Master Servicer/Trustee under this Article VIII, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall
take such action as, in the judgment of the Master Servicer/Trustee applying the
standards described in Section 901 hereof, would best serve the interests of the
Bondholder, provided that it is the intention of the parties hereto that the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds, except with
respect to the advancing of expenses in connection with special servicing functions
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pursuant to Section 2.6(d) of the Bond Loan Agreement, or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise
of its rights or powers.
(b) In exercising the remedies set forth in Section 7.2(a)(iv) or (v) of a Bond Loan
Agreement, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall (i) apply the standards described
in Section 901 hereof, (ii) be entitled to compensation in accordance with Section 905
hereof and Section 2.6(d) of a Bond Loan Agreement and (iii) given that time is of
the essence, upon direction from the Guarantor to initiate such remedies, commence
the engagement of professionals necessary to execute such remedies as soon as
practicable; provided that the expenses of the Master Servicer/Trustee with respect to
such engagements, including the fees charged by any such professionals, shall be
commercially reasonable and, in such connection, the Master/ Servicer Trustee may
take a commercially reasonable time period to obtain multiple fee quotes in its pursuit
of required services, so long as doing so will not materially adversely affect the Trust
Estate or the rights and remedies of the Qualified Issuer or the Guarantor; provided
that the subservicing fees provided for in
Section 2.6(d) of the Bond Loan Agreement
shall be deemed commercially reasonable.
Section 804. Legal Proceedings by Master Servicer/Trustee. If any Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing with respect to any Bond, the Master Servicer/Trustee, upon the
written request of the CDFI Fund or the Bondholder and receipt of indemnity to its satisfaction
shall, in its own name:
(i) By suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity, enforce all rights of the
Bondholder;
(ii) Bring suit upon the Bond and the particular Note relating to the Bond
Loan that was funded by such Bond; and
(iii) By action or suit in equity enjoin any acts or things which may be
unlawful or in violation of the rights of the Bondholder.
If an Event of Default described in under Section 801(c) occurs and is continuing with
respect to any Bond Loan Agreement relating to any Bond, the Master Servicer/Trustee, upon the
written request of the Guarantor or the Bondholder and receipt of indemnity to its satisfaction
shall, enforce each and every right granted to it or to the Qualified Issuer under such Bond Loan
Agreement or as the holder of the particular Note relating to such Bond Loan Agreement,
including, but not limited to, the liquidation of any Bond Loan Collateral.
Section 805. Discontinuance of Proceedings by Master Servicer/Trustee. If any
proceeding commenced by the Master Servicer/Trustee on account of any default with respect to
any Bond is discontinued or is determined adversely to the Master Servicer/Trustee, then the
respective Eligible CDFI, the Qualified Issuer, the Master Servicer/Trustee and the Bondholder
shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder as though no proceedings had
been commenced.
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Section 806. Bondholder May Direct Proceedings. Anything to the contrary in this
Bond Indenture notwithstanding, the Bondholder shall have the right, after furnishing indemnity
satisfactory to the Master Servicer/Trustee, to direct the method and place of conducting all
remedial proceedings by, or exercising any trust or power conferred on, the Master
Servicer/Trustee hereunder and under the Bond Loan Documents with respect to such Bond,
provided, that such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Bond
Indenture and could not involve the Master Servicer/Trustee in personal liability against which
such indemnity would not be satisfactory.
Section 807. Limitations of Actions by Bondholder. The Bondholder shall not have
any right to pursue any other remedy hereunder unless:
(a) The Master Servicer/Trustee shall have been given written notice by the
Bondholder of an Event of Default with respect to a Bond;
(b) The Bondholder shall have requested the Master Servicer/Trustee, in writing, to
exercise the powers hereinabove granted or to pursue the remedies available to it hereunder in its
name;
(c) The Master Servicer/Trustee shall have been offered indemnity satisfactory to it
against costs, expenses and liabilities, except that no offer of indemnification shall be required
for a declaration of acceleration under Section 802; and
(d) The Master Servicer/Trustee shall have failed to comply with such request within
a reasonable time.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 807
or any other provision of
this Bond Indenture, the obligation of the Qualified Issuer shall be absolute and unconditional to
pay hereunder, but solely from the Revenues and other funds pledged under this Bond Indenture,
the principal, Call Premium, if any, and interest on, the Bonds to the Bondholder on the
respective due dates thereof, and nothing herein shall affect or impair the right of action, which is
absolute and unconditional, of the Bondholder to enforce such payment.
Section 808. Master Servicer/Trustee May Enforce Rights Without Possession of
Bonds. All rights under this Bond Indenture and the Bonds may be enforced by the Master
Servicer/Trustee without the possession of any Bonds or the production thereof at the trial or
other proceedings relative thereto, and any proceeding instituted by the Master Servicer/Trustee
shall be brought in its name for the ratable benefit of the Bondholder.
Section 809. Remedies Not Exclusive. No remedy herein conferred is intended to be
exclusive of any other remedy or remedies, and each remedy is in addition to every other remedy
given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute.
Section 810. Delays and Omissions Not to Impair Rights. No delays or omission in
respect of exercising any right or power accruing upon any default shall impair such right or
power or be a waiver of such default, and every remedy given by this Article VIII may be
exercised from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient.
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Section 811. Application of Monies in Event of Default. Any monies received by the
Master Servicer/Trustee under this Article VIII shall be applied in the following order:
(i) To the payment of the reasonable costs of the Master Servicer/Trustee,
including counsel fees, any disbursements of the Master Servicer/Trustee with interest
thereon at the Master Servicer/Trustees prime rate per annum and their reasonable
compensation and all amounts owed to the Master Servicer/Trustee pursuant to Sections
903 and 905 hereof and under the Bond Loan Agreement; and
(ii) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default described in clause
(d) of Section 801, to the payment of reasonable costs and expenses of the Qualified
Issuer, including reasonable counsel fees, incurred in connection with the Event of
Default;
(iii) To the payment of principal or prepayment price (as the case may be) and
interest on the defaulted Bond, and in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay the
same in full, then to the payment of principal or prepayment price and interest ratably,
without preference or priority of one over another or of any installment of interest over
any other installment of interest; and
(iv) To the payment of any amounts paid by the Guarantor under the
Guarantee.
The surplus, if any, shall be paid FIRST, to the replenishment of any funds drawn from
accounts of the Risk-Share Pool Fund relating to other Bonds of other Eligible CDFIs
participating in the Bond Issue and SECOND, for application to the respective Eligible CDFI in
accordance with Bond Loan Documents or the person lawfully entitled to receive the same as a
court of competent jurisdiction may direct. The Master Servicer/Trustee is authorized to
establish at such time as shall be required to facilitate the receipt and disbursement of funds
pursuant to this Section 811, a special account within the Revenue Fund designated “[ELIGIBLE
CDFI] Collateral Account,” to the credit of which there shall be deposited all funds received, and
from which funds so deposited shall be disbursed, pursuant to said
Section. The Collateral
Account shall consist of separate and distinct sub-accounts for each Bond into which funds
received pursuant to this
Section 811 with respect to such Bond shall be deposited. No
commingling of monies is permissible among such accounts.
Section 812. Master Servicer/Trustee May File Claim in Bankruptcy. In case of a
Bankruptcy Related Event relative to the Qualified Issuer, any Eligible CDFI or any other
obligor upon any Bond Loan Agreement or the Bonds or to property of the Qualified Issuer, such
Eligible CDFI, or such other obligor or the creditors of any of them, the Master Servicer/Trustee
(irrespective of whether the principal of the Bonds shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Master Servicer/Trustee
shall have made any demand on such Eligible CDFI for the payment on such Eligible CDFIs
Note of an amount equal to overdue principal or interest or additional interest) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
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(a) To file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing
and unpaid in respect of the particular Bond that funded the Bond Loan to such Eligible CDFI
and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the
claims of the Master Servicer/Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Master Servicer/Trustee and their respective agents
and counsel) and of the Bondholder allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
(b) To collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any
such claims and to distribute the same;
and any receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator or sequestrator (or other similar official) in any
such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by the Bondholder to make such payments to the
Master Servicer/Trustee, and in the event that the Master Servicer/Trustee shall consent to the
making of such payments directly to the Bondholder, to pay to the Master Servicer/Trustee any
amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Master Servicer/Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Master
Servicer/Trustee under Section 811 hereof.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Master Servicer/Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept, or adopt on behalf of the Bondholder, any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Bonds or the rights of the
Bondholder, or to authorize the Master Servicer/Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of the
Bondholder in any such proceeding.
All monies received by the Master Servicer/Trustee pursuant to any right given or action
taken under this Bond Indenture shall, after payment of the costs and expenses of the
proceedings resulting in the collection of such monies and the fees, and expenses and
indemnities of the Master Servicer/Trustee, be deposited in the Debt Service Fund and applied to
the payment of the principal of, Call Premium, if any, and interest then due and unpaid on the
Bonds in accordance with the provisions of this Bond Indenture.
Section 813. Receiver. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to any
Bond and upon the filing of a suit or other commencement of judicial proceedings to enforce the
rights of the Master Servicer/Trustee and of the Bondholder under this Bond Indenture, the
Master Servicer/Trustee shall be entitled, as a matter of right, to the appointment of a receiver or
receivers of the amounts payable on the particular Note relating to the Bond Loan funded by
such Bond or otherwise under the particular Bond Loan Agreement relating to such Bond Loan
and assigned to the Master Servicer/Trustee under this Bond Indenture pending such
proceedings, with such powers as the court making such appointment shall confer, whether or
not any such amounts payable shall be deemed sufficient ultimately to satisfy the Bonds.
Section 814. Guarantor Deemed Bondholder. For all purposes of this Article VIII
(other than receipt of payments), the Guarantor shall, so long as the Guarantee shall be in effect,
be deemed the Bondholder and registered owner of all Bonds. As such, the Guarantor may take
all actions permitted by this Article VIII to be taken by the Bondholder, to the exclusion of the
Bondholder, the purpose of this Section 814 being to permit the Guarantor to direct the taking of
actions and enforcement of remedies permitted by this Article VIII so long as the Guarantee shall
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be in effect. Notwithstanding anything in this Bond Indenture to the contrary, the Qualified
Issuer shall be entitled to exercise all remedies available to the Qualified Issuer under a Bond
Loan Agreement (including acceleration of the Bond Loan) for a default by an Eligible CDFI in
the payment of the applicable Qualified Issuer Fee.
Section 815. Environmental Audit. The Master Servicer/Trustee reserves the right to
conduct an environmental audit prior to foreclosing on any mortgaged property. The Master
Servicer/Trustee reserves the right to forbear from foreclosing in its own name if to do so may
expose it to undue risk. In the event that, following a foreclosure in respect of any mortgaged
property, the Master Servicer/Trustee acquires title to any portion of such property or takes any
managerial action of any kind in regard thereto in order to carry out any fiduciary or trust
obligation for the benefit of another, which in the Master Servicer/Trustee’s sole discretion may
cause the Master Servicer/Trustee to be considered an “owner or operator” under provisions of
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42
U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., or otherwise cause the Master Servicer/Trustee to incur liability under
CERCLA or any other Federal, state or local law, the Master Servicer/Trustee reserves the right,
instead of taking such action, to assign its interests hereunder or to arrange for the transfer of the
title or control of the asset to a court appointed receiver.
ARTICLE IX
Concerning the Master Servicer/Trustee
Section 901. Acceptance of Trusts by Master Servicer/Trustee. The Master
Servicer/Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Qualified Issuer (for the benefit of each
Eligible CDFI and the Bondholder as well as the Qualified Issuer) that it is a New York
corporation and that it is duly authorized under the laws of the State of New York to accept and
execute trusts of the character herein set out.
The Master Servicer/Trustee accepts and agrees to execute the trusts imposed upon it by
this Bond Indenture, but only upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Article IX
and
subject to the provisions of this Bond Indenture including the following express terms and
conditions, to all of which the parties hereto and the Bondholder agree, except:
(a) Prior to the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, the Master
Servicer/Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Bond Indenture and as are reasonably required to perform the specific duties set
forth herein, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Bond Indenture
against the Master Servicer/Trustee; and
(b) In the absence of bad faith, willful misconduct or negligence on its part, the
Master Servicer/Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon directions of each Eligible CDFI
Representative and the Qualified Issuer Representative and upon certificates or opinions
furnished to the Master Servicer/Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Bond
Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the Master Servicer/Trustee, the Master Servicer/Trustee
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shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to
requirements of this Bond Indenture but need not verify the accuracy of the contents thereof.
In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Master Servicer/Trustee
shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Bond Indenture, and use the same
degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
No provision of this Bond Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Master
Servicer/Trustee from liability for its own bad faith, negligent action, grossly negligent failure to
act, or willful misconduct, except that:
(1) This subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of the preceding
provisions of this Section 901;
(2) The Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Master Servicer/Trustee
unless it shall be proved that the Master Servicer/Trustee was grossly negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(3) The Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the
Bondholder relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Master Servicer/Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Master Servicer/Trustee under this Bond Indenture or the Bond Loan
Documents.
Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Bond Indenture that
in any way relates to the Master Servicer/Trustee, including without limitation Sections 902
and 903 hereof, shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 901.
The Master Servicer/Trustee also accepts, and agrees to do and perform the duties and
obligations imposed upon it by and under each Bond Loan Agreement, but only upon the terms
and conditions set forth in the respective Bond Loan Agreement and this Bond Indenture.
Section 902. Master Servicer/Trustee to Give Notice.
(a) If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing hereunder with respect to any
Bond, and if the Master Servicer/Trustee has received written notice thereof or is deemed to have
notice pursuant to Section 902(b), the Master Servicer/Trustee shall give to the Bondholder and
the Qualified Issuer, written notice of such default or Event of Default within thirty (30) days
after receipt of such information. For the purpose of this Section 902 only, the term “default
means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of
Default under Section 801 hereof.
(b) The Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be required to take notice or be deemed to
have notice of any Event of Default hereunder with respect to any Bond or under the particular
Bond Loan Agreement relating to the Bond Loan funded by such Bond except for a default or
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Event of Default described in Section 801(a) or (b), unless the Master Servicer/Trustee shall
have received written notice of such Event of Default by the Qualified Issuer, the respective
Eligible CDFI or by the Bondholder.
Section 903. Master Servicer/Trustee and Qualified Issuer Entitled to Indemnity.
(a) Each Bond Loan Agreement provides that the Eligible CDFI shall indemnify each
of the Master Servicer/Trustee and the Qualified Issuer, and each of their respective officers,
directors, employees, agents, legal counsel and other contractors (herein, the Indemnitees)
against any loss, liability or expense incurred by an Indemnitee, arising out of or in connection
with the acceptance or administration of its duties under this Bond Indenture, except as set forth
in subsection (b). An Indemnitee shall notify the Eligible CDFI promptly of any claim for which
it may seek indemnity. Except where the respective Eligible CDFI is the claimant, the respective
Eligible CDFI shall defend the claim, and the Indemnitee shall cooperate in the defense. An
Indemnitee may have separate counsel, and the respective Eligible CDFI shall pay the reasonable
fees and expenses of such counsel. An Indemnitee shall not be required to give any bond or
surety in respect to the execution of its rights and obligations hereunder.
(b) The respective Eligible CDFI shall not be obligated to reimburse any expense or
to indemnify against any loss or liability incurred by an Indemnitee through gross negligence or
willful misconduct.
(c) To secure the respective Eligible CDFIs payment obligations described in this
Section 903, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Lien created by this Bond
Indenture for the benefit of the Bondholder on all money or property held or collected by the
Master Servicer/Trustee other than money derived from a draw on the Guarantee. Such
obligations shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Bond Indenture and the resignation
or removal of the Master Servicer/Trustee.
(d) Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Master Servicer/Trustee
under applicable law, when the Master Servicer/Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after
an Event of Default, the expenses and compensation for the services (including reasonable
expenses of legal counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any
applicable bankruptcy law.
(e) The Master Servicer/Trustee, as the case may be, may, nevertheless, begin suit, or
appear in and defend suit, or do anything else in its judgment proper to be done by it as such
Master Servicer/Trustee without indemnity, and in such case the Qualified Issuer shall reimburse
the Master Servicer/Trustee from funds available therefor under the Bond Loan Agreement for
all costs and expenses, outlays and counsel fees and other reasonable disbursements properly
incurred in connection therewith; provided, however, that the Master Servicer/Trustee shall (i)
make all payments hereunder of principal or prepayment price of and interest on the Bonds, and
(ii) accelerate the Bonds when required to do so hereunder other than at the direction of the
Bondholder. If the Qualified Issuer shall fail to make reimbursement, the Master
Servicer/Trustee may reimburse itself from any monies in its possession under the provisions of
this Bond Indenture other than monies derived from a draw on the Guarantee and shall be
entitled with respect thereto to a preference over the Bonds.
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(f) Subject to the standards described in Section 901 hereof, prior to taking action
under this Bond Indenture, except for a declaration of acceleration under Section 802 or the
payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds, the Master Servicer/Trustee
may require that satisfactory indemnity be furnished to it for reimbursement of all expenses to
which it may be put and to protect it against all liability by reasons of any action so taken, except
liability resulting from its gross negligence or willful misconduct. None of the provisions
contained in this Bond Indenture is intended to require the Master Servicer/Trustee to expend or
risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or
other exercise of its rights or powers hereunder.
Section 904. Master Servicer/Trustee Not Responsible for Insurance, Taxes, Execution
of Agreement, Acts of the Qualified Issuer or Application of Monies Applied in Accordance
with this Bond Indenture. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be under any obligation to
effect or maintain insurance or to renew any policies of insurance or to inquire as to the
sufficiency of any policies of insurance carried by any Eligible CDFI, or to report, or make or
file claims or proof of loss for, any loss or damage insured against or which may occur, or to
keep itself informed or advised as to the payment of any taxes or assessments, or to require any
such payment to be made. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall not have responsibility in respect
of the validity, sufficiency, due execution or acknowledgment of this Bond Indenture by the
Qualified Issuer or the validity or sufficiency of the security provided thereunder or in respect of
the validity of the Bonds or the due execution or issuance thereof. The Master Servicer/Trustee
shall not be under any obligation to see that any duties herein imposed upon any party other than
itself, or any covenants herein contained on the part of any party other than itself to be
performed, shall be done or performed, and the Master Servicer/Trustee shall be under no
liability for failure to see that any such duties or covenants are so done or performed.
The Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be liable or responsible because of the failure of
the Qualified Issuer or of any of its employees or agents to make any collections or deposits or to
perform any act herein required of the Qualified Issuer or because of the loss of any monies
arising through the insolvency or the act or default or omission of any other depositary in which
such monies shall have been deposited under the provisions of this Bond Indenture. The Master
Servicer/Trustee shall not be responsible for the application of any of the proceeds of the Bonds
or any other monies deposited with it and paid out, withdrawn or transferred hereunder if such
application, payment, withdrawal or transfer shall be made in accordance with the provisions of
this Bond Indenture.
The immunities and exemptions from liability of the Master Servicer/Trustee hereunder
shall extend to their respective directors, officers, employees and agents.
Section 905. Compensation. Subject to the provisions of any contract relating to the
compensation of the Master Servicer/Trustee, including Sections 2.6(b) and (c) of the Bond Loan
Agreement, the Qualified Issuer shall cause each Eligible CDFI to pay to the Master
Servicer/Trustee, as administrative expenses, its reasonable fees and charges in accordance with
Section 5.11 of the Bond Loan Agreement between the Qualified Issuer and the respective
Eligible CDFI [and those certain fee agreements between the Qualified Issuer and Eligible CDFI,
executed in connection with the issuance of the Bonds or the making of the Bond Loan].
Notwithstanding Section 402 hereof, any such fees of the Master Servicer/Trustee paid by the
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Eligible CDFI pursuant to Sections 2.6(b) or (d) of the Bond Loan Agreement, upon deposit to
the Revenue Fund, shall be disbursed from the Revenue Fund prior to any payments or
disbursements made pursuant to Section 402 hereof. In computing the Master Servicer/Trustees
compensation, the parties shall not be limited by any law on the compensation of an express
trust. If any Eligible CDFI shall fail to make any payment required by this Section 905, the
Master Servicer/Trustee may, but shall be under no obligation to, make such payment from any
monies in its possession under the provisions of this Bond Indenture other than monies derived
from the Relending Fund or a draw on the Guarantee and shall be entitled to a preference
therefor over the Bonds hereunder. The obligations of each Eligible CDFI referred to in this
Section 905 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Bond Indenture and the
resignation or removal of the Master Servicer/Trustee.
Section 906. Master Servicer/Trustee to Preserve Records. All records and files
pertaining to each Eligible CDFI in the custody of the Master Servicer/Trustee shall be open at
all reasonable times to the inspection of the Qualified Issuer, the Guarantor, the CDFI Fund and
the respective Eligible CDFI and their agents and representatives. The Master Servicer/Trustee
shall maintain such records for at least six (6) years following the date the last outstanding Bond
issued under this Bond Indenture is retired.
Section 907. Master Servicer/Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals. The recitals,
statements and representations contained herein and in the Bonds, shall be taken and construed
as made by and on the part of the Qualified Issuer and not by the Master Servicer/Trustee, and
the Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be under any responsibility for the correctness of the same.
Section 908. No Responsibility for Recording or Filing. Except as set forth in Section
707 and to the extent the execution thereof is required by the Master Servicer/Trustee, the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall not be under any obligation to see to the recording or filing of this Bond
Indenture, any Bond Loan Agreement, any UCC financing statements or any other instrument or
otherwise to the giving to any person of notice of the execution, delivery or recording hereof or
thereof.
Section 909. Master Servicer/Trustee May Rely on Bonds. Subject to the provisions of
Section 901 hereof, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall be protected and shall incur no liability in
acting or proceeding, or in not acting or not proceeding in good faith and in accordance with the
terms of this Bond Indenture, upon any resolution, order, notice, request, consent, waiver,
certificate, statement, affidavit, requisition, bond or other paper or document which it shall in
good faith believe to be genuine and to have been adopted or signed by the proper board or
person or to have been prepared and furnished pursuant to any of the provisions of any Bond
Loan Agreement or this Bond Indenture, or upon the written opinion of any attorney, engineer,
accountant or other expert believed by it to be qualified in relation to the subject matter, and the
Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be under any duty to make any investigation or inquiry as to
any statements contained or matters referred to in any such instrument.
Any request or direction of the Qualified Issuer or an Eligible CDFI mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced if executed by a Qualified Issuer Representative or an Eligible CDFI
Representative. Whenever in the administration of this Bond Indenture or the Bond Loan
Documents the Master Servicer/Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or
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established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Master
Servicer/Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon a certificate of a Qualified Issuer Representative.
The Master Servicer/Trustee may consult with legal counsel and the written advice or written
opinion of such legal counsel relating to legal matters 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; provided that, such legal counsel shall be selected by the Master
Servicer/Trustee in the operation of reasonable care, taking into account the level and relevance
of the experience of such legal counsel with respect to the advice so given. The Master
Servicer/Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in
any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Master Servicer/Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Master Servicer/Trustee shall
determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books,
records and premises of the Qualified Issuer and shall incur no liability or additional liability of
any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation. The Master Servicer/Trustee may execute
any of the trusts or powers hereunder or under the Bond Loan Documents or perform any duties
hereunder or under the Bond Loan Documents either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys, including the Sub-servicer. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be liable for any
action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith, without gross negligence or
willful misconduct, and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Bond Indenture. The Master Servicer/Trustee may
request that the Qualified Issuer Representative and each Eligible CDFI Representative deliver a
certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time
to take specified actions pursuant to this Bond Indenture, which certificate may be signed by any
Qualified Issuer Representative or Eligible Issuer Representative. The Master Servicer/Trustee
shall not be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations
under this Bond Indenture arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by any provision of any
law or regulation or any act of any governmental authority, acts of God; earthquakes; fire; flood;
terrorism; wars and other military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics; riots; interruptions; acts of
civil or military authority and governmental action. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, in the case of any reports delivered to the Master Servicer/Trustee under the Bond Loan
Documents, delivery of such reports to the Master Servicer/Trustee is for informational purposes
only and the Master Servicer/Trustee's receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of
any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including
the Qualified Issuer’s or any Eligible CDFI's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder.
If the Master Servicer/Trustee, in its sole discretion, determines that an ambiguity,
uncertainty or inconsistency exists under the Bond Loan Documents or in any notices,
instructions or other communications received by the Master Servicer/Trustee thereunder or if
the Master Servicer/Trustee (as assignee of the Qualified Issuer or otherwise) has received a
request from any party to the Bond Loan Documents to exercise any discretion that it is not
expressly required to exercise under the Bond Loan Documents, the Master Servicer/Trustee
shall immediately notify the CDFI Fund on behalf of the Bondholder of such ambiguity,
uncertainty or inconsistency and of such request to exercise discretion and may, in its sole
discretion, refrain from taking any action or from exercising any such discretion, unless the
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Master Servicer/Trustee receives instructions, signed by the CDFI Fund on behalf of the
Bondholder, which eliminates such ambiguity, uncertainty or inconsistency or directs, subject
to Section 806 hereof, the manner in which such discretion may be exercised.
Section 910. Qualification of the Master Servicer/Trustee.
(a) There shall at all times be a Master Servicer/Trustee, hereunder; which shall (i) be an
association or a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America or of any state, (ii) be authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers
hereunder, (iii) together, with the Sub-servicer, if any, have a combined capital and surplus of at
least $10,000,000,000, and (iv) be subject to supervision or examination by Federal or state
authority. If such association or corporation is not a commercial bank or trust company, it shall
also have a rating by Moodys of A2/P1 or higher, or by S&P of A/A1 or higher or shall
otherwise be approved in writing by Moodys or S&P, as the case may be. If such association or
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of
this Section 910, the combined capital and surplus of such association or corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published.
(b) If at any time the Master Servicer/Trustee shall be notified by the Bondholder that
it ceases to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 910, it shall resign
promptly in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 911 hereof.
Section 911. Resignation and Removal of Master Servicer/Trustee.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Master Servicer/Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Master Servicer/Trustee pursuant to this Article IX shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Master Servicer/Trustee under Section 912 hereof.
(b) The Master Servicer/Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Qualified Issuer, the Eligible CDFI, and the CDFI Fund. If an instrument of
acceptance by a successor Master Servicer/Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Master
Servicer/Trustee within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the retiring
Master Servicer/Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor Master Servicer/Trustee.
(c) The Master Servicer/Trustee may be removed at any time by an instrument or
instruments in writing, delivered to the Master Servicer/Trustee, with copies to the Qualified
Issuer and each Eligible CDFI, signed by the CDFI Fund (such instruments to be effective only
when received by the Master Servicer/Trustee).
(d) The Qualified Issuer may, subject to the consent of the CDFI Fund, and shall, at
the direction of the CDFI Fund, remove the Master Servicer/Trustee at any time, except during
the existence of an Event of Default, or an event which but for the passage of time would
constitute an Event of Default, for such cause as shall be determined by the CDFI Fund in the
exercise of reasonable business judgment by filing with the Master Servicer/Trustee an
instrument signed by the Qualified Issuer Representative. The Master Servicer/Trustee may also
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be removed at any time by the Qualified Issuer, acting at the written direction of the CDFI Fund,
for any breach of trust or for acting or proceeding in violation of, or for failing to act or proceed
in accordance with, any provision of this Bond Indenture with respect to the duties and
obligations of the Master Servicer/Trustee.
(e) If at any time:
(1) The Master Servicer/Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 910
hereof, and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Qualified Issuer, or any
Eligible CDFI, each with the consent of the CDFI Fund, or by the CDFI Fund, or
(2) The Master Servicer/Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Master Servicer/Trustee or of its property
shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Master
Servicer/Trustee or of its respective property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation,
Then, in any such case, the Qualified Issuer, the Bondholder or any Eligible CDFI, each with the
consent of the CDFI Fund, may remove the Master Servicer/Trustee.
(f) If the Master Servicer/Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting as determined in the sole discretion of the Qualified Issuer at the direction of the CDFI
Fund, the Qualified Issuer at the direction of the CDFI Fund shall promptly appoint a successor.
If, within sixty (60) days after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of
such vacancy, a successor Master Servicer/Trustee shall be appointed by act of the Qualified
Issuer at the direction of the CDFI Fund delivered to each Eligible CDFI and the retiring Master
Servicer/Trustee, the successor Master Servicer/Trustee so appointed shall forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment become the successor Master Servicer/Trustee and supersede the
successor Master Servicer/Trustee appointed by the Qualified Issuer and approved by the
Eligible CDFI. If within such 60-day period no successor Master Servicer/Trustee shall have
been so appointed by the Qualified Issuer at the direction of the CDFI Fund and accepted
appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, the Bondholder, may appoint a successor
Master Servicer/Trustee.
(g) The Qualified Issuer shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the
Master Servicer/Trustee and each appointment of a successor Master Servicer/Trustee by mailing
written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Bondholder. Each notice
shall include the name and address of the principal corporate trust office of the successor Master
Servicer/Trustee.
Section 912. Successor Master Servicer/Trustee. Every successor Master
Servicer/Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to its predecessor,
and also to the Qualified Issuer, the Guarantor and each Eligible CDFI, an instrument in writing
accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon such successor Master Servicer/Trustee,
without any further act, shall become fully vested with all the rights, immunities, powers and
trusts, and subject to all the duties and obligations, of its predecessors; but such predecessor
shall, nevertheless, on the written request of its successor or of the Qualified Issuer and upon
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payment of the expenses, charges and other disbursements of such predecessor which are
payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 905 hereof, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Master Servicer/Trustee all the rights, immunities, powers and
trusts of such predecessor hereunder; and every predecessor Master Servicer/Trustee shall
deliver all property and monies held by it hereunder to its successor, subject, nevertheless, to its
Lien or preference, if any, provided for in Sections 903 and 905 hereof. Should any instrument
in writing from the Qualified Issuer be required by any successor Master Servicer/Trustee to
more fully and certainly vest in such Master Servicer/Trustee the rights, immunities, powers and
trusts hereby vested or intended to be vested in the predecessor Master Servicer/Trustee, any
such instrument in writing shall and will, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered
by the Qualified Issuer.
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this Article IX, any bank or trust
company having power to perform the duties and execute the trusts of this Bond Indenture and
otherwise qualified to act as Master Servicer/Trustee hereunder with or into which the bank or
trust company acting as Master Servicer/Trustee, as the case may be, may be merged, converted
or consolidated, or to which substantially all the corporate trust assets and business of such bank
or trust company may be sold, shall be deemed the successor of the Master Servicer/Trustee, as
the case may be.
Section 913. Co-Master Servicer/Trustee. It is the purpose of this Bond Indenture that
there shall be no violation of any law of any jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of certain
banking corporations or associations to transact business as trustee as contemplated herein in
such jurisdiction. It is recognized that in case of litigation under this Bond Indenture upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default, it may be necessary that the Master Servicer/Trustee appoint
an additional individual or institution as a separate Master Servicer/Trustee or Co-Master
Servicer/Trustee, which shall be satisfactory to the Guarantor. The following provisions of this
Section 913 are adapted to these ends.
In the event of the incapacity or lack of authority of the Master Servicer/Trustee, by
reason of any present or future law of any jurisdiction, to exercise any of the rights, powers and
trusts herein granted to the Master Servicer/Trustee or to hold title to the Trust Estate or to take
any other action which may be necessary or desirable in connection therewith, each and every
remedy, power, right, claim, demand, cause of action, immunity, estate, title, interest and Lien
expressed or intended by this Bond Indenture to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to the
Master Servicer/Trustee with respect thereto shall be exercisable by and vest in such separate
Master Servicer/Trustee or Co-Master Servicer/Trustee but only to the extent necessary to enable
the separate Master Servicer/Trustee or Co-Master Servicer/Trustee to exercise such rights,
powers and trusts, and every covenant and obligation necessary to the exercise thereof shall run
to and be enforceable by such separate Master Servicer/Trustee or Co-Master Servicer/Trustee.
Should any deed, conveyance or instrument in writing from the Qualified Issuer be
required by the separate Master Servicer/Trustee or Co-Master Servicer/Trustee so appointed by
the Master Servicer/Trustee in order to more fully and certainly vest in and confirm to him or it
such properties, rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations, any and all such deeds,
conveyances and instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the
Qualified Issuer. In case any separate Master Servicer/Trustee or Co-Master Servicer/Trustee or
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a successor to either, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the estates,
properties, rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations of such separate Master Servicer/Trustee
or Co-Master Servicer/Trustee, so far as permitted by law, shall vest in and be exercised by the
Master Servicer/Trustee until the appointment of a new Master Servicer/Trustee or successor to
such separate Master Servicer/Trustee or Co-Master Servicer/Trustee.
Section 914. Review of Master Servicer/Trustee. The performance of the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall be reviewed by the Qualified Issuer on at least an annual basis and the
Qualified Issuer shall report to the Guarantor thereon. The Qualified Issuer shall adopt
commercially reasonable methods to assess the performance of the Master Servicer/Trustee with
respect to the Master Servicer/Trustee’s obligations to the Qualified Issuer and the Bondholder
under the Bond Documents. The Qualified Issuer shall report in writing any material failures
identified upon such reviews of the Master Servicer/Trustee’s performance to the Guarantor as
soon as practicable. The Qualified Issuer will, as soon as practicable, provide written notice to
the CDFI Fund of any material failure by the Master Servicer/Trustee to discharge any duty of
the Master Servicer/Trustee hereunder of which the Qualified Issuer has notice.
Section 915. Subcontracting Relationships of the Master Servicer/Trustee. The Master
Servicer/Trustee shall not subcontract any services required, pursuant hereto or pursuant to any
of the other Bond Loan Documents, to be rendered by the Master Servicer/Trustee to or on
behalf of the Qualified Issuer, each Eligible CDFI, the Bondholder, the Guarantor or any other
Person material to the Bonds or any Bond Loan (individually and collectively, the “Material
Parties”), without (i) the prior written consent of the CDFI Fund and (ii) notice of the proposed
subcontract to the Qualified Issuer together with a certification of the Qualified Issuer that there
exist no conflicts of interest between the Qualified Issuer and the proposed subcontractor, or
either of their affiliates. The Qualified Issuer acknowledges that the Master Servicer/Trustee
has, with the consent of the Qualified Issuer and the CDFI Fund, engaged Midland Loan
Services, a division of PNC Bank, National Association, as Sub-Servicer (the “Sub-Servicer”), to
perform certain of the functions, requirements and obligations of the Master Servicer/Trustee as
herein set forth and as set forth in the Bond Loan Agreement and hereby certifies that no such
conflict of interest exists; provided, however, that neither the Qualified Issuer nor the CDFI Fund
have reviewed any agreements between the Master Servicer/Trustee and the Sub-Servicer and
are under no obligation to do so or provide consent to the same with respect to the Sub-Servicer
or any other approved subcontractor, except that the Qualified Issuer acknowledges that it and
the CDFI Fund recognize the use by the Sub-Servicer of the CDFI Revenue Clearing Account
into which Loan Deposits are to be made and the retention by the Sub-Servicer as part of its
compensation of any interest thereon. The CDFI Revenue Clearing Account will be established
as a zero balance, demand deposit account which will be swept nightly as part of the Master
Servicer Trustee remittance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in accordance with Section 1204,
neither the Sub-Servicer nor any other approved subcontractor is or shall be a third party
beneficiary of this Bond Indenture. The Bank of New York Mellon or its successor or co-trustee
pursuant to Sections 912 and 913, respectively, is the sole person (i) responsible for the delivery
of services, the discharging of duties and obligations hereunder, and any liabilities associated
with the foregoing; or (ii) entitled to fees for, or indemnity related, to services rendered
hereunder by the Master Servicer/Trustee. The Master Servicer/Trustee is hereby charged with
overseeing, maintaining, amending or terminating its relationship with approved subcontractors
in a manner which is not inconsistent with the Master Servicer/Trustee’s obligations under this
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Bond Indenture and does not impair or adversely affect, in any manner, the rights and interests
granted to the Material Parties under the Bond Loan Documents.
ARTICLE X
Execution of Instruments by Bondholder
and Proof of Ownership of Bonds
Section 1001. Execution of Instruments by Bondholder and Proof of Ownership of
Bonds. Any request direction, consent or other instrument in writing required or permitted by
this Bond Indenture to be signed or executed by the Bondholder may be signed or executed by
the Bondholder or its attorneys or legal representatives by an instrument in writing. Proof of the
execution of any such instrument and of the ownership of the Bonds shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Bond Indenture and shall be conclusive in favor of the Master Servicer/Trustee
with regard to any action taken by it under such instrument if made in the following manner:
The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument may be
proved by the verification of any officer in any jurisdiction who, by the laws
thereof, has power to take affidavits within such jurisdiction, to the effect that
such instrument was subscribed and sworn to before him, or by an affidavit of a
witness to such execution, and where such execution is by an officer of a
corporation or association or a member of a partnership on behalf of such
corporation, association or partnership, such verification or affidavit shall also
constitute sufficient proof of his authority.
Nothing contained in this Section 1001 shall be construed as limiting the Master
Servicer/Trustee to such proof, it being intended that the Master Servicer/Trustee may accept any
other evidence of the matters herein stated which may be sufficient. Any request or consent of
the Bondholder shall bind every future bondholder of the Bonds to which such request or consent
pertains or any Bonds issued in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, by the Master
Servicer/Trustee pursuant to such request or consent.
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this Section 1001, the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall not be required to recognize any person as an owner of Bonds or to take
any action at his request unless the Bonds shall be deposited with it.
ARTICLE XI
Amendments and Supplements; Discharge
Section 1101. Amendments and Supplements Without Bondholder’s Consent. This
Bond Indenture may be amended or supplemented by the Qualified Issuer and the Master
Servicer/Trustee at any time and from time to time, without the consent of the Bondholder, but
with the written consent of the CDFI Fund and the Eligible CDFIs affected by such amendment
or supplement, by a supplemental indenture authorized by the Qualified Issuer filed with the
Master Servicer/Trustee, for one or more of the following purposes:
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(a) To add additional covenants of the Qualified Issuer or to surrender any right or
power herein conferred upon the Qualified Issuer;
(b) For any purpose not inconsistent with the terms of this Bond Indenture or to cure
any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental
indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in
any supplemental indenture, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions
arising under this Bond Indenture, provided that no amendment or supplement pursuant to this
clause (b) shall adversely affect the interests of the Bondholder;
(c) To subject additional revenues, properties or collateral to this Bond Indenture;
(d) To permit the appointment of a co-trustee under this Bond Indenture;
(e) To authorize the issuance of a Bond as provided in Section 202;
(f) To make any change herein which shall not prejudice in any material respect the
rights of the Bondholder provided that no consent of any Eligible CDFI shall be required for the
purposes specified in (e) above.
Section 1102. Amendments With Bondholder’s Consent. Except for amendments or
supplements of the Bond Indenture as provided in Section 1101, this Bond Indenture may be
amended by the Qualified Issuer and the Master Servicer/Trustee from time to time, except with
respect to (1) the principal, prepayment price, or interest payable upon any Bonds, (2) the
Interest Payment Dates, the Principal Payment Dates, the Maturity Dates or the prepayment
provisions of any Bonds, and (3) this Article XI, by a supplemental indenture consented to in
writing by the CDFI Fund and Eligible CDFIs affected by such amendments and approved by the
Bondholder. This Bond Indenture may be amended with respect to the matters enumerated in
clauses (1) through (3) of the preceding sentence with respect to the Bonds only with the consent
of the Bondholder, the Guarantor, and the respective Eligible CDFI.
Section 1103. Amendments to Bond Loan Agreement Not Requiring Consent of
Bondholder. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall, without the consent of, or notice to, the
Bondholder, but with the consent of the applicable Eligible CDFI and the CDFI Fund, shall
consent to any amendment, change or modification of any Bond Loan Agreement as follows:
(a) As may be required by the provisions of the Guarantee, the Bond Loan
Agreement, this Bond Indenture or the applicable Supplemental Indenture;
(b) To cure any formal defect, omission, inconsistency or ambiguity in the Bond
Loan Agreement in a manner not materially adverse to the Bondholder of any Bond to be
Outstanding after the effective date of the change; or
(c) To modify, amend or supplement the Bond Loan Agreement in any other respect
which is not materially adverse to the Master Servicer/Trustee or Bondholder after the effective
date of the change and which does not involve a change described in Section 1104; provided,
however, that nothing contained in this Section 1103 shall permit, or be construed as permitting,
any amendment, change or modification of the Eligible CDFI’s obligation to make the payments
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required under the Bond Loan Agreement, including, but not limited to, (i) a decrease in the
amounts payable on a particular Note relating to such Bond Loan, (ii) a change in the due date or
dates of principal of or interest on such Note or (iii) a change in any of the prepayment
provisions of such Note, without the consent of the Bondholder.
Section 1104. Amendments to Bond Loan Agreement Requiring Consent of Bondholder.
Except for the amendments, changes or modifications of the Bond Loan Agreement as provided
in Section 1103 hereof, neither the Qualified Issuer nor the Master Servicer/Trustee shall consent
to any other amendment, change or modification of the Bond Loan Agreement without the
consent of the CDFI Fund and the applicable Eligible CDFI and without the giving of notice and
the written approval or consent of the Bondholder. If at any time the Qualified Issuer and the
Eligible CDFI shall request the consent of the Master Servicer/Trustee to any such proposed
amendment, change or modification of the Bond Loan Agreement, the Master Servicer/Trustee
shall cause notice of such proposed amendment, change or modification to be given to the CDFI
Fund, the Master Servicer/Trustee and the Bondholder. Such notice shall briefly set forth the
nature of such proposed amendment, change or modification and shall include copies of the
instrument embodying the same.
Section 1105. Opinion of Bond Counsel Required. No supplement or amendment to the
Bond Loan Agreement or this Bond Indenture or the applicable Supplemental Indenture, as
described in this Article XI, shall be effective until the Qualified Issuer, the Master
Servicer/Trustee and the CDFI Fund shall have received an opinion of Bond Counsel to the
effect that such supplement or amendment is authorized or permitted by this Bond Indenture or
the applicable Supplemental Indenture and, upon execution and delivery thereof, will be valid
and binding upon the Qualified Issuer in accordance with its terms. The Master Servicer/Trustee
shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, the opinion of any
counsel approved by it as conclusive evidence that (i) any proposed supplemental indenture or
amendment permitted by this Article XI complies with the provisions of this Bond Indenture or
the applicable Supplemental Indenture, (ii) it is proper for the Master Servicer/Trustee to join in
the execution of that supplemental indenture or amendment under the provisions of this Article
XI, and (iii) if applicable, such proposed supplemental indenture or amendment is not materially
adverse to the interests of the Bondholder. The Master Servicer/Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into or consent to any supplement or amendment to this Bond Indenture or the
Bond Loan Agreement which affects the Master Servicer/Trustee’s own rights, duties or
immunities under this Bond Indenture or any other Bond Loan Document. The expenses
associated with any such opinion shall be paid by the related Eligible CDFI.
Section 1106. Discharge of Bond Indenture.
(a) If and when the whole amount of the principal, Call Premium, if any, and interest
due and payable upon the Bonds of a Bond Issue shall be paid, or provision shall have been
made for the payment of them as and when due, whether at maturity or by call for prepayment or
otherwise, all in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Section 1106, and payment of
or provision for all other sums payable hereunder and under the Bond Loan Agreement and the
Note in respect of the applicable Bonds shall have been made (including, without limitation, all
fees and expenses of the Master Servicer/Trustee, the Guarantor and the Qualified Issuer), then
and in that case, the right, title and interest of the Bondholder and the Master Servicer/Trustee in
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and to the monies, rights and properties pledged as security for the respective Bonds, excepting
only the cash on deposit in the applicable Redemption Sub-account to effectuate repayment , and
all covenants, agreements and other obligations of the Qualified Issuer and the Eligible CDFI to
the Bondholder shall thereupon cease, terminate and become void and be discharged and
satisfied. In such event, the Master Servicer/Trustee shall, except as aforesaid, surrender such
monies, rights and properties to the applicable Eligible CDFI. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall
execute such documents as may be reasonably required by the Qualified Issuer to effect such
assignments and transfers; provided that the discharge of the Bond Indenture with respect to any
particular Bond or portion of a Bond shall not impair or affect the Lien of the Bond Indenture on
the Trust Estate with respect to any other Bond or amounts that remain outstanding under any
other Bond.
There shall be deemed to be such due payment or provision for the same when there has
been placed in escrow or in trust with the Master Servicer/Trustee cash sufficient to meet all
requirements of the applicable Bonds, as they become due on or prior to the final maturity of
such Bonds or on or prior to any prepayment date as of which the Eligible CDFI, the Qualified
Issuer or the Guarantor in accordance with the terms of the respective Bond Loan Agreement and
this Bond Indenture shall have directed the Master Servicer/Trustee to exercise a prepayment.
(b) Promptly after the complete discharge as provided in paragraph (a), the Master
Servicer/Trustee shall give notice to the Qualified Issuer of such discharge.
(c) Any discharge under this Article shall be without prejudice to the right of the
Master Servicer/Trustee to be paid as provided hereunder reasonable compensation for all
services rendered by the Master Servicer/Trustee hereunder and all its reasonable expenses,
charges and other disbursements and those of its attorneys, agents and employees, incurred on
and about the administration of the trusts hereby created and the performance of its powers and
duties hereunder, together with any other rights to be reimbursed of the Master Servicer/Trustee,
and any such discharge under this Section 1106
shall be without prejudice to the right of the
Qualified Issuer to be paid as provided hereunder, and under the Bond Loan Agreements,
reasonable compensation for all services rendered by the Qualified Issuer hereunder in
connection with such discharge or otherwise in connection with the Bonds and all of its
reasonable expenses charges and other disbursements and those of its attorneys, agents and
employees incurred in connection therewith, together with any other rights to be reimbursed of
the Qualified Issuer.
(d) Upon repayment of all amounts due and payable on any and all Bonds issued
under this Bond Indenture in accordance with paragraph (a) above, all covenants, agreements
and other obligations of the Qualified Issuer hereunder shall cease, terminate and be void, and
thereupon the Master Servicer/Trustee shall, at the request of the Qualified Issuer, cancel and
discharge this Bond Indenture and execute and deliver to the Qualified Issuer and each Eligible
CDFI such instruments in writing as shall be reasonably required by the Qualified Issuer to
evidence the discharge hereof; otherwise, this Bond Indenture shall be and remain in full force
and effect.
Section 1107. Notice of Amendments and Supplements.
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In addition to any other notice obligation of the Master Servicer/Trustee hereunder, the
Master Servicer/Trustee shall be required to provide to each Eligible CDFI promptly upon
execution or receipt thereof, complete copies of all amendments, supplements or other
modifications to or of this Indenture or any Supplemental Indenture requested by or consented to
by any Eligible CDFI, together with copies of any opinions of Bond Counsel received hereunder.
ARTICLE XII
Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 1201. Covenants of the Qualified Issuer to Bind its Successors.
(a) In the event of the dissolution of the Qualified Issuer, all of the covenants,
stipulations, obligations and agreements contained in this Bond Indenture by or on behalf of or
for the benefit of the Qualified Issuer shall bind or inure to the benefit of the successor or
successors of the Qualified Issuer from time to time and any officer, board, commission,
authority, agency or instrumentality to whom or to which any power or duty affecting such
covenants, stipulations, obligations and agreements shall be transferred by or in accordance with
law, and the term the “Qualified Issuer” as used in this Bond Indenture shall include such
successor or successors. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made herein
and in the certificates delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the issuance of the Bonds herein
contemplated and shall continue in full force and effect so long as the obligations hereunder are
outstanding. Whenever in this Bond Indenture and the other Bond Loan Documents, the
Qualified Issuer is referred to, such reference shall be deemed to include the successors and
assigns of the Qualified Issuer; and all covenants, promises and agreements by or on behalf of
the Qualified Issuer which are contained in this Bond Indenture and the other Bond Loan
Documents shall bind its successors and assigns and inure to the benefit of the successors and
assigns of the Master Servicer/Trustee, the applicable Eligible CDFI, the Bondholder or the
Guarantor, as applicable.
(b) So long as Bonds are outstanding, the Qualified Issuer shall not consolidate with
or merge with or into any other entity or convey, transfer or lease its assets substantially as an
entirety to any entity, unless:
(i) The entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Qualified Issuer is
merged or the entity which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the assets
of the Qualified Issuer substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership,
trust or limited liability company, organized and validly existing under the laws of the
United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall
expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to and in
form satisfactory to the Master Servicer/Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of and any Call Premium and interest on all the Bonds in accordance with their
terms, which are non-recourse obligations of the Qualified Issuer and which are paid
solely from funds available and pledged through the Trust Estate, and the performance or
observance of every covenant of this Bond Indenture on the part of the Qualified Issuer to
be performed or observed; and
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(ii) Immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and
no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default,
shall have happened and be continuing; and
(iii) The Qualified Issuer has delivered to the Master Servicer/Trustee an opinion
of counsel and a certificate of a Qualified Issuer Representative, stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is
required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, complies with
this Article; and
(iv) The CDFI Fund has determined, in writing, that the successor entity formed
by such consolidation or into which the Qualified Issuer is merged or to which such
conveyance, transfer or lease is made meets all Qualified Issuer requirements as set forth
in the Regulations, and that said successor entity may assume all Qualified Issuer
requirements and responsibilities as set forth in the Agreement to Guarantee.
(c) Upon any consolidation of the Qualified Issuer with, or merger of the Qualified
Issuer into, any other entity or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the assets of the Qualified
Issuer substantially as an entirety in accordance with this Section 1201
, the successor entity
formed by such consolidation or into which the Qualified Issuer is merged or to which such
conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise
every right and power of, the Qualified Issuer under this Bond Indenture with the same effect as
if such successor entity had been named as the Qualified Issuer herein, and thereafter, except in
the case of any lease, the Qualified Issuer shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under
this Bond Indenture and the Bonds and may be dissolved and liquidated.
Section 1202. Notices. Any notice, demand, direction, request or other instrument
authorized or required by this Bond Indenture to be given to or filed with the Qualified Issuer,
the Master Servicer/Trustee, Guarantor, the CDFI Fund, Bondholder, or the Eligible CDFI shall
be in writing and shall be deemed given or filed for all purposes of this Bond Indenture when
delivered by hand delivery or mailed by first-class, postage prepaid, registered or certified mail,
addressed as follows:
If to Qualified Issuer:
_________________
_________________
_________________
If to Master Servicer/Trustee:
The Bank of New York Mellon
101 Barclay Street, Floor 11W
New York, New York 10286
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Attention: CDFI Group
Phone: 212-815-6008
Facsimile: 212-815-6057
If to Qualified Issuer:
_________________
_________________
_________________
If to Master Servicer/Trustee:
The Bank of New York Mellon
101 Barclay Street, Floor 11W
New York, New York 10286
Attention: CDFI Group
Phone: 212-815-6008
Facsimile: 212-815-6057
If to Guarantor:
The Secretary of the Treasury
c/o Deputy Assistant Secretary for Small
Business, Community Development and
Housing Policy
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
with a copy to:
Assistant General Counsel, Banking and
Finance
U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
If to the CDFI Fund:
Program Manager
CDFI Bond Guarantee Program
CDFI Fund
U.S. Department of the Treasury
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1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
with a copy to:
Legal Counsel
CDFI Fund
U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
If to Bondholder:
Manager
Federal Financing Bank
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
Telephone No. (202) 622-2470
Facsimile No. (202) 622-0707
Email address [email protected]
If to a Eligible CDFI:
at such address as specified in the particular
Bond Loan Agreement;
and if sent by facsimile, confirmed by telephone report of delivery requested, addressed as
above, at the time and date appearing on the report of delivery. A duplicate copy of each notice
or other communication given hereunder by either the Qualified Issuer or the Master
Servicer/Trustee to the other shall also be given to the respective Eligible CDFI.
The Master Servicer/Trustee agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions
pursuant to this Bond Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, facsimile transmission or other similar
unsecured electronic methods; provided, however, that (a) the party providing such electronic
instructions or directions, subsequent to the transmission thereof, shall provide the originally
executed instructions or directions to the Master Servicer/Trustee in a timely manner and (b)
such originally executed instructions or directions shall be signed by an authorized representative
of the party providing such instructions or directions. The Master Servicer/Trustee shall not be
liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Master
Servicer/Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions or directions
notwithstanding such instructions or directions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent
written instruction or direction or if the subsequent written instruction or direction is never
received. The party providing instructions or directions by unsecured e-mail, facsimile
transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods, as aforesaid, agrees to assume all
risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the
Master Servicer/Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Master Servicer/Trustee
acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties.
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All documents received by the Master Servicer/Trustee or under the provisions of this
Bond Indenture, or photographic copies thereof, shall be retained in its possession until this Bond
Indenture shall be released in accordance with the provisions hereof, subject at all reasonable
times to the inspection of the Qualified Issuer and the Bondholder and the agents and
representatives thereof.
The Qualified Issuer, the Master Servicer/Trustee, the CDFI Fund, the Guarantor and
each Eligible CDFI may, by notice given hereunder, designate any further or different addresses
to which subsequent notices, certificates or other communications shall be sent.
Section 1203. Master Servicer/Trustee as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Master
Servicer/Trustee is hereby designated and agrees to act as Paying Agent and Registrar for and in
respect of the Bonds and any amounts received under the Bond Loan Agreement.
Section 1204. Rights Under Bond Indenture. Except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, nothing in this Bond Indenture expressed or implied is intended or shall be construed
to confer upon any person, firm or corporation other than the parties hereto, the Eligible CDFIs
and the Bondholder, any right, remedy or claim, legal or equitable, under or by reason of this
Bond Indenture or any provision hereof, this Bond Indenture and all its provisions being
intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, the Eligible
CDFIs and the Bondholder from time to time of the Bonds issued hereunder.
Section 1205. Reliance upon Bond and other Instruments. Except as otherwise provided
in this Bond Indenture, any request, notice, certificate or other instrument from the Qualified
Issuer or any Eligible CDFI to the Master Servicer/Trustee shall be deemed to have been signed
by the proper party or parties if signed by the Qualified Issuer Representative or the respective
Eligible CDFI Representative, respectively, and the Master Servicer/Trustee may accept and rely
upon a certificate signed by the Qualified Issuer Representative as to any action taken by the
Qualified Issuer and by any Eligible CDFI Representative as to any action taken by the
respective Eligible CDFI.
Section 1206. Severability. In case any one or more of the provisions of this Bond
Indenture or of the Bonds issued hereunder shall for any reason be held to be illegal or invalid,
such illegality or invalidity shall not affect any other provision of this Bond Indenture or of the
Bonds, but this Bond Indenture and the Bonds shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal
or invalid provision had not been contained therein; in case any covenant, stipulation, obligation
or agreement of the Qualified Issuer contained in the Bonds or in this Bond Indenture shall for
any reason be held to be in violation of law then such covenant, stipulation, obligation or
agreement shall be deemed to be the covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of the
Qualified Issuer to the full extent permitted by law.
Section 1207. Covenants of the Qualified Issuer; Not Covenants of Officials
Individually. All covenants, stipulations, obligations and agreements of the Qualified Issuer
contained in this Bond Indenture shall be deemed to be covenants, stipulations, obligations and
agreements of the Qualified Issuer to the full extent permitted by the Constitution and laws of the
State. No covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement contained herein shall be deemed to be
a covenant, stipulation, obligation or agreement of any past, present or future member, officer,
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director, agent or employee of the Qualified Issuer in his individual capacity, and neither the
members, officers, directors, agents or employees of the Qualified Issuer nor any other officer of
the Qualified Issuer executing the Bonds shall be liable personally on the Bonds or be subject to
any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof. No member, officer,
agent or employee of the Qualified Issuer shall incur any personal liability in acting or
proceeding or in not acting or not proceeding in accordance with the terms of this Bond
Indenture.
Section 1208. Governing Law. This Bond Indenture shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the District of Columbia; provided, that the immunities and
standard of care of the Master Servicer/Trustee in connection with its administration of its trusts
and duties hereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of
the State of New York.
Section 1209. Payments or Performance Due on Days Other Than Business Days. In
any case where the date of maturity of interest on or principal of the Bonds or the date fixed for
prepayment of the Bonds or the specified last date for the performance of any act or the
exercising of any right shall be a day other than a Business Day, then such payment may be
made or act performed or right exercised on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made, performed or exercised on the specified date, provided, that interest
shall accrue for the period of any such extension.
Section 1210. Execution in Counterparts. This Bond Indenture may be executed in
multiple counterparts, each of which shall be regarded for all purposes as an original, and such
counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument, and no one counterpart of which
need be executed by all parties.
Section 1211. Waiver of Trial by Jury. EACH OF THE QUALIFIED ISSUER AND
THE MASTER SERVICER/TRUSTEE, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE THEREOF, HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE BOND INDENTURE, THE BONDS OR THE
TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section 1212. Form of Documents to be delivered to Master Servicer/Trustee. Each
document required to be delivered to the Master Servicer/Trustee under Section 209 hereof as a
condition to the issuance of any Bond and under Article III hereof and Article 3 of a Bond Loan
Agreement in connection with a disbursement of funds, may, and if so requested by the Master
Servicer/Trustee, shall be delivered to the Master Servicer/Trustee by e-mail (including in
portable document format), facsimile transmission or other similar electronic means and the
Master Servicer/Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively assume that documents provided as
aforesaid are identical to the originally manually executed versions thereof and shall not be
responsible for any inconsistency or discrepancy between such originals and the documents so
provided as aforesaid.
Section 1213. Conflicts. In the event of any inconsistency among the provisions of this
Indenture, the Agreement to Guarantee, and the Bond Loan Agreement, the provisions of the
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Bond Loan Agreement shall control, except with respect to the rights and obligations of the
Master Servicer/Trustee, which shall be controlled by this Indenture, except to the extent that
such rights and obligations of the Master Servicer/Trustee are derived from the assignment of
rights and obligations of the Qualified Issuer pursuant to the Bond Loan Agreement.
[Signature pages follow]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Qualified Issuer has caused this Bond Indenture to be
executed in its name and on its behalf by its Qualified Issuer Representative and the official seal
of the Qualified Issuer to be impressed hereon and the Master Servicer/Trustee has caused this
Bond Indenture to be executed in its name and on its behalf by its authorized officer, all as of the
date and year first above written.
[QUALIFIED ISSUER]
By: __________________ (SEAL)
Title: ___________________
ATTESTED BY:
By: __________________
Title: Secretary
[Bond Trust Indenture: Qualified Issuer signature page]
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON,
as Master Servicer/Trustee
By: __________________
Title: ___________________
[Bond Trust Indenture: Master Servcer / Trustee signature page]
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