(b) No distributions on Series B Preferred Units shall be declared by the General Partner
or paid or set apart for payment by the Partnership at any time that the terms and
provisions of any agreement of the Partnership, including any agreement relating to its
indebtedness, prohibits such declaration, payment or setting apart for payment or provides
that such declaration, payment or setting apart for payment of such distributions would
constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such declaration or payment shall
be restricted or prohibited by law.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, distributions on the Series B Preferred Units will
accumulate whether or not the Partnership has earnings, whether or not there are funds
legally available for the payment of such distributions and whether or not such
distributions are declared. Accumulated but unpaid distributions on the Series B Preferred
Units will not bear interest and holders of the Series B Preferred Units will not be
entitled to any distributions in excess of full cumulative distributions described above.
Except as set forth in the next sentence, no distributions will be declared or paid or set
apart for payment on any Partnership Interests or any other series of Parity Preferred Units
or any series or class of equity securities ranking junior to the Series B Preferred Units
(other than a distribution of the Partnerships Common Units or any other class of
Partnership Interests ranking junior to the Series B Preferred Units as to distributions and
upon liquidation) for any period unless full cumulative distributions have been or
contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment
thereof is set apart for such payment on the Series B Preferred Units for all past
distribution periods and the then current distribution period. When distributions are not
declared and paid in full (or a sum sufficient for such full payment is not so set apart)
upon the Series B Preferred Units and any other series of Parity Preferred Units, all
distributions declared upon the Series B Preferred Units and any other series of Parity
Preferred Units shall be allocated pro rata so that the amount of distributions declared per
Series B Preferred Unit and such other series of Parity Preferred Units shall in all cases
bear to each other the same ratio that accrued and unpaid distributions per Series B
Preferred Unit and such other series of Parity Preferred Units (which shall not include any
accrual in respect of unpaid distributions for prior distribution periods if such Parity
Preferred Units do not have a cumulative distribution) bear to each other.
(d) Except as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, unless full cumulative
distributions on the Series B Preferred Units have been or contemporaneously are declared
and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof is set apart for payment
for all past distribution periods and the then current distribution period, no distributions
(other than in Common Units or other Partnership Interests ranking junior to the Series B
Preferred Units as to distributions and upon liquidation) shall be declared or paid or set
aside for payment nor shall any other distribution be declared or made upon the Common
Units, or any other Partnership Interests in the Partnership ranking junior to or on a
parity with the Series B Preferred Units as to distributions or upon liquidation, nor shall
any Common Units, or any other Partnership Interests in the Partnership ranking junior to or
on a parity with the Series B Preferred Units as to distributions or upon liquidation be
redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys be paid to or
made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of any such shares) by the Partnership.
Holders of Series B Preferred Units shall not be entitled to any distribution, whether
payable in cash, property or securities, in excess of full cumulative distributions on the
Series B Preferred Units as provided above. Any distribution
payment made on Series B Preferred Units shall first be credited against the earliest
accrued but unpaid distribution due with respect to such Series B Preferred Units which
remains payable.
(b) Unless full cumulative distributions on all Series B Preferred Units shall have been or
contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment
thereof set apart for payment for all past distribution periods and the then current
distribution period, no Series B Preferred Units shall be redeemed unless all outstanding
Series B Preferred Units are simultaneously redeemed and in such event the Partnership shall
not purchase or otherwise acquire directly or indirectly any Series B Preferred Units
(except by exchange for Partnership Interests of the Partnership ranking junior to the
Series B Preferred Units as to distributions and upon liquidation); provided, however, that
the foregoing shall not prevent the purchase or acquisition of Series B Preferred Units
pursuant to a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to holders of all
outstanding Series B Preferred Units.
(c) Notice of redemption will be mailed by the Partnership, postage prepaid, not less than
30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date, addressed to the respective holders
of record of the Series B Preferred Units to be redeemed at their respective addresses as
they appear on the transfer records of the Partnership. No failure to give such notice or
any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings
for the redemption of any Series B Preferred Units except as to the holder to whom notice
was defective or not given. Each notice shall state: (i) the redemption date; (ii) the
redemption price; (iii) the number of Series B Preferred Units to be redeemed; (iv) the
place or places where the Series B Preferred Units are to be surrendered for payment of the
redemption price; and (v) that distributions on the shares to be redeemed will cease to
accrue on such redemption date. If less than all of the Series B Preferred Units held by any
holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of
Series B Preferred Units held by such holder to be redeemed.
(d) Immediately prior to any redemption of Series B Preferred Units, the Partnership shall
pay, in cash, any accumulated and unpaid distributions through the redemption date, unless a
redemption date falls after a Distribution Record Date and prior to the corresponding
Distribution Payment Date, in which case each holder of Series B Preferred Units at the
close of business on such Distribution Record Date shall be entitled to the distribution
payable on such shares on the corresponding Distribution Payment Date notwithstanding the
redemption of such shares before such Distribution Payment Date.
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Voting Rights. Holders of the Series B Preferred Units will not have any voting
rights. |
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Conversion. The Series B Preferred Units are not redeemable for, convertible into or
exchangeable for any other property or securities of the Partnership. |