52:18B-4 - Definitions relative to the Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation
52:18B-4 Definitions relative to the Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation.4.As used in this act, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:
"Ancillary facility" means any revolving credit agreement, agreement establishing a line of credit or letter of credit, reimbursement agreement, interest rate exchange or similar agreement, currency exchange agreement, interest rate floor or cap, options, puts or calls to hedge payment, currency, rate, spread or similar exposure, or similar agreements, float agreements, forward agreements, insurance contract, surety bond, commitment to purchase or sell securities, purchase or sale agreement, or commitments or other contracts or agreements and other security agreements approved by the corporation, including without limitation any arrangement referred to in subsection j., k., l. or m. of section 6 of this act;
"Benefitted parties" means person, firms or corporations that enter into ancillary facilities with the corporation according to the provisions of this act;
"Code" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any successor provision of law;
"Costs of issuance" means any item of expense directly or indirectly payable or reimbursable by the corporation and related to the authorization, sale or issuance of securities, including without limitation underwriting fees, and fees and expenses of consultants and fiduciaries;
"Corporation" means the Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation established by section 3 of this act;
"Encumbered tobacco revenues" means that portion of the TSRs that is pledged by the corporation to the repayment of any securities pursuant to the terms of the applicable corporation resolution, trust agreement or trust indenture;
"Financing costs" means all capitalized interest, operating and debt service reserves, costs of issuance, fees for credit and liquidity enhancements and other costs as the corporation determines to be desirable in issuing, securing and marketing the securities;
"Interest rate exchange or similar agreement" means a written contract with a counterparty to provide for an exchange of payments based upon fixed and/or variable interest rates;
"Master settlement agreement" means the master settlement agreement, dated November 23, 1998, among the attorneys general of 46 states, including the State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, on the one hand, and certain tobacco manufacturers, on the other hand;
"Net proceeds" means the amount of proceeds remaining following each sale of securities which are not required by the corporation to establish and fund reserve or escrow funds or termination or settlement payments under ancillary facilities and to provide the financing costs and other expenses and fees directly related to the authorization and issuance of securities;
"Operating expenses" means the reasonable operating expenses of the corporation, including without limitation the cost of preparation of accounting and other reports, costs of maintenance of the ratings on the securities, insurance premiums and costs of annual meetings or other required activities of the corporation, and fees and expenses incurred for consultants and fiduciaries;
"Outstanding" means, when used with respect to securities, all securities other than securities that shall have been paid in full at maturity or that may be deemed not outstanding pursuant to the applicable corporation resolution, trust indenture or trust agreement authorizing the issuance of such securities and when used with respect to ancillary facilities, all ancillary facilities other than ancillary facilities that have been paid in full or that may be deemed not outstanding under such ancillary facilities;
"Qualifying statute" means "qualifying statute" as defined in the master settlement agreement; currently P.L.1999, c.148 (C.52:4D-1 et seq.);
"Residual interests" means: the unencumbered tobacco revenues; the net proceeds not previously paid to the State; the income of the corporation that is in excess of the corporation's requirements to pay its operating expenses, debt service, sinking fund requirements, reserve fund or escrow fund requirements and any other contractual obligations to the owners of the securities or benefitted parties, or that may be incurred in connection with the issuance of the securities or the execution of ancillary facilities; and such contractual rights, if any, as shall be provided to the State in accordance with the terms of any sale agreements;
"Sale agreement" means any agreement authorized pursuant to section 5 of this act in which the State provides for the sale of TSRs to the corporation;
"Securities" means any securities, including without limitation any bonds, notes and other evidence of indebtedness, issued by the corporation pursuant to section 7 of this act;
"State" means the State of New Jersey;
"State representative" means the State acting by and through the State Treasurer;
"State's tobacco receipts" means a) all tobacco settlement payments that are received by the State that are required to be made, pursuant to the terms of the master settlement agreement, by tobacco manufacturers to the State, and b) the State's rights to receive such tobacco settlement payments;
"TSRs" means the portion (which may include any or all) of the State's tobacco receipts sold to the corporation pursuant to this act and any sale agreement; and
"Unencumbered tobacco revenues" means that portion of the TSRs that are not subject to the pledge of the applicable corporate resolution, trust agreement or trust indenture by the corporation to the repayment of any securities issued pursuant to the terms of such applicable corporation resolution, trust agreement or trust indenture.
L.2002,c.32,s.4.