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This excerpt taken from the PNC 8-K filed Feb 13, 2008.

SECTION 3.2 Certain Rights of Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee

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

(b) Any request or direction of the Guarantor mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate, and any resolution by the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution.

(c) Whenever, in the administration of this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee, the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established before taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor.

(d) The Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take, which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers if such actions or omissions by the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee do not constitute negligence.

(e) The Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) (or any rerecording, refiling or reregistration thereof).

(f) The Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice or other experts, and the advice or opinion of such counsel or experts with respect to legal matters or advice within the scope of such experts’ area of expertise 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. Such counsel may be counsel to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may include any of its employees. The Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee from any court of competent jurisdiction.

(g) The Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee at the request or direction of any Holder, unless such Holder shall have provided to the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee such security and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee against the costs, disbursements, advances and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses and the reasonable expenses of the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts) and liabilities that might be incurred by the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee (or its agents, counsel, accountants and experts) in complying with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be requested by the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee; provided that, nothing contained in this Section 3.2(g) shall be taken to relieve the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee.

(h) The Trust Preferred Guarantee 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,

 

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direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Guarantor, personally or by agent or attorney.

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

(j) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

(k) Any action taken by the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee or its agents hereunder shall bind the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, and the signature of the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient and effective to perform any such action. No third party shall be required to inquire as to the authority of the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee to so act or as to its compliance with any of the terms and provisions of this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee, both of which shall be conclusively evidenced by the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee’s or its agent’s taking such action.

(l) Whenever in the administration of this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities, (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be protected in conclusively relying on or acting in accordance with such instructions.

(m) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action or (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained herein or (iii) the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee is unsure of the application of any provision of this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee then, except as to any matter as to which the Holders are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee, the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Guarantor requesting written instructions of the Guarantor as to the course of action to be taken and the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking such action, as the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Guarantor; provided, however, that if the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Guarantor within ten Business Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonably shorter period of time set forth in such notice (which to the extent practicable shall not be less than two Business Days), it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee as it shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the Holders, in which event the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct.

 

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(n) No provision of this Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. The permissive rights of the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties.

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