Fourth Amendment to the Rail Line Easement Agreement, among City of Orlando, Greater Orlando Aviation Authority and All Aboard Florida Operations LLC, dated January 30, 2017

THIS FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE RAIL LINE EASEMENT AGREEMENT (the “Fourth Amendment”) is made by and among the CITY OF ORLANDO, a municipal corporation created by and existing under the laws of the State of Florida, whose address is P.O. Box 4990, 400 S. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida ###-###-#### (the “City”) and THE GREATER ORLANDO AVIATION AUTHORITY, a public and governmental body created as an agency of the City, existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Florida, whose mailing address is One Jeff Fuqua Boulevard, Orlando, Florida ###-###-#### (the “Authority”), and ALL ABOARD FLORIDA – OPERATIONS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company authorized to conduct business in Florida, whose mailing address is 2855 LeJeune Road, 4^th Floor, Coral Gables, Florida, 33134 (“Rail Company”).

WHEREAS, City, Authority and Rail Company entered into that certain Rail Line Easement Agreement with an effective date of January 22, 2014 (the “Agreement”), that certain First Amendment To The Rail Line Easement Agreement with an effective date of October 3, 2014 (the “First Amendment”), that certain Second Amendment To The Rail Line Easement Agreement with an effective date of October 26, 2015 (the “Second Amendment”) and that certain Third Amendment To The Rail Line Easement Agreement with an effective date of December 21, 2015 (the “Third Amendment”); and

WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Operation and Use Agreement dated August 31, 2015, the Authority controls, operates, and maintains an airport in Orange County, State of Florida, known as Orlando International Airport (hereinafter referred to as the “Airport”); and

WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Agreement to extend the Escrow Term (as defined in the Agreement).

NOW THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein set forth, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, adequacy and sufficiency of which are hereby expressly acknowledged, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

1.          Recitals. The foregoing recitals are true and correct and are hereby incorporated as covenants and agreements and are made a part hereof.

2.          Definitions. Capitalized terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Agreement, as amended in the Second Amendment, unless modified herein.

 

3.          Paragraph 6: Closing Procedures. Paragraph 6(b) of the Agreement is hereby deleted in their entirety and replaced with the following:

                             (b) The conditions to be satisfied in order to release the escrow documents are set forth in Exhibit “11” hereto (the “Escrow Conditions”).Closing  Agent shall hold all Escrow Documents in escrow from the date hereof until the earlier of the following dates (the “Escrow Term”): (i) the satisfaction or waiver (any such waiver to be in the sole discretion of the waiving party) of the Escrow Conditions or (ii) January 31, 2017, as such date may be extended pursuant to the terms hereof or as may be amended by the parties in writing (the “Escrow Termination Date”). This extension is contingent upon the satisfaction of the conditions contained in the Escrow Extension Agreement on or before December 31, 2015. Failure of the Rail Company to satisfy the conditions will result in the Escrow Term expiring on January 31, 2017. If the Escrow Conditions have not been met prior to December 31, 2016, Rail Company shall be entitled to an additional one (1) year extension until December 31, 2017 if Rail Company has either (1) prior to January 31,2017, obtained financing in the form of documented loans, documented equity commitments and/or cash on hand in forms reasonably acceptable to the Authority, required to fund Rail Company’s infrastructure (including train sets) to bring the Rail Transportation Business to the Orlando International Airport or (2) (i) Rail Company shall close on the purchase of all right-of-way (by fee, lease or easement) required to construct its Rail Transportation Business infrastructure from the existing Florida East Coast Railway L.L.C. rail right of way east to the eastern edge of the Orlando International Airport property prior to January 31, 2017 (with it being understood that the failure of the Authority to exchange property with the Central Florida Expressway Authority shall not cause the failure of this condition) and (ii) within one hundred eighty (180) days from the Effective Date of this Extension Agreement, at no cost to the Authority, Rail Company shall deliver to the Authority a full set of 100% complete engineering drawings for the Critical Rail Corridor Improvements.

4.           Modification. Except as expressly amended and supplemented in the First Amendment, Second Amendment, Third Amendment and this Fourth Amendment all other terms of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect as originally executed.

Before me, the undersigned authority, duly authorized under the laws of the State of Florida to take acknowledgments, this day personally appeared Phillip Brown and Dayci S. Burnette-Snyder respectively Executive Director and Deputy Director of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, who are personally known to me to be the individuals and officers described in and who executed the foregoing instrument on behalf of said Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, and severally acknowledged the execution thereof to be their free act and deed as such officers and that they were duly authorized so to do.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at Orlando, in the County of Orange, State of Florida, this 30 day of January, 2017.

STATE OF FLORIDA              )

COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE  )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this 15^th day of December, 2016  by Kolleen O. P. Cobb, as Vice President of All Aboard Florida – Operations LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, on behalf of the limited liability company. He/She is personally known to me or produced a valid driver’s license as identification.