Exhibit 1
South Jersey Gas Company
Secured Medium Term Notes, Series A
Due from One Year to Forty Years
from Date of Issue
Terms Agreement
South Jersey Gas Company
Number One South Jersey Xxxxx
Xxxxx 00
Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
July 10, 2001
Attention:
Subject in all respects to the terms and conditions of the Distribution
Agreement (the "Agreement") dated October 5, 1998, as amended on June 26, 2000
among UBS Warburg LLC, First Union Securities, Inc. and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx & Co.,
L.P. and you, the undersigned agrees to purchase the following:
Secured Medium Term Notes, Series A 2001-2
Secured Medium Term Insured Notes
Aggregate Principal Amount: $15,000,000.
Interest Rate: 6.57%
Date of Maturity: July 15, 2011
Interest Payment Dates: January 15 and July 15
Regular Record Dates: January 1 and July 1
CUSIP: 83851M AG2
Insurance: The timely payment of the regularly
scheduled principal and interest on the
Notes will be insured by a financial
guaranty insurance policy issued by Ambac
Assurance Corporation that will be issued
at the same time the Notes are delivered.
Purchase Price: 98.707% of principal amount.
Settlement Date and Time: Tuesday, July 17, 2001, 10:00 a.m.,
Eastern time.
Place for Delivery of Notes and New York, New York.
Payment Therefor:
Wiring Instructions as follows: First Union National Bank
ABA#0000-0000-0
Credit: South Jersey Gas Company
Account#2000001370494
Modification, if any, in the Additional conditions to the obligations
requirements to deliver the of First Union Securities, Inc.
documents in Section 6(b) of the
Agreement: (d) Opinion of counsel to Ambac Assurance
Corporation ("Ambac"), dated the
Closing Date.
(e) Certificate of Ambac, dated the
Closing Date.
(f) Confirmation of the following ratings
designations:
Standard & Poor's -- "AAA."
Xxxxx'x -- "Aaa."
(g) Delivery of executed insurance policy
by Ambac.
First Union Securities, Inc.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
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Accepted:
South Jersey Gas Company
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Title: Senior Vice President, Finance and Rates
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