PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION (formerly PP&L, Inc. and Pennsylvania Power & Light Company) TO DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS (formerly Bankers Trust Company, successor to Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, formerly Guaranty Trust...
Exhibit 4(b)-20
PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION
(formerly PP&L, Inc. and Pennsylvania Power & Light
Company)
TO
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
(formerly Bankers Trust Company,
successor to Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
formerly Guaranty Trust Company of New York)
As Trustee under PPL Electric Utilities Corporation's
Mortgage and Deed of Trust,
Dated as of October 1, 1945
_____________________________
Seventieth Supplemental Indenture
Providing among other things for
First Mortgage Bonds, 3.125% Pollution Control Series due 2008
_____________________________
Dated as of February 1, 2003
Seventieth Supplemental Indenture
SEVENTIETH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the lst day of February, 2003 made and entered into by and between PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION (formerly PP&L, Inc. and Pennsylvania Power & Light Company), a corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whose address is Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000 (hereinafter sometimes called the Company), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS (formerly Bankers Trust Company), a corporation of the State of New York, whose address is 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (hereinafter sometimes called the Trustee), as Trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of October 1, 1945 (hereinafter called the Mortgage and, together with any indentures supplemental thereto, hereinafter called the Indenture), which Mortgage was executed and delivered by Pennsylvania Power & Light Company to secure the payment of bonds issued or to be issued under and in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, reference to which said Mortgage is hereby made, this instrument (hereinafter called the 70th Supplemental Indenture) being supplemental thereto.
WHEREAS, said Mortgage was or is to be recorded in various Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which Counties include or will include all Counties in which this 70th Supplemental Indenture is to be recorded; and
WHEREAS, by amendment to its Articles of Incorporation filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania on September 12, 1997, the Company changed its name to PP&L, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, by an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation filed with the Office of the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania on February 14, 2001, the Company changed its name to PPL Electric Utilities Corporation; and
WHEREAS, an instrument, dated August 5, 1994, was executed by the Company appointing Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee in succession to said Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York (resigned) under the Indenture, and by Bankers Trust Company accepting said appointment, which instrument was or is to be recorded in various Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, by an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation filed in the office of the Secretary of State of New York, effective April 15, 2002, the Trustee changed its name to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas; and
WHEREAS, by the Mortgage the Company covenanted that it would execute and deliver such supplemental indenture or indentures and such further instruments and do such further acts as might be necessary or proper to carry out more effectually the purposes of the Indenture and to make subject to the lien of the Indenture any property thereafter acquired and intended to be subject to the lien thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered as supplements to the Mortgage, the following supplemental indentures:
| Designation | Dated as of |
| First Supplemental Indenture | July 1, 1947 |
| Second Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1948 |
| Third Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1950 |
| Fourth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1953 |
| Fifth Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 1955 |
| Sixth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1961 |
| Seventh Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1964 |
| Eighth Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1966 |
| Ninth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1967 |
| Tenth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1967 |
| Eleventh Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 1969 |
| Twelfth Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1969 |
| Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1970 |
| Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1971 |
| Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1972 |
| Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 1973 |
| Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 1973 |
| Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1974 |
| Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 1974 |
| Twentieth Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 1975 |
| Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1975 |
| Twenty-second Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1976 |
| Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1977 |
| Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1979 |
| Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1980 |
| Twenty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1980 |
| Twenty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1980 |
| Twenty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1980 |
| Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1981 |
| Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1981 |
| Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture | September 1, 1981 |
| Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1982 |
| Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 1982 |
| Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 1982 |
| Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1982 |
| Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1983 |
| Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1983 |
| Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1984 |
| Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1984 |
| Fortieth Supplemental Indenture | August 15, 1984 |
| Forty-first Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1984 |
| Forty-second Supplemental Indenture | June 15, 1985 |
| Forty-third Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 1985 |
| Forty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 1986 |
| Forty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1986 |
| Forty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1986 |
| Forty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 1986 |
| Forty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1988 |
| Forty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1988 |
| Fiftieth Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 1989 |
| Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 1989 |
| Fifty-second Supplemental Indenture | July 1, 1991 |
| Fifty-third Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 1992 |
| Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1992 |
| Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1993 |
| Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1993 |
| Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1993 |
| Fifty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 1993 |
| Fifty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | February 15, 1994 |
| Sixtieth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1994 |
| Sixty-first Supplemental Indenture | March 15, 1994 |
| Sixty-second Supplemental Indenture | September 1, 1994 |
| Sixty-third Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 1994 |
| Sixty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 1995 |
| Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1997 |
| Sixty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 1998 |
| Sixty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1999 |
| Sixty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 2001 |
| Sixty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 2002 |
which supplemental indentures were or are to be recorded in various Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered its Supplemental Indenture, dated July 1, 1954, creating a security interest in certain personal property of the Company, pursuant to the provisions of the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code, as a supplement to the Mortgage, which Supplemental Indenture was filed in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on July 1, 1954, and all subsequent supplemental indentures were so filed; and
WHEREAS, in addition to the property described in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, the Company has acquired certain other property, rights and interests in property; and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore issued, in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, as supplemented, the following series of First Mortgage Bonds:
| Series |
Principal
Amount Issued |
Principal
Amount Outstanding |
| 3% Series due 1975 |
$93,000,000
|
None
|
| 2-3/4% Series due 1977 |
20,000,000
|
None
|
| 3-1/4% Series due 1978 |
10,000,000
|
None
|
| 2-3/4% Series due 1980 |
37,000,000
|
None
|
| 3-1/2% Series due 1983 |
25,000,000
|
None
|
| 3-3/8% Series due 1985 |
25,000,000
|
None
|
| 4-5/8% Series due 1991 |
30,000,000
|
None
|
| 4-5/8% Series due 1994 |
30,000,000
|
None
|
| 5-5/8% Series due 1996 |
30,000,000
|
None
|
| 6-3/4% Series due 1997 |
30,000,000
|
None
|
| 6-1/2% Series due 1972 |
15,000,000
|
None
|
| 7% Series due 1999 |
40,000,000
|
None
|
| 8-1/8% Series due June 1, 1999 |
40,000,000
|
None
|
| 9% Series due 2000 |
50,000,000
|
None
|
| 7-1/4% Series due 2001 |
60,000,000
|
None
|
| 7-5/8% Series due 2002 |
75,000,000
|
None
|
| 7-1/2% Series due 2003 |
80,000,000
|
None
|
| Pollution Control Series A |
28,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-1/4% Series due 2004 |
80,000,000
|
None
|
| 10-1/8% Series due 1982 |
100,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-3/4% Series due 2005 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-3/4% Series due November 1, 2005 |
100,000,000
|
None
|
| 8-1/4% Series due 2006 |
150,000,000
|
None
|
| 8-1/2% Series due 2007 |
100,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-7/8% Series due 0000-0000 |
000,000,000
|
None
|
| 15-5/8% Series due 2010 |
100,000,000
|
None
|
| 11-3/4% Series due 1984 |
30,000,000
|
None
|
| Pollution Control Series B |
70,000,000
|
None
|
| Pollution Control Series C |
20,000,000
|
None
|
| 14% Series due December 1, 1990 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 15% Series due 1984-1986 |
50,000,000
|
None
|
| 14-3/4% Series A due 1986 |
30,000,000
|
None
|
| 14-3/4% Series B due 1986 |
20,000,000
|
None
|
| 16-1/2% Series due 1987-1991 |
$52,000,000
|
None
|
| 16-1/8% Series due 1992 |
100,000,000
|
None
|
| 16-1/2% Series due 1986-1990 |
92,500,000
|
None
|
| 13-1/4% Series due 2012 |
100,000,000
|
None
|
| Pollution Control Series D |
70,000,000
|
None
|
| 12-1/8% Series due 1989-1993 |
50,000,000
|
None
|
| 13-1/8% Series due 2013 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| Pollution Control Series E |
37,750,000
|
None
|
| 13-1/2% Series due 1994 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| Pollution Control Series F |
115,500,000
|
None
|
| 12-3/4% Series due 2014 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| Pollution Control Series G |
55,000,000
|
None
|
| 12% Series due 2015 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 10-7/8% Series due 2016 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-5/8% Series due 1996 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 9% Series due 2016 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-1/2% Series due 2016 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-1/4% Series due 1998 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-5/8% Series due 1998 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 10% Series due 2019 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-1/4% Series due 2019 |
250,000,000
|
None
|
| 9-3/8% Series due 2021 |
150,000,000
|
None
|
| 7-3/4% Series due 2002 |
150,000,000
|
None
|
| 8-1/2% Series due 2022 |
150,000,000
|
None
|
| Pollution Control Series H |
90,000,000
|
90,000,000
|
| 6-7/8% Series due 2003 |
100,000,000
|
None
|
| 7-7/8% Series due 2023 |
200,000,000
|
46,213,000
|
| 5-1/2% Series due 1998 |
150,000,000
|
None
|
| 6-1/2% Series due 2005 |
125,000,000
|
110,000,000
|
| 6% Series due 2000 |
125,000,000
|
None
|
| 6-3/4% Series due 2023 |
150,000,000
|
19,497,000
|
| Pollution Control Series I |
53,250,000
|
53,250,000
|
| 6.55% Series due 2006 |
150,000,000
|
146,000,000
|
| 7.30% Series due 2024 |
150,000,000
|
5,805,000
|
| 6-7/8% Series due 2004 |
150,000,000
|
24,767,000
|
| 7-3/8% Series due 2014 |
100,000,000
|
10,290,000
|
| Pollution Control Series J |
115,500,000
|
115,500,000
|
| 7.70% Series due 2009 |
200,000,000
|
325,000
|
| Pollution Control Series K |
55,000,000
|
55,000,000
|
| Short-Term Series A |
800,000,000
|
None
|
| 6 1/8% REset Put Securities Series due 2006 |
200,000,000
|
None
|
| Short-Term Series B |
600,000,000
|
None
|
| 5-7/8% Series due August 15, 2007 |
300,000,000
|
300,000,000
|
| 6-1/4% Series due August 15, 2009 |
500,000,000
|
500,000,000
|
which bonds are also sometimes called bonds of the First through Seventy-seventh, respectively; and
WHEREAS, Section 8 of the Mortgage provides that the form of each series of bonds (other than the First Series) issued thereunder shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and that the form of such series, as established by said Board of Directors, shall specify the descriptive title of the bonds and various other terms thereof, and may also contain such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture as the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, cause to be inserted therein expressing or referring to the terms and conditions upon which such bonds are to be issued and/or secured under the Indenture; and
WHEREAS, Section 120 of the Mortgage provides, among other things, that any power, privilege or right expressly or impliedly reserved to or in any way conferred upon the Company by any provision of the Indenture, whether such power, privilege or right is in any way restricted or is unrestricted, may be in whole or in part waived or surrendered or subjected to any restriction if at the time unrestricted or to additional restriction if already restricted, and the Company may enter into any future covenants, limitations or restrictions for the benefit of any one or more series of bonds issued thereunder, or the Company may cure any ambiguity contained therein or in any supplemental indenture or may establish the terms and provisions of any series of bonds other than said First Series, by an instrument in writing executed and acknowledged by the Company in such manner as would be necessary to entitle a conveyance of real estate to record in all of the States in which any property at the time subject to the lien of the Indenture shall be situated; and
WHEREAS, the Company now desires to create a new series of bonds and to add to its covenants and agreements contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, certain other covenants and agreements to be observed by it and to alter and amend in certain respects the covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage; and
WHEREAS, the execution and delivery by the Company of this 70th Supplemental Indenture, and the terms of the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series, hereinafter referred to, have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company by appropriate Resolutions of said Board of Directors;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, in consideration of the premises and of One Dollar to it duly paid by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in further evidence of assurance of the estate, title and rights of the Trustee and in order further to secure the payment both of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from time to time issued under the Indenture, according to their tenor and effect and the performance of all the provisions of the Indenture (including any modification made as in the Mortgage provided) and of said bonds, hereby grants, bargains, sells, releases, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages, pledges, sets over and confirms (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as defined in Section 6 of the Mortgage) unto Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee under the Indenture, and to its successor or successors in said trust, and to said Trustee and its successors and assigns forever, all property, real, personal and mixed, of the kind or nature specifically mentioned in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, or of any other kind or nature, acquired by the Company after the date of the execution and delivery of the Sixty-ninth Supplemental Indenture (except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted and except any which may not lawfully be mortgaged or pledged under the Indenture), now owned or, subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage, hereafter acquired by the Company (by purchase, consolidation, merger, donation, construction, erection or in any other way) and wheresoever situated, including (without in anywise limiting or impairing by the enumeration of the same the scope and intent of the foregoing) all lands, power sites, flowage rights, water rights, water locations, water appropriations, ditches, flumes, reservoirs, reservoir sites, canals, raceways, dams, dam sites, aqueducts, and all other rights or means for appropriating, conveying, storing and supplying water; all rights of way and roads; all plants for the generation of electricity by steam, water and/or other power; all power houses, gas plants, street lighting systems, standards and other equipment incidental thereto, telephone, radio and television systems, air-conditioning systems and equipment incidental thereto, water works, water systems, steam heat and hot water plants, substations, lines, service and supply systems, bridges, culverts, tracks, ice or refrigeration plants and equipment, offices, buildings and other structures and the equipment thereof; all machinery, engines, boilers, dynamos, electric, gas and other machines, regulators, meters, transformers, generators, motors, electrical, gas and mechanical appliances, conduits, cables, water, steam heat, gas or other pipes, gas mains and pipes, service pipes, fittings, valves and connections, pole and transmission lines, wires, cables, tools, implements, apparatus, furniture and chattels; all municipal and other franchises, consents or permits; all lines for the transmission and distribution of electric current, gas, steam heat or water for any purpose including towers, poles, wires, cables, pipes, conduits, ducts and all apparatus for use in connection therewith; all real estate, lands, easements, servitudes, licenses, permits, franchises, privileges, rights of way and other rights in or relating to real estate or the occupancy of the same and (except as herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted) all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all other property of any kind or nature appertaining to and/or used and/or occupied and/or enjoyed in connection with any property hereinbefore or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, described;
TOGETHER with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, prescriptions, servitudes, and appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders and (subject to the provisions of Section 57 of the Mortgage) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, product and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title and interest and claim whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which the Company now has or may hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property and franchises and every part and parcel thereof;
IT IS HEREBY AGREED by the Company that, subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage and to the extent permitted by law, all the property, rights, and franchises acquired by the Company (by purchase, consolidation, merger, donation, construction, erection or in any other way) after the date hereof, except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted, shall be and are as fully granted and conveyed hereby and as fully embraced within the lien hereof and the lien of the Indenture, as if such property, rights and franchises were now owned by the Company and were specifically described herein and conveyed hereby; and
IT IS HEREBY DECLARED by the Company that all the property, rights and franchises now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company have been, or are, or will be owned or acquired with the intention to use the same in carrying on the business or branches of business of the Company, and it is hereby declared that it is the intention of the Company that all thereof, except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted, shall (subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage and to the extent permitted by law) be embraced within the lien of this 70th Supplemental Indenture and the lien of the Indenture;
PROVIDED that the following are not and are not intended to be now or hereafter granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed hereunder and are hereby expressly excepted from the lien and operation of this 70th Supplemental Indenture and from the lien and operation of the Indenture, viz: (1) cash, shares of stock, bonds, notes and other obligations and other securities not hereafter specifically pledged, paid, deposited, delivered or held under the Indenture or covenanted so to be; (2) goods, wares, merchandise, equipment, apparatus, materials, or supplies held for the purpose of sale or other disposition in the usual course of business; fuel, oil and similar materials and supplies consumable in the operation of any of the properties of the Company; construction equipment acquired for temporary use; all aircraft, rolling stock, trolley coaches, buses, motor coaches, automobiles and other vehicles and materials and supplies held for the purposes of repairing or replacing (in whole or part) any of the same; all timber, minerals, mineral rights and royalties; (3) bills, notes and accounts receivable, judgments, demands and choses in action, and all contracts, leases and operating agreements not specifically pledged under the Indenture or covenanted so to be; the Company's contractual rights or other interest in or with respect to tires not owned by the Company; (4) the last day of the term of any lease or leasehold which may be or become subject to the lien of the Indenture; and (5) electric energy, gas, steam, ice, and other materials or products generated, manufactured, produced or purchased by the Company for sale, distribution or use in the ordinary course of its business; provided, however, that the property and rights expressly excepted from the lien and operation of the Indenture in the above subdivisions (2) and (3) shall (to the extent permitted by law) cease to be so excepted in the event and as of the date that the Trustee or a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property in the manner provided in Article XIII of the Mortgage by reason of the occurrence of a Default as defined in Section 65 thereof, as supplemented by the provisions of this Sixty-eighth Supplemental Indenture;
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal and mixed, granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee, and its successors and assigns forever;
IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS for the same purposes and upon the same terms, trusts and conditions and subject to and with the same provisos and covenants as are set forth in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, this 70th Supplemental Indenture being supplemental to the Mortgage;
AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED by the Company that all the terms, conditions, provisos, covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, shall affect and apply to the property hereinbefore described and conveyed and to the estate, rights, obligations and duties of the Company and the Trustee and the beneficiaries of the trust with respect to said property, and to the Trustee and its successors as Trustee of said property in the same manner and with the same effect as if the said property had been owned by the Company at the time of the execution of the Mortgage, and had been specifically and at length described in and conveyed to the Trustee by the Mortgage as a part of the property therein stated to be conveyed.
The Company further covenants and agrees to and with the Trustee and its successors in said trust under the Indenture, as follows:
ARTICLE I.
Seventy-eighth Series of Bonds
SECTION I. There shall be a series of bonds designated "First Mortgage Bonds, 3.125% Pollution Control Series due 2008" (herein sometimes referred to as the "Seventy-eighth Series"), each of which shall also bear the descriptive title First Mortgage Bonds, and the form thereof, which shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, shall contain suitable provisions with respect to the matters hereinafter in this Section specified. Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall be limited to $90 million in aggregate principal amount, except as provided in Section 16 of the Mortgage, and shall be issued as fully registered bonds in denominations of One Thousand Dollars and in any multiple or multiples of One Thousand Dollars; each bond of the Seventy-eighth Series shall mature on November 1, 2008, shall bear interest at the rate of 3.125% per annum, payable semi-annually on May 1 and November 1 of each year; the principal of and interest on each said bond to be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and interest on each said bond to be also payable at the office of the Company in the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts. Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall be dated as in Section 10 of the Mortgage provided.
The bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall be issued by the Company, registered in the name of and delivered to JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee (the "2001 Trustee") under an Indenture dated as of August 1, 2001 (the "2001 Indenture"), to provide for the payment when due (whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the principal and interest of the Securities (as defined in the 2001 Indenture) to be issued from time to time under the 2001 Indenture.
The bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall not be transferable by the 2001 Trustee, except to a successor trustee under the 2001 Indenture. Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series so transferable to a successor trustee under the 2001 Indenture may be transferred at the principal office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.
Any payment or deemed payment by the Company under the 2001 Indenture of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any on the securities which shall been authenticated and delivered under the 2001 Indenture (the "Senior Secured Bonds") on the basis of the issuance and delivery to the 2001 Trustee of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series (other than by the application of the proceeds of a payment in respect of such bonds) shall, to the extent hereof, be deemed to satisfy and discharge the obligation of the Company, if any, to make a payment of principal of, or premium, or interest on such bonds, as the case may be, which is then due.
The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of or interest on the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until it shall have received a written notice from the 2001 Trustee, signed by an authorized officer thereof, stating that the principal of or interest on specified bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series has become due and payable and has not been fully paid, and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.
(I) Each holder of a bond of the Seventy-eighth Series consents that the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall be redeemable, in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, prior to maturity, without notice provided in Section 52 of the Mortgage, at the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, in each case, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption, if, and at such times and in the same principal amounts as, the Senior Secured Bonds shall have become subject to mandatory or optional redemption.
(II) The bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall also be redeemable, in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, prior to maturity, at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof, together with accrued and unpaid interest to the date of payment of such principal amount, upon receipt by the Trustee of a written notice from the 2001 Trustee (i) delivered to the Trustee and the Company, (ii) signed by its President or any Vice President, (iii) stating that an Event of Default has occurred under the 2001 Indenture and is continuing and that, as a result, there then is due and payable a specified amount with respect to the Securities Outstanding under the 2001 Indenture, for the payment of which the 2001 Trustee has not received funds, and (iv) specifying the principal amount of the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series to be redeemed. Delivery of such notice shall constitute a waiver by the 2001 Trustee of notice of redemption under the Indenture.
(III) At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series, upon surrender thereof, for cancellation, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, shall be exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series, interest rate, maturity and other terms of other authorized denominations.
Subject to the provisions of the third paragraph of this Section 1, Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall be transferable, upon the surrender thereof for cancellation, together with a written instrument of transfer in form approved by the registrar duly executed by the registered owner or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York; provided that such transfer shall not result in any security being required to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company to such effect shall have been provided to the Company.
The bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall not be redeemable by the application of cash deposited with the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of Section 64.
Upon any transfer or exchange of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series, the Company may make a charge therefor sufficient to reimburse it for any tax or taxes or other governmental charge, as provided in Section 12 of the Mortgage, but the Company hereby waives any right to make a charge in addition thereto for any exchange or transfer of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series.
ARTICLE II.
Miscellaneous Provisions
SECTION 2. The Company reserves the right to make such amendments to the Mortgage, as supplemented, as shall be necessary in order to delete subsection (I) of Section 39 of the Mortgage, and each holder of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series hereby consents to such deletion without any other or further action by any holder of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series.
SECTION 3. The terms defined in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, shall, for all purposes of this Seventieth Supplemental Indenture, have the meanings specified in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented.
SECTION 4. Whenever in this 70th Supplemental Indenture either of the parties hereto is named or referred to, this shall, subject to the provisions of Articles XVI and XVII of the Mortgage, be deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party, and all the covenants and agreements in this 70th Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company, or by or on behalf of the Trustee shall, subject as aforesaid, bind and inure to the respective benefits of the respective successors and assigns of such parties, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 5. So long as any bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series and remain Outstanding, unless this provision shall have been waived in writing by the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series Outstanding at the time of such consent, subdivision (c) of Section 65 of the Mortgage shall read as follows:
"(c) Failure to pay interest or premium, if any, upon or principal (whether at maturity as therein expressed or by declaration, or otherwise) of any Outstanding Qualified Xxxx Xxxxx or of any outstanding indebtedness secured by any mortgage or other lien (not included in the term Excepted Encumbrances) prior to the lien of this Indenture, existing upon any property of the Company which is subject to the lien and operation of this Indenture continued beyond the period of grace, if any, specified in such mortgage or Qualified Lien or other lien securing the same;"
SECTION 6. A breach of a specified covenant or agreement of the Company contained in this 70th Supplemental Indenture shall become a Default under the Indenture upon the happening of the events provided in Section 65(g) of the Mortgage with respect to such a covenant or agreement.
SECTION 7. The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts herein declared, provided, created or supplemented and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions herein and in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, set forth and upon the following terms and conditions:
The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this 70th Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made by the Company solely. Each and every term and condition contained in Article XVII of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended by said First through Sixty-ninth Supplemental Indentures, shall apply to and form part of this 70th Supplemental Indenture with the same force and effect as if the same were herein set forth in full with such omissions, variations and insertions, if any, as may be appropriate to make the same conform to the provisions of this 70th Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION 8. Nothing in this 70th Supplemental Indenture, expressed or implied, is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or to give to, any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and the holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Indenture, any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this 70th Supplemental Indenture or by any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise or agreement hereof, and all the covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements in this 70th Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, and of the holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Indenture.
SECTION 9. This 70th Supplemental Indenture shall be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION does hereby constitute and appoint XXXXX X. XXXX, Treasurer of PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION, to be its attorney for it, and in its name and as and for its corporate act and deed to acknowledge this 70th Supplemental Indenture before any person having authority by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to take such acknowledgment, to the intent that the same may be duly recorded, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS does hereby constitute and appoint Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, a Vice President of DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, to be its attorney for it, and in its name and as and for its corporate act and deed to acknowledge this 70th Supplemental Indenture before any person having authority by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to take such acknowledgment, to the intent that the same may be duly recorded.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its President, one of its Vice Presidents or its Treasurer, and its corporate seal to be attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries for and in its behalf, in the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by one of its Principals, Vice Presidents, Trust Officers or Associates, and its corporate seal to be attested by one of its Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, Trust Officers or Associates, in The City of New York, as of the day and year first above written.
| PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION | |
| By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx Title: Treasurer |
Attest:
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Assistant Secretary
| DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS | |
| By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Title: Vice President |
Attest:
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Vice President
| STATE OF NEW YORK | ) |
| ) ss.: | |
| COUNTY OF NEW YORK | ) |
On this 12th day of February, 2003, before me, a notary public, the undersigned, personally appeared XXXXX X. XXXX, who acknowledged himself to be the Treasurer of PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION, a corporation and that he, as such Treasurer, being authorized to do so, executed the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained, by signing the name of the corporation by himself as Treasurer.
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.
| /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx | |
| Notary Public | |
| Xxxxx Xxxxxx NOTARY PUBLIC, State of New York No. 00-0000000 Qualified in New York County Commission Expires April 8, 0000 |
| XXXXX XX XXX XXXX | ) |
| ) ss.: | |
| COUNTY OF NEW YORK | ) |
On this 11th day of February, 2003, before me, a notary public, the undersigned, personally appeared Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, who acknowledged herself to be a Vice President of DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY Americas, a corporation and that she, as such Vice President, being authorized to do so, executed the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained, by signing the name of the corporation by herself as Vice President.
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.
| /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |
| Notary Public | |
| XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX Notary Public, State of New York Registration #01HE6063947 Qualified in Kings County My Commission Expires Sept. 10, 2005 |
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas hereby certifies that its precise name and address as Trustee hereunder are:
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
Corporate Trust and Agency Services
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, XX XXX00-0000
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
| DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS | |
| By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Title: Vice President |
