D. the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the 2017 Unsecured Note Trustee (as defined below) an Indenture, dated as of November 29, 2017 (the “2017 Unsecured Indenture”) between the Company and BOKF, N.A., as trustee (the “2017 Unsecured Note Trustee”) pursuant to which the following series of unsecured notes have been issued:
(i) 3.30% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “3.30% Senior Notes due 2027B”); and
(ii) 3.95% Senior Notes due 2047 (the “3.95% Senior Notes due 2047”).
E. the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the 2018 Unsecured Note Trustee (as defined below) an Indenture, dated as of August 6, 2018 (the “Original 2018 Unsecured Indenture” and as previously amended and supplemented, the “2018 Unsecured Indenture” and, collectively with the 2005 Unsecured Indenture and the 2017 Unsecured Indenture, the “Unsecured Indentures”) between the Company and BOKF, N.A., as trustee (the “2018 Unsecured Note Trustee” and, collectively with the 2005 Unsecured Note Trustee and the 2017 Unsecured Note Trustee, the “Unsecured Note Trustees”) pursuant to which the following series of unsecured notes have been issued:
(i)4.25% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “4.25% Senior Notes due 2023”); and
(ii) 4.65% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “4.65% Senior Notes due 2028” and, collectively with the 4.50% Senior Notes due 2041, the 4.45% Senior Notes due 2042, the 3.75% Senior Notes due 2042, the 3.25% Senior Notes due 2023, the 4.60% Senior Notes due 2043, the 3.85% Senior Notes due 2023, the 3.75% Senior Notes due 2024, the 4.75% Senior Notes due 2044, the 3.40% Senior Notes due 2024, the 4.30% Senior Notes due 2045, the 3.50% Senior Notes due 2025, the 4.25% Senior Notes due 2046, the 2.95% Senior Notes due 2026, the 4.00% Senior Notes due 2046, the 3.30% Senior Notes due 2027A, 3.30% Senior Notes due 2027B, 3.95% Senior Notes due 2047 and the 4.25% Senior Notes due 2023, the “Unsecured Notes”).
F. Section 14.01(f) of the Mortgage Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee may enter into an indenture supplemental to the Mortgage Indenture to establish the form or terms of Bonds of any series as contemplated by Sections 2.01 and 3.01 of the Mortgage Indenture.
G. The Company desires in and by this Supplemental Indenture (i) to create seventeen (17) series of Bonds (collectively, the “Collateralizing Mortgage Bonds”) to be issued under the Mortgage Indenture with each such series of said Collateralizing Mortgage Bonds to correspond to each series of Unsecured Notes, (ii) to designate such series of Collateralizing Mortgage Bonds and set forth the maturity date or dates, interest rate or rates and establish the form or terms of such Collateralizing Mortgage Bonds which shall be identical to each corresponding series of Unsecured Notes and (iii) to deliver such series of Collateralizing Mortgage Bonds to the applicable Unsecured Note Trustees to serve as collateral to each corresponding series of Unsecured Notes.
H. The execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture has been authorized by a Board Resolution (as defined in the Mortgage Indenture).
I. Concurrent with the execution hereof, the Company has caused its counsel to deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel (as defined in the Mortgage Indenture) pursuant to Section 14.03 of the Mortgage Indenture.
J. The Company has done all things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Company in accordance with its terms.
NOW,THEREFORE, the Company and the Trustee agree, for the benefit of each other and the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of Unsecured Notes, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Unless the context otherwise requires, capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meaning set forth in the Mortgage Indenture.
The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
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