SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 7
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE No. 7, dated as of the first day of March, 2019, made and entered into by and between KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealths of Kentucky and Virginia, having its principal corporate offices at One Quality Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40507 (hereinafter sometimes called the “Company”), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation, having its principal place of business and corporate trust office at 240 Greenwich Street, 7E, New York, New York 10286 (hereinafter sometimes called the “Trustee”), as Trustee under the Indenture, dated as of October 1, 2010 (hereinafter called the “Original Indenture”), between the Company and said Trustee, as heretofore supplemented, this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 being supplemental thereto. The Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, and this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 are hereinafter sometimes, collectively, called the “Indenture.”
Recitals of the Company
The Original Indenture was authorized, executed and delivered by the Company to provide for the issuance from time to time of its Securities (such term and all other capitalized terms used herein without definition having the meanings assigned to them in the Original Indenture), to be issued in one or more series as contemplated therein, and to provide security for the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such Securities.
The Company has heretofore executed and delivered supplemental indentures for the purpose of creating series of Securities as set forth in Exhibit A hereto.
The Original Indenture and Supplemental Indentures Nos. 1 through 5, and financing statements in respect thereof, have been duly recorded and filed in the various official records in the Commonwealth of Kentucky as set forth in Supplemental Indenture No. 6.
Supplemental Indenture No. 6 has been duly recorded and filed in the various official records in the Commonwealth of Kentucky as set forth in Exhibit B hereto.
Pursuant to Article Three of the Original Indenture and Supplemental Indenture No. 4 dated as of September 1, 2015 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 4”), the Company established a series of Securities, such series of Securities hereinafter sometimes called the “Securities of Series No. 7”.
As contemplated in Section 301 of the Original Indenture and Section 102 of Supplemental Indenture No. 4, the Company wishes to increase the limitation on the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of Series No. 7 and provide for the issuance of additional Securities of such series. The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 to increase such limitation, provide for the issuance of additional Securities (“Additional Securities”) of such series and specify certain provisions to be applicable to the Additional Securities, and has duly authorized the issuance of such Additional Securities; and all acts necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 a valid agreement of the Company, and to make the Additional Securities of Series No. 7 valid obligations of the Company, have been performed.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 7 WITNESSETH, that, for and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase of the Additional Securities by the Holders thereof and in order to secure the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on all Securities from time to time Outstanding and the performance of the covenants therein and in the Indenture contained, the Company hereby grants, bargains, sells, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages,