Exhibit 4-D
EXECUTED IN COUNTERPARTS OF
WHICH THIS IS COUNTERPART NO.
METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
AND
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
(First Mortgage Bonds, Senior Note Series due )
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Dated as of , 199-
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Parties 1
Recitals 1
Granting Clauses 3
Excepted Property 6
Habendum 6
Subject Clause 6
Grant in Trust 6
ARTICLE I
SENIOR NOTE SERIES -- BONDS 6
SECTION 1.01 Creation of Senior Notes Series -- Bonds 6
SECTION 1.02 Dating of Senior Note Series -- Bonds 7
SECTION 1.03 Payment of Principal and Interest 7
SECTION 1.04 Credits with Respect to Senior Notes
Series -- Bonds 7
SECTION 1.05 Registration of Senior Notes Series --
Bonds 8
SECTION 1.06 Transferability and Assignability
of Senior Notes Series -- Bonds. 8
SECTION 1.07 Redemption of Senior Note Series -- Bonds. 8
SECTION 1.08 Mandatory Redemption of Senior Notes
Series -- Bonds 8
SECTION 1.09 Related Series of Senior Note First
Mortgage Bonds 9
SECTION 1.10 Satisfaction and Discharge 9
SECTION 1.11 Release Date 9
ARTICLE II
FORM OF THE SENIOR NOTE SERIES -- BONDS 10
SECTION 2.01 Form of Senior Notes Series -- Bonds 10
ARTICLE III
MISCELLANEOUS 17
SECTION 3.01 Covenants of the Company 17
SECTION 3.02 Indemnification of Trustee 17
SECTION 3.03 Table of Contents and Titles of Articles
not Part 17
SECTION 3.04 Original Indenture Confirmed as
Amended and Supplemented 17
SECTION 3.05 Execution in Counterparts 18
Names and Addresses of debtor and secured party 18
Testimonium 19
Signatures and seals 19
Acknowledgments 20
Certificate of Residence 21
Schedule A A-1
THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of , 199---, made and entered into by and
between METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, a corporation of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania (hereinafter sometimes called the "Company"), party of the first
part, and UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, a company organized under the
laws of the State of New York (hereinafter sometimes called the "Trustee"), as
successor trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust hereinafter referred to,
party of the second part.
WHEREAS, the Company heretofore executed and delivered its Indenture
(hereinafter called the "Original Indenture"), dated as of the first day of
November, 1944, to Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as trustee, to secure the
First Mortgage Bonds of the Company, unlimited in aggregate principal amount and
issuable in series, from time to time, in the manner and subject to the
conditions set forth in the Mortgage (as hereinafter defined) and by said
Original Indenture granted and conveyed unto the Trustee, upon the trusts, uses
and purposes specifically therein set forth, certain real estate, franchises and
other property therein described, including property acquired after the date
thereof, except as therein otherwise provided; and
WHEREAS, the Original Indenture, which was duly amended and supplemented
by various indentures supplemental thereto, and which is hereby further
supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, all of which are herein
collectively referred to as the "Mortgage"; and
WHEREAS, the Original Indenture, certain of said Supplemental Indentures
and an Instrument of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance dated as of October
27, 1995 among the Company, IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust Company and United States
Trust Company of New York have been duly recorded in mortgage books in the
respective Offices of the Recorders of Deeds in and for the Counties of
Pennsylvania in which this Supplemental Indenture is to be recorded, and in the
mortgage records of Warren County, New Jersey; and
WHEREAS, the Mortgage provides for the issuance of bonds thereunder in one
or more series, the form of each series of bonds and of the coupons to be
attached to the coupon bonds, if any, of each series to be substantially in the
forms set forth therein with such omissions, variations and insertions as are
authorized or permitted by the Mortgage and determined and specified by the
Board of Directors of the Company; and
WHEREAS, the Company has entered into an Indenture dated as of , 199_ (the
"Senior Note Indenture") with United States Trust
Company of New York, as trustee (the "Senior Note Trustee"), providing for the
issuance of notes thereunder (the "Senior Notes") from time to time, and
pursuant to the Senior Note Indenture the Company has agreed to issue to the
Senior Note Trustee, as security for the Senior Notes, a new series of bonds
under the Mortgage at the time of authentication of each series of Senior Notes
issued prior to the Release Date (as defined in the Senior Note Indenture); and
WHEREAS, for such purposes the Company desires to issue a new series of
bonds and by appropriate corporate action in conformity with the terms of the
Mortgage has duly determined to create a separate series of bonds, which shall
be designated as "First Mortgage Bonds, Senior Note Series due ------------"
(hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Senior Note Series -- Bonds"), which
said Senior Note Series -- Bonds are to be substantially in the form set forth
in Article II hereof with the insertion of numbers, denominations, dated dates,
maturities, redemption prices and interest rates as determined in accordance
with the terms of the Mortgage; and
WHEREAS, the Senior Note Series -- Bonds shall be issued to the Senior
Note Trustee in connection with the issuance by the Company of its Senior Notes,
- ----% due ----, Series -- (the "Series -- Notes"); and
WHEREAS, all acts and things prescribed by law and by the charter and
by-laws of the Company necessary to make the Senior Note Series __ Bonds, when
executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee, as in the Mortgage
provided, valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, entitled in all
respects to the security of the Mortgage, have been performed or will have been
performed prior to execution of such Senior Note Series--- Bonds by the Company
and authentication thereof by the Trustee; and
WHEREAS, provision is made in Sections 5.11 and 17.01 of the Original
Indenture for such further instruments and indentures supplemental to the
Original Indenture as may be necessary or proper (a) to carry out more
effectually the purposes of the Original Indenture; (b) expressly to subject to
the lien of the Original Indenture any property acquired after the date of the
Original Indenture and intended to be covered thereby, with the same force and
effect as though included in the granting clauses thereof; (c) to set forth the
terms and provisions of any series of bonds to be issued and the forms of the
bonds and coupons, if any, of such series; (d) to add such further covenants,
restrictions or conditions for the protection of the mortgaged and pledged
property and the holders of bonds as the Board of Directors of the Company and
the Trustee shall consider to be for the protection of the holders of bonds; and
(e) to cure any ambiguity of the Original Indenture which shall not adversely
affect the interests of the holders of the bonds; and
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[WHEREAS, the Company has acquired additional property; and it is desired
to add certain further covenants, restrictions and conditions for the protection
of the mortgaged and pledged property and the holders of bonds which the Board
of Directors of the Company and the Trustee consider to be for the protection of
the holders of bonds;] and the Company desires to issue the Senior Note Series
- -- Bonds; and the Company and the Trustee deem it advisable to enter into this
Supplemental Indenture for the purposes of carrying out the purposes of the
Original Indenture[, of expressly subjecting additional property to the lien of
the Mortgage,] of setting forth the terms and provisions of the Senior Note
Series -- Bonds, and the form of the Senior Note Series --- Bonds, [and of
setting forth such further covenants, restrictions and conditions]; and
WHEREAS, it was intended by the execution and delivery of the Original
Indenture and the aforesaid Supplemental Indentures to subject to the lien of
the Original Indenture, and to grant to the Trustee a security interest in, all
of the property, real, personal and mixed, then owned by the Company or
thereafter acquired by the Company, as and to the extent set forth therein,
subject to the provisions thereof, except such property as was therein expressly
excepted and excluded from the lien and operation thereof; and it is the
intention of the parties hereto, by the execution and delivery of this
Supplemental Indenture, to provide the Trustee with further assurances by also
creating in favor of the Trustee a security interest, pursuant to the provisions
of the Uniform Commercial Code, in such of the aforesaid property as may by law
be subjected to such a security interest, except such thereof as is expressly
excepted and excluded as aforesaid or herein; and
WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture have
been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company at a meeting duly
called and held according to law, and all conditions and requirements necessary
to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal instrument in
accordance with its terms, for the purposes herein expressed, and the execution
and delivery hereof, in the form and terms hereof, have been in all respects
duly authorized;
NOW, THEREFORE, in order further to secure the payment of the principal
and interest of all bonds issued and to be issued under the Original Indenture
and any indenture supplemental thereto, including this Supplemental Indenture,
according to their tenor, purport and effect and the performance and observance
of all the covenants and conditions in said bonds and the Original Indenture and
indentures supplemental thereto, including this Supplemental Indenture,
contained, and for and in consideration of the
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premises and of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00), lawful money of the United States
of America, to the Company duly paid by the Trustee at or before the unsealing
and delivery hereof, and other valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the Company has
executed and delivered this Supplemental Indenture, and hath granted, bargained,
sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over
and confirmed, and granted a security interest therein, and by these presents
doth grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge,
set over and confirm, and grant a security interest therein, subject to the
provisions of the Mortgage, unto United States Trust Company of New York, as
Trustee, and to its successors in the trust and to its and their assigns
forever, all the properties of the Company described or mentioned below, that is
to say:
All property, real, personal and mixed, tangible and intangible, owned by
the Company on the date of the execution hereof or which may be hereafter
acquired by it (except such property as is in the Original Indenture or in any
indenture supplemental thereto, including this Supplemental Indenture, expressly
excepted from the lien and operation of the Original Indenture).
The property covered by this Supplemental Indenture shall include
particularly, among other property, without prejudice to the generality of the
language hereinbefore or hereinafter contained, the following described
property:
All the electric generating stations, station sites, stations, electric
reserve generating stations, substations, substation sites, steam plants, hot
water plants, hydro-electric stations, hydro-electric station sites, electric
transmission lines, electric distribution systems, steam distribution systems,
hot water distribution systems, regulator stations, regulator station sites,
office buildings, storeroom buildings, warehouse buildings, boiler houses,
plants, plant sites, service plants, coal, other mineral land mining rights and
privileges, coal storage yards, pole yards, electric works, power houses,
generators, turbines, boilers, engines, furnaces, dynamos, buildings,
structures, transformers, meters, towers, poles, tower lines, cables, pole
lines, tanks, storage holders, regulators, pipes, pipe-lines, mains, pipe
fittings, valves, drips, connections, tunnels, conduits, gates, motors, wires,
switch racks, switches, brackets, insulators, and all equipment, improvements,
machinery, appliances, devices, appurtenances, supplies and miscellaneous
property for generating, producing, transforming, converting, storing and
distributing electric energy, steam and hot water, together with all furniture
and fixtures located in the aforesaid
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buildings, and all land on which the same or any part thereof are situated;
And all of the real estate, leases, leaseholds (except the last day of the
term of each lease and leasehold), and lands owned by the Company, including
land located on or adjacent to any river, stream or other water, together with
all flowage rights, flooding rights, water rights, riparian rights, dams and dam
sites and rights, flumes, canals, races, raceways, head works and diversion
works;
And all of the municipal and other franchises, licenses, consents,
ordinances, permits, privileges, rights, servitudes, easements and rights-of-way
and other rights in or relating to real estate or the occupancy of the same,
owned by the Company;
And all of the other property, real, personal or mixed, owned by the
Company, forming a part of any of the foregoing property or used or enjoyed or
capable of being used or enjoyed in connection therewith or in anywise
appertaining thereto, whether developed or undeveloped, or partially developed,
or whether now equipped and operating or not and wherever situated, and all of
the Company's right, title and interest in and to the land on which the same or
any part thereof are situated or adjacent thereto;
And all rights for or relating to the construction, maintenance or
operation of any of the foregoing property through, over, under or upon any
public streets or highways or other lands, public or private;
And (except as in the Original Indenture or in any indenture supplemental
thereto, including this Supplemental Indenture, expressly excepted) all the
right, title and interest of the Company presently held or hereafter acquired in
and to all other property of any of the foregoing kinds or any other kind or
nature appertaining to and/or used and/or occupied and/or enjoyed in connection
with any property hereinbefore described;
And all the items of the kinds hereinabove mentioned including those
thereof now owned by the Company and those thereof hereafter acquired by the
Company;
[Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing, all of the parcels
of land and interests in land situate as set forth in Schedule A, attached
hereto and hereby made a part hereof, and buildings and improvements thereon
erected, owned by the Company, and whether used or not used in connection with
the Company's operations, all of which real estate was conveyed to the Company
or its predecessors in title as set forth by the conveyances set forth in said
Schedule A to which conveyances reference is made for a more particular
description;]
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Also all other land and the buildings and improvements thereon erected
hereafter acquired;
TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and
appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the aforesaid property or
any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder or remainders and
(subject to the provisions of Section 9.01 of the Original Indenture) 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 all the property, rights and
franchises hereafter acquired by the Company (except any in the Original
Indenture or in any indenture supplemental thereto, including this Supplemental
Indenture, expressly excepted) shall (subject to the provisions of Section 9.01
of the Original Indenture), to the extent permitted by law, be as fully embraced
within this Supplemental Indenture as if such property, rights and franchises
were now owned by the Company and/or specifically described herein and conveyed
hereby;
PROVIDED THAT, in addition to the reservations and exceptions herein
elsewhere contained, any property hereinbefore mentioned which has been released
by the Trustee from the lien of the Mortgage or disposed of by the Company in
accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage prior to the date of the
execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, and the following, are
not and are not intended to be granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed,
assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed hereunder or to
have a security interest created therein, and are hereby expressly excepted from
this Supplemental Indenture and from the lien and operation of the Mortgage,
viz.: (1) cash and shares of stock and certificates or evidence of interest
therein and obligations (including bonds, notes and other securities) not in the
Original Indenture or in any indenture supplemental thereto, including this
Supplemental Indenture, specifically pledged or covenanted so to be or deposited
or delivered hereunder or under any other supplemental indenture; (2) any goods,
wares, merchandise, equipment, materials or supplies held or acquired for the
purpose of sale or resale in the usual course of business or for consumption in
the operation of any properties of the Company, and automobiles and trucks; and
(3) all judgments, contracts, accounts and choses in action, the proceeds of
which the Company is not obligated as in the Original Indenture provided to
deposit with the Trustee hereunder; provided, however, that the property and
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rights expressly excepted from this Supplemental Indenture in the above
subdivisions (2) and (3) shall (to the extent permitted by law) cease to be so
excepted, in the event that the Trustee or a receiver or trustee shall take
possession of the mortgaged and pledged property in the manner provided in
Article X of the Original Indenture, by reason of the occurrence of a completed
default, as defined in said Article X of the Original 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, or in which a security interest has been
granted, by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto the Trustee and
its successors in the trust created in the Original Indenture and its and their
assigns forever;
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the reservations, exceptions, conditions, limitations
and restrictions contained in the several deeds, servitudes, franchises and
contracts or other instruments through which the Company acquired and/or claims
title to and/or enjoys the use of the properties mentioned above; and subject
also to such servitudes, easements, rights and privileges in, over, on, and/or
through said properties as have been granted to other persons prior to the date
of the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture; and subject also
to encumbrances of the character in the Original Indenture defined as "excepted
encumbrances" insofar as the same may attach to any of the property embraced
herein;
IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS upon the terms, trusts, uses and purposes
specifically set forth in the Mortgage;
AND IT IS HEREBY FURTHER COVENANTED AND AGREED, and the Company and the
Trustee have mutually agreed, in consideration of the premises, as follows:
ARTICLE I
SENIOR NOTE SERIES -- BONDS
SECTION 1.01. The Company hereby creates a series of bonds to be issued
under and secured by the Mortgage, to be designated and to be distinguished from
bonds of all other series by the title "First Mortgage Bonds, Senior Note Series
due ------------." The aggregate principal amount of the Senior Note
Series -- Bonds which may be initially authenticated and delivered shall be
limited to -------------------------------- ($----------), shall mature on
- ------------, ---- and shall be issued only as a single registered bond without
coupons. The serial
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numbers of bonds of the Senior Note Series __ Bonds shall be such as may be
approved by any officer of the Company, the execution thereof by any such
officer either manually or by facsimile signature to be conclusive evidence of
such approval. Senior Note Series -- Bonds shall bear interest at a rate of
- ----% per annum until the principal thereof shall have become due and payable,
payable semi-annually on ------------ and ------------ in each year commencing
- -------------, with interest on overdue interest payable at the rate per annum
specified in this Section 1.01. Except as provided in Sections 2.03, 2.04, 2.05,
8.03 and 17.04 of the Original Indenture, no Senior Note Series -- Bonds shall
be authenticated and delivered after such initial issue.
SECTION 1.02. Each Senior Note Series -- Bond shall be dated the date of
its authentication and shall bear interest from ---------- or from the most
recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided.
SECTION 1.03. The principal of and the premium, if any, and interest on
any Senior Note Series -- Bond shall be payable, in such coin or currency of the
United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts, and shall be payable at the "office" or
agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.
Interest on the Senior Note Series -- Bonds shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 1.04. Upon any payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on, all or any portion of the Series -- Notes, whether at maturity or
prior to maturity by redemption or otherwise or upon provision for the payment
thereof having been made in accordance with Section 5.01(a) of the Senior Note
Indenture, Senior Note Series -- Bonds in a principal amount equal to the
principal amount of such Series -- Notes and having both a corresponding
maturity date and interest rate shall, to the extent of such payment of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, be deemed paid and the obligation of
the Company thereunder to make such payment shall be discharged to such extent
and, in the case of the payment of principal (and premium, if any), the Senior
Note Series -- Bonds in an equal principal amount of the related Series -- Notes
shall be surrendered to the Company for cancellation as provided in Section 4.08
of the Senior Note Indenture. The Trustee may at anytime and all times
conclusively assume that the obligation of the Company to make payments with
respect to the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Senior Note
Series -- Bonds, so far as such payments at the time have become due, has been
fully satisfied and discharged pursuant to the foregoing sentence unless and
until the Trustee shall have received a written notice from the Senior Note
Trustee
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signed by one of its officers stating (i) that timely payment of, or premium or
interest on, the Series -- Notes has not been so made, (ii) that the Company is
in arrears as to the payments required to be made by it to the Senior Note
Trustee pursuant to the Senior Note Indenture, and (iii) the amount of the
arrearage.
SECTION 1.05. Each Senior Note Series --- Bond is to be issued to and
registered in the name of United States Trust Company of New York, as the Senior
Note Trustee, or a successor trustee thereto, under the Senior Note Indenture to
secure any and all obligations of the Company under the Series -- Notes and any
other series of Senior Notes from time to time outstanding under the Senior Note
Indenture.
SECTION 1.06. Except (i) as required to effect an assignment to a
successor Trustee under the Senior Note Indenture, (ii) pursuant to Section 4.05
or Section 4.08 of the Senior Note Indenture, or (iii) in compliance with a
final order of a court of competent jurisdiction in connection with any
bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding of the Company, the Senior Note Series
- -- Bonds are not transferable. The Senior Note Series --- Bonds shall be
exchangeable for other registered bonds of the same series and for the same
aggregate principal amount, in the manner and upon the conditions prescribed in
the Mortgage, upon the surrender of such bonds at the "office" or agency of the
Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. The Company covenants
and agrees that, notwithstanding Section 2.03 of the Original Indenture, it will
not charge any sum for or in connection with any exchange or transfer of any
Senior Note Series -- Bond, but may require the payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or taxes or other governmental charges incident to any exchange,
transfer or registration thereof.
SECTION 1.07. (a) Senior Note Series -- Bonds shall not be redeemable
except on the respective dates, in the respective principal amounts and for the
respective redemption prices which correspond to the redemption dates for, the
principal amounts to be redeemed of, and the redemption prices for, the Series
__ Notes and except as set forth in Section 1.08 hereof.
(b) In the event the Company redeems any Series -- Notes prior to maturity
in accordance with the provisions of the Senior Note Indenture, the Senior Note
Trustee shall on the same date deliver to the Company the Senior Note Series --
Bonds in principal amounts corresponding to the Series -- Notes so redeemed, as
provided in Section 4.08 of the Senior Note Indenture.
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(c) Senior Note Series -- Bonds are not redeemable by the operation of the
improvement fund or the maintenance and replacement provisions of the Mortgage
or with the proceeds of released property.
(d) Notice with respect to any redemption of the Senior Note Series --
Bonds shall be mailed by the Company to the Trustee not less than thirty (30)
days and not more than ninety (90) days prior to the redemption date and shall
specify the matters set forth in the penultimate sentence of the first
paragraph, and if applicable, the second sentence of the third paragraph of
Section 8.02 of the Original Indenture. Notice of any such redemption shall be
given by the Trustee to the Senior Note Trustee, as the holder of the Senior
Note Series -- Bonds, in accordance with the terms of Section 8.02 of the
Original Indenture.
(e) If at the time of the mailing of any such notice of redemption, the
Company shall not have irrevocably directed the Trustee to apply funds deposited
with the Trustee, or held by it available to be used, for the redemption of the
Senior Note Series -- Bonds, to redeem all of the Senior Note Series -- Bonds
called for redemption, including accrued interest to the date fixed for
redemption, such notice may state that it is subject to the receipt of the
redemption moneys by the Trustee before the date fixed for redemption and such
notice shall be of no effect unless such moneys are so received before such
date.
(f) The last sentence of Section 2.03 of the Original Indenture shall not
apply to the Senior Note Series -- Bonds. In case less than all of the Senior
Note Series -- Bonds at the time outstanding are called for redemption, the
Company shall not be required to transfer any Senior Note Series--- Bonds, for a
period of ten (10) days before the mailing of a notice of redemption of bonds of
such Senior Note Series -- Bonds selected for redemption, to transfer any Senior
Note Series -- Bond called for redemption in its entirety or to transfer any
portion of a Senior Note Series -- Bond which portion has been called for
redemption.
SECTION 1.08. The Senior Note Series -- Bonds shall be immediately
redeemable at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus
interest accrued to the redemption date, in whole, upon a written demand for
redemption by the Senior Note Trustee stating that the principal of all Senior
Notes then outstanding under the Senior Note Indenture have been declared to be
immediately due and payable pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of
Section 8.01(a) thereof.
SECTION 1.09. For purposes of Section 4.09 of the Senior Note Indenture,
this bond shall be deemed to be the
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"Related Series of Senior Note First Mortgage Bonds" in respect of the Series---
Notes.
SECTION 1.10. At any time a Series -- Note shall cease to be entitled to
any lien, benefit or security under the Senior Note Indenture pursuant to
Section 5.01(b) thereof and the Company shall have provided the Senior Note
Trustee with notice thereof, the Senior Note Trustee shall surrender an equal
principal amount of the Related Series of Senior Note First Mortgage Bonds,
subject to the limitations of Section 4.08 of the Senior Note Indenture, to the
Company for cancellation.
SECTION 1.11. As provided in Section 4.11 of the Senior Note Indenture,
from and after the Release Date, the obligations of the Company with respect to
the Senior Note Series ---Bonds shall be deemed to be satisfied and discharged,
the Senior Note Series -- Bonds shall cease to secure in any manner any Senior
Notes outstanding under the Senior Note Indenture, and, pursuant to Section 4.08
of the Senior Note Indenture, the Senior Note Trustee shall forthwith deliver
the Senior Note Series -- Bonds to the Company for cancellation.
ARTICLE II
FORM OF THE SENIOR NOTE SERIES -- BONDS
SECTION 2.01. The form of the Senior Note Series -- Bonds and the
Trustee's authentication certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be
substantially as follows, the maturity date or dates, denominations, redemption
prices and interest rates thereof to be appropriately inserted.
[FORM OF SENIOR NOTE SERIES __ BONDS]
METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
FIRST MORTGAGE BOND, SENIOR NOTE SERIES--------DUE------------
$ No.
METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, a corporation of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania (hereinafter called the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to United States Trust Company of New York, as Trustee under the
Company's Indenture dated as of --------------------, 1999, or registered
assigns, --------------- Dollars on --------,------, unless this Bond shall have
been duly called for previous redemption in whole or in part and
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payment of the redemption price shall have been duly made or provided for, at
the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of
payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and
to pay to the registered holder hereof interest thereon, at said office or
agency, in like coin or currency, from , , or from the most recent interest
payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for until said
principal sum has been paid or provided for, at the rate or rates per annum
provided for in Section 1.01 of the Supplemental Indenture dated as of , ,
supplementing the Mortgage, on -------------------- -------------- and of each
year, and, to the extent permitted by law, to pay interest on overdue interest
at the rate per annum above specified.
This bond is one of an issue of bonds of the Company (hereinafter referred
to as the "bonds"), not limited in principal amount, issuable in series, which
different series may mature at different times, may bear interest at different
rates, and may otherwise vary as in the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned provided,
and is one of a series known as its First Mortgage Bonds, Senior Note Series
- -----due ---------- (herein called the "Senior Note Series __ Bonds"), all bonds
of all series issued and to be issued under and equally and ratably secured
(except insofar as any sinking fund or analogous fund, established in accordance
with the provisions of the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned, may afford additional
security for the bonds of any particular series) by a Mortgage and Deed of Trust
(herein, together with any indentures supplemental thereto, called the
"Mortgage") dated November 1, 1944, executed by the Company to UNITED STATES
TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, as successor Trustee to GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW
YORK (herein called the "Trustee"), to which reference is made for a description
of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security,
the rights and limitations of rights of the holders of the bonds and of the
Company in respect thereof, the rights, duties and immunities of the Trustee,
and the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are, and are to be, issued and
secured. The Senior Note Series -- Bonds are described in the Supplemental
Indenture dated as of , between the Company and the Trustee (the "Supplemental
Indenture").
Interest on this bond shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months.
Under an Indenture dated as of ------------, 1999 (hereinafter sometimes
referred to as the "Senior Note Indenture"), between the Company and United
Trust Company of
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New York, as trustee (hereinafter sometimes called the "Senior Note Trustee"),
the Company will issue, concurrently with the issuance of this bond, an issue of
notes under the Senior Note Indenture entitled Senior Notes, ----% due ----,
Series -- (the "Series -- Notes"). Pursuant to Article IV of the Senior Note
Indenture, this bond is issued to the Senior Note Trustee to secure any and all
obligations of the Company under the Series -- Notes and any other series of
senior notes from time to time outstanding under the Senior Note Indenture.
Payment of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the Series -- Notes
shall constitute payments on this bond as further provided herein and in the
Supplemental Indenture.
As provided in Section 4.11 of the Senior Note Indenture, from and after
the Release Date (as defined in the Senior Note Indenture), the obligations of
the Company with respect to this bond shall be deemed to be satisfied and
discharged, this bond shall cease to secure in any manner any senior notes
outstanding under the Senior Note Indenture, and, pursuant to Section 4.08 of
the Senior Note Indenture, the Senior Note Trustee shall forthwith deliver this
bond to the Company for cancellation.
Upon any payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on,
all or any portion of the Series -- Notes, whether at maturity or prior to
maturity by redemption or otherwise or upon provision for the payment thereof
having been made in accordance with Section 5.01(a) of the Senior Note
Indenture, Senior Note Series -- Bonds in a principal amount equal to the
principal amount of such Series -- Notes and having both a corresponding
maturity date and interest rate shall, to the extent of such payment of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, be deemed paid and the obligation of
the Company thereunder to make such payment shall be discharged to such extent
and, in the case of the payment of principal (and premium, if any) such bonds of
said series shall be surrendered to the Company for cancellation as provided in
Section 4.08 of the Senior Note Indenture. The Trustee may at anytime and all
times conclusively assume that the obligation of the Company to make payments
with respect to the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Senior
Note Series -- Bonds, so far as such payments at the time have become due, has
been fully satisfied and discharged pursuant to the foregoing sentence unless
and until the Trustee shall have received a written notice from the Senior Note
Trustee signed by one of its officers stating (i) that timely payment of, or
premium or interest on, the Series -- Notes has not been made, (ii) that the
Company is in arrears as to the payments required to be made by it to the Senior
Note Trustee pursuant to the Senior Note Indenture, and (iii) the amount of the
arrearage.
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For purposes of Section 4.09 of the Senior Note Indenture, this bond shall
be deemed to be the "Related Series of Senior Note First Mortgage Bonds" in
respect of the Series -- Notes.
The Mortgage contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee,
with the consent of the holders of not less than seventy-five per centum (75%)
in principal amount of all the bonds at the time outstanding (determined as
provided in the Mortgage) evidenced as in the Mortgage provided, or in case the
rights under the Mortgage of the holders of bonds of one or more, but less than
all, of the series of bonds outstanding shall be affected, then with the consent
of the holders of not less than seventy-five per centum (75%) in principal
amount of the bonds at the time outstanding of the series affected (determined
as provided in the Mortgage) evidenced as in the Mortgage provided, to execute
supplemental indentures adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of the Mortgage or modifying in any manner the
rights of the holders of the bonds and coupons thereunto appertaining; provided,
however, that no such supplemental indenture shall (i) extend the fixed maturity
of any bonds, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest
thereon, or reduce the principal amount thereof, without the consent of the
holder of each bond so affected, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of
bonds, the holders of which are required to consent to any such supplemental
indenture without the consent of the holders of all bonds then outstanding. Any
such consent by the registered holder of this bond (unless effectively revoked
as provided in the Mortgage) shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder
and upon all future holders of this bond, irrespective of whether or not any
notation of such waiver or consent is made upon this bond.
No reference herein to the Mortgage and no provision of this bond or of
the Mortgage shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this bond at
the time and place and at the rate and in the coin or currency herein
prescribed.
The Senior Note Series -- Bonds are issuable only in fully registered form
and shall be issued only as one single bond.
The Senior Note Series -- Bonds may be redeemed at the option of the
Company at the times and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Mortgage
upon mailing of a notice from the Company to the Trustee not less than thirty
(30) days and not more than ninety (90) days prior to the
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redemption date. Notice of any such redemption shall be given by the Trustee to
the Senior Note Trustee, as the holder of the Senior Note Series -- Bonds, as
provided in the Mortgage.
The Mortgage provides that if the Company shall deposit with the Trustee
in trust for the purpose funds sufficient to pay the principal of all of the
bonds of any series, or such of the bonds of any series as have been or are to
be called for redemption, and premium, if any, thereon, and all interest payable
on such bonds to the date on which they become due and payable, at maturity or
upon redemption or otherwise, and complies with the other provisions of the
Mortgage in respect thereof, then from the date of such deposit such bonds shall
no longer be entitled to any lien or benefit under the Mortgage.
The principal hereof may be declared or may become due prior to the
express date of the maturity hereof on the conditions, in the manner and at the
time set forth in the Mortgage, upon the occurrence of a completed default as in
the Mortgage provided.
This bond is not transferable except (i) as required to effect an
assignment to a successor Trustee under the Senior Note Indenture, (ii) pursuant
to Section 4.05 or Section 4.08 of the Senior Note Indenture, or (iii) in
compliance with a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction in connection
with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding of the Company. This bond shall
be exchangeable for other registered bonds of the same series and for the same
aggregate principal amount, in the manner and upon the conditions prescribed in
the Mortgage, upon the surrender of such bonds at the "office" or agency of the
Company in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York. However,
notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.05 of the Mortgage, no charge shall
be made upon any registration of transfer or exchange of bonds of said series
other than for any tax or taxes or other governmental charge required to be paid
by the Company. The Company and the Trustee, any paying agent and any bond
registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name this bond is registered as
the absolute owner hereof, whether or not this bond shall be overdue, for the
purpose of receiving payment and for all other purposes and neither the Company
nor the Trustee nor any paying agent nor any bond registrar shall be affected by
any notice to the contrary.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or interest
on this bond, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or
based on or in respect of the Mortgage, against any incorporator or any past,
present or future subscriber to the capital stock,
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stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Company or of any successor
corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor
corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitution or by the
enforcement of any assessment or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators,
subscribers, stockholders, officers and directors, as such, being waived and
released by the holder and owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being
likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage.
This bond shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose until
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, the Trustee under the Mortgage, or its
successor thereunder, shall have signed the certificate of authentication
endorsed hereon.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY has caused this bond to be
signed in its name by the manual or facsimile signature of its President or one
of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal, or a facsimile thereof, to be
affixed hereto and attested by the manual or facsimile signature of its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries.
Dated:
METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
By
----------------------
(Vice) President
Attest:
- -------------------
(Assistant) Secretary
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[FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE]
TRUSTEE'S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE
This bond is one of the bonds of the series herein designated, provided
for in the within-mentioned Mortgage.
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
By:
-----------------------------------
Authorized Officer
[END OF FORM OF SENIOR NOTE SERIES -- BOND]
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ARTICLE III
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 3.01. So long as any of the Senior Note Series -- Bonds shall be
secured by the lien of the Mortgage:
(a) The term "minimum provision for depreciation" when used for any
purposes under the Mortgage and with reference to any period of time shall mean
an amount computed pursuant to the provisions of Article I, Section 5 of the
Supplemental Indenture dated March 1, 1952.
(b) Clause (A)(II) of Section 1.06 of the Original Indenture shall
be deemed amended as set forth in the quotation contained in Article I, Section
4 of the Supplemental Indenture dated May 1, 1960.
(c) The first sentence of Section 5.20 of the Original Indenture
shall be deemed amended as set forth in the quotation contained in Article I,
Section 6 of the Supplemental Indenture dated December 1, 1950.
(d) The Company will keep and perform the covenants and agreements
set forth in Article I, Section 7 of the Supplemental Indenture dated June 1,
1957, irrespective of whether any of the bonds of the series created by such
Supplemental Indenture shall be then outstanding.
(e) The Company will keep and perform the covenants set forth in
Article I, Section 4 of the Supplemental Indenture dated March 1, 1952,
irrespective of whether any of the bonds of the series created by such
Supplemental Indenture shall be then outstanding.
SECTION 3.02. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely conclusively on each
notice delivered to it by the Senior Note Trustee or the Company pursuant to the
terms of this Supplemental Indenture for all purposes under the Mortgage. The
Trustee shall have no duty or responsibility to the Company or to the holder or
holders of the Senior Note Series -- Bonds from time to time to verify
independently the information contained in any such notice or with respect to
the determinations or calculations of interest which may from time to time or at
any given time be due on the Senior Note Series -- Bonds.
SECTION 3.03. The table of contents and the titles of the Articles of this
Supplemental Indenture shall not be deemed to be any part thereof.
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SECTION 3.04. As amended and supplemented by the aforesaid indentures
supplemental thereto and by this Supplemental Indenture, the Original Indenture
is in all respects ratified and confirmed and the Original Indenture and the
aforesaid indentures supplemental thereto and this Supplemental Indenture shall
be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
SECTION 3.05. This Supplemental Indenture shall be simultaneously executed
in several counterparts, and all such counterparts executed and delivered, each
as an original, shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
The debtor and its mailing address are Metropolitan Edison Company, 2800
Pottsville Pike, Reading, Pennsylvania 19605. The secured party and an address
of the secured party from which information concerning the security interest may
be obtained are United States Trust Company of New York, Trustee, 114 West 47th
Street, New York, New York 10036.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, party of the first part,
has caused this instrument to be signed in its name and behalf by its President
or a Vice President, and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested
by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK, party of the second part, has caused this instrument to be signed in
its name and behalf by a Senior Vice President or a Vice President and its
corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by a Vice President or an
Assistant Vice President, all as of the day and year first above written.
ATTEST: METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
By:
- ----------------- --------------------
(Assistant) Secretary (Vice) President
[CORPORATE SEAL]
ATTEST: UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK
By:
- ----------------- ---------------------------
(Assistant) Vice President (Senior) Vice President
[CORPORATE SEAL]
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY :
: ss:
COUNTY OF MORRIS :
On this --- day of , 199___, before me, ----------------------, a Notary
Public for the State and County aforesaid, the undersigned officer, personally
appeared ----------------------, who acknowledged himself to be a (Vice)
President of Metropolitan Edison Company, a corporation, and that he 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
himself as (Vice) President.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.
------------------------------
Notary Public
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
STATE OF NEW YORK :
:ss:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK :
On this ---- day of , 199---, before me, -----------------------, a Notary
Public for the State and County aforesaid, the undersigned officer, personally
appeared -----------------------, who acknowledged herself to be a (Senior) Vice
President of United States Trust Company of New York, a corporation, and that he
as such (Senior) Vice President, being authorized to do so, executed the
foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained by signing the name of
the corporation by himself as (Senior) Vice President.
I am not a director or officer of said United States Trust Company of New
York.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.
------------------------------
Notary Public
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
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CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE
United States Trust Company of New York, Mortgagee and Trustee within
named, hereby certifies that its precise residence is 114 West 47th Street, in
the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, in the State of New York.
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
By:
--------------------------
(Vice) President
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SCHEDULE A
[To be provided by Met-Ed, if applicable]