METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
(First Mortgage Bonds, Senior Note Series E)
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Dated as of March 1, 2003
THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of March 1, 2003, 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 THE BANK OF NEW YORK (as successor to United States Trust
Company of New York), a bank and trust company organized under the laws of the
State of New York as Successor Trustee under the Mortgage (hereinafter sometimes
called the "Trustee"), party of the second part.
WHEREAS, the Company has 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, 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 Bank of New York is now the Successor Trustee under the
Mortgage; and
WHEREAS, the Company has entered into an Indenture dated as of July l,
1999 (the "Senior Note Indenture") with The Bank of New York (as successor to
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 one or more
tranches of 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 E" (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Senior Note
Series E Bonds"), which said Senior Note Series E Bonds are to be substantially
in the form set forth in Article II hereof with the insertion of numbers,
denominations, date or dates from which interest shall accrue, maturities,
interest rates (or method of determination thereof), interest payment dates and
other terms as determined in accordance with the terms of the Mortgage; and
WHEREAS, the Senior Note Series E Bonds shall be issued to the Senior
Note Trustee in connection with the concurrent issuance by the Company of a like
aggregate principal amount of its Senior Notes (the "New Senior 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 E 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 E Bonds by the Company
and authentication thereof by the Trustee; and
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That in
consideration of the premises, and of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) to the
Company duly paid by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of
these presents, and for other valuable considerations, the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged, the Company hereby covenants and agrees to and with the
Trustee and its successors in the trusts under the Mortgage, as follows:
Article I
SENIOR NOTE SERIES E BONDS
SECTION 1. 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
E."
SECTION 2. An unlimited principal amount of Senior Note Series E Bonds,
being authenticated and delivered from time to time, may forthwith be executed
by the Company and delivered to the Trustee and shall be authenticated by the
Trustee and delivered (either before or after the filing or recording hereof) to
or upon the order of the designated officer or officers of the Company
specifying, among other things, the principal amount of the Senior Notes Series
E Bonds to be issued on the specified date of issuance, the numbers,
denominations, date or dates from which interest shall accrue, maturities,
interest rates (or method of determination thereof), interest payment dates and
other terms of such Senior Note Series E Bonds, upon receipt by the Trustee of
the cash, resolutions, certificates, opinions and documents required to be
delivered upon the issue of bonds from time to time as provided in the Mortgage.
SECTION 3. Each Senior Note Series E Bond shall be dated the date of
its authentication ("issue date") and shall bear interest from the issue date of
said bond or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has
been paid or duly provided for with respect to the Senior Note Series E Bonds,
except that so long as there is no existing default in the payment of interest
on the Senior Note Series E Bonds, any Senior Note Series E Bond authenticated
by the Trustee between the record date (as hereinafter defined) for any interest
payment date for such bond and such interest payment date shall bear interest
from such interest payment date; provided, however, that if and to the extent
the Company shall default in payment of the interest due on such interest
payment date, then any such Senior Note Series E Bond shall bear interest from
the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for with respect to the Senior Note Series E Bonds, or, if no interest
has been paid on the Senior Note Series E Bonds, then from its issue date.
Unless previously redeemed pursuant to the provisions hereof and of the
Mortgage, each Senior Note Series E Bond shall be payable on their respective
maturity dates, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at
the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts,
and shall bear interest payable in like coin or currency at the interest rate
specified in such Senior Note Series E Bonds from the date specified in such
Senior Note Series E Bonds, payable semi-annually on each interest payment date
specified in such Senior Note Series E Bonds, until the maturity date specified
in such Senior Note Series E Bonds, and at maturity at the highest rate of
interest borne by any of the bonds outstanding under the Mortgage from such date
of maturity until they shall be paid or payment thereof shall have been duly
provided for, and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable
under applicable law) interest on any overdue installment of interest shall be
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payable at the highest rate of interest borne by any of the bonds outstanding
under the Mortgage. Principal of and interest on the Senior Note Series E Bonds
shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York.
The persons in whose names the Senior Note Series E Bonds are
registered at the close of business on any record date (as hereinafter defined)
with respect to any interest payment date shall be entitled to receive the
interest payable on such interest payment date (except that in case of any
redemption of the Senior Note Series E Bonds as provided for herein on a date
subsequent to the record date and prior to such interest payment date, interest
on such redeemed bonds shall be payable only to the date fixed for redemption
thereof and only against surrender of such bonds for redemption in accordance
with the notice of such redemption) notwithstanding the cancellation of any
Senior Note Series E Bonds upon any registration of transfer or exchange
subsequent to the record date and prior to such interest payment date; provided,
however, that if, and to the extent, the Company shall default in the payment of
the interest due on any interest payment date, such defaulted interest shall be
paid to the persons in whose names outstanding Senior Note Series E Bonds are
registered on the day immediately preceding the date of payment of such
defaulted interest or, at the election of the Company, on a subsequent record
date established by notice given by mail by or on behalf of the Company to the
holders of Senior Note Series E Bonds not less than fifteen (15) days preceding
such subsequent record date.
Unless otherwise specified in the written order of the Company
delivered pursuant to Section 4.07(a) of the Original Indenture with respect to
any Senior Note Series E Bonds, the term "record date" shall mean, with respect
to any regular interest payment date, the close of business on the 15th day of
the calendar month next preceding such interest payment date or, in the case of
defaulted interest, the close of business on any subsequent record date
established as provided above.
SECTION 4. Upon any payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on, all or any portion of the New Senior 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 E Bonds in a principal amount equal to the
principal amount of such New Senior Notes 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 E Bonds in a principal amount equal to the related New Senior
Notes shall be surrendered to the Company for cancellation as provided in
Section 4.06 of the Senior Note Indenture. The Trustee may at any time 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 E 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 principal of, or premium or interest on, the New Senior 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.
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SECTION 5. Each Senior Note Series E Bond is to be issued to and
registered in the name of The Bank 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 New Senior Notes and any other series of
Senior Notes from time to time outstanding under the Senior Note Indenture.
SECTION 6. Except (i) as required to effect an assignment to a
successor Trustee under the Senior Note Indenture, (ii) pursuant to Section 4.03
or Section 4.06 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 E
Bonds are not transferable. The Senior Note Series E 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 E Bond.
SECTION 7. (a) Senior Note Series E Bonds shall not be redeemed except
(i) as set forth in Article I, Section 8 hereof; and (ii) by the surrender
thereof by the Senior Note Trustee to the Trustee for cancellation at a
redemption price of zero upon redemption of all other series of bonds pursuant
to Section 8.08 of the Mortgage.
(b) In the event the Company redeems any New Senior 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 E Bonds in principal amounts corresponding to the New Senior Notes
so redeemed, as provided in Section 4.06 of the Senior Note Indenture.
(c) Senior Note Series E Bonds are not redeemable by the operation
of the improvement fund pursuant to Section 5.07 and Section 9.06 of the
Mortgage or otherwise, by operation of the maintenance and replacement
provisions pursuant to Sections 5.08 and 9.06 of the Mortgage or otherwise, or
with the proceeds of released property pursuant to Section 9.06 of the Mortgage
or otherwise.
SECTION 8. The Senior Note Series E Bonds shall be immediately redeemed
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 has been declared to be immediately
due and payable pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of Section
8.01(a) thereof.
SECTION 9. For purposes of Section 4.07 of the Senior Note Indenture,
the Senior Note Series E Bonds shall be deemed to be the "Related Senior Note
First Mortgage Bonds" in respect of the New Senior Notes.
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SECTION 10. At any time a New Senior 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 Senior Note First Mortgage Bonds, subject to the
limitations of Section 4.06 of the Senior Note Indenture, to the Company for
cancellation.
SECTION 11. As provided in Section 4.09 of the Senior Note Indenture,
from and after the Release Date, the obligations of the Company with respect to
the Senior Note Series E Bonds shall be deemed to be satisfied and discharged,
the Senior Note Series E Bonds shall cease to secure in any manner any Senior
Notes outstanding under the Senior Note Indenture, and, pursuant to Section 4.06
of the Senior Note Indenture, the Senior Note Trustee shall forthwith deliver
the Senior Note Series E Bonds to the Company for cancellation.
Article II
FORM OF THE SENIOR NOTE SERIES E BONDS
SECTION 1. Unless otherwise specified in the written order of the
Company delivered pursuant to Section 4.07(a) of the Original Indenture with
respect to any Senior Note Series E Bonds, the form of the Senior Note Series E
Bonds and the Trustee's authentication certificate to be endorsed thereon shall
be substantially as follows, the maturity date or dates, denominations, interest
rates (or a method of determination thereof), other terms and numbers thereof to
be appropriately inserted as provided in Section 2.01 of the Original Indenture:
[FORM OF SENIOR NOTE SERIES E BONDS]
METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
FIRST MORTGAGE BOND, SENIOR NOTE SERIES E
$ No.
ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE: MATURITY DATE:
INTEREST RATE:
INTEREST PAYMENT DATES:
METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, a corporation of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania (hereinafter called the "Company"), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to The Bank of New York, as successor Trustee under the
Company's Indenture dated as of July 1, 1999, or registered assigns ___________,
Dollars on the Maturity Date set forth above, unless this Bond shall have been
duly called for previous redemption in whole or in part and payment of the
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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 semi-annually on the Interest Payment
Dates set forth above (commencing with the Interest Payment Date next succeeding
the Original Issue Date specified above) at the Interest Rate set forth above,
at said office or agency, in like coin or currency, from the Original Issue Date
specified above, or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest
has been paid or duly provided for (subject to certain exceptions provided in
the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned), until maturity, and at maturity, according
to its terms or on prior redemption or by declaration or otherwise, and at the
highest rate of interest borne by any of the bonds outstanding under the
Mortgage hereinafter mentioned from such date of maturity until this bond shall
be paid or the payment hereof shall have been duly provided for, and to the
extent permitted by law, to pay interest on overdue interest at the highest rate
of interest borne by any of the bonds outstanding under the Mortgage hereinafter
mentioned.
This bond is one of an issue of bonds of the Company (hereinafter
referred to as the "bonds"), not limited in principal amount, except as provided
in the Mortgage hereinafter defined which 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 E (herein called the "Senior Note Series E
Bonds"), all bonds 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 an Indenture (herein,
together with any indentures supplemental thereto, including the Supplemental
Indenture hereinafter mentioned, called the "Mortgage") dated November 1, 1944,
executed by the Company to GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK under which THE
BANK OF NEW YORK (as successor to United States Trust Company of New York), is
Successor Trustee (herein called the "Trustee"), to which Mortgage 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 E Bonds are
described in the Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 1, 2003 between the
Company and the Trustee (the "Supplemental Indenture").
Under an Indenture dated as of July 1, 1999 (hereinafter sometimes
referred to as the "Senior Note Indenture"), between the Company and The Bank of
New York (as successor to United Trust Company of 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 20 " (the "New Senior
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 New Senior Notes. Payment of principal of, or premium, if any,
or interest on, the New Senior Notes shall constitute payments on this bond as
further provided herein and in the Supplemental Indenture.
As provided in Section 4.09 of the Senior Note Indenture, from and
after the Release Date (as defined in the Senior Note Indenture), the
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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 4.06 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 New Senior 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 E Bonds in a principal amount equal to the
principal amount of such New Senior 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)), Senior Note
Series E Bonds in a principal amount equal to the related New Senior Notes shall
be surrendered to the Company for cancellation as provided in Section 4.06 of
the Senior Note Indenture. The Trustee may at any time 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 E 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
principal of, or premium or interest on, the New Senior 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.
For purposes of Section 4.07 of the Senior Note Indenture, this bond
shall be deemed to be the "Related Senior Note First Mortgage Bond" in respect
of the New Senior Notes.
The Mortgage contains provisions permitting the holders of not less
than seventy-five per centum (75%) in principal amount of all the bonds at the
time outstanding, determined and evidenced as provided in the Mortgage, 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 outstanding bonds of such one or more series affected,
except that if any such action would affect the bonds of two or more series, the
holders of not less than seventy-five per centum (75%) in principal amount of
outstanding bonds of such two or more series, which need not include
seventy-five per centum (75%) in principal amount of outstanding bonds of each
of such series, determined and evidenced as provided in the Mortgage, on behalf
of the holders of all the bonds, to waive any past default under the Mortgage
and its consequences except a completed default, as defined in the Mortgage, in
respect of the payment of the principal of or interest on any bond or a default
arising from the creation of any lien ranking prior to or equal with the lien of
the Mortgage on any of the mortgaged property, subject to the condition that, in
case the rights of the holders of less than all of the series of bonds
outstanding shall be affected, no waiver of any past default or its consequences
shall be effective unless approved by the holders of not less than a majority of
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all the bonds at the time outstanding. The Mortgage also 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 and evidenced as provided in the Mortgage, 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 outstanding bonds of such one or more series
affected, except that if any such action would affect the bonds of two or more
series, the holders of not less than seventy-five per centum (75%) in principal
amount of outstanding bonds of such two or more series, which need not include
seventy-five per centum (75%) in principal amount of outstanding bonds of each
of such series, determined and evidenced as provided in the Mortgage, 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, or, subject to the provisions
of the Mortgage, limit the right of a bondholder to institute suit for the
enforcement of payment of principal or interest in accordance with the terms of
the bonds, without the express 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, or (iii) permit the creation of any
lien ranking prior to or equal with the lien of the Mortgage on any of the
mortgaged property without the consent of the holders of all bonds then
outstanding, or (iv) deprive the holder of any outstanding bond of the lien of
the Mortgage on any of the mortgaged property. Any such waiver or consent by the
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 E Bonds are issuable only in fully registered
form in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof.
The Senior Note Series E Bonds shall not be redeemed except as set
forth below and except by the surrender thereof by the Senior Note Trustee to
the Trustee for cancellation at a redemption price of zero upon redemption of
all other series of bonds pursuant to Section 8.08 of the Mortgage. In the event
the Company redeems any New Senior 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 Senior Note Series E Bonds in principal
amounts corresponding to the New Senior Notes so redeemed, as provided in
Section 4.06 of the Senior Note Indenture. Senior Note Series E Bonds are not
redeemable by the operation of the improvement fund pursuant to Section 5.07 and
Section 9.06 of the Mortgage or otherwise, by operation of the maintenance and
replacement provisions pursuant to Sections 5.08 and 9.06 of the Mortgage or
otherwise, or with the proceeds of released property pursuant to Section 9.06 of
the Mortgage or otherwise.
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The Senior Note Series E Bonds shall be immediately redeemed 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.
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 secured by the lien of 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 4.03 or Section 4.06 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.
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 under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement
contained in the Mortgage, or in any bond or coupon thereby secured, or because
of any indebtedness thereby secured, shall be had against any incorporator, or
against any past, present or future 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 by any legal or
equitable proceeding or otherwise; it being expressly agreed and understood that
the Mortgage, and the obligations thereby secured, are solely corporate
obligations, and that no personal liability whatever shall attach to, or be
incurred by, such incorporators, stockholders, officers or directors, as such,
of the Company or of any successor corporation, or any of them because of the
incurring of the indebtedness thereby authorized or under or by reason of any of
the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the Mortgage or in any of
the bonds or coupons thereby secured, or implied therefrom.
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This bond shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose until
THE BANK 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
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(Vice President)
Attest:
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(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.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By:
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Authorized Officer
[END OF FORM OF SENIOR NOTE SERIES E BOND]
Article III
Subjecting Certain Property Specifically
to the Lien Of The Mortgage
AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE FURTHER WITNESSETH: That in
consideration of the premises, and of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) to the
Company duly paid by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of
these presents, Metropolitan Edison Company has granted, bargained, sold,
aliened, enfeoffed, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, pledged, set over
and confirmed, and by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff,
release, convey, assign, transfer, pledge, set over and confirm, unto The Bank
of New York, as Trustee, and to its successors and assigns forever, all of the
following described property, to wit:
All property, real, personal and mixed, tangible and intangible, owned
by the Company, or in which it owns an interest, on the date of the execution
hereof, or (subject to the provisions of Article XIII of the Mortgage) which may
hereafter be acquired by it, wheresoever situate, and necessary or appropriate
to the public utility plant and business of the Company and to its operation as
a going concern, except such property as is hereinafter expressly excepted an
excluded from the lien and operation of the Mortgage.
The property covered by the lien of the Mortgage shall include
particularly, among other property, without prejudice to the generality of the
language hereinbefore or hereinafter contained, the following described
property:
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FIRST.
Also all power houses, plants, buildings, distributing stations,
substations, transforming stations and other structures for or used for or
intended for use in connection with the manufacture, generation, transmission or
furnishing of electricity, and the machinery, fixtures, fittings and equipment
thereof or appurtenant thereto, including, without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, all dynamos, engines, turbines, boilers, pumps, generators,
transformers, converters, regulators, exciters, meters, shafting and belting and
all other apparatus and appliances for generating or producing electricity,
which are owned by the Company, or in which it owns an interest, on the date of
the execution hereof or (subject to the provision of Article XIII of the
Mortgage) which may be hereafter acquired by it, wheresoever situate, and
necessary or appropriate to the public utility plant and business of the Company
and to its operation as a going concern, except such property as is hereinafter
expressly excepted and excluded from the lien and operation of the Mortgage.
SECOND.
Also all transmission and distribution lines and systems, whether
underground, surface or overhead, for or used for or intended for use in
connection with the transmission and distribution of electricity, and the
conduits, poles, cross arms, insulators, transformers, cables, wires, meters,
fixtures, tools, supplies and all other apparatus and appliances connected
therewith or appurtenant thereto which are owned by the Company, or in which it
owns an interest, on the date of the execution hereof or (subject to the
provisions of Article XIII of the Mortgage) which may be hereafter acquired by
it.
THIRD.
Also all franchises, immunities, privileges, permits, licenses,
easements and rights of way authorizing, permitting or facilitating the
erection, maintenance or operation upon, over or under any streets, avenues,
highways, alleys, lanes, walks, parks and other public places in any county,
city, borough, town, township or village or upon, over or under any private
property of poles, towers, wires, conduits, mains, pipes or other structures or
apparatus for the transmission or distribution of electricity or otherwise
relating to the business of producing, transmitting and distributing
electricity, which are owned by the Company, or in which it owns an interest, on
the date of the execution hereof or (subject to the provisions of Article XIII
of the Mortgage) which may be hereafter acquired by it.
GENERAL SUBJECT CLAUSES.
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the reservations, mining rights, exceptions,
conditions, limitations and restrictions contained in the several deeds,
franchises and contracts or other instruments through which the Company acquired
or claims title to or enjoys the use of said properties; to statutory and
municipal requirements relating to land and buildings; to the rights of the
public and others in streets, roads and highways, opened, or laid out but
unopened, crossing or bounding any of the said parcels; to the rights of owners
abutting thereon in any stream, drain or ditch crossing or bounding any of the
said parcels; to the rights of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in and to any of
the lands located in any streams or rivers abutting any of the said parcels; and
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to the rights of electric, gas, telephone, telegraph and pipeline companies to
maintain and operate pole lines and gas and petroleum products mains and pipes
over or through any of the said parcels or on or in the streets, roads or
highways abutting thereon as the same existed at the time of acquisition of said
parcels by the Company; and to any easements visible on the ground at the time
of such acquisition, but not evidenced by recorded agreements or grants.
EXCEPTED PROPERTY
EXPRESSLY EXCEPTING, AND EXCLUDING, HOWEVER, from this Supplemental
Indenture and from the lien and operation hereof, all property of every kind and
type excepted and excluded from the Mortgage by subdivisions II (to the extent
that such real estate is still owned by the Company) and III under the heading
"Excepted Property" therein to the extent there indicated and reference is
hereby made to said Mortgage for a description thereof.
TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and
appurtenances belonging or in any wise appertaining to the property covered by
this Supplemental Indenture or intended so to be, or any part thereof, with the
reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders and (subject to the
provisions of Section 9.01 of the Mortgage) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues,
earnings, income, product and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title
and interest an claim whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which the Company
now has or may hereafter acquire in and to the property covered by this
Supplemental Indenture or intended so to be and every part and parcel thereof.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the property covered by this Supplemental Indenture
or intended so to be to the Trustee, its successors and assigns, forever, upon
and subject to the trusts, uses, condition, covenants and provisions of the
Mortgage.
ARTICLE IV
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 1. The Trustee, for itself and its successors in said trusts,
hereby accepts the conveyance, transfer and assignment of the property included
in this Supplemental Indenture upon the trusts, terms and conditions expressed
in the Mortgage.
SECTION 2. For all purposes hereof except as the context may otherwise
require, (a) all terms contained herein shall have the meanings given such terms
in, and (b) all references herein to sections of the Original Indenture shall be
deemed to be to such sections of, the Original Indenture as the same heretofore
has been or hereafter may be amended by an indenture or indentures supplemental
thereto.
SECTION 3. 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.
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SECTION 4. 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.
SECTION 5. The recitals of fact contained herein and in the Senior Note
Series E Bonds (other than the Trustee's certificate of authentication and
certification of residence) shall be taken as the statements of the Company and
the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same.
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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 Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary, and THE
BANK OF NEW YORK, as Successor Trustee as aforesaid, party of the second part,
has caused this instrument to be signed in its name and behalf by an Authorized
Officer and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by an
Authorized Officer, all as of the day and year first above written.
ATTEST: METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
By:
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David W. Whitehead Richard H. Marsh
Corporate Secretary Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
[CORPORATE SEAL]
Signed, sealed and delivered by said
Metropolitan Edison Company
in the presence of:
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Amit D. Patel
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Carol L. Daniels
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ATTEST: THE BANK OF NEW YORK
As Successor Trustee as aforesaid
By:
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Print Name: Print Name:
Assistant Secretary Vice President
[CORPORATE SEAL]
Signed, sealed and delivered by said
The Bank of New York
in the presence of:
- -------------------------------------
Print Name:
- -------------------------------------
Print Name:
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STATE OF OHIO )
: ss.:
COUNTY OF SUMMIT )
On the 13 day of March in the year 2003 before me, the undersigned,
personally appeared Richard H. Marsh and David W. Whitehead, personally known to
me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individuals
whose names are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that
they executed the same in their capacity, and that by their signatures on the
instrument, the individuals, or the person upon behalf of which the individuals
acted, executed the instruments.
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Susie M. Hoisten, Notary Public
Residence Summit County
Statewide Jurisdiction Ohio
My commission expires Dec. 9, 2006
[SEAL]
STATE OF NEW YORK )
:ss..
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On the 13th day of March in the year 2003 before me, the undersigned,
personally appeared ______________ and _______________, personally known to me
or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individuals
whose names are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that
they executed the same in their capacity, and that by their signatures on the
instrument, the individuals, or the person upon behalf of which the individuals
acted, executed the instruments.
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[name]
Notary Public, State of New York
No. ___________
Qualified in _________ County
Commission Expires ___________
[SEAL]
CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE
The Bank of New York, Mortgagee and Trustee within named, hereby
certifies that its precise residence is 101 Barclay Street,
_______________________, in the Borough of Manhattan, in The City of New York,
in the State of New York.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By
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Print Name:
Vice President
This document was prepared by FirstEnergy Corp.