projected capital expenditures and related funding requirements

EX-4.37 4 c81660exv4w37.htm EXHIBIT 4.37 Filed by Bowne Pure Compliance
Exhibit 4.37
Prepared by and Return to:
Mary T. Tomich, Esq.
Dilworth Paxson LLP
1500 Market Street
Suite 3500E
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215 ###-###-####
 
FORTY-THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE
DATED AS OF DECEMBER 1, 2008
TO
INDENTURE OF MORTGAGE
DATED AS OF JANUARY 1, 1941
AQUA PENNSYLVANIA, INC.
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N. A.
 

 

 


 

THIS FORTY-THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of December 1, 2008, by and between AQUA PENNSYLVANIA, INC. (f/k/a Pennsylvania Suburban Water Company), a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the “Company”) as successor by merger to the Philadelphia Suburban Water Company (the “Original Company”), party of the first part, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N. A., a national banking association (the “Trustee”), party of the second part.
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore duly executed and delivered to The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, as trustee, an Indenture of Mortgage dated as of January 1, 1941 (the “Original Indenture”), which by reference is hereby made a part hereof, and in and by the Original Indenture the Original Company conveyed and mortgaged to such trustee certain property therein described, to secure the payment of its bonds to be generally known as its “First Mortgage Bonds” and to be issued under the Original Indenture in one or more series as therein provided; and
WHEREAS, through a series of mergers, changes of names and successions, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A. became the successor trustee; such mergers, changes of name and successions not involving any change in the title, powers, rights or duties of the trustee, as trustee under the Original Indenture as supplemented at the respective dates thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company duly executed and delivered to the Trustee thirty-four supplemental indentures supplemental to the Original Indenture, and the Company duly executed and delivered to the Trustee eight supplemental indentures to the Original Indenture so as to subject certain additional property to the lien of the Original Indenture and to provide for the creation of additional series of bonds; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization dated December 20, 2001, and effective on January 1, 2002, the Original Company agreed to merge, in conjunction with its affiliated corporations, Consumers Pennsylvania Water Company – Shenango Valley Division, Consumers Pennsylvania Water Company – Roaring Creek Division, Consumers Pennsylvania Water Company – Susquehanna Division, Waymart Water Company, Fawn Lake Forrest Water Company, Western Utilities, Inc., and Northeastern Utilities, Inc. (such affiliates referred to hereinafter as the “Merging Entities”) with and into the Company; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Thirty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of January 1, 2002 (the “Thirty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture”), the Company agreed to assume the obligations of the Original Company under the Original Indenture and all supplements thereto; and

 

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WHEREAS, the Company and its predecessor have issued under the Original Indenture, as supplemented at the respective dates of issue, fifty-two series of First Mortgage Bonds designated, respectively, as set forth in the following table, the Original or Supplemental Indenture creating each series and the principal amount of bonds thereof issued being indicated opposite the designation of such series:
             
Designation   Indenture   Amount  
 
           
3 1/4% Series due 1971
  Original   $ 16,375,000  
9 5/8% Series due 1975
  Thirteenth Supplemental     10,000,000  
9.15% Series due 1977
  Fourteenth Supplemental     10,000,000  
3% Series due 1978
  First Supplemental     2,000,000  
3 3/8% Series due 1982
  Second Supplemental     4,000,000  
3.90% Series due 1983
  Third Supplemental     5,000,000  
3 1/2% Series due 1986
  Fourth Supplemental     6,000,000  
4 1/2% Series due 1987
  Fifth Supplemental     4,000,000  
4 1/8% Series due 1988
  Sixth Supplemental     4,000,000  
5% Series due 1989
  Seventh Supplemental     4,000,000  
4 5/8% Series due 1991
  Eighth Supplemental     3,000,000  
4.70% Series due 1992
  Ninth Supplemental     3,000,000  
6 7/8% Series due 1993
  Twelfth Supplemental     4,500,000  
4.55% Series due 1994
  Tenth Supplemental     4,000,000  
10 1/8% Series due 1995
  Sixteenth Supplemental     10,000,000  
5 1/2% Series due 1996
  Eleventh Supplemental     4,000,000  
7 7/8% Series due 1997
  Fifteenth Supplemental     5,000,000  
8.44% Series due 1997
  Twenty-Third Supplemental     12,000,000  
9.20% Series due 2001
  Seventeenth Supplemental     7,000,000  
8.40% Series due 2002
  Eighteenth Supplemental     10,000,000  
5.95% Series due 2002
  Twenty-Seventh Supplemental     4,000,000  
12.45% Series due 2003
  Twentieth Supplemental     10,000,000  
13% Series due 2005
  Twenty-First Supplemental     8,000,000  
10.65% Series due 2006
  Twenty-Second Supplemental     10,000,000  
9.89% Series due 2008
  Twenty-Fourth Supplemental     5,000,000  
7.15% Series due 2008
  Twenty-Eighth Supplemental     22,000,000  
9.12% Series due 2010
  Twenty-Fifth Supplemental     20,000,000  
8 7/8% Series due 2010
  Nineteenth Supplemental     8,000,000  
6.50% Series due 2010
  Twenty-Seventh Supplemental     3,200,000  
9.17% Series due 2011
  Twenty-Sixth Supplemental     5,000,000  
9.93% Series due 2013
  Twenty-Fourth Supplemental     5,000,000  
9.97% Series due 2018
  Twenty-Fourth Supplemental     5,000,000  
9.17% Series due 2021
  Twenty-Sixth Supplemental     8,000,000  
9.29% Series due 2026
  Twenty-Sixth Supplemental     12,000,000  
1995 Medium Term Note Series
  Twenty-Ninth Supplemental     77,000,000  
6.35% Series due 2025
  Thirtieth Supplemental     22,000,000  
1997 Medium Term Note Series
  Thirty-First Supplemental     65,000,000  
6.75% Subseries A due 2007
  10,000,000        
6.30% Subseries B due 2002
  10,000,000        
6.14% Subseries C due 2008
  10,000,000        
5.80% Subseries D due 2003
  10,000,000        
5.85% Subseries E due 2004
  10,000,000        

 

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Designation   Indenture   Amount  
 
6.00% Subseries F due 2004
  15,000,000        
6.00% Series due 2029
  Thirty-Second Supplemental     25,000,000  
1999 Medium Term Note Series
  Thirty-Third Supplemental     222,334,480  
7.40% Subseries A due 2005
  15,000,000        
7.40% Subseries B due 2005
  11,000,000        
6.21% Subseries C due 2011
  15,000,000        
9.53% Subseries D due 2019
  4,000,000        
6.375% Subseries E due 2023
  14,000,000        
8.26% Subseries F due 2022
  1,500,000        
9.50% Subseries G due 2006
  1,440,000        
9.22% Subseries H due 2019
  2,534,480        
8.32% Subseries I due 2022
  3,500,000        
8.14% Subseries J due 2025
  4,000,000        
6.00% Subseries K due 2030
  18,360,000        
5.93% Subseries L due 2012
  25,000,000        
2.65% Subseries M due 2006
  5,000,000        
3.461% Subseries N due 2007
  12,000,000        
5.08% Subseries O due 2015
  20,000,000        
5.17% Subseries P due 2017
  7,000,000        
5.751% Subseries Q due 2019
  15,000,000        
5.751% Subseries R due 2019
  5,000,000        
6.06% Subseries S due 2027
  15,000,000        
6.06% Subseries T due 2027
  5,000,000        
5.98% Subseries U due 2028
  3,000,000        
5.35% Series due 2031
  Thirty-Fourth Supplemental     30,000,000  
5.55% Series due 2032
  Thirty-Sixth Supplemental     25,000,000  
3.75% Series due 2010
  Thirty-Seventh Supplemental     3,200,000  
5.15% Series due 2032
  Thirty Seventh Supplemental     25,000,000  
5.05% Series due 2039
  Thirty-Eighth Supplemental     14,000,000  
5.00% Series due 2036
  Thirty-Ninth Supplemental     21,770,000  
5.00% Series due 2037
  Thirty-Ninth Supplemental     24,165,000  
5.00% Series due 2038
  Thirty-Ninth Supplemental     25,375,000  
5.00% Series due 2035
  Fortieth Supplemental     24,675,000  
5.00% Series due 2040
  Forty-first Supplemental     23,915,000  
5.00% Series due 2041
  Forty-first Supplemental     23,915,000  
5.25% Series due 2042
  Forty-second Supplemental     24,830,000  
5.25% Series due 2043_
  Forty-second Supplemental     24,830,000  
WHEREAS, the bonds of each of said series that are presently outstanding are listed on Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof; and
WHEREAS, in order to secure the lien of the Original Indenture on the properties of the Original Company and the Company, the Original Indenture and the first forty-two supplemental indentures supplemental to the Original Indenture were duly recorded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the dates and in the office for the Recording of Deeds for the counties and in the Mortgage Books at the pages indicated in Exhibit B hereto; and

 

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WHEREAS, the lien of the Original Indenture, as supplemented, has been perfected as a security interest under the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code by filing a financing statement in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to create under the Original Indenture, as supplemented by this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture, two series of bonds to be designated “First Mortgage Bonds, 6.25% Series due 2017” (herein referred to as the “6.25% Series due 2017”) to be limited in aggregate principal amount to $9,000,000, to bear interest at the rate of 6.25% per annum, and to mature on October 1, 2017, and “First Mortgage Bonds, 6.75% Series due 2018” (herein referred to as the “6.75% Series due 2018”) to be limited in aggregate principal amount to $13,000,000, to bear interest at the rate of 6.75% per annum, and to mature on October 1, 2018, each series to be issued only as registered bonds without coupons and to be dated the date of delivery thereof; and
WHEREAS, in order to finance the costs of numerous acquisitions, constructions, modifications, expansions, installations and replacements of the Company’s water distribution, treatment and related operating systems located in the Counties of Chester, Delaware and Montgomery in Pennsylvania and that are part of the Company’s system for the distribution of water to its customers and related financing costs, which are to be financed under a Financing Agreement dated as of December 1, 2008 (the “Financing Agreement”) between the Company and the Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority, a Pennsylvania body politic and corporate (the “Authority”), and which are described in Exhibit A thereto (which facilities, less any deletions therefrom and together with any additions, improvements and modifications thereto and substitutions therefore made in accordance with the provisions of the Financing Agreement are referred to as the “Facilities”), the Company has requested the Authority to issue a new series of bonds to be known as the Authority’s Water Facilities Revenue Bonds (Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. Project), Series A of 2008 the aggregate principal amount of $22,000,000 (the “Authority Bonds”); and
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to issue the Bonds under the provisions of Article IV of the Original Indenture, and will comply with the provisions thereof as well as with other provisions of the Original Indenture and indentures supplemental thereto in connection with the issuance of additional bonds so that it will be entitled to procure the authentication and delivery of the Bonds; and
WHEREAS, the Authority Bonds are to be issued under a Trust Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2008 (the “Authority Indenture”), between the Authority and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Authority Trustee”); and
WHEREAS, the proceeds of the Authority Bonds are to be loaned to the Company pursuant to the terms of the Financing Agreement and the Bonds are to be issued by the Company to secure the obligation of the Company to pay to or for the account of the Authority an amount equal to the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on the Authority Bonds pursuant to the Financing Agreement; and

 

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WHEREAS, the right, title and interest of the Authority in and to the Financing Agreement and the payments thereunder and the security for such payments are to be assigned by the Authority to the Authority Trustee, and the Bonds are to be delivered by the Company on behalf of the Authority directly to the Authority Trustee, as assignee of the Authority, as security for the payment of the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on, the Authority Bonds; and
WHEREAS, Article XVIII of the Original Indenture provides that the Company, when authorized by resolution of its Board of Directors, may with the Trustee enter into an indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture, which thereafter shall form a part of the Original Indenture, for the purposes, inter alia, of subjecting to the lien of the Original Indenture additional property, of defining the covenants and provisions applicable to any bonds of any series other than the 3-1/4% Series due 1971, of adding to the covenants and agreements of the Company contained in the Original Indenture other covenants and agreements thereafter to be observed by the Company, of surrendering any right or power in the Original Indenture reserved to or conferred upon the Company, and of making such provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under the Original Indenture as may be necessary or desirable and not inconsistent therewith; and
WHEREAS, the Company, by proper corporate action, has duly authorized the creation of the 6.25% Series due 2017 and the 6.75% Series due 2018 (to be issued in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Original Indenture and indentures supplemental thereto, including this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture, and to be secured by said Original Indenture and indentures supplemental thereto, including this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture) and has further duly authorized the execution, delivery and recording of this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture setting forth the terms and provisions of the 6.25% Series due 2017 and the 6.75% Series due 2018 insofar as said terms and provisions are not set forth in said Original Indenture; and

 

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WHEREAS, the Bonds and the Trustee’s certificate upon said Bonds are to be substantially in the following form, the proper amount, names of registered owners and numbers to be inserted therein, and such appropriate insertions, omissions and changes to be made therein as may be required or permitted by this Indenture to conform to any pertinent law or usage:
[Form of 6.25% Series due 2017]
     
No. R-1   $9,000,000
AQUA PENNSYLVANIA, INC.
(Incorporated under the Laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania)
First Mortgage Bond, 6.25% Series due 2017
Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. (f/k/a known as Pennsylvania Suburban Water Company, successor by merger to Philadelphia Suburban Water Company), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (hereinafter called the “Company”, which term shall include any successor corporation as defined in the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority or its registered assigns, on the 1st day of October, 2017, at the designated office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A. (hereinafter called the “Trustee”) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sum of Nine Million Dollars 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 to pay interest thereon to the registered owner hereof by draft or check of the Trustee mailed to such registered owner from the interest payment date next preceding the date of the authentication of this Bond (or if this Bond is authenticated after a Record Date as defined below and on or before the succeeding interest payment date, from such succeeding interest payment date, or if this Bond is authenticated on or prior to April 1, 2009, from the date hereof) until the principal hereof shall become due and payable, at the rate of 6.25% per annum, payable semiannually in like coin or currency on the first day of April and the first day of October in each year, commencing April 1, 2009 and to pay interest on overdue principal (including any overdue required or optional prepayment of principal) and premium, if any, and, to the extent legally enforceable, on any overdue installment of interest at a rate of 6.25% per annum after maturity whether by acceleration or otherwise until paid.
The interest so payable will (except as otherwise provided in the Forty-third Supplemental Indenture referred to herein) be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and be paid to the person in whose name this Bond (or a Bond or Bonds in exchange for which this Bond was issued) is registered at the close of business on the fifteenth day of the calendar month next preceding the month in which the interest payment date occurs whether or not such day is a business day (a “Record Date”) and principal, premium, if any, and interest on this Bond shall be paid in accordance with written payment instructions of the registered owner delivered to the Trustee on or before such record date.
This Bond is one of a duly authorized issue of bonds of the Company known as its First Mortgage Bonds, issued and to be issued without limitation as to aggregate principal amount except as set forth in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned in one or more series and equally secured (except insofar as a sinking fund or other similar fund established in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture may afford additional security for the bonds of any specific series) by an Indenture of Mortgage (herein called the “Indenture”) dated as of January 1, 1941, executed by the Philadelphia Suburban Water Company (now Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., f/k/a Pennsylvania Suburban Water Company, as successor by merger) to The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities (succeeded as trustee by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.), as Trustee (the “Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders and registered owners of the bonds and of the Trustee in respect of such security, and the terms and conditions under which the bonds are and are to be secured and may be issued under the Indenture; but neither the foregoing reference to the Indenture nor any provision of this Bond or of the Indenture or of any indenture supplemental thereto shall affect or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay at the stated or accelerated maturity herein and in the Indenture provided, the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Bond as herein provided. As provided in the Indenture, the bonds may be issued in series for various principal amounts, may bear different dates and mature at different times, may bear interest at different rates and may otherwise vary as in the Indenture provided or permitted. This Bond is one of the Bonds described in an indenture supplemental to said Indenture known as the “Forty-third Supplemental Indenture” dated as of December 1, 2008, and designated therein as “First Mortgage Bonds, 6.25% Series due 2017” (the “Bonds”).

 

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Concurrently herewith the Company is issuing is “First Mortgage Bonds, 6.75% Series due 2018” in the aggregate principal amount of $13,000,000 (the “6.75% Series due 2018”).
To the extent permitted by and as provided in the Indenture, modifications or alterations of the Indenture, or of any indenture supplemental thereto, and of the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders and registered owners of bonds issued and to be issued thereunder may be made with the consent of the Company by an affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than 75% in principal amount of bonds then outstanding under the Indenture and entitled to vote, at a meeting of the bondholders called and held as provided in the Indenture, and, in case one or more but less than all of the series of bonds then outstanding under the Indenture are so affected, by an affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than 75% in principal amount of bonds of any series then outstanding under the Indenture and entitled to vote on and affected by such modification or alteration, or by the written consent of the holders and registered owners of such percentages of bonds; provided, however, that no such modification or alteration shall be made which shall reduce the percentage of bonds the consent of the holders or registered owners of which is required for any such modification or alteration or which shall affect the terms of payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, or permit the creation by the Company of any lien prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Indenture with respect to any property subject to the lien of the Indenture as a first mortgage lien thereon, or which shall affect the rights of the holders or registered owners of less than all of the bonds of any series affected thereby.
The Bonds have been issued by the Company to secure the obligation of the Company to pay to or for the account of the Authority (defined below) an amount equal to the principal, premium, if any, of, and interest on, the Authority Bonds (defined below) pursuant to the Financing Agreement (the “Financing Agreement”) dated as of December 1, 2008 between the Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority, a Pennsylvania body politic and corporate (the “Authority”), and the Company, which Authority Bonds are being issued to finance the costs of numerous constructions, modifications, expansions, installations and replacements of the Company’s water distribution, treatment and related operating systems located in the Counties of Chester, Delaware and Montgomery in Pennsylvania and that are part of the Company’s system for the distribution of water to its customers and related financing costs which are to be financed under the Financing Agreement and which are described in Exhibit A thereto (which facilities, less any deletions therefrom and together with any additions, improvements and modifications thereto and substitutions therefor made in accordance with the provisions of the Financing Agreement are referred to as the “Facilities”). The Facilities are to be financed through the sale of the Authority’s Water Facilities Revenue Bonds (Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. Project), Series A of 2008, in the aggregate principal amount of $22,000,000 (the “Authority Bonds”).

 

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The Authority Bonds are to be issued under a Trust Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2008 (the “Authority Indenture”) between the Authority and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Authority Trustee”). The right, title and interest of the Authority in and to the Financing Agreement and the payments thereunder and the security for such payments have been assigned by the Authority to the Authority Trustee, and the Bonds have been delivered by the Company on behalf of the Authority directly to the Authority Trustee, as assignee, as security for the payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Authority Bonds. The Authority Trustee may not sell, assign or otherwise transfer the Bonds except for a transfer of the entire outstanding principal amount thereof to its successor as trustee under the Authority Indenture, which successor and each subsequent successor shall hold such Authority Bonds subject to the same restriction on transfer.
In the event any Authority Bonds shall be purchased by the Company and cancelled pursuant to the Authority Indenture, Bonds corresponding in principal amount to the Authority Bonds so purchased and cancelled shall be deemed to be paid in full, and in the event and to the extent the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, any Authority Bonds is paid out of funds held by the Authority Trustee other than payments on Bonds, the corresponding payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on, an aggregate principal amount of Bonds shall be deemed to have been satisfied.
In the event this Bond shall be deemed to have been paid in full, this Bond shall be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. In the event this Bond shall be deemed to have been paid in part, this Bond shall be presented to the Trustee for notation hereon of the payment of the portion of the principal hereof so deemed to have been paid.
The Bonds are redeemable only as follows:
(a) The Bonds are subject to redemption at the direction of the Company, in whole, at any time prior to maturity, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, plus interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption, at any time the Authority Bonds are subject to extraordinary optional redemption pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(i) of the Authority Indenture.
(b) The Bonds are also subject to special mandatory redemption at the direction of the Company, in part, prior to maturity, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, plus interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption, at such time and in such amount as the Authority Bonds are subject to special mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(ii) of the Authority Indenture.
(c) The Bonds are also subject to mandatory redemption by the Company in whole if the Trustee shall receive a written demand from the Authority Trustee for redemption of all such Bonds held by the Authority Trustee stating that an “Event of Default” as defined in Section 9.01(a) of the Authority Indenture has occurred and is continuing and that payment of the principal of the Authority Bonds has been accelerated pursuant to Section 9.01(b) of the Authority Indenture, provided that at the time of notice of such redemption as provided in Section 2 of Article V of the Original Indenture (i) said written demand shall not have been withdrawn by the Authority Trustee, and (ii) no event of default under Section 1 of Article XI of the Original Indenture shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

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If this Bond or any portion hereof is called for redemption and payment thereof is duly provided for as specified in the Indenture, interest shall cease to accrue hereon or on such portion, as the case may be, from and after the date fixed for redemption.
The principal hereof may be declared or may become due prior to its maturity date on the conditions, in the manner and with the effect set forth in the Indenture upon the happening of an event of default, as in the Indenture provided; subject, however, to the right, under certain circumstances, of the registered owners of a majority in principal amount of Bonds outstanding to annul such declaration.
This Bond is transferable by the registered owner hereof in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, on books of the Company to be kept for that purpose at the designated office of the Trustee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania upon surrender hereof for cancellation at such office and upon presentation of a written instrument of transfer duly executed, and thereupon the Company shall issue in the name of the transferee or transferees, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Bond or Bonds in authorized denominations, of equal aggregate unpaid principal amount. Any such transfer or exchange shall be subject to the terms and conditions and to the payment of the charges specified in the Indenture.
The Company and the Trustee may deem and treat the registered owner of this Bond as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and the interest hereon, and for all other purposes, and shall not 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 of the Indenture or of any indenture supplemental thereto against any incorporator or any past, present or future stockholder, officer or director of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation, as such, either directly or through the Company or through any such predecessor or successor corporation or through any receiver or trustee in bankruptcy, by virtue of any constitutional provision, statute or rule of law or equity, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released by every holder or registered owner hereof, as more fully provided in the Indenture.
This Bond shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, or become valid or obligatory for any purpose, until The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A., as Trustee under the Indenture, or a successor trustee thereunder, shall have signed the certificate of authentication endorsed hereon.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. has caused this Bond to be signed by its President or a Vice President and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed and attested by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and this Bond to be dated December  _____, 2008.
             
Attest:       AQUA PENNSYLVANIA, INC.
 
           
/s/ Maria Gordiany
      By:   /s/ Karl Kyriss
 
           
(Assistant) Secretary
          President
(Form of Trustee’s Certificate)
This Bond is one of the Bonds, of the series designated therein, referred to in the within-mentioned Forty-third Supplemental Indenture.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N. A.,
as Trustee
 
 
  By:   /s/ Philip Newmuis    
    Authorized Signer   

 

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[Form of 6.75% Series due 2018]
     
No. R-1   $13,000,000
AQUA PENNSYLVANIA, INC.
(Incorporated under the Laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania)
First Mortgage Bond, 6.75% Series due 2018
Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. (f/k/a known as Pennsylvania Suburban Water Company, successor by merger to Philadelphia Suburban Water Company), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (hereinafter called the “Company”, which term shall include any successor corporation as defined in the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority or its registered assigns, on the 1st day of October, 2018, at the designated office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A. (hereinafter called the “Trustee”) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sum of Thirteen Million Dollars 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 to pay interest thereon to the registered owner hereof by draft or check of the Trustee mailed to such registered owner from the interest payment date next preceding the date of the authentication of this Bond (or if this Bond is authenticated after a Record Date as defined below and on or before the succeeding interest payment date, from such succeeding interest payment date, or if this Bond is authenticated on or prior to April 1, 2009, from the date hereof) until the principal hereof shall become due and payable, at the rate of 6.75% per annum, payable semiannually in like coin or currency on the first day of April and the first day of October in each year, commencing April 1, 2009 and to pay interest on overdue principal (including any overdue required or optional prepayment of principal) and premium, if any, and, to the extent legally enforceable, on any overdue installment of interest at a rate of 6.75% per annum after maturity whether by acceleration or otherwise until paid.
The interest so payable will (except as otherwise provided in the Forty-third Supplemental Indenture referred to herein) be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and be paid to the person in whose name this Bond (or a Bond or Bonds in exchange for which this Bond was issued) is registered at the close of business on the fifteenth day of the calendar month next preceding the month in which the interest payment date occurs whether or not such day is a business day (a “Record Date”) and principal, premium, if any, and interest on this Bond shall be paid in accordance with written payment instructions of the registered owner delivered to the Trustee on or before such record date.
This Bond is one of a duly authorized issue of bonds of the Company known as its First Mortgage Bonds, issued and to be issued without limitation as to aggregate principal amount except as set forth in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned in one or more series and equally secured (except insofar as a sinking fund or other similar fund established in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture may afford additional security for the bonds of any specific series) by an Indenture of Mortgage (herein called the “Indenture”) dated as of January 1, 1941, executed by the Philadelphia Suburban Water Company (now Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., f/k/a Pennsylvania Suburban Water Company, as successor by merger) to The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities (succeeded as trustee by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.), as Trustee (the “Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders and registered owners of the bonds and of the Trustee in respect of such security, and the terms and conditions under which the bonds are and are to be secured and may be issued under the Indenture; but neither the foregoing reference to the Indenture nor any provision of this Bond or of the Indenture or of any indenture supplemental thereto shall affect or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay at the stated or accelerated maturity herein and in the Indenture provided, the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Bond as herein provided. As provided in the Indenture, the bonds may be issued in series for various principal amounts, may bear different dates and mature at different times, may bear interest at different rates and may otherwise vary as in the Indenture provided or permitted. This Bond is one of the Bonds described in an indenture supplemental to said Indenture known as the “Forty-third Supplemental Indenture” dated as of December 1, 2008, and designated therein as “First Mortgage Bonds, 6.75% Series due 2018” (the “Bonds”).

 

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Concurrently herewith the Company is issuing is “First Mortgage Bonds, 6.25% Series due 2017” in the aggregate principal amount of $9,000,000 (the “6.25% Series due 2017”).
To the extent permitted by and as provided in the Indenture, modifications or alterations of the Indenture, or of any indenture supplemental thereto, and of the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders and registered owners of bonds issued and to be issued thereunder may be made with the consent of the Company by an affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than 75% in principal amount of bonds then outstanding under the Indenture and entitled to vote, at a meeting of the bondholders called and held as provided in the Indenture, and, in case one or more but less than all of the series of bonds then outstanding under the Indenture are so affected, by an affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than 75% in principal amount of bonds of any series then outstanding under the Indenture and entitled to vote on and affected by such modification or alteration, or by the written consent of the holders and registered owners of such percentages of bonds; provided, however, that no such modification or alteration shall be made which shall reduce the percentage of bonds the consent of the holders or registered owners of which is required for any such modification or alteration or which shall affect the terms of payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds, or permit the creation by the Company of any lien prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Indenture with respect to any property subject to the lien of the Indenture as a first mortgage lien thereon, or which shall affect the rights of the holders or registered owners of less than all of the bonds of any series affected thereby.
The Bonds have been issued by the Company to secure the obligation of the Company to pay to or for the account of the Authority (defined below) an amount equal to the principal, premium, if any, of, and interest on, the Authority Bonds (defined below) pursuant to the Financing Agreement (the “Financing Agreement”) dated as of December 1, 2008 between the Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority, a Pennsylvania body politic and corporate (the “Authority”), and the Company, which Authority Bonds are being issued to finance the costs of numerous constructions, modifications, expansions, installations and replacements of the Company’s water distribution, treatment and related operating systems located in the Counties of Chester, Delaware and Montgomery in Pennsylvania and that are part of the Company’s system for the distribution of water to its customers and related financing costs which are to be financed under the Financing Agreement and which are described in Exhibit A thereto (which facilities, less any deletions therefrom and together with any additions, improvements and modifications thereto and substitutions therefor made in accordance with the provisions of the Financing Agreement are referred to as the “Facilities”). The Facilities are to be financed through the sale of the Authority’s Water Facilities Revenue Bonds (Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. Project), Series A of 2008, in the aggregate principal amount of $22,000,000 (the “Authority Bonds”).
The Authority Bonds are to be issued under a Trust Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2008 (the “Authority Indenture”) between the Authority and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Authority Trustee”). The right, title and interest of the Authority in and to the Financing Agreement and the payments thereunder and the security for such payments have been assigned by the Authority to the Authority Trustee, and the Bonds have been delivered by the Company on behalf of the Authority directly to the Authority Trustee, as assignee, as security for the payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Authority Bonds. The Authority Trustee may not sell, assign or otherwise transfer the Bonds except for a transfer of the entire outstanding principal amount thereof to its successor as trustee under the Authority Indenture, which successor and each subsequent successor shall hold such Authority Bonds subject to the same restriction on transfer.

 

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In the event any Authority Bonds shall be purchased by the Company and cancelled pursuant to the Authority Indenture, Bonds corresponding in principal amount to the Authority Bonds so purchased and cancelled shall be deemed to be paid in full, and in the event and to the extent the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, any Authority Bonds is paid out of funds held by the Authority Trustee other than payments on Bonds, the corresponding payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on, an aggregate principal amount of Bonds shall be deemed to have been satisfied.
In the event this Bond shall be deemed to have been paid in full, this Bond shall be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. In the event this Bond shall be deemed to have been paid in part, this Bond shall be presented to the Trustee for notation hereon of the payment of the portion of the principal hereof so deemed to have been paid.
The Bonds are redeemable only as follows:
(a) The Bonds are also subject to redemption at the direction of the Company, in whole, at any time prior to maturity, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, plus interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption, at any time the Authority Bonds are subject to extraordinary optional redemption pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(i) of the Authority Indenture.
(b) The Bonds are also subject to special mandatory redemption at the direction of the Company, in part, prior to maturity, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, plus interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption, at such time and in such amount as the Authority Bonds are subject to special mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(ii) of the Authority Indenture.
(c) The Bonds are also subject to mandatory redemption by the Company in whole if the Trustee shall receive a written demand from the Authority Trustee for redemption of all such Bonds held by the Authority Trustee stating that an “Event of Default” as defined in Section 9.01(a) of the Authority Indenture has occurred and is continuing and that payment of the principal of the Authority Bonds has been accelerated pursuant to Section 9.01(b) of the Authority Indenture, provided that at the time of notice of such redemption as provided in Section 2 of Article V of the Original Indenture (i) said written demand shall not have been withdrawn by the Authority Trustee, and (ii) no event of default under Section 1 of Article XI of the Original Indenture shall have occurred and be continuing.
If this Bond or any portion hereof is called for redemption and payment thereof is duly provided for as specified in the Indenture, interest shall cease to accrue hereon or on such portion, as the case may be, from and after the date fixed for redemption.

 

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The principal hereof may be declared or may become due prior to its maturity date on the conditions, in the manner and with the effect set forth in the Indenture upon the happening of an event of default, as in the Indenture provided; subject, however, to the right, under certain circumstances, of the registered owners of a majority in principal amount of Bonds outstanding to annul such declaration.
This Bond is transferable by the registered owner hereof in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, on books of the Company to be kept for that purpose at the designated office of the Trustee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania upon surrender hereof for cancellation at such office and upon presentation of a written instrument of transfer duly executed, and thereupon the Company shall issue in the name of the transferee or transferees, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Bond or Bonds in authorized denominations, of equal aggregate unpaid principal amount. Any such transfer or exchange shall be subject to the terms and conditions and to the payment of the charges specified in the Indenture.
The Company and the Trustee may deem and treat the registered owner of this Bond as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and the interest hereon, and for all other purposes, and shall not 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 of the Indenture or of any indenture supplemental thereto against any incorporator or any past, present or future stockholder, officer or director of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation, as such, either directly or through the Company or through any such predecessor or successor corporation or through any receiver or trustee in bankruptcy, by virtue of any constitutional provision, statute or rule of law or equity, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released by every holder or registered owner hereof, as more fully provided in the Indenture.
This Bond shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, or become valid or obligatory for any purpose, until The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A., as Trustee under the Indenture, or a successor trustee thereunder, shall have signed the certificate of authentication endorsed hereon.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. has caused this Bond to be signed by its President or a Vice President and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed and attested by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and this Bond to be dated December  _____, 2008.
             
Attest:       AQUA PENNSYLVANIA, INC.
 
           
/s/ Maria Gordiany
      By:   /s/ Karl Kyriss
 
           
(Assistant) Secretary
          President
(Form of Trustee’s Certificate)
This Bond is one of the Bonds, of the series designated therein, referred to in the within-mentioned Forty-third Supplemental Indenture.
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N. A.,
as Trustee
 
 
  By:   /s/ Philip Newmuis    
    Authorized Signer   
       
 
and;
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Bonds, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee as in this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture provided and issued by the Company, valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture a valid and enforceable supplement to said Original Indenture, have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution of this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture has been in all respects duly authorized; and
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS FORTY-THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That, in order to secure the payment of the principal and interest of all bonds issued under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto, according to their tenor and effect, and according to the terms of the Original Indenture and of any indenture supplemental thereto, and to secure the performance of the covenants and obligations in said bonds and in the Original Indenture and any indenture supplemental thereto respectively contained, and to provide for the proper issuing, conveying and confirming unto the Trustee, its successors in said trust and its and their assigns forever, upon the trusts and for the purposes expressed in the Original Indenture and in any indenture supplemental thereto, all and singular the estates, property and franchises of the Company thereby mortgaged or intended so to be, the Company, for and in consideration of the premises and of the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) in hand paid by the Trustee to the Company upon the execution and delivery of this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and of other good and valuable consideration, and intending to be legally bound, has granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released and confirmed and by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release and confirm unto The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A., as Trustee, and to its successors in said trust and its and their assigns forever:

 

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All and singular the premises, property, assets, rights and franchises of the Company, whether now or hereafter owned, constructed or acquired, of whatever character and wherever situated (except as herein expressly excepted), including among other things the following, but reference to or enumeration of any particular kinds, classes, or items of property shall not be deemed to exclude from the operation and effect of the Original Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto any kind, class or item not so referred to or enumerated:
II.
REAL ESTATE AND WATER RIGHTS.
The real estate, if any, described in the deeds from the grantors named in Exhibit C hereto, dated and recorded as therein set forth, and any other real estate and water rights acquired since the date of the Forty-second Supplemental Indenture.
III.
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT.
All mains, pipes, pipe lines, service pipes, buildings, improvements, standpipes, reservoirs, wells, flumes, sluices, canals, basins, cribs, machinery, conduits, hydrants, water works, plants and systems, tanks, shops, structures, purification systems, pumping stations, fixtures, engines, boilers, pumps, meters and equipment which are now owned or may hereafter be acquired by the Company (except as herein expressly excepted), including all improvements, additions and extensions appurtenant to any real or fixed property now or hereafter subject to the lien of the Original Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto which are used or useful in connection with the business of the Company as a water company or as a water utility, whether any of the foregoing property is now owned or may hereafter be acquired by the Company.
It is hereby declared by the Company that all property of the kinds described in the next preceding paragraph, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, has been or is or will be owned or acquired with the intention of using the same in carrying on the business or branches of the business of the Company, and it is hereby declared that it is the intention of the Company that all thereof (except property hereinafter specifically excepted) shall be subject to the lien of the Original Indenture.
It is agreed by the Company that so far as may be permitted by law, tangible personal property now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company, except such as is hereafter expressly excepted from the lien hereof, shall be deemed to be and construed as fixtures and appurtenances to the real property of the Company.

 

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IV.
FRANCHISES AND RIGHTS OF WAY.
All the corporate and other franchises of the Company, all water and flowage rights, riparian rights, easements and rights of way, and all permits, licenses, rights, grants, privileges and immunities, and all renewals, extensions, additions or modifications of any of the foregoing, whether the same or any thereof, or any renewals, extensions, additions or modifications thereof, are now owned or may hereafter be acquired, owned, held, or enjoyed by the Company.
V.
AFTER ACQUIRED PROPERTY.
All real and fixed property and all other property of the character hereinabove described which the Company may hereafter acquire.
TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances belonging or in any way appertaining to the aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, tolls, rents, revenues, issues, income, product and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, 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 premises, property, rights and franchises and every part and parcel thereof.
EXCEPTING AND RESERVING, HOWEVER, certain premises, not used or useful in the supplying of water by the Company, expressly excepted and reserved from the lien of the Original Indenture and not subject to the terms thereof.
AND ALSO SAVING AND EXCEPTING from the property hereby mortgaged and pledged, all of the following property (whether now owned by the Company or hereafter acquired by it): All bills, notes and accounts receivable, cash on hand and in banks, contracts, choses in action and leases to others (as distinct from the property leased and without limiting any rights of the Trustee with respect thereto under any of the provisions of the Original Indenture or of any indenture supplemental thereto), all bonds, obligations, evidences of indebtedness, shares of stock and other securities, and certificates or evidences of interest therein, all automobiles, motor trucks, and other like automobile equipment and all furniture, and all equipment, materials, goods, merchandise and supplies acquired for the purpose of sale in the ordinary course of business or for consumption in the operation of any properties of the Company other than any of the foregoing which may be specifically transferred or assigned to or pledged or deposited with the Trustee hereunder or required by the provisions of the Original Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto so to be; provided, however, that if, upon the happening of a completed default, as specified in Section 1 of Article XI of the Original Indenture, the Trustee or any receiver appointed hereunder shall enter upon and take possession of the mortgaged property, the Trustee or any such receiver may, to the extent permitted by law, at the same time likewise take possession of any and all of the property described in this paragraph then on hand and any and all other property of the Company then on hand, not described or referred to in the foregoing granting clauses, which is used or useful in connection with the business of the Company as a water company or as a water utility, and use and administer the same to the same extent as if such property were part of the mortgaged property, unless and until such completed default shall be remedied or waived and possession of the mortgaged property restored to the Company, its successors or assigns.

 

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SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the exceptions, reservations and matters hereinabove and in the Original Indenture recited, to releases executed since the date of the Original Indenture in accordance with the provisions thereof, to existing leases, to easements and rights of way for pole lines and electric transmission lines and other similar encumbrances and restrictions which the Company hereby certifies, in its judgment, do not impair the use of said property by the Company in its business, to liens existing on or claims against, and rights in and relating to, real estate acquired for right-of-way purposes, to taxes and assessments not delinquent, to alleys, streets and highways that may run across or encroach upon said lands, to liens, if any, incidental to construction, and to Permitted Liens, as defined in the Original Indenture; and, with respect to any property which the Company may hereafter acquire, to all terms, conditions, agreements, covenants, exceptions and reservations expressed or provided in such deeds and other instruments, respectively, under and by virtue of which the Company shall hereafter acquire the same and to any and all liens existing thereon at the time of such acquisition.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, all and singular the property, rights, privileges and franchises hereby conveyed, transferred or pledged or intended so to be unto the Trustee and its successors in the trust heretofore and hereby created, and its and their assigns forever.
IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, for the equal pro rata benefit and security of each and every entity who may be or become the holders of bonds and coupons secured by the Original Indenture or by any indenture supplemental thereto, or both, without preference, priority or distinction as to lien or otherwise of any bond or coupon over or from any other bond or coupon, so that each and every of said bonds and coupons issued or to be issued, of whatsoever series, shall have the same right, lien and privilege under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto and shall be equally secured hereby and thereby, with the same effect as if said bonds and coupons had all been made, issued and negotiated simultaneously on the date thereof; subject, however, to the provisions with reference to extended, transferred or pledged coupons and claims for interest contained in the Original Indenture and subject to any sinking or improvement fund or maintenance deposit provisions, or both, for the benefit of any particular series of bonds.
IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED, DECLARED AND AGREED, by and between the parties hereto, that all such bonds and coupons are to be authenticated, delivered and issued, and that all property subject or to become subject hereto is to be held subject to the further covenants, conditions, uses and trusts hereinafter set forth, and the Company, for itself and its successors and assigns, does hereby covenant and agree to and with the Trustee and its successor or successors in said trust, for the benefit of those who shall hold said bonds and coupons, or any of them, issued under this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto, or both, as follows:
ARTICLE I.
Form, Authentication and Delivery of the Bonds; Redemption Provisions
SECTION 1. There shall be a fifty-third series of bonds, limited in aggregate principal amount to $9,000,000 designated as “Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., First Mortgage Bonds, 6.25% Series due 2017” and a fifty-fourth series of bonds, limited in aggregate principal amount to $13,000,000 designated as “Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., First Mortgage Bonds, 6.75% Series due 2018”.

 

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Interest on the Bonds shall be payable semiannually on April 1 and October 1 of each year (each an “interest payment date”), commencing April 1, 2009. Each Bond shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear interest from the interest payment date next preceding the date of the authentication of such Bond (or if such Bond is authenticated after a Record Date as defined below and on or before the succeeding interest payment date, from such succeeding interest payment date, or if such Bond is authenticated on or prior to the record date for the first interest payment date for the Bonds, in which case it shall bear interest from the date of original issuance of the Bonds); provided, however, that, if at the time of authentication of any Bond, interest on the predecessor Bond of such Bond is in default, such Bond shall bear interest from the date to which interest has been paid, or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of original issuance thereof. The 6.25% Series due 2017 shall be stated to mature (subject to the right of earlier redemption at the prices and dates and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth) on October 1, 2017 and shall bear interest at the rate of 6.25%. The 6.75% Series due 2018 shall be stated to mature (subject to the right of earlier redemption at the prices and dates and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth) on October 1, 2018 and shall bear interest at the rate of 6.75%. In any case where the date of payment of the principal of or interest on the Bonds, or the date fixed for redemption of any Bond, is not a Business Day, then payment of the principal or Redemption Price of and interest on such Bond need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the due date of such payment or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date.
The Bonds of each series shall be issuable only as registered bonds without coupons, shall be in the form hereinabove recited, in the denomination of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) or any integral multiple thereof, shall be lettered “R-1” and shall bear such numbers as the Company may reasonably require.
The principal of, and interest on the Bonds shall be payable at the designated office of the trustee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and shall be payable, along with interest on the Bonds, 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; each installment of interest shall be paid by check to the order of the person entitled thereto, mailed to such person’s address as the same appears on the books maintained for such purpose by or on behalf of the Company, or by bank wire transfer of immediately available funds pursuant to instructions and conditions incorporated in an agreement between such person and the Trustee or the Company.
The person in whose name any Bond is 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 notwithstanding the cancellation of such Bond upon any 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 such interest payment date, such defaulted interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names outstanding Bonds are registered at the close of business on a subsequent Record Date established by notice given by mail by or on behalf of the Company to the holders of Bonds not less than fifteen days preceding such subsequent Record Date, such Record Date to be not less than ten days preceding the date of payment of such defaulted interest. The term “Record Date” with respect to any regular interest payment date shall mean the fifteenth day of the calendar month next preceding the month in which such interest payment date occurs.

 

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The Bonds are being issued by the Company to secure the obligation of the Company to pay to or for the account of the Authority an amount equal to the principal of, at maturity or earlier redemption, and interest on, the Authority Bonds pursuant to the Financing Agreement. The Authority Bonds are being sold to finance the Facilities.
The Authority Bonds are to be issued under the Authority Indenture and the right, title and interest of the Authority in and to the Financing Agreement and the payments thereunder and the security for such payments have been assigned by the Authority to the Authority Trustee, and the Bonds are to be delivered by the Company on behalf of the Authority directly to the Authority Trustee, as assignee, as security for the payment of the principal of, at maturity or earlier redemption, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Authority Bonds. The Authority Trustee may not sell, assign or otherwise transfer the Bonds except for a transfer of the entire outstanding principal amount thereof to its successor as Trustee under the Authority Indenture, which successor and each subsequent successor shall hold the Bonds subject to the same restriction on transfer.
The text of the Bonds and of the certificate of the Trustee upon such Bonds shall be, respectively, substantially of the tenor and effect hereinbefore recited.
Exchange of any Bonds shall be effected in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 7, 8 and 9 of Article II of the Original Indenture.
SECTION 2. The Bonds are redeemable only as follows:
(a) The 6.25% Series due 2017 are subject to redemption at the direction of the Company, in whole, at any time prior to maturity, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount to be redeemed, plus interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption, at any time the Authority Bonds maturing October 1, 2017 are subject to extraordinary optional redemption pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(i) of the Authority Indenture;
(b) The 6.75% Series due 2018 are subject to redemption at the direction of the Company, in whole, at any time prior to maturity, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount to be redeemed, plus interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption, at any time the Authority Bonds maturing October 1, 2018 are subject to extraordinary optional redemption pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(i) of the Authority Indenture;
(c) The 6.25% Series due 2017 are also subject to special mandatory redemption at the direction of the Company, in part, prior to maturity, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, plus interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption, at such time and in such amount as the Authority Bonds maturing October 1, 2017 are subject to special mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(ii) of the Authority Indenture.

 

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(d) The 6.75% Series due 2018 are also subject to special mandatory redemption at the direction of the Company, in part, prior to maturity, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, plus interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption, at such time and in such amount as the Authority Bonds maturing October 1, 2018 are subject to special mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(ii) of the Authority Indenture.
(e) The 6.25% Series due 2017 and the 6.75% Series due 2018 are also subject to mandatory redemption by the Company in whole if the Trustee shall receive a written demand from the Authority Trustee for redemption of all such Bonds held by the Authority Trustee stating that an “Event of Default” as defined in Section 9.01(a) of the Authority Indenture has occurred and is continuing and that payment of the principal of the Authority Bonds has been accelerated pursuant to Section 9.01(b) of the Authority Indenture, provided that at the time of notice of such redemption as provided in Section 2 of Article V of the Original Indenture (i) said written demand shall not have been withdrawn by the Authority Trustee, and (ii) no event of default under Section 1 of Article XI of the Original Indenture shall have occurred and be continuing.
SECTION 3. Any redemption of the Bonds shall be effected in accordance with the provisions of Article V of the Original Indenture.
SECTION 4. In the event any Authority Bonds shall be purchased by the Company, surrendered by the Company to the Authority Trustee for cancellation and cancelled by the Authority Trustee, Bonds corresponding in principal amount to the Authority Bonds so purchased, surrendered and cancelled shall be deemed to have been paid in full.
SECTION 5. In the event and to the extent the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on, any Authority Bonds is paid out of funds held by the Authority Trustee other than payments of Bonds, the corresponding payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, an aggregate principal amount of Bonds equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Authority Bonds shall be deemed to have been satisfied.
SECTION 6. All Bonds deemed to have been paid in full as provided in Section 4 and 5 of this Article I of this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture shall be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Trustee shall forthwith cancel the same and, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and the Trustee’s policies and procedures, and on the written request of the Company, deliver the same to the Company. In case part of an outstanding Bond shall be deemed to have been partially paid as provided in said Section 4 or Section 5, upon presentation of such Bond at the designated office of the Trustee, the Trustee shall make a notation thereon of the payment of the portion of the principal amount of such Bond so deemed to have been paid unless the registered owner shall elect to surrender such Bond to the Trustee, in which case the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without charge to the registered owner, Bonds in such authorized denominations as shall be specified by the registered owner for the unpaid balance of the principal amount of such outstanding Bond.

 

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SECTION 7. The 6.25% Series due 2017 in the aggregate principal amount of $9,000,000 and the 6.75% Series due 2018 in the aggregate principal amount of $13,000,000 may be issued under the provisions of Article IV of the Original Indenture and may forthwith be executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee and shall be authenticated by the Trustee and delivered to or upon the order of the Company, upon receipt by the Trustee of the resolutions, certificates, opinions or other instruments or all of the foregoing required to be delivered upon the issue of bonds pursuant to the provisions of the Original Indenture.
ARTICLE II.
Maintenance or Improvement Deposit.
SECTION 1. The Company covenants that it will deposit with the Trustee on or before the March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the bonds of the 9.93% Series due 2013 cease to be outstanding, or on or before the next March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 9.97% Series due 2018 cease to be outstanding, or on or before the March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 9.12% Series due 2010 cease to be outstanding, or on or before the March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 9.29% Series due 2026 cease to be outstanding, or on or before the March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 9.17% Series due 2021 cease to be outstanding, or on or before the next March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 9.17% Series due 2011 cease to be outstanding, or on or before the March 1 next occurring after the bonds of any of the Subseries of the 1995 Medium Term Note Series issued under the Twenty-Ninth Supplemental Indenture (consisting of the 7.72% Subseries A due 2025 and the 6.89% Subseries C due 2015) shall cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of 6.00% Series due 2029 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of any of the Subseries of the 1999 Medium Term Note Series issued under the Thirty-Third Supplemental Indenture (consisting of the 6.21% Series due 2011, the 9.53% Subseries D due 2019, the 8.26% Subseries F due 2022, the 8.32% Subseries I due 2022, the 8.14% Subseries J due 2025, the 6.00% Subseries K due 2030, the 5.93% Subseries L due 2012, the 5.08% Subseries O due 2015, the 5.17% Subseries P due 2017, the 5.751% Subseries Q due 2019, the 5.751% Subseries R due 2019, the 6.06% Subseries S due 2027, the 6.06% Subseries T due 2027 and the 5.98% Subseries U due 2028) cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.35% Series due 2031 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.55% Series due 2032 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 3.75% Series due 2010 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.15% Series due 2032 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.05% Series due 2039 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.00% Series due 2036 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.00% Series due 2037 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.00% Series due 2038 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.00% Series due 2035 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.00% Series due 2040 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.00% Series due 2041 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.25% Series due 2042 cease to be outstanding, or on or before March 1 next occurring after the bonds of the 5.25% Series due 2043 cease to be outstanding, whichever is latest, an amount in cash (the “Maintenance or Improvement Deposit”) equal to 9% of the Gross Operating Revenues of the Company during the preceding calendar year less, to the extent that the Company desires to take such credits, the following:
(a) the amount actually expended for maintenance during such calendar year; and
(b) the Cost or Fair Value, whichever is less, of Permanent Additions acquired during such calendar year which at the time of taking such credit constitute Available Permanent Additions; and

 

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(c) the unapplied balance, or any part thereof, of the Cost or Fair Value, whichever is less, of Available Permanent Additions acquired by the Company during the five calendar years preceding such calendar year and specified in the Officers’ Certificates delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2 of this Article, but only to the extent that the Permanent Additions with respect to which such Cost or Fair Value was determined shall at the time of taking such credit constitute Available Permanent Additions.
SECTION 2. The Company covenants that it will on or before March 1 in each year, beginning with the first deposit made with the Trustee under the provisions of Section 1 of this Article, as long as any of the Bonds are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee the following:
(a) An Officers’ Certificate, which shall state:
(i) The amount of the Gross Operating Revenues for the preceding calendar year;
(ii) 9% of such Gross Operating Revenues;
(iii) The amount actually expended by the Company for maintenance during such calendar year;
(iv) The amount set forth in subparagraph (xii) of each Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of this Section during the preceding five calendar years (specifying each such Officers’ Certificate), after deducting from each such amount the aggregate of (a) the Cost or Fair Value, whichever is less, of all Permanent Additions represented by such amount which have ceased to be Available Permanent Additions; and (b) any part of such amount for which the Company has previously taken credit against any Maintenance or Improvement Deposit (specifying the Officers’ Certificate in which such credit was taken); and (c) any part of such amount for which the Company then desires to take credit against the Maintenance or Improvement Deposit;
(v) An amount which shall be the aggregate of all amounts set forth pursuant to the provisions of clause (c) of the foregoing subparagraph (iv);

 

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(vi) The Cost or Fair Value, whichever is less, of Available Permanent Additions acquired by the Company during the preceding calendar year;
(vii) That part of the amount set forth in subparagraph (vi) which the Company desires to use as a credit against the Maintenance or Improvement Deposit;
(viii) The amount of cash payable to the Trustee under the provisions of Section 1 of this Article, which shall be the amount by which the amount set forth in subparagraph (ii) hereof exceeds the sum of the amounts set forth in subparagraphs (iii), (v) and (vii) hereof;
(ix) The sum of all amounts charged on the books of the Company against any reserve for retirement or depreciation during the preceding calendar year representing the aggregate of the Cost when acquired of any part of the Company’s plants and property of the character described in the granting clauses hereof which has been permanently retired or abandoned;
(x) The aggregate of the amounts set forth in subparagraphs (v) and (vii) hereof;
(xi) The amount by which the amount set forth in subparagraph (x) exceeds the amount set forth in subparagraph (ix), being the amount required to be deducted from the Cost or Fair Value of Available Permanent Additions in order to determine a Net Amount of Available Permanent Additions pursuant to the provisions of Section 9 of Article I of the Original Indenture;
(xii) The amount set forth in subparagraph (vi) after deducting the amount, if any, set forth in subparagraph (vii); and
(xiii) That all conditions precedent to the taking of the credit or credits so requested by the Company have been complied with.
(b) In the event that the Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this Section shall state, pursuant to the requirements of subparagraph (vi), the Cost or Fair Value of Available Permanent Additions acquired by the Company during the preceding calendar year, the documents specified in paragraphs 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 of subdivision (B) of Section 3 of Article IV of the Original Indenture.
(c) An amount in cash equal to the sum set forth in subparagraph (viii) of the Officers’ Certificate provided for in paragraph (a) hereof.

 

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SECTION 3. All cash deposited with the Trustee as part of any Maintenance or Improvement Deposit provided for in Section 1 of this Article, may, at the option of the Company, be applied to the purchase of bonds under the provisions of Section 2 of Article X of the Original Indenture or to the redemption of bonds under the provisions of Section 3 of Article X of the Original Indenture or may be withdrawn by the Company at any time to reimburse the Company for the cost of a Net Amount of Available Permanent Additions (excluding, however, from any such Available Permanent Additions all Permanent Additions included in any certificate delivered to the Trustee for the purpose of obtaining a credit against any Maintenance or Improvement Deposit provided for in Section 1 of this Article to the extent that such Permanent Additions have been used for any such credit). The Trustee shall pay to or upon the written order of the Company all or any part of such cash upon the receipt by the Trustee of:
(a) A Resolution requesting such payment; and
(b) The documents specified in paragraphs 2, 5, 6 and 7 of subdivision (B) of Section 3 of Article IV of the Original Indenture, with such modifications, additions and omissions as may be appropriate in the light of the purposes for which they are used.
ARTICLE III.
Covenants of the Company.
SECTION 1. The Company hereby covenants and agrees with the Trustee, for the benefit of the Trustee and all the present and future holders of the Bonds, that the Company will pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, all bonds issued or to be issued as aforesaid under and secured by the Original Indenture as hereby supplemented, as well as all bonds which may be hereafter issued in exchange or substitution therefor, and will perform and fulfill all of the terms, covenants and conditions of the Original Indenture and of this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture with respect to the additional bonds to be issued under the Original Indenture as hereby supplemented.
SECTION 2. The Company covenants and agrees that so long as any of the Bonds are outstanding (a) the Company will not make any Stock Payment if, after giving effect thereto, its retained earnings, computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied, will be less than the sum of (i) Excluded Earnings, if any, since December 31, 2007, and (ii) $20,000,000; (b) Stock Payments made more than 40 days after the commencement, and prior to the expiration, of any Restricted Period shall not exceed 65% of the Company’s Net Income during such Restricted Period; and (c) the Company will not authorize a Stock Payment if there has occurred and is continuing an event of default under subsections (a) and (b) of Section 1 of Article XI of the Original Indenture.
For the purposes of this Section 2 the following terms shall have the following meanings:
“Capitalization” shall mean the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Debt at the time outstanding, (ii) the aggregate par or stated value of all capital stock of the Company of all classes at the time outstanding, (iii) premium on capital stock, (iv) capital surplus, and (v) retained earnings.
“Debt” means (i) all indebtedness, whether or not represented by bonds, debentures, notes or other securities, for the repayment of money borrowed, (ii) all deferred indebtedness for the payment of the purchase price of property or assets purchased (but Debt shall not be deemed to include customer advances for construction or any bonds issued under the Indenture which are not Outstanding Bonds), (iii) leases which have been or, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, should be recorded as capital leases and (iv) guarantees of the obligations of another of the nature described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) which have been or, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, should be recorded as debt.

 

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“Determination Date” shall mean the last day of each calendar quarter. Any calculation with respect to any Determination Date shall be based on the Company’s balance sheet as of such date.
“Excluded Earnings” shall mean 35% of the Company’s Net Income during any Restricted Period.
“Net Income” for any particular Restricted Period shall mean the amount of net income properly attributable to the conduct of the business of the Company for such period, as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied, after payment of or provision for taxes on income for such period.
“Outstanding Bonds” shall mean bonds which are outstanding within the meaning indicated in Section 20 of Article I of the Original Indenture except that, in addition to the bonds referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of said Section 20, said term shall not include bonds for the retirement of which sufficient funds have been deposited with the Trustee with irrevocable instructions to apply such funds to the retirement of such bonds at a specified time, which may be either the maturity thereof or a specified redemption date, whether or not notice of redemption shall have been given.
“Restricted Period” shall mean a period commencing on any Determination Date on which the total Debt of the Company is, or as the result of any Stock Payment then declared or set aside and to be made thereafter will be, more than 70% of Capitalization, and continuing until the third consecutive Determination Date on which the total Debt of the Company does not exceed 70% of Capitalization.
“Stock Payment” shall mean any payment in cash or property (other than stock of the Company) to any holder of shares of any class of capital stock of the Company as such holder, whether by dividend or upon the purchase, redemption, conversion or other acquisition of such shares, or otherwise.
SECTION 3. The Company covenants and agrees that so long as any of the Bonds are outstanding, neither the Company nor any subsidiary of the Company will, directly or indirectly, lend or in any manner extend its credit to, or indemnify, or make any donation or capital contribution to, or purchase any security of, any corporation which directly or indirectly controls the Company, or any subsidiary or affiliate (other than an affiliate which is a subsidiary of the Company) of any such corporation.

 

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ARTICLE IV.
The Trustee.
SECTION 1. The Trustee hereby accepts the trust hereby declared and provided, and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions in the Original Indenture, as supplemented by this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION 2. Subject to the provisions of Article XIII of the Original Indenture, the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereof and perform any of its duties by or through and consult with attorneys, agents, officers or employees selected by the Trustee in its sole discretion. The Trustee shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters of trusts hereof and the duties hereunder and may in all cases pay such reasonable compensation to all such attorneys, agents, officers and employees as may reasonably be employed in connection with the trusts hereof. The Trustee may act or refrain from acting and rely upon and be free from all liability for so relying upon the opinion or advice of any attorney (who may be the attorney or attorneys for the Company). The Trustee may act and rely on written opinions of experts employed by the Trustee and such advice shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by the Trustee hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon. The Trustee shall not be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from any action or non-action in good faith taken in reliance upon such opinion or advice. The Trustee shall not be bound to confirm, verify or make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any financial or other statements, resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order or other paper or document furnished pursuant to the terms hereof.
SECTION 3. Before the Trustee shall be required to foreclose on, or to take control or possession of, the real property or leasehold interest (the “Premises”) which may be the subject of any mortgage or mortgages for which the Trustee is mortgagee in connection with the issuance of the Bonds, the Trustee shall be indemnified and held harmless by the holders and/or beneficial owners of the Bonds from and against any and all expense, loss, or liability that may be suffered by the Trustee in connection with any spill, leak or release which may have occurred on or invaded the Premises or any contamination by any Hazardous Substance (hereinafter defined), whether caused by the Company or any other person or entity, including, but not limited to, (1) any and all reasonable expenses that the Trustee may incur in complying with any of the Environmental Statutes (hereinafter defined), (2) any and all reasonable costs that the Trustee may incur in studying or remedying any spill, leak or release which may have occurred on or invaded the Premises or any contamination, (3) any and all fines or penalties assessed upon the Trustee by reason of such contamination, (4) any and all loss of value of the Premises or the improvements thereon by reason of such contamination, and (5) any and all legal fees and costs reasonably incurred by the Trustee in connection with any of the foregoing. As used in this Section, contamination by any Hazardous Substance shall include contamination, arising from the presence, creation, production, collection, treatment, disposal, discharge, release, storage, transport or transfer of any Hazardous Substance at or from the Premises or any improvements thereon. As used in this Section, the term “Hazardous Substance” shall mean petroleum hydrocarbons or any substance which (a) constitutes a hazardous waste or substance under any applicable federal, state or local law, rule, order or regulation now or hereafter adopted; (b) constitutes a “hazardous substance” as such term is defined under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq.) and the regulations issued thereunder and any comparable state or local law or regulation; (c) constitutes a “hazardous waste” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, (42 U.S.C. §6991) and the regulations issued thereunder and any comparable state or local law or regulation; (d) constitutes a pollutant, contaminant, chemical or industrial, toxic or hazardous substance or waste as such terms are defined under Federal Clean Water Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. §1251 et

 

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seq.), the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended (15 U.S.C. §2601 et seq.), or any comparable state or local laws or regulations; (e) exhibits any of the characteristics enumerated in 40 C.F.R. Sections 261.20 — 261.24, inclusive; (f) those extremely hazardous substances listed in Section 302 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-499, 100 Stat. 1613) which are present in threshold planning or reportable quantities as defined under such act; (g) toxic or hazardous chemical substances which are present in quantities which exceed exposure standards as those terms are defined under Sections 6 and 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, as amended (29 U.S.C. §§655 and 657 and 29 C.F.R. Part 1910, subpart 2); and (h) any asbestos, petroleum-based products or any Hazardous Substance contained within or release from any underground or aboveground storage tanks. As used in this Section, the term “Environmental Statutes” shall mean the statutes, laws, rules, orders and regulations referred to in (a) through (g) inclusive in the preceding sentence.
ARTICLE V.
Miscellaneous.
SECTION 1. This instrument is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture, and shall form a part thereof, and except as hereby supplemented, the Original Indenture and the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth, Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-First, Thirty-Second, Thirty-Third, Thirty-Fourth, Thirty-Fifth, Thirty-Sixth, Thirty-Seventh, Thirty-Eighth, Thirty-Ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first and Forty-second Supplemental Indentures are hereby confirmed. All references in this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as heretofore amended and supplemented, and all terms used herein and not specifically defined herein shall be taken to have the same meaning as in the Original Indenture, as so amended, except in the cases where the context clearly indicates otherwise.
SECTION 2. Any notices to the Trustee under this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture shall be delivered to the Trustee by registered or certified mail, hand delivery or other courier or express delivery service (with receipt confirmed) or by telecopy (with receipt confirmed) at the following address:
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A.
Global Corporate Trust
1600 Market Street, Suite 1500
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Attention: Philip Newmuis
Phone: 215 ###-###-####
Fax: 215-9981-0316/0352
Any change in such address or telecopy number may be made by notice to the Company delivered in the manner set forth above.

 

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SECTION 3. All recitals in this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture are made by the Company only and not by the Trustee; and all of the provisions contained in the Original Indenture in respect of the rights, privileges, immunities, powers and duties of the Trustee shall be applicable in respect hereof as fully and with like effect as if set forth herein in full.
SECTION 4. Although this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture is dated as of December 1, 2008 for convenience and for the purpose of reference, the actual date or dates of execution hereof by the Company and the Trustee are as indicated by their respective acknowledgments annexed hereto.
SECTION 5. In order to facilitate the recording or filing of this Forty-third Supplemental Indenture, the same may be simultaneously executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 6. This Forty-third Supplemental Indenture shall become effective upon delivery to the Trustee by the Company of the certificates required by Articles IV, VI and VII of the Original Indenture, which shall occur concurrently with the issuance of the 6.25% Series due 2017 and the 6.75% Series due 2018 on December 18, 2008.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have caused their corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and their authorized officers have hereto affixed their signatures, and their authorized officers have duly attested the execution hereof, as of the day first above written.
                 
[CORPORATE SEAL]       AQUA PENNSYLVANIA, INC.,
            as successor by merger to
            Philadelphia Suburban Water Company
 
               
Attest:
  /s/ Maria Gordiany       By:   /s/ Stephen Anzaldo
 
               
 
              Treasurer
 
               
[CORPORATE SEAL]       THE BANK OF NEW YORK
            MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N. A.,
            as Trustee
 
               
Attest:
  /s/ Noreen Wichert            
 
               
 
  Authorized Officer       By:   /s/ Philip Newmuis
 
               
 
              Name: Philip Newmuis
 
              Title: Authorized Signer

 

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EXHIBIT A
OUTSTANDING FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
                                                 
            Interest     Issue     Maturity     Original     Balance (incl. CP)  
Division   Structure     Rate     Date     Date     Amount     @ 11/10/08  
 
                                               
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.35 %     11/01/01       10/01/31       30,000,000       30,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.55 %     06/01/02       09/01/32       25,000,000       25,000,000  
Shenango
  Tax Exempt     6.00 %     10/01/99       06/01/29       25,000,000       25,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     6.00 %     06/28/00       07/01/30       18,360,000       18,360,000  
Roaring Creek
  Tax Exempt     5.05 %     11/30/04       10/01/39       14,000,000       14,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     3.75 %     12/31/02       06/01/10       3,200,000       800,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.15 %     06/26/02       09/01/32       25,000,000       25,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.00 %     05/19/05       11/01/36       21,770,000       21,770,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.00 %     05/19/05       11/01/37       24,165,000       24,165,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.00 %     05/19/05       11/01/38       25,375,000       25,375,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.00 %     12/28/06       02/01/35       24,675,000       24,675,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.00 %     01/16/07       02/01/40       23,915,000       23,915,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.00 %     01/16/07       02/01/41       23,915,000       23,915,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.25 %     12/20/07       07/01/42       24,830,000       24,830,000  
Aqua Pa
  Tax Exempt     5.25 %     12/20/07       07/01/43       24,830,000       24,830,000  
 
                                           
 
                                    334,035,000       331,635,000  
 
                                           
 
                                               
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     5.93 %     06/26/02       07/01/12       25,000,000       25,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     6.21 %     10/25/01       11/01/11       15,000,000       15,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     6.89 %     12/19/95       12/15/15       12,000,000       12,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     7.72 %     05/19/95       05/15/25       15,000,000       15,000,000  
Shenango
  Taxable     8.14 %     11/01/95       11/01/25       4,000,000       4,000,000  
Susquehanna
  Taxable     8.26 %     11/01/92       11/01/22       1,500,000       1,500,000  
Shenango
  Taxable     8.32 %     11/01/92       11/01/22       3,500,000       3,500,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     9.12 %     01/12/90       01/15/10       20,000,000       20,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     9.17 %     11/01/91       09/15/21       8,000,000       5,200,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     9.17 %     11/01/91       09/15/11       5,000,000       5,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     9.29 %     11/01/91       09/15/26       12,000,000       12,000,000  
Roaring Creek
  Taxable     9.53 %     12/15/89       12/15/19       4,000,000       4,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     9.93 %     06/01/88       06/01/13       5,000,000       5,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     9.97 %     06/01/88       06/01/18       5,000,000       5,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     5.08 %     05/10/04       05/15/15       20,000,000       20,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     5.17 %     05/10/04       05/10/17       7,000,000       7,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     5.751 %     05/10/04       05/15/19       15,000,000       15,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     5.751 %     05/10/04       05/15/19       5,000,000       5,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     6.06 %     05/10/04       05/10/27       15,000,000       15,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     6.06 %     05/10/04       05/15/27       5,000,000       5,000,000  
Aqua Pa
  Taxable     5.98 %     05/10/04       05/15/28       3,000,000       3,000,000  
 
                                           
 
                                    205,000,000       202,200,000  
 
                                           
 
                                               
    TOTAL FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS     539,035,000       533,835,000  
 
                                           

 

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EXHIBIT B

RECORDING INFORMATION
BUCKS, CHESTER, DELAWARE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
                                                                         
    Date of     Bucks     Chester     Delaware     Montgomery  
Indenture   Recording     Book     Page     Book     Page     Book     Page     Book     Page  
Original
    2/20/41       496       1     H-13.Vol.307     20       1034       1       1625       1  
First Supplemental
    8/26/48       632       1     F-16.Vol.380     200       1668       169       2031       257  
Second Supplemental
    7/1/52       768       438     18.Vol.425     186       1962       376       2360       517  
Third Supplemental
    11/25/53       895       1     18.Vol.442     325       2052       1       2493       1  
Fourth Supplemental
    1/9/56       1089       155     Z-20.Vol.499     1       2199       1       2722       425  
Fifth Supplemental
    3/20/57       1181       316     B-22.Vol.536     601       2294       50       2850       335  
Sixth Supplemental
    5/9/58       1254       1       G-23       201       2380       039       2952       289  
Seventh Supplemental
    9/25/59       1332       509       B-25       109       2442       1       3090       249  
Eighth Supplemental
    5/9/61                   Z-26       17       2526       312              
Eighth Supplemental
    5/10/61       1409       225                               3249       289  
Ninth Supplemental
    4/10/62       1458       372       G-28       126       2581       463       3307       169  
Tenth Supplemental
    3/19/64       1568       1       M-30       967       2976       1043       3310       237  
Eleventh Supplemental
    11/4/66       1655       695       Q-32       6682       762       223       3549       129  
Twelfth Supplemental
    1/23/68       1691       531       N-33       219       2792       708       3542       315  
Thirteenth Supplemental
    7/2/70       1763       1167       D-35       80       2850       301       3687       23  
Fourteenth Supplemental
    11/5/70       1774       331       K-35       713       2858       3113       700       548  
Fifteenth Supplemental
    12/11/72       1869       196       O-37       998       2926       550       3786       96  
Sixteenth Supplemental
    5/28/75       1979       14       E-44       77       3005       511       4010       307  
Seventeenth Supplemental
    12/18/77       2072       683       L-51       1       3072       43       5002       436  

 

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    Date of     Bucks     Chester     Delaware     Montgomery  
Indenture   Recording     Book     Page     Book     Page     Book     Page     Book     Page  
Eighteenth Supplemental
    4/29/77       2082       567       B-52       344       3078       728       5003       291  
Nineteenth Supplemental
    6/23/80       2303       714       J-62       92       3261       293       5030       502  
Twentieth Supplemental
    8/2/83       2487       370       D-72       1       96       810       5662       1045  
Twenty-First Supplemental
    8/27/85       2690       806       54       550                   5864       1347  
Twenty-First Supplemental
    8/28/85                               264       159              
Twenty-Second Supplemental
    4/22/86       2774       160       263       275       326       592       5944       360  
Twenty-Third Supplemental
    4/1/87       2960       693                                      
Twenty-Third Supplemental
    4/2/87                   680       337       447       1807       6115       602  
Twenty-Fourth Supplemental
    7/25/88       3199       1095       1224       389       0593       0585       6324       143  
Twenty-Fifth Supplemental
    1/12/90       0136       0250       1848       205       731       1571       6538       376  
Twenty-Sixth Supplemental
    11/8/91       369       2190       2660       205       894       2241       6780       891  
Twenty-Seventh Supplemental
    6/29/92       0487       1829       3055       182       0969       2023       6918       302  
Twenty-Eighth Supplemental
    4/22/93       0652       1335       3542       1542       1081       0852       7112       0539  
Twenty-Ninth Supplemental
    3/30/95       1045       1872       3875       1368       1349       0829       7561       1155  
Thirtieth Supplemental
    8/30/95       1111       0798       3932       0471       1393       2255       7631       0689  
Thirty-First Supplemental
    7/11/97       1421       2196       4201       2133       1607       138       7968       779  
Thirty-Second Supplemental
    10/6/99       1939       421       4646       642       1936       1207       8548       1067  
Thirty-Third Supplemental
    11/30/99       1970       1573       4675       1272       1936       1207       85898       317  

 

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    Date of     Bucks     Chester     Delaware     Montgomery  
Indenture   Recording     Book     Page     Book     Page     Book     Page     Book     Page  
Thirty-Fourth Supplemental
    10/31/01       2471       1207       5101       2142       2288       0174       9225       761  
Thirty-Fifth Supplemental
    1/10/02       2541       765       5152       818       2329       1019       9314       1079  
Thirty-Sixth Supplemental
    6/5/02       2731       1881       5296       356       2448       1862       9593       1416  
Thirty-Seventh Supplemental
    12/27/02       3036       1425       12/31/02 B-5514       1552       12/31/02 02631       0294       12/30/02 10018       0204  
Thirty-Eighth Supplemental
    11/9/04       4196       1557       11/23/04 B-6342       800       11/22/04 B-3348       1698       11/22/04 B-00020       0237  
Thirty-Ninth Supplemental
    5/18/05       4441       1471 #2005066104       5/19/05 6496       1375 #10534807       03487       0939 ###-###-####       0020       0688 ###-###-####  
Fortieth Supplemental
    12/27/05       4768       1853       12/23/05 6720       897 #10608829       12/23/05 03687       2206 #2005123053       12/29/05 11689       1156  
Forty-first Supplemental
    1/11/07       5250       1290 #2007004610       1/12/07 7058       820 #10720615       1/11/07 04002       2257       1/30/07 0225       00329 #2007005061  
Forty-second Supplemental
    12/13/07               #2007119080       12/13/07 7326       2091 #10809606       12/13/07 04262       1166 #2007105884       12/17/07 12287       02498-02544 #2007147147  

 

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BERKS COUNTY
                         
Indenture   Date of Recording     Book     Page  
Original
    8/16/99       3113       707  
Thirty-Second Supplemental
    10/6/99       3132       1510  
Thirty-Third Supplemental
    11/30/99       3149       1260  
Thirty-Fourth Supplemental
    10/31/01       3421       896  
Thirty-Fifth Supplemental
    1/10/02       3461       417  
Thirty-Sixth Supplemental
    6/4/02       3544       1357  
Thirty-Seventh Supplemental
    12/30/02       3664       0001  
Thirty-Eighth Supplemental
    11/30/04       4197       988  
Thirty-Ninth Supplemental
    5/18/05       04583       1017  
Fortieth Supplemental
    02/09/06       04782       1916  
Forty-first Supplemental
    1/11/07       05054       0013  
Forty-second Supplemental
    12/13/07       05272       1398 #2007073573  

 

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BRADFORD, COLUMBIA, LAWRENCE, MERCER, NORTHUMBERLAND, PIKE, SCHUYLKILL AND WAYNE COUNTIES
                                                                         
    BRADFORD     COLUMBIA     LAWRENCE     MERCER  
    Date of     Instrument     Date of     Instrument     Date of                     Date of        
Indenture   Recording     No.     Recording     No.     Recording     Book     Page     Recording     Instrument No.  
Thirty-Fifth Supplemental
    12/21/01       200115497                               1688       744                  
Thirty-Sixth Supplemental
    07/04/02       200207151                                                          
Thirty-Seventh Supplemental
    12/30/02       200216472                                                          
Thirty-Eighth Supplemental
    11/22/04       200415112       11/30/04       200413567       11/24/04       1992       0291       11/24/04       2004020435  
Thirty-Ninth Supplemental
    5/16/05       200504827       5/18/05       200505042       5/16/2005       2032       200 #005488       5/13/05       2005-7340  
Fortieth Supplemental
    12/23/05       200594992       12/23/05       200513981       12/27/05       2088       0934 #015325       12/27/05       2005-00020320  
Forty-first Supplemental
    1/12/07       200700440       1/17/07       200700636       1/11/07       2007       000466       1/12/07       2007- 00000583  
Forty-second Supplemental
    12/18/07       200714762       12/20/07       200712896       12/17/07       2007       013275       12/14/07       2007 00016849  

 

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    NORTHUMBERLAND     PIKE     SCHUYLKILL     WAYNE  
    Date of                     Date of                     Date of                     Date of              
Indenture   Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page  
Thirty-Fifth Supplemental
            1404       246               1909       2328               1413       1               1911       1  
Thirty-Sixth Supplemental
            1445       028                                       1584       0259                          
Thirty-Seventh Supplemental
    12/30/02       1500       911       12/30/02       1959       2447       12/27/02       2022       1006       12/30/02       2136       148  
Thirty-Eighth Supplemental
    11/22/04       1714       748       11/23/04       2081       1757       11/24/04       2126       569       11/23/04       2658       252  
Thirty-Ninth Supplemental
    5/18/05       1761       50 #200509076       5/17/05       2109       2201 #200500008491       5/18/05       2150       1871-1919 #200500010263       5/16/05     Vol. 2769     1 #200500004960  
Fortieth Supplemental
    12/2705       1828       571       12/27/05       2151       1334       12/23/05       2184       875       12/27/05       2944       243  
Forty-first Supplemental
    1/11/07       1933       634 #200700696       1/12/07       2214       472-515 #200700000749       1/11/07       2238       798-840 #200700000686       1/16/07       3216       229-272 #200700000492  
Forty-second Supplemental
    12/17/07       2024       953 #200721572       12/19/07       2261       175 #200700018937       12/18/07       2285       473 #200700022991       12/18/07       3433       1 #200700013194  

 

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ADAMS, CARBON, CUMBERLAND, FOREST, JUNIATA, LACKAWANNA, LUZERNE, MONROE, NORTHAMPTION, SNYDER, SUSQUEHANNA AND WYOMING COUNTIES
                                                                                                 
    ADAMS     CARBON     CUMBERLAND     FOREST  
                            Date                                                          
    Date of                     of                     Date of                     Date of              
Indenture   Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page  
Thirty-Eighth Supplemental
    11/23/04       3781       1       11/30/04       200416309               11/22/04       2004047145               11/29/04       231       306  
Thirty-Ninth Supplemental
    5/19/05       3970       54       5/18/05       1330       689 #200505926       5/13/05       1907       0247       5/16/05       234       345 #478  
Fortieth Supplemental
    12/28/05       4261       162       12/27/05       1408       576       12/27/05       1935       3233       12/27/05       0238       0304  
Forty-first Supplemental
    1/11/07       4707       2081 #2007000007       1/12/07       1540       548 #200700596       1/11/07       1979       0482       1/09/07       0244       0362 #2007000022  
Forty-second Supplemental
    12/17/07       5062       223 200700023048       12/18/07       1650       261 #200715671       12/14/07       200746336               12/18/07       250       219 #2007-1339  
                                                                                                 
    JUNIATA     LACKAWANNA     LUZERNE     MONROE  
    Date of                     Date of                     Date of                     Date of              
Indenture   Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page     Recording     Book     Page  
Thirty-Eighth Supplemental
    11/22/04       345       1047       11/29/04       #200441665               11/23/04       3004       294775       11/24/04       2208       7674  
Thirty-Ninth Supplemental
    5/13/05       354       0049
#2005-1512
      5/16/05       #200512642               5/17/05       3005       117727
#5637329
      5/18/05       2225       8444
#200521128
 
Fortieth Supplemental
    12/22/05       0365       1028       12/23/05       #20536270               12/28/05       3005       349088
#5677739
      12/27/05       2252       9105
#200560314
 
Forty-first Supplemental
    1/09/07       385       0188       1/12/07       #200701277               1/16/07       3007       13425       11/06/07       2320       4708  
Supplemental
    12/13/07       401       0847
#20073981
      12/17/07       #200734133               12/17/07       3007       328532
#5799531
      12/17/07       2323       4362
#200745976
 

 

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    NORTHAMPTON     SNYDER     SUSQUEHANNA     WYOMING  
    Date of                     Date of                     Date of                     Date of              
Indenture   Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page  
Thirty-Eighth Supplemental
    11/22/04       2004-1       452932       11/24/04       631       0001       11/24/04       200411624               11/24/04       0513       0774  
Thirty-Ninth Supplemental
    5/17/05       2005-1       182906 #2005026917       5/17/05       650       135 #2005028880       5/16/05       #200504384               5/18/05       0522       1289  
Fortieth Supplemental
    12/23/05       2005-1       521563       12/27/05       677       684       12/22/05     Instrument #200512620     n/a       12/22/05       0536
#2005004922
      0748  
Forty-first Supplemental
    1/19/07       2007-1       25009 #2007003204       1/11/07       724       734 #200700240       1/10/07       #200700387               1/10/07       0558       0959  
Forty-second Supplemental
    12/17/07       2007-1       446608 #2007057981       12/18/07       763       178 #200707447       12/17/07       #200713519               12/18/07       #2007-5154          
LEHIGH AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES
                                                 
    LEHIGH     CRAWFORD  
    Date of                     Date of              
Indenture   Rec.     Book     Page     Rec.     Book     Page  
Forty-first Supplemental
    1/10/07       7390692               1/11/07       856       177 #200700000444  
Forty-second Supplemental
    12/14/07       7455854               12/14/07       905       577 #200700015228  

 

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EXHIBIT C
                     
    Company’s                
County and   Real Estate   Date of       Recorded   Tax Parcel
Grantor   Index No.   Deed   Book   Page   I.D. Number
 
                   
NONE

 

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The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A., Mortgagee and Trustee named in the foregoing Forty-third Supplemental Indenture, hereby certifies that its precise name and the post office address are as follows:
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N. A.
Global Corporate Trust
1600 Market Street, Suite 1500
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Attention: Philip Newmuis
Telephone: 215 ###-###-####
Fax: 215 ###-###-####/0352
         
  THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N. A.,
as Trustee
 
 
  By:   /s/ Philip Newmuis    
    Name:   Philip Newmuis   
    Title:   Authorized Signer   

 

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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY
On the 3rd day of December, 2008, before me, the Subscriber, a Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally appeared Stephen Anzaldo, who acknowledged himself to be the Treasurer of Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc., a corporation, and that he as such Treasurer, being authorized to do so, executed the foregoing Forty-third Supplemental Indenture as and for the act and deed of said corporation and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, by signing the name of the corporation by himself as such officer.
In Witness Whereof I hereunto set my hand and official seal.
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
         
     
  /s/ Lisa Piotrowski    

 

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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA
On the 2nd day of December, 2008 before me, the Subscriber, a Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally appeared Philip Newmuis, who acknowledged himself to be an Authorized Signer of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association, and that he as such Authorized Signer, being authorized to do so, executed the foregoing Forty-third Supplemental Indenture as and for the act and deed of said national banking association and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned by signing the name of said national banking association by himself as such officer.
In Witness Whereof I hereunto set my hand and official seal.
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
         
     
  /s/ Sabrina Moore    

 

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