CentralVermont Public Service Corporation Forty-SixthSupplemental Indenture Dated asof May 1, 2008 Amendingand Supplementing the CentralVermont Public Service Corporation Indenture of Mortgage Dated asof October 1, 1929 RecordingInformation

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EXHIBIT 4.7
 
[Conformed copy]
 
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
 
Forty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture
 
Dated as of May 1, 2008
 
 
Amending and Supplementing the
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation Indenture of Mortgage
 
Dated as of October 1, 1929
 
 
 
 
Recording Information
 
_____________________________________ Town Clerk’s Office — Received this Forty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture for record on the _____ day of May, 2008, at ________ O’clock, _. M., and filed the bound copy as Book ___________ in accordance with T 24 VSA, Section 1155, and cross-indexed in the Land Records in Book _________ at Page ______.
 
 
Attest:  ______________________________________________________________________
 
Town Clerk
 

Exhibit A
(to Bond Purchase Agreement)
 
 

 

 
 
This Forty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture is dated as of May 1, 2008 (hereinafter referred to as the “Supplemental Indenture”) and entered into by and between Central Vermont Public Service Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Vermont, having offices at 77 Grove Street, Rutland, Vermont 05701 (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association (successor to Old Colony Trust Company as trustee and other successor trustees), having an office at 225 Asylum St., Hartford, CT  06103, as Trustee (hereinafter generally referred to as the “Trustee”), with reference to the following Recitals:
 
Recitals
 
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to Old Colony Trust Company, as Trustee its Indenture of Mortgage dated as of October 1, 1929 (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “Original Indenture”) and has executed and delivered to said trustee and various successors, as the case may be, forty-five indentures supplemental thereto (the Original Indenture, as heretofore amended and supplemented by such forty-five indentures thereto, and as further supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture is referred to herein as the “Indenture” and capitalized terms used herein not otherwise defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Indenture); and
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Indenture, all the properties of the Company, whether owned at the time of the execution thereof or thereafter acquired, with certain exceptions and reservations therein fully set forth, were granted, assigned, transferred, mortgaged and pledged to the Trustee, in trust upon the terms and conditions set forth therein, to secure bonds of the Company issued and to be issued in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and for other purposes more particularly set forth therein; and
 
WHEREAS, Section 2.06 of the Indenture provides that the Company may issue a series of additional Bonds and shall execute and deliver a supplemental indenture for such series and thereafter Bonds of such series may be issued from time to time subject to the conditions and provisions of the Indenture; and
 
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to issue under the Indenture $60,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of First Mortgage 6.83% Bonds, Series UU, due May 15, 2028 (herein referred to as the “Bonds”), which series (subject to the restrictions and provisions contained in the Indenture) is limited to such aggregate principal amount ; and
 
WHEREAS, this Supplemental Indenture has been duly and legally authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company in a Board Resolution, and the use of terms and provisions contained herein is in accordance with the Indenture; and
 
WHEREAS, the Bonds have been duly authorized by a Board Resolution (a certified copy of which is on file with the Trustee) designating and authorizing the Bonds and the Bonds are to be redeemable as set forth in the respective form of such Bonds; and

 
 

 

 
WHEREAS, the Bonds and the Trustee’s authentication certificate thereon are to be substantially in the forms set forth in Exhibit A hereto; and
 
WHEREAS, the Company previously amended Section 5.15 of the Indenture, as restated in the 44th Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 15, 2004, relating to the requirement that the Company’s independent certified public accountants provide an annual “no default” certificate, and to substantially restore the language from the Indenture that applied before said 44th Supplemental Indenture to assure that the form of certificate that the Company’s independent auditors provide will continue to comply with this requirement; and
 
WHEREAS, in accordance with said Section 9.02 of the Indenture, the holders of not less than sixty-six and two-thirds per centum (66-2/3%) in principal amount of all the bonds issued under the Mortgage and outstanding as of the date thereof previously consented to the execution and delivery of this instrument pursuant to a Consent and Agreement, dated as of June 30, 2005; and
 
WHEREAS, in accordance with said Section 8.02 of the Indenture, the Trustee has deemed sufficient the date and execution of such Consent and Agreement and the amount and numbers or other designations of Bonds held by the persons so executing such Consent and Agreement; and,
 
WHEREAS, the Company has determined that all conditions and requirements necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture, in the form and terms hereof, a valid, binding and legal agreement in accordance with its terms and the purposes herein expressed, have been performed and fulfilled, and the execution and delivery hereof have been in all respects duly authorized; and
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in confirmation of and supplementing the Indenture and pursuant to, in compliance with and in execution of, the powers and obligations conferred, imposed and reserved therein and every other power, authority and obligation appertaining thereto, in consideration of the premises, and of the acceptance and purchase of the Bonds by the holders thereof, and of the sum of One Dollar duly paid by the Trustee to the Company and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the Company has given, granted, bargained, sold, transferred, assigned, pledged, mortgaged, warranted, conveyed and confirmed and by these presents does give, grant, bargain, sell, transfer, assign, pledge, mortgage, warrant, convey and confirm unto the Trustee, as herein provided, and its successor or successors in the trust hereby created, the following described property, rights, titles and interests of the Company and grants a security interest therein as permitted by applicable law: all and singular the plants, rights, accounts, permits, franchises, privileges, easements and property, real, personal and mixed, now owned by the Company or which may hereafter be acquired by it, together with the rents, issues and profits thereof, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all real property specifically described in Schedule I to the Indenture and in Schedule A hereto, excepting, however, and there are hereby expressly reserved from the lien and effect of the Indenture, all Excepted Property (as defined in the Indenture), provided, however, that if an Event of Default as defined in Section 6.01 of the Indenture shall happen and be continuing and if thereafter the Trustee or a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the Mortgaged Property, as defined in the Indenture, such Trustee or receiver or trustee may, to the extent not prohibited by law, take possession of any and all of the Excepted

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Property then on hand and use and administer and consume the same to continue the operations of the Mortgaged Property in all respects as if such Excepted Property were part of the Mortgaged Property, accounting therefor, if required by law, to such persons, if any, as may be lawfully entitled to such an accounting.
 
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to Permitted Encumbrances (as defined in Section 1.02 of the Indenture).
 
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, all said property hereby conveyed, assigned, pledged or mortgaged, or intended to be conveyed, assigned, pledged or mortgaged, together with the rents, issues and profits thereof, as well as all such after-acquired property, unto the Trustee, its successor or successors in trust and its assigns forever.
 
BUT IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, for the equal and proportionate benefit and security of the holders of all Bonds now or hereafter issued hereunder, pursuant to the provisions hereof, and for the enforcement of the payment of said Bonds when payable and the performance of and compliance with the covenants and conditions of the Indenture, without any preference, distinction or priority as to lien or otherwise of any Bond or Bonds over others by reason of the difference in time of the actual issue, sale or negotiation thereof or for any other reason whatsoever, except as herein otherwise expressly provided; but so that each and every Bond now or hereafter issued hereunder shall have the same lien, and so that the interest and principal of every such Bond shall, subject to the terms hereof, be equally and proportionately secured hereby, as if it had been made, executed, delivered, sold and negotiated simultaneously with the execution and delivery hereof.
 
AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED, DECLARED AND AGREED, upon the trusts and for the purposes aforesaid, as set forth in the following covenants, agreements, conditions and provisions:
 
Article One
Terms of the Bonds
 
Section 1.     All Bonds shall be dated the date of issue, except as otherwise provided in Section 2.08 of Article Two of the Indenture.  The Bonds shall be in denominations which are multiples of $1,000.  The Bonds shall bear interest (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) at the rate of 6.83 percent (6.83%) per annum payable semi-annually at the corporate trust office of the Trustee in the City of Hartford, Connecticut (or, if there be a successor to said Trustee, at its designated corporate trust office) or directly to the registered Bondholders pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Indenture on the fifteenth day of May and November of each year, commencing on November 15, 2008, shall mature May 15, 2028, and shall be redeemable as hereinafter provided, provided, however, that the Bonds shall bear interest on any overdue principal, Make-Whole Amount (defined below), if any, and on overdue interest (to the extent permitted by law) at a rate of 7.83% per annum.  The Bonds and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto.

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    Section 2.     The Bonds shall be redeemable at the option of the Company in whole, or in part, at any time, in an amount not less than 5% of the aggregate principal amount of the Bonds then outstanding in the case of a partial redemption, upon the notice and in the manner provided in Article Twelve of the Indenture, at 100% of the principal amount of the Bonds to be redeemed and interest thereon to the redemption date plus a premium equal to the Make-Whole Amount, which shall be determined two Business Days prior to the date of such redemption and certified in writing to the Trustee.
 
    The term “Make-Whole Amount” means, with respect to any Bond, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Discounted Value of the Remaining Scheduled Payments with respect to the Called Principal of such Bond over the amount of such Called Principal, provided that the Make-Whole Amount may in no event be less than zero.  For the purposes of determining the Make-Whole Amount, the following terms have the following meanings:
 
“Called Principal” means, with respect to any Bond, the principal of such Bond that is to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 2 or has become or is declared to be immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Indenture.
 
“Discounted Value” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Bond, the amount obtained by discounting all Remaining Scheduled Payments with respect to such Called Principal from their respective scheduled due dates to the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal, in accordance with accepted financial practice and at a discount factor (applied on the same periodic basis as that on which interest on the Bonds is payable) equal to the Reinvestment Yield with respect to such Called Principal.
 
“Reinvestment Yield” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Bond, 0.50% over the yield to maturity implied by (i) the yields reported as of 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the second Business Day preceding the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal, on the display  designated as “Page PX1” (or such other display as may replace Page PX1) on Bloomberg Financial Markets for the most recently issued actively traded on the run U.S. Treasury securities having a maturity equal to the Remaining Average Life of such Called Principal as of such Settlement Date, or (ii) if such yields are not reported as of such time or the yields reported as of such time are not ascertainable (including by way of interpolation), the Treasury Constant Maturity Series Yields reported, for the latest day for which such yields have been so reported as of the second Business Day preceding the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal, in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (or any comparable successor publication) for U.S. Treasury securities having a constant maturity equal to the Remaining Average Life of such Called Principal as of such Settlement Date.  
 
In the case of each determination under clause (i) or clause (ii), as the case may be, of the preceding paragraph, such implied yield will be determined, if necessary, by (a) converting U.S. Treasury bill quotations to bond equivalent yields in accordance with accepted financial practice and (b) interpolating linearly between (1) the applicable U.S. Treasury security with the maturity closest to and greater than such Remaining Average Life and (2) the applicable U.S. Treasury security with the maturity closest to and less

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than such Remaining Average Life.  The Reinvestment Yield shall be rounded to the number of decimal places as appears in the interest rate of the applicable Bond
 
“Remaining Average Life” means, with respect to any Called Principal, the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth year) obtained by dividing (i) such Called Principal into (ii) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the principal component of each Remaining Scheduled Payment with respect to such Called Principal by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth year) that will elapse between the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal and the scheduled due date of such Remaining Scheduled Payment.
 
“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Bond, all payments of such Called Principal and interest thereon that would be due after the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal if no payment of such Called Principal were made prior to its scheduled due date, provided that if such Settlement Date is not a date on which interest payments are due to be made under the terms of the Bonds, then the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued to such Settlement Date and required to be paid on such Settlement Date pursuant to Section 2 of the Supplemental Indenture or Section 6.01 of the Indenture, as the context requires.
 
“Settlement Date” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Bond, the date on which such Called Principal is to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 2 has become or is declared to be immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Indenture, as the context requires.
 
In the event the Company shall exercise any right to make a redemption of the Bonds under this Section 2, it shall give written notice thereof to the Trustee and holders of the Bonds being called for redemption as provided in Section 12.03 of the Indenture.  In the case of a redemption under this Section 2, at least thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for redemption the Company will furnish written notice to the Trustee and each holder of the Bonds being called for redemption by telecopy or other same-day communication, of the estimated Make-Whole Amount, if any, applicable to such redemption and the calculations, in reasonable detail, used to determine the amount of such Make-Whole Amount and two Business Days prior to the Settlement Date for such redemption, the Company will furnish written notice in the foregoing manner to the Trustee and each holder of the Bonds being called for redemption of the Make-Whole Amount, if any, applicable to such redemption which is payable on the Settlement Date with respect to the related Called Principal, and the calculations used to determine such Make-Whole Amount.
 
    Section 3.     Anything in the Indenture or the Bonds to the contrary notwithstanding, any payment of principal, or premium, if any, or interest on the Bonds that is due on a date other than a Business Day shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day without including the additional days elapsed in the computation of the interest payable on such next succeeding Business Day.

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    Section 4.     Pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Indenture, so long as the original registered holders or any subsequent registered holder of the Bonds is an Institutional Investor, all payments of interest on the Bonds held by such holder and all payments on account of principal or premium, if any, shall be made directly to such holder or its nominee at such address as may from time to time be furnished by such holder in writing without surrender or presentation of the Bonds held by such holder to the Trustee (except in the case of payment or redemption of any of the Bonds in whole) and with respect to each such original holder or subsequent holder such payments shall be made in accordance with the provisions of any written agreement between such original holder or subsequent holder and the Company which shall have been communicated and consented to by the Trustee.
 
    Section 5.     All of the Bonds shall be secured by the Indenture and shall be subject to all of the terms and conditions thereof, as specifically set forth therein.  Except to the extent hereby amended, the Indenture is in all respects hereby ratified, confirmed and approved by the Company.
 
Article Two
Amendment of Mortgage
 
Section 1.     The Company acknowledges that Section 5.15 of the Indenture has been heretofore amended and after giving effect to such amendment, reads as follows:
 
Section 5.15.  Certificate as to Compliance.  On the Restatement Date and on or before May 30 each year thereafter, the Company will deliver to the Trustee (1) an Officers’ Certificate stating whether or not the Company is in default in the payment of the principal or interest on the Bonds or has knowledge of any Default, and, if so, specifying each such Default of which the signers have knowledge, and (2) a certificate of the firm of independent certified public accountants that prepared the consolidated financial statements for the Company and its Subsidiaries for the immediately preceding fiscal year to the effect that such firm, in making the examination in connection with its report on such consolidated financial statements, has obtained no knowledge of any Default (or if knowledge of Default has been obtained, specifying each such Default), by the Company during such fiscal year in the observance, performance, or fulfillment of any of the  conditions or covenants contained in this Indenture, compliance with which is subject to verification by accountants, and if the Company is not in compliance with any such condition or covenant, specifying such condition or covenant.”
 
Section 2.     The Indenture is hereby further supplemented and amended by amending and restating the first clause of Section 11.02 of the Indenture to read:
 
“At any time and from time to time while in possession of the Mortgaged Property and not in default hereunder, the Company may without any release or consent by the Trustee, provided that, such property (i) is not fee-owned real estate property  or (ii) has a fair value less than the greater of $100,000 or 1% of the aggregate principal amount of the bonds at the time outstanding:”

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Section 3.     The Indenture is hereby further supplemented and amended by amending and restating the last paragraph of Section 11.02 of the Indenture to read:
 
“The Trustee shall, from time to time, execute any written instrument to confirm to any transferee the propriety of any action taken by the Company under this Section 11.02, upon receipt by the Trustee of (i) an Officers’ Certificate requesting the same and expressing any required opinions, and including a schedule describing the property disposed of and value thereof in reasonable detail and stating that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and such action was duly taken in conformity with a designated Subsection of this Section 11.02, and (ii) except for the disposition of property described in Subsection (a), an Opinion of Counsel stating that such action was duly taken by the Company in conformity with such Subsection and that the execution of such written instrument is appropriate to confirm the propriety of such action under this Section 11.02.”
 
Article Three
Miscellaneous Provisions
 
    Section 1.     The Trustee shall be entitled to, may exercise and shall be protected by, where and to the full extent that the same are applicable, all the rights, powers, privileges, immunities and exemptions provided in the Indenture as if the provisions concerning the same were incorporated herein at length.  The Trustee under the Indenture shall ex officio be Trustee hereunder.  The recitals and statements in this Supplemental Indenture and in the Bonds shall be taken as statements by the Company alone, and shall not be considered as made by or as imposing any obligation or liability upon the Trustee, nor shall the Trustee be held responsible for the legality or validity of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Bonds, and the Trustee makes no covenants or representations, and shall not be responsible, as to and for the effect, authorization, execution, delivery or recording of this Supplemental Indenture.
 
    Section 2.     This Supplemental Indenture shall become void if and when the Original Indenture as heretofore supplemented and amended shall be void.
 
    Section 3.     The Indenture as supplemented hereby is ratified and confirmed.
 
    Section 4.     This Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
 
[Signatures on Following Pages]
 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said CENTRAL VERMONT PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION has caused this instrument to be signed, and its corporate seal attested by its Assistant Corporate Secretary to be hereunto affixed, by Pamela J. Keefe, its Vice President in that behalf duly authorized, and said U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION has caused this instrument to be executed in its corporate name by its Officer all as of the day and year first above written.
 
 
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
 
 
 
 
By                      /s/Pamela J. Keefe   
 
                          Pamela J. Keefe
 
                          Its Vice President
Attest:
 
 
 
/s/Mary C. Marzec
Mary C. Marzec
Assistant Corporate Secretary
 
 
Signed, sealed and delivered on
behalf of Central Vermont Public
Service Corporation in the presence of:                                                                                                                                      (CORPORATE SEAL)
 
 
 
/s/Kathleen Watts
Kathleen Watts
 
 
 
/s/Paula Bishop
Paula Bishop
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 
     as Trustee
 
 
 
 
By                    /s/Kathy L. Mitchell
 
                        Kathy L. Mitchell
 
                        Its Vice President
 
Signed and delivered on
behalf of U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION in the presence of:
 
 
 
/s/Mark A. Forgetta
Mark A. Forgetta
 
 
 
/s/Karen R. Felt
Karen R. Felt
 

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State of Vermont)
)SS.
County of Rutland)
 
On this 7th day of May, A.D. 2008, before me, a Notary Public in and for said State, duly commissioned and acting as such, personally came Pamela J. Keefe, Vice President of said CENTRAL VERMONT PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION , to me personally known and known to me to be one of the persons named in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and who being duly sworn by me deposed and said: that she resides in Brandon, Vermont; that she is Vice President of CENTRAL VERMONT PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION , the Corporation described in and which executed the foregoing instrument as party of the first part; that she knows the seal of said Corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said Corporation, and that she signed her name thereto by like order, and she acknowledged and declared that she executed the foregoing instrument and caused the seal of said CENTRAL VERMONT PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION to be affixed thereto as its Vice President by authority of the Board of Directors of said Corporation, and acknowledged the same to be her free act and deed, and the free act and deed of said Corporation.
 
WITNESS my hand and official seal the day and year aforesaid.
 
 
 
 
              /s/Melissa Stevens
 
             Melissa Stevens, Notary Public
 
 
My commission expires February 10, 2011
 
 
(Notarial Seal)
 
 

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State of Connecticut)
)SS.
County of Hartford)
 
 
On this 7th day of May, A.D. 2008, before me, a Notary Public in and for said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and acting as such, personally came Kathy L. Mitchell, Vice President of U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, to me known and known to me to be one of the persons named in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and who being duly sworn by me deposed and said: that she resides in West Hartford, Connecticut; that she is a Vice President of U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; and that she signed her name thereto by authority of said Bank, and she acknowledged the same to be her free act and deed, and the free act and deed of said Bank.  And Kathy L. Mitchell, a Vice President of said U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, further acknowledged that she accepted the trust hereinbefore created for, and on behalf of, said U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee, upon the terms therein named.
 
WITNESS my hand and official seal the day and year aforesaid.
 
 
 
 
             /s/Susan P. McNally
 
            Susan P. McNally, Notary Public
 
 
My commission expires March 31, 2010
 
(Notarial Seal)
 

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(Form of Series UU Bonds)
 
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
 
First Mortgage 6.83% Bond, Series UU, due May 15, 2028
 
No. RUU-_______                                                                                                                                                                         0; $____________
PPN 155771 M#2May __, 2008
 
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation, a Vermont corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to _________________ or registered assigns, the sum of _________________ Dollars on the 15th day of May, 2028, and to pay to the registered holder interest (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) on said sum from the date hereof until the same shall be paid, at the rate of 6.83% per annum, payable semi-annually on the 15th day of May and November in each year, commencing on November 15_, 2008 until the payment of the said principal of this Bond becomes due and payable.  This Bond shall bear interest on any overdue principal, premium, if any, and on any overdue interest to the extent permitted by law, at a rate of 7.83%.  The principal of, premium, if any, and the interest on this Bond shall be payable at the corporate trust office of U.S. Bank National Association in the City of Hartford, Connecticut, or its successor in trust under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, at its designated corporate trust office, in coin or currency of the United States of America which, at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts; provided, that the principal, premium and interest on this Bond may be paid by written agreement between the Company and with the Bondholder by check mailed or wire transfer to the Bondholder, as specified in such agreement.
 
This Bond is one of a series of Bonds designated “First Mortgage 6.83% Bonds, Series UU (the “Series UU Bonds”).  The Bonds are part of an issue of bonds of the Company authorized, without limit as to aggregate amount issued or outstanding except as provided in the Indenture hereinafter mentioned, issued and to be issued under and pursuant to and all equally and ratably secured by an Indenture dated as of October 1, 1929 (said Indenture, as amended and supplemented by certain supplemental indentures later executed including the Forty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 15, 2008 (the “Supplemental Indenture”) pursuant to which the Bonds are being issued, being herein referred to as the “Indenture”) duly executed and delivered by the Company to U.S. Bank National Association (as successor to Old Colony Trust Company as trustee and other successor trustees) (the “Trustee”), to which Indenture reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security and the rights of the holders of the Bonds and of the Trustee in respect of such security.  By the terms of the Indenture, the Bonds to be secured thereby are issuable in series which may vary as to date, amount, date of maturity, rate of interest, and in other respects as provided in the Indenture.

Exhibit A
(to Forty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture)
 
 

 

 
This Bond shall be redeemable at the option of the Company in whole, or in part, at any time, in an amount not less than 5% of the aggregate principal amount of the Bonds then outstanding in the case of a partial redemption, upon the notice and in the manner provided in Article Twelve of the Indenture, at 100% of the principal amount of the Bonds to be redeemed and interest thereon to the redemption date plus a premium equal to the Make-Whole Amount (defined below), which shall be determined two Business Days prior to the date of such redemption and certified in writing to the Trustee.
 
The term “Make-Whole Amount” means, with respect to any Bond, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Discounted Value of the Remaining Scheduled Payments with respect to the Called Principal of such Bond over the amount of such Called Principal, provided that the Make-Whole Amount may in no event be less than zero.  For the purposes of determining the Make-Whole Amount, the following terms have the following meanings:
 
“Called Principal” means, with respect to any Bond, the principal of such Bond that is to be redeemed pursuant to Section 2 of the Supplemental Indenture or has become or is declared to be immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Indenture.
 
“Discounted Value” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Bond, the amount obtained by discounting all Remaining Scheduled Payments with respect to such Called Principal from their respective scheduled due dates to the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal, in accordance with accepted financial practice and at a discount factor (applied on the same periodic basis as that on which interest on the Bonds is payable) equal to the Reinvestment Yield with respect to such Called Principal.
 
“Reinvestment Yield” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Bond, 0.50% over the yield to maturity implied by (i) the yields reported as of 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the second Business Day preceding the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal, on the display designated as “Page PX1” (or such other display as may replace Page PX1) on Bloomberg Financial Markets for the most recently issued actively traded on the run U.S. Treasury securities having a maturity equal to the Remaining Average Life of such Called Principal as of such Settlement Date, or (ii) if such yields are not reported as of such time or the yields reported as of such time are not ascertainable (including by way of interpolation), the Treasury Constant Maturity Series Yields reported, for the latest day for which such yields have been so reported as of the second Business Day preceding the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal, in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (or any comparable successor publication) for U.S. Treasury securities having a constant maturity equal to the Remaining Average Life of such Called Principal as of such Settlement Date.  
 
In the case of each determination under clause (i) or clause (ii), as the case may be, of the preceding paragraph, such implied yield will be determined, if necessary, by (a) converting U.S. Treasury bill quotations to bond equivalent yields in accordance with accepted financial practice and (b) interpolating linearly between (1) the applicable U.S. Treasury security with the maturity closest to and greater than such Remaining Average

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Life and (2) the applicable U.S. Treasury security with the maturity closest to and less than such Remaining Average Life.  The Reinvestment Yield shall be rounded to the number of decimal places as appears in the interest rate of the applicable Bond.
 
“Remaining Average Life” means, with respect to any Called Principal, the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth year) obtained by dividing (i) such Called Principal into (ii) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the principal component of each Remaining Scheduled Payment with respect to such Called Principal by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth year) that will elapse between the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal and the scheduled due date of such Remaining Scheduled Payment.
 
“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Bond, all payments of such Called Principal and interest thereon that would be due after the Settlement Date with respect to such Called Principal if no payment of such Called Principal were made prior to its scheduled due date, provided that if such Settlement Date is not a date on which interest payments are due to be made under the terms of the Bonds, then the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued to such Settlement Date and required to be paid on such Settlement Date pursuant to Section 2 of the Supplemental Indenture or Section 6.01 of the Indenture, as the context requires.
 
“Settlement Date” means, with respect to the Called Principal of any Bond, the date on which such Called Principal is to be redeemed pursuant to Section 2 of the Supplemental Indenture has became or is declared to be immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Indenture, as the context requires.
 
In case an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, shall occur, the principal of this Bond may become or be declared due and payable prior to maturity as provided in the Indenture.  No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal, premium, if any, or interest of this Bond, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Indenture, to or against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, past, present or future, of the Company, either directly or through the Company, under any constitution or statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty, or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, stockholders, directors and officers being waived and released by the holder hereof by the acceptance of this Bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Indenture.
 
This Bond is transferable by the registered holder hereof, in person or by attorney duly authorized, at the corporate trust office of the Trustee in the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, upon surrender and cancellation of this Bond, and upon any such transfer a new registered Bond or Bonds of the same series and maturity date and for the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor.  This Bond shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose unless and until it shall have been authenticated by the execution by the Trustee or its successor in trust under the Indenture of the certificate endorsed hereon.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Central Vermont Public Service Corporation has caused this Bond to be executed in its name by the manual or facsimile signature of its President or one of its Vice-Presidents, and its corporate seal (or a facsimile thereof) to be hereto affixed and attested by the manual or facsimile signature of its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, this 15th day of May, 2008.
 
 
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
 
 
By____________________________________
 
Pamela J. Keefe, Vice President
 
Attest:
 
 
 
____________________________________
 
Mary C. Marzec, Assistant Secretary
 
 
 
 
 
(FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE)
 
Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
 
This Bond is one of the Series UU Bonds described in the within mentioned Indenture.
 
 
U.S. Bank National Association,
 
       Trustee
 
 
By____________________________________
 
Authorized Officer
 

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Description of Real Property
 
All land and premises, rights, privileges and easements conveyed or purported to have been conveyed to the Company in and by the following described deeds and the records thereof are hereby incorporated herein by reference:
 
Properties not previously described:
 
    1) Deed from Paul and Patricia Brodeur, dated September 20, 2005, recorded in Book 187, Pages 485-487 of the St. Albans Town Land Records in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont.
 
    2) Deed from Grace McKeon, dated March 24, 2006, recorded in Book 171, Pages 719-721 of the Winhall Town Land Records in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont.
 
    3) Deed from Rochester Electric Light and Power Co. dated September 1, 2006, recorded in Book 82, Pages 93-99 of the Rochester Town Land Records in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont.
 
Also Deed from Rochester Electric Light and Power Co. dated September 1, 2006, recorded in Book 69, Page 144-150 of the Stockbridge Town Land Records in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont.
 
 Also Deed from Rochester Electric Light and Power Co. dated September 1, 2006, recorded in Book 54, Pages 723-729 of the Pittsfield Town Land Records in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont.
 
    4) Deed from Rutland County Community Land Trust Inc., dated September 14, 2007, recorded in Book 130, Pages 574-577 of the Clarendon Town Land Records in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont.
 
    5) Deed from Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. dated December 7, 2006, recorded in Book 247, Pages 289-290 of the Wilmington Town Land Records in the County of Windham and State of Vermont.
 
Also Deed from Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. dated December 7, 2006, recorded in Book 247, Pages 291-292 of the Wilmington Town Land Records in the County of Windham and State of Vermont.
 
Also Deed from Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. dated December 7, 2006, recorded in Book 267, Pages 189-191 of the Dover Town Land Records in the County of Windham and State of Vermont.

Schedule A
(to Forty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture)
 
 

 

 
Also Deed from Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. dated December 7, 2006, recorded in Book 117, Pages 27-28 of the Guilford Town Land Records in the County of Windham and State of Vermont.
 
    6) Deed from C.V. Realty Inc. dated December 28, 2007, recorded in Book 72, Page 564 of the Chittenden Town Land Records in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont.
 
Also, all property of every kind whatsoever, including land and premises, rights, privileges, easements, transmission lines, substations and distribution lines, in the following towns:
 
In New London County, State of Connecticut:
Waterford
   
 
In Hartford County, State of Connecticut:
Berlin
   
 
In Cumberland County, State of Maine:
Yarmouth
   
 
In Sullivan County, State of New Hampshire:
Charlestown
Cornish
Plainfield
Claremont
Newport
Unity
 
In Cheshire County, State of New Hampshire:
Chesterfield
Hinsdale
 
In Grafton County, State of New Hampshire:
Bath
Lyman
Orford
Haverhill
Lyme
Piermont
 
In Washington County, State of New York:
Granville
Hampton
 
In Rensselaer County, State of New York:
Hoosick
   
 
 

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In Addison County, State of Vermont:
Addison
Leicester
Ripton
Bridport
Lincoln
Salisbury
Bristol
Middlebury
Shoreham
Cornwall
Monkton
Starksboro
Ferrisburg
New Haven
Vergennes
Goshen
Orwell
Weybridge
Granville
Panton
Whiting
Hancock
   
 
In Bennington County, State of Vermont:
Arlington
Manchester
Searsburg
Bennington
Peru
Shaftsbury
Dorset
Pownal
Sunderland
Glastenbury
Rupert
Winhall
Landgrove
Readsboro
Woodford
 
Sandgate
 
 
In Caledonia County, State of Vermont:
Barnet
Lyndon
Walden
Danville
Ryegate
Waterford
Kirby
St. Johnsbury
Wheelock
 
In Chittenden County, State of Vermont:
Buels Gore
Essex
Milton
Burlington
Huntington
Underhill
Colchester
Jericho
Westford
 
In Essex County, State of Vermont:
Concord
Guildhall
Victory
Granby
Lunenburg
 
 
In Franklin County, State of Vermont:
Bakersfield
Fletcher
Richford
Berkshire
Franklin
Sheldon
Enosburg
Georgia
St. Albans City
Fairfax
Highgate
St. Albans Town
Fairfield
Montgomery
Swanton
 
In Lamoille County, State of Vermont:
Belvidere
Eden
Johnson
Cambridge
Hyde Park
 
 
 

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In Orange County, State of Vermont:
Bradford
Fairlee
Thetford
Braintree
Newbury
Tunbridge
Brookfield
Randolph
Vershire
Chelsea
Strafford
West Fairlee
 
In Orleans County, State of Vermont:
Lowell
Irasburg
 
 
In Rutland County, State of Vermont:
Benson
Middletown Springs
Sherburne
Brandon
Mt. Holly
Shrewsbury
Castleton
Mt. Tabor
Sudbury
Chittenden
Pawlet
Tinmouth
Clarendon
Pittsfield
Wallingford
Danby
Pittsford
Wells
Fair Haven
Poultney
West Haven
Hubbardton
Proctor
West Rutland
Ira
Rutland City
 
Mendon
Rutland Town
 
 
In Washington County, State of Vermont:
Northfield
Roxbury
 
 
In Windham County, State of Vermont:
Athens
Jamaica
Wardsboro
Brattleboro
Londonderry
Westminster
Brookline
Marlboro
Whitingham
Dover
Newfane
Wilmington
Dummerston
Rockingham
Windham
Grafton
Stratton
 
Guilford
Townsend
 
Halifax
Vernon
 
 
In Windsor County, State of Vermont:
Andover
Hartland
Sharon
Baltimore
Ludlow
Springfield
Barnard
Norwich
Stockbridge
Bethel
Plymouth
Weathersfield
Bridgewater
Pomfret
Weston
Cavendish
Reading
West Windsor
Chester
Rochester
Windsor
Hartford
Royalton
Woodstock
 
 

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