ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC. to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (formerly The Bank of New York, successor to Harris Trust Company of New York and Bank of Montreal Trust Company) As Trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of May 1, 1987 of Entergy New Orleans, Inc. EIGHTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE Providing among other things for Mortgaging Property in Arkansas Dated as of March 3, 2016
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ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC.
to
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
(formerly The Bank of New York, successor to Harris Trust
Company of New York and Bank of Montreal Trust Company)
As Trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust,
dated as of May 1, 1987 of Entergy New Orleans, Inc.
EIGHTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Providing among other things for
Mortgaging Property in Arkansas
Dated as of March 3, 2016
EIGHTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of March 3, 2016, between ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC., a corporation of the State of Louisiana, whose post office address is 1600 Perdido Street, Building 505, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 (the “Company”) and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (formerly The Bank of New York, successor to Harris Trust Company of New York and Bank of Montreal Trust Company), a New York banking corporation, whose principal corporate trust office is located at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E, New York, New York 10286, as trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of May 1, 1987, executed and delivered by the Company (herein called the “Original Indenture”; the Original Indenture and any and all indentures and instruments supplemental thereto being herein called the “Indenture”);
WHEREAS, the Original Indenture has been duly recorded and filed as required in the State of Louisiana simultaneously with the recording and filing of the First Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as of May 1, 1987, between the Company and BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY (The Bank of New York Mellon, successor) and Z. GEORGE KLODNICKI (Stephen J. Giurlando, successor), as trustees (herein called the “First Supplemental Indenture”); and
WHEREAS, the Original Indenture was recorded in Mortgage Book Number 2515 at Folio Number 615 in the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana, and in various other Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered to the Trustees (such term and all other defined terms used herein and not defined herein having the respective definitions to which reference is made in Article I below) its Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 1, 1988, its Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1993, its Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 1, 1993, its Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 1, 1995, its Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1996, its Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 1998 (the “Seventh Supplemental Indenture”), its Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2000 (the “Eighth Supplemental Indenture”), its Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 1, 2001, its Tenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 1, 2002, its Eleventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2003, its Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2004, its Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 15, 2004, its Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 1, 2005, its Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2010, its Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2012, and its Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2013, each as a supplement to the Original Indenture, which Supplemental Indentures have been duly recorded in the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana, and in various other Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of March 18, 1999, Harris Trust Company of New York merged into Bank of Montreal Trust Company, Trustee under the Indenture, and effective July 1, 1999, the combined entity changed its name to Harris Trust Company of New York, and, by virtue of Section 9.03 of the Original Indenture, Harris Trust Company of New York became successor Trustee under the Indenture, without execution of any paper or the performance of any further act on the part of any other parties to the Indenture; and
WHEREAS, effective July 15, 2000, Harris Trust Company of New York and Mark F. McLaughlin resigned as Trustee and Co-Trustee, respectively, under the Indenture, and by the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, the Company appointed The Bank of New York and Stephen J. Giurlando as successor Trustee and successor Co-Trustee, respectively, effective July 15, 2000, and The Bank of New York and Stephen J. Giurlando accepted said respective appointments; and
WHEREAS, effective July 1, 2008, The Bank of New York changed its name to The Bank of New York Mellon; and
WHEREAS, effective November 1, 2010, Stephen J. Giurlando resigned as Co-Trustee under the Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore issued, in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, the following series of bonds:
Series | Principal Amount Issued | Principal Amount Outstanding | ||
10.95% Series due May 1, 1997 | $75,000,000 | None | ||
13.20% Series due February 1, 1991 | 1,400,000 | None | ||
13.60% Series due February 1, 1993 | 29,400,000 | None | ||
13.90% Series due February 1, 1995 | 9,200,000 | None | ||
7% Series due March 1, 2003 | 25,000,000 | None | ||
8% Series due March 1, 2023 | 45,000,000 | None | ||
7.55% Series due September 1, 2023 | 30,000,000 | None | ||
8.67% Series due April 1, 2005 | 30,000,000 | None | ||
8% Series due March 1, 2006 | 40,000,000 | None | ||
7% Series due July 15, 2008 | 30,000,000 | None | ||
8.125% Series due July 15, 2005 | 30,000,000 | None | ||
6.65% Series due March 1, 2004 | 30,000,000 | None | ||
6.75% Series due October 15, 2017 | 25,000,000 | None | ||
3.875% Series due August 1, 2008 | 30,000,000 | None | ||
5.25% Series due August 1, 2013 | 70,000,000 | None | ||
5.65% Series due September 1, 2029 | 40,000,000 | 37,921,000 | ||
5.60% Series due September 1, 2024 | 35,000,000 | 33,369,000 | ||
4.98% Series due July 1, 2010 | 30,000,000 | None | ||
5.10% Series due December 1, 2020 | 25,000,000 | 25,000,000 | ||
5.0% Series due December 1, 2052 | 30,000,000 | 30,000,000 | ||
3.90% Series due July 1, 2023 | 100,000,000 | 100,000,000 |
; and
WHEREAS, Section 19.04 of the Original Indenture provides, among other things, that any power, privilege or right expressly or impliedly reserved to or in any way conferred upon the Company by any provision of the Indenture, whether such power, privilege or right is in any way restricted or is unrestricted, may be in whole or in part waived or surrendered or subjected to any restriction if at the time unrestricted, or to additional restriction if already restricted, and the Company may enter into any further covenants, limitations, restrictions or provisions for the benefit of any one or more series of bonds issued thereunder, or the Company may establish the terms and provisions of any series of bonds by an instrument in writing executed and acknowledged by the Company in such manner as would be necessary to entitle a conveyance of real estate to be recorded in all of the states in which any property at the time subject to the Lien of the Indenture shall be situated; and
WHEREAS, in addition to the property described in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, the Company has acquired certain other property, rights and interests in property, including, without limitation, certain real property and interests in real property situated in the State of Arkansas, which real property and interests in real property are more particularly described in Article III hereof; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal instrument have been performed, and the issue of said series of bonds, subject to the terms of the Indenture, has been in all respects duly authorized.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS EIGHTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC., in consideration of the premises and of Ten Dollars ($10) to it duly paid by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in order to secure the payment of both the principal of and interest and premium,
if any, on the bonds from time to time issued under the Indenture, according to their tenor and effect and the performance of all provisions of the Indenture (including any modification made as in the Indenture provided) and of said bonds, hath granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, hypothecated, affected, pledged, set over and confirmed and granted a security interest in, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, hypothecate, affect, pledge, set over and confirm and grant a security interest (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as defined in Section 1.06 of the Original Indenture) unto (to the extent of its legal capacity to hold the same for the purpose hereof) THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee under the Indenture, and to its successor or successors in said trust, and to said Trustee and its successors and assigns forever (1) all rights, legal and equitable, of the Company (whether in accordance with Paragraph 32 of that certain Resolution No. R-86-112, adopted by the Council of the City of New Orleans on March 20, 1986 and accepted by the Company on March 25, 1986, as superseded by Resolution No. R-91-157, effective October 4, 1991, or pursuant to other regulatory authorization or by operation of law or otherwise), in the event of the purchase and acquisition by the City of New Orleans (or any other governmental authority or instrumentality or designee thereof) of properties and assets of the Company, to recover and receive payment and compensation from the City (or from such other governmental authority or instrumentality or designee thereof or any other person) of an amount equal to the aggregate uncollected balance of (A) the deferrals of Grand Gulf 1 Costs (as defined in the Original Indenture) and the deferred carrying charges accrued thereon that have accumulated prior to the City or such other entity providing official notice to the Company of the City’s or such other entity’s intent to effect such purchase and acquisition and (B) if and to the extent that the City or such other entity and the Company agree that the City or such other entity is liable for all or a portion of the aggregate uncollected balance of such deferrals accumulating thereafter or a court of final resort so holds, such deferrals that have accumulated subsequent to such notice (said rights of the Company, together with the proceeds and products thereof, being defined in the Original Indenture as the “Municipalization Interest”); and (2) all properties of the Company, real, personal and mixed, of the kind or nature described or mentioned in the Original Indenture; and (3) all properties of the Company specifically described in Article III hereof and all other properties of the Company, real, personal and mixed, of the kind or nature specifically mentioned in the Original Indenture or of any other kind or nature acquired by the Company on or after the date of the execution and delivery of the Original Indenture (except any herein or in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted), now owned or, subject to the provisions of Section 15.03 of the Original Indenture, hereafter acquired by the Company (by purchase, consolidation, merger, donation, construction, erection or in any other way) and wheresoever situated, including (without in anywise limiting or impairing by the enumeration of the same, the scope and intent of the foregoing or of any general description contained herein or in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented), all real estate, lands, easements, servitudes, licenses, permits, franchises, privileges, rights of way and other rights in or relating to real estate or the occupancy of the same; all power sites, flowage rights, water rights, water locations, water appropriations, ditches, flumes, reservoirs, reservoir sites, canals, raceways, waterways, dams, dam sites, aqueducts, and all other rights or means for appropriating, conveying, storing and supplying water; all rights of way and roads; all plants for the generation of electricity by steam, water and/or other power; all power houses, gas plants, street lighting systems, standards and other equipment incidental thereto; all telephone, radio and television systems, air-conditioning systems, and equipment incidental thereto, water wheels, water works, water systems, steam heat and hot water plants, substations, electric, gas and water lines, service and supply systems, bridges, culverts, tracks, ice or refrigeration plants and equipment, offices, buildings and other structures and the equipment thereof; all machinery, engines, boilers, dynamos, turbines, electric, gas and other machines, prime movers, regulators, meters, transformers, generators (including, but not limited to, engine driven generators and turbogenerator units), motors, electrical, gas and mechanical appliances, conduits, cables, water, steam heat, gas or other pipes, gas mains and pipes, service pipes, fittings, valves and connections, pole and transmission lines, towers, overhead conductors and devices, underground conduits, underground conductors and devices, wires, cables, tools, implements, apparatus, storage battery equipment, and all other fixtures
and presently; all municipal and other franchises, consents or permits; all lines for the transmission and distribution of electric current, gas, steam heat or water for any purpose including towers, poles, wires, cables, pipes, conduits, ducts and all apparatus for use in connection therewith and (except as herein or in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted) all the rights, title and interest of the Company in and to all other property of any kind or nature appertaining to and/or used and/or occupied and/or enjoyed in connection with any property herein or in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, described.
TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, prescriptions, servitudes and appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders and (subject to the provisions of Section 11.01 of the Original Indenture) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, product and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title and interest and claim whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which the Company now has or may hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property, rights and franchises and every part and parcel thereof.
IT IS HEREBY AGREED by the Company that, subject to the provisions of Section 15.03 of the Original Indenture, all the property, rights and franchises acquired by the Company (by purchase, consolidation, merger, donation, construction, erection or in any other way and including real property and interests situated in Louisiana, Arkansas and elsewhere) after the date hereof, except any herein or in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted, shall be and are as fully granted and conveyed hereby and as fully embraced within the Lien of the Original Indenture and the Lien hereof as if such property, rights and franchises were now owned by the Company and were specifically described herein and granted and conveyed hereby.
PROVIDED that, except as provided herein and in the Original Indenture with respect to the Municipalization Interest, the following are not and are not intended to be now or hereafter granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, hypothecated, affected, pledged, set over or confirmed hereunder, nor is a security interest therein hereby or by the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, granted or intended to be granted, and the same are hereby expressly excepted from the Lien of the Indenture and the operation of this Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture, viz.: (1) cash, shares of stock, bonds, notes and other obligations and other securities not heretofore or hereafter specifically pledged, paid, deposited, delivered or held hereunder or covenanted so to be; (2) merchandise, equipment, apparatus, materials or supplies held for the purpose of sale or other disposition in the usual course of business or for the purpose of repairing or replacing (in whole or part) any rolling stock, buses, motor coaches, automobiles and other vehicles or aircraft or boats, ships, or other vessels and any fuel, oil and similar materials and supplies consumable in the operation of any of the properties of the Company; rolling stock, buses, motor coaches, automobiles and other vehicles and all aircraft; boats, ships and other vessels; all timber, minerals, mineral rights and royalties; (3) bills, notes and other instruments and accounts receivable, judgments, demands, general intangibles and chooses in action, and all contracts, leases and operating agreements not specifically pledged hereunder or under the Original Indenture or covenanted so to be; (4) the last day of the term of any lease or leasehold which may hereafter become subject to the Lien of the Indenture; (5) electric energy, gas, water, steam, ice, and other materials or products generated, manufactured, produced or purchased by the Company for sale, distribution or use in the ordinary course of its business; (6) any natural gas wells or natural gas leases or natural gas transportation lines or other works or property used primarily and principally in the production of natural gas or its transportation, primarily for the purpose of sale to natural gas customers or to a natural gas distribution or pipeline company, up to the point of connection with any distribution system; and (7) the Company’s franchise to be a corporation; provided, however, that the property and rights expressly excepted from the Lien and operation of the Indenture in the above subdivisions (2) and (3) shall (to the extent permitted by law) cease to be so excepted in the event and as of the date that the
Trustee or a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property in the manner provided in Article XII of the Original Indenture by reason of the occurrence of a Default.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal and mixed, granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, hypothecated, affected, pledged, set over or confirmed or in which a security interest has been granted by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as defined in Section 1.06 of the Original Indenture), unto (to the extent of its legal capacity to hold the same for the purposes hereof) THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, and its successors and assigns forever.
IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, for the same purposes and upon the same terms, trusts and conditions and subject to and with the same provisos and covenants as are set forth in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture being supplemental thereto.
AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED by the Company that all the terms, conditions, provisos, covenants and provisions contained in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, shall affect and apply to the property hereinbefore and hereinafter described and conveyed and to the estate, rights, obligations and duties of the Company and the Trustee and the beneficiaries of the trust with respect to said property, and to the Trustee and their successors as Trustee of said property in the same manner and with the same effect as if said property had been owned by the Company at the time of the execution of the Original Indenture and had been specifically and at length described in and conveyed to said Trustee by the Original Indenture as a part of the property therein stated to be conveyed.
The Company further covenants and agrees to and with the Trustee and its successor or successors in said trust under the Indenture, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
Section 1.01 Terms From the Original Indenture and First through Seventeenth Supplemental Indentures. All defined terms used in this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Original Indenture or the First through the Seventeenth Supplemental Indentures, as the case may be.
Section 1.02 References are to Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture. Unless the context otherwise requires, all references herein to “Articles”, “Sections” and other subdivisions refer to the corresponding Articles, Sections and other subdivisions of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, and the words “herein”, “hereof”, “hereby”, “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision hereof or to the Original Indenture or any other supplemental indenture thereto.
Section 1.03 Number and Gender. Unless the context otherwise requires, defined terms in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular. The use of a word of any gender shall include all genders.
ARTICLE II
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 2.01 Acceptance of Trusts. The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts herein declared, provided, created or supplemented and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions herein and in the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented, set forth and upon the following terms and conditions:
The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture or for
or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are solely made by the Company. In general, each and every term and condition contained in Article XVI of the Original Indenture shall apply to and form part of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture with the same force and effect as if the same were herein set forth in full with such omissions, variations and insertions, if any, as may be appropriate to make the same conform to the provisions of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture.
Section 2.02 Effect of Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture under Louisiana Law. It is the intention and it is hereby agreed that so far as concerns that portion of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property situated within the State of Louisiana, the general language of conveyance contained in this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture is intended and shall be construed as words of hypothecation and not of conveyance, and that so far as the said Louisiana property is concerned, this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture shall be considered as an act of mortgage and pledge and granting of a security interest under the laws of the State of Louisiana, and the Trustee herein named is named as mortgagee and pledgee and secured party in trust for the benefit of itself and of all present and future holders of bonds issued under the Indenture and any coupons thereto issued hereunder, and is irrevocably appointed special agent and representative of the holders of such bonds and coupons and vested with full power in their behalf to effect and enforce the mortgage and pledge and a security interest hereby constituted for their benefit, or otherwise to act as herein provided for.
Section 2.03 Titles. The titles of the several Articles and Sections of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture shall not be deemed to be any part hereof.
Section 2.04 Counterparts. This Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 2.05 Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, except to the extent that the validity or perfection of the Lien of the Indenture, or remedies thereunder, are governed by the laws of a jurisdiction other than the State of New York.
ARTICLE III
SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY
PARAGRAPH ONE
The Electric Generating Plants, Plant Sites and Stations of the Company, including all electric works, power houses, buildings, pipelines and structures owned by the Company and all land of the Company on which the same are situated and all of the Company’s lands, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, and all rights, ways, servitudes, prescriptions, and easements, rights-of-way, permits, privileges, licenses, poles, wires, machinery, implements, switchyards, electric lines, equipment and appurtenances, forming a part of said plants, sites or stations, or any of them, or used or enjoyed, or capable of being used or enjoyed in conjunction with any of said power plants, sites, stations, lands and property.
PARAGRAPH TWO
The Electric Substations, Switching Stations, Microwave installations and UHF-VHF installations of the Company, and the Sites therefor, including all buildings, structures, towers, poles, all equipment, appliances and devices for transforming, converting, switching, transmitting and distributing electric energy, and for communications, and the lands of the Company on which the same are situated, and all of the Company’s lands, rights, ways, servitudes, prescriptions, easements, rights-of-way, machinery, equipment, appliances, devices, licenses and appurtenances forming a part of said substations, switching stations, microwave installations or UHF-VHF installations, or any of them, or used or enjoyed or capable of being used or enjoyed in conjunction with any of them.
PARAGRAPH THREE
All and singular the Miscellaneous Lands and Real Estate or Rights and Interests therein of the Company, and buildings and improvements thereon, now owned, or, subject to the provisions of Section 15.03 of the Original Indenture, hereafter acquired during the existence of this trust.
PARAGRAPH FOUR
The Electric Transmission Lines of the Company, including the structures, towers, poles, wires, cables, switch racks, conductors, transformers, insulators, pipes, conduits, electric submarine cables, and all appliances, devices and equipment used or useful in connection with said transmission lines and systems, and all other property, real, personal or mixed, forming a part thereof or appertaining thereto, together with all rights-of-way, easements, prescriptions, servitudes, permits, privileges, licenses, consents, immunities and rights for or relating to the construction, maintenance or operation thereof, through, over, across, under or upon any public streets or highways or other lands, public or private.
PARAGRAPH FIVE
The Electric Distribution Lines and Systems of the Company, including the structures, towers, poles, wires, insulators and appurtenances, appliances, conductors, conduits, cables, transformers, meters, regulator stations and regulators, accessories, devices and equipment and all of the Company's other property, real, personal or mixed, forming a part of or used, occupied or enjoyed in connection with or in anywise appertaining to said distribution lines and systems, together with all of the Company’s rights-of-way, easements, permits, prescriptions, privileges, municipal or other franchises, licenses, consents, immunities and rights for or relating to the construction, maintenance or operation thereof, through, over, across, under, or upon any public streets or highways or other lands or property, public or private.
PARAGRAPH SIX
The Gas Distributing Systems of the Company, whether now owned or, subject to the provisions of Section 15.03 of the Original Indenture, hereafter acquired, including gas regulator stations, gas main crossings, odorizing equipment, gas metering stations, shops, service buildings, office buildings, expansion tanks, conduits, gas mains and pipes, mechanical storage sheds, boilers, service pipes, fittings, city gates, pipelines, booster stations, reducer stations, valves, valve platforms, connections, meters and all appurtenances, appliances, devices and equipment and all the Company's other property, real, personal or mixed forming a part of or used, occupied or enjoyed in connection with or in anywise appertaining to said distributing systems, or any of them, together with all of the Company’s rights-of-way, easements, prescriptions, servitudes, privileges, immunities, permits and franchises, licenses, consents and rights for or relating to the construction, maintenance or operation thereof, in, on, through, across or under any public streets or highways or other lands or property, public or private.
PARAGRAPH SEVEN
All of the franchises, privileges, permits, grants and consents for the construction, operation and maintenance of electric and gas systems in, on and under streets, alleys, highways, roads, public grounds and rights-of-way and all rights incident thereto which were granted by the governing and regulatory bodies of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana.
Also all other franchises, privileges, permits, grants and consents owned or hereafter acquired by the Company for the construction, operation and maintenance of electric and gas systems in, on or under the streets, alleys, highways, roads, and public grounds, areas and rights-of-way and/or for the supply and sale of electricity or natural gas and all rights incident thereto, subject, however, to the provisions of Section 15.03 of the Original Indenture.
PARAGRAPH EIGHT
All of the Company’s interest, right and title in and to the PB1 Real Property and the Common Facilities Real Property as defined in that certain Special Warranty Deed executed by Union County, Arkansas on March 1, 2016 in favor of the Company and electronically recorded on March 4, 2016 in the real property records of Union County, Arkansas and assigned number 2016R001542. A copy of said Special Warranty Deed is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
PARAGRAPH NINE
The Company’s right, title, interest, and claim, in, to, and under the Restrictive Covenant/Reversion Clause and the Water Well Real Property as defined in that certain Quitclaim Deed executed on March 3, 2016 by Union Power Partners, L.P. in favor of the Company, Entergy Arkansas, Inc., and Entergy Louisiana, LLC, and their successors and assigns forever, and electronically recorded on March 4, 2016 in the real property records of Union County, Arkansas, and assigned number 2016R001546. A copy of said Quitclaim Deed is attached hereto as Exhibit B.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC. has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its President, one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer or one of its Assistant Treasurers, and its corporate seal to be attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries for and on its behalf, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by one of its Vice Presidents or Assistant Vice Presidents and its corporate seal to be attested by one of its Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, Assistant Treasurers or Assistant Secretaries for and on its behalf, all as of the day and year first above written.
ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC.
By: /s/ Steven C. McNeal
Name: Steven C. McNeal
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
Attest:
By: /s/ Dawn A. Balash
Name: Dawn A. Balash
Title: Assistant Secretary
Executed, sealed and delivered by
ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC.
in the presence of:
By: /s/ Leah W. Dawsey
Name: Leah W. Dawsey
By: /s/ Shannon K. Ryerson
Name: Shannon K. Ryerson
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
As Trustee
By: /s/ Francine Kincaid
Name: Francine Kincaid
Title: Vice President
Attest:
By: /s/ Arsala Kidwai
Name: Arsala Kidwai
Title: Vice President
Executed, sealed and delivered by
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
in the presence of:
By: /s/ Ignazio Tamburello
Name: Ignazio Tamburello
By: /s/ Efren Almazan
Name: Efren Almazan
STATE OF LOUISIANA )
) SS.:
PARISH OF ORLEANS )
On this 15th day of March, 2016, before me appeared STEVEN C. MCNEAL, to me personally known, who, being duly sworn, did say that he is the Vice President and Treasurer of ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC.; and that the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation and that the foregoing instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors, and said STEVEN C. MCNEAL acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation and that he signed, executed and delivered the said instrument for the consideration, uses and purposes therein mentioned and set forth.
On the 15th day of March, 2016, before me personally came STEVEN C. MCNEAL, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is the Vice President and Treasurer of ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, INC., one of the parties described in and which executed the above instrument; 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 he signed his name thereto by like order.
/s/ Jennifer B. Favalora
Notary Public
Jennifer B. Favalora
Louisiana Notary ID No. 57639
Commission expires upon my death
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) SS.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On this 15th day of March, 2016, before me appeared Francine Kincaid to me personally known or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence and, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that he/she is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, and that the seal affixed to the above instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors, and said Vice President acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation and that he/she signed, executed and delivered the said instrument for the consideration, uses and purposes therein mentioned and set forth.
On the 15th day of March, 2016, before me personally came Arsala Kidwai, to me known or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence and, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he/she is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, one of the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that he/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 he/she signed his/her name thereto by like order.
/s/ Christopher J. Traina
Christopher J. Traina
Notary Public - State of New York
No. 01TR6297825
Qualified in Queens County
My Commission Expires March 03, 2018
Certified in New York County
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