EX-4.1 2 ex41fifty-sixthsupplementa.htm FIFTY-SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE Ex 4.1 Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture
Exhibit 4.1




AVISTA CORPORATION
TO
CITIBANK, N.A.
As Successor Trustee under
Mortgage and Deed of Trust,
dated as of June 1, 1939
________________________
Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture
Providing among other things for a series of bonds designated
“First Mortgage Bonds, Collateral Series 2014A”
Due April 18, 2019


and


an amendment to said Mortgage and Deed of Trust
________________________
Dated as of April 1, 2014








        



FIFTY-SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
THIS INDENTURE, dated as of the 1st day of April, 2014, between AVISTA CORPORATION (formerly known as The Washington Water Power Company), a corporation of the State of Washington, whose post office address is 1411 East Mission Avenue, Spokane, Washington 99202 (the “Company”), and CITIBANK, N.A., formerly First National City Bank (successor by merger to First National City Trust Company, formerly City Bank Farmers Trust Company), a national banking association incorporated and existing under the laws of the United States of America, whose address is 388 Greenwich Street, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10013 (the “Trustee”), as Trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of June 1, 1939 (the “Original Mortgage”), executed and delivered by the Company to secure the payment of bonds issued or to be issued under and in accordance with the provisions thereof, this indenture (the “Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture”) being supplemental to the Original Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented and amended.
WHEREAS pursuant to a written request of the Company made in accordance with Section 103 of the Original Mortgage, Francis M. Pitt (then Individual Trustee under the Mortgage, as supplemented) ceased to be a trustee thereunder on July 23, 1969, and all of his powers as Individual Trustee have devolved upon the Trustee and its successors alone; and
WHEREAS by the Original Mortgage the Company covenanted that it would execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as might be necessary or proper to carry out more effectually the purposes of the Original Mortgage and to make subject to the lien of the Original Mortgage any property thereafter acquired intended to be subject to the lien thereof; and
WHEREAS the Company has heretofore executed and delivered, in addition to the Original Mortgage, the indentures supplemental thereto, and has issued the series of bonds, set forth in Exhibit A hereto (the Original Mortgage, as supplemented and amended by the First through Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indentures and, if the context shall so require, as to be supplemented by this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, being herein sometimes called the “Mortgage”); and
WHEREAS the Original Mortgage and the First through Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indentures have been appropriately filed or recorded in various official records in the States of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon, as set forth in the First through Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indentures and the Instrument of Further Assurance, dated December 15, 2001, hereinafter referred to; and

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WHEREAS the Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2013, has been appropriately filed or recorded in the various official records in the States of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon, as set forth in Exhibit B hereto; and
WHEREAS for the purpose of confirming or perfecting the lien of the Mortgage on certain of its properties, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered a Short Form Mortgage and Security Agreement, in multiple counterparts dated as of various dates in 1992, and such instrument has been appropriately filed or recorded in the various official records in the States of Montana and Oregon; and
WHEREAS for the purpose of confirming or perfecting the lien of the Mortgage on certain of its properties, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered an Instrument of Further Assurance dated as of December 15, 2001, and such instrument has been appropriately filed or recorded in the various official records in the States of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon; and
WHEREAS in addition to the property described in the Mortgage the Company has acquired certain other property, rights and interests in property; and
WHEREAS Section 120 of the Original Mortgage, as heretofore amended, provides that, without the consent of any holders of bonds, the Company and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into indentures supplemental to the Original Mortgage for various purposes set forth therein, including, without limitation, to cure ambiguities or correct defective or inconsistent provisions or to make other changes therein that shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of bonds of any series in any material respect or to establish the form or terms of bonds of any series as contemplated by Article II; and
WHEREAS, the Company now desires to amend Section 120 of the Original Mortgage, as heretofore amended, to expressly permit the restatement in its entirety of the Original Mortgage as amended; and
WHEREAS Section 8 of the Original Mortgage, as heretofore amended, provides that the form of each series of bonds (other than the First Series) issued thereunder and of the coupons to be attached to coupon bonds of such series shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company or by Treasurer’s Certificate, or shall be set forth in an indenture supplemental to the Original Mortgage; that the form of such series, as so established, shall specify the descriptive title of the bonds and various other terms thereof; and that such series may also contain such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of the Mortgage as the Company may, in its discretion, cause to be inserted therein expressing or referring to the terms and conditions upon which such bonds are to be issued and/or secured under the Mortgage; and
WHEREAS the Company further desires to create a new series of bonds; and

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WHEREAS the execution and delivery by the Company of this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture and the terms of the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series, hereinafter referred to, have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company by appropriate Resolutions of said Board of Directors, and all things necessary to make this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal instrument have been performed;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That the Company, in consideration of the premises and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency whereof are hereby acknowledged, hereby confirms the estate, title and rights of the Trustee (including, without limitation, the lien of the Mortgage on the property of the Company subjected thereto, whether now owned or hereafter acquired) held as security for the payment of both the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from time to time issued under the Mortgage according to their tenor and effect and the performance of all the provisions of the Mortgage and of such bonds, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hereby confirms the grant, bargain, sale, release, conveyance, assignment, transfer, mortgage, pledge, setting over and confirmation unto the Trustee, contained in the Mortgage, of all the following described properties of the Company, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, namely:
All of the property, real, personal and mixed, of every character and wheresoever situated (except any hereinafter or in the Mortgage expressly excepted) which the Company now owns or, subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Original Mortgage, may hereafter acquire prior to the satisfaction and discharge of the Mortgage, as fully and completely as if herein or in the Mortgage specifically described, and 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 in Mortgage) all lands, real estate, easements, servitudes, rights of way and leasehold and other interests in real estate; all rights to the use or appropriation of water, flowage rights, water storage rights, flooding rights, and other rights in respect of or relating to water; all plants for the generation of electricity, power houses, dams, dam sites, reservoirs, flumes, raceways, diversion works, head works, waterways, water works, water systems, gas plants, steam heat plants, hot water plants, ice or refrigeration plants, stations, substations, offices, buildings and other works and structures and the equipment thereof and all improvements, extensions and additions thereto; all generators, machinery, engines, turbines, boilers, dynamos, transformers, motors, electric machines, switchboards, regulators, meters, electrical and mechanical appliances, conduits, cables, pipes and mains; all lines and systems for the transmission and distribution of electric current, gas, steam heat or water for any purpose; all towers, mains, pipes, poles, pole lines, conduits, cables, wires, switch racks, insulators, compressors, pumps, fittings, valves and connections; all motor vehicles and automobiles; all tools,

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implements, apparatus, furniture, stores, supplies and equipment; all franchises (except the Company’s franchise to be a corporation), licenses, permits, rights, powers and privileges; and (except as hereinafter or in the Mortgage expressly excepted) all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all other property of any kind or nature.
The Company hereby acknowledges that, as of the date of this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, the real property located in the State of Washington, taken as a whole, that is so conveyed or intended to be so conveyed under the Mortgage is not used principally for agricultural purposes.
The property so conveyed or intended to be so conveyed under the Mortgage shall include, but shall not be limited to, the property set forth in Exhibit C hereto, the particular description of which is intended only to aid in the identification thereof and shall not be construed as limiting the force, effect and scope of the foregoing.
TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders and (subject to the provisions of Section 57 of the Original Mortgage) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, product and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title and interest and claim whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which the Company now has or may hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property and franchises and every part and parcel thereof.
THE COMPANY HEREBY CONFIRMS that, subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Original Mortgage, all the property, rights, and franchises acquired by the Company after the date thereof (except any hereinbefore or hereinafter or in the Mortgage expressly excepted) are and shall be as fully embraced within the lien of the Mortgage as if such property, rights and franchises had been owned by the Company at the date of the Original Mortgage and had been specifically described therein.
PROVIDED THAT the following were not and were not intended to be then or now or hereafter granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed under the Mortgage and were, are and shall be expressly excepted from the lien and operation of the Mortgage namely:  (1) cash, shares of stock and obligations (including bonds, notes and other securities) not hereafter specifically pledged, paid, deposited or delivered under the Mortgage or covenanted so to be; (2) merchandise, equipment, materials or supplies held for the purpose of sale in the usual course of business or for consumption in the operation of any properties of the Company; (3) bills, notes and accounts receivable, and all contracts, leases and operating agreements not specifically pledged under the Mortgage or covenanted so to be; (4) electric energy and other materials or products generated, manufactured, produced or purchased by

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the Company for sale, distribution or use in the ordinary course of its business; and (5) any property heretofore released pursuant to any provisions of the Mortgage and not heretofore disposed of by the Company; provided, however, that the property and rights expressly excepted from the lien and operation of the Mortgage in the above subdivisions (2) and (3) shall (to the extent permitted by law) cease to be so excepted in the event that the Trustee or a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property in the manner provided in Article XII of the Original Mortgage by reason of the occurrence of a Completed Default as defined in said Article XII.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal and mixed, granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed by the Company in the Mortgage as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto the Trustee, and its successors, heirs 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 set forth in the Mortgage, this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture being supplemental to the Mortgage.
AND IT IS HEREBY FURTHER CONFIRMED by the Company that all the terms, conditions, provisos, covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage shall affect and apply to the property in the Mortgage described and conveyed, and to the estates, 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 its successors in the trust, in the same manner and with the same effect as if the said property had been owned by the Company at the time of the execution of the Original Mortgage, and had been specifically and at length described in and conveyed to said Trustee by the Original Mortgage 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 such trust under the Mortgage, as follows:

ARTICLE I
Fifty-seventh Series of Bonds
SECTION 1.(I) There shall be a series of bonds designated “Collateral Series 2014A” (herein sometimes referred to as the “Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series”), each of which shall also bear the descriptive title First Mortgage Bond, and the form thereof is set forth on Exhibit D hereto. Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series shall be issued as fully registered bonds in denominations of One Thousand Dollars and, at the option of the Company, any amount in excess thereof (the exercise of such option to be evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof) and shall be dated as in Section 10 of the Original Mortgage provided. Each Bond of the Fifty-seventh Series shall mature on April 18, 2019 (or such

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later date to which such date shall have been extended as provided below) and shall bear interest, be redeemable and have such other terms and provisions as set forth below.
(II)    The Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series shall have the following terms and characteristics:
(a)    the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series shall be initially authenticated and delivered under the Mortgage in the aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000;
(b)    the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series shall bear interest at the rate of eight per centum (8%) per annum; interest on such Bonds shall accrue from and including the date of the initial authentication and delivery thereof, except as otherwise provided in the form of bond attached hereto as Exhibit D; interest on such Bonds shall be payable on each Interest Payment Date and at Maturity (as each of such terms is hereinafter defined); and interest on such Bonds during any period less than one year for which payment is made shall be computed in accordance with the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined);
(c)    the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on each Bond of the Fifty-seventh Series payable at Maturity shall be payable upon presentation thereof at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts; and the interest on each Bond of the Fifty-seventh Series (other than interest payable at Maturity) shall be payable directly to the registered owner thereof;
(d)    the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series shall not be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;
(e)    (i)    the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series are to be issued and delivered to the Administrative Agent (as hereinafter defined) in order to provide the benefit of the lien of the Mortgage as security for the obligation of the Company under the Credit Agreement to pay the Obligations (as hereinafter defined), to the extent and subject to the limitations set forth in clauses (iii) and (iv) of this subdivision;
(ii)    upon the earliest of (A) the occurrence of an Event of Default (as hereinafter defined), other than an Event of Default referred to in clause (B) below, and further upon the condition that, in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement, the Commitments (as so defined) shall have been or shall have terminated and any Loans (as so defined) shall have been declared to be or shall have otherwise become due and payable immediately and the Administrative Agent shall have demanded that the Company provide cash collateral in the amount of the total LC Exposure (as so defined) and the Administrative Agent shall have delivered to the Company a notice demanding redemption of the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh

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Series which notice states that it is being delivered pursuant to Article VII of the Credit Agreement, (B) the occurrence of an Event of Default under clause (g) or (h) of Article VII of the Credit Agreement and (C) the Stated Maturity (as hereinafter defined), then all Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series shall be redeemed or paid immediately at the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date of redemption or payment;
(iii)    the obligation of the Company to pay the accrued interest on Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series on any Interest Payment Date prior to Maturity (A) shall be deemed to have been satisfied and discharged in full in the event that all amounts then due in respect of the Obligations shall have been paid or (B) shall be deemed to remain unsatisfied in an amount equal to the aggregate amount then due in respect of the Obligations and remaining unpaid (not in excess, however, of the amount otherwise then due in respect of interest on the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series);
(iv)    the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of and accrued interest on Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series at or after Maturity (A) shall be deemed to have been satisfied and discharged in full in the event that all amounts then due in respect of the Obligations shall have been paid or (B) shall be deemed to remain unsatisfied in an amount equal to the aggregate amount then due in respect of the Obligations and remaining unpaid (not in excess, however, of the amount otherwise then due in respect of principal of and accrued interest on the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series).
(v)    the Trustee shall be entitled to presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of and interest on the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until it shall have received a written notice from the Administrative Agent, signed by an authorized officer thereof, stating that the principal of and/or interest on the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series has become due and payable and has not been fully paid, and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment;
(f)    no service charge shall be made for the registration of transfer or exchange of Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series;
(g)    in the event of an application by the Administrative Agent for a substituted Bond of the Fifty-seventh Series pursuant to Section 16 of the Original Mortgage, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to provide any indemnity or pay any expenses or charges as contemplated in said Section 16;
(h)    if the Expiration Date (as hereinafter defined) shall have been extended pursuant to Section 2.20 of the Credit Agreement, and if the Company shall have furnished to the Trustee written evidence of such extension, executed by the

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Administrative Agent, the Stated Maturity shall, without further act, be deemed to have been extended to the Expiration Date (as so extended); and
(i)    the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series shall have such other terms as are set forth in the form of bond attached hereto as Exhibit D.
Anything in this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture or in the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series to the contrary notwithstanding, if, at the time of the Maturity of the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series, the stated aggregate principal amount of such Bonds then Outstanding shall exceed the aggregate Commitments (provided that the aggregate amount of the Commitments at Maturity shall be determined without regard to termination of the Commitments at that time), the aggregate principal amount of such Bonds shall be deemed to have been reduced by the amount of such excess.
(III)    For all purposes of this Article I, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined below shall have the meanings specified:
Administrative Agent” means Union Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent under the Credit Agreement.
Bond Delivery Agreement” means the Bond Delivery Agreement, dated as of April 18, 2014, between the Company and the Administrative Agent.
Commitment” shall have the meaning specified in the Credit Agreement.
“Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of February 11, 2011, among the Company, the lenders party thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, KeyBank National Association and U.S. Bank National Association, as Co-Documentation Agents, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Syndication Agent and an Issuing Bank, and Union Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and an Issuing Bank, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement and Waiver Thereunder, dated as of December 14, 2011, among the Company, the lenders party thereto, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as an Issuing Bank, and Union Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and an Issuing Bank, and as further amended by that certain Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 18, 2014, among the Company, the lenders party thereto, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as an Issuing Bank, and Union Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and an Issuing Bank.
Event of Default shall have the meaning specified in the Credit Agreement.
Expiration Date” shall have the meaning specified in the Credit Agreement.

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Interest Payment Date” means the quarterly date falling on each March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31, commencing on June 30, 2014, and the date of Maturity.
LC Exposure” shall have the meaning specified in the Credit Agreement.
Loans” shall have the meaning specified in the Credit Agreement.
Maturity” means the date on which the principal of the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series becomes due and payable, whether at stated maturity, upon redemption or acceleration or otherwise.
Obligations” shall have the meaning specified in the Bond Delivery Agreement.
Stated Maturity” means April 18, 2019 or such later date to which such date shall have been extended as provided in subsection II(h) above.
A copy of the Credit Agreement is on file at the office of the Administrative Agent at 445 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071 and at the office of the Company at 1411 East Mission Avenue, Spokane, WA 99202.
ARTICLE II
Outstanding Bonds
Upon the delivery of this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series in an aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000 are to be issued and will be Outstanding, in addition to $1,376,700,000 aggregate principal amount of bonds of prior series Outstanding at the date of delivery of this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture (which amount excludes $400,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds, Collateral Series 2011A that are to be retired simultaneously with the issuance and delivery of the Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series); it being understood that, subject to the provisions of the Mortgage, there shall be no limit upon the aggregate principal amount of Bonds of the Fifty-seventh Series which may be authenticated and delivered hereunder.
ARTICLE III
Amendment
The first paragraph of Section 120 of the Original Mortgage, as heretofore amended, is hereby amended
(a)    to delete the word “or” at the end of clause (h) therein;
(b)    to delete the period at the end of clause (i) therein and replace the same with “; or”; and

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(c)    to add immediately after clause (i) a new clause (j) reading as follows:
“(j) to restate this Indenture, as originally executed and as it may have been subsequently amended (or amended and restated), in its entirety, but with such further additions, deletions and/or other changes as shall be permitted by Article XVIII and/or this Section 120.”
ARTICLE IV
Miscellaneous Provisions
SECTION 1. The terms defined in the Original Mortgage shall, for all purposes of this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, have the meanings specified in the Original Mortgage.
SECTION 2. The Trustee hereby confirms its acceptance of the trusts in the Original Mortgage declared, provided, created or supplemented and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions in the Original Mortgage set forth, including the following:
The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made by the Company solely. Each and every term and condition contained in Article XVI of the Original Mortgage shall apply to and form part of this Fifty-sixth 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 Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION 3. Whenever in this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture either of the parties hereto is named or referred to, this shall, subject to the provisions of Articles XV and XVI of the Original Mortgage, be deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party, and all the covenants and agreements in this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company, or by or on behalf of the Trustee, or either of them, shall, subject as aforesaid, bind and inure to the respective benefits of the respective successors and assigns of such parties, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 4. Nothing in this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, expressed or implied, is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or to give to, any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and the holders of the bonds Outstanding under the Mortgage, any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture or any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise or agreement hereof, and all the covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and of the holders of the bonds Outstanding under the Mortgage.

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SECTION 5. This Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture shall 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 6. The titles of the several Articles of this Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture shall not be deemed to be any part thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, on the 18th day of April, 2014, AVISTA CORPORATION has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, and its corporate seal to be attested by its Corporate Secretary or one of its Assistant Corporate Secretaries for and in its behalf, all in The City of Spokane, Washington, as of the day and year first above written; and on the 18th day of April, 2014, CITIBANK, N.A., has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its President or one of its Vice Presidents or one of its Senior Trust Officers or one of its Trust Officers and its corporate seal to be attested by one of its Vice Presidents or one of its Trust Officers, all in The City of New York, New York, as of the day and year first above written.
AVISTA CORPORATION
 
 
 
By:
/s/ MARK T. THIES
 
Name:
Mark T. Thies
 
Title:
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Attest:

/s/ SUSAN Y. FLEMING
Name:
Susan Y. Fleming
Title:
Assistant Corporate Secretary
Executed, sealed and delivered
by AVISTA CORPORATION
in the presence of:
/s/ KEVIN CHRISTIE
Name:
Kevin Christie
 
 
 
 
/s/ RYAN L. KRASSELT
Name:
Ryan L. Krasselt







CITIBANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE
 
 
 
By:
/s/ WAFAA ORFY
 
Name:
Wafaa Orfy
 
Title:
Vice President

Attest:

/s/ LOUIS PISCITELLI
Name:
Louis Piscitelli
Title:
Vice President
Executed, sealed and delivered
by CITIBANK, N.A.,
as trustee, in the presence of:
/s/ JOHN HANNON
Name:
John Hannon
 
 
 
 
/s/ CIRINO EMANUELE
Name:
Cirino Emanuele







STATE OF WASHINGTON )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF SPOKANE    )
On the 18th day of April, 2014, before me personally appeared Mark T. Thies, to me known to be a Vice President of AVISTA CORPORATION, one of the corporations that executed the within and foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said Corporation for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and on oath stated that he was authorized to execute said instrument and that the seal affixed is the corporate seal of said Corporation.
On the 18th day of April, 2014, before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid, personally appeared Mark T. Thies, known to me to be a Vice President of AVISTA CORPORATION, one of the corporations that executed the within and foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that such Corporation executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year first above written.
/s/ DEBBIE DEUBEL
Notary Public
DEBBIE DEUBEL
State of Washington
 
 
 
 
 
Notary Public
State of Washington
Commission Expires 05-09-17









STATE OF NEW YORK    )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK    )
On the 18th day of April, 2014 before me personally appeared Wafaa Orfy, to me known to be a Vice President of CITIBANK, N.A., one of the corporations that executed the within and foregoing instrument, and acknowledged said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said Corporation for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and on oath stated that she was authorized to execute said instrument and that the seal affixed is the corporate seal of said Corporation.
On the 18th day of April, 2014, before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid, personally appeared Wafaa Orfy, known to me to be a Vice President of CITIBANK, N.A., one of the corporations that executed the within and foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that such Corporation executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year first above written.

/s/ NOREEN SANTOS
Notary Public
 
 
NOREEN IRIS SANTOS
Notary Public
State of Washington
Commission Expires September 27, 2014







EXHIBIT A
MORTGAGE, SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
AND SERIES OF BONDS
MORTGAGE OR SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
DATED AS OF
SERIES
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT ISSUED
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OUTSTANDING
NO.
DESIGNATION
Original
June 1, 1939
1
3-1/2% Series due 1964
$22,000,000
None
First
October 1, 1952
2
3-1/2% Series due 1982
(changed to 3-3/4% in Twelfth Supplemental Indenture)
30,000,000
None
Second
May 1, 1953
3
3-7/8% Series due 1983
10,000,000
None
Third
December 1, 1955
 
None
 
 
Fourth
March 15, 1957
 
None
 
 
Fifth
July 1, 1957
4
4-7/8% Series due 1987
30,000,000
None
Sixth
January 1, 1958
5
4-1/8% Series due 1988
20,000,000
None
Seventh
August 1, 1958
6
4-3/8% Series due 1988
15,000,000
None
Eighth
January 1, 1959
7
4-3/4% Series due 1989
15,000,000
None
Ninth
January 1, 1960
8
5-3/8% Series due 1990
10,000,000
None
Tenth
April 1, 1964
9
4-5/8% Series due 1994
30,000,000
None
Eleventh
March 1 ,1965
10
4-5/8% Series due 1995
10,000,000
None
Twelfth
May 1, 1966
 
None
 
 
Thirteenth
August 1, 1966
11
6    % Series due 1996
20,000,000
None
Fourteenth
April 1, 1970
12
9-1/4% Series due 2000
20,000,000
None
Fifteenth
May 1, 1973
13
7-7/8% Series due 2003
20,000,000
None
Sixteenth
February 1, 1975
14
9-3/8% Series due 2005
25,000,000
None
Seventeenth
November 1, 1976
15
8-3/4% Series due 2006
30,000,000
None
Eighteenth
June 1, 1980
 
None
 
 

A-1




MORTGAGE OR SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
DATED AS OF
SERIES
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT ISSUED
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OUTSTANDING
NO.
DESIGNATION
Nineteenth
January 1, 1981
16
14-1/8% Series due 1991
40,000,000
None
Twentieth
August 1, 1982
17
15-3/4% Series due 1990-1992
60,000,000
None
Twenty-First
September 1, 1983
18
13-1/2% Series due 2013
60,000,000
None
Twenty-Second
March 1, 1984
19
13-1/4% Series due 1994
60,000,000
None
Twenty-Third
December 1, 1986
20
9-1/4% Series due 2016
80,000,000
None
Twenty-Fourth
January 1, 1988
21
10-3/8% Series due 2018
50,000,000
None
Twenty-Fifth
October 1, 1989
22

23
7-1/8% Series due 2013

7-2/5% Series due 2016
66,700,000

17,000,000
None

None
Twenty-Sixth
April 1, 1993
24
Secured Medium-Term Notes, Series A ($250,000,000 authorized)
250,000,000
36,000,000
Twenty-Seventh
January 1, 1994
25
Secured Medium-Term Notes, Series B ($250,000,000 authorized)
161,000,000
None
Twenty-Eighth
September 1, 2001
26
Collateral Series due 2002
220,000,000
None
Twenty-Ninth
December 1, 2001
27
7.75% Series due 2007
150,000,000
None
Thirtieth
May 1, 2002
28
Collateral Series due 2003
225,000,000
None
Thirty-first
May 1, 2003
29
Collateral Series due 2004
245,000,000
None
Thirty-second
September 1, 2003
30
6.125% Series due 2013
45,000,000
None
Thirty-third
May 1, 2004
31
Collateral Series due 2005
350,000,000
None
Thirty-fourth
November 1, 2004
32
5.45% Series due 2019
90,000,000
90,000,000
Thirty-fifth
December 1, 2004
33
Collateral Series 2004A
88,850,000
25,000,000
Thirty-sixth
December 1, 2004
34

35
Collateral Series 2004B

Collateral Series 2004C
66,700,000

17,000,000
None

None
Thirty-seventh
December 1, 2004
36
Collateral Series 2004D
350,000,000
None
Thirty-eighth
May 1, 2005
37
Collateral Series 2005B
66,700,000
None

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MORTGAGE OR SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
DATED AS OF
SERIES
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT ISSUED
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OUTSTANDING
NO.
DESIGNATION
 
 
38
Collateral Series 2005C
17,000,000
None
Thirty-ninth
November 1, 2005
39
6.25% Series due 2035
100,000,000

50,000,000
100,000,000

50,000,000
Fortieth
April 1, 2006
40
Collateral Series due 2011
320,000,000
None
Forty-first
December 1, 2006
41
5.70% Series due 2037
150,000,000
150,000,000
Forty-second
April 1, 2008
42
5.95% Series due 2018
250,000,000
250,000,000
Forty-third
November 1, 2008
43
Collateral Series 2008A
200,000,000
None
Forty-fourth
December 1, 2008
44
7.25% Series due 2013
30,000,000
None
Forty-fifth
December 1, 2008
45
Collateral Series 2008B
17,000,000
None
Forty-sixth
September 1, 2009
46
5.125% Series due 2022
250,000,000
250,000,000
Forty-seventh
November 1, 2009
47
Collateral Series 2009A
75,000,000
None
Forty-eighth
December 1, 2010
48
49
Collateral Series 2010A
Collateral Series 2010B
66,700,000
17,000,000
66,700,000
17,000,000
Forty-ninth
December 1, 2010
50
51
3.89% Series due 2020
5.55% Series due 2040
52,000,000
35,000,000
52,000,000
35,000,000
Fiftieth
December 1, 2010
52
1.68% Series due 2013
50,000,000
None
Fifty-first
February 1, 2011
53
Collateral Series 2011A
400,000,000
400,000,000*
Fifty-second
August 1, 2011
 
None
 
 
Fifty-third
December 1, 2011
54
4.45% Series due 2041
85,000,000
85,000,000
Fifty-fourth
November 1, 2012
55
4.23% Series due 2047
80,000,000
80,000,000
Fifty-fifth
August 1, 2013
56
Collateral Series 2013A
90,000,000
90,000,000
TOTAL OUTSTANDING
$1,776,700,000
*
To be retired in connection with the delivery of $400,000,000 of First Mortgage Bonds, Collateral Series 2014A.


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EXHIBIT B
FILING AND RECORDING OF
FIFTY-FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE


FILING IN STATE OFFICES
 
 
 
Financing Statement
State
Office of
Date
Document Number
Washington
Secretary of State
1/16/14
2014-016-6440-6
Idaho
Secretary of State
1/16/14
B 2014-1134374-8
Montana
Secretary of State
1/17/14
140117232562
Oregon
Secretary of State
1/17/14
89941073
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RECORDING IN COUNTY OFFICES
 
 
 
 
 
 
Real Estate Mortgage Records
Financing
 
 
 
Statement
 
 
 
Document
 
 
Document
County
Office of
Date
Number
Book
Page
Number
Washington
 
 
 
 
 
 
Adams
Auditor
10/11/13
305439
N/A
N/A
N/A
Asotin
Auditor
10/14/13
338212
N/A
N/A
N/A
Benton
Auditor
10/15/13
2013-034865
N/A
N/A
N/A
Douglas
Auditor
10/14/13
3173636
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ferry
Auditor
10/14/13
282552
N/A
N/A
N/A
Franklin
Auditor
10/14/13
1807355
N/A
N/A
N/A
Garfield
Auditor
10/11/13
20130595
N/A
N/A
N/A
Grant
Auditor
10/15/13
1324442
N/A
N/A
N/A
Klickitat
Auditor
10/14/13
1105640
N/A
N/A
N/A
Lewis
Auditor
10/14/13
3405834
N/A
N/A
N/A
Lincoln
Auditor
10/11/13
2013-0465399
 
 
N/A
Pend Oreille
Auditor
10/11/13
20130316809
N/A
N/A
N/A
Skamania
Auditor
10/14/13
2013002244
N/A
N/A
N/A
Spokane
Auditor
11/13/13
6264419
N/A
N/A
N/A
Stevens
Auditor
10/11/13
2013 0008383
N/A
N/A
N/A
Thurston
Auditor
11/22/13
4369693
N/A
N/A
N/A
Whitman
Auditor
10/11/13
720879
N/A
N/A
N/A
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Idaho
 
 
 
 
 
 
Benewah
Recorder
10/11/13
267079
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bonner
Recorder
10/11/13
851678
N/A
N/A
N/A
Boundary
Recorder
10/15/13
259068
N/A
N/A
N/A
Clearwater
Recorder
10/15/13
223144
N/A
N/A
N/A
Idaho
Recorder
10/11/13
492126
N/A
N/A
N/A
Kootenai
Recorder
10/11/13
2432298000
N/A
N/A
N/A
Latah
Recorder
10/11/13
562248
N/A
N/A
N/A

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RECORDING IN COUNTY OFFICES
 
 
 
 
 
 
Real Estate Mortgage Records
Financing
 
 
 
Statement
 
 
 
Document
 
 
Document
County
Office of
Date
Number
Book
Page
Number
Idaho (cont.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lewis
Recorder
10/11/13
141863
N/A
N/A
N/A
Nez Perce
Recorder
10/11/13
816616
N/A
N/A
N/A
Shoshone
Recorder
10/11/13
474761
N/A
N/A
N/A
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Montana
 
 
 
 
 
 
Big Horn
Clerk & Recorder
10/15/13
347735
127
560-588
N/A
Broadwater
Clerk & Recorder
10/15/13
170118
153
4
N/A
Golden Valley
Clerk & Recorder
10/15/13
81557
M
16773
N/A
Meagher
Clerk & Recorder
10/16/13
140905
N/A
N/A
N/A
Mineral
Clerk & Recorder
10/15/13
111322
N/A
N/A
N/A
Rosebud
Clerk & Recorder
10/15/13
112373
141
508-536
N/A
Sanders
Clerk & Recorder
10/15/13
295237
N/A
N/A
N/A
Stillwater
Clerk & Recorder
10/15/13
356778
N/A
N/A
N/A
Treasure
Clerk & Recorder
10/15/13
82289
20
941
N/A
Wheatland
Clerk & Recorder
10/17/13
107926
M
24877-24905
N/A
Yellowstone
Clerk & Recorder
10/16/13
3687055
N/A
N/A
N/A
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Oregon
 
 
 
 
 
 
Douglas
Recorder
10/14/13
2013-017223
N/A
N/A
N/A
Jackson
Recorder
10/17/13
2013-035996
N/A
N/A
N/A
Josephine
Recorder
10/14/13
2013-014026
N/A
N/A
N/A
Klamath
Recorder
11/1/13
2013-012893
N/A
N/A
N/A
Morrow
Recorder
10/14/13
2013-33203
N/A
N/A
N/A
Union
Recorder
10/15/13
163905
N/A
N/A
N/A
Wallowa
Recorder
10/15/13
70155
N/A
N/A
N/A





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EXHIBIT C
PROPERTY ADDITIONS
First
ADDITIONAL ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS AND SUBSTATIONS AND SUBSTATION SITES OF THE COMPANY, in the State of Washington, including all buildings, structures, towers, poles, equipment, appliances and devices for transforming, converting and distributing electric energy, and the lands of the Company on which the same are situated and all of the Company’s real estate and interests therein, machinery, equipment, appliances, devices, appurtenances and supplies, franchises, permits and other rights and other property forming a part of said substations or any of them, or used or enjoyed or capable of being used or enjoyed in connection with any thereof, including, but not limited to, the following situated in the State of Washington, to wit:
(1)
Grant County, WA: “Stratford Substation”; Property No. WA-13-033.1; Grantor: United States of America Bureau of Reclamation; That portion of the NW1/4NW1/4 of Section 11,Township 22 North, Range 28 East, Grant County, Washington
(2)
Spokane County, WA: “College and Walnut Substation”: Property No. WA-32-044.1 Lot 2, Block 2, Kendall Yards Bridgeway Apartments PUD and the West 1/2 of vacated Walnut Street East of and adjoining Lots 2 and 3 of Kendall Yards Bridgeway Apartments PUD and West 30' of N 14.75 ' of vacated Bridge Avenue lying South of and adjoining the West 1/2 of vacated Walnut Street in SE1/4 of Section 13, Township 25 North, Range 42 East, Spokane County, Washington

Second
ADDITIONAL PROTECTION, MITIGATION AND ENHANCEMENT PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY, in the States of Montana and Idaho, real, personal, or mixed, acquired, constructed and/or installed in, on, under and/or proximate to the Company’s Clark Fork hydroelectric development (including, without limitation, the Cabinet Gorge Hydroelectric Generating Station and the Noxon Rapids Hydroelectric Generating Station) for the purpose of protecting and/or enhancing wildlife (including fish and aquatic life), botanical life and/or wetlands, and/or mitigating any harm or damage thereto, and all other property, real, personal or mixed, used or enjoyed or capable of being used or enjoyed in conjunction therewith, including, but not limited to, the following in the State of Montana and the State of Idaho, to wit:
(1)
Sanders County, MT: “Squaw Creek Mitigation Property”; Property No. MT-35-261; Grantor: Kenneth B. and Mary E. Vannice; E1/2NE1/4 Section 23, Township 22 North, Range 30 West, P.M.M.

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(2)
Bonner County, ID: “Trestle Creek Mitigation Property”; Property No. ID-7B-251.1(a); Grantor: Estate of Mildred C. Lagrou; Government Lot 2 and S1/2 NW1/4 South of County Road, Section 15, Township 57 North, Range 1 East, B.M., Bonner County, Idaho.
Third
ADDITIONAL BUSINESS OFFICE/S AND/OR REAL ESTATE OF THE COMPANY, in the State of Washington, to wit:
(1)
Spokane County, WA: “Ross Park Expansion” Property No. WA-32-004; Grantor: Robert C. and Laura A. Davis; Lot 2, Block 1, Hamlin’s Subdivision of the East Half of Block 6 of Ross Park, as per plat recorded in Volume “B” of Plats, Situate in the City of Spokane, Section 9, Township 25 North, Range 43 East.
(2)
Stevens County, WA: “Kettle Falls Orchard Property”; Property No. WA-33-262; Grantor: Wimberly Trust, Edward L. and Carol J. Wimberly, Trustees; SW1/4NE1/4 and that part of the S1/2NW1/4 of Section 24, Township 26 North, Range 37 East, W.M., Stevens County, Washington.




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EXHIBIT D
(Form of Bond)
This bond is non-transferable, except to a successor
Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement referred to herein.
AVISTA CORPORATION
First Mortgage Bond,
Collateral Series 2014A
REGISTERED
 
REGISTERED

NO._________________
 

$400,000,000

AVISTA CORPORATION, a corporation of the State of Washington (hereinafter called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
, as Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement hereinafter referred to, or registered assigns on April 18, 2019 (or such later date to which such date shall have been extended as provided below)
FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS
and to pay the registered owner hereof interest thereon from April 18, 2014 in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing on June 30, 2014 (each such date being hereinafter called an “Interest Payment Date”), and the date of Maturity (as hereinafter defined), at the rate of eight per centum (8%) per annum computed as provided in the Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to, until the Company’s obligation with respect to the payment of such principal shall have been discharged. The principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this bond payable at Maturity shall be payable upon presentation hereof at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts. The interest on this bond (other than interest payable at Maturity) shall be paid directly to the registered owner hereof. Interest payable at Maturity shall be paid to the person to whom principal shall be paid. As used herein, the term “Maturity” shall mean the date on which the principal of this bond becomes due and payable, whether at stated maturity, upon redemption or acceleration, or otherwise.
This bond is one of an issue of bonds of the Company issuable in series and is one of a series known as its First Mortgage Bonds, Collateral Series 2014A, all bonds of

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all such series being issued and issuable under and equally secured (except insofar as any sinking or other fund, established in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned, may afford additional security for the bonds of any particular series) by a Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of June 1, 1939 (the “Original Mortgage”), executed by the Company (formerly known as The Washington Water Power Company) to City Bank Farmers Trust Company and Ralph E. Morton, as Trustees (Citibank, N.A., successor Trustee to both said Trustees). The Original Mortgage has been amended and supplemented by various supplemental indentures, including the Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 1, 2014 (the “Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture”), and, as so amended and supplemented, is herein called the “Mortgage.” Reference is made to the Mortgage for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders of the bonds and of the Trustee in respect thereof, the duties and immunities of the Trustee, the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are and are to be secured and the circumstances under which additional bonds may be issued. If there shall be a conflict between the terms of this bond and the provisions of the Mortgage, the provisions of the Mortgage shall control to the extent permitted by law. The holder of this bond, by its acceptance hereof, shall be deemed to have consented and agreed to all of the terms and provisions of the Mortgage.
The Mortgage may be modified or altered by affirmative vote of the holders of at least 60% in principal amount of the bonds outstanding under the Mortgage, considered as one class, or, if the rights of one or more, but less than all, series of bonds then outstanding are to be affected, then such modification or alteration may be effected with the affirmative vote only of 60% in principal amount of the bonds outstanding of the series so to be affected, considered as one class, and, furthermore, for limited purposes, the Mortgage may be modified or altered without any consent or other action of holders of any series of bonds. No modification or alteration shall, however, permit an extension of the Maturity of the principal of, or interest on, this bond or a reduction in such principal or the rate of interest hereon or any other modification in the terms of payment of such principal or interest or the creation of any lien equal or prior to the lien of the Mortgage or deprive the holder of a lien on the mortgaged and pledged property without the consent of the holder hereof.
The bonds of this series are not redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company.
The bonds of this series have been issued and delivered to Union Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement (as such terms are defined in the Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture), in order to provide the benefit of the lien of the Mortgage as security for the obligation of the Company under the Credit Agreement to pay the Obligations (as so defined), to the extent and subject to the limitations set forth below.
Upon the earliest of (A) the occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture), and further upon the condition that, in accordance

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with the terms of the Credit Agreement, the Commitments (as so defined) shall have been or shall have terminated and any Loans (as so defined) shall have been declared to be or shall have otherwise become due and payable immediately and the Administrative Agent shall have demanded that the Company provide cash collateral in the amount of the total LC Exposure (as so defined) and the Administrative Agent shall have delivered to the Company a notice demanding redemption of the bonds of this series which notice states that it is being delivered pursuant to Article VII of the Credit Agreement, (B) the occurrence of an Event of Default under clause (g) or (h) of Article VII of the Credit Agreement and (C) the Stated Maturity (as defined below), then all bonds of this series shall be redeemed or paid immediately at the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date of redemption or payment.
The obligation of the Company to pay the accrued interest on bonds of this series on any Interest Payment Date prior to Maturity (a) shall be deemed to have been satisfied and discharged in full in the event that all amounts then due in respect of the Obligations shall have been paid or (b) shall be deemed to remain unsatisfied in an amount equal to the aggregate amount then due in respect of the Obligations and remaining unpaid (not in excess, however, of the amount otherwise then due in respect of interest on the bonds of this series).
The obligation of the Company to pay the principal of and accrued interest on bonds of this series at or after Maturity (a) shall be deemed to have been satisfied and discharged in full in the event that all amounts then due in respect of the Obligations shall have been paid or (b) shall be deemed to remain unsatisfied in an amount equal to the aggregate amount then due in respect of the Obligations and remaining unpaid (not in excess, however, of the amount otherwise then due in respect of principal of and accrued interest on the bonds of this series).
As used herein, “Stated Maturity” means April 18, 2019 or such later date to which such date shall have been extended as provided in the Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture.
Anything in this bond to the contrary notwithstanding, if, at the time of the Maturity of the bonds of this series, the stated aggregate principal amount of such bonds then outstanding shall exceed the aggregate Commitments (provided that the aggregate amount of the Commitments at Maturity shall be determined without regard to termination of the Commitments at that time), the aggregate principal amount of such bonds shall be deemed to have been reduced by the amount of such excess.
The principal hereof may be declared or may become due prior to the Stated Maturity on the conditions, in the manner and at the time set forth in the Mortgage, upon the occurrence of a Completed Default as in the Mortgage provided.

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As provided in the Mortgage and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, this bond or any portion of the principal amount hereof will be deemed to have been paid if there has been irrevocably deposited with the Trustee moneys or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of America, the principal of and interest on which when due, and without regard to any reinvestment thereof, will provide moneys which, together with moneys so deposited, will be sufficient to pay when due the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this bond when due.
The Mortgage contains terms, provisions and conditions relating to the consolidation or merger of the Company with or into, and the conveyance or other transfer, or lease, of assets to, another corporation and to the assumption by such other corporation, in certain circumstances, of all of the obligations of the Company under the Mortgage and on the bonds secured thereby.
This bond is non-transferable except as required to effect transfer to any successor administrative agent under the Credit Agreement, any such transfer to be made at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond, together with a written instrument of transfer whenever required by the Company duly executed by the registered owner or by its duly authorized attorney, and, thereupon, a new fully registered bond of the same series for a like principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor as provided in the Mortgage. The Company and the Trustee may deem and treat the person in whose name this bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment and for all other purposes.
In the manner prescribed in the Mortgage, any bonds of this series, upon surrender thereof for cancellation at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or interest on this bond against any incorporator or any past, present or future subscriber to the capital stock, stockholder, officer or director of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation, as such, either directly or through the Company or any predecessor or successor corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitution or by the enforcement of any assessment or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, subscribers, stockholders, officers and directors being released by the holder or owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage.
This bond shall not become obligatory until Citibank, N.A., the Trustee under the Mortgage, or its successor thereunder, shall have signed the form of certificate endorsed hereon.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, AVISTA CORPORATION has caused this bond to be signed in its corporate name by its President or one of its Vice Presidents by his signature or a facsimile thereof, and its corporate seal to be impressed or imprinted hereon and attested by its Corporate Secretary or one of its Assistant Corporate Secretaries by his signature or a facsimile thereof.
Dated:
AVISTA CORPORATION
 
 
 
 
By:
 
Name:
 
Title:
 

Attest:
 


TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE
This bond is one of the bonds, of the series herein designated, described or provided for in the within-mentioned Mortgage.
CITIBANK, N.A.
Trustee
 
 
 
 
By:
 
 
Authorized Signatory


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ASSIGNMENT FORM
FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
[please insert social security or other identifying number of assignee]
 
 
[please print or typewrite name and address of assignee]
 
 
the within bond of AVISTA CORPORATION and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _______________ _______________, Attorney, to transfer said bond on the books of the within-mentioned Company, will full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
 
 
 
 
 
 
[signature of assignor]
Notice: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the bond in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.


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