CERTIFICATE NUMBER                                              NUMBER OF SHARES

         1                                                            3,000

                    COHEN & STEERS SELECT UTILITY FUND, INC.
                             a Maryland corporation
               Series TH7 Taxable Auction Market Preferred Shares
                            $.001 Par Value Per Share
                    $25,000 Liquidation Preference Per Share

                                                           CUSIP NO. ___________

          This certifies that Cede & Co. is the owner of 3,000 fully paid and
non-assessable Series TH7 Taxable Auction Market Preferred Shares, par value
$.001 per share, $25,000 liquidation preference per share, of Cohen & Steers
Select Utility Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") transferable only on the books of the
Fund by the holder thereof in person or by duly authorized attorney upon
surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid
unless countersigned by the transfer agent and registrar.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Fund has caused this Certificate to be signed
by its duly authorized officers this _______ day of December 2005.

THE BANK OF NEW YORK                              COHEN & STEERS SELECT
As Transfer Agent and Registrar                   UTILITY FUND, INC.


By:                                               By:
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    Authorized Signature                              Name: Adam Derechin
                                                      Title: President


                                                  By:
                                                      --------------------------
                                                      Name: Jay J. Chen
                                                      Title: Treasurer







                                  TRANSFER FORM

          FOR VALUE RECEIVED, ____________________________ hereby sells, assigns
and transfers unto _________ ______ Series TH7 Taxable Auction Market Preferred
Shares represented by this Certificate, and does hereby irrevocably constitute
and appoint ___________________________ attorney to transfer said Shares on the
books of the within named Fund with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated: _____________________, _______

     In presence of:

_____________________                       ____________________

          Series TH7 Taxable Auction Market Preferred Shares evidenced by this
Certificate may be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of only pursuant to
the provisions of the Fund's Articles Supplementary Creating and Fixing the
Rights of Series TH7 Taxable Auction Market Preferred Shares, a copy of which
may be obtained at the office of the State Department of Assessments and
Taxation of Maryland.

          The Fund will furnish information about the restrictions on
transferability to any stockholder upon request and without charge. Any such
request should be addressed to the Secretary of the Fund.

          The Fund will furnish to any stockholder on request and without charge
a full statement of the designations, and any preferences, conversion or other
rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends,
qualifications, and terms and conditions of redemption of the stock of each
class authorized to be issued, the differences in the relative rights and
preferences between shares of any series of any authorized preferred or special
class to the extent they have been set, and the authority of the Board of
Directors to classify unissued shares and to set the relative rights and
preference thereof and of any subsequent series of such preferred or special
classes. Any such request should be addressed to the Secretary of the Fund.

          Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to Issuer or
its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any
certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name
as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made
to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner
hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.