-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, OH5wSMogiYl0Oi/JO3i3ag+jYuW9oCRAlmXcELtk9H0H7elmpEA1JrCbZSpZ+nnf bfx2b18ddupWJo+dDlS6YA== 0001104659-06-061893.txt : 20060919 0001104659-06-061893.hdr.sgml : 20060919 20060919171108 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-06-061893 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20060913 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20060919 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20060919 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: DAYTON POWER & LIGHT CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000027430 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931] IRS NUMBER: 310258470 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-02385 FILM NUMBER: 061098598 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1065 WOODMAN DRIVE CITY: DAYTON STATE: OH ZIP: 45432 BUSINESS PHONE: 9372246000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1065 WOODMAN DRIVE CITY: DAYTON STATE: OH ZIP: 45432 8-K 1 a06-19798_18k.htm CURRENT REPORT OF MATERIAL EVENTS OR CORPORATE CHANGES

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):   September 13, 2006

The Dayton Power and Light Company

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Ohio

 

1-2385

 

31-0258470

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

 

 

1065 Woodman Drive, Dayton, Ohio

 

45432

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:   (937) 224-6000

 

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

o   Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

o   Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

o   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

o   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 




Item 1.01.         Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On September 13, 2006, The Dayton Power and Light Company (the “Company”) entered into a 44th Supplemental Indenture to its First and Refunding Mortgage, dated as of September 1, 2006, with the Bank of New York, as trustee.  The Company also entered into a loan agreement as described below in Item 2.03 of this Form 8-K.  The information reported below in Item 2.03 of this Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.

Item 2.03.         Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

On September 13, 2006, the Company completed the financing of pollution control bonds issued by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority (“OAQDA”) consisting of 2006 Series A bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $100.0 million with an interest rate of 4.80% (the “Bonds”).  The Bonds mature on September 1, 2036.  The bonds are being issued pursuant to a Trust Indenture, dated as of September 1, 2006, between the OAQDA and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

On September 13, 2006, the Company entered into a Loan Agreement, dated September 1, 2006, with the OAQDA (the “Loan Agreement”) whereby the proceeds of the sale of the Bonds were loaned to the Company.  The proceeds of the Bonds will be used to assist the Company in financing its portion of the costs of acquiring, constructing, and installing portions of certain solid waste disposal facilities comprising “air quality facilities” as defined in Section 3706.01 of the Ohio Revised Code, at four generating stations located in Ohio (Miami Fort, J.M. Stuart, Killen, and Conesville).  To secure the repayment of its obligations to the OAQDA, the Company entered into a 44th Supplemental Indenture, dated September 1, 2006, to its First and Refunding Mortgage for first mortgage bonds (the “2006 First Mortgage Bonds”) with The Bank of New York serving as trustee.   The 2006 First Mortgage Bonds will be the same as the Bonds with respect to aggregate principal amount, interest rate, and maturity date.

Payment of interest on the loan is payable on March 1 and September 1 of each year, commencing on March 1, 2007.  Principal on the loan is payable on the maturity date.  A default by the Company on the Loan Agreement would create a corresponding default under the 44th Supplemental Indenture to the First and Refunding Mortgage and provide the protection granted to other First Mortgage Bond holders.

The foregoing descriptions of the terms of the Loan Agreement and the 44th Supplemental Indenture to the First and Refunding Mortgage are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Loan Agreement with exhibits and the 44th Supplemental Indenture that are attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1 and 4.2 and incorporated herein by reference.

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Item 9.01.         Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)           Exhibits.

4.1

 

Loan Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2006, by and between Ohio Air Quality Development Authority and The Dayton Power and Light Company.

 

 

 

4.2

 

44th Supplemental Indenture to the First and Refunding Mortgage, dated as of September 1, 2006, by and between the Bank of New York, as trustee and The Dayton Power and Light Company.

 

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Signature

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

The Dayton Power and Light Company

 

 

Date:  September 19, 2006

 

 

 

/s/ Miggie E. Cramblit

 

 

Name:

Miggie E. Cramblit

 

Title:

Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.

 

Description

 

Paper (P) or
Electronic (E)

 

 

 

 

 

4.1

 

Loan Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2006, by and between Ohio Air Quality Development Authority and The Dayton Power and Light Company.

 

E

 

 

 

 

 

4.2

 

44th Supplemental Indenture to the First and Refunding Mortgage, dated as of September 1, 2006, by and between the Bank of New York, as trustee and The Dayton Power and Light Company.

 

E

 

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EX-4.1 2 a06-19798_1ex4d1.htm EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

 

LOAN AGREEMENT

between

OHIO AIR QUALITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

and

THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY


 

$100,000,000
State of Ohio
Collateralized Air Quality Development Revenue Bonds,
2006 Series A
(The Dayton Power and Light Company Project)


 

Dated

as of

September 1, 2006

 




INDEX

(This Index is not a part of the Agreement
but rather is for convenience of reference only.)

 

 

 

Page

Preambles

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE I

 

 

DEFINITIONS

 

 

 

 

Section

1.1

Use of Defined Terms

 

2

Section

1.2

Definitions

 

2

Section

1.3

Interpretation

 

6

Section

1.4

Captions and Headings

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE II

 

 

REPRESENTATIONS

 

 

 

 

Section

2.1

Representations of the Authority

 

7

Section

2.2

No Warranty by Authority of Condition or

 

 

 

 

Suitability of the Project

 

7

Section

2.3

Representations and Covenants of the Company

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE III

 

 

COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT;

 

 

ISSUANCE OF THE BONDS

 

 

 

 

Section

3.1

Acquisition, Construction and Installation

 

10

Section

3.2

Project Description

 

11

Section

3.3

Issuance of the Bonds; Application of Proceeds

 

11

Section

3.4

Disbursements from the Project Fund

 

11

Section

3.5

Company Required to Pay Costs in Event Project Fund Insufficient

 

13

Section

3.6

Completion Date

 

13

Section

3.7

Investment of Fund Moneys

 

13

Section

3.8

Rebate Fund

 

14

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV

 

 

LOAN BY AUTHORITY; LOAN PAYMENTS;

 

 

ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS; AND FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS

 

 

 

 

Section

4.1

Loan Repayment; Delivery of First Mortgage Bonds

 

15

Section

4.2

Additional Payments

 

15

Section

4.3

Place of Payments

 

15

Section

4.4

Obligations Unconditional

 

15

Section

4.5

Assignment of Revenues, Agreement and First Mortgage Bonds

 

16

Section

4.6

First Mortgage Bonds

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE V

 

 

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS AND COVENANTS

 

 

 

 

Section

5.1

Right of Access

 

17

Section

5.2

Maintenance

 

17

Section

5.3

Removal of Portions of the Project Facilities

 

17

Section

5.4

Operation of Project Facilities

 

17

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Section

5.5

Insurance

 

18

Section

5.6

Workers’ Compensation Coverage

 

18

Section

5.7

Damage; Destruction and Eminent Domain

 

18

Section

5.8

Company to Maintain its Corporate Existence; Conditions Under Which Exceptions Permitted

 

18

Section

5.9

Indemnification

 

18

Section

5.10

Company Not to Adversely Affect Exclusion of Interest on Bonds From Gross Income For Federal Income Tax Purposes

 

19

Section

5.11

Use of Project Facilities

 

19

Section

5.12

Assignment by Company

 

19

Section

5.13

Bond Insurance Policy

 

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI

 

 

REDEMPTION

 

 

 

 

Section

6.1

Optional Redemption

 

21

Section

6.2

Extraordinary Optional Redemption

 

21

Section

6.3

Mandatory Redemption

 

22

Section

6.4

Notice of Redemption

 

23

Section

6.5

Actions by Authority

 

23

Section

6.6

Concurrent Discharging of First Mortgage Bonds

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII

 

 

EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

 

 

 

 

Section

7.1

Events of Default

 

24

Section

7.2

Remedies on Default

 

25

Section

7.3

No Remedy Exclusive

 

25

Section

7.4

Agreement to Pay Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses

 

25

Section

7.5

No Waiver

 

26

Section

7.6

Notice of Default

 

26

Section

7.7

Survival

 

26

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

 

Section

8.1

Term of Agreement

 

27

Section

8.2

Amounts Remaining in Funds

 

27

Section

8.3

Notices

 

27

Section

8.4

Extent of Covenants of the Authority; No Personal

 

 

 

 

Liability

 

27

Section

8.5

Binding Effect

 

27

Section

8.6

Amendments and Supplements

 

28

Section

8.7

Execution Counterparts

 

28

Section

8.8

Severability

 

28

Section

8.9

Governing Law

 

28

Section

8.10

Continuing Disclosure

 

28

Section

8.11

Third-Party Beneficiary

 

28

 

 

 

 

 

Signatures

 

 

 

29

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit A - DESCRIPTION OF AIR QUALITY FACILITIES

 

A-1

 

 

 

Exhibit B – FORM OF DISBURSEMENT REQUEST

 

B-1

 

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LOAN AGREEMENT

THIS LOAN AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of September 1, 2006 between the OHIO AIR QUALITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (the “Authority”), a body politic and corporate duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Ohio, and THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY (the “Company”), a public utility and corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Ohio.  Capitalized terms used in the following recitals are used as defined in Article I of this Agreement.

Pursuant to Section 13 of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution and the Act, the Authority has determined to issue, sell and deliver the Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 and to lend the proceeds derived from the sale thereof to the Company to assist in the financing of its portion of the costs of the Project as defined below.

The Company and the Authority each have full right and lawful authority to enter into this Agreement and to perform and observe the provisions hereof on their respective parts to be performed and observed.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual representations and agreements hereinafter contained, the Authority and the Company agree as follows (provided that any obligation of the Authority or the State created by or arising out of this Agreement shall never constitute a general debt of the Authority or the State or give rise to any pecuniary liability of the Authority or the State but shall be payable solely out of Revenues, including Loan Payments made pursuant to the First Mortgage Bonds):




ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1.            Use of Defined Terms.  In addition to the words and terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement or by reference to another document, the words and terms set forth in Section 1.2 hereof shall have the meanings set forth therein unless the context or use clearly indicates another meaning or intent.  Such definitions shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of any of the words and terms defined therein.

Section 1.2.            Definitions.  As used herein:

“Act” means Chapter 3706, Ohio Revised Code, as enacted and amended from time to time pursuant to Section 13 of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution.

“Additional Payments” means the amounts required to be paid by the Company pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.2 hereof.

“Administration Expenses” means the compensation (which compensation shall not be greater than that typically charged in similar circumstances; and which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of any express trust) and reimbursement of reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of the Trustee, the Registrar, any Paying Agent and any Authenticating Agent (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all other persons not regularly in its employ), and shall also include all fees, charges, expenses, advances, compensation and reimbursements and all other amounts due the Trustee, the Registrar and any Paying Agent or Authenticating Agent under or pursuant to Section 6.03 of the Indenture.

“Agreement” means this Loan Agreement, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Air Quality Facility” or “Air Quality Facilities” means those facilities which are air quality facilities as defined in Section 3706.01, Ohio Revised Code

“Authenticating Agent” means the Authenticating Agent as defined in the Indenture.

“Authority Fee” means the amount of $302,500.

“Authorized Company Representative” means the Treasurer of the Company or any other officer or employee of the Company so designated for purposes hereof in a written communication from the Treasurer of the Company to the Trustee.

“Bond Fund” means the Bond Fund created in the Indenture.

“Bond Insurance Agreement” means the Insurance Agreement entered into between the Company and the Bond Insurer in connection with the issuance of the Bond Insurance Policy.

“Bond Insurance Policy” or “Policy” means the municipal bond insurance policy issued by the Bond Insurer that guarantees payment of principal of and interest on the Bonds.

“Bond Insurer” means Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, a New York stock insurance company, or any successor thereto.

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“Bond Resolution” means the resolution of the Authority providing for the issuance of the Bonds and approving this Agreement, the Indenture and related matters, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Bond Service Charges” means, for any period or time, the principal of and interest due on the Bonds for that period or payable at that time whether due at stated maturity, by redemption, upon acceleration or otherwise.

“Bonds” means the State of Ohio $100,000,000 Collateralized Air Quality Development Revenue Bonds, 2006 Series A (The Dayton Power and Light Company Project), issued by the Authority pursuant to the Bond Resolution and the Indenture.

“Bonds Outstanding” or “Outstanding Bonds” means Outstanding Bonds as defined in the Indenture.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.  References to the Code and Sections of the Code include relevant applicable regulations and proposed regulations thereunder and any successor provisions to those Sections, regulations or proposed regulations and, in addition, all applicable official rulings and judicial determinations under the foregoing applicable to the Bonds.

“Company Mortgage” means the First and Refunding Mortgage, dated as of October 1, 1935, between the Company and the Company Mortgage Trustee, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.

“Company Mortgage Trustee” means The Bank of New York (formerly Irving Trust Company) as trustee under the Company Mortgage, and its successors and assigns.

“Completion Date” means the date of completion of the Project as set forth in the certificate to be furnished by the Company pursuant to Section 3.6 hereof.

 “Continuing Disclosure Agreement” means that certain Continuing Disclosure Agreement between the Company and the Trustee dated as of September 1, 2006, as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Construction Period” means the period between the beginning of the acquisition, construction, installation, equipping and improvement of the Project and the Completion Date.

“Eligible Investments” means Eligible Investments as defined in the Indenture.

“Engineer” means an engineer (who may be an employee of the Company) or engineering firm qualified to practice the profession of engineering under the laws of the State and who or which is acceptable to the Trustee.

“EPA” means the Environmental Protection Agency of the State and any successor body, agency, commission or department.

“Event of Default” means any of the events described as an Event of Default in Section 7.1 hereof.

“First Mortgage Bonds” means the Company’s $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds, 4.80% Pollution Control Series Due 2036, issued under the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture.

“Force Majeure” means any of the causes, circumstances or events described as constituting Force Majeure in Section 7.1 hereof.

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“Generating Stations” means, respectively, the Miami Fort Generating Station, the Killen Generating Station, the Stuart Generating Station and the Conesville Generating Station, all as defined and described in Exhibit A hereto.

“Government Obligations” means Government Obligations as defined in the Indenture.

“Holder” or “Holder of a Bond” means the Person in whose name a Bond is registered on the Register.

“Indenture” means the Trust Indenture, dated as of the same date as this Agreement, between the Authority and the Trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Interest Rate for Advances” means the interest rate per year payable on the Bonds.

“Issuance Costs” means those costs relating to the issuance of the Bonds as that term is used in Section 147(g) of the Code, including financial, legal, accounting and printing fees, charges and expenses, underwriting fees, the Authority Fee, initial acceptance fees of the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, the Registrar and any Paying Agent, and all other such fees, charges and expenses incurred in connection with the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Bonds.

 “Loan” means the loan by the Authority to the Company of the proceeds received from the sale of the Bonds.

“Loan Payment Date” means any date on which any Bond Service Charges are due and payable.

“Loan Payments” means the amounts required to be paid by the Company on the First Mortgage Bonds in repayment of the Loan pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof.

“Notice Address” means:

(a) As to the Authority:

Ohio Air Quality Development Authority

 

LeVeque Tower, Suite 1718

 

50 West Broad Street

 

Columbus, Ohio 43215

 

Attention: Executive Director

 

 

(b) As to the Company:

The Dayton Power and Light Company

 

1065 Woodman Drive

 

Dayton, Ohio 45432

 

Attention: Treasurer

 

 

(c) As to the Trustee:

The Bank of New York

 

385 Rifle Camp Road, 3rd Floor

 

West Paterson, New Jersey 07424

 

Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

 

or such additional or different address, notice of which is given under Section 8.3 hereof.

“Opinion of Bond Counsel” means a written opinion of nationally recognized bond counsel selected by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee who is experienced in matters relating to the exclusion from gross income for federal income tax purposes of interest on obligations issued by states and their political subdivisions.  Bond Counsel may be counsel to the Trustee or the Company.

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“Original Purchaser” means the Original Purchaser as defined in the Indenture.

“Paying Agent” means the Paying Agent as defined in the Indenture.

“Person” or words importing persons mean firms, associations, partnerships (including without limitation, general and limited partnerships), joint ventures, societies, estates, trusts, corporations, public or governmental bodies, other legal entities and natural persons.

 “Project” or “Project Facilities” means the real, personal or real and personal property, including undivided or other interests therein, identified in the Project Description.

“Project Costs” means the costs of the Project specified in Section 3.4 hereof.

“Project Fund” means the Project Fund created in the Indenture.

“Project Description” means the description of the Project Facilities attached hereto as Exhibit A, as the same may be amended in accordance with this Agreement.

“Project Purposes” means the purposes of Air Quality Facilities as described in the Act and as particularly described in Exhibit A hereto.

“Project Site” means the respective sites of the Generating Stations.

“Rebate Fund” means the Rebate Fund created in the Indenture.

“Register” means the books kept and maintained for the registration and transfer of Bonds pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Indenture.

“Registrar” means the Registrar as defined in the Indenture.

“Revenues” means (a) the Loan Payments; (b) all other moneys received or to be received by the Authority (excluding the Authority Fee) or the Trustee in respect of repayment of the Loan, including without limitation, all moneys and investments in the Bond Fund; (c) any moneys and investments in the Project Fund; and (d) all income and profit from the investment of the foregoing moneys.  The term “Revenues” does not include any moneys or investments in the Rebate Fund.

“State” means the State of Ohio.

“Station Unit” means, respectively,  Units 7 and 8 at the Miami Fort Generating Station, Unit 2 at the Killen Electric Generating Station, Units 1-4 at the J.M. Stuart Generating Station and Unit 4 at the Conesville Generating Station.

“Supplemental Mortgage Indenture” means the Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 1, 2006, between the Company and the Company Mortgage Trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Trustee” means The Bank of New York, New York, New York, a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of New York, as trustee under the Indenture, until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean the successor Trustee.  “Principal Office” of the Trustee shall mean the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee for municipal securities, which office at the date of issuance of the Bonds is located at its Notice Address.

“Unassigned Authority’s Rights” means all of the rights of the Authority to receive Additional Payments under Section 4.2 hereof, to access and inspection pursuant to Section 5.1

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hereof, to be held harmless and indemnified under Section 5.9 hereof, to be reimbursed for attorney’s fees and expenses under Section 7.4 hereof and to give or withhold consent to amendments, changes, modifications, alterations and termination of this Agreement under Section 8.6 hereof and its right to enforce such rights.

Section 1.3.            Interpretation.  Any reference herein to the State, to the Authority or to any member or officer of either includes entities or officials succeeding to their respective functions, duties or responsibilities pursuant to or by operation of law or lawfully performing their functions.

Any reference to a section or provision of the Constitution of the State or the Act, or to a section, provision or chapter of the Ohio Revised Code, or to any statute of the United States of America, includes that section, provision or chapter as amended, modified, revised, supplemented or superseded from time to time; provided, that no amendment, modification, revision, supplement or superseding section, provision or chapter shall be applicable solely by reason of this provision, if it constitutes in any way an impairment of the rights or obligations of the Authority, the State, the Holders, the Trustee, the Registrar, a Paying Agent, an Authenticating Agent or the Company under this Agreement, the Bond Resolution, the Bonds, the Indenture, the Company Mortgage, the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture or the First Mortgage Bonds or any other instrument or document entered into in connection with any of the foregoing, including without limitation, any alteration of the obligation to pay Bond Service Charges in the amount and manner, at the times, and from the sources provided in the Bond Resolution and the Indenture, except as permitted in the Indenture.

Unless the context indicates otherwise, words importing the singular number include the plural number, and vice versa; the terms “hereof”, “hereby”, “herein”, “hereto”, “hereunder” and similar terms refer to this Agreement; and the term “hereafter” means after, and the term “heretofore” means before, the date of delivery of the Bonds.  Words of any gender include the correlative words of the other genders, unless the sense indicates otherwise.

Section 1.4.            Captions and Headings.  The captions and headings in this Agreement are used solely for convenience of reference and in no way define, limit or describe the scope or intent of any Articles, Sections, subsections, paragraphs or subparagraphs or clauses hereof.

(End of Article I)

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ARTICLE II

REPRESENTATIONS

Section 2.1.            Representations of the Authority.  The Authority represents that:  (a) it is a body politic and corporate duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State; (b) it has duly accomplished all conditions necessary to be accomplished by it prior to the issuance and delivery of the Bonds and the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Indenture; (c) it is not in violation of or in conflict with any provisions of the laws of the State which would impair its ability to carry out its obligations contained in this Agreement or the Indenture; (d) it is empowered to enter into the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Indenture; (e) it has duly authorized the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Indenture; (f) it will do all things in its power in order to maintain its existence or assure the assumption of its obligations under this Agreement and the Indenture by any successor public body; and (g) following reasonable notice, a public hearing was held on August 8, 2006 with respect to the issuance of the Bonds as required by Section 147(f) of the Code.

Section 2.2.            No Warranty by Authority of Condition or Suitability of the Project.  The Authority makes no warranty, either express or implied, as to the suitability or utilization of the Project for the Project Purposes, or as to the condition of the Project Facilities or that the Project Facilities are or will be suitable for the Company’s purposes or needs.

Section 2.3.            Representations and Covenants of the Company.  The Company represents that:

(a)           The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business, to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture, the First Mortgage Bonds and the Continuing Disclosure Agreement, and to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Company Mortgage, the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture, the First Mortgage Bonds and the Continuing Disclosure Agreement;

(b)           This Agreement, the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture, the Company Mortgage and the Continuing Disclosure Agreement have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company; the First Mortgage Bonds have been duly authorized, executed, issued and delivered; and this Agreement, the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture, the Company Mortgage, the First Mortgage Bonds and the Continuing Disclosure Agreement constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights, to laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of the security provided by the Company Mortgage and to general equity principles;

(c)           The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement, the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture and the Continuing Disclosure Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not violate any provision of law or regulation applicable to the Company, or of any writ or decree of any court or governmental instrumentality, or of the Articles of Incorporation, as amended, or the Code of

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Regulations, as amended, of the Company, or of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which the Company is a party or which purports to be binding upon the Company or upon any of its assets;

(d)         The acquisition, construction, installation, equipping and improvement of the Project was not commenced prior to the adoption of Resolution No. 04-61 of the Authority on September 14, 2004, with respect to the portion of the Project located at the Miami Fort Generating Station, and the adoption of Resolution No. 04-72 of the Authority on October 12, 2004, with respect to the portion of the Project located at the other Generating Stations, in each case evidencing the intent of the Authority to issue the Bonds with the exception of “preliminary expenditures” within the meaning of Treas. Reg. §1.150-2(f)(2); provided further, however, with respect to certain costs of the Project that were paid or incurred on and prior to such date, such costs will not be financed with the net proceeds of the Bonds except to the extent that they (i) consist of costs paid on or after 60 days prior to September 14, 2004 with respect to the portion of the Project located at the Miami Fort Generating Station, (ii) consist of costs paid on or after 60 days prior to October 12, 2004 with respect to the portion of the Project located at the other Generating Stations, or (iii) consist, in an amount not in excess of 20% of the aggregate issue price of the Bonds, of “preliminary expenditures” within the meaning of Treas. Reg. §1.150-2(f)(2), which include architectural, engineering, surveying, soil testing and similar costs that were incurred prior to commencement of acquisition or construction of the Project, other than land acquisition, site preparation and similar costs incident to commencement of acquisition or construction.  Moreover, no costs of the Project to be financed with the net proceeds of the Bonds were originally expended more than 3 years prior to the issuance date of the Bonds;

(e)          The Project to be acquired, constructed, equipped, installed and improved at the Project Site, as provided under this Agreement, constitutes Air Quality Facilities under the Act and is consistent with and will further the purposes of the Act and Section 13 of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution and will be located entirely within the State.  The Company will cause the Project to be operated and maintained in such manner as to conform to all applicable zoning, planning, building, environmental and other applicable governmental regulations and all permits, variances and orders issued or granted pursuant thereto, including the permit-to-install for each portion of the Project, which permits, variances and orders have not been withdrawn or otherwise suspended, and to be consistent with the Act;

(f)          It is expected that the Project will be utilized as Air Quality Facilities under the Act commencing promptly as portions thereof become available for utilization, but in any event on or before the Completion Date;

(g)         It presently intends to use or operate or cause to be used or operated the Project in a manner consistent with the Project Purposes until the date on which the Bonds have been fully paid and knows of no reason why the Project will not be so operated.  The Company does not presently intend to sell or otherwise dispose of the Project or any portion thereof;

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(h)         At least 95% of the net proceeds (as defined in Section 150 of the Code) of the Bonds will be used to provide land or property of a character subject to the allowance for depreciation for purposes of Section 167 of the Code.  The Company will not request or authorize any disbursement pursuant to Section 3.4 hereof, which, if paid, would result in less than 95% of such net proceeds being so used.  The Issuance Costs of the Bonds financed with the proceeds of the Bonds will not exceed 2% of the proceeds of the Bonds (within the meaning of Section 147(g) of the Code).  None of the proceeds of the Bonds will be used to provide working capital;

(i)           In accordance with Section 147(b) of the Code, the weighted average maturity of the Bonds does not exceed 120% of the weighted average reasonably expected economic life of the facilities being financed by the Bonds;

(j)           None of the proceeds of the Bonds will be used to provide any airplane; skybox or other private luxury box; health club facility; any facility primarily used for gambling; or any store the principal business of which is the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption off premises;

(k)          Less than 25% of the net proceeds of the Bonds will be used directly or indirectly to acquire land or any interest therein, and none of such land is being or will be used for farming purposes; no portion of the net proceeds of the Bonds will be used to acquire existing property or any interest therein unless the first use of such property or interest therein is pursuant to such acquisition;

(l)           At no time will any funds constituting gross proceeds of the Bonds be used in a manner as would constitute failure of compliance with Section 148 of the Code;

(m)         It is not anticipated that as of the date hereof, there will be created any “replacement proceeds”, within the meaning of Section 1.148-1(c) of the Treasury Regulations, with respect to the Bonds; however, in the event that any such replacement proceeds are deemed to have been created, such amounts will be invested in compliance with Section 148 of the Code;

(n)         The Bonds are not “federally guaranteed” within the meaning of Section 149(b) of the Code;

(o)         At least 95% of the proceeds of the Bonds will be used to provide “solid waste disposal facilities” within the meaning of Section 142(a)(6) of the Code;

(p)         The information furnished by the Company and used by the Authority in preparing the certification pursuant to Section 148 of the Code and in preparing the information statement pursuant to Section 149(e) of the Code, both referred to in the Bond Resolution, will be accurate and complete as of the date of issuance of the Bonds; and

(q)         The Project Facilities do not include any office except for offices (i) located on the Project Site and (ii) not more than a de minimis amount of the functions to be performed at which is not directly related to the day-to-day operations of the Project Facilities.

(End of Article II)

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ARTICLE III

COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT;
ISSUANCE OF THE BONDS

Section 3.1.            Acquisition, Construction and InstallationThe Company represents and agrees that it (a) has caused or will cause the Project to be acquired, constructed and installed on the Project Site in accordance with the Project Description and in conformance with all applicable, valid and enforceable (i) zoning, planning, building, environmental and other similar regulations of all governmental authorities having jurisdiction over the Project and (ii) permits, variances and orders issued in respect of the Project by EPA, noncompliance with which would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to operate and maintain the Project or to perform its obligations hereunder, provided that the Company reserves the right to contest in good faith any such regulations, permits, variances or orders, (b) will use its reasonable efforts to cause the acquisition, construction and installation of other facilities and real and personal property deemed necessary in connection with the Project to the end that the Project will fulfill the Project Purposes, (c) will pay all fees, costs and expenses incurred in such acquisition, construction and installation and (d) will use its reasonable efforts to ask, demand, sue for, levy, recover and receive all such sums of money, debts and other demands whatsoever which may be due, owing and payable under the terms of any contract, order, receipt, writing and instruction in connection with the acquisition, construction and installation of the Project, and to enforce the provisions of any contract, agreement, obligation, bond or other performance security with respect thereto; provided that in all instances the Company shall retain the option of settlement of any dispute.  Any amounts received in connection with actions taken under clause (d) of the preceding sentence, after deduction of expenses incurred in such recovery, prior to the Completion Date and full disposition of the Project Fund in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture, shall be paid into the Project Fund.

With knowledge of the provisions of the January 27, 1972 Executive Order of the Governor of Ohio, relating to equal employment opportunity, the Company hereby makes the pledges and commitments enumerated in said order with respect to the construction and installation of the Project and to the extent that said Executive Order is applicable, agrees that the same requirement and commitment shall be included in all contracts and subcontracts awarded for the construction and installation of the Project.

All laborers and mechanics employed on the respective portions of the Project have been or will be paid not less than the applicable prevailing rates of wages of laborers and mechanics for the class of work called for by those respective portions of the Project, which wages were or will be determined in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 4115, Ohio Revised Code, for determination of prevailing wage rates; provided, that should the Company or other nonpublic user of the Project undertake, as part of the Project, construction to be performed by its regular bargaining unit employees who are covered under a collective bargaining agreement which was in existence prior to the date of the commitment instrument undertaking to issue the Bonds, then, in that event, the rate of pay provided under the collective bargaining agreement may be paid to those employees.

In making the foregoing representations, it is understood and agreed that the Company has delegated to the operators of the Miami Fort Generating Station and the Conesville Generating Station, respectively, responsibilities relating to the physical acquisition, construction and installation of the portion of the Project at those Generating Stations and compliance with this Section 3.1.  It is further understood and agreed that the Project is that of the Company and any contracts made by the Company or those operators with respect thereto, whether acquisition contracts, installation contracts or otherwise, or any work to be done by the Company or those operators on the Project are made or done by the Company or those operators on their own behalf and not as agent or contractor for the Authority.

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Section 3.2.            Project Description.  The Project Description may be changed from time to time by, or with the consent of, the Company provided that any such change shall also be filed with the Authority and provided further that no change in the Project Description shall materially change the function of the Project Facilities unless the Trustee shall have received (i) an Engineer’s certificate that such changes will not impair the significance or character of the Project Facilities as Air Quality Facilities and (ii) an Opinion of Bond Counsel or ruling of the Internal Revenue Service to the effect that such amendment will not adversely affect the exclusion of interest on the Bonds from gross income for federal income tax purposes.

Section 3.3.            Issuance of the Bonds; Application of Proceeds.  To provide funds to make the Loan to the Company to assist the Company in the financing of its portion of the costs of the Project, the Authority will issue, sell and deliver the Bonds to the Original Purchaser.  The Bonds will be issued pursuant to the Indenture in the aggregate principal amount, will bear interest, will mature and will be subject to redemption as set forth therein.  The Company hereby approves the terms and conditions of the Indenture and the Bonds, and the terms and conditions under which the Bonds will be issued, sold and delivered.  The Company, for the benefit of the Authority, the Trustee and each Bondholder, shall do and perform all acts and things required or contemplated in the Indenture to be done or performed by the Company.

The proceeds from the sale of the Bonds (other than any accrued interest) shall be loaned to the Company to assist the Company in the financing of its portion of the costs of the Project.  Those proceeds shall be deposited in the Project Fund.  Any accrued interest shall be deposited in the Bond Fund.  Pending disbursement pursuant to Section 3.4 hereof, the proceeds so deposited in the Project Fund, together with any investment earnings thereon, shall constitute a part of the Revenues assigned by the Authority to the Trustee for the payment of Bond Service Charges as provided in the Indenture.

Section 3.4.            Disbursements from the Project Fund.  Disbursements from the Project Fund shall be made only to reimburse or pay the Company, or any Person designated by the Company, for the following Project Costs:

(a)           Costs incurred directly or indirectly for or in connection with the acquisition, construction, equipping, installation or improvement of the Project, including but not limited to those costs incurred for preliminary planning and studies, architectural, legal, engineering and supervisory services, labor, services, materials, acquisition, construction and installation, recording of documents and title work relating to the Project Site.

(b)           Premiums attributable to all insurance required to be taken out and maintained during the Construction Period with respect to the Project and the premium on each surety bond, if any, required with respect to work on the Project.

(c)           Taxes, assessments, interest on the Bonds and other charges in respect of the Project that may become due and payable during the Construction Period for the Project.

(d)           Costs incurred directly or indirectly in seeking to enforce any remedy against any contractor or subcontractor in respect of any default under any contract relating to the Project.

(e)           Financial, underwriting, legal, accounting, appraisal, rating agency, printing and engraving fees, charges and expenses, title insurance premiums, if any, the Authority Fee, the premium for the Bond Insurance Policy, and all other such fees, charges and expenses incurred in connection with the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Bonds and the preparation and delivery of the Agreement, the Indenture and other related documents.

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(f)            Fees and expenses of the Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent and Registrar (as such terms are defined in the Indenture), including reasonable counsel fees and expenses, properly incurred under the Indenture that may become due and payable during the Construction Period, including the initial or acceptance fee of the Trustee.

(g)           Any other incidental and necessary costs including without limitation any expenses, fees and charges relating to the acquisition, construction or installation of the Project.

(h)           Payments made to the Rebate Fund.

(i)            Any other expense permissible, in the opinion of Bond Counsel, under the Act.

Any disbursements from the Project Fund for the payment of Project Costs shall be made by the Trustee only upon the written order of the Authorized Company Representative.  Each such written order shall be in the form of the disbursement request attached hereto as Exhibit B and shall be consecutively numbered.  In the case of any contract providing for the retention of a portion of the contract price, there shall be paid initially from the Project Fund only the net amount remaining after deduction of any such portion, and when the amount of any such retention is due and payable, then such retention may be paid from the Project Fund.

In addition, the Company shall not request or authorize any disbursements from the Project Fund prior to the Completion Date for a purpose or function other than to provide solid waste disposal facilities within the meaning of Section 142(a)(6) of the Code, unless such disbursement would not result in more than 5% of the net proceeds of the Bonds (including those amounts disbursed pursuant to this Section 3.4) being used other than to provide solid waste disposal facilities (treating Issuance Costs so paid as being used other than to provide solid waste disposal facilities), unless in connection with any such disbursement request the Company provides the Trustee with an opinion of Bond Counsel or ruling of the Internal Revenue Service to the effect that such disbursement will not cause the interest on the Bonds to be included in the gross income of the Holders for federal income tax purposes.

Receipt of a disbursement request, in the form of the disbursement request attached hereto as Exhibit B, shall be full authorization for the Trustee to make the disbursements requested thereby, and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely without further inquiry on, and shall have no duty to check, verify or investigate, the statements and certifications made therein or included therewith.

Any moneys in the Project Fund remaining after the Completion Date and payment, or provision for payment, in full of the Project Costs at the direction of the Authorized Company Representative promptly shall be (a) used to acquire, construct or install such additional real and personal property comprising Air Quality Facilities as defined in the Act for use in connection with the Project as is designated by the Authorized Company Representative and the acquisition, construction, equipment, installation and improvement of which will be such as is permitted under the Act, (b) used for the purchase of Bonds in the open market for the purpose of cancellation at prices not exceeding the fair market value thereof plus accrued interest to the date of payment therefor, (c) paid into the Bond Fund to be applied to the payment of Bond Service Charges on the Bonds or the redemption of the Bonds pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, or (d) used for a combination of the foregoing as is provided in that direction or for any other purposes as are or may be permitted under the Act; provided that, in all such cases, (A) those moneys shall be so used or applied only to the extent that such use or application will not, in the Opinion of Bond Counsel or under a ruling of the Internal Revenue Service, adversely affect the exclusion of the interest on the Bonds from the gross income of the Holders thereof for federal income tax purposes and (B) any money remaining in the Project Fund following completion of the Project shall be invested in

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accordance with the Code in such manner as not to adversely affect the exclusion of the interest on the Bonds from the gross income of the Holders thereof for federal income tax purposes.

Section 3.5.            Company Required to Pay Costs in Event Project Fund Insufficient.  If moneys in the Project Fund are not sufficient to pay all Project Costs, the Company, nonetheless, will complete the Project or cause the Project to be completed, in order to fulfill the Project Purposes and shall pay all such additional Project Costs from its own funds.  The Company shall not be entitled to any reimbursement for any such additional Project Costs from the Authority, the Trustee or the Holders of any of the Bonds, nor shall it be entitled to any abatement, diminution or postponement of the Loan Payments.   The Authority does not make any representation that the moneys which will be paid into the Project Fund and which under the provisions of this Agreement will be available for payment of Project Costs, will be sufficient to pay all the costs which will be incurred in that connection.  The Company agrees that if after exhaustion of the moneys in the Project Fund, the Company should pay pursuant hereto any portion of the costs listed in Section 3.4 hereof, it shall not be entitled to any reimbursement therefor from the State, the Authority, the Trustee or the Holders of any of the Bonds.  Nothing herein however shall be deemed to prohibit the Authority, of its own volition, from issuing any additional series of revenue bonds and lending the proceeds derived from the sale thereof to the Company to assist in the financing of such additional Project Costs, or to prohibit the Company from paying, or being reimbursed for its payment of, such additional Project Costs from any such proceeds.

Section 3.6.            Completion Date.  The Company shall notify the Authority and the Trustee of the Completion Date by a certificate signed by the Authorized Company Representative stating:

(a)           the date on which the Project was substantially completed and all other facilities necessary in connection with the Project have been acquired, constructed and installed;

(b)           that the acquisition, construction and installation of the Project and such other facilities have been accomplished in such a manner as to conform with all applicable, legal and valid zoning, planning, building, environmental and other similar governmental regulations, so as not to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to operate the Project for the Project Purposes and perform its obligations hereunder;

(c)           that, except as provided in clause (d) of this Section 3.6, all costs of that acquisition and installation then and theretofore due and payable have been paid; and

(d)           the amount which the Trustee shall retain in the Project Fund for the payment of Project Costs not yet due or for liabilities which the Company is contesting or which otherwise should be retained and the reasons such amount should be retained.

That certificate may state that it is given without prejudice to any rights against third parties which then exist or subsequently may come into being.  The Authorized Company Representative shall include with that certificate a statement describing the items of personal property comprising a part of the Project.  The certificate shall be delivered as promptly as practicable after the occurrence of the events and conditions referred to in clauses (a) through (d) of this Section, and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely without further inquiry on, and shall have no duty to check, verify or investigate, the statements and certifications made therein or included therewith.

Section 3.7.            Investment of Fund Moneys.  At the oral (confirmed promptly in writing) or written request of the Company, any moneys held as part of the Bond Fund, the Project Fund or the Rebate Fund shall be invested or reinvested by the Trustee in Eligible Investments;

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provided, that such moneys shall be invested or reinvested by the Trustee only in Eligible Investments which shall mature, or which shall be subject to redemption by the holder thereof at the option of such holder, not later than the date upon which the moneys so invested are needed to make payments from those Funds.  The Authority (to the extent it retained or retains direction or control) and the Company each hereby covenants that it will restrict that investment and reinvestment and the use of the proceeds of the Bonds in such manner and to such extent, if any, as may be necessary so that the Bonds will not constitute arbitrage bonds under Section 148 of the Code.

The Company shall provide the Authority with, and the Authority may base its certificate and statement, each as authorized by the Bond Resolution, on a certificate of an appropriate officer, employee or agent of or consultant to the Company for inclusion in the transcript of proceedings for the Bonds, setting forth the reasonable expectations of the Company on the date of delivery of and payment for the Bonds regarding the amount and use of the proceeds of the Bonds and the facts, estimates and circumstances on which those expectations are based.

Section 3.8.            Rebate Fund.  To the extent required by Section 5.09 of the Indenture, within five days after the end of the fifth Bond Year (as defined in the Indenture) and every fifth Bond Year thereafter, and within five days after payment in full of all outstanding Bonds, the Company shall calculate the amount of Excess Earnings (as defined in the Indenture) as of the end of that Bond Year or the date of such payment and shall notify the Trustee of that amount.  If the amount then on deposit in the Rebate Fund created under the Indenture is less than the amount of Excess Earnings (computed by taking into account the amount or amounts, if any, previously paid to the United States pursuant to Section 5.09 of the Indenture and this Section), the Company shall, within five days after the date of the aforesaid calculation, pay to the Trustee for deposit in the Rebate Fund an amount sufficient to cause the Rebate Fund to contain an amount equal to the Excess Earnings.  The obligation of the Company to make such payments shall remain in effect and be binding upon the Company notwithstanding the release and discharge of the Indenture.  The Company shall obtain and keep such records of the computations made pursuant to this Section as are required under Section 148(f) of the Code.

(End of Article III)

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ARTICLE IV

LOAN BY AUTHORITY; LOAN PAYMENTS;
ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS; AND FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS

Section 4.1.            Loan Repayment; Delivery of First Mortgage Bonds.  Upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Authority agrees to make the Loan to the Company.  The proceeds of the Loan shall be deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.3 hereof.  As evidence of its obligation hereunder to repay the Loan, the Company agrees to execute and deliver the First Mortgage Bonds to the Authority, in the manner provided in Section 4.6 hereof.  In consideration of and in repayment of the Loan, the Company shall make, as Loan Payments, to the Trustee for the account of the Authority, payments on the First Mortgage Bonds which correspond, as to time, and are equal in amount, to the Bond Service Charges payable on the Bonds.  All Loan Payments received by the Trustee shall be held and disbursed in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and this Agreement for application to the payment of Bond Service Charges.

The Company shall be entitled to a credit against the Loan Payments required to be made on any Loan Payment Date to the extent that the balance of the Bond Fund is then in excess of amounts required (a) for the payment of Bonds theretofore matured or theretofore called for redemption, or to be called for redemption pursuant to Section 6.1 hereof, (b) for the payment of interest for which checks or drafts have been drawn and mailed by the Trustee or Paying Agent, and (c) to be deposited in the Bond Fund by the Indenture for use other than for the payment of Bond Service Charges due on that Loan Payment Date.

Except for such interest of the Company as may hereafter arise pursuant to Section 8.2 hereof or Sections 5.07 or 5.08 of the Indenture, the Company and the Authority each acknowledge that neither the Company, the State nor the Authority has any interest in the Bond Fund, and any moneys deposited therein shall be in the custody of and held by the Trustee in trust for the benefit of the Holders.

Section 4.2.            Additional Payments.  The Company shall pay to the Authority, the Authority Fee and, as Additional Payments hereunder, any and all costs and expenses incurred or to be paid by the Authority in connection with the issuance and delivery of the Bonds or otherwise related to actions taken by the Authority under this Agreement or the Indenture.

The Company shall pay the Administration Expenses to the Trustee, the Registrar, and any Paying Agent or Authenticating Agent, as appropriate, as Additional Payments hereunder.

The Company may, without creating a default hereunder, contest in good faith the reasonableness of any such cost or expense incurred or to be paid by the Authority and any Administration Expenses claimed to be due to the Trustee, the Registrar, any Paying Agent or any Authenticating Agent.

In the event the Company should fail to pay any Loan Payments, Additional Payments or Administration Expenses when due, the payment in default shall continue as an obligation of the Company until the amount in default shall have been fully paid together with interest thereon during the default period at the Interest Rate for Advances.

Section 4.3.            Place of Payments.  The Company shall make all Loan Payments directly to the Trustee at its Principal Office.  Additional Payments shall be made directly to the person or entity to whom or to which they are due.

Section 4.4.            Obligations Unconditional.  The obligations of the Company to make Loan Payments, Additional Payments and any payments required of the Company under Section 5.09 of the Indenture shall be absolute and unconditional, and the Company shall make

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such payments without abatement, diminution or deduction regardless of any cause or circumstances whatsoever including, without limitation, any defense, set-off, recoupment or counterclaim which the Company may have or assert against the Authority, the Trustee, the Registrar or any other Person.

Section 4.5.            Assignment of Revenues, Agreement and First Mortgage Bonds.  To secure the payment of Bond Service Charges, the Authority shall absolutely assign to the Trustee, its successors in trust and its and their assigns forever, by the Indenture, all right, title and interest of the Authority in and to (a) the Revenues, including, without limitation, all Loan Payments and other amounts receivable by or on behalf of the Authority under the Agreement in respect of repayment of the Loan, (b) the Agreement except for the Unassigned Authority’s Rights, and (c) the First Mortgage Bonds.  The Company hereby agrees and consents to those assignments.

Section 4.6.            First Mortgage Bonds.  To evidence and secure the obligations of the Company to make the Loan Payments and repay the Loan, the Company will, concurrently with the issuance of the Bonds, execute and deliver First Mortgage Bonds to the Authority in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Bonds.  The Company agrees that First Mortgage Bonds authorized pursuant to the Company Mortgage, will be issued containing the terms and conditions and in substantially the form set forth in the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture.  The First Mortgage Bonds shall:

(a)           provide for payments of interest equal to the payments of interest on the Bonds;

(b)           provide for payments of principal equal to the payments of principal (whether at maturity or by call for mandatory or optional redemption or pursuant to acceleration or otherwise) on the Bonds;

(c)           require all such payments on such First Mortgage Bonds to be made on or prior to the due date for the corresponding payments to be made on the Bonds; and

(d)           contain redemption provisions corresponding with such provisions of the Bonds.

Unless the Company is entitled to a credit under this Agreement or the Indenture, all payments on the First Mortgage Bonds shall be in the full amount required thereunder.  The First Mortgage Bonds shall be registered in the name of the Trustee (as assignee of the Authority under the Indenture) and shall not be transferred by the Trustee, except to effect transfers to any successor trustee under the Indenture.

(End of Article IV)

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ARTICLE V

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS AND COVENANTS

Section 5.1.            Right of Access.  The Company agrees that, subject to reasonable security and safety regulations and to reasonable requirements as to notice, the Authority and the Trustee and their or any of their respective duly authorized agents shall have the right at all reasonable times to enter upon the Project Site to examine and inspect the Project.

Section 5.2.            Maintenance.  The Company shall use its best efforts to keep and maintain the Project Facilities, including all appurtenances thereto and any personal property therein or thereon, in good repair and good operating condition so that the Project Facilities will continue to constitute Air Quality Facilities, for the purposes of the operation thereof as required by Section 5.4 hereof.

So long as such shall not be in violation of the Act or impair the character of the Project Facilities as Air Quality Facilities, and provided there is continued compliance with applicable laws and regulations of governmental entities having jurisdiction thereof, the Company shall have the right to remodel the Project Facilities or make additions, modifications and improvements thereto, from time to time as it, in its discretion, may deem to be desirable for its uses and purposes, the cost of which remodeling, additions, modifications and improvements shall be paid by the Company and the same shall, when made, become a part of the Project Facilities.

Section 5.3.            Removal of Portions of the Project Facilities.  The Company shall not be under any obligation to renew, repair or replace any inadequate, obsolete, worn out, unsuitable, undesirable or unnecessary portions of the Project Facilities, except that, subject to Section 5.4 hereof, it will use its best efforts to ensure the continued character of the Project Facilities as Air Quality Facilities.  The Company shall have the right from time to time to substitute personal property or fixtures for any portions of the Project Facilities, provided that the personal property or fixtures so substituted shall not impair the character of the Project Facilities as Air Quality Facilities.  Any such substituted property or fixtures shall, when so substituted, become a part of the Project Facilities.  The Company shall also have the right to remove any portion of the Project Facilities, without substitution therefor; provided, that the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate signed by an Engineer describing said portion of the Project Facilities and stating that the removal of such property or fixtures will not impair the character of the Project Facilities as Air Quality Facilities.

Section 5.4.            Operation of Project Facilities.  The Company will, subject to its obligations and rights to maintain, repair or remove portions of the Project Facilities, as provided in Sections 5.2 and 5.3 hereof, use its best efforts to continue operation of the Project Facilities so long as and to the extent that operation thereof is required to comply with laws or regulations of governmental entities having jurisdiction thereof or unless the Authority shall have approved the discontinuance of such operation (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld).  The Company agrees that it will, within the design capacities thereof, use its best efforts to operate and maintain the Project Facilities in accordance with all applicable, valid and enforceable rules and regulations of governmental entities having jurisdiction thereof; provided, that the Company reserves the right to contest in good faith any such laws or regulations.  The Company agrees that sufficient qualified operating personnel will be retained and operational tests and measurements necessary to determine compliance with the preceding sentence will be performed to insure proper and efficient operation and maintenance of the Project Facilities.

Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent or restrict the Company, in its sole discretion, at any time, from discontinuing or suspending either permanently or temporarily its use of any facility of the Company served by the Project Facilities and in the event such discontinuance or suspension shall render unnecessary the continued operation of the Project Facilities, the Company shall have the right to discontinue the operation of the Project Facilities during the period of any such discontinuance or suspension.

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Section 5.5.            Insurance.  The Company agrees to insure its interest in the Project Facilities in the amount and with the coverage required by the Company Mortgage.

Section 5.6.            Workers’ Compensation Coverage.  Throughout the term of this Agreement, the Company shall comply, or cause compliance, with applicable workers’ compensation laws of the State.

Section 5.7.            Damage; Destruction and Eminent Domain.  If, during the term of this Agreement, the Project Facilities or any portion thereof is destroyed or damaged in whole or in part by fire or other casualty, or title to, or the temporary use of, the Project Facilities or any portion thereof shall have been taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, and the Company or the Company Mortgage Trustee receives net proceeds from insurance or any condemnation award in connection therewith, the Company (unless it shall have exercised its option to prepay the Loan Payments pursuant to Section 6.2 hereof), to the extent required to comply with applicable laws and regulations with respect to the operations of facilities of the Company served by the Project, shall promptly cause such net proceeds or an amount equal thereto to be used to repair, rebuild or restore the portion of the Project Facilities so damaged, destroyed or taken with such changes, alterations and modifications (including the substitution and addition of other property) as may be necessary or desirable for the administration and operation of the Project Facilities as Air Quality Facilities and as shall not impair the character or significance of the Project Facilities as furthering the purposes of the Act.  It is hereby acknowledged and agreed that any net proceeds from insurance or any condemnation award relating to the Project Facilities are subject to the lien of the Company Mortgage and shall be disposed of in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Company Mortgage and that any obligations of the Company under this Section 5.7 not satisfied by application of such net proceeds shall be limited to the general credit of the Company and does not require disposition of such net proceeds contrary to the requirements of the Company Mortgage.

Section 5.8.            Company to Maintain its Corporate Existence; Conditions Under Which Exceptions Permitted.  The Company agrees that during the term of this Agreement it will maintain its corporate existence and, will not sell its electric properties as an entirety or substantially as an entirety or consolidate with or merge into another corporation or permit one or more other corporations to consolidate with or merge into it, except to the extent permitted under the provisions of the Company Mortgage, provided that any successor corporation resulting from any such sale, consolidation or merger shall assume all obligations of the Company arising under or contemplated by the provisions of this Agreement.

If consolidation, merger or sale or other transfer is made as provided in this Section, the provisions of this Section shall continue in full force and effect and no further consolidation, merger or sale or other transfer shall be made except in compliance with the provisions of this Section.

Section 5.9.            Indemnification.  The Company releases the Authority from, agrees that the Authority shall not be liable for, and indemnifies the Authority against, all liabilities, claims, costs and expenses imposed upon or asserted against the Authority on account of:  (a) any loss or damage to property or injury to or death of or loss by any person that may be occasioned by any cause whatsoever pertaining to the construction, maintenance, operation and use of the Project Facilities; (b) any breach or default on the part of the Company in the performance of any covenant or agreement of the Company under this Agreement or any related document, or arising from any act or failure to act by the Company, or any of its agents, contractors, servants, employees or licensees; (c) the authorization, issuance and sale of the Bonds, and the provision of any information furnished in connection therewith concerning the Project Facilities or the Company (including, without limitation, any information furnished by the Company for inclusion in any certifications made by the Authority under Section 3.7 hereof or for inclusion in, or as a basis for preparation of, the information statements filed by the Authority pursuant to Section 8(a)(ii) of the Bond Resolution); and (d) any claim or action or proceeding with respect to the matters set forth in (a), (b) and (c) above brought thereon.

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The Company agrees to indemnify the Trustee (including any predecessor Trustee), the Paying Agent and the Registrar (each hereinafter referred to in this section as an “indemnified party”) for and to hold each of them harmless from and against all losses, liabilities, claims, costs and expenses (including the compensation and expenses of their counsel) incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the indemnified party arising out of, relating to or connected with the Indenture, including, but not limited to, on account of the Trustee’s acceptance or administration of the trusts created by, or the performance of its powers or duties under the Indenture, or of any action taken or omitted to be taken by the indemnified party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Bonds or the Indenture or any action taken at the request of or with the consent of the Company, including the costs and expenses of the indemnified party in defending itself against or investigating any claim, loss, or liability, action or proceeding brought in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties under this Agreement, the Bonds or the Indenture.

In case any action or proceeding is brought against the Authority or an indemnified party in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, the party seeking indemnity promptly shall give notice of that action or proceeding to the Company, and the Company upon receipt of that notice shall have the obligation and the right to assume the defense of the action or proceeding; provided, that failure of a party to give that notice shall not relieve the Company from any of its obligations under this Section unless that failure prejudices the defense of the action or proceeding by the Company.  At its own expense, an indemnified party may employ separate counsel and participate in the defense; provided however, where it is ethically inappropriate for one firm to represent the interests of the Authority and any other indemnified party or parties, the Company shall pay the Authority’s legal expenses in connection with the Authority’s retention of separate counsel.  The Company shall not be liable for any settlement made without its consent.

The indemnification set forth above is intended to and shall include the indemnification of all affected officials, directors, officers and employees and agents of the Authority, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar, respectively.  That indemnification is intended to and shall be enforceable by the Authority, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar, respectively, to the full extent permitted by law.

Section 5.10.          Company Not to Adversely Affect Exclusion of Interest on Bonds From Gross Income For Federal Income Tax Purposes.  The Company hereby covenants and represents that it has taken and caused to be taken and shall take and cause to be taken all actions that may be required of it for the interest on the Bonds to be and remain excluded from the gross income of the Holders for federal income tax purposes, and that it has not taken or permitted to be taken on its behalf, and covenants that it will not take, or permit to be taken on its behalf, any action which, if taken, would adversely affect that exclusion under the provisions of the Code.

Section 5.11.          Use of Project Facilities.  The Authority agrees that it will not take any action, or cause any action to be taken on its behalf, to interfere with the Company’s ownership interest in the Project or to prevent the Company from having possession, custody, use and enjoyment of the Project other than pursuant to Article VII of this Agreement or Article VII of the Indenture.

Section 5.12.          Assignment by Company.  This Agreement may be assigned in whole or in part by the Company without the necessity of obtaining the consent of either the Authority or the Trustee, but only with the prior written consent of the Bond Insurer, subject, however, to each of the following conditions:

(a)           No assignment (other than pursuant to Section 5.8 hereof) shall relieve the Company from primary liability for any of its obligations hereunder, and in the event of any such assignment the Company shall continue to remain primarily liable for the payment of the Loan Payments and Additional Payments and for performance and observance of the agreements on its part herein provided to be performed and observed by it.

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(b)           Any assignment by the Company must retain for the Company such rights and interests as will permit it to perform its obligations under this Agreement, and any assignee from the Company shall assume the obligations of the Company hereunder to the extent of the interest assigned.

(c)           The Company shall, within 30 days after execution thereof, furnish or cause to be furnished to the Authority and the Trustee a true and complete copy of each such assignment together with any instrument of assumption.

(d)           Any assignment from the Company shall not materially impair fulfillment of the Project Purposes to be accomplished by operation of the Project as herein provided.

Section 5.13.          Bond Insurance Policy.  In consideration of the issuance by the Bond Insurer of the Bond Insurance Policy, the Company hereby covenants that:

(a)           The Company shall pay or reimburse the Bond Insurer for any and all charges, fees, costs, and expenses that the Bond Insurer may reasonably pay or incur in connection with the following:  (i) the administration, enforcement, defense, or preservation of any rights or security hereunder or under any other transaction document; (ii) the pursuit of any remedies hereunder, under any other transaction document, or otherwise afforded by law or equity, (iii) any amendment, waiver, or other action with respect to or related to this Agreement or any other transaction document whether or not executed or completed; (iv) the violation by the Company of any law, rule, or regulation or any judgment, order or decree applicable to it; (v) any advances or payments made by the Bond Insurer to cure defaults of the Company under the transaction documents; or (vi) any litigation or other dispute in connection with the Agreement, any other transaction document, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, other than amounts resulting from the failure of the Bond Insurer to honor its payment obligations under the Bond Insurance Policy.  The Bond Insurer reserves the right to charge a reasonable fee as a condition to executing any amendment, waiver, or consent proposed in respect of this Agreement or any other transaction document.  The obligations of the Company to the Bond Insurer hereunder shall survive discharge and termination of the Agreement.

(b)           The Company shall promptly provide written notice to the Bond Insurer of the downgrading by any rating agency of the Company’s underlying rating, or the underlying rating on the Bonds or any parity obligations of the Company.

(c)           The Company shall promptly provide written notice to the Bond Insurer of any material events related to the Bonds pursuant to Rule 15c2-12 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

(d)           The Company shall provide such additional information to the Bond Insurer as the Bond Insurer may reasonably request from time to time.

 (End of Article V)

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ARTICLE VI

REDEMPTION

Section 6.1.            Optional Redemption.  Provided no Event of Default shall have occurred and be subsisting, at any time and from time to time, the Company may deliver moneys to the Trustee in addition to Loan Payments or Additional Payments required to be made and direct the Trustee to use the moneys so delivered for the purpose of calling Bonds for optional redemption in accordance with Section 4.01(c) of the Indenture at the redemption price stated therein.  Pending application for those purposes, any moneys so delivered shall be held by the Trustee in a special account in the Bond Fund and delivery of those moneys shall not, except as set forth in Section 4.1 hereof, operate to abate or postpone Loan Payments or Additional Payments otherwise becoming due or to alter or suspend any other obligations of the Company under this Agreement.

Section 6.2.            Extraordinary Optional Redemption.  The Company shall have, subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed, the option to direct the redemption of the Bonds in whole or in part in accordance with Section 4.01(a) of the Indenture upon the occurrence of any of the following events:

(a)           A Project or a Station Unit shall have been damaged or destroyed to such an extent that (1) it cannot reasonably be expected to be restored, within a period of six consecutive months, to the condition thereof immediately preceding such damage or destruction or (2) the Company is reasonably expected to be prevented from carrying on its normal operations in connection therewith for a period of six consecutive months.

(b)           Title to, or the temporary use of, all or a significant part of a Project or a Station Unit shall have been taken under the exercise of the power of eminent domain (1) to such extent that it cannot reasonably be expected to be restored within a period of six consecutive months to a condition of usefulness comparable to that existing prior to the taking or (2) to such an extent that the Company is reasonably expected to be prevented from carrying on its normal operations in connection therewith for a period of six consecutive months.

(c)           As a result of any changes in the Constitution of the State, the Constitution of the United States of America or any state or federal laws or as a result of legislative or administrative action (whether state or federal) or by final decree, judgment or order of any court or administrative body (whether state or federal) entered after any contest thereof by the Authority or the Company in good faith, this Agreement shall have become void or unenforceable or impossible of performance in accordance with the intent and purpose of the parties as expressed in this Agreement.

(d)           Unreasonable burdens or excessive liabilities shall have been imposed upon the Authority or the Company with respect to a Project or a Station Unit or the operation thereof, including, without limitation, the imposition of federal, state or other ad valorem, property, income or other taxes other than ad valorem taxes at the rates presently levied upon privately owned property used for the same general purpose as a Project or a Station Unit.

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(e)           Changes in the economic availability of raw materials, operating supplies, energy sources or supplies or facilities (including, but not limited to, facilities in connection with the disposal of industrial wastes) necessary for the operation of a Project or a Station Unit for the Project Purposes occur or technological or other changes occur which the Company cannot reasonably overcome or control and which in the Company’s reasonable judgment render a Project or a Station Unit uneconomic or obsolete for the Project Purposes.

(f)            Any court or administrative body shall enter a judgment, order or decree, or shall take administrative action, requiring the Company to cease all or any substantial part of its operations served by a Project or a Station Unit to such extent that the Company is or will be prevented from carrying on its normal operations at a Project or a Station Unit for a period of six consecutive months.

(g)           The termination by the Company of operations at a Station Unit.

As used in this Section 6.2, the term “a Project” means the portion of the Project Facilities at a particular Station Unit.

The amount payable by the Company in the event of its exercise of the option granted in this Section shall be the sum of the following:

(i)            An amount of money which, when added to the moneys and investments held to the credit of the Bond Fund, will be sufficient pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture to pay, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date, and discharge, the Outstanding Bonds then being redeemed on the earliest applicable redemption date, that amount to be paid to the Trustee, plus

(ii)           An amount of money equal to the Additional Payments relating to those Bonds accrued and to accrue until actual final payment and redemption of those Bonds, that amount or applicable portions thereof to be paid to the Trustee or to the Persons to whom those Additional Payments are or will be due.

The requirement of (ii) above with respect to Additional Payments to accrue may be met if provisions satisfactory to the Trustee and the Authority are made for paying those amounts as they accrue.

The rights and options granted to the Company in this Section may be exercised whether or not the Company is in default hereunder; provided, that such default will not relieve the Company from performing those actions which are necessary to exercise any such right or option granted hereunder.

Section 6.3.            Mandatory Redemption.  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee the moneys needed to redeem the Bonds in accordance with the mandatory redemption provisions set forth in Section 4.01(b) of the Indenture.

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Section 6.4.            Notice of Redemption.  In order to exercise an option granted in, or to consummate a redemption required by, this Article VI, the Company shall, within 180 days following the event authorizing the exercise of such option or at any time during the continuation of the condition referred to in paragraphs (c), (d) or (e) of Section 6.2 hereof or promptly upon the occurrence of a Determination of Taxability (as defined in the Indenture), give written notice to the Authority, the Trustee and the Company Mortgage Trustee that it is exercising its option to direct the redemption of Bonds, or that the redemption thereof is required by Section 4.01(b) of the Indenture due to the occurrence of a Determination of Taxability, as the case may be, in accordance with the Agreement and the Indenture, and shall specify therein the date on which such redemption is to be made, which date shall not be more than 180 days from the date such notice is mailed.  The Company shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of the required notice of redemption to the Holders of the Bonds, in which arrangements the Authority shall cooperate.  The Company shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Company Mortgage Trustee to effect a concurrent redemption of an equivalent principal amount of corresponding First Mortgage Bonds under the Supplemental Mortgage Indenture.

Section 6.5.            Actions by Authority.  At the request of the Company or the Trustee, the Authority shall take all steps required of it under the applicable provisions of the Indenture or the Bonds to effect the redemption of all or a portion of the Bonds pursuant to this Article VI.

Section 6.6.            Concurrent Discharging of First Mortgage Bonds.  In the event any of the Bonds shall be paid and discharged, or deemed to be paid and discharged, pursuant to any provisions of this Agreement and the Indenture, so that such Bonds are not thereafter outstanding within the meaning of the Indenture, a like principal amount of corresponding First Mortgage Bonds shall be deemed fully paid for purposes of this Agreement and to such extent the obligations of the Company hereunder shall be deemed terminated.

(End of Article VI)

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ARTICLE VII

EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

Section 7.1.            Events of Default.  Each of the following shall be an Event of Default:

(a)           The occurrence of an event of default as defined in Section 7.01 (a) or (b) of the Indenture;

(b)           The Company shall fail to observe and perform any other agreement, term or condition contained in this Agreement, other than such failure as will have resulted in an event of default described in (a) above and the continuation of that failure for a period of 90 days after notice thereof shall have been given to the Company by the Authority or the Trustee, or for such longer period as the Authority and the Trustee may agree to in writing; provided, that such failure shall not constitute an Event of Default so long as the Company institutes curative action within the applicable period and diligently pursues that action to completion;

(c)           The occurrence of a “completed default” as defined in Section 1 of Article Twelve of the Company Mortgage; and

(d)           Written notice from the Bond Insurer to the Trustee that an event of default has occurred and is continuing under the Bond Insurance Agreement.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, by reason of Force Majeure, the Company is unable to perform or observe any agreement, term or condition hereof which would give rise to an Event of Default under subsection (b) hereof, the Company shall not be deemed in default during the continuance of such inability.  However, the Company shall promptly give notice to the Trustee and the Authority of the existence of an event of Force Majeure and shall use its best efforts to remove the effects thereof; provided that the settlement of strikes or other industrial disturbances shall be entirely within its discretion.

The term Force Majeure shall mean the following:

(i)            acts of God; strikes, lockouts or other industrial disturbances; acts of public enemies; orders or restraints of any kind of the government of the United States of America or of the State or any of their departments, agencies, political subdivisions or officials, or any civil or military authority; insurrections; civil disturbances; riots; epidemics; landslides; lightning; earthquakes; fires; hurricanes; tornados; storms; droughts; floods; arrests; restraint of government and people; explosions; breakage, nuclear accidents or other malfunction or accident to facilities, machinery, transmission pipes or canals;  partial or entire failure of a utility serving the Project; shortages of labor, materials, supplies or transportation; or

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(ii)           any cause, circumstance or event not reasonably within the control of the Company.

The exercise of remedies hereunder shall be subject to any applicable limitations of federal bankruptcy law affecting or precluding that declaration or exercise during the pendency of or immediately following any bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization proceedings.

Section 7.2.            Remedies on Default.  Whenever an Event of Default shall have happened and be subsisting, either or both of the following remedial steps may be taken:

(a)           The Authority or the Trustee may have access to, inspect, examine and make copies of the books, records, accounts and financial data of the Company, only, however, insofar as they pertain to the Project; or

(b)           The Authority or the Trustee may pursue all remedies now or hereafter existing at law or in equity to recover all amounts, including all Loan Payments and Additional Payments, then due and thereafter to become due under this Agreement, or to enforce the performance and observance of any other obligation or agreement of the Company under this Agreement.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Authority shall not be obligated to take any step which in its opinion will or might cause it to expend time or money or otherwise incur liability unless and until a satisfactory indemnity bond has been furnished to the Authority at no cost or expense to the Authority.  Any amounts collected as Loan Payments or applicable to Loan Payments and any other amounts which would be applicable to payment of Bond Service Charges collected pursuant to action taken under this Section shall be paid into the Bond Fund and applied in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture or, if the outstanding Bonds have been paid and discharged in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, shall be paid as provided in Section 5.08 of the Indenture for transfers of remaining amounts in the Bond Fund.

The provisions of this Section are subject to the further limitation that the rescission and annulment by the Trustee of its declaration that all of the Bonds are immediately due and payable also shall constitute a rescission and annulment of any corresponding declaration made pursuant to this Section and a rescission and annulment of the consequences of that declaration and of the Event of Default with respect to which that declaration has been made, provided that no such rescission and annulment shall extend to or affect any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 7.3.            No Remedy Exclusive.  No remedy conferred upon or reserved to the Authority or the Trustee by this Agreement is intended to be exclusive of any other available remedy or remedies, but each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to every other remedy given under this Agreement, or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by statute.  No delay or omission to exercise any right or power accruing upon any default shall impair that right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver thereof, but any such right or power may be exercised from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient.  In order to entitle the Authority or the Trustee to exercise any remedy reserved to it in this Article, it shall not be necessary to give any notice, other than any notice required by law or for which express provision is made herein.

Section 7.4.            Agreement to Pay Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses.  If an Event of Default should occur and the Authority or the Trustee should incur expenses, including attorneys’ fees and expenses, in connection with the enforcement of this Agreement or the collection of sums due hereunder, the Company shall be required, to the extent permitted by law, to reimburse the Authority and the Trustee, as applicable, for the fees and expenses so incurred upon demand.

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Section 7.5.            No Waiver.  No failure by the Authority or the Trustee to insist upon the strict performance by the Company of any provision hereof shall constitute a waiver of their right to strict performance and no express waiver shall be deemed to apply to any other existing or subsequent right to remedy the failure by the Company to observe or comply with any provision hereof.

Section 7.6.            Notice of Default.  The Company shall notify the Trustee immediately if it becomes aware of the occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder or of any fact, condition or event which, with the giving of notice or passage of time or both, would become an Event of Default.

Section 7.7.            Survival.  The provisions of Sections 4.2, 5.9 and 7.4 of this Agreement shall survive the payment in full of the Bonds, the satisfaction, discharge and termination of this Agreement or the Indenture, and the resignation or removal of the Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Registrar and any Authenticating Agent as the case may be.

(End of Article VII)

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ARTICLE VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 8.1.            Term of Agreement.  This Agreement shall be and remain in full force and effect from the date of delivery of the Bonds to or to the order of the Original Purchaser until such time as all of the Bonds shall have been fully paid (or provision made for such payment) pursuant to the Indenture and all other sums payable by the Company under this Agreement shall have been paid.

Section 8.2.            Amounts Remaining in Funds.  Any amounts in the Bond Fund remaining unclaimed by the Holders of Bonds for four years after the due date thereof (whether at stated maturity, by redemption, upon acceleration or otherwise), at the option of the Company, shall be deemed to belong to and shall be paid, subject to Section 5.07 of the Indenture, at the written request of the Company, to the Company by the Trustee.  With respect to that principal of and interest on the Bonds to be paid from moneys paid to the Company pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Holders of the Bonds entitled to those moneys shall look solely to the Company for the payment of those moneys.  Further, any amounts remaining in the Bond Fund and any other special funds or accounts created under this Agreement or the Indenture, except the Rebate Fund, after all of the Bonds shall be deemed to have been paid and discharged under the provisions of the Indenture and all other amounts required to be paid under this Agreement and the Indenture have been paid, shall be paid to the Company to the extent that those moneys are in excess of the amounts necessary to effect the payment and discharge of the Outstanding Bonds.

Section 8.3.            Notices.  All notices, certificates, requests or other communications hereunder shall be in writing, except as provided in Section 3.4 hereof, and shall be deemed to be sufficiently given when mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, and addressed to the appropriate Notice Address; provided, however, that no notice shall be deemed sufficiently given to the Trustee unless and until actually received by the Trustee at the Principal Office of the Trustee.  A duplicate copy of each notice, certificate, request or other communication given hereunder to the Authority, the Company or the Trustee shall also be given to the others.  The Company, the Authority and the Trustee, by notice given hereunder, may designate any further or different addresses to which subsequent notices, certificates, requests or other communications shall be sent.

Section 8.4.            Extent of Covenants of the Authority; No Personal Liability.  All covenants, obligations and agreements of the Authority contained in this Agreement or the Indenture shall be effective to the extent authorized and permitted by applicable law.  No such covenant, obligation or agreement shall be deemed to be a covenant, obligation or agreement of any present or future member, officer, agent or employee of the Authority in other than his official capacity, and neither the members of the Authority nor any official executing the Bonds shall be liable personally on the Bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof or by reason of the covenants, obligations or agreements of the Authority contained in this Agreement or in the Indenture.

Section 8.5.            Binding Effect.  This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and shall be binding in accordance with its terms upon the Authority, the Company and their respective permitted successors and assigns provided that this Agreement may not be assigned by the Company (except as permitted under Sections 5.8 or 5.12 hereof) and may not be assigned by the Authority except to (i) the Trustee pursuant to the Indenture or as otherwise may be necessary to enforce or secure payment of Bond Service Charges or (ii) any successor public body to the Authority.  Sections 4.2, 5.9, 7.4 and 7.7 of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of the Trustee, the Registrar, any Paying Agent and any Authenticating Agent and their respective successors and assigns.

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Section 8.6.            Amendments and Supplements.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or the Indenture, subsequent to the issuance of the Bonds and prior to all conditions provided for in the Indenture for release of the Indenture having been met, this Agreement may not be amended, changed, modified, altered or terminated by the parties hereto except with the consents required by, and in accordance with, the provisions of Article XI of the Indenture, as applicable.  In no event may the Agreement be amended so as to affect the rights, privileges, duties or immunities of the Trustee, the Registrar, any Paying Agent or any Authenticating Agent without its consent.

Section 8.7.            Execution Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be regarded as an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

Section 8.8.            Severability.  If any provision of this Agreement, or any covenant, obligation or agreement contained herein is determined by a judicial or administrative authority to be invalid or unenforceable, that determination shall not affect any other provision, covenant, obligation or agreement, each of which shall be construed and enforced as if the invalid or unenforceable portion were not contained herein.  That invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect any valid and enforceable application thereof, and each such provision, covenant, obligation or agreement shall be deemed to be effective, operative, made, entered into or taken in the manner and to the full extent permitted by law.

Section 8.9.            Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State.

Section 8.10.          Continuing DisclosureThe Authority hereby acknowledges the entry by the Company into the Continuing Disclosure Agreement under which the Company has assumed certain obligations for the benefit of the Holders and beneficial owners of the Bonds.  The Company agrees to perform its obligations under the Continuing Disclosure Agreement.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Authority is not an “obligated person” (as defined in the Continuing Disclosure Agreement) with respect to the Bonds and represents that the Company is the only obligated person with respect to the Bonds.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, any failure by the Company to comply with any provision of the Continuing Disclosure Agreement shall not be a failure or a default, or an Event of Default, under this Agreement or the Indenture.

Section 8.11.          Third-Party Beneficiary.  To the extent that this Agreement confers upon or gives or grants to the Bond Insurer any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement, the Bond Insurer is hereby explicitly recognized as being a third-party beneficiary hereunder and may enforce any such right, remedy or claim conferred, given or granted hereunder.

(End of Article VIII)

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Authority and the Company have caused this Agreement to be duly executed in their respective names, all as of the date hereinbefore written.

 

OHIO AIR QUALITY DEVELOPMENT

 

AUTHORITY

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Mark R. Shanahan

 

 

 

Executive Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Joseph R. Boni III

 

 

 

Treasurer

 

 

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EXHIBIT A

DESCRIPTION OF AIR QUALITY FACILITIES

The Project being financed under this Agreement is described below and consists of any property or portion thereof used for the collection, storage, treatment, utilization, processing, or final disposal of solid waste resulting from the supply, installation and construction of Flue Gas Desulfurization Systems (FGDS) for the Units at the Generating Stations described below for the purpose of the removal and disposal of flue gas particulates, sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).  Removal of SO2 from the flue gas exhaust is to be accomplished using a wet limestone FGDS scrubber technology.  In that scrubber process, calcium carbonate (reagent) neutralizes and absorbs the SO2 which produces a solid waste of primarily gypsum (waste reagent).  The waste reagent must be processed and disposed of as a solid waste.  Use of the FGDS to remove sulfur dioxide from the flue gas stream creates a solid waste that is collected, transported, processed and stored in a waste disposal or recycling facility.

1.  PROJECT AT MIAMI FORT GENERATING STATION:

The Miami Fort Units 7 & 8 scrubber projects (collectively, the “Miami Fort Project”) are located at the Miami Fort Generating Station, which is a coal-fired, steam powered electric generating station located in the southwest area of Hamilton County, Ohio (the “Miami Fort Generating Station”).  The Miami Fort Generating Station consists of five coal-fired boilers of various ages and ratings.  Units 7 & 8 are of similar size and rating, each being 525 MW.  Units 7 and 8 are co-owned by the Company (36% ownership interest) and The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (“CG&E”; 64% ownership interest)(1).  CG&E is responsible for operation of the Miami Fort Generating Station.  Air emission control regulations require removal and disposal of combustion byproducts from the Miami Fort Generating Station, including from Units 7 & 8.  These byproducts include flue gas particulates and SO2.

The design of the Miami Fort Project is based on two principal requirements.  First, the Miami Fort Project must achieve the required level of the applicable emission control.   Second, the Miami Fort Project must produce a waste by-product that is suitable for solid waste disposal.  The Miami Fort Project includes the construction, expansion of and improvements to solid waste collection, transport, processing and disposal facilities for the Miami Fort Generating Station as a result of removing SO2 from the flue gas stream of Units 7 & 8 by means of the installation and use of the FGDS.

2.  PROJECT AT KILLEN GENERATING STATION:

The Killen Unit 2 scrubber project (the “Killen Project”) is located at the Killen Generating Station, which is a coal-fired, steam powered electric generating station located near Manchester, Ohio in Adams County, Ohio (the “Killen Generating Station”).  The Killen Generating Station consists of one unit, Unit 2, which is rated at 600 MW.  This unit is co-owned by the Company (67% ownership interest) and CG&E (33% ownership interest).  The Company is responsible for operation of the Killen Generating Station.   Air emission control regulations require removal and disposal of combustion byproducts from the Killen Generating Station, including from Unit 2.  These byproducts include flue gas particulates, SO2 and NOx.

The design of the Killen Project is based on two principal requirements.  First, the Killen Project must achieve the required level of the applicable emission control.   Second, the Killen Project must produce a waste by-product that is suitable for solid waste disposal.  The Killen Project includes the construction, expansion of, and improvements to solid waste collection, transport, processing and disposal facilities for the Killen Generating Station as a result of removing SO2 from the flue gas stream of Unit 2 by means of the installation and use of the FGDS.


(1) The ownership percentages are different with respect to certain common facilities.

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3.  PROJECT AT J.M. STUART GENERATING STATION:

The J.M. Stuart Station Units 1-4 scrubber projects (collectively, the “Stuart Project”) are located at the J.M. Stuart Generating Station, which is a coal-fired, steam powered electric generating station located near Aberdeen, Ohio in Brown and Adams Counties, Ohio (the “Stuart Generating Station”).  The Stuart Generating Station consists of four (4) coal-fired boilers each rated at 585MW.  This Stuart Generating Station is co-owned by the Company (35% ownership interest), CG&E (39% ownership interest) and Columbus & Southern Company (“CSP”; 26% ownership interest).  The Company is responsible for operation of the Stuart Generating Station.   Air emission control regulations require removal and disposal of combustion byproducts from all four (4) units at the Stuart Generating Station.  These byproducts include flue gas particulates, SO2 and NOx.

The design of the Stuart Project is based on two principal requirements.  First, the Stuart Project must achieve the required level of the applicable emission control.   Second, the Stuart Project must produce a waste by-product that is suitable for solid waste disposal. The Stuart Project includes the construction, expansion of, and improvements to solid waste collection, transport, processing and disposal facilities for the Stuart Generating Station as a result of removing SO2 from the flue gas stream of Units 1-4 by means of the installation and use of the FGDS.

4.  PROJECT AT CONESVILLE GENERATING STATION:

The Conesville Unit 4 scrubber project (the “Conesville Project”) is located at the Conesville Generating Station, which is a coal-fired, steam powered electric generating station located near Conesville, Ohio in Coshocton County, Ohio (the “Conesville Generating Station”).  The Conesville Generating Station consists of four (4) coal-fired boilers of various ages and ratings.  Unit 4 is rated at 780 MW.  This unit is co-owned by the Company (16.5% ownership interest), CG&E (40% ownership interest) and CSP (43.5% ownership interest).  CSP is responsible for operation of the Conesville Generating Station.   Air emission control regulations require removal and disposal of combustion byproducts from the Conesville Generating Station, including from Unit 4.  These byproducts include flue gas particulates, SO2 and NOx.

The design of the Conesville Project is based on two principal requirements.  First, the Conesville Project must achieve the required level of the applicable emission control.   Second, the Conesville Project must produce a waste by-product that is suitable for solid waste disposal.  The Conesville Project includes the construction, expansion of, and improvements to solid waste collection, transport, processing and disposal facilities for the Conesville Generating Station as a result of removing SO2 from the flue gas stream of Unit 4 by means of the installation and use of the FGDS.

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF DISBURSEMENT REQUEST

STATEMENT NO.       REQUESTING DISBURSEMENT
OF FUNDS FROM PROJECT FUND PURSUANT TO
SECTION 3.4 OF THE LOAN AGREEMENT DATED AS
OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 BETWEEN THE OHIO
AIR QUALITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND
THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY

Pursuant to Section 3.4 of the Loan Agreement (the “Agreement”) between the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority (the “Authority”) and The Dayton Power and Light Company (the “Company”) dated as of September 1, 2006, the undersigned Authorized Company Representative hereby authorizes The Bank of New York, as trustee (the “Trustee”) and as depository of the Project Fund created by the Indenture (the “Indenture”) by and between the Authority and said Trustee, to pay to the Company out of the moneys deposited in said Project Fund the aggregate sum of $                       to pay the person(s) listed on Schedule I which may include reimbursements to the Company, for the advances, payments and expenditures made by it in connection with the items listed in Schedule I, which is incorporated herein by reference.

The undersigned in connection with the foregoing request for disbursements from said Project Fund hereby certifies that:

(a)          Each item is properly payable out of the Project Fund in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Agreement and none of such items for which payment is requested has formed the basis for any payment heretofore made from said Project Fund.

(b)         Each item for which payment is requested hereunder is or was necessary or appropriate in connection with the acquisition, construction, equipping, installation or improvement of the Project, as defined in the Indenture and Agreement, or costs related thereto as permitted by the Agreement.

(c)          This document evidences the approval of the undersigned Authorized Company Representative of each payment hereby authorized.

(d)         Each item for which disbursement is requested hereunder, and the cost for each item, is as described in the information statement filed by the Authority in connection with the issuance of the Bonds (as defined in the Agreement), as required by Section 149(e) of the Code (as defined in the Agreement); provided that if the foregoing statement is not true, the average reasonably expected economic life of the facilities which have been and will be paid for with moneys in the Project Fund is not less than 5/6ths of the average maturity of the Bonds.

This         day of                        ,       .

 

 

 

Authorized Company Representative

B-1




Schedule I

TO STATEMENT NO.                          REQUESTING DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS FROM PROJECT FUND PURSUANT TO SECTION 3.4 OF LOAN AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2006, BETWEEN THE OHIO AIR QUALITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY.

PAYEE

 

AMOUNT

 

PURPOSE

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

B-2



EX-4.2 3 a06-19798_1ex4d2.htm EX-4.2

Exhibit 4.2

 

THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY


AND


THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(formerly Irving Trust Company)

Trustee

 


 

Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture


 

Dated as of September 1, 2006

 




THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY

FORTY-FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

Page

 

 

 

Parties

 

1

 

 

 

Recitals

 

1

 

 

 

Granting Clauses

 

7

 

 

 

FIRST. REAL PROPERTY AND INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY

 

8

 

 

 

SECOND. ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANTS

 

8

 

 

 

THIRD. TRANSMISSION LINES

 

8

 

 

 

FOURTH. SUBSTATIONS AND SUBSTATION SITES

 

8

 

 

 

FIFTH. ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

 

9

 

 

 

SIXTH. LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS PRODUCTION AND STORAGE FACILITIES

 

9

 

 

 

SEVENTH. GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

 

9

 

 

 

EIGHTH. OFFICE AND DEPARTMENTAL BUILDINGS

 

10

 

 

 

NINTH. TELEPHONE LINES

 

10

 

 

 

TENTH. FRANCHISES

 

10

 

 

 

ELEVENTH. OTHER REAL ESTATE AND APPURTENANCES

 

10

 

 

 

TWELFTH. PROPERTY HEREAFTER TO BECOME SUBJECT TO THE LIEN OF THE FIRST MORTGAGE AS AMENDED

 

11

 

 

 

Habendum Clause

 

11

 

 

 

Subject Clause

 

12

 

 

 

Grant in Trust

 

12

 




 

ARTICLE ONE. BONDS OF THE 4.80% POLLLUTION CONTROL SERIES 2006 DUE 2036 AND ISSUE THEREOF

 

13

 

 

 

Sec. 1.

Series and Form of New Bonds

 

13

Sec. 2.

Issue of New Bonds

 

13

Sec. 3.

Dates, Interest, etc., of New Bonds

 

13

Sec. 4.

Denominations and Exchangeability of New Bonds; Temporary Bonds may be Authenticated and Delivered

 

14

Sec. 5.

Mandatory Redemption of New Bonds and Redemption Price

 

14

Sec. 6.

Extraordinary Optional Redemptin of New Bonds and Redemption Price

 

15

Sec. 7.

Optional Redemption of New Bonds and Redemption Price

 

15

Sec. 8.

Notice of Redemption of New Bonds

 

15

Sec. 9.

New Bonds Deemed Paid in Certain Circumstances

 

16

Sec. 10.

New Bonds Deemed Paid in Additional Circumstances

 

16

Sec. 11.

Surrender of New Bonds in Certain Circumstances

 

16

Sec. 12.

Application of Article Ten of First Mortgage as Amended

 

17

Sec. 13.

Form of New Bonds

 

17

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE TWO. COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

 

17

 

 

 

Sec. 1.

Confirmation of Covenants by Company in First Mortgage

 

17

Sec. 2.

Covenant of the Company and Legal Opinion as to Recording

 

17

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE THREE. MISCELLANEOUS

 

17

 

 

 

Sec. 1.

Authentication and Delivery of New Bonds in Advance of the Recording of Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture

 

17

Sec. 2.

Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture to Form Part of First Mortgage

 

17

Sec. 3.

Definitions in First Mortgage Shall Apply to Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture

 

18

Sec. 4.

Execution in Counterparts

 

18

 

 

 

 

Testimonium

 

S-1

 

 

 

Signatures

 

S-1

 

 

 

Acknowledgments

 

S-2

 

 

 

Exhibit A - Form of New Bond

 

 

 




FORTY-FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of September 1, 2006, between THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Ohio (hereinafter sometimes called the Company), party of the first part, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK (formerly Irving Trust Company), a corporation of the State of New York (hereinafter sometimes called the Trustee), as Trustee, party of the second part.

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to Irving Trust Company (now The Bank of New York) a certain Indenture, dated as of October 1, 1935 (hereinafter sometimes called the First Mortgage), to secure the payment of the principal of and interest on an issue of bonds of the Company, unlimited in aggregate principal amount (hereinafter sometimes called the Bonds); and

WHEREAS, the Company has issued under the First Mortgage its Bonds of a series known as the First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 31¤2% Series Due 1960, authorized in unlimited aggregate principal amount, all of which have been redeemed or otherwise retired; and

WHEREAS, in Article Two of the First Mortgage it is provided in substance, among other things, that the Bonds may be issued in series, the Bonds of each series maturing on such dates and bearing interest at such rates, respectively, as the Board of Directors of the Company may determine prior to the authentication thereof; and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee forty-three supplemental Indentures numbered, dated and, except as set forth below, providing for their respective series of First Mortgage Bonds, all as set forth in the tabulation below:

Supplemental
Indenture

 

Dated As Of

 

Series
Provided For

 

Principal
Amount
Outstanding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First

 

March 1, 1937

 

31¤4% Series
Due 1962

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second

 

January 1, 1940

 

3% Series
Due 1970

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Third

 

October 1, 1945

 

23¤4% Series
Due 1975

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fourth

 

January 1, 1948

 

3% Series
Due 1978

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifth

 

December 1, 1948

 

3% Series A,
Due 1978

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sixth

 

February 1, 1952

 

31¤4% Series
Due 1982

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seventh

 

September 1, 1954

 

3% Series
Due 1984

 

None

 

 

 




 

Supplemental
Indenture

 

Dated As Of

 

Series
Provided For

 

Principal
Amount
Outstanding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eighth

 

November 1, 1957

 

5% Series
Due 1987

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ninth

 

March 1, 1960

 

51¤8% Series
Due 1990

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tenth

 

June 1, 1963

 

4.45% Series
Due 1993

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eleventh

 

May 1, 1967

 

55¤8% Series
Due 1997

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twelfth

 

June 15, 1968

 

63¤4% Series
Due 1998

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirteenth

 

October 1, 1969

 

81¤4% Series
Due 1999

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fourteenth

 

June 1, 1970

 

91¤2% Series
Due 2000

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifteenth

 

August 1, 1971

 

81¤8% Series
Due 2001

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sixteenth

 

October 3, 1972

 

None issued

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seventeenth

 

November 1, 1973

 

8% Series
Due 2003

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eighteenth

 

October 1, 1974

 

101¤8% Series
Due 1981

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nineteenth

 

August 1, 1975

 

10.70% Series
Due 2005

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twentieth

 

November 15, 1976

 

83¤4% Series
Due 2006

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-First

 

April 15, 1977

 

6.35% Series
Due 2007

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Second

 

October 15, 1977

 

81¤2% Series
Due 2007

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Third

 

April 1, 1978

 

8.95% Series
Due 1998

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Fourth

 

November 1, 1978

 

91¤2% Series
Due 2003

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Fifth

 

August 1, 1979

 

101¤4% Series
Due 1999

 

None

 

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Supplemental
Indenture

 

Dated As Of

 

Series
Provided For

 

Principal
Amount
Outstanding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Sixth

 

December 1, 1979

 

121¤8% Series
Due 2009

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Seventh

 

February 1, 1981

 

145¤8% Series
Due 1988

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Eighth

 

February 18, 1981

 

141¤2% Series
Due 1988

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Ninth

 

September 1, 1981

 

17% Series
Due 1991

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirtieth

 

March 1, 1982

 

163¤4% Series
Due 2012

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-First

 

November 1, 1982

 

111¤2% Series
Due 2012-A

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-Second

 

November 1, 1982

 

111¤2% Series
Due 2012-B

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-Third

 

December 1, 1985

 

91¤2% Series
Due 2015

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-Fourth

 

April 1, 1986

 

9% Series
Due 2016

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-Fifth

 

December 1, 1986

 

87¤8% Series
Due 2016

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-Sixth

 

August 15, 1992

 

6.40% Pollution
Control Series
1992-A
Due 2027
6.40% Pollution
Control Series
1992-B
Due 2027

 

None



None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-Seventh

 

November 15, 1992

 

6.50% Pollution
Control Series
1992-C
Due 2022

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-Eighth

 

November 15, 1992

 

8.40% Series
Due 2022

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thirty-Ninth

 

January 15, 1993

 

8.15% Series
Due 2026

 

None

 

3




 

Supplemental
Indenture

 

Dated As Of

 

Series
Provided For

 

Principal
Amount
Outstanding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fortieth

 

February 15, 1993

 

77¤8% Series
Due 2024

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forty-First

 

February 1, 1999

 

None issued

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forty-Second

 

September 1, 2003

 

5.125% Series
Due 2013

 

$

470,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forty-Third

 

August 1, 2005

 

4.80%
Pollution
Control Series
2005-A Due
2034

 

$

41,300,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.80%
Pollution
Control Series
2005-B Due
2034

 

$

137,800,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.70%
Pollution
Control Series
2005-C Due
2028

 

$

35,275,000

 

 

WHEREAS, said Eleventh Supplemental Indenture, which created the 55¤8% Series Due 1997, provided in its Article Three for certain amendments to the First Mortgage, as theretofore amended, each such amendment to become effective on the earliest date on which either (a) there shall not be any Bonds outstanding of Series Due 1975, Series Due 1978, Series A, Due 1978, Series Due 1982, Series Due 1984, or Series Due 1993, or (b) there shall have been executed and delivered a supplemental indenture or indentures embodying said amendment (either alone or with other amendments) consented to by the holders of seventy-five per centum (75%) in aggregate principal amount of the Bonds at the time outstanding of the series enumerated in the foregoing clause (a), or of each said series of which Bonds are then outstanding; and

WHEREAS, said Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture, which created the 81¤8% Series Due 2001, provided (a) in its Article Four for an amendment to the First Mortgage, as theretofore amended, to become effective on the date on which the amendments provided for by Section 3 of Article Three of said Eleventh Supplemental Indenture shall become effective and (b) in its

4




Article Five for certain additional amendments to the First Mortgage, as theretofore amended, to become effective on the earliest date on which either (i) there shall not be any Bonds outstanding of Series Due 1975, Series Due 1978, Series A, Due 1978, Series Due 1982, Series Due 1984, Series Due 1993, Series Due 1997, Series Due 1998, Series Due 1999, or Series Due 2000, or (ii) there shall have been executed and delivered a supplemental indenture or indentures embodying said amendments (either alone or with other amendments) consented to by the holders of seventy-five per centum (75%) in aggregate principal amount of the Bonds at the time outstanding of the series enumerated in the foregoing clause (i), or of each said series of which Bonds are then outstanding; and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee a Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 3, 1972, which provided in its Article One for an amendment of Article Five of the First Mortgage, as theretofore amended, altering the requirements for the opinion of counsel to be delivered to the Trustee as a condition precedent to the authentication and delivery of additional Bonds under Article Five or the withdrawal of cash under Article Seven of the First Mortgage, as theretofore amended; and

WHEREAS, none of the Bonds of Series Due 1975, Series Due 1978, Series A, Due 1978, Series Due 1982, Series Due 1984, or Series Due 1993 remain outstanding and the amendments contained in said Eleventh Supplemental Indenture have become effective; and

WHEREAS, none of the Bonds of Series Due 1975, Series Due 1978, Series A, Due 1978, Series Due 1982, Series Due 1984, Series Due 1993, Series Due 1997, Series Due 1998, Series Due 1999, or Series Due 2000 remain outstanding and the amendments contained in said Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture that did not theretofore become effective by virtue of the Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture have become effective; and

WHEREAS, said Forty-Second Supplemental Indenture, which created the 51¤8% Series Due 2013, provided in its Article Two for certain amendments to the First Mortgage, as theretofore amended, to become effective on the earliest date on which either (i) there shall not be any Bonds outstanding of 6.35% Series Due 2007, Pollution Control Series 1992-A Due 2027, Pollution Control Series 1992-B Due 2027, Pollution Control Series 1992-C Due 2022, Series Due 2026 and Series Due 2024, or (ii) there shall have been executed and delivered a supplemental indenture or indentures embodying said amendment (either alone or with other amendments) consented to by the holders of seventy-five per centum (75%) in aggregate principal amount of the Bonds at the time outstanding of the series enumerated in the foregoing clause (i); and

WHEREAS, none of the Bonds of 6.35% Series Due 2007, Pollution Control Series 1992-A Due 2027, Pollution Control Series 1992-B Due 2027, Pollution Control Series 1992-C Due 2022, Series Due 2026 and Series Due 2024 remain outstanding and the amendments contained in said Forty-Second Supplemental Indenture have become effective; and

  WHEREAS, the First Mortgage as amended by the First through the Forty-Third Supplemental Indentures is hereinafter called the First Mortgage as amended; and

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WHEREAS, it is provided in Article Seven of the First Mortgage as amended, among other things, that the Company may issue additional Bonds thereunder upon the deposit with the Trustee of cash equal to the principal amount of such additional Bonds to be issued; it is provided in Article Six of the First Mortgage as amended, among other things, that if Bonds are paid, retired, redeemed, canceled or surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation (except when canceled pursuant to certain provisions of the First Mortgage as amended), the Company may issue additional Bonds thereunder in principal amount equivalent to the principal amount of the Bonds so paid, retired, redeemed, canceled or surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation; it is provided in Article Five of the First Mortgage as amended, among other things, that the Company may issue additional Bonds thereunder upon the basis of property additions in accordance with and subject to the conditions, provisions and limitations set forth in said Article Five; and it is provided in Article Eighteen of the First Mortgage as amended, among other things, that the Company and the Trustee may from time to time enter into one or more indentures supplemental to the First Mortgage as amended for the purposes, among other things which may be therein set forth, to mortgage or pledge additional property under the First Mortgage as amended and to establish the terms and provisions of any series of Bonds other than the Series Due 1960; and

WHEREAS, the Company, pursuant to resolutions duly adopted by its Board of Directors at a meeting of said Board of Directors duly called and held, has determined under and in accordance with the provisions of the First Mortgage as amended and of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture to create a new series of Bonds to be known as its First Mortgage Bonds, 4.80% Pollution Control Series 2006 Due 2036 (hereinafter sometimes called the New Bonds), which shall be limited to the aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000; and

WHEREAS, the New Bonds are to be issued by the Company to the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority (hereinafter called the Authority), or its assignee, to evidence and secure the obligations of the Company to repay the loan of the proceeds of the sale of the Project Bonds (as hereinafter defined) made by the Authority to the Company, pursuant to a certain Loan Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2006, between the Authority and the Company (hereinafter called the Loan Agreement), to assist in the financing of the Company’s portion of the cost of acquisition, construction and installation of certain “air quality facilities” (as that term is defined and used in Section 3706.01, of the Ohio Revised Code) installed in connection with: Units 7 and 8 at the Miami Fort Generating Station located in Hamilton County, Ohio as to which the Company at the date hereof owns an undivided 36% interest as tenant in common with another public utility company, Unit 2 at the Killen Generating Station located in Adams County, Ohio as to which the Company at the date hereof owns an undivided 67% interest as tenant in common with another public utility company, Units 1-4 at the J. M. Stuart Generating Station located in Brown and Adams Counties, Ohio as to which the Company at the date hereof owns an undivided 35% interest as tenant in common with two other public utility companies, and Unit 4 at the Conesville Generating Station in Coshocton County, Ohio as to which the Company at the date hereof owns an undivided 16.5% interest as tenant in common with two other public utility companies (such interests in said facilities being hereinafter called the Project); and

WHEREAS, the loan by the Authority in respect of the Project is to be funded by the proceeds derived from the sale by the Authority of State of Ohio Collateralized Air Quality

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Development Revenue Bonds, 2006 Series A (The Dayton Power and Light Company Project), in the aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 (hereinafter called the Project Bonds); and

WHEREAS, the Project Bonds are to be issued under a certain Trust Indenture, dated as of September 1, 2006 (hereinafter called the Project Bonds Indenture), between the Authority and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (hereinafter in such capacity called the Project Bond Trustee), and the New Bonds are to be assigned by the Authority to the Project Bond Trustee as security for the payment of the principal of and interest on the Project Bonds and are to be delivered by the Company on behalf of the Authority directly to the Project Bond Trustee; and

WHEREAS, the New Bonds and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed on all the New Bonds are to be respectively and substantially in the forms established hereby and approved by the aforesaid resolutions, which are substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto; and

WHEREAS, at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company, the Board of Directors adopted a resolution that authorized officers of the Company to approve the form, terms and provisions of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture (including the form of the New Bonds), and the execution by the Company of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the New Bonds hereinafter described, when duly authenticated by the Trustee and issued by the Company, valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a valid and binding agreement supplemental to the First Mortgage as amended, have been done and performed.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH

that, in order further to secure the payment of all the Bonds at any time issued and outstanding under the First Mortgage as amended or this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture according to their tenor, purport and effect, as well the interest thereon as the principal thereof, and further to secure the performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions therein and in the First Mortgage as amended and herein contained, and further to set forth the terms and conditions upon which the New Bonds are to be issued, secured and held, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the acceptance or purchase of the New Bonds by the holders or registered owners thereof, and of the sum of one dollar, lawful money of the United States of America, to the Company duly paid by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the Company has executed and delivered this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and has granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, pledged, set over and confirmed, and by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, assign, transfer, pledge, set over and confirm unto the Trustee, and to its successor or successors in said trust, and to it and its and their assigns forever, and does hereby subject to the lien of the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended all the following described properties (all of which properties are included in and constitute a part of the “mortgaged property” and the “mortgaged and pledged property” as such terms are used and defined in the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended and whenever used in the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended such terms include and refer to such properties), to wit:

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FIRST.

REAL PROPERTY AND INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY.

All and singular, all real property and interests in real property acquired by the Company between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by the Company at the latter date.

SECOND.

ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANTS.

All electric generating plants and stations of the Company acquired by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by it at the latter date, including all power houses, buildings, structures and works, and the land on which the same are situated, and all other lands and easements, rights-of-way, permits, privileges, towers, poles, wires, machinery, equipment, appliances, appurtenances and supplies forming a part of such plants and stations, or any of them, or occupied, enjoyed or used in connection therewith.

THIRD.

TRANSMISSION LINES.

All electric overhead and underground transmission lines of the Company acquired by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by it at the latter date, including towers, poles, pole lines, conduits, manholes, switching devices, insulators, and other structures, appliances, devices and equipment, and all the property forming a part thereof or appertaining thereto, and all service lines extending therefrom, together with all real property, rights-of-way, easements, permits, privileges, franchises, and rights for or relating to the construction, maintenance or operation thereof, through, over, under or upon any private property or any public way within as well as without the corporate limits of any municipal corporation.

FOURTH.

SUBSTATIONS AND SUBSTATION SITES.

All substations and switching stations of the Company acquired by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by it at the latter date, for transforming or otherwise regulating electric current at any of its plants, together with all buildings, transformers, wires, cables, insulators, structures, appliances, devices, equipment and all other property, real or personal, forming a part of, or appertaining thereto, or used, occupied or enjoyed in connection with any of such substations and switching stations.

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FIFTH.

ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS.

All electric distribution systems of the Company acquired by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by it at the latter date, including substations, transformers, switchboards, towers, poles, wires, insulators, conduits, cables, manholes, appliances, devices, equipment and all other property, real or personal, forming a part of or appertaining thereto, or used, occupied or enjoyed in connection with such distribution systems or any of them, together with all rights-of-way, easements, permits, privileges, franchises, and rights in or relating to the construction, maintenance or operation thereof, through, over, under or upon any private property or public ways within as well as without the corporate limits of any municipal corporation.

SIXTH.

LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS PRODUCTION AND STORAGE FACILITIES.

All additions to liquefied petroleum gas production plants and storage facilities of the Company acquired by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by it at the latter date, including all buildings, structures, underground storage caverns, and works, and the land on which the same are situated, and all other lands and easements, rights-of-way, permits, privileges, pipe lines, machinery, equipment, appliances, appurtenances and supplies forming a part of such plants and stations, or any of them, or occupied, enjoyed or used in connection therewith.

SEVENTH.

GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS.

All gas distribution systems of the Company acquired or constructed by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by it at the latter date, for distribution of gas, including pipes, mains, conduits, meters, appliances, equipment, and all other property, real or personal, forming a part of or appertaining to or used, occupied or enjoyed in connection with such distribution systems, or any of them, together with all rights-of-way, easements, permits, privileges, franchises and rights, for or relating to the construction, maintenance or operation thereof, through, over, under or upon any private property or any public streets or highways, within as well as without the corporate limits of any municipal corporation.

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EIGHTH.

OFFICE AND DEPARTMENTAL BUILDINGS.

All office and departmental buildings of the Company, including the real estate on which such structures stand, acquired by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by it at the latter date, appertaining to, used, occupied or enjoyed in connection with the rendition of public utility service.

NINTH.

TELEPHONE LINES.

All telephone lines of the Company acquired by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and owned by it at the latter date, used or available for use in the operation of its properties or otherwise.

TENTH.

FRANCHISES.

All and singular the franchises, grants, immunities, privileges and rights of the Company granted to or acquired by it between August 1, 2005, the date of the Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, and the date of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and to which it was entitled at the latter date, including all and singular the franchises, grants, immunities, privileges and rights of the Company granted by all municipalities or political subdivisions, and all right, title and interest therein owned by the Company on the date of the execution of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and all renewals, extensions and modifications of said franchises, grants, immunities, privileges and rights, or any of them, and of all other franchises, grants, immunities, privileges and rights now subject to the lien of the First Mortgage as amended.

ELEVENTH.

OTHER REAL ESTATE AND APPURTENANCES.

A.            All other real estate and interests in real estate and all other physical electric power and light, gas and other property owned by the Company at the date of execution of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture.

B.            All other real estate and interests in real estate and all other physical electric power and light, gas and other property which the Company may hereafter acquire or construct.

C.            All present and future appurtenances of the real estate and interests in real estate which now are, or hereafter shall be, subject to the lien of the First Mortgage as amended, and all plants, works, buildings, structures, fixtures, improvements, betterments and additions now owned, or hereafter acquired or constructed by the Company, upon any of the real estate which,

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or interests in which, now are or hereafter shall be subject to the lien of the First Mortgage as amended.

D.            All corporate rights, privileges, immunities and franchises, powers, licenses, easements, leases, contracts and other rights and all renewals and extensions thereof held or acquired for use or used upon, or in connection with or appertaining to, any of the properties which now are or hereafter shall be subject to the lien of the First Mortgage as amended, or which the Company has or may have the right to exercise in respect of any of said properties.

E.             All machinery, tools and equipment now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company, which now or hereafter belong or appertain to or are used in connection with the plants, works, transmission lines, distribution systems, buildings, structures and fixtures which now are or hereafter shall be subject to the lien of the First Mortgage as amended.

Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances belonging or in any way appertaining to the aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, income and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest and claim whatsoever at law or in equity, which the Company now has or which it may hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property and every part and parcel thereof.

It is not intended to include in the lien of the First Mortgage as amended and this grant shall not be deemed to apply (1) to any revenues, earnings, rents, issues, income or profits of the mortgaged property, or any cash (except cash deposited with the Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended), or any bills, notes or accounts receivable, contracts or choses in action, or any materials or supplies or construction equipment, or any merchandise, equipment or apparatus manufactured or acquired for the purpose of sale or resale in the usual course of business, except in case of the happening of a completed default as defined in Section 1 of Article Twelve of the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended, and following such completed default, in case the Trustee or a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the mortgaged property, or (2) in any case, to any cars, trucks or other vehicles of any nature for the transportation of personnel, materials or equipment by any means which may have been acquired after the effective date of the amendment to this Clause made by or pursuant to the provisions of the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture, or to any bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness, shares of stock or other securities, except such as may be specifically subjected to the lien of the First Mortgage as amended.

TWELFTH.

PROPERTY HEREAFTER TO BECOME SUBJECT TO THE LIEN OF
THE FIRST MORTGAGE AS AMENDED.

A.            Any and all property, real, personal and mixed, including franchises, grants, immunities, privileges and rights, which the Company may hereafter acquire or to which it may hereafter become entitled, excepting, however, the following property which is not intended to be subjected to the lien of the First Mortgage:  (1) any revenues, earnings, rents, issues, income or profits of the mortgaged property, or any cash (except cash deposited with the Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended), or

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any bills, notes or accounts receivable, contracts or choses in action, or any materials or supplies or construction equipment, or any merchandise, equipment or apparatus manufactured or acquired for the purpose of sale or resale in the usual course of business, except in case of the happening of a completed default as defined in Section 1 of Article Twelve of the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended, and following such completed default, in case the Trustee or a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the mortgaged property, or (2) in any case, any cars, trucks or other vehicles of any nature for the transportation of personnel, materials or equipment by any means, or any bonds, notes, evidences of indebtedness, shares of stock or other securities, except such as may be specifically subjected to the lien of the First Mortgage as amended.

B.            Any and all property of every name and nature, including shares of stock, bonds, other securities or obligations and cars, trucks or other vehicles for the transportation of personnel, materials or equipment by any means, which, from time to time after the execution of this Forty-Third Supplemental Indenture, by delivery or by writing of any kind for the purposes hereof, shall have been conveyed, mortgaged, pledged, assigned or transferred by, or by anyone on behalf of, the Company to the Trustee, which is hereby authorized to receive any property at any and all times, as and for additional security, and also, when and as provided in the First Mortgage as amended as and for substituted security, for the payment of the Bonds to be issued under the First Mortgage as amended, and to hold and apply any and all such property subject to the terms hereof and of the First Mortgage as amended.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal and mixed, mortgaged, pledged or conveyed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto the Trustee and its successors and assigns forever.

SUBJECT, HOWEVER, as to property hereby conveyed, to liens for taxes, assessments and other charges levied or to be levied by the State of Ohio and any of the subdivisions thereof for the years 2005 and 2006 and thereafter and, as to any property hereafter acquired by the Company and which may become subject to the lien of the First Mortgage as amended, to any lien or charge thereon existing at the time of the acquisition thereof by the Company;

IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, upon and subject to the terms, conditions and stipulations hereinafter and in the First Mortgage as amended set forth, for the equal and proportionate benefit and security of the holders from time to time of the Bonds and interest coupons issued and to be issued under the First Mortgage as amended and this and other indentures supplemental thereto, without preference, priority or distinction as to lien or otherwise of any of the Bonds and coupons over any others by reason of priority in time of issue, sale or negotiation thereof or otherwise howsoever, and for the uses and purposes and upon and subject to the terms, conditions, provisions and agreements in the Bonds and hereinafter and in the First Mortgage as amended expressed and declared.

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ARTICLE ONE.

BONDS OF THE 4.80% POLLUTION CONTROL SERIES 2006 DUE 2036 AND
ISSUE THEREOF.

SECTION 1.           There shall be a series of Bonds designated “4.80% Pollution Control Series 2006 Due 2036”, each of which shall bear the descriptive title First Mortgage Bond.  The aggregate principal amount of New Bonds which may be outstanding under the First Mortgage as amended and this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall be limited to $100,000,000, except as provided in Section 9 of Article Two of the First Mortgage as amended.

SECTION 2.           Upon the execution and delivery of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture and upon delivery of $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the New Bonds, executed by the Company, and upon compliance by the Company with the provisions of Article Five, Article Six or Article Seven or any or all of said Articles, as the case may be, of the First Mortgage as amended, the Trustee shall, without awaiting the filing or recording of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, authenticate the New Bonds and deliver the New Bonds as provided in said Article Five, Article Six or Article Seven.

SECTION 3.           The New Bonds shall be dated as provided in Section 3 of Article Two of the First Mortgage as amended; shall mature on September 1, 2036; and shall bear interest from September 13, 2006 as provided in said Section 3 of Article Two at the rate of four and eighty hundredths per centum (4.80%) per annum until paid or redeemed as hereinafter provided, payable on March 1, 2007 and thereafter semi-annually on each March 1 and September 1, and on the maturity date, to the Bondholders in whose names such New Bonds are registered at the close of business on February 15 or August 15, except that if the Company shall default in the payment of any installment of interest on any New Bonds, such interest in default shall be paid to the Bondholders in whose names the New Bonds are registered at the close of business on a date established for the payment of such defaulted interest by the Company in any lawful manner.  The New Bonds shall be payable as to both principal and interest in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.  The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.  In the event that any date on which principal or interest is payable on the New Bonds is not a Business Day (as defined below), the payment of the principal or interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on the date the payment was originally payable.  “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in The City of New York are generally authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to remain closed or a day on which the corporate trust office of the Trustee is closed for business.

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SECTION 4.           The New Bonds shall be issued in denominations of $5,000 and any integral multiple of $5,000.

Whenever any New Bond or New Bonds shall be surrendered at the office or agency of the Company in said Borough of Manhattan for exchange for a New Bond or New Bonds of other authorized denomination or denominations, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon cancellation of the New Bond or New Bonds so surrendered, a New Bond or New Bonds of such other authorized denomination or denominations of like aggregate principal amount as the Bondholder making the exchange shall have requested and shall be entitled to receive.  On presentation of any New Bond which is to be redeemed pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 of this Article One in part only, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a New Bond or New Bonds in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the New Bond so presented.

The Company shall not be required to (a) register a transfer of, or exchange, any New Bond during a period of fifteen (15) days next preceding any selection of New Bonds to be redeemed or (b) register a transfer of, or exchange, any New Bond which shall have been selected for redemption in whole or in part.

A service charge will not be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of New Bonds, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any stamp tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Until definitive New Bonds shall be ready for delivery, the Company may execute and, upon request of the Company, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of such definitive New Bonds but subject to the same provisions, limitations and conditions except as to the denominations thereof, temporary printed or lithographed New Bonds as provided in Section 8 of Article One of the First Mortgage as amended.  Such temporary New Bonds shall be exchangeable for definitive New Bonds, when ready for delivery, in the manner provided in the First Mortgage as amended, and shall in all other respects be subject to and entitled to the benefits of the terms and provisions and lien of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and the terms and provisions and lien of the First Mortgage as amended as therein provided.

SECTION 5.           The New Bonds shall be subject to mandatory redemption by the Company prior to maturity at any time in whole or in part at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date, upon receipt by the Trustee of notice from the Project Bond Trustee to the effect that (a) the Company is required to deliver moneys to the Project Bond Trustee for the redemption of the Project Bonds in whole or in part, as the case may be, as provided in Section 6.3 of the Loan Agreement and (b) an equivalent principal amount of the Project Bonds are being concurrently called for redemption.  Said notice shall specify the redemption date of such New Bonds (which redemption date shall be the same date as the redemption date specified in said notice for the Project Bonds being currently redeemed).  Any such redemption shall be made upon the notice and in the manner provided in this Article One, subject to the provisions of the First Mortgage as amended.

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SECTION 6.           The New Bonds shall be subject to redemption, at the option of the Company, prior to maturity at any time, in whole or in part, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date, upon receipt by the Trustee of an officers’ certificate to the effect that (a) the Company has given notice to the Project Bond Trustee that the Company is exercising its option to direct the redemption of Project Bonds in whole or in part, as provided in Section 6.2 of the Loan Agreement and (b) an equivalent principal amount of New Project Bonds are being concurrently called for redemption.  Such officers’ certificate shall have attached to it a copy of said notice to the Project Bond Trustee and shall specify the redemption date of such New Bonds (which redemption date shall be not less than 45 days (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee) after the date of the mailing of such certificate and shall be the same date as the redemption date specified in said attached notice for the Project Bonds being concurrently redeemed).  Any such redemption shall be made upon the notice, which may be conditional as provided in Section 8 of this Article One, and in the manner provided in this Article One, subject to the provisions of the First Mortgage as amended.

SECTION 7.           The New Bonds shall also be subject to redemption prior to maturity, at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, at anytime on or after September 1, 2016, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date.

Prior to any such redemption, the Trustee shall have received an officers’ certificate to the effect that (a) the Company has given notice to the Project Bond Trustee that the Company is exercising its option to deliver moneys to the Project Bond Trustee for the redemption of Project Bonds in whole or in part, as the case may be, as provided in Section 6.1 of the Loan Agreement and (b) an equivalent principal amount of Project Bonds are being concurrently called for redemption.  Such officers’ certificate shall specify the principal amount of the New Bonds to be redeemed, shall have attached to it a copy of said notice to the Project Bond Trustee and shall specify the redemption date of such New Bonds (which redemption date shall be not less than 45 days (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee) after the date of the mailing of such certificate and shall be the same date as the redemption date specified in said attached notice for the Project Bonds being concurrently redeemed).  Any such redemption shall be made upon the notice, which may be conditional as provided in Section 8 of this Article One, and in the manner provided in this Article One, subject to the provisions of the First Mortgage as amended.

SECTION 8.           Subject to the provisions of the First Mortgage as amended, written notice of redemption of the New Bonds pursuant to any of Sections 5, 6 or 7 of this Article One shall be given by the Trustee by mailing, first class postage prepaid, or delivering by hand to the registered owner of such New Bonds to be redeemed a notice of such redemption at its last address as it shall appear upon the books of the Company for the registration and transfer of such New Bonds.  Any notice of redemption pursuant to said Sections 5, 6 or 7 shall be mailed or delivered by hand as least 30 days and not earlier than 60 days before the redemption date; provided, however, that the registered owner or owners of all New Bonds may consent in writing to a shorter notice period, and

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such consent, if filed with the Trustee, shall be binding upon the Company and such registered owners and their transferees.  In the case of any notice of redemption of New Bonds pursuant to said Sections 6 or 7, such notice shall state that such redemption is conditional to the same extent and with the same effect, if any, as the notice of redemption of the Project Bonds being concurrently redeemed.

SECTION 9.           In the event any Project Bonds shall be purchased by the Company and surrendered by the Company to the Project Bond Trustee for cancellation or shall be otherwise surrendered to the Project Bond Trustee for cancellation pursuant to the Project Bonds Indenture (except upon exchange for other Project Bonds), New Bonds equivalent in principal amount to the Project Bonds so surrendered shall be deemed to have been paid, but only when and to the extent that (a) such payment of the principal amount of such New Bonds shall be noted by an agency of the Company on the schedule of payments on such New Bonds and (if such agency is not the Trustee) written notice by such agency of such notation shall have been received by the Trustee or (b) such New Bonds shall have been surrendered to and cancelled by the Trustee as provided in Section 11 of this Article One.

SECTION 10.         In the event and to the extent the principal of or interest on any Project Bonds shall be paid, whether at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise, out of funds held by the Project Bond Trustee or out of any other funds or shall otherwise be deemed to be paid, an equal amount of principal or interest, as the case may be, payable with respect to an aggregate principal amount of New Bonds equal to an aggregate principal amount of such Project Bonds shall be deemed to have been paid, but, in the case of such payment of principal of such New Bonds, only when and to the extent that (a) such payment of the principal amount thereof shall be noted by any agency of the Company on the schedule of payments on such New Bonds and (if such agency is not the Trustee) written notice by such agency of such notation shall have been received by the Trustee or (b) such New Bonds shall have been surrendered to and cancelled by the Trustee as provided in Section 11 of this Article One.

SECTION 11.         When payment of any principal amount of a New Bond is made as provided in Section 9 or 10 of this Article One, the registered owner thereof shall surrender it to an agency of the Company for notation and notification or to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in such Section.  All New Bonds deemed to have been paid in full as provided in Section 9 or 10 of this Article One shall be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation and the Trustee shall forthwith cancel the same.  In the event that part of a New Bond shall be deemed to have been paid as provided in said Section 9 or 10, the registered owner may at its option surrender such New Bond to the Trustee for cancellation, in which event the Trustee shall cancel such New Bond and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without charge to the registered owner, New Bonds in such authorized denominations as shall be specified by the registered owner in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unpaid balance of the principal amount of such surrendered New Bond.

SECTION 12.         Except as in this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture otherwise provided with respect to any matter or question, the provisions of Article Ten of the First

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Mortgage as amended shall be applicable in the case of the redemption of all or any part of the New Bonds at any time outstanding.  The term “officers’ certificate as used in this Article One shall mean a certificate signed by the President or a Vice President and any other Vice President, the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or Assistant Secretary or any other officer of the Company.

SECTION 13.         The New Bonds shall be in fully registered form only.  The form of the New Bonds, and of the Trustee’s certificate of authentication thereon, shall be substantially as set forth in Exhibit A.

ARTICLE TWO.

COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

SECTION 1.           All covenants and agreements by the Company in the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended are hereby confirmed.

SECTION 2.           Promptly after the execution and delivery of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the Company will take such action with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of the First Mortgage as amended and this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture as may be necessary to make effective the lien intended to be created hereby, and will furnish to the Trustee an opinion of counsel selected by the Company and satisfactory to the Trustee (who may be of counsel to the Company) either (a) stating that in the opinion of such counsel such action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of the First Mortgage as amended and this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture as to make effective the lien intended to be created thereby, and reciting the details of such action, or (b) stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to make such lien effective.

ARTICLE THREE.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION 1.           The New Bonds may be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in advance of the recording or filing of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 2.           The provisions of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall become effective immediately upon the execution and delivery hereof.  From and after the initial issue of the New Bonds, this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the First Mortgage and all the terms and conditions herein contained shall be deemed to be part of the terms of the First Mortgage, as fully and with the same effect as if all the terms and provisions of this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, including the provisions which determine the dates on which the amendments herein made shall become effective, had been set forth in the First Mortgage as originally executed.  Except as modified or amended by this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the First Mortgage

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as amended shall remain and continue in full force and effect in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof, and all the covenants, conditions, terms and provisions of the First Mortgage, as heretofore modified and amended and as further modified and amended by this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, shall be applicable with respect to the New Bonds, except insofar as such covenants, conditions, terms and provisions are limited and applicable only to the Bonds of another or other series, or are expressed to continue only so long as Bonds of another or other series are outstanding, and all the covenants, conditions, terms and provisions of the First Mortgage as amended with respect to the Trustee shall remain in full force and effect and be applicable to the Trustee under this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture in the same manner as though set out herein at length.  All representations and recitals contained in this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture and in the New Bonds (save only the Trustee’s certificates upon said New Bonds) are made by and on behalf of the Company, and the Trustee is in no way responsible therefor or for any statement therein contained.

SECTION 3.           The terms defined in Article One of the First Mortgage as heretofore and hereby amended, when used in this Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, shall, respectively, have the meanings set forth in said Article One.

SECTION 4.           This Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture may be simultaneously executed in several counterparts and each counterpart shall be an original instrument.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY has caused this instrument to be signed on its behalf by its President or a Vice President and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, in the City of Dayton, Ohio, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK has caused this instrument to be signed on its behalf by a Vice President or an Assistant Vice President and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by a Vice President, Assistant Vice President or an Assistant Treasurer, in The City of New York, New York, as of the day and year first above written.

 

THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT

 

COMPANY

 

 

 

By

/s/ John J. Gillen

 

 

 

John J. Gillen

 

 

 

Senior Vice President

 

 

 

and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

[SEAL]

Attest:

 

/s/ Miggie E. Cramblit

 

Miggie E. Cramblit

 

Vice President, General Counsel

and Corporate Secretary

 

 

Signed and acknowledged in our presence by

The Dayton Power and Light Company

 

 

/s/ Timothy G. Rice

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Charles J. Hofmann Jr.

 

 




[Forty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 1, 2006, to Indenture dated as of October 1, 1935, executed by The Dayton Power and Light Company to Irving Trust Company (now The Bank of New York), as Trustee]

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK,

 

   as Trustee

 

 

 

By

/s/ Louis P. Young

 

 

 

Louis P. Young

 

 

 

Vice President

 

 

 

[SEAL]

 

Attest:

 

 

 

/s/ Franca Ferrara

 

Franca Ferrara

 

Assistant Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

Signed and acknowledged in our presence by

 

The Bank of New York

 

 

 

/s/ Mary LaGumina

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Alexander Pabone

 

 




 

STATE OF OHIO,

)

ss.:

COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY

)

 

 

On this 11 day of September, 2006, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for said County in the State aforesaid, John J. Gillen, and Miggie E. Cramblit, to me known and known to me to be, respectively, the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and the Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, one of the corporations which executed the foregoing instrument, who severally acknowledged that they did sign and seal said instrument as such Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for and on behalf of said corporation and that the same is their free act and deed as such Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, respectively, and the free and corporate act and deed of said corporation; and said John J. Gillen, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say: that he resides in Delaware County, Pennsylvania; that he is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of THE DAYTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, one of the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that he 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 signed his name thereto by like order.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and official seal.

[SEAL]

/s/ Timothy G. Rice

 

 

TIMOTHY G. RICE, Attorney at Law

 

 

Notary Public, State of Ohio

 

 

My Commission has no expiration date,

 

 

Section 147.03 O.R.C.

 

 




 

STATE OF NEW YORK,

)

ss.:

COUNTY OF NEW YORK

)

 

 

On this 8th day of September, 2006, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for said County in the State aforesaid, Louis P. Young and Franca Ferrara, to me known and known to me to be, respectively, a Vice President and an Assistant Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK, one of the corporations which executed the foregoing instrument, who severally acknowledged that they did sign and seal said instrument as such Vice President and Assistant Vice President for and on behalf of said corporation and that the same is their free act and deed as such Vice President and Assistant Vice President, respectively, and the free and corporate act and deed of said corporation; and said Louis P. Young being by me duly sworn, did depose and say: that he resides in Plainview, New York; that he is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK, one of the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that he 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 such corporation; and that he signed his name thereto by like order.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and official seal.

[SEAL]

/s/ Carlos R. Luciano

 

 

Carlos R. Luciano

 

 

Notary Public, State of New York

 

 

No. 41-4765897

 

 

Qualified in Queens County

 

 

Commission Expires April 30, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This instrument prepared by

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Timothy G. Rice

 

 

Timothy G. Rice, Esq.

 

 

Attorney at Law

 

 

The Dayton Power and Light Company

 

 

1065 Woodman Drive

 

 

Dayton, Ohio 45432

 

 



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