0000032689-16-000103.txt : 20160205 0000032689-16-000103.hdr.sgml : 20160205 20160205151300 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000032689-16-000103 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160203 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160205 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160205 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000032689 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911] IRS NUMBER: 440236370 STATE OF INCORPORATION: KS FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 602 JOPLIN ST CITY: JOPLIN STATE: MO ZIP: 64801 BUSINESS PHONE: 4176255100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P.O. BOX 127 CITY: JOPLIN STATE: MO ZIP: 64802 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GATZ RONALD F CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001207864 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-03368 FILM NUMBER: 161391923 4 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0306 4 2016-02-03 0000032689 EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC CO EDE 0001207864 GATZ RONALD F THE EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY 602 S. JOPLIN AVENUE JOPLIN MO 64801 0 1 0 0 Vice President and COO Common Stock 2016-02-03 4 A 0 5765 29.53 A 25023 D Common Stock 2016-02-03 4 F 0 1901 29.53 D 23122 D Common Stock 4496.232 I 401(k) Plan Restricted Stock Units 0 2016-02-03 4 A 0 2100 0 A 2019-02-03 Common Stock 2100 9400 D Shares of Time-Vested Restricted Stock Units vest upon the earliest of the end of the restricted period, retirement or death. Shares of Time-Vested Restricted Stock Units vest upon the earliest of the end of the restricted period, retirement or death and do not expire. Includes 375 shares acquired under the EDE Employee Stock Purchase Plan on May 29, 2015. Dale W. Harrington, Attorney In Fact 2016-02-05 EX-24 2 attach_4.htm

POWER OF ATTORNEY



For Executing Forms 3, 4, and 5



 Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Dale W. Harrington, Laurie A. Delano and Robert W. Sager, or any one of them signing singly, and with full power of substitution, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer of The Empire District Electric Company (the Company), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC, the New York Stock Exchange and any other authority; and

(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

 The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 4th day of February 2015.





/s/  Ronald F. Gatz

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Ronald F. Gatz



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