0000726854-15-000053.txt : 20160122 0000726854-15-000053.hdr.sgml : 20160122 20151217171035 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000726854-15-000053 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20151217 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CITY HOLDING CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000726854 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021] IRS NUMBER: 550619957 STATE OF INCORPORATION: WV FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 25 GATEWATER ROAD STREET 2: P O BOX 7520 CITY: CHARLESTON STATE: WV ZIP: 25313 BUSINESS PHONE: 3047691100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 25 GATEWATER ROAD STREET 2: P O BOX 7520 CITY: CHARLESTON STATE: WV ZIP: 25313 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm CORRESP


City Holding Company
25 Gatewater Road
Charleston, West Virginia 25313
December 17, 2015

VIA EDGAR
Christopher Dunham
Division of Corporation Finance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporate Finance
100 F Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20549

Re:    City Holding Company
Registration Statement on Form S-3
Filed December 3, 2015        
File Number 333- 208372

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Pursuant to Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, City Holding Company, a West Virginia corporation (the “Registrant”), hereby requests that the effectiveness under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of the above-captioned Registration Statement be accelerated to 4:15 p.m., Eastern time, on December 21, 2015, or as soon thereafter as practicable. In connection with the foregoing request for acceleration of effectiveness, the Registrant hereby acknowledges the following:

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should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing;
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the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; and
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the company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
                        
Please notify Christian Gonzalez, Esq. of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, counsel to the Registrant, at (614) 628-6921 as soon as possible as to the time the Registration Statement has been declared effective pursuant to this acceleration request.


City Holding Company
By:
/s/ David L. Bumgarner
Name:
David L. Bumgarner
Title:
Chief Financial Officer