-----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, AHZaOn4RQtSwy8+bXw82qh1CB5rQREg/Abd1dg5Spcs36dMhyHID2UYUiDeSsok+ OZ1JJnSaPmfbP4lMmdTE9A== 0000081033-96-000005.txt : 19960129 0000081033-96-000005.hdr.sgml : 19960129 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000081033-96-000005 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-A12B PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 FILED AS OF DATE: 19960126 SROS: NYSE FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & GAS CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000081033 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931] IRS NUMBER: 221212800 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-A12B SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-00973 FILM NUMBER: 96507448 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 80 PARK PLZ STREET 2: PO BOX 570 CITY: NEWARK STATE: NJ ZIP: 07101 BUSINESS PHONE: 2014307000 8-A12B 1 FORM 8-A SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D. C. 20549 FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) New Jersey 22-1212800 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (State of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 80 Park Plaza, P. O. Box 570, Newark, New Jersey 07101-0570 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) If this Form relates to the registration of a class of debt securities and is effective upon filing pursuant to General Instruction A.(c)(1), please check the following box. [X] If this Form relates to the registration of a class of debt securities and is to become effective simultaneously with the effectiveness of a concurrent registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933 pursuant to General Instruction A.(c)(2), please check the following box. [ ] Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Name of each exchange on which to be so registered each class is to be registered ------------------- ------------------------------ Public Service Electric and Gas Company First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds: Series VV due 2016 ) New York Stock Exchange, Inc. ) Series WW due 2007 ) New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None ---------------- (Title of Class) 1 Public Service Electric and Gas Company - --------------------------------------------- Item 1. Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered. - ------ -------------------------------------------------------- Debt Securities Description of the securities to be registered is set forth under "Description of the New Bonds" in the Prospectus dated and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Rule 424(b)(3) on March 2, 1994 to Registration Statement No. 33-52435 and under "Certain Terms of the New Bonds" in the Prospectus Supplements with respect to the Series VV and Series WW dated January 23, 1996, which were filed with the SEC under Rule 424(b)(5) on January 24, 1996. (See description of issuances below.) Pursuant to the instruction to Item 1. of Form 8-A, copies of said Prospectus dated March 2, 1994 and Prospectus Supplements dated January 24, 1996 are being submitted with the copy of this Form 8-A being filed with the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. The following First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds were issued as described below:
Registration Maturity Issue Principal Amount Number Rate Series Date Date - ----------------- ------------ ---- ------ ------- -------- $200,000,000 ) 33-52435 6 3/4% VV 2016 1/30/96 $150,000,000 ) 33-52435 6 1/4% WW 2007 1/30/96
Item 2. Exhibits. - ------ -------- Exhibit Number -------------- 4(a) (1) Indenture between the Company and Fidelity Union Trust Company (now First Union National Bank) as Trustee, dated August 1, 1924, securing the First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, filed by the Registrant's registration statement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, File No. 1-973, effective July 1, 1935 and incorporated herein by this reference thereto. 4(a) (2) Supplemental Indenture between the Registrant and First Union National Bank, Trustee, dated January 1, 1996 (No. 1) providing for the issuance of $200,000,000 principal amount of First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, Series VV due 2016. 2 Item 2. Exhibits. (Concluded) - ------ -------- Exhibit Number -------------- 4(a) (3) Supplemental Indenture between the Registrant and First Union National Bank, Trustee, dated January 1, 1996 (No. 2) providing for the issuance of $150,000,000 principal amount of First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, Series WW due 2007. 99(a) "Description of the New Bonds" contained in Prospectus dated and filed on March 2, 1994 in accordance with Rule 424(b)(3) and incorporated herein by this reference thereto. 99(b) "Certain Terms of the New Bonds" applicable to Series VV due 2016 contained in Prospectus Supplement dated January 23, 1996, filed in accordance with Rule 424(b)(5) on January 24, 1996 and incorporated herein by this reference thereto. 99(c) "Certain Terms of the New Bonds" applicable to Series WW due 2007 contained in Prospectus Supplement dated January 23, 1996, filed in accordance with Rule 424(b)(5) on January 24, 1996 and incorporated herein by this reference thereto. 3 SIGNATURE ---------- Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized. PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY By FRANCIS J. RIPEL --------------------------------------- Francis J. Riepl Vice President and Treasurer Dated: January 26, 1996 4 EX-4 2 EX-4(A)(2) SUPPLEMENTAL MORTGAGE - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Supplemental Indenture DATED JANUARY 1, 1996 (NO. 1) -------------- SUPPLEMENTAL TO FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE, DATED AUGUST 1, 1924 -------------- PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY TO FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK TRUSTEE 765 BROAD STREET NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07101 -------------- PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUE OF $200,000,000 FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BONDS, 6 3/4% SERIES VV DUE 2016 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECORD IN MORTGAGE BOOK AND RETURN TO: JAMES T. FORAN, ESQ. 80 PARK PLAZA, T5B P. O. BOX 570 NEWARK, N. J. 07101 Prepared by (Edward C. Fedak, Esq.) TABLE OF CONTENTS ---------------- PAGE ---- RECITALS...................................................... 1 FORM OF BOND [FACE]........................................... 3 FORMS OF CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICATION....................... 5 FORM OF BOND [REVERSE]........................................ 6 GRANTING CLAUSES.............................................. 10 ARTICLE I. BONDS OF THE SERIES VV. DESCRIPTION OF SERIES VV...................................... 12 ARTICLE II. REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF SERIES VV. SECTION 2.01. Redemption--Redemption Prices................. 13 SECTION 2.02. Redemption at Election of Company............. 14 SECTION 2.03. Redemptions Pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture............................ 15 SECTION 2.04. Called Bonds to be Surrendered--Interest to Cease....................................... 16 SECTION 2.05. Bonds Called in Part.......................... 16 SECTION 2.06. Provisions of Indenture Not Applicable........ 16 ARTICLE III. MISCELLANEOUS. SECTION 3.01. Authentication of Bonds of Series VV.......... 16 SECTION 3.02. Authenticating Agent.......................... 17 SECTION 3.03. Additional Restrictions on Authentication of Additional Bonds Under Indenture............ 18 SECTION 3.04. Restriction on Dividends...................... 18 SECTION 3.05. Use of Facsimile Seal and Signatures.......... 18 SECTION 3.06. Time for Making of Payment.................... 19 SECTION 3.07. Effective Period of Supplemental Indenture.... 19 SECTION 3.08. Effect of Approval of Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey..................... 19 SECTION 3.09. Execution in Counterparts..................... 19 Acknowledgements.............................................. 21 Certificate of Residence...................................... 22 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated the 1st day of January, 1996 for convenience of reference and effective from the time of execution and delivery hereof, between PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, hereinafter called the "Company", party of the first part, and FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee under the indenture dated August 1, 1924, below mentioned, hereinafter called the "Trustee", party of the second part. WHEREAS, on July 25, 1924, the Company executed and delivered to FIDELITY UNION TRUST COMPANY (now known as FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK), a certain indenture dated August 1, 1924 (hereinafter called the "Indenture"), to secure and to provide for the issue of First and Refunding Mortgage Gold Bonds of the Company; and WHEREAS, the Indenture has been recorded in the following counties of the State of New Jersey, in the offices, and therein in the books and at the pages, as follows: PAGE COUNTY OFFICE BOOK NUMBER NUMBER - ----------- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ Atlantic Clerk's 1955 of Mortgages 160 Bergen Clerk's 94 of Chattel Mortgages 123 etc. 693 of Mortgages 88 etc. Burlington Clerk's 52 of Chattel Mortgages Folio 8, etc. 177 of Mortgages Folio 354, etc. Camden Register's 45 of Chattel Mortgages 184 etc. 239 of Mortgages 1 etc. Cumberland Clerk's 786 of Mortgages 638 & c. Essex Register's 437 of Chattel Mortgages 1-48 T-51 of Mortgages 341-392 Gloucester Clerk's 34 of Chattel Mortgages 123 etc. 142 of Mortgages 7, etc. Hudson Register's 453 of Chattel Mortgages 9, etc. 1245 of Mortgages 484, etc. Hunterdon Clerk's 151 of Mortgages 344 Mercer Clerk's 67 of Chattel Mortgages 1 etc. 384 of Mortgages 1 etc. Middlesex Clerk's 113 of Chattel Mortgages 3 etc. 437 of Mortgages 294, etc. Monmouth Clerk's 951 of Mortgages 291 & c. Morris Clerk's N-3 of Chattel Mortgages 446 etc. F-10 of Mortgages 269 etc. Ocean Clerk's 1809 of Mortgages 40 Passaic Register's M-6 of Chattel Mortgages 178, etc. R-13 of Mortgages 268 etc. Salem Clerk's 267 of Mortgages 249 & c. Somerset Clerk's 46 of Chattel Mortgages 207 etc. N-10 of Mortgages 1 etc. Sussex Clerk's 123 of Mortgages 10 & c. Union Register's 128 of Chattel Mortgages 28 & c. 664 of Mortgages 259 etc. Warren Clerk's 124 of Mortgages 141 etc. and 2 WHEREAS, the Indenture has also been recorded in the following counties of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the offices, and therein in the books and at the pages, as follows: PAGE COUNTY OFFICE BOOK NUMBER NUMBER - ----------- ----------- ----------------- ----------- Adams Recorder's 22 of Mortgages 105 Armstrong Recorder's 208 of Mortgages 381 Bedford Recorder's 90 of Mortgages 917 Blair Recorder's 671 of Mortgages 430 Cambria Recorder's 407 of Mortgages 352 Cumberland Recorder's 500 of Mortgages 136 Franklin Recorder's 285 of Mortgages 373 Huntingdon Recorder's 128 of Mortgages 47 Indiana Recorder's 197 of Mortgages 281 Lancaster Recorder's 984 of Mortgages 1 Montgomery Recorder's 5053 of Mortgages 1,221 Westmoreland Recorder's 1281 of Mortgages 198 York Recorder's 31-V of Mortgages 446 and WHEREAS, the Indenture granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over unto the Trustee certain property of the Company, more fully set forth and described in the Indenture, then owned or which might thereafter be acquired by the Company; and WHEREAS, the Company, by various supplemental indentures, supplemental to the Indenture, the last of which were dated October 1, 1995, has granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over unto the Trustee certain property of the Company acquired by it after the execution and delivery of the Indenture; and WHEREAS, since the execution and delivery of said supplemental indentures dated October 1, 1995, the Company has acquired property which, in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, is subject to the lien thereof and the Company desires to confirm such lien; and WHEREAS, the Indenture has been amended or supplemented from time to time; and WHEREAS, it is provided in the Indenture that no bonds other than those of the 5 1/2% Series due 1959 therein authorized may be issued thereunder unless a supplemental indenture providing for the issue of such additional bonds shall have been executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee; and 3 WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide for the issue of $200,000,000 principal amount of bonds secured by said Indenture of a series to be designated as "First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 6 3/4% Series VV due 2016" (hereinafter sometimes called "Series VV"); and WHEREAS, the text of the bonds of the Series VV and of the certificates of authentication to be borne by the bonds of the Series VV shall be substantially of the following tenor: [FORM OF BOND] [FACE] REGISTERED REGISTERED NUMBER AMOUNT RU $ PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BOND, 6 3/4% SERIES VV DUE 2016. Public Service Electric and Gas Company (hereinafter called the "Company"), a corporation of the State of New Jersey, for value received, hereby promises to pay to , or registered assigns, on the surrender hereof, the principal sum of Dollars, on January 1, 2016 and to pay interest thereon from the date hereof, at the rate of 6 3/4% per annum, and until payment of said principal sum, such interest to be payable January 1 and July 1 in each year. Both the principal hereof and interest hereon shall be paid at the corporate trust office of First Union National Bank in the City of Newark, State of New Jersey, or (at the option of the registered owner) at the corporate trust office of First Chicago Trust Company of New York in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall constitute legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Bond set forth on the reverse hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place. This Bond shall not be entitled to any security or benefit under the indenture mentioned on the reverse hereof, as amended and supplemented, and shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose, until the certificate of authentication, hereon endorsed, shall have been signed by or on behalf of 4 First Union National Bank, as Trustee, or by or on behalf of its successor in trust under said indenture. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Bond to be duly executed by its proper officers under its corporate seal. Dated PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY By -------------------------------------- (Vice) President (Seal) Attest: - ------------------------------------------- (Assistant) Secretary 5 [FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION] CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This Bond is one of the Bonds of the series designated therein which are described in the within-mentioned indenture and supplemental indenture dated January 1, 1996 (No. 1), as secured thereby. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE By ------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory [FORM OF ALTERNATE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION] ALTERNATE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This Bond is one of the Bonds of the series designated therein which are described in the within-mentioned indenture and supplemental indenture dated January 1, 1996 (No. 1), as secured thereby. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE By ----------------------------------- Authenticating Agent By ----------------------------------- Authorized Signatory 6 [FORM OF BOND] [REVERSE] PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BOND, 6 3/4% SERIES VV DUE 2016. This Bond is one of the First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds of the Company issued and to be issued under and pursuant to, and all equally secured by, an indenture of mortgage or deed of trust dated August 1, 1924, as supplemented and amended by supplemental indentures thereto, including supplemental indentures dated March 1, 1942, June 1, 1949, May 1, 1950, October 1, 1953, May 1, 1954, November 1, 1956, September 1, 1957, August 1, 1958, June 1, 1959, September 1, 1960, August 1, 1962, June 1, 1963, September 1, 1964, September 1, 1965, June 1, 1967, June 1, 1968, April 1, 1969, March 1, 1970, May 15, 1971, November 15, 1971, April 1, 1972, March 1, 1974, October 1, 1974, April 1, 1976, September 1, 1976, October 1, 1976, June 1, 1977, September 1, 1977, November 1, 1978, July 1, 1979, September 1, 1979 (No. 1), September 1, 1979 (No. 2), November 1, 1979, June 1, 1980, August 1, 1981, April 1, 1982, September 1, 1982, December 1, 1982, June 1, 1983, August 1, 1983, July 1, 1984, September 1, 1984, November 1, 1984 (No. 1), November 1, 1984 (No. 2), July 1, 1985, January 1, 1986, March 1, 1986, April 1, 1986 (No. 1), April 1, 1986 (No. 2), March 1, 1987, July 1, 1987 (No. 1), July 1, 1987 (No. 2), May 1, 1988, September 1, 1988, July 1, 1989, July 1, 1990 (No. 1), July 1, 1990 (No. 2), June 1, 1991 (No. 1), June 1, 1991 (No. 2), November 1, 1991 (No. 1), November 1, 1991 (No. 2), November 1, 1991 (No. 3), February 1, 1992 (No. 1), February 1, 1992 (No. 2), June 1, 1992 (No.1), June 1, 1992 (No. 2), June 1, 1992 (No. 3), January 1, 1993 (No. 1), January 1, 1993 (No. 2), March 1, 1993, May 1, 1993, May 1, 1993 (No. 2), May 1, 1993 (No. 3), July 1, 1993, August 1, 1993, September 1, 1993, September 1, 1993 (No. 2), November 1, 1993, February 1, 1994, March 1, 1994 (No. 1), March 1, 1994 (No. 2), May 1, 1994, June 1, 1994, August 1, 1994, October 1, 1994 (No. 1), October 1, 1994 (No. 2), October 1, 1995 (No. 1), October 1, 1995 (No. 2), January 1, 1996 (No. 1) and January 1, 1996 (No. 2) each duly executed by the Company and First Union National Bank (formerly known as Fidelity Union Trust Company), a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee. This Bond is one of the 6 3/4% Series VV due 2016, which series is limited to the aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000 and is issued pursuant to said supplemental indenture dated January 1, 1996 (No. 1). Reference is hereby made to said indenture and all supplements thereto for a 7 specification of the principal amount of Bonds from time to time issuable thereunder, and for a description of the properties mortgaged and conveyed or assigned to said Trustee or its successors, the nature and extent of the security, and the rights of the holders of said Bonds and any coupons appurtenant thereto, and of the Trustee in respect of such security. In and by said indenture, as amended and supplemented, it is provided that with the written approval of the Company and the Trustee, any of the provisions of said indenture may from time to time be eliminated or modified and other provisions may be added thereto provided the change does not alter the annual interest rate, redemption price or date, date of maturity or amount payable on maturity of any then outstanding Bond or conflict with the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as then in effect, and provided the holders of 85% in principal amount of the Bonds secured by said indenture and then outstanding (including, if such change affect the Bonds of one or more series but less than all series then outstanding, a like percentage of the then outstanding Bonds of each series affected by such change, and excluding Bonds owned or controlled by the Company or by the parties owning at least 10% of the outstanding voting stock of the Company, as more fully specified in said indenture) consent in writing thereto, all as more fully set forth in said indenture, as amended and supplemented. First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds issuable under said indenture are issuable in series, and the Bonds of any series may be for varying principal amounts and in the form of coupon bonds and of registered bonds without coupons, and the Bonds of any one series may differ from the Bonds of any other series as to date, maturity, interest rate and otherwise, all as in said indenture provided and set forth. The Bonds of the 6 3/4% Series VV due 2016, in which this Bond is included, are designated "First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 6 3/4% Series VV due 2016". In case of the happening of an event of default as specified in said indenture and said supplemental indenture dated March 1, 1942, the principal sum of the Bonds of this series may be declared or may become due and payable forthwith, in the manner and with the effect in said indenture provided. As more fully provided in said supplemental indenture dated January 1, 1996 (No. 1), the Bonds of this series are subject to redemption at any time prior to maturity, on notice given as below provided (a) as a whole or in part, at the option of the Company, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Series VV Bonds and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis 8 (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption; where, "Treasury Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date; "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Series VV Bonds to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Series VV Bonds; "Independent Investment Banker" means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee; "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the third business day preceding such redemption date, as set forth in the daily statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published or does not contain such prices on such third business day, the Trustee shall seek at least four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations and the Comparable Treasury Price will be (A) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations or (B) if the Trustee is unable to obtain four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations so obtained; "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at or before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date; and "Reference Treasury Dealer" means a primary U.S. Government Securities Dealer in New York City selected by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee; and (b) by the application of proceeds of released property or other money held by the Trustee and which, pursuant to the provisions of said indenture, as amended and supplemented, is applied to the redemption of Bonds of this series, upon 9 payment of the percentages of the principal amount thereof specified below under "Special Redemption Price" during such respective 12-month periods: 12-MONTH 12-MONTH PERIOD PERIOD BEGINNING SPECIAL BEGINNING SPECIAL JANUARY REDEMPTION JANUARY REDEMPTION 1 PRICE 1 PRICE - -------- ---------- -------- ---------- 1996 100.00% 2006 100.00% 1997 100.00 2007 100.00 1998 100.00 2008 100.00 1999 100.00 2009 100.00 2000 100.00 2010 100.00 2001 100.00 2011 100.00 2002 100.00 2012 100.00 2003 100.00 2013 100.00 2004 100.00 2014 100.00 2005 100.00 2015 100.00 together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. Notice of any such redemption shall be given by mailing the same to the respective registered owners of the Bonds of this series so called for redemption, not less than 30 nor more than 40 days in advance of the date fixed for redemption. If this Bond or any portion thereof be called for redemption and payment be duly provided therefor, interest shall cease to accrue on this Bond or such portion on the date fixed for such redemption. This Bond is transferable, but only as provided in said indenture, upon surrender hereof, by the registered owner in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, at either of said offices where the principal hereof and interest hereon are payable; upon any such transfer a new Bond similar hereto will be issued to the transferee. No service charge shall be made for any such transfer, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto. The Company and the Trustee and any paying agent may deem and treat the person in whose name this Bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and the interest hereon and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. The Bonds of this series are issuable only in fully registered form, in denominations of $1,000 and any multiple of $1,000. Such fully registered Bonds of the several denominations may be exchanged for fully registered Bonds of other authorized denominations, but only as provided in said indenture, upon surrender thereof, by the registered owner in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, at either of said offices where the principal thereof 10 and interest thereon are payable. No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto. The Company shall not be required to issue or make transfers or exchanges of Bonds of this series for a period of ten days next preceding any interest payment date or next preceding the date of any drawing of such Bonds to be redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of any such Bonds drawn in whole or in part for such redemption. No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in said indenture or in any indenture supplemental thereto, or in any Bond or coupon issued thereunder, or because of any indebtedness arising thereunder, shall be had against any incorporator, or against any past, present or future stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, it being expressly agreed and understood that said indenture, any indenture supplemental thereto and the obligations issued thereunder, are solely corporate obligations, and that no personal liability whatever shall attach to, or be incurred by, such incorporators, stockholders, officers or directors, as such, of the Company, or of any successor corporation, or any of them, because of the incurring of the indebtedness thereby authorized, or under or by reason of any of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the indenture or in any indenture supplemental thereto or in any of the Bonds or coupons issued thereunder, or implied therefrom. ------------------- WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this supplemental indenture have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company; and WHEREAS, the Company represents that all things necessary to make the bonds of the series hereinafter described, when duly authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee and issued by the Company, valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to make this supplemental indenture a valid and binding agreement supplemental to the Indenture, have been done and performed; NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH that the Company, in consideration of the premises and the execution and delivery by the Trustee of this supplemental indenture, and in pursuance of the covenants and agreements contained in the Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, has granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over, and by these presents does grant, bargain, 11 sell, alien, remise, release, convey, confirm, assign, transfer and set over unto the Trustee, its successors and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all property of every kind and description (except cash, accounts and bills receivable and all merchandise bought, sold or manufactured for sale in the ordinary course of the Company's business, stocks, bonds or other corporate obligations or securities, other than such as are described in Part V of the Granting Clauses of the Indenture, not acquired with the proceeds of bonds secured by the Indenture, and except as in the Indenture and herein otherwise expressly excluded) acquired by the Company since the execution and delivery of the supplemental indentures dated October 1, 1995 subsequent to the Indenture (except any such property duly released from, or disposed of, free from the lien of the Indenture, in accordance with the provisions thereof) and all such property which at any time hereafter may be acquired by the Company; All of which property it is intended shall be included in and granted by this supplemental indenture and covered by the lien of the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented; UNDER AND SUBJECT to any encumbrances or mortgages existing on property acquired by the Company at the time of such acquisition and not heretofore discharged of record; and SUBJECT also, to the exceptions, reservations and provisions in the Indenture and in this supplemental indenture recited, and to the liens, reservations, exceptions, limitations, conditions and restrictions imposed by or contained in the several deeds, grants, franchises and contracts or other instruments through which the Company acquired or claims title to the aforesaid property; and SUBJECT, also, to the existing leases, to liens on easements or rights of way, to liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges not in default or the payment of which is deferred, pending appeal or other contest by legal proceedings, pursuant to Section 4 of Article Five of the Indenture, or the payment of which is deferred pending billing, transfer of title or final determination of amount, to easements for alleys, streets, highways, rights of way and railroads that may run across or encroach upon the said property, to joint pole and similar agreements, to undetermined liens and charges, if any, incidental to construction, and other encumbrances permitted by the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the property hereby conveyed or assigned, or intended to be conveyed or assigned, unto the Trustee, its successor or successors and assigns, forever; IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, upon the terms, conditions and trusts set forth in the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented, to the end that the said property shall be subject to the lien of the Indenture as 12 heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented, with the same force and effect as though said property had been included in the Granting Clauses of the Indenture at the time of the execution and delivery thereof; AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE FURTHER WITNESSETH that for the considerations aforesaid, it is hereby covenanted between the Company and the Trustee as follows: ARTICLE I. BONDS OF THE SERIES VV. The series of bonds authorized by this supplemental indenture to be issued under and secured by the Indenture shall be designated "First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 6 3/4% Series VV due 2016"; shall be limited to the aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000; shall mature January 1, 2016; shall bear interest at the rate of 6 3/4% per annum, payable on January 1 and July 1 of each year; 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 shall constitute legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the corporate trust office of First Union National Bank in the City of Newark, State of New Jersey, or, as may be desired by the persons entitled to receive such principal and interest respectively, at the corporate trust office of First Chicago Trust Company of New York, in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York; shall be issuable only in the form of fully registered bonds in the denominations of $1,000 and any multiple of $1,000; and the several denominations shall be interchangeable. The date of each bond of the Series VV shall be the semi-annual interest payment date next preceding the date of authentication, unless such date of authentication be an interest payment date, in which case the date shall be the date of authentication, or unless such date of authentication be prior to the first semi-annual interest payment date, in which case the date shall be January 1, 1996. The Company shall not be required to issue or make transfers or exchanges of bonds of the Series VV for a period of ten days next preceding any interest payment date or next preceding the date of any drawing of such bonds to be redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of any such bonds drawn in whole or in part for such redemption. 13 ARTICLE II. REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF SERIES VV. SECTION 2.01. Redemption--Redemption Prices. Bonds of the Series VV shall be subject to redemption at any time: (a) as a whole or in part, at the option of the Company, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Series VV Bonds and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption, where: "Treasury Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date; "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Series VV Bonds to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Series VV Bonds; "Independent Investment Banker" means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee; "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption date, (i)the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the third business day preceding such redemption date, as set forth in the daily statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published or does not contain such prices on such third business day, (A) the Trustee shall seek at least four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations and the Comparable Treasury Price will be the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if the Trustee is unable to obtain four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations so obtained; "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each Reference Treasury 14 Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Treasury Reference Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date; "Reference Treasury Dealer" means each member of the winning syndicate that is a primary U.S. Government Securities Dealer in New York City selected by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee; and (b) by the application of any proceeds of released property or other money held by the Trustee and which, pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, is applied to the redemption of bonds of the Series VV, upon payment of the percentages of the principal amount thereof specified under "Special Redemption Price" in the tabulation in the Form of Bond hereinbefore set forth during the respective 12-month periods beginning January 1 of each of the years mentioned in said tabulation together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. SECTION 2.02. Redemption at Election of Company. The election of the Company to redeem any of the bonds of the Series VV shall be evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company calling for redemption on a stated date all or a stated principal amount thereof. Any such call may be conditioned upon the deposit with the Trustee, on or before such redemption date, of the total regular redemption price of the bonds so called, with accrued interest thereon to the redemption date. At least 40 days prior to such redemption date (or at such later time as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) the Company shall file with the Trustee a certified copy of such resolution. Unless such call shall be conditioned upon the deposit of the regular redemption price and accrued interest with the Trustee on or before the redemption date and unless the notice below provided for shall so state, the Company shall on or before such redemption date deposit with the Trustee the total regular redemption price of all the bonds so called, with accrued interest thereon to the redemption date. If the Company elects to redeem less than all of the bonds of the Series VV, the particular bonds or portions thereof to be redeemed shall, upon request of the Company, be drawn by lot by the Trustee, according to such method as it shall deem proper, from the bonds of said series then outstanding. The Trustee shall certify to the Company the serial numbers of the bonds so drawn. The Company shall thereupon give notice of such redemption, in the manner and substantially in the form provided in Section 2.03 hereof to be given in the case of bonds of the Series VV called pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, except that (1) such notice shall state that the 15 bonds specified have been called for redemption at the election of the Company, and that they will be payable on the date specified in the resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company at a stated amount (which shall be the regular redemption price applicable upon such redemption date), (2) if all the bonds of the Series VV be called, the notice shall so state and may omit the serial numbers thereof, (3) if the date fixed for redemption be other than an interest payment date, the notice shall state that the bonds will be payable at the stated redemption price, plus accrued interest to the redemption date, (4) the mailing of such notice to registered owners of bonds of said series shall take place not less than 30 nor more than 40 days in advance of the date fixed for redemption, but failure duly to give such notice of redemption to the registered owner of any bond called for redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other bond, and (5) if the call of such bonds for redemption shall have been conditioned upon the deposit of the regular redemption price and accrued interest with the Trustee on or before the redemption date, as above permitted, the notice shall so state, and shall state that unless such deposit is made on or before such date the call for redemption and the notice shall be of no effect. Before any money shall be applied by the Trustee to the redemption of bonds under this Section, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate or opinion by the President or a Vice President of the Company and an opinion of counsel, stating that all conditions precedent provided for herein (including any covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) relating to such redemption have been complied with. SECTION 2.03. Redemptions Pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture. If, pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, any proceeds of released property or other money then held by the Trustee shall be applied to the redemption of bonds of the Series VV, the Trustee, not later than 30 days prior to the applicable redemption date, shall draw by lot according to such methods as it shall deem proper, from all the bonds of the Series VV then outstanding, such principal amount thereof as is to be redeemed. Bonds of said series so redeemed shall be cancelled. After such drawing the Trustee shall, beginning not later than 30 nor earlier than 40 days in advance of the date fixed for redemption, give, in the name of the Company, notice by mail that bonds of the Series VV bearing the serial numbers specified have been called for redemption pursuant to said Section 4C of Article Eight, that they will be due and payable on such redemption date, at the office of the Trustee in Newark, New Jersey, or (at the option of the holder) at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, at a stated amount (which shall be the Special Redemption Price applicable upon such redemption date), that, if 16 the date fixed for redemption be other than an interest payment date, the bonds will be payable at the stated redemption price, plus accrued interest to the redemption date, and that all interest thereon will cease to accrue after said date. Such notice shall be mailed to the several registered owners of the bonds so called, at their respective addresses as the same may appear on the registry books. Failure duly to give such notice of redemption to the registered owner of any bond called for redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other bond. SECTION 2.04. Called Bonds to be Surrendered--Interest to Cease. Each bond or portion thereof of the Series VV so called under Section 2.02 or 2.03 hereof shall be due and payable (upon surrender thereof) at the places and price and on the date specified in such notice, anything herein or in such bond to the contrary notwithstanding. From and after the date when each bond or portion thereof of the Series VV shall be due and payable as aforesaid (unless upon said date the full amount due thereon shall not be held by the Trustee and be immediately available for payment), all further interest shall cease to accrue on such bond or on such portion thereof, as the case may be. SECTION 2.05. Bonds Called in Part. If only a portion of any bond of the Series VV shall be drawn by lot by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.02 or 2.03 hereof, the notice of redemption hereinbefore provided for shall specify the serial number of such bond and the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. Upon surrender of such bond for partial redemption and upon payment of the portion so called for redemption, a new bond or bonds of the Series VV, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of such surrendered bond, shall be executed by the Company, authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee, and delivered to the registered owner thereof, without expense to such owner. SECTION 2.06. Provisions of Indenture Not Applicable. There shall be no sinking fund for the bonds of Series VV. ARTICLE III. MISCELLANEOUS. SECTION 3.01. Authentication of Bonds of Series VV. None of the bonds of the Series VV, the issue of which is provided for by this supplemental indenture, shall be authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee except in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, and this supplemental indenture, and upon compliance with the conditions in that behalf therein contained. 17 SECTION 3.02. Authenticating Agent. As long as any of the bonds of the Series VV remain outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in connection with the authentication of bonds of the Series VV. Such authenticating agent shall be appointed by the Trustee by an instrument in writing and shall have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it at the direction of the Trustee. Such authenticating agent shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of any State or Territory or of the District of Columbia authorized under such laws to act as authenticating agent, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State, Territorial, or District of Columbia authority and, if there be such a corporation willing and able to act as authenticating agent on reasonable and customary terms, having its principal office and place of business in The City of New York. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 3.02 the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. Any corporation into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion, or consolidation to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency business of any authenticating agent, shall continue to be the authenticating agent without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the authenticating agent. Any authenticating agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.02, the Trustee may appoint a successor authenticating agent. The Trustee shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and shall mail notice of such appointment to all registered owners of the bonds of the Series VV, at their respective addresses as the same may appear on the registry books. Any successor authenticating agent, upon acceptance of its appointment, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its predecessor, with like effect as if originally appointed authenticating agent. No successor authenticating agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section 3.02. 18 The Trustee agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments as provided in the Indenture. SECTION 3.03. Additional Restrictions on Authentication of Additional Bonds Under Indenture. The Company covenants that from and after the date of execution of this supplemental indenture, no additional bonds (as defined in Section 1 of Article Two of the Indenture) shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under Subdivision A of Section 4 of said Article Two on account of additions or improvements to the mortgaged property: (1) unless the net earnings of the Company for the period required by Subdivision C of Section 6 of said Article Two shall have been at least twice the fixed charges (in lieu of 1 3/4 times such fixed charges, as required by said Subdivision C); and for the purpose of this condition (a) such fixed charges shall in each case include interest on the bonds applied for, notwithstanding the parenthetical provision contained in clause (4) of said Subdivision C, and (b) in computing such net earnings there shall be included in expenses of operation (under paragraph (c) of said Subdivision C) all charges against earnings for depreciation, renewals or replacements, and all certificates with respect to net earnings delivered to the Trustee in connection with any authentication of additional bonds under said Article Two shall so state; and (2) except to the extent of 60% (in lieu of 75% as permitted by Subdivision A of Section 7 of said Article Two) of the cost or fair value to the Company of the additions or improvements forming the basis for such authentication of additional bonds. SECTION 3.04. Restriction on Dividends. The Company will not declare or pay any dividend on any shares of its common stock (other than dividends payable in shares of its common stock) or make any other distribution on any such shares, or purchase or otherwise acquire any such shares (except shares acquired without cost to the Company) whenever such action would reduce the earned surplus of the Company to an amount less than $10,000,000 or such lesser amount as may remain after deducting from said $10,000,000 all amounts appearing in the books of account of the Company on December 31, 1948, which shall thereafter, pursuant to any order or rule of any regulatory body entered after said date, be required to be removed, in whole or in part, from the books of account of the Company by charges to earned surplus. SECTION 3.05. Use of Facsimile Seal and Signatures. The seal of the Company and any or all signatures of the officers of the Company upon any of the bonds of the Series VV may be facsimiles. 19 SECTION 3.06. Time for Making of Payment. All payments of principal or redemption price of and interest on the bonds of the Series VV shall be made either prior to the due date thereof, or on the due date thereof in immediately available funds. In any case where the date of any such payment shall be a Saturday or Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city of payment are authorized by law to close, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding business day with the same force and effect as if made on the due date, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the period after such date. SECTION 3.07. Effective Period of Supplemental Indenture. The preceding provisions of Articles I, II and III of this supplemental indenture shall remain in effect only so long as any of the bonds of the Series VV shall remain outstanding. SECTION 3.08. Effect of Approval of Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey. The approval of the Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey of the execution and delivery of these presents and of the issue of any bonds of the Series VV shall not be construed as approval of said Board of any other act, matter or thing which requires approval of said Board under the laws of the State of New Jersey. SECTION 3.09. Execution in Counterparts. For the purpose of facilitating the recording hereof, this supplemental indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be and shall be taken to be an original, and all collectively but one instrument. 20 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Public Service Electric and Gas Company, party hereto of the first part, after due corporate and other proceedings, has caused this supplemental indenture to be signed and acknowledged or proved by its President or one of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal hereunto to be affixed and to be attested by the signature of its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary; and First Union National Bank, as Trustee, party hereto of the second part, has caused this supplemental indenture to be signed and acknowledged or proved by one of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and to be attested by the signature of another of its Vice Presidents. Executed and delivered this 24th day of January, 1996. PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY By ..................................... (F. J. Riepl) Vice President Attest: ........................................... (E. J. Biggins, Jr.) Secretary (CORPORATE SEAL) FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK By ...................................... (M. Matthews) Vice President Attest: ........................................... (F. Gallagher) Vice President (CORPORATE SEAL) 21 STATE OF NEW JERSEY COUNTY OF ESSEX ss.: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this 24th day of January, 1996, before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public of the State of New Jersey, personally appeared F. J. Riepl who, I am satisfied, is a Vice President of PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY, one of the corporations named in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and is the person who signed the said instrument as such officer, for and on behalf of such corporation, and I having first made known to him the contents thereof, he did acknowledge that he signed the said instrument as such officer, that the said instrument was made by such corporation and sealed with its corporate seal, that the said instrument is the voluntary act and deed of such corporation, made by virtue of authority from its Board of Directors, and that said corporation, the mortgagor, has received a true copy of said instrument. STATE OF NEW JERSEY COUNTY OF ESSEX ss.: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this 24th day of January, 1996, before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public of the State of New Jersey, personally appeared M. Matthews who, I am satisfied, is a Vice President of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, one of the corporations named in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and is the person who signed the said instrument as such officer, for and on behalf of such corporation, and I having first made known to her the contents thereof, she did acknowledge that she signed the said instrument as such officer, that the said instrument was made by such corporation and sealed with its corporate seal, and that the said instrument is the voluntary act and deed of such corporation, made by virtue of authority from its Board of Directors. 22 CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE First Union National Bank, Mortgagee and Trustee within named, hereby certifies that its precise residence is 765 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey 07101. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK By ............................ Vice President EX-4 3 EX-4(A)(3) SUPPLEMENTAL MORTGAGE - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Supplemental Indenture DATED JANUARY 1, 1996 (NO. 2) -------------- SUPPLEMENTAL TO FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE, DATED AUGUST 1, 1924 -------------- PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY TO FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK TRUSTEE 765 BROAD STREET NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07101 -------------- PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUE OF $150,000,000 FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BONDS, 6 1/4% SERIES WW DUE 2007 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECORD IN MORTGAGE BOOK AND RETURN TO: JAMES T. FORAN, ESQ. 80 PARK PLAZA, T5B P. O. BOX 570 NEWARK, N. J. 07101 Prepared by (Paul T. Bradshaw, Esq.) TABLE OF CONTENTS -------------- PAGE ---- RECITALS........................................................ 1 FORM OF BOND [FACE]............................................. 3 FORMS OF CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICATION......................... 5 FORM OF BOND [REVERSE].......................................... 6 GRANTING CLAUSES................................................ 10 ARTICLE I. BONDS OF THE SERIES WW. DESCRIPTION OF SERIES WW........................................ 12 ARTICLE II. REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF SERIES WW. SECTION 2.01. Redemption--Redemption Prices................... 12 SECTION 2.02. Redemption at Election of Company............... 14 SECTION 2.03. Redemptions Pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture.............................. 15 SECTION 2.04. Called Bonds to be Surrendered--Interest to Cease......................................... 16 SECTION 2.05. Bonds Called in Part............................ 16 SECTION 2.06. Provisions of Indenture Not Applicable.......... 16 ARTICLE III. MISCELLANEOUS. SECTION 3.01. Authentication of Bonds of Series WW............ 16 SECTION 3.02. Authenticating Agent............................ 17 SECTION 3.03. Additional Restrictions on Authentication of Additional Bonds Under Indenture.............. 18 SECTION 3.04. Restriction on Dividends........................ 18 SECTION 3.05. Use of Facsimile Seal and Signatures............ 18 SECTION 3.06. Time for Making of Payment...................... 19 SECTION 3.07. Effective Period of Supplemental Indenture...... 19 SECTION 3.08. Effect of Approval of Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey....................... 19 SECTION 3.09. Execution in Counterparts....................... 19 Acknowledgements................................................ 21 Certificate of Residence........................................ 22 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated the 1st day of January, 1996 for convenience of reference and effective from the time of execution and delivery hereof, between PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, hereinafter called the "Company", party of the first part, and FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee under the indenture dated August 1, 1924, below mentioned, hereinafter called the "Trustee", party of the second part. WHEREAS, on July 25, 1924, the Company executed and delivered to FIDELITY UNION TRUST COMPANY (now known as FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK), a certain indenture dated August 1, 1924 (hereinafter called the "Indenture"), to secure and to provide for the issue of First and Refunding Mortgage Gold Bonds of the Company; and WHEREAS, the Indenture has been recorded in the following counties of the State of New Jersey, in the offices, and therein in the books and at the pages, as follows: PAGE COUNTY OFFICE BOOK NUMBER NUMBER - ------------- ----------- --------------------- ---------------- Atlantic Clerk's 1955 of Mortgages 160 Bergen Clerk's 94 of Chattel Mortgages 123 etc. 693 of Mortgages 88 etc. Burlington Clerk's 52 of Chattel Mortgages Folio 8, etc. 177 of Mortgages Folio 354, etc. Camden Register's 45 of Chattel Mortgages 184 etc. 239 of Mortgages 1 etc. Cumberland Clerk's 786 of Mortgages 638 & c. Essex Register's 437 of Chattel Mortgages 1-48 T-51 of Mortgages 341-392 Gloucester Clerk's 34 of Chattel Mortgages 123 etc. 142 of Mortgages 7, etc. Hudson Register's 453 of Chattel Mortgages 9, etc. 1245 of Mortgages 484, etc. Hunterdon Clerk's 151 of Mortgages 344 Mercer Clerk's 67 of Chattel Mortgages 1 etc. 384 of Mortgages 1 etc. Middlesex Clerk's 113 of Chattel Mortgages 3 etc. 437 of Mortgages 294, etc. Monmouth Clerk's 951 of Mortgages 291 & c. Morris Clerk's N-3 of Chattel Mortgages 446 etc. F-10 of Mortgages 269 etc. Ocean Clerk's 1809 of Mortgages 40 Passaic Register's M-6 of Chattel Mortgages 178, etc. R-13 of Mortgages 268 etc. Salem Clerk's 267 of Mortgages 249 & c. Somerset Clerk's 46 of Chattel Mortgages 207 etc. N-10 of Mortgages 1 etc. Sussex Clerk's 123 of Mortgages 10 & c. Union Register's 128 of Chattel Mortgages 28 & c. 664 of Mortgages 259 etc. Warren Clerk's 124 of Mortgages 141 etc. and 2 WHEREAS, the Indenture has also been recorded in the following counties of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the offices, and therein in the books and at the pages, as follows: PAGE COUNTY OFFICE BOOK NUMBER NUMBER - ------------- ----------- ------------------ -------------- Adams Recorder's 22 of Mortgages 105 Armstrong Recorder's 208 of Mortgages 381 Bedford Recorder's 90 of Mortgages 917 Blair Recorder's 671 of Mortgages 430 Cambria Recorder's 407 of Mortgages 352 Cumberland Recorder's 500 of Mortgages 136 Franklin Recorder's 285 of Mortgages 373 Huntingdon Recorder's 128 of Mortgages 47 Indiana Recorder's 197 of Mortgages 281 Lancaster Recorder's 984 of Mortgages 1 Montgomery Recorder's 5053 of Mortgages 1,221 Westmoreland Recorder's 1281 of Mortgages 198 York Recorder's 31-V of Mortgages 446 and WHEREAS, the Indenture granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over unto the Trustee certain property of the Company, more fully set forth and described in the Indenture, then owned or which might thereafter be acquired by the Company; and WHEREAS, the Company, by various supplemental indentures, supplemental to the Indenture, the last of which were dated October 1, 1995, has granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over unto the Trustee certain property of the Company acquired by it after the execution and delivery of the Indenture; and WHEREAS, since the execution and delivery of said supplemental indentures dated October 1, 1995, the Company has acquired property which, in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, is subject to the lien thereof and the Company desires to confirm such lien; and WHEREAS, the Indenture has been amended or supplemented from time to time; and WHEREAS, it is provided in the Indenture that no bonds other than those of the 5 1/2% Series due 1959 therein authorized may be issued thereunder unless a supplemental indenture providing for the issue of such additional bonds shall have been executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee; and 3 WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide for the issue of $150,000,000 principal amount of bonds secured by said Indenture of a series to be designated as "First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 6 1/4% Series WW due 2007" (hereinafter sometimes called "Series WW"); and WHEREAS, the text of the bonds of the Series WW and of the certificates of authentication to be borne by the bonds of the Series WW shall be substantially of the following tenor: [FORM OF BOND] [FACE] REGISTERED REGISTERED NUMBER AMOUNT RU $ PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BOND, 6 1/4% SERIES WW DUE 2007. Public Service Electric and Gas Company (hereinafter called the "Company"), a corporation of the State of New Jersey, for value received, hereby promises to pay to , or registered assigns, on the surrender hereof, the principal sum of Dollars, on January 1, 2007 and to pay interest thereon from the date hereof, at the rate of 6 1/4% per annum, and until payment of said principal sum, such interest to be payable January 1 and July 1 in each year. Both the principal hereof and interest hereon shall be paid at the corporate trust office of First Union National Bank in the City of Newark, State of New Jersey, or (at the option of the registered owner) at the corporate trust office of First Chicago Trust Company of New York in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall constitute legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Bond set forth on the reverse hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place. This Bond shall not be entitled to any security or benefit under the indenture mentioned on the reverse hereof, as amended and supplemented, and shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose, until the certificate of authentication, hereon endorsed, shall have been signed by or on behalf of 4 First Union National Bank, as Trustee, or by or on behalf of its successor in trust under said indenture. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Bond to be duly executed by its proper officers under its corporate seal. Dated PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY By .............................. (Vice) President (Seal) Attest: ..................................... (Assistant) Secretary 5 [FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION] CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This Bond is one of the Bonds of the series designated therein which are described in the within-mentioned indenture and supplemental indenture dated January 1, 1996 (No. 2), as secured thereby. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE By ............................... Authorized Signatory [FORM OF ALTERNATE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION] ALTERNATE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This Bond is one of the Bonds of the series designated therein which are described in the within-mentioned indenture and supplemental indenture dated January 1, 1996 (No. 2), as secured thereby. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE By ................................... Authenticating Agent By ................................... Authorized Signatory 6 [FORM OF BOND] [REVERSE] PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BOND, 6 1/4% SERIES WW DUE 2007. This Bond is one of the First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds of the Company issued and to be issued under and pursuant to, and all equally secured by, an indenture of mortgage or deed of trust dated August 1, 1924, as supplemented and amended by supplemental indentures thereto, including supplemental indentures dated March 1, 1942, June 1, 1949, May 1, 1950, October 1, 1953, May 1, 1954, November 1, 1956, September 1, 1957, August 1, 1958, June 1, 1959, September 1, 1960, August 1, 1962, June 1, 1963, September 1, 1964, September 1, 1965, June 1, 1967, June 1, 1968, April 1, 1969, March 1, 1970, May 15, 1971, November 15, 1971, April 1, 1972, March 1, 1974, October 1, 1974, April 1, 1976, September 1, 1976, October 1, 1976, June 1, 1977, September 1, 1977, November 1, 1978, July 1, 1979, September 1, 1979 (No. 1), September 1, 1979 (No. 2), November 1, 1979, June 1, 1980, August 1, 1981, April 1, 1982, September 1, 1982, December 1, 1982, June 1, 1983, August 1, 1983, July 1, 1984, September 1, 1984, November 1,1984 (No. 1), November 1, 1984 (No. 2), July 1, 1985, January 1, 1986, March 1, 1986, April 1, 1986 (No. 1), April 1, 1986 (No. 2), March 1, 1987, July 1, 1987 (No. 1), July 1, 1987 (No. 2), May 1, 1988, September 1, 1988, July 1, 1989, July 1, 1990 (No. 1), July 1, 1990 (No. 2), June 1, 1991 (No. 1), June 1, 1991 (No. 2), November 1, 1991 (No. 1), November 1, 1991 (No. 2), November 1, 1991 (No. 3), February 1, 1992 (No. 1), February 1, 1992 (No. 2), June 1, 1992 (No. 1), June 1, 1992 (No. 2), June 1, 1992 (No. 3), January 1, 1993 (No. 1), January 1, 1993 (No. 2), March 1, 1993, May 1, 1993, May 1, 1993 (No. 2), May 1, 1993 (No. 3), July 1, 1993, August 1, 1993, September 1, 1993, September 1, 1993 (No. 2), November 1, 1993, February 1, 1994, March 1, 1994 (No. 1), March 1, 1994 (No. 2), May 1, 1994, June 1, 1994, August 1, 1994, October 1, 1994 (No. 1), October 1, 1994 (No. 2), October 1, 1995 (No. 1), October 1, 1995 (No. 2), January 1, 1996 (No. 1) and January 1, 1996 (No. 2) each duly executed by the Company and First Union National Bank (formerly known as Fidelity Union Trust Company), a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee. This Bond is one of the 6 1/4% Series WW due 2007, which series is limited to the aggregate principal amount of $150,000,000 and is issued pursuant to said supplemental indenture dated January 1, 1996 (No. 2). Reference is hereby made to said indenture and all supplements thereto for a 7 specification of the principal amount of Bonds from time to time issuable thereunder, and for a description of the properties mortgaged and conveyed or assigned to said Trustee or its successors, the nature and extent of the security, and the rights of the holders of said Bonds and any coupons appurtenant thereto, and of the Trustee in respect of such security. In and by said indenture, as amended and supplemented, it is provided that with the written approval of the Company and the Trustee, any of the provisions of said indenture may from time to time be eliminated or modified and other provisions may be added thereto provided the change does not alter the annual interest rate, redemption price or date, date of maturity or amount payable on maturity of any then outstanding Bond or conflict with the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as then in effect, and provided the holders of 85% in principal amount of the Bonds secured by said indenture and then outstanding (including, if such change affect the Bonds of one or more series but less than all series then outstanding, a like percentage of the then outstanding Bonds of each series affected by such change, and excluding Bonds owned or controlled by the Company or by the parties owning at least 10% of the outstanding voting stock of the Company, as more fully specified in said indenture) consent in writing thereto, all as more fully set forth in said indenture, as amended and supplemented. First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds issuable under said indenture are issuable in series, and the Bonds of any series may be for varying principal amounts and in the form of coupon bonds and of registered bonds without coupons, and the Bonds of any one series may differ from the Bonds of any other series as to date, maturity, interest rate and otherwise, all as in said indenture provided and set forth. The Bonds of the 6 1/4% Series WW due 2007, in which this Bond is included, are designated "First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 6 1/4% Series WW due 2007". In case of the happening of an event of default as specified in said indenture and said supplemental indenture dated March 1, 1942, the principal sum of the Bonds of this series may be declared or may become due and payable forthwith, in the manner and with the effect in said indenture provided. As more fully provided in said supplemental indenture dated January 1, 1996 (No. 2), the Bonds of this series are subject to redemption at any time prior to maturity, on notice given as below provided (a) as a whole or in part, at the option of the Company, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Series WW Bonds and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis 8 (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 10 basis points, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption; where, "Treasury Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date; "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Series WW Bonds to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Series WW Bonds; "Independent Investment Banker" means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee; "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the third business day preceding such redemption date, as set forth in the daily statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published or does not contain such prices on such third business day, the Trustee will seek at least four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations and the Comparable Treasury Price will be (A) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if the Trustee is unable to obtain four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations so obtained; "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at or before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date; and "Reference Treasury Dealer" means a primary U.S. Government Securities Dealer in New York City selected by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee; and (b) by the application of proceeds of released property or other money held by the Trustee and which, pursuant to the provisions of said indenture, as amended and supplemented, is applied to the redemption of Bonds of this series, upon 9 payment of the percentages of the principal amount thereof specified below under "Special Redemption Price" during such respective 12-month periods: 12-MONTH 12-MONTH PERIOD SPECIAL PERIOD SPECIAL BEGINNING REDEMPTION BEGINNING REDEMPTION JANUARY(1) PRICE JANUARY(1) PRICE - -------- ---------- -------- ---------- 1996 100.00% 2002 100.00% 1997 100.00 2003 100.00 1998 100.00 2004 100.00 1999 100.00 2005 100.00 2000 100.00 2006 100.00 2001 100.00 together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. Notice of any such redemption shall be given by mailing the same to the respective registered owners of the Bonds of this series so called for redemption, not less than 30 nor more than 40 days in advance of the date fixed for redemption. If this Bond or any portion thereof be called for redemption and payment be duly provided therefor, interest shall cease to accrue on this Bond or such portion on the date fixed for such redemption. This Bond is transferable, but only as provided in said indenture, upon surrender hereof, by the registered owner in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, at either of said offices where the principal hereof and interest hereon are payable; upon any such transfer a new Bond similar hereto will be issued to the transferee. No service charge shall be made for any such transfer, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto. The Company and the Trustee and any paying agent may deem and treat the person in whose name this Bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and the interest hereon and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. The Bonds of this series are issuable only in fully registered form, in denominations of $1,000 and any multiple of $1,000. Such fully registered Bonds of the several denominations may be exchanged for fully registered Bonds of other authorized denominations, but only as provided in said indenture, upon surrender thereof, by the registered owner in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, at either of said offices where the principal thereof and interest thereon are payable. No service charge shall be made for any such exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto. 10 The Company shall not be required to issue or make transfers or exchanges of Bonds of this series for a period of ten days next preceding any interest payment date or next preceding the date of any drawing of such Bonds to be redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of any such Bonds drawn in whole or in part for such redemption. No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in said indenture or in any indenture supplemental thereto, or in any Bond or coupon issued thereunder, or because of any indebtedness arising thereunder, shall be had against any incorporator, or against any past, present or future stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, it being expressly agreed and understood that said indenture, any indenture supplemental thereto and the obligations issued thereunder, are solely corporate obligations, and that no personal liability whatever shall attach to, or be incurred by, such incorporators, stockholders, officers or directors, as such, of the Company, or of any successor corporation, or any of them, because of the incurring of the indebtedness thereby authorized, or under or by reason of any of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the indenture or in any indenture supplemental thereto or in any of the Bonds or coupons issued thereunder, or implied therefrom. ------------------- WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this supplemental indenture have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company; and WHEREAS, the Company represents that all things necessary to make the bonds of the series hereinafter described, when duly authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee and issued by the Company, valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to make this supplemental indenture a valid and binding agreement supplemental to the Indenture, have been done and performed; NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH that the Company, in consideration of the premises and the execution and delivery by the Trustee of this supplemental indenture, and in pursuance of the covenants and agreements contained in the Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, has granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over, and by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, alien, remise, release, convey, confirm, assign, transfer and set over unto the Trustee, its successors and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all property of every kind and description (except cash, accounts and bills receivable and all merchandise bought, sold or 11 manufactured for sale in the ordinary course of the Company's business, stocks, bonds or other corporate obligations or securities, other than such as are described in Part V of the Granting Clauses of the Indenture, not acquired with the proceeds of bonds secured by the Indenture, and except as in the Indenture and herein otherwise expressly excluded) acquired by the Company since the execution and delivery of the supplemental indentures dated October 1, 1995 subsequent to the Indenture (except any such property duly released from, or disposed of, free from the lien of the Indenture, in accordance with the provisions thereof) and all such property which at any time hereafter may be acquired by the Company; All of which property it is intended shall be included in and granted by this supplemental indenture and covered by the lien of the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented; UNDER AND SUBJECT to any encumbrances or mortgages existing on property acquired by the Company at the time of such acquisition and not heretofore discharged of record; and SUBJECT also, to the exceptions, reservations and provisions in the Indenture and in this supplemental indenture recited, and to the liens, reservations, exceptions, limitations, conditions and restrictions imposed by or contained in the several deeds, grants, franchises and contracts or other instruments through which the Company acquired or claims title to the aforesaid property; and SUBJECT, also, to the existing leases, to liens on easements or rights of way, to liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges not in default or the payment of which is deferred, pending appeal or other contest by legal proceedings, pursuant to Section 4 of Article Five of the Indenture, or the payment of which is deferred pending billing, transfer of title or final determination of amount, to easements for alleys, streets, highways, rights of way and railroads that may run across or encroach upon the said property, to joint pole and similar agreements, to undetermined liens and charges, if any, incidental to construction, and other encumbrances permitted by the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the property hereby conveyed or assigned, or intended to be conveyed or assigned, unto the Trustee, its successor or successors and assigns, forever; IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, upon the terms, conditions and trusts set forth in the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented, to the end that the said property shall be subject to the lien of the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented, with the same force and effect as though said property had been included in the Granting Clauses of the Indenture at the time of the execution and delivery thereof; 12 AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE FURTHER WITNESSETH that for the considerations aforesaid, it is hereby covenanted between the Company and the Trustee as follows: ARTICLE I. BONDS OF THE SERIES WW. The series of bonds authorized by this supplemental indenture to be issued under and secured by the Indenture shall be designated "First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, 6 1/4% Series WW due 2007"; shall be limited to the aggregate principal amount of $150,000,000; shall mature January 1, 2007; shall bear interest at the rate of 6 1/4% per annum, payable on January 1 and July 1 of each year; 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 shall constitute legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the corporate trust office of First Union National Bank in the City of Newark, State of New Jersey, or, as may be desired by the persons entitled to receive such principal and interest respectively, at the corporate trust office of First Chicago Trust Company of New York, in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York; shall be issuable only in the form of fully registered bonds in the denominations of $1,000 and any multiple of $1,000; and the several denominations shall be interchangeable. The date of each bond of the Series WW shall be the semi-annual interest payment date next preceding the date of authentication, unless such date of authentication be an interest payment date, in which case the date shall be the date of authentication, or unless such date of authentication be prior to the first semi-annual interest payment date, in which case the date shall be January 1, 1996. The Company shall not be required to issue or make transfers or exchanges of bonds of the Series WW for a period of ten days next preceding any interest payment date or next preceding the date of any drawing of such bonds to be redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of any such bonds drawn in whole or in part for such redemption. ARTICLE II. REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF SERIES WW. SECTION 2.01. Redemption--Redemption Prices. Bonds of the Series WW shall be subject to redemption at any time: 13 (a) as a whole or in part, at the option of the Company, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Series WW Bonds and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 10 basis points, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption where: "Treasury Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date; "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Series WW Bonds to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Series WW Bonds; "Independent Investment Banker" means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee; "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the third business day preceding such redemption date, as set forth in the daily statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published or does not contain such prices on such third business day, the Trustee shall seek at least four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations and the Comparable Treasury Price will be (A) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if the Trustee is unable to obtain four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations so obtained; "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Treasury Reference Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date; 14 "Reference Treasury Dealer" means a primary U.S. Government Securities Dealer in New York City selected by the Company and acceptable to the Trustee; and (b) by the application of any proceeds of released property or other money held by the Trustee and which, pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, is applied to the redemption of bonds of the Series WW, upon payment of the percentages of the principal amount thereof specified under "Special Redemption Price" in the tabulation in the Form of Bond hereinbefore set forth during the respective 12-month periods beginning January 1 of each of the years mentioned in said tabulation together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. SECTION 2.02. Redemption at Election of Company. The election of the Company to redeem any of the bonds of the Series WW shall be evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company calling for redemption on a stated date all or a stated principal amount thereof. Any such call may be conditioned upon the deposit with the Trustee, on or before such redemption date, of the total regular redemption price of the bonds so called, with accrued interest thereon to the redemption date. At least 40 days prior to such redemption date (or at such later time as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) the Company shall file with the Trustee a certified copy of such resolution. Unless such call shall be conditioned upon the deposit of the regular redemption price and accrued interest with the Trustee on or before the redemption date and unless the notice below provided for shall so state, the Company shall on or before such redemption date deposit with the Trustee the total regular redemption price of all the bonds so called, with accrued interest thereon to the redemption date. If the Company elects to redeem less than all of the bonds of the Series WW, the particular bonds or portions thereof to be redeemed shall, upon request of the Company, be drawn by lot by the Trustee, according to such method as it shall deem proper, from the bonds of said series then outstanding. The Trustee shall certify to the Company the serial numbers of the bonds so drawn. The Company shall thereupon give notice of such redemption, in the manner and substantially in the form provided in Section 2.03 hereof to be given in the case of bonds of the Series WW called pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, except that (1) such notice shall state that the bonds specified have been called for redemption at the election of the Company, and that they will be payable on the date specified in the resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company at a stated amount (which shall be the regular redemption price applicable upon such redemption date), (2) if all the bonds of the Series WW be called, the notice shall so state and may omit the 15 serial numbers thereof, (3) if the date fixed for redemption be other than an interest payment date, the notice shall state that the bonds will be payable at the stated redemption price, plus accrued interest to the redemption date, (4) the mailing of such notice to registered owners of bonds of said series shall take place not less than 30 nor more than 40 days in advance of the date fixed for redemption, but failure duly to give such notice of redemption to the registered owner of any bond called or redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other bond, and (5) if the call of such bonds for redemption shall have been conditioned upon the deposit of the regular redemption price and accrued interest with the Trustee on or before the redemption date, as above permitted, the notice shall so state, and shall state that unless such deposit is made on or before such date the call for redemption and the notice shall be of no effect. Before any money shall be applied by the Trustee to the redemption of bonds under this Section, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate or opinion by the President or a Vice President of the Company and an opinion of counsel, stating that all conditions precedent provided for herein (including any covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) relating to such redemption have been complied with. SECTION 2.03. Redemptions Pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture. If, pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, any proceeds of released property or other money then held by the Trustee shall be applied to the redemption of bonds of the Series WW, the Trustee, not later than 30 days prior to the applicable redemption date, shall draw by lot according to such methods as it shall deem proper, from all the bonds of the Series WW then outstanding, such principal amount thereof as is to be redeemed. Bonds of said series so redeemed shall be cancelled. After such drawing the Trustee shall, beginning not later than 30 nor earlier than 40 days in advance of the date fixed for redemption, give, in the name of the Company, notice by mail that bonds of the Series WW bearing the serial numbers specified have been called for redemption pursuant to said Section 4C of Article Eight, that they will be due and payable on such redemption date, at the office of the Trustee in Newark, New Jersey, or (at the option of the holder) at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, at a stated amount (which shall be the Special Redemption Price applicable upon such redemption date), that, if the date fixed for redemption be other than an interest payment date, the bonds will be payable at the stated redemption price, plus accrued interest to the redemption date, and that all interest thereon will cease to accrue after said date. Such notice shall be mailed to the several registered owners of the bonds so called, at their respective addresses as the same may appear on the 16 registry books. Failure duly to give such notice of redemption to the registered owner of any bond called for redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other bond. SECTION 2.04. Called Bonds to be Surrendered--Interest to Cease. Each bond or portion thereof of the Series WW so called under Section 2.02 or 2.03 hereof shall be due and payable (upon surrender thereof) at the places and price and on the date specified in such notice, anything herein or in such bond to the contrary notwithstanding. From and after the date when each bond or portion thereof of the Series WW shall be due and payable as aforesaid (unless upon said date the full amount due thereon shall not be held by the Trustee and be immediately available for payment), all further interest shall cease to accrue on such bond or on such portion thereof, as the case may be. SECTION 2.05. Bonds Called in Part. If only a portion of any bond of the Series WW shall be drawn by lot by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.02 or 2.03 hereof, the notice of redemption hereinbefore provided for shall specify the serial number of such bond and the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. Upon surrender of such bond for partial redemption and upon payment of the portion so called for redemption, a new bond or bonds of the Series WW, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of such surrendered bond, shall be executed by the Company, authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee, and delivered to the registered owner thereof, without expense to such owner. SECTION 2.06. Provisions of Indenture Not Applicable. There shall be no sinking fund for the bonds of Series WW. ARTICLE III. MISCELLANEOUS. SECTION 3.01. Authentication of Bonds of Series WW. None of the bonds of the Series WW, the issue of which is provided for by this supplemental indenture, shall be authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee except in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, and this supplemental indenture, and upon compliance with the conditions in that behalf therein contained. 17 SECTION 3.02. Authenticating Agent. As long as any of the bonds of the Series WW remain outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in connection with the authentication of bonds of the Series WW. Such authenticating agent shall be appointed by the Trustee by an instrument in writing and shall have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it at the direction of the Trustee. Such authenticating agent shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of any State or Territory or of the District of Columbia authorized under such laws to act as authenticating agent, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State, Territorial, or District of Columbia authority and, if there be such a corporation willing and able to act as authenticating agent on reasonable and customary terms, having its principal office and place of business in The City of New York. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 3.02 the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. Any corporation into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion, or consolidation to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency business of any authenticating agent, shall continue to be the authenticating agent without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the authenticating agent. Any authenticating agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.02, the Trustee may appoint a successor authenticating agent. The Trustee shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and shall mail notice of such appointment to all registered owners of the bonds of the Series WW, at their respective addresses as the same may appear on the registry books. Any successor authenticating agent, upon acceptance of its appointment, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its predecessor, with like effect as if originally appointed authenticating agent. No successor authenticating agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section 3.02. 18 The Trustee agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments as provided in the Indenture. SECTION 3.03. Additional Restrictions on Authentication of Additional Bonds Under Indenture. The Company covenants that from and after the date of execution of this supplemental indenture, no additional bonds (as defined in Section 1 of Article Two of the Indenture) shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under Subdivision A of Section 4 of said Article Two on account of additions or improvements to the mortgaged property: (1) unless the net earnings of the Company for the period required by Subdivision C of Section 6 of said Article Two shall have been at least twice the fixed charges (in lieu of 1 3/4 times such fixed charges, as required by said Subdivision C); and for the purpose of this condition (a) such fixed charges shall in each case include interest on the bonds applied for, notwithstanding the parenthetical provision contained in clause (4) of said Subdivision C, and (b) in computing such net earnings there shall be included in expenses of operation (under paragraph (c) of said Subdivision C) all charges against earnings for depreciation, renewals or replacements, and all certificates with respect to net earnings delivered to the Trustee in connection with any authentication of additional bonds under said Article Two shall so state; and (2) except to the extent of 60% (in lieu of 75% as permitted by Subdivision A of Section 7 of said Article Two) of the cost or fair value to the Company of the additions or improvements forming the basis for such authentication of additional bonds. SECTION 3.04. Restriction on Dividends. The Company will not declare or pay any dividend on any shares of its common stock (other than dividends payable in shares of its common stock) or make any other distribution on any such shares, or purchase or otherwise acquire any such shares (except shares acquired without cost to the Company) whenever such action would reduce the earned surplus of the Company to an amount less than $10,000,000 or such lesser amount as may remain after deducting from said $10,000,000 all amounts appearing in the books of account of the Company on December 31, 1948, which shall thereafter, pursuant to any order or rule of any regulatory body entered after said date, be required to be removed, in whole or in part, from the books of account of the Company by charges to earned surplus. SECTION 3.05. Use of Facsimile Seal and Signatures. The seal of the Company and any or all signatures of the officers of the Company upon any of the bonds of the Series WW may be facsimiles. 19 SECTION 3.06. Time for Making of Payment. All payments of principal or redemption price of and interest on the bonds of the Series WW shall be made either prior to the due date thereof, or on the due date thereof in immediately available funds. In any case where the date of any such payment shall be a Saturday or Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city of payment are authorized by law to close, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding business day with the same force and effect as if made on the due date, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the period after such date. SECTION 3.07. Effective Period of Supplemental Indenture. The preceding provisions of Articles I, II and III of this supplemental indenture shall remain in effect only so long as any of the bonds of the Series WW shall remain outstanding. SECTION 3.08. Effect of Approval of Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey. The approval of the Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey of the execution and delivery of these presents and of the issue of any bonds of the Series WW shall not be construed as approval of said Board of any other act, matter or thing which requires approval of said Board under the laws of the State of New Jersey. SECTION 3.09. Execution in Counterparts. For the purpose of facilitating the recording hereof, this supplemental indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be and shall be taken to be an original, and all collectively but one instrument. 20 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Public Service Electric and Gas Company, party hereto of the first part, after due corporate and other proceedings, has caused this supplemental indenture to be signed and acknowledged or proved by its President or one of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal hereunto to be affixed and to be attested by the signature of its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary; and First Union National Bank, as Trustee, party hereto of the second part, has caused this supplemental indenture to be signed and acknowledged or proved by one of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and to be attested by the signature of another of its Vice Presidents. Executed and delivered this 24th day of January, 1996. PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY By .................................... (F. J. Riepl) Vice President Attest: ...................................... (E. J. Biggins, Jr.) Secretary (CORPORATE SEAL) FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK By .................................... (M. Matthews) Vice President Attest: ...................................... (F. Gallagher) Vice President (CORPORATE SEAL) 21 ] STATE OF NEW JERSEY ] COUNTY OF ESSEX ] ss.: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this 24th day of January, 1996, before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public of the State of New Jersey, personally appeared F. J. Riepl who, I am satisfied, is a Vice President of PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY, one of the corporations named in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and is the person who signed the said instrument as such officer, for and on behalf of such corporation, and I having first made known to him the contents thereof, he did acknowledge that he signed the said instrument as such officer, that the said instrument was made by such corporation and sealed with its corporate seal, that the said instrument is the voluntary act and deed of such corporation, made by virtue of authority from its Board of Directors, and that said corporation, the mortgagor, has received a true copy of said instrument. ] STATE OF NEW JERSEY ] COUNTY OF ESSEX ] ss.: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this 24th day of January, 1996, before me, thesubscriber, a Notary Public of the State of New Jersey, personally appeared M. Matthews who, I am satisfied, is a Vice President of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, one of the corporations named in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and is the person who signed the said instrument as such officer, for and on behalf of such corporation, and I having first made known to her the contents thereof, she did acknowledge that she signed the said instrument as such officer, that the said instrument was made by such corporation and sealed with its corporate seal, and that the said instrument is the voluntary act and deed of such corporation, made by virtue of authority from its Board of Directors. 22 CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE First Union National Bank, Mortgagee and Trustee within named, hereby certifies that its precise residence is 765 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey 07101. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK By ........................... Vice President -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----