Exhibit 4.2
VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER
COMPANY
Issuer,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON
(successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank,
N.A.
(formerly known as The Chase Manhattan
Bank))
Original Trustee
AND
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
Series Trustee
Nineteenth Supplemental and Amending
Indenture
Dated as of November 1,
2008
$700,000,000
2008 Series B 8.875% Senior
Notes
Due 2038
TABLE OF
CONTENTS *
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ARTICLE I
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2008 SERIES B 8.875% SENIOR NOTES
DUE 2038
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SECTION
101.
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Establishment
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SECTION
102.
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Definitions
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SECTION
103.
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Payment of
Principal and Interest
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SECTION
104.
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Denominations
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SECTION
105.
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Global
Securities
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SECTION
106.
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Redemption.
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SECTION
107.
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Sinking
Fund
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SECTION
108.
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Additional
Interest
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SECTION
109.
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Paying
Agent
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ARTICLE II
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AMENDMENTS TO THE ORIGINAL
INDENTURE
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SECTION
201.
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Amendment to
Section 101
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SECTION
202.
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Amendment to
Section 301
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ARTICLE III
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THE SERIES TRUSTEE
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SECTION
301.
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Appointment of
the Series Trustee
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SECTION
302.
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Eligibility of
Series Trustee
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SECTION
303.
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Security
Registrar and Paying Agent
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SECTION
304.
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Concerning the
Trustees
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SECTION
305.
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Patriot Act
Requirements of Series Trustee
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ARTICLE IV
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MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
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SECTION
401.
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Recitals by
Company
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SECTION 402.
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Ratification
and Incorporation of Original Indenture
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SECTION
403.
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Executed in
Counterparts
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SECTION
404.
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Assignment
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This Table of Contents does not
constitute part of the Indenture or have any bearing upon the
interpretation of any of its terms and provisions.
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Exhibit 4.2
THIS NINETEENTH
SUPPLEMENTAL AND AMENDING INDENTURE is made as of the 1
st
day of November,
2008, by and between VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, a
Virginia corporation, having its principal office at 120 Tredegar
Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 (the “Company”), THE
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
(formerly known as The Chase Manhattan Bank)), a New York banking
corporation, as Trustee (herein called the “Original
Trustee”), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee of
the series of Securities established by this Nineteenth
Supplemental and Amending Indenture, having a corporate trust
office at 1021 East Cary Street, Suite 1850, Richmond, Virginia
23219 (herein called the “Series Trustee”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore
entered into a Senior Indenture, dated as of June 1, 1998 (the
“Original Indenture”), as heretofore supplemented and
amended, with the Original Trustee;
WHEREAS, the Original Indenture is
incorporated herein by this reference and the Original Indenture,
as heretofore supplemented and amended and as further supplemented
and amended by this Nineteenth Supplemental and Amending Indenture,
is herein called the “Indenture”;
WHEREAS, under the Original
Indenture, a new series of Securities may at any time be
established in accordance with the provisions of the Original
Indenture and the terms of such series may be described by a
supplemental indenture executed by the Company and the
Trustee;
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to
create under the Indenture a new series of Securities;
WHEREAS, the Company is entering
into this Nineteenth Supplemental and Amending Indenture with the
Original Trustee and the Series Trustee to evidence and provide for
the acceptance of appointment thereunder by a Trustee with respect
to the series of Securities hereby established, to add to or change
any of the provisions of the Original Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the
trusts thereunder by more than one Trustee, and to make certain
amendments to the Original Indenture pursuant to
Section 901(9) of the Original Indenture to permit the
appointment of the Series Trustee as Trustee for the series of
Securities hereby established;
WHEREAS, the Company has requested
that the Original Trustee enter into this Nineteenth Supplemental
and Amending Indenture in connection with (i) the foregoing
amendments, and (ii) the Company’s appointing the Series
Trustee with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
Original Trustee with respect to, and only with respect to, the
series of Securities hereby established;
WHEREAS, additional Securities of
other series hereafter established, except as may be limited in the
Original Indenture as at the time supplemented and modified, may be
issued from time to time pursuant to the Indenture as at the time
supplemented and modified; and the Original Trustee will, unless
and until a Person other than the Original Trustee is appointed to
act as Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, serve
as Trustee of such series;
WHEREAS, all conditions necessary to
authorize the execution and delivery of this Nineteenth
Supplemental and Amending Indenture and to make it a valid and
binding obligation of the Company have been done or
performed.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good
and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
2008 SERIES B 8.875% SENIOR NOTES
DUE 2038
SECTION 101. Establishment .
There is hereby established a new series of Securities to be issued
under the Indenture, to be designated as the Company’s 2008
Series B 8.875% Senior Notes Due 2038, (the “Series B Senior
Notes”).
There are to be initially
authenticated and delivered $700,000,000 principal amount of Series
B Senior Notes, and such principal amount of the Series B Senior
Notes may be increased from time to time pursuant to
Section 301 of the Indenture. All Series B Senior Notes need
not be issued at the same time and such series may be reopened at
any time, without the consent of any Holder, for issuances of
additional Series B Senior Notes. Any such additional Series B
Senior Notes will have the same interest rate, maturity and other
terms as those initially issued. Further Series B Senior Notes may
also be authenticated and delivered as provided by Sections 304,
305, 306, 906 and 1106 of the Original Indenture.
The Series B Senior Notes shall be
issued in definitive fully registered form without coupons, in
substantially the form set out in Exhibit A hereto. The
entire initially issued principal amount of the Series B Senior
Notes shall initially be evidenced by one or more certificates
issued to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust
Company.
The form of the Series
Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication for the Series B
Senior Notes shall be in substantially the form set forth in
Exhibit B hereto.
Each Series B Senior Note shall be
dated the date of authentication thereof and shall bear interest
from the date of original issuance thereof or from the most recent
Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for.
SECTION 102. Definitions .
The following defined terms used herein shall, unless the context
otherwise requires, have the meanings specified below. Capitalized
terms used herein for which no definition is provided herein shall
have the meanings set forth in the Original Indenture.
“Adjusted Treasury Rate”
means, with respect to any Redemption Date: (i) the yield,
under the heading which represents the average for the immediately
preceding week, appearing in the most recently published
statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any
successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes
yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities
adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury
Constant Maturities,” for the maturity
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corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue
(if no maturity is within three months before or after the
Remaining Life, yields for the two published maturities most
closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will be
determined and the Adjusted Treasury Rate will be interpolated or
extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to
the nearest month); or (ii) if such release (or any successor
release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation
date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to
the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable
Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable
Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount)
equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption
Date.
“Business Day” means a
day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, (ii) a day on
which banks in New York, New York are authorized or obligated by
law or executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day on
which the Corporate Trust Office of the Series Trustee is closed
for business.
“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 B Senior Notes 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
Life.
“Comparable Treasury
Price” for any Redemption Date means (i) the average of
the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date,
after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, or (ii) if the Independent Investment Banker
obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations,
the average of all such quotations.
“Corporate Trust Office of the
Series Trustee” means the office of the Series Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business with
respect to the series of Securities herein described shall be
principally administered, which office at the date of original
execution of this Nineteenth Supplemental and Amending Indenture is
located at 1021 East Cary Street, Suite 1850, Richmond, Virginia
23219.
“Independent Investment
Banker” means Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman,
Sachs & Co. or Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. and their
respective successors as selected by the Company, or if none of
such firms is willing or able to serve as such, an independent
investment and banking institution of national standing appointed
by the Company.
“Interest Payment Dates”
means May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing on
May 15, 2009.
“Original Issue Date”
means November 6, 2008.
“Outstanding,” when used
with respect to the Series B Senior Notes, means, as of the date of
determination, all Series B Senior Notes, theretofore authenticated
and delivered under the Indenture, except:
(i) Series B Senior Notes
theretofore canceled by the Series Trustee or delivered to the
Series Trustee for cancellation;
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(ii) Series B Senior Notes for whose
payment at Maturity the necessary amount of money or money’s
worth has been theretofore deposited (other than pursuant to
Section 1303 of the Original Indenture) with the Series
Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or
set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company
shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Series B
Senior Notes; provided that, if such Series B Senior Notes are to
be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant
to the Original Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the
Series Trustee has been made;
(iii) Series B Senior Notes with
respect to which the Company has effected Defeasance pursuant to
Section 1302 of the Original Indenture; and
(iv) Series B Senior Notes that have
been paid pursuant to Section 306 of the Original Indenture or
in exchange for or in lieu of which other Series B Senior Notes
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture,
other than any such Series B Senior Notes in respect of which there
shall have been presented to the Series Trustee proof satisfactory
to it that such Series B Senior Notes are held by a bona fide
purchaser in whose hands such Series B Senior Notes are valid
obligations of the Company; provided, however, that in determining
whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Series B Senior Notes have given, made or taken any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, Series B Senior
Notes owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Series B
Senior Notes or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that,
in determining whether the Series Trustee shall be protected in
making any such determination or relying upon any such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action only Series B Senior Notes which the Series Trustee actually
knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Series B Senior Notes
so owned which shall have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Series Trustee (A) the pledgee’s
right so to act with respect to such Series B Senior Notes and
(B) that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor
upon the Series B Senior Notes or an Affiliate of the Company or
such other obligor.
“Reference Treasury
Dealer” means: (i) Citigroup Global Markets Inc.,
Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
and their respective successors; provided that, if any such firm or
its successors ceases to be a primary U.S. Government securities
dealer in the United States (a “Primary Treasury
Dealer”), the Company shall substitute another Primary
Treasury Dealer; and (ii) up to two other Primary Treasury
Dealers selected by the Company.
“Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury
Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the
Independent Investment Banker, 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 Independent
Investment Banker at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third
Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
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“Regular
Record Date” means, with respect to each Interest Payment
Date, the close of business on the Business Day preceding such
Interest Payment Date; provided , that with respect to
Series B Senior Notes that are not represented by one or more
Global Securities, the Regular Record Date shall be the close of
business on the 15 th calendar day (whether or not a
Business Day) preceding such Interest Payment Date.
“Remaining Life” means
the remaining term of the Series B Senior Notes.
“Stated Maturity” means
November 15, 2038.
The terms “Company,”
“Original Trustee,” “Series Trustee,”
“Original Indenture,” and “Indenture” shall
have the respective meanings set forth in the recitals to this
Nineteenth Supplemental and Amending Indenture and the paragraph
preceding such recitals.
SECTION 103. Payment of Principal
and Interest . The principal of the Series B Senior Notes shall
be due at the Stated Maturity (unless earlier redeemed). The unpaid
principal amount of the Series B Senior Notes shall bear interest
at the rate of 8.875% per annum until paid or duly provided
for, such interest to accrue from the Original Issue Date or from
the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been
paid or duly provided for. Interest shall be paid semi-annually in
arrears on each Interest Payment Date to the Person in whose name
the Series B Senior Notes are registered on the Regular Record Date
for such Interest Payment Date; provided that interest payable at
the Stated Maturity of principal or on a Redemption Date as
provided herein will be paid to the Person to whom principal is
payable. Any such interest that is not so punctually paid or duly
provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holders on
such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person or
Persons in whose name the Series B Senior Notes are registered at
the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Series Trustee (in
accordance with Section 307 of the Original Indenture), notice
whereof shall be given to Holders of the Series B Senior Notes not
less than ten (10) days prior to such Special Record Date, or
be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
with the requirements of any securities exchange, if any, on which
the Series B Senior Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as
may be required by any such exchange, all as more fully provided in
the Original Indenture.
Payments of interest on the Series B
Senior Notes will include interest accrued to but excluding the
respective Interest Payment Dates. Interest payments for the Series
B Senior Notes shall be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months. In the event that any date on which
interest is payable on the Series B Senior Notes is not a Business
Day, then payment of the interest payable on such date will be made
on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any
interest or payment in respect of any such delay), in each case
with the same force and effect as if made on the date the payment
was originally payable.
Payment of the principal and
interest on the Series B Senior Notes shall be made at the office
of the Paying Agent in such currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of
public and private debts, with any such payment that is due at the
Stated Maturity of any Series B Senior Notes or on a Redemption
Date being made upon surrender of such Series B Senior Notes to the
Paying Agent. Payments of interest
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(including interest on any Interest Payment
Date) will be made, subject to such surrender where applicable, at
the option of the Company, (i) by check mailed to the address
of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the
Security Register or (ii) by wire transfer at such place and
to such account at a banking institution in the United States as
may be designated in writing to the Series Trustee at least sixteen
(16) days prior to the date for payment by the Person entitled
thereto. In the event that any date on which principal and interest
is payable on the Series B Senior Notes is not a Business Day, then
payment of the principal and interest payable on such date will be
made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without
any interest or payment in respect of