PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES
CORPORATION
OFFICER’S
CERTIFICATE
(under Sections 201 and 301 of
the Indenture dated as of August 1, 2001)
Establishing the Form and Certain
Terms of the
Senior Secured Bonds, Variable
Rate Pollution Control Series 2008
The undersigned, James E. Abel, Treasurer
of PPL Electric Utilities Corporation (the “Company”),
pursuant to Supplemental Indenture No. 9, dated as of October 1,
2008 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 9”) (all capitalized
terms used herein which are not defined herein but are defined in
the Indenture referred to below, shall have the meanings specified
in the Indenture, as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 9),
and Sections 201 and 301 of the Indenture of the Company dated as
of August 1, 2001 (as heretofore supplemented, the
“Indenture”) to The Bank of New York Mellon (as
successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (formerly known as The Chase
Manhattan Bank)), as trustee (the “Trustee”), does
hereby establish for the series of Securities established in
Supplemental Indenture No. 9 the following terms and
characteristics (the lettered clauses set forth herein
corresponding to such clauses in said Section 301):
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the title of
the Securities of such series shall be “Senior Secured Bonds,
Variable Rate Pollution Control Series 2008” (the
“Bonds”);
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the aggregate
principal amount of Bonds which may be authenticated and delivered
under the Indenture shall be limited to $90,000,000, except as
contemplated in Section 301(b) and the last paragraph of Section
301 of the Indenture;
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interest on the
Bonds shall be payable to the Person or Persons in whose names the
Bonds are registered at the close of business on the Regular Record
Date for such interest, except as otherwise expressly provided in
the form of Bond attached hereto and hereby authorized and
approved;
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the principal
shall be due and payable on October 1, 2023; and the Company shall
not have the right to extend the Maturity of the Bonds as
contemplated in Section 301(d) of the Indenture;
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as provided in
the form of Bond attached as Exhibit A hereto, the Bonds shall bear
interest at the same rate or rates borne from time to time by the
Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2008 (PPL
Electric Utilities Corporation Project) (the “Revenue
Bonds”) of the Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing
Authority (the “Authority”), the Revenue Bonds being
issued under the Trust Indenture, dated as of October 1, 2008 (the
“Revenue Bond Indenture”) of the Authority to The Bank
of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the
“Revenue Bond Trustee”); and the Interest
Payment Dates for the Bonds shall be the dates on which the
interest is payable on the Revenue Bonds; the Regular Record Date
for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date with respect
to the Bonds shall be the same date or dates as the Regular Record
Date for the Revenue Bonds (as defined in the Revenue Bond
Indenture); and the Company shall not have any right to extend any
interest payment periods for the Bonds as contemplated in Sections
301(e) and 312 of the Indenture;
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the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee in New York, New York shall be the
office or agency of the Company at which the principal of and any
premium and interest on the Bonds at Maturity shall be payable, at
which registration of transfers and exchanges of the Bonds may be
effected and at which notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Bonds and the Indenture may be served; and the
Trustee will initially be the Security Registrar and the Paying
Agent for the Bonds; provided, however, that the Company reserves
the right to change, by one or more Officer’s Certificates,
any such office or agency and such agent; each installment of
interest on a Bond shall be payable as provided in Exhibit A
hereto;
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(i) The Bonds
shall be redeemed in whole or in part at the times and redemption
prices and in the amounts that the Revenue Bonds are to be redeemed
at the option of the Company pursuant to Section 9.01(a) of the
Revenue Bond Indenture, except to the extent that no such
redemption of the Revenue Bonds occurs as contemplated by Section
9.04(c) of the Revenue Bond Indenture; and no notice of any such
redemption of the Bonds shall be required to be given;
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(ii) Upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default under the Revenue Bond Indenture,
and upon the condition that Revenue Bonds shall have become
immediately due and payable pursuant to any provision of the
Revenue Bond Indenture and further upon the condition that there
shall not have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default as
defined in Section 901 of the Indenture, upon the demand of the
Revenue Bond Trustee, the Bonds shall be redeemed by the Company at
the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date of
redemption; and, further, upon the redemption, in whole or in part,
of the Revenue Bonds pursuant to Section 9.01(b) of the Revenue
Bond Indenture, the Bonds shall be redeemed by the Company on the
date such Revenue Bonds are to be redeemed in an amount equal to
the principal amount of such Revenue Bonds plus interest accrued to
such date; and no notice of any such redemption shall be required
to be given;
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the Bonds shall
be issued in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of
$1,000 in excess thereof;
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reference is
hereby made to the provisions of Supplemental Indenture No. 9 for
certain covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of
the Bonds, in addition to those set forth in Article Seven of the
Indenture;
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the only
obligations or instruments that shall be considered Eligible
Obligations in respect of the Bonds shall be Government
Obligations; and the provisions of Section 801 of the Indenture as
supplemented by Section 104 of Supplemental Indenture No. 9 shall
apply to the Bonds;
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the Bonds shall
not be transferable, except to a successor trustee under the
Revenue Bond Indenture; no service charge shall be made for the
registration of transfer or exchange of the Bonds; provided,
however, that the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection with the exchange or transfer;
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the Bonds are
Benefitted Securities under Section 707 of the Indenture;
and
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except as
otherwise determined by the proper officers of the Company and
communicated to the Trustee in a Company Order or as established in
one or more Officer’s Certificates supplemental to this
Officer’s Certificate, the Bonds shall be substantially in
the form of Bond attached hereto as Exhibit A, which form is hereby
authorized and approved, and shall have such further terms as are
set forth in such form.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed this
Officer’s Certificate this 28th day of October, 2008 in New
York, New York.
[FORM OF BOND]
This Bond is
non-transferable except to a successor Revenue Bond Trustee under
the Revenue Bond Indenture referred to herein.
No._______________
PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES
CORPORATION
SENIOR SECURED BOND, VARIABLE
RATE POLLUTION CONTROL SERIES 2008
PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION, a
corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (herein referred to as the
“Company”, which term includes any successor Person
under the Indenture referred to below), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.,
as trustee, or to its successor as such trustee (the “Revenue
Bond Trustee”), under a Trust Indenture, dated as of October
1, 2008 (the “Revenue Bond Indenture”), between the
Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority (the
“Authority”) and the Revenue Bond Trustee, pursuant to
which the Authority will issue $90,000,000 aggregate principal
amount of its Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series
2008 (PPL Electric Utilities Corporation Project) (the
“Revenue Bonds”), the principal sum of NINETY MILLION
($90,000,000) Dollars on October 1, 2023 (the “Stated
Maturity Date”), and to pay interest on said principal sum at
the same rate or rates borne from time to time as the Revenue Bonds
and on the same date or dates as interest is payable on the Revenue
Bonds (each such date, an “Interest Payment
Date”). Interest on the Securities of this series
will accrue from and including October __, 2008, to and excluding
the first Interest Payment Date, and thereafter will accrue from
and including the last Interest Payment Date to which interest has
been paid or duly provided for. No interest will accrue
on the Securities with respect to the day on which the Securities
mature.
In the event that any Interest Payment Date is
not a Business Day, then payment of interest payable on such date
will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day
(and without an
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