Exhibit 4.1
FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE
among
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS, INC., AS
ISSUER
INDIANA GAS COMPANY, INC., AS
GUARANTOR
SOUTHERN INDIANA GAS AND ELECTRIC
COMPANY, AS GUARANTOR
VECTREN ENERGY DELIVERY OF OHIO,
INC., AS GUARANTOR
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS
TRUSTEE
Dated November 21, 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
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DEFINITIONS
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SECTION
1.1
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Definition of
Terms
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ARTICLE
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GENERAL TERMS
AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
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SECTION
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Designation and
Principal Amount; Guarantees
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SECTION
2.2
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Maturity
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SECTION
2.3
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Form and
Payment
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SECTION
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Global
Note
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SECTION
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Payment of
Principal and Interest
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ARTICLE
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REDEMPTION OF
THE NOTES
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SECTION
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Redemption at
the Company’s Option; Defeasance
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SECTION
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No Sinking
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SECTION
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Defeasance
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ARTICLE
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MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION
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Ratification of
Indenture
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SECTION
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Trustee Not
Responsible for Recitals
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SECTION
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Governing
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SECTION
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Separability
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SECTION
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Counterparts
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SECTION
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Amendments
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EXHIBITS A-1
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Forms of
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FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of
November 21, 2005 (the “Fourth Supplemental
Indenture”), among Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc., an Indiana
corporation (the “Company”), Indiana Gas Company, Inc.,
an Indiana corporation and an Ohio corporation (“Indiana
Gas”), Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, an Indiana
corporation (“SIGECO”) and Vectren Energy Delivery of
Ohio, Inc., an Ohio corporation (“VEDO”, and together
with Indiana Gas and SIGECO, the “Initial Guarantors”)
and U.S. Bank National Association (the
“Trustee”).
WHEREAS, the Company and the Initial Guarantors
executed and delivered the Indenture dated as of October 19, 2001
(the “Base Indenture”) to the Trustee to provide for
the Company’s unsecured notes, debentures or other evidence
of indebtedness of the Company (collectively, the
“Securities”), and the Guarantees (as hereinafter
defined), to be issued from time to time in one or more series, as
might be determined by the Company under the Base
Indenture;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Base
Indenture, the Company desires to provide for the establishment of
two new series of Securities to be known as its 5.45% Senior Notes
due December 1, 2015 (the “2015 Notes”) and its 6.10%
Senior Notes due December 1, 2035 (the “2035 Notes”,
and together, the “Notes”) and the unconditional
guarantees by the Guarantors (as defined herein) of the payment of
the amounts owed with respect to the Notes (the
“Guarantees”), the form and terms of such Notes and the
terms, provisions and conditions of the Notes and the Guarantees to
be set forth as provided in the Base Indenture and this Fourth
Supplemental Indenture (together, the
“Indenture”);
WHEREAS, the Company and the Initial Guarantors
requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this Fourth
Supplemental Indenture and all requirements necessary to make this
Fourth Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and enforceable
instrument in accordance with its terms, and to make the Notes,
when executed, authenticated and delivered by the Company and with
the Guarantees endorsed thereon and executed by the Guarantors, the
valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Company and the
Guarantors, as applicable, have been made:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase
and acceptance of the Notes by the Holders thereof, and for the
purpose of setting forth, as provided in the Base Indenture, the
form and terms of the Notes, each of the Company and the Initial
Guarantors, as applicable, covenants and agrees with the Trustee as
follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1.
Definition of Terms .
Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(a) a term defined in the Base Indenture has the
same meaning when used in this Fourth Supplemental
Indenture;
(b) a term defined anywhere in this Fourth
Supplemental Indenture has the same meaning throughout;
(c) the singular includes the plural and vice
versa;
(d) headings are for convenience of reference only
and do not affect interpretation;
(e) the following terms have the meanings given to
them in this Section 1.1(e):
“Notes” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.1.
“Global Note” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 2.4.
“Guarantors” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 2.1.
“Interest Payment Date” means June 1
and December 1 of each year, beginning June 1, 2006.
“Maturity Date” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 2.2.
“Original Issue Date” means November
21, 2005.
“Redemption Price” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 3.1.
“Regular Record Date” means, with
respect to any Interest Payment Date for the Notes, the close of
business on the fifteenth day of the month immediately preceding
the month in which such Interest Payment Date falls.
The following terms shall have the respective
meanings set forth in the recitals to this Fourth Supplemental
Indenture:
“Fourth Supplemental
Indenture”
ARTICLE
II
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
OF THE NOTES
SECTION 2.1.
Designation and Principal Amount; Guarantees .
There is hereby authorized two series of
Securities designated the 5.45% Senior Notes due December 1, 2015
limited (except as otherwise provided in Article 2 of the Base
Indenture) in aggregate principal amount to $75,000,000, and the
6.10% Senior Notes due December 1, 2035 limited (except as
otherwise provided in Article 2 of the Base Indenture) in aggregate
principal amount to $75,000,000. The Notes may be issued from time
to time upon written order of the Company for the authentication
and delivery of Notes pursuant to Section 2.03 of the Base
Indenture. Each of the Initial Guarantors (together with each other
subsidiary of the Company that pursuant to the terms of the
Indenture guarantees the Company’s obligations under the
Notes and the Indenture, the “Guarantors”)
unconditionally and jointly and severally guarantees to the Holders
of the Notes upon which the Guarantees are endorsed, upon
authentication and delivery by the Trustee, the due and punctual
payment of the principal of, and interest on, and any Redemption
Price with respect to, the Notes, when and as the same shall become
due and payable, whether at Stated Maturity, upon acceleration or
redemption or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of the Notes
and of the Indenture.
The date upon which the principal on the 2015
Notes shall become due and payable at final maturity is December 1,
2015 (the “2015 Maturity Date”) if not redeemed in full
previously in accordance with Article III of this Fourth
Supplemental Indenture. The date upon which the principal on the
2035 Notes shall become due and payable at final maturity is
December 1, 2035 (the “2035 Maturity Date”, and the
2015 Maturity Date and the 2035 Maturity Date may sometimes
hereinafter be referred to in the alternative as the
“Maturity Date”) if not redeemed in full previously in
accordance with Article III of this Fourth Supplemental
Indenture.
SECTION 2.3.
Form and Payment.
The Notes shall be issued in fully registered
certificated form without interest coupons, bearing identical terms
(except as otherwise provided in Article 2 of the Base Indenture).
Principal of, and interest on, and any Redemption Price with
respect to, the Notes will be payable, the transfer of such Notes
will be registrable and such Notes will be exchangeable for Notes
bearing identical terms at the office or agency of the Company
maintained for such purpose as described below.
The Company hereby designates the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York as a place of payment (“Place
of Payment”) for the Notes, and the office or agency
maintained by the Company in such Place of Payment for the purposes
contemplated by this Section 2.3 shall initially be the
Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee at 100 Wall Street, Suite 2000, New York, New
York 10005, Attention: Richard Prokosch.
The Company hereby designates the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York as a place of payment (“Place
of Payment”) for the Notes, and the office or agency
maintained by the Company in such Place of Payment for the purposes
contemplated by this Section 2.3 shall initially be the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee at 100 Wall Street, Suite 2000, New
York, New York 10005, Attention: Richard Prokosch.
The Notes shall be issuable in denominations of
$1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
The Notes may be issued, in whole or in part, in
permanent global form and, if issued in permanent global form, the
Depository shall be The Depository Trust Company or such other
depositary as any officer of the Company may from time to time
designate.
The Registrar, the Paying Agent and the transfer
agent for the Notes shall initially be the Trustee.
The Notes shall be in substantially the form set
forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 hereto.
SECTION 2.4.
Global Note .
(a) Unless and until it is exchanged for Notes of
the same series in registered certificated form, a global Note in
principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
2015 Notes and a global Note in principal amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the 2035 Notes (each a “Global
Note”) may be transferred, in whole but not in part, only to
the Depository or a nominee of the Depository, or to a successor
Depository or to a nominee of such successor Depository.
(b) If at any time (i) the Depository notifies the
Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depository
for the Global Notes and no successor Depository shall have been
appointed within 90 days after such notification, (ii) the
Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any other applicable rule or
regulation and no successor Depository shall have been appointed
within 90 days after the Company becoming aware of the
Depository’s ceasing to be so registered, (iii) the Company,
in its sole discretion, determines that the Global Notes shall be
so exchangeable or (iv) there shall have occurred and be continuing
an Event of Default, the Company will execute, and, subject to
Article 2 of the Base Indenture, the Trustee, upon written notice
from the Company, will authenticate and deliver Notes of the same
series, with the Guarantees endorsed thereon and executed by the
Guarantors, in registered certificated form without coupons, in
authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount
equal to the principal amount of the Global Note in exchange for
such Global Note. Upon the exchange of the Global Note for such
Notes in registered certificated form without coupons, in
authorized denominations, the Global Note shall be cancelled by the
Trustee. Such Notes in registered certificated form issued in
exchange for the Global Note shall be registered in such names and
in such authorized denominations as the Depository, pursuant to
instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise,
shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Notes to
the Depository for delivery to the Persons in whose names such
Notes are so registered.
SECTION 2.5.
Payment of Principal and Interest.
The 2015 Notes shall bear interest at the per
annum rate of 5.45%. The 2035 Notes shall bear interest at the per
annum rate of 6.10%. The following terms apply to the
Notes:
Interest shall be paid semi-annually in arrears
on each Interest Payment Date commencing on June 1, 2006. Payments
of interest on the Notes will include interest accrued from, and
including, the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from, and
including, the Original Issue Date if no interest has been paid or
duly provided for) to, but excluding, the applicable Interest
Payment Date or date of earlier redemption, as the case may be.
Interest payments for the Notes shall be computed and paid on the
basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day
months.
The interest so payable and punctually paid or
duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to the
Holder(s) of the particular series of Notes as of the Regular
Record Date for such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest that
is not so punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest
Payment Date will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holders of
the particular series of Notes as of the close of business on such
Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person or Persons
in whose name such 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 Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders
of the particular series of Notes by the Trustee not less than
fifteen (15) days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at
any time in any other lawful manner, all as more fully provided in
the Base Indenture.
Payment of the
principal of, and any premium or interest on, the Notes due on the
applicable Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption, as the case
may be, shall be made in immediately available funds, upon
presentation and surrender of the applicable Notes at the office or
agency maintained by the Company for that purpose in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, currently the office of the
Trustee located at 100 Wall Street, Suite 2000, New York, New York
10005, or at such other paying agency in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York, as the Company may determine. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, payment of interest due on any Interest Payment Date
will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds at
such place and to such account at a banking institution in the
United States as may be designated in wire transfer instructions
received in writing by the Trustee at least sixteen (16) days prior
to such Interest Payment Date. Any such wire transfer instructions
received by the Trustee shall remain in effect until revoked by
such Holder.
Any payments on
the Notes will be made in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for
payment of public and private debts.
In the event that any Interest Payment Date or
the applicable Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption falls on
a day that is not a Business Day, the required payment of
principal, premium and/or interest payable on such date shall be
made on the next succeeding Business Day with the
same force and
effect as if made on the date such payment was due, and no interest
shall accrue with respect to such payment for the period from and
after such Interest Payment Date or the applicable Maturity Date or
date of earlier redemption, as the case may be, to the date of such
payment on the next succeeding Business Day.
ARTICLE
III
REDEMPTION OF THE NOTES;
DEFEASANCE
SECTION 3.1.
Redemption at the Company’s Option.
Each series of Notes shall be subject to
redemption at the option of the Company, in whole or in part,
without premium or penalty, at any time, at a redemption price (the
“Redemption Price”) equal to the greater of (1) 100% of
the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (2) the sum of
the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal
and interest (excluding interest accrued to the date of redemption)
on the Notes to be redeemed discounted to the redemption date
semi-annually (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day
months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined below) plus 20 basis
points for the 2015 Notes and 25 basis points for the 2035 Notes,
plus, in either case, any unpaid interest accrued on such Notes to
the date of redemption.
In the event of redemption of a series of Notes
in part only, a new Note or Notes of such series for the unredeemed
portion will be issued in the name or names of the Holders thereof
upon the presentation and surrender thereof, as set forth in
Section 3A.08 of the Base Indenture.
Notice of redemption shall be given as provided
in Section 3A.05 of the Base Indenture.
Any redemption of less than all of a series of
Notes shall, with respect to the principal thereof, be divisible by
$1,000.
For purposes of
this Section:
“Treasury
Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date applicable
to a Note, 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 a 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 Notes to be redeemed that would be used, 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 the Notes to be
redeemed.
“Independent Investment Banker”
means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the
Trustee after consultation with the Company and the
Guarantors.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means,
with respect to any redemption date applicable to a Note, (1) if
the Trustee obtains at least five Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, the average of the three remaining Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotations after excluding the highest and lowest Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations obtained, or (2) if the Trustee obtains
fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the
average of all Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations
obtained.
“Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury
Dealer and any redemption date applicable to a Note, 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 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
third Business Day preceding such redemption date.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means
each of LaSalle Financial Services, Inc., Wachovia Capital Markets,
LLC, Fifth Third Securities, Inc. Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc.,
Banc of America Securities LLC, BNY Capital Markets, Inc., Morgan
Keegan & Company, Inc., NatCity Investments, Inc., Piper
Jaffray & Co., and their respective successors; provided,
however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary
U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a
“Primary Treasury Dealer”), such former dealer shall be
replaced with another Primary Treasury Dealer.
SECTION 3.2.
No Sinking Fund .
The Notes are not subject to, or entitled to the
benefit of, any sinking fund.
SECTION 3.3.
Defeasance .
Article 8 of
the Base Indenture describing Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
shall apply to the Notes.
ARTICLE
IV
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 4.1.
Ratification of Indenture.
The Base Indenture, as supplemented by this
Fourth Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and
confirmed, and this Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed
part of the Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and
therein provided.
SECTION 4.2.
Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals.
The recitals herein contained are made by the
Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no
responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Fourth
Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION 4.3.
Governing Law .
This Fourth Supplemental Indenture and each Note
issued hereunder shall be deemed to be contracts made under the
internal laws of the State of Indiana and for all purposes shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of said State
without regard to principles of conflicts of law.
SECTION 4.4.
Separability .
In case any one or more of the provisions
contained in this Fourth Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes
shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect, then, to the extent permitted by law,
such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect
any other provisions of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture or of
the Notes, but this Fourth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes
shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable
provision had never been contained herein or therein.
SECTION 4.5.
Counterparts .
This Fourth Supplemental Indenture may be
simultaneously executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which when so executed shall be an original, and all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument.
SECTION 4.6.
Amendments .
Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, all
amendments to the Base Indenture made hereby shall have effect only
with respect to the Notes, and not with respect to the Securities
of any other series created prior to or subsequent to the date
hereof.
[signature page follows]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
caused this Fourth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed by
their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, on the date or
dates indicated in the acknowledgments and as of the day and year
first above written.
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VECTREN UTILITY
HOLDINGS, INC.
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Issuer
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By:
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Name:
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Jerome A.
Benkert, Jr.
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Title:
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Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer
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Attest:
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Ronald E.
Christian
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Executive Vice
President and Secretary
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INDIANA GAS
COMPANY, INC.
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as Initial
Guarantor
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By:
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Name:
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Jerome A.
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Title:
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Executive Vice
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Attest:
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Ronald E.
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Executive Vice
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SOUTHERN
INDIANA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
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as Initial
Guarantor
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By:
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Name:
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Jerome A.
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Title:
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Executive Vice
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Ronald E.
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Executive Vice
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VECTREN ENERGY
DELIVERY OF OHIO, INC.,
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as Initial
Guarantor
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By:
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Name:
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Jerome A.
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Title:
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Executive Vice
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Ronald E.
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Executive Vice
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U.S. BANK
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
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Exhibit A-1
[Form of Face of Note]
UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
(“DTC”), 55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK TO THE
ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT, AND SUCH SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE
& CO., OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL, SINCE THE
REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
UNLESS IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR
SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE REGISTERED FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A
NOMINEE OF DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY DTC OR ANY
SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR OF DTC OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH
SUCCESSOR.
VECTREN UTILITY HOLDINGS,
INC.
5.45% SENIOR NOTE DUE
DECEMBER 1, 2015
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RATE OF INTEREST
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STATED MATURITY DATE
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ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE
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5.45%
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December 1, 2015
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November 21, 2005
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Registered No.
1…………………………………………………...
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CUSIP No.
92239M AF 8
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Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc., a corporation
duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana
(herein called the “Company”), for value received,
hereby promises to pay, without relief from valuation or
appraisement laws, to Cede & Co. or registered assigns, the
principal sum of $75,000,000 on the Stated Maturity Date shown
above or any earlier date of redemption in accordance with the
provisions on the reverse hereof (each such date shall be referred
to herein as the “Maturity Date” with respect to the
principal payable on such date), and to pay interest on the
outstanding principal of this Note, at the annual Rate of Interest
shown above, from the Original Issue Date shown above or from the
most recent Interest Payment Date (as hereinafter defined) to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for, payable semi-annually
in arrears on June 1 and December 1 of each year, commencing on
June 1, 2006 (an “Interest Payment Date”), and on any
earlier date of redemption, as the case may be.
The interest so payable and punctually paid or
duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to the
Holder of this Note as of the Regular Record Date for such Interest
Payment Date. Any such interest that is not so punctually paid or
duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date will forthwith cease
to be payable to the Holders of this Note as of the close of
business on such
Regular Record
Date and may either be paid to the Person or Persons in whose name
this Note is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed
by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof, notice whereof
shall be given to Holders of the Notes by the Trustee not less than
fifteen (15) calendar days prior to such Special Record Date, or be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner, all as more fully
provided in the Indenture referred to on the reverse
hereof.
Interest payable on this Note on any Interest
Payment Date and on any earlier date of redemption, as the case may
be, will be the amount of interest accrued during the applicable
Interest Period (as defined below) computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
An “Interest Period” is each period
from and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date
to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and
including the Original Issue Date in the case of the initial
Interest Period) to but excluding the applicable Interest Payment
Date or the Maturity Date, as the case may be. If any Interest
Payment Date or Maturity Date falls on a day that is not a Business
Day, principal, premium and/or interest payable on such date will
be paid on the succeeding Business Day with the same force and
effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no
interest will accrue on the amount so payable for the period from
and after such date to such succeeding Business Day.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a
Sunday, or other day on which commercial banks are authorized or
required by law, regulation or executive order to close in The City
of New York.
Payment of the principal of, and any premium or
interest on, this Note due on the Maturity Date shall be made in
immediately available funds, upon presentation and surrender of
this Note at the office or agency maintained by the Company for
that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,
currently the office of the Trustee located at 100 Wall Street,
Suite 2000, New York, New York 10005, or at such other paying
agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, as the
Company may determine. Notwithstanding the foregoing, payment of
interest due on this Note on any Interest Payment Date will be made
by wire transfer of immediately available funds at such place and
to such account at a banking institution in the United States as
may be designated in wire transfer instructions received in writing
by the Trustee at least sixteen (16) days prior to such Interest
Payment Date. Any such wire transfer instructions received by the
Trustee shall remain in effect until revoked by such
Holder.
Any payments on this Note will be made in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of
payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts.