Exhibit 1(a)
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY
First Mortgage Bonds
Unsecured Debt Securities
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
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[Date]
as Representatives of the Underwriters
named in Schedule I hereto
c/o
Ladies and Gentlemen:
1. Introduction. Texas Utilities Electric Company, a
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Texas corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell
severally to you (the "Underwriters"): (A) the Company's First
Mortgage Bonds of the series designation, with the terms and in
the principal amount specified in Schedule I hereto (the
"Bonds"), or (B) the Company's unsecured debt securities, with
the terms and in the principal amount specified in Schedule I
hereto (the "Debt Securities"). The Bonds and/or Debt Securities,
as the case may be, specified in Schedule I hereto, are herein
sometimes referred to together as the "Securities".
2. A. Description of Bonds. The Company proposes
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to issue the Bonds under its Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as
of December 1, 1983, to Irving Trust Company (now The Bank of New
York), Trustee, as heretofore supplemented and as it is to be
further supplemented by a Supplemental Indenture (the
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"Supplemental Indenture") to be dated as of , in
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substantially the form heretofore delivered to you, said Mortgage
and Deed of Trust, as heretofore supplemented and as it is to be
so further supplemented, being hereinafter referred to as the
"Mortgage".
B. Description of Debt Securities. The Company
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proposes to issue the Debt Securities under its Indenture (For
Unsecured Debt Securities), dated as of August 1, 1997, to The
Bank of New York, Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"), said
Indenture, together with any amendments or supplements thereto,
being hereinafter referred to as the "Indenture".
3. Representations and Warranties of the Company.
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The Company represents and warrants to the several Underwriters
that:
(a) It has filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") a registration statement on
Form S-3, including a prospectus, on , 199
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(Registration No. ) for the registration of
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$[350,000,000] aggregate amount of the Company's First
Mortgage Bonds ("First Mortgage Bonds") and unsecured debt
securities ("Unsecured Debt Securities") under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
Such registration statement ("registration statement No. ")
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was declared effective by the Commission on .
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The Company also filed with the Commission a registration
statement on Form S-3 on September 15, 1994 (Registration
No. 33-83976) (hereinafter "registration statement No. 33-
83976") for the registration of $500,000,000 of the
Company's First Mortgage Bonds under the Securities Act.
Such registration statement was declared effective by the
Commission on September 26, 1994. The Company also filed
with the Commission post-effective amendment no. 1 (the
"Post-Effective Amendment") to registration statement No.
33-83976 on July 1, 1997 to include Unsecured Debt
Securities in the securities registered with the Commission
pursuant to the registration statement No. 33-83976. The
Post-Effective Amendment was declared effective by the
Commission on July 9, 1997. All but $148,850,000 amount of
First Mortgage Bonds and Unsecured Debt Securities
registered under the Securities Act pursuant to registration
statement No. 33-83976, as amended, have been previously
issued. References herein to the term "Registration State-
ment" as of any date shall be deemed to refer to
registration statement No. and registration statement
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No.33-83976, each as amended or supplemented to such date,
including all documents incorporated by reference therein as
of such date pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 ("Incorporated
Documents"). References herein to the term "Prospectus" as
of any given date shall be deemed to refer to the prospectus
forming a part of registration statement No. , as
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amended or supplemented as of such date (other than by
amendments or supplements relating to First Mortgage Bonds
or Unsecured Debt Securities other than the Securities),
including all Incorporated Documents as of such date and
including a prospectus supplement relating to the
Securities. References herein to the term "Effective Date"
shall be deemed to refer to the later of the time and date
registration statement No. was declared effective or
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the time and date of the filing thereafter of the Company's
most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K if such filing is
made prior to the Closing Date, as hereinafter defined. The
Company will not file any amendment to the Registration
Statement or supplement to the Prospectus on or after the
date of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, as
hereinafter defined, without prior notice to the
Underwriters, or to which Counsel for the Underwriters shall
reasonably object in writing. For the purposes of this
Agreement, any Incorporated Document filed with the
Commission on or after the date of this Agreement and prior
to the Closing Date, as hereinafter defined, shall be deemed
an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus.
(b) On the Effective Date, the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus fully complied and at the Closing Date,
as hereinafter defined, the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus, the Mortgage and the Indenture will fully comply
in all material respects with the applicable provisions of
the Securities Act, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended ("Trust Indenture Act"), and the applicable rules
and regulations of the Commission thereunder; on the
Effective Date the Registration Statement did not, and at
the Closing Date, as hereinafter defined, the Registration
Statement will not, contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading; on the Effective Date the Prospectus
did not, and at the Closing Date, as hereinafter defined,
and on the date it is filed with, or transmitted for filing
to, the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 of the General Rules
and Regulations of the Securities Act ("Rule 424"), the
Prospectus will not, contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
and on said dates the Incorporated Documents, taken together
as a whole, fully complied or will comply in all material
respects with the applicable provisions of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and
the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder, and, when read together with the Prospectus on
said dates did not and will not contain an untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading; provided that the foregoing
representations and warranties in this paragraph (b) shall
not apply to statements or omissions made in reliance upon
information furnished in writing to the Company by, or on
behalf of, any Underwriter for use in connection with the
preparation of the Registration Statement or the Prospectus
or to any statements in or omissions from the Statements of
Eligibility and Qualification under the Trust Indenture Act,
or amendments thereto, of the Trustee under the Mortgage or
the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.
(c) The consummation of the transactions herein
contemplated and the fulfillment of the terms hereof will
not result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of,
or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed
of trust or other agreement or instrument to which the
Company is now a party.
4. Purchase and Sale. On the basis of the
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representations and warranties herein contained, and subject to
the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company shall sell
to each of the Underwriters, and each Underwriter shall purchase
from the Company, at the time and place herein specified,
severally and not jointly, the respective principal amount(s) of
the Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in
Schedule II attached hereto, at the purchase price or prices set
forth in Schedule I hereto.
5. Time and Place of Closing. Delivery of the
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Securities against payment therefor by wire transfer in federal
funds shall be made at the office of Xxxx & Priest LLP, 00 Xxxx
00xx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, at 10:00 A.M., New York Time, on
, or at such other place, time and date as shall be
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agreed upon in writing by the Company and you or established in
accordance with the following paragraph. The hour and date of
such delivery and payment are herein called the "Closing Date".
The Securities shall be delivered to you for the respective
accounts of the Underwriters in fully registered form in such
denominations of $1,000 or any multiple thereof and registered in
such names as you shall reasonably request in writing not later
than the close of business on the second business day prior to
the Closing Date, or, to the extent not so requested, registered
in the names of the respective Underwriters in such authorized
denominations as the Company shall determine. The Company agrees
to make the Securities available to you for checking purposes not
later than 10:00 A.M., New York Time, on the last business day
preceding the Closing Date at the office of Xxxx & Priest LLP, 00
Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000.
If any Underwriter shall fail or refuse (otherwise than
for some reason sufficient to justify, in accordance with the
terms hereof, the cancellation or termination of its obligations
hereunder) to purchase and pay for the principal amount(s) of the
Securities that such Underwriter has agreed to purchase and pay
for hereunder, the Company shall immediately give notice to the
other Underwriters of the default of such Underwriter, and the
other Underwriters shall have the right within 24 hours after the
receipt of such notice to determine to purchase, or to procure
one or more others, who are members of the National Association
of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD") (or, if not members of the
NASD, who are not eligible for membership in the NASD and who
agree (i) to make no sales within the United States, its
territories or its possessions or to persons who are citizens
thereof or residents therein and (ii) in making sales to comply
with the NASD's Rules of Fair Practice) and satisfactory to the
Company, to purchase, upon the terms herein set forth, the
principal amount(s) of the Securities that the defaulting
Underwriter had agreed to purchase. If any non-defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters shall determine to exercise such
right, such Underwriter or Underwriters shall give written notice
to the Company of the determination in that regard within 24
hours after receipt of notice of any such default, and thereupon
the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not
exceeding three business days, as the Company shall determine.
If in the event of such a default no non-defaulting Underwriter
shall give such notice then this Agreement may be terminated by
the Company, upon like notice given to the non-defaulting
Underwriters, within a further period of 24 hours. If in such
case the Company shall not elect to terminate this Agreement, it
shall have the right, irrespective of such default:
(a) to require such non-defaulting Underwriters to
purchase and pay for the respective principal amounts of
Securities that they had severally agreed to purchase
hereunder as hereinabove provided and, in addition, the
principal amounts of Securities that the defaulting
Underwriter shall have so failed to purchase up to a
principal amount thereof equal to one-ninth (1/9) of the
respective principal amounts of the Securities that such
non-defaulting Underwriters have otherwise agreed to
purchase hereunder, and/or
(b) to procure one or more persons, who are members of
the NASD (or, if not members of the NASD, who are not
eligible for membership in the NASD and who agree (i) to
make no sales within the United States, its territories or
its possessions or to persons who are citizens thereof or
residents therein and (ii) in making sales to comply with
the NASD's Rules of Fair Practice), to purchase, upon the
terms herein set forth, either all or a part of the princi-
pal amount(s) of the Securities that such defaulting
Underwriter had agreed to purchase or that portion thereof
that the remaining Underwriters shall not be obligated to
purchase pursuant to the foregoing clause (a).
In the event the Company shall exercise its rights under (a)
and/or (b) above, the Company shall give written notice thereof
to the non-defaulting Underwriters within such further period of
24 hours, and thereupon the Closing Date shall be postponed for
such period, not exceeding three business days, as the Company
shall determine.
In the computation of any period of 24 hours referred
to in this Section 5, there shall be excluded a period of 24
hours in respect of each Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday that
would otherwise be included in such period of time.
Any action taken by the Company under this Section 5
shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in
respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.
Termination by the Company under this Section 5 shall be without
any liability on the part of the Company or any non-defaulting
Underwriter, except as otherwise provided in Sections 6(g) and 9
hereof.
6. Covenants of the Company. The Company agrees
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that:
(a) It will promptly deliver to each of you a signed
copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed or,
to the extent a signed copy is not available, a conformed
copy, certified by an officer of the Company to be in the
form as originally filed, including all Incorporated
Documents and exhibits and of all amendments thereto.
(b) It will deliver to you, as soon as practicable
after the date hereof, as many copies of the Prospectus as
of such date as you may reasonably request.
(c) It will cause the Prospectus to be filed with, or
transmitted for filing to, the Commission pursuant to Rule
424 as soon as practicable and advise you of the issuance of
any stop order under the Securities Act with respect to the
Registration Statement or the institution of any proceedings
therefor of which the Company shall have received notice.
The Company will use its best efforts to prevent the
issuance of any such stop order and to secure the prompt
removal thereof if issued.
(d) If, during such period of time (not exceeding nine
months) after the Prospectus has been filed with, or
transmitted for filing to, the Commission pursuant to Rule
424 as in the opinion of Counsel for the Underwriters a
prospectus covering the Securities is required by law to be
delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or
dealer, any event relating to or affecting the Company or of
which the Company shall be advised in writing by you shall
occur that in the Company's reasonable opinion should be set
forth in a supplement to, or an amendment of, the Prospectus
in order to make the Prospectus not misleading in the light
of the circumstances when it is delivered to a purchaser,
the Company will, at its expense, amend or supplement the
Prospectus by either (i) preparing and furnishing to you at
the Company's expense a reasonable number of copies of a
supplement or supplements or an amendment or amendments to
the Prospectus or (ii) making an appropriate filing pursuant
to Section 13 of the Exchange Act, which will supplement or
amend the Prospectus so that, as supplemented or amended, it
will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not
misleading; provided that should such event relate solely to
the activities of any of the Underwriters, then the
Underwriters shall assume the expense of preparing and fur-
nishing any such amendment or supplement. In case any
Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus after the
expiration of nine months from the date the Prospectus is
filed with, or transmitted for filing to, the Commission
pursuant to Rule 424, the Company, upon your request, will
furnish to you, at the expense of such Underwriter, a
reasonable quantity of a supplemental prospectus or
supplements to the Prospectus complying with Section 10(a)
of the Securities Act.
(e) It will make generally available to its security
holders, as soon as practicable, an earnings statement
(which need not be audited) covering a period of at least
twelve months beginning not earlier than the first day of
the month next succeeding the month in which occurred the
effective date of the Registration Statement as defined in
Rule 158 under the Securities Act.
(f) It will furnish such proper information as may be
lawfully required and otherwise cooperate in qualifying the
Securities for offer and sale under the blue-sky laws of
such jurisdictions as you may designate, provided that the
Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign
corporation or dealer in securities, to file any consents to
service of process under the laws of any jurisdiction, or to
meet any other requirements deemed by the Company to be
unduly burdensome.
(g) It will, except as herein provided, pay all
expenses and taxes (except transfer taxes) in connection
with (i) the preparation and filing by it of the
Registration Statement, (ii) the issuance and delivery of
the Securities as provided in Section 5 hereof, (iii) the
preparation, execution and filing by it of the Supplemental
Indenture, (iv) the qualification of the Securities under
blue-sky laws [(including counsel fees not to exceed
$7,500)], and (v) the printing and delivery to the
Underwriters of reasonable quantities of the Registration
Statement and, except as provided in Section 6(d) hereof, of
the Prospectus. The Company shall not, however, be required
to pay any amount for any expenses of yours or any of the
Underwriters, except that, if this Agreement shall be
terminated in accordance with the provisions of Section 7, 8
or 10 hereof, the Company will reimburse you for the fees
and disbursements of Counsel for the Underwriters, whose
fees and disbursements the Underwriters agree to pay in any
other event, and will reimburse the Underwriters for their
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, in an aggregate amount
not exceeding $5,000, incurred in contemplation of the
performance of this Agreement. The Company shall not in any
event be liable to any of the several Underwriters for
damages on account of loss of anticipated profits.
7. Conditions of Underwriters' Obligations. The
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obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the
Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the
representations and warranties made herein on the part of the
Company, to the performance by the Company of its obligations to
be performed hereunder prior to the Closing Date, and to the
following conditions:
(a) The Prospectus shall have been filed with, or
transmitted for filing to, the Commission pursuant to Rule
424 prior to 6:00 P.M., New York Time, on the second
business day after the date of this Agreement, or such other
time and date as may be approved by you.
(b) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no
proceedings for that purpose shall be pending before, or
threatened by, the Commission on the Closing Date; and you
shall have received a certificate, dated the Closing Date
and signed by an officer of the Company, to the effect that
no such stop order is in effect and that no proceedings for
such purpose are pending before, or to the knowledge of the
Company threatened by, the Commission.
(c) On the Closing Date, you shall have received from
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P., General Counsel for
the Company, Xxxx & Priest LLP, of counsel for the Company,
and Winthrop, Stimson, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, Counsel for the
Underwriters, opinions in substantially the form and
substance prescribed in Schedules III-1, IV-1 and V-1 hereto
(if Debt Securities are purchased pursuant to this
Agreement) or III-2, IV-2 and V-2 hereto (if Bonds are
purchased pursuant to this Agreement) (i) with such changes
therein as may be agreed upon by the Company and you, with
the approval of Counsel for the Underwriters, and (ii) if
the Prospectus relating to the Securities shall be
supplemented or amended after the Prospectus shall have been
filed with, or transmitted for filing to, the Commission
pursuant to Rule 424, with any changes therein necessary to
reflect such supplementation or amendment.
(d) On and as of the Closing Date you shall have
received from Deloitte & Touche LLP a letter to the effect
that (i) they are independent certified public accountants
with respect to the Company, within the meaning of the
Securities Act and the applicable published rules and
regulations thereunder, (ii) in their opinion, the financial
statements audited by them and included or incorporated by
reference in the Prospectus comply as to form in all
material respects with the applicable accounting
requirements of the Exchange Act and the published rules and
regulations thereunder, (iii) on the basis of a reading of
the unaudited amounts of operating revenues and net income
included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and
the related financial statements from which these amounts
were derived, the latest available unaudited financial
statements of the Company and the minute books of the
Company and inquiries of officers of the Company who have
responsibility for financial and accounting matters (it
being understood that the foregoing procedures do not
constitute an audit made in accordance with generally
accepted auditing standards and would not necessarily reveal
matters of significance with respect to the comments made in
such letter, and accordingly that Deloitte & Touche LLP
makes no representation as to the sufficiency of such
procedures for the several Underwriters' purposes), nothing
has come to their attention that caused them to believe that
(A) the unaudited financial statements incorporated by
reference in the Prospectus were not determined in accor-
dance with generally accepted accounting principles applied
on a basis substantially consistent with that of the
corresponding amounts in the latest available audited
financial statements, (B) the unaudited amounts of operating
revenues and net income of the Company included or
incorporated by reference in the Prospectus were not
determined on a basis substantially consistent with that of
the corresponding amounts in the audited statements of
income incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, (C) for
the twelve months ended as of the date of the latest
available financial statements of the Company, there were
any decreases in operating revenues or net income as
compared with the comparable period of the preceding year,
and (D) at a specified date not more than seven days prior
to the date of such letter, there was any change in the
capital stock of the Company, short-term bank loans,
commercial paper, notes payable to Texas Utilities Company
or long-term debt of the Company or decrease in its net
assets, in each case as compared with amounts shown in the
most recent balance sheet incorporated by reference in the
Prospectus, except in all instances for changes or decreases
that the Prospectus discloses have occurred or may occur or
which are occasioned by the declaration of a regular
quarterly dividend or the acquisition of long-term debt for
sinking fund purposes, or that are described in such letter,
and (iv) they have compared the dollar amounts (or
percentages or ratios derived from such dollar amounts) and
other financial information included or incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
as reasonably requested by you (in each case to the extent
that such dollar amounts, percentages and other financial
information are derived from the general accounting records
of the Company subject to the internal controls of the
Company's accounting system or are derived indirectly from
such records by analysis or computation) with the results
obtained from inquiries, a reading of such general
accounting records and other procedures specified in such
letter, and have found such dollar amounts, percentages and
other financial information to be in agreement with such
results, except as otherwise specified in such letter.
(e) Since the most recent dates as of which in-
formation is given in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus there shall not have been any material adverse
change in the business, property or financial condition of
the Company and, since such dates, there shall not have been
any material transaction entered into by the Company, in
each case other than transactions in the ordinary course of
business and transactions contemplated by the Registration
Statement or Prospectus and at the Closing Date you shall
have received a certificate to such effect dated the Closing
Date and signed by an officer of the Company.
(f) All legal proceedings to be taken in connection
with the issuance and sale of the Securities shall have been
satisfactory in form and substance to Counsel for the
Underwriters.
In case any of the conditions specified above in this
Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled, this Agreement may be
terminated with the consent of Underwriters that have agreed to
purchase in the aggregate 50% or more of the aggregate principal
amount of Securities and upon notice thereof to the Company. Any
such termination shall be without liability of any party to any
other party except as otherwise provided in Sections 6(g) and 9
hereof.
8. Conditions of Company's Obligations. The
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obligation of the Company to deliver the Securities shall be
subject to the conditions that the Prospectus shall have been
filed with, or transmitted for filing to, the Commission pursuant
to Rule 424 prior to 6:00 P.M., New York Time, on the second
business day after the date of this Agreement or such other time
and date as may be approved by the Company, and no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall
be in effect at the Closing Date and no proceedings for that
purpose shall be pending before, or threatened by, the Commission
at the Closing Date. In case these conditions shall not have
been fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by the Company
upon notice thereof to you. Any such termination shall be
without liability of any party to any other party except as
otherwise provided in Sections 6(g) and 9 hereof.
9. Indemnification.
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(a) The Company shall indemnify, defend and hold
harmless each Underwriter and each person who controls any
Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act from and against any and all losses, claims,
damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or
any of them may become subject under the Securities Act or
any other statute or common law and shall reimburse each
such Underwriter and controlling person for any legal or
other expenses (including, to the extent hereinafter
provided, reasonable counsel fees) incurred by them in
connection with investigating any such losses, claims,
damages or liabilities or in connection with defending any
actions, insofar as such losses, claims, damages,
liabilities, expenses or actions arise out of or are based
upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained in any preliminary prospectus or
prospectus prior to the Effective Date, or in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or the omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made not misleading; provided, however, that the
indemnity agreement contained in this Section 9 shall not
apply to any such losses, claims, damages, liabilities,
expenses or actions arising out of, or based upon, any such
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement, or any such
omission or alleged omission, if such statement or omission
was made in reliance upon information furnished in writing
to the Company by any Underwriter, through you or otherwise,
for use in connection with the preparation of the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any amendment or
supplement to either thereof, or arising out of, or based
upon, statements in or omissions from that part of the
Registration Statement that shall constitute the Statement
of Eligibility and Qualification under the Trust Indenture
Act of the Trustee under the Mortgage or the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture; and provided further, that the
indemnity agreement contained in this Section 9 shall not
inure to the benefit of any Underwriter (or of any person
controlling such Underwriter) on account of any such losses,
claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arising
from the sale of the Securities to any person if a copy of
the Prospectus (exclusive of the Incorporated Documents)
shall not have been given or sent to such person by or on
behalf of such Underwriter with or prior to the written
confirmation of the sale involved unless, with respect to
the delivery of any amendment or supplement to the
Prospectus, the alleged omission or alleged untrue statement
was not corrected in such amendment or supplement at the
time of such written confirmation. The indemnity agreement
of the Company contained in this Section 9 and the
representations and warranties of the Company contained in
Section 3 hereof shall remain operative and in full force
and effect regardless of any termination of this Agreement
or of any investigation made by or on behalf of any
Underwriter or any such controlling person, and shall
survive the delivery of the Securities.
(b) Each Underwriter shall indemnify, defend and hold
harmless the Company, its officers and directors, and each
person who controls the Company within the meaning of
Section 15 of the Securities Act, from and against any and
all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or
several, to which they or any of them may become subject
under the Securities Act or any other statute or common law
and shall reimburse each of them for any legal or other
expenses (including, to the extent hereinafter provided,
reasonable counsel fees) incurred by them in connection with
investigating any such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities or in connection with defending any actions,
insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities,
expenses or actions arise out of or are based upon any
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material
fact contained in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, or the omission or alleged omission to state
therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, if
such statement or omission was made in reliance upon
information furnished in writing to the Company by or on
behalf of such Underwriter, through you or otherwise, for
use in connection with the preparation of the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement
to either thereof. Each Underwriter hereby furnishes to the
Company in writing expressly for use in the Prospectus (i)
the statements relating to offerings by the Underwriters on
the cover page, (ii) the statements in the first paragraph
on page concerning stabilization and other transactions
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by the Underwriters, and (iii) under "Underwriters," the
list of underwriters and statements in the ,
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, and paragraphs. The indemnity agreement of
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the respective Underwriters contained in this Section 9
shall remain operative and in full force and effect
regardless of any termination of this Agreement or of any
investigation made by or on behalf of the Company, its
directors or its officers, any such Underwriter, or any such
controlling person, and shall survive the delivery of the
Securities.
(c) The Company and the several Underwriters each
shall, upon the receipt of notice of the commencement of any
action against it or any person controlling it as aforesaid,
in respect of which indemnity may be sought on account of
any indemnity agreement contained herein, promptly give
written notice of the commencement thereof to the party or
parties against whom indemnity shall be sought hereunder,
but the omission so to notify such indemnifying party or
parties of any such action shall not relieve such
indemnifying party or parties from any liability that it or
they may have to the indemnified party otherwise than on
account of such indemnity agreement. In case such notice of
any such action shall be so given, such indemnifying party
shall be entitled to participate at its own expense in the
defense, or, if it so elects, to assume (in conjunction with
any other indemnifying parties) the defense of such action,
in which event such defense shall be conducted by counsel
chosen by such indemnifying party or parties and
satisfactory to the indemnified party or parties who shall
be defendant or defendants in such action, and such
defendant or defendants shall bear the fees and expenses of
any additional counsel retained by them; but if the
indemnifying party shall elect not to assume the defense of
such action, such indemnifying party will reimburse such
indemnified party or parties for the reasonable fees and
expenses of any counsel retained by them; provided, however,
if the defendants in any such action include both the
indemnified party and the indemnifying party and counsel for
the indemnifying party shall have reasonably concluded that
there may be a conflict of interest involved in the
representation by such counsel of both the indemnifying
party and the indemnified party, the indemnified party or
parties shall have the right to select separate counsel,
satisfactory to the indemnifying party, to participate in
the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified
party or parties (it being understood, however, that the
indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of
more than one separate counsel representing the indemnified
parties who are parties to such action).
(d) If the indemnification provided for in sub-
paragraph (a) or (b) above shall be unenforceable under
applicable law by an indemnified party, each indemnifying
party agrees to contribute to such indemnified party with
respect to any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities
and expenses for which each such indemnification provided
for in subparagraph (a) or (b) above shall be unenforceable,
in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the
relative fault of each indemnifying party on the one hand
and the indemnified party on the other in connection with
the statements or omissions that have resulted in such
losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses, as well
as any other relevant equitable considerations; provided,
however, that no indemnified party guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of
the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from
any indemnifying party not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation. Relative fault shall be determined by
reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission
or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to
information supplied by such indemnifying party or the
indemnified party and each such party's relative intent,
knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct
or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company
and each of the Underwriters agree that it would not be just
and equitable if contributions pursuant to this subparagraph
(d) were to be determined by pro rata allocation (even if
the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such
purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not
take account of the equitable considerations referred to
above.
10. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated, at
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any time prior to the Closing Date, by you with the consent of
the Underwriters that have agreed to purchase in the aggregate
50% or more of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
if (a) after the date hereof and at or prior to the Closing Date
there shall have occurred any general suspension of trading in
securities on the New York Stock Exchange or there shall have
been established by the New York Stock Exchange or by the Com-
mission or by any federal or state agency or by the decision of
any court, any general limitation on prices for such trading or
any general restrictions on the distribution of securities, or a
general banking moratorium declared by New York or federal
authorities, or (b) there shall have occurred any new material
(i) outbreak of hostilities or (ii) other national or
international calamity or crisis, including, but not limited to,
an escalation of hostilities that existed prior to the date of
this Agreement, and the effect of any such event specified in
clause (a) or (b) above on the financial markets of the United
States shall be such as to make it impracticable, in the
reasonable judgment of the Underwriters, for the Underwriters to
enforce contracts for the sale of the Securities. This Agreement
may also be terminated at any time prior to the Closing Date by
you with the consent of the Underwriters that have agreed to
purchase in the aggregate 50% or more of the aggregate principal
amount of the Securities, if, in your reasonable judgment, the
subject matter of any amendment or supplement to the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus (other than an amendment or
supplement relating solely to the activity of any Underwriter or
Underwriters) prepared and issued by the Company after the
effectiveness of this Agreement shall have disclosed a material
adverse change in the business, property or financial condition
of the Company that has materially impaired the marketability of
the Securities. Any termination hereof pursuant to this Section
10 shall be without liability of any party to any other party
except as otherwise provided in Sections 6(g) and 9 hereof.
11. Miscellaneous. THE VALIDITY AND INTERPRETATION OF
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THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of the Company,
the several Underwriters and, with respect to the provisions of
Section 9 hereof, each director, officer and controlling person
referred to in said Section 9, and their respective successors.
Nothing herein is intended or shall be construed to give to any
other person, firm or corporation any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under or in respect of any provision in this
Agreement. The term "successor" as used herein shall not include
any purchaser, as such purchaser, of any of the Securities from
any of the several Underwriters.
12. Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in
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writing, and, if to the Underwriters, shall be mailed or
delivered to you at the address set forth above, or, if to the
Company, shall be mailed or delivered to it at 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, Attention: Treasurer.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your
understanding of our agreement, please indicate your acceptance
thereof in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon
this letter and your acceptance shall constitute a binding
agreement between the Company and the several Underwriters in
accordance with its terms.
Very truly yours,
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY
By
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Accepted and delivered as of
the date first above written
BY
By
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SCHEDULE I
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Underwriting Agreement dated:
Underwriters:
Securities:
Designation:
Principal Amount:
Supplemental Indenture, if
any, dated as of:
Date of Maturity:
Interest Rate:
Purchase Price:
Public Offering Price:
SCHEDULE II
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TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
UNSECURED DEBT SECURITIES
Name Principal Amount
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SCHEDULE III-1
[Letterhead of Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P.]
[Date]
as Underwriters named in the
Underwriting Agreement, dated
, between Texas
Utilities Electric Company and
such Underwriters
c/o
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as General Counsel to Texas Utilities
Electric Company (the "Company") in connection with the issuance
and sale of $ aggregate principal amount of its
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(the "Debt Securities") pursuant to the
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Underwriting Agreement dated , among the Company
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and you (the "Underwriting Agreement").
Terms not otherwise defined herein are used with the
meanings ascribed to them in the Underwriting Agreement.
In so acting we have participated in or reviewed the
corporate proceedings in connection with the authorization,
execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement, the
Indenture and the Debt Securities. We have also examined such
other documents and satisfied ourselves as to such other matters
as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the conclusions of law
contained in the opinions enumerated below. We have relied as to
various questions of fact upon the representations and warranties
of the Company contained in the Underwriting Agreement and, where
deemed appropriate, on certificates of public officials. We have
relied upon a certificate of the Indenture Trustee as to the
authentication of the Debt Securities. In our examination we
have assumed the genuineness of all signatures and the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and
the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted
to us as photostatic or certified copies.
Upon the basis of our familiarity with these
transactions and with the affairs and properties of the Company
generally, we are of the opinion that:
1. The Company is a validly organized and existing
corporation under the laws of the State of Texas.
2. The Company is a public utility corporation duly
authorized by its articles of incorporation, as amended, to
conduct the business that it is now conducting, is subject, as to
rates and services, to the jurisdiction of certain authorities,
as set forth in the Prospectus, and holds valid and subsisting
franchises, licenses and permits authorizing it to carry on the
utility business in which it is engaged.
3. The Underwriting Agreement has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
4. The Indenture has been duly qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act.
5. The Debt Securities and the Indenture have been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, the Debt
Securities are entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, and the
Debt Securities and the Indenture are legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in
accordance with their terms, subject to the effect of bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium and other
laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally and
of general principles of equity.
6. The statements made in the Prospectus under the
captions "Description of New Debt Securities" and "Certain Terms
of the ", insofar as they purport to constitute
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summaries of the terms of the documents referred to therein,
constitute accurate summaries of the terms of such documents in
all material respects.
7. Other than as stated, referred to or incorporated
by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
there are no material pending legal proceedings to which the
Company is a party or of which property of the Company is the
subject which depart from the ordinary routine litigation
incident to the kind of business conducted by the Company, and to
our best knowledge no such proceedings are contemplated.
8. The Registration Statement, as of the Effective
Date, and the Prospectus, at the time it was filed with (or
transmitted for filing to) the Commission pursuant to Rule 424
under the Securities Act, (except for financial statements and
schedules and financial and statistical data as to which we do
not express any belief and except for those parts of the
Registration Statement that constitute the Forms T-1) complied as
to form in all material respects with the applicable requirements
of the Securities Act and the applicable instructions, rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder; the Incorporated
Documents (except as to the financial statements and schedules
and other financial and statistical data contained therein, as to
which we do not express any belief), at the time they were filed
with the Commission, complied as to form in all material respects
with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable
instructions, rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
and the Registration Statement has become and is effective under
the Securities Act and, to our best knowledge, no proceedings for
a stop order with respect thereto are pending or threatened under
Section 8 of the Securities Act.
9. No other approval, authorization, consent or order
of any public board or body (other than in connection or in
compliance with the provisions of the blue-sky laws of any
jurisdiction) is legally required for the authorization of the
issue and sale by the Company of the Debt Securities.
In the course of the preparation of the information
relating to the Company contained in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus (including the documents incorporated therein
by reference), we had discussions with certain of its officers
and representatives, with other counsel for the Company, with
Deloitte & Touche LLP, the independent certified public
accountants who audited certain of the financial statements
contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and
with certain of your officers and employees and your counsel, but
we made no independent verification of the accuracy or
completeness of the representations and statements made to us by
the Company or the information included by the Company in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus and take no
responsibility therefor except as set forth in paragraph 6 above.
However, our examination of the information relating to the
Company contained in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus and our discussions did not disclose to us anything
which gives us reason to believe that (except for financial
statements and schedules and financial and statistical data as to
which we do not express any belief and except for those parts of
the Registration Statement that constitute the Forms T-1) (i) the
Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date, included an
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading or (ii) the Prospectus, at
the time it was filed with (or transmitted for filing to) the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act,
included, or on the date hereof includes, an untrue statement of
a material fact or on such dates omitted or omits to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
We are members of the State Bar of Texas and do not
hold ourselves out as experts in the laws of the State of New
York. As to all matters of New York law, we have, with your
consent, relied upon the opinion of Xxxx & Priest LLP, New York,
New York, of Counsel to the Company.
Very truly yours,
XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX &
XXXXXXXXXX, L.L.P.
By:
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A Partner
SCHEDULE III-2
[Letterhead of Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P.]
[Date]
as Underwriters named in the
Underwriting Agreement, dated
, between Texas
Utilities Electric Company and
such Underwriters
c/o
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the proposed issuance and sale by
Texas Utilities Electric Company (Company) of its % First
---
Mortgage Bonds in an aggregate principal amount of
$ (Bonds), pursuant to the agreement referred to
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above (Agreement), we advise you that we, as General Counsel for
the Company, have participated in the preparation of (a) the
Company's Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of December 1,
1983, to Irving Trust Company (now The Bank of New York), Trustee
(Trustee), as supplemented by all indentures supplemental
thereto, the latest of which is the Supplemental
Indenture, dated as of , (the Mortgage and Deed of
Trust as so supplemented being hereinafter called the Mortgage),
under which the Bonds are proposed to be issued; and (b) the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus (such terms having the
same meaning herein as in the Agreement) filed by the Company
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (Securities Act).
We have not examined the Bonds, except for specimens thereof.
Upon the basis of our familiarity with these
transactions and with the Company's properties and affairs
generally, we are of the opinion that:
1. The Company is a validly organized and existing
corporation under the laws of the State of Texas.
2. The Company is a public utility corporation duly
authorized by its Articles of Incorporation to conduct the
business that it is now conducting, is subject, as to rates
and services, to the jurisdiction of certain authorities, as
set forth in the Prospectus and holds valid and subsisting
franchises, licenses and permits authorizing it to carry on
the utility business in which it is engaged.
3. The Company has good and sufficient title to all
the properties presently owned by the Company which are
described in the Mortgage as owned by it and as subject to
the lien thereof, subject only to excepted encumbrances as
defined in the Mortgage, and to minor defects and encum-
brances customarily found in properties of like size and
character, which do not materially impair the use of such
properties by the Company; the descriptions in the Mortgage
of such properties are adequate to constitute the Mortgage
and a lien on the properties so described; the Mortgage
constitutes a valid direct mortgage lien, subject only to
the exceptions enumerated above, on such properties, which
include substantially all the permanent physical properties
and franchises of the Company (other than those expressly
excepted); all permanent physical properties and franchises
acquired by the Company after the date of the Supple-
mental Indenture (other than those expressly excepted) will,
upon such acquisition, become subject to the lien of the
Mortgage, subject, however, to liens if any, existing or
placed thereon at the time of the acquisition thereof by the
Company, and subject to the exceptions enumerated above.
4. The Mortgage has been duly and validly authorized
by all necessary corporate action, has been duly and validly
executed and delivered, and is a valid and binding
instrument, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except
as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other laws affecting
the enforcement of mortgagees' and other creditors' rights
and by general principles of equity.
5. The Bonds will, when issued and paid for as
contemplated in the Agreement and duly authenticated by the
Trustee under the Mortgage, be legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with
their terms, except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or
other laws affecting the enforcement of mortgagees' and
creditors' rights and by general principles of equity, and
will be entitled to the security afforded by the Mortgage.
6. The Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Company.
7. Other than as stated, referred to or incorporated
by reference in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus, there are no material pending legal
proceedings to which the Company is a party or of which
property of the Company is the subject which depart from the
ordinary routine litigation incident to the kind of business
conducted by the Company, and to our best knowledge no such
proceedings are contemplated.
8. The statements made in the Prospectus under the
captions "Description of New Bonds" and "Certain Terms of
the Offered Bonds", insofar as they purport to constitute
summaries of the terms of the documents referred to therein,
constitute accurate summaries of the terms of such documents
in all material respects.
9. The portions of the information contained in the
Prospectus which are stated therein to have been made on our
authority have been reviewed by us and, as to matters of law
and legal conclusions, are correct.
10. The Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date
(as defined in the Agreement), and the Prospectus, at the
time it was filed with (or transmitted for filing to) the
Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) pursuant to
Rule 424 (as defined in the Agreement), (except as to the
financial statements and other financial and statistical
data contained or incorporated by reference therein and
except for those parts of the Registration Statement that
constitute the Forms T-1, upon which we do not pass ),
complied as to form in all material respects with the
applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (Trust Indenture Act), and
the applicable instructions, rules and regulations thereunder;
and the documents or portions thereof filed with the
Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (Exchange Act), and incorporated by reference in
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to
Item 12 of Form S-3 (except as to the financial statements
and other financial and statistical data contained or
incorporated by reference therein and except for those parts
of the Registration Statement that constitute the Forms T-1,
upon which we do not pass), at the time they were filed with
the Commission, complied as to form in all material respects
with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable
instructions, rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder. In passing upon the form of the Registration
Statement and the form of the Prospectus, we necessarily
assume the correctness and completeness of the statements
made to us or included in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus by the Company and take no responsibility
therefor, except insofar as such statements relate to us and
as set forth in paragraphs 8 and 9 above. Nothing has come
to our attention that would lead us to believe that on the
Effective Date the Registration Statement included an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading or that the Prospectus, on
the date hereof, included or includes an untrue statement of
a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; the Registration Statement has become and is
effective under the Securities Act; and to our best
knowledge, no proceedings for a stop order with respect
thereto are pending or threatened under Section 8 of the
Securities Act. We do not express any opinion or belief as
to the financial statements or other financial or
statistical data contained or incorporated by reference in
the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or as to those
parts of the Registration Statement that constitute the
Forms T-1.
11. The Mortgage is duly qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act.
12. No other approval, authorization, consent or order
of any public board or body (other than in connection or in
compliance with the blue-sky laws of any jurisdiction) is
legally required for the authorization of the issue and sale
by the Company of the Bonds under the Agreement.
Very truly yours,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
& Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P.
By
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A Partner
SCHEDULE IV-1
[Letterhead of Xxxx & Priest LLP]
[Date]
as Underwriters named in the
Underwriting Agreement, dated
, between Texas
Utilities Electric Company and
such Underwriters
c/o
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to Texas Utilities Electric
Company (the "Company") in connection with the issuance and sale
of $ aggregate principal amount of its
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(the "Debt Securities") pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement
dated among the Company and you (the "Underwriting
--------------
Agreement").
Terms not otherwise defined herein are used with the
meanings ascribed to them in the Underwriting Agreement.
In so acting we have participated in or reviewed the
corporate proceedings in connection with the authorization,
execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement, the
Indenture and the Debt Securities. We have also examined such
other documents and satisfied ourselves as to such other matters
as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the conclusions of law
contained in the opinions expressed below. We have relied as to
various questions of fact upon the representations and warranties
of the Company contained in the Underwriting Agreement and, where
we deemed appropriate, on certificates of public officials. We
have relied upon a certificate of the Indenture Trustee as to the
authentication of the Debt Securities. In our examination we
have assumed the genuineness of all signatures and the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and
the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted
to us as photostatic or certified copies.
Upon the basis of our familiarity with these
transactions and with the affairs and properties of the Company
generally, we are of the opinion that:
1. The Underwriting Agreement has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
2. The Indenture has been duly qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act;
3. The Debt Securities and the Indenture have been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, the Debt
Securities are entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, and the
Debt Securities and the Indenture are legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in
accordance with their terms, subject to the effect of bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium and other
laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally and
of general principles of equity;
4. The statements made in the Prospectus under the
captions "Description of New Debt Securities" and "Certain Terms
of the ", insofar as they purport to constitute
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summaries of the terms of the documents referred to therein,
constitute accurate summaries of the terms of such documents in
all material respects;
5. The Registration Statement, as of the Effective
Date, and the Prospectus, at the time it was filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, (except
as to the financial statements and schedules and other financial
and statistical data contained therein as to which we do not
express any belief and except for those parts of the Registration
Statement that constitute the Forms T-1) complied as to form in
all material respects with the applicable requirements of the
Securities Act and the applicable instructions, rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder; the Incorporated
Documents (except as to the financial statements and schedules
and other financial and statistical data contained therein, as to
which we do not express any belief), at the time they were filed
with the Commission, complied as to form in all material respects
with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable
instructions, rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
and the Registration Statement has become and is effective under
the Securities Act and, to our best knowledge, no proceedings for
a stop order with respect thereto are pending or threatened under
Section 8 of the Securities Act; and
6. No other approval, authorization, consent or order
of any public board or body (other than in connection or in
compliance with the provisions of the blue-sky laws of any
jurisdiction) is legally required for the authorization of the
issue and sale by the Company of the Debt Securities.
In the course of the preparation of the information
relating to the Company contained in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus (including the documents incorporated therein
by reference) we had discussions with certain of its officers and
representatives, with other counsel for the Company, with
Deloitte & Touche LLP, the independent certified public
accountants who audited certain of the financial statements
contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and
with certain of your officers and employees and your counsel, but
we made no independent verification of the accuracy or
completeness of the representations and statements made to us by
the Company or the information included by the Company in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus and take no
responsibility therefor except as set forth in paragraph 4 above.
However, our examination of the information relating to the
Company contained in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus and our discussions did not disclose to us anything
which gives us reason to believe that (except as to the financial
statements and schedules and other financial and statistical data
contained therein, as to which we do not express any belief, and
except for those parts of the Registration Statement that
constitute the Forms T-1) (i) the Registration Statement, as of
the Effective Date, included an untrue statement of a material
fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading or (ii) the Prospectus, at the time it was filed with
the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act,
included, or on the date hereof includes, an untrue statement of
a material fact or on such dates omitted or omits to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
We are members of the New York Bar and do not hold
ourselves out as experts in the laws of the State of Texas. As
to all matters of Texas law, we have, with your consent, relied
upon the opinion of Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P.,
Dallas, Texas, General Counsel for the Company. We believe that
you and we are justified in relying on such opinion.
Very truly yours,
XXXX & PRIEST LLP
SCHEDULE IV-2
[Letterhead of Xxxx & Priest]
[Date]
as Underwriters named in the
Underwriting Agreement, dated
, between Texas
Utilities Electric Company and
such Underwriters
c/o
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the proposed issuance and sale by
Texas Utilities Electric Company (Company) of its % First
---
Mortgage Bonds in an aggregate principal amount of
$ (Bonds), pursuant to the agreement referred to
--------------
above (Agreement), we advise you that we, as counsel for the Com-
pany, have participated in the preparation of (a) the Company's
Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of December 1, 1983, to
Irving Trust Company (now The Bank of New York), Trustee
(Trustee), as supplemented by all indentures supplemental
thereto, the latest of which is the Supplemental
-------------
Indenture, dated as of (the Mortgage and Deed of Trust
---------
as so supplemented being hereinafter called the Mortgage), under
which the Bonds are proposed to be issued; and (b) the Regis-
tration Statement and Prospectus (such terms having the same
meaning herein as in the Agreement) filed by the Company under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (Securities Act). We have
not examined the Bonds, except specimens thereof.
Upon the basis of our familiarity with these transactions
and with the affairs and properties of the Company generally, we
are of the opinion that:
1. The Mortgage has been duly and validly authorized by
all necessary corporate action, has been duly and validly
executed and delivered, and is a valid and binding instrument,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency or other laws affecting the enforcement
of mortgagees' and other creditors' rights and by general
principles of equity.
2. The Bonds will, when issued and paid for as
contemplated in the Agreement and duly authenticated by the
Trustee under the Mortgage, be legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with
their terms, except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or
other laws affecting the enforcement of mortgagees' and other
creditors' rights and by general principles of equity, and be
entitled to the benefit of the security afforded by the
Mortgage.
3. The Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company.
4. The statements made in the Prospectus under the
captions "Description of New Bonds" and "Certain Terms of the
Offered Bonds", insofar as they purport to constitute
summaries of the terms of the documents referred to therein,
constitute accurate summaries of the terms of such documents
in all material respects.
5. The Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date
(as defined in the Agreement), and the Prospectus, at the time
it was filed with (or transmitted for filing to) the
Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) pursuant to
Rule 424 (as defined in the Agreement), (except as to the
financial statements and other financial and statistical data
contained or incorporated by reference therein and except for
those parts of the Registration Statement that constitute the
Forms T-1, upon which we do not pass), complied as to form in
all material respects with the applicable requirements of the
Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended
(Trust Indenture Act); and the documents or portions thereof
filed with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act), and incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus pursuant to
Item 12 of Form S-3 (except as to the financial statements and
other financial and statistical data contained or incorporated
by reference therein and except for those parts of the
Registration Statement that constitute the Forms T-1, upon
which we do not pass), at the time they were filed with the
Commission, complied as to form in all material respects with
the requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable
instructions, rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder or pursuant to said instructions, rules and
regulations were deemed to comply therewith; the Registration
Statement has become and is effective under the Securities
Act; and to our best knowledge, no proceedings for a stop
order with respect thereto are pending or threatened under
Section 8 of the Securities Act.
6. The Mortgage is duly qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act.
7. No other approval, authorization, consent or order
of any public board or body (other than in connection or in
compliance with the provisions of the blue-sky laws of any
jurisdiction) is legally required for the authorization of the
issue and sale by the Company of the Bonds under the Agree-
ment.
In passing upon the forms of the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus we necessarily assume the correctness and
completeness of the statements made by the Company and the
information included in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus and take no responsibility therefor, except insofar as
such statements relate to us and as set forth in paragraph 4
above. In the course of the preparation by the Company of the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus we have had discussions
with certain of its officers and representatives, with other
counsel for the Company and with Deloitte & Touche LLP, the inde-
pendent certified public accountants who audited certain of the
financial statements included in the Registration Statement. Our
examination of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and
our discussions did not disclose to us any information which
gives us reason to believe that on the Effective Date the Regis-
tration Statement contained an untrue statement of a material
fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading or that the Prospectus, on the date hereof, contains
an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. We do not express any opinion or belief as to the
financial statements or other financial data contained in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or as to those parts of
the Registration Statement that constitute the Forms T-1.
We are members of the New York Bar and do not hold
ourselves out as experts on the laws of the State of Texas, but
we have made a study of such laws. As to all matters of Texas
law (including incorporation of the Company, titles to
properties, franchises, licenses and permits, upon which we do
not pass), we have, with your consent, relied upon an opinion of
even date herewith addressed to you by Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Wool-
dridge, L.L.P. , Dallas, Texas, General Counsel for the Company.
We believe that you and we are justified in relying on such
opinion.
Very truly yours,
XXXX & PRIEST
SCHEDULE V-1
[Letterhead of Winthrop, Stimson, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx]
[Date]
as Underwriters named in the
Underwriting Agreement, dated
, between Texas
Utilities Electric Company and
such Underwriters
c/o
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your
purchase from Texas Utilities Electric Company (the "Company") of
$ aggregate principal amount of its
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(the "Debt Securities") pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement,
dated , between you and the Company (the
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"Underwriting Agreement").
We are members of the New York Bar and do not hold
ourselves out as experts on the laws of the State of Texas. We
have, with your consent, relied upon an opinion of even date
herewith addressed to you by Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx,
L.L.P., of Dallas, Texas, General Counsel for the Company, as to
the matters covered in such opinion relating to Texas law. We
have reviewed such opinion and believe that it is satisfactory
and that you and we are justified in relying thereon. We have
also reviewed the opinion of Xxxx & Priest LLP required by
paragraph (c) of Section 7 of the Underwriting Agreement, and we
believe such opinion to be satisfactory.
We have, in addition, examined the documents described
in the list of closing papers as having been delivered to you at
the closing and such other documents and satisfied ourselves as
to such other matters as we have deemed necessary in order to
enable us to express this opinion. We have not examined the Debt
Securities, except specimens thereof, and have relied upon a
certificate of the Trustee as to the authentication thereof. As
to various questions of fact material to this opinion, we have
relied upon representations of the Company and statements in the
Registration Statement hereinafter mentioned. In such
examination we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures,
the authenticity of all documents submitted to us and the
genuineness and conformity to original documents of documents
submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies.
"Registration Statement", "Prospectus" and "Effective Date" as
used herein have the same meanings as the same words in the
Underwriting Agreement.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
1. The Underwriting Agreement has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
2. The Indenture is duly qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
3. The Debt Securities and the Indenture have been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, the
Debt Securities are entitled to the benefits of the
Indenture, and the Debt Securities and the Indenture are
legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company
enforceable against the Company in accordance with their
terms, subject to the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, receivership,
moratorium and other laws affecting the rights and remedies
of creditors generally and of general principles of equity.
4. The statements made in the Prospectus under the
captions "Description of New Debt Securities" and "Certain
Terms of the ", insofar as they purport to
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constitute summaries of the documents referred to therein,
constitute accurate summaries of the terms of such documents
in all material respects.
5. No other approval, authorization, consent or order
of any public board or body (other than in connection or in
compliance with the blue-sky laws of any jurisdiction) is
legally required for the authorization of the issue and sale
by the Company of the Debt Securities as contemplated in the
Underwriting Agreement.
6. The Registration Statement, at the Effective Date
thereof, and the Prospectus, at the time it was filed with
or transmitted for filing to the Commission pursuant to Rule
424 (except in each case as to financial statements and
schedules and other financial and statistical data contained
or incorporated by reference therein and except for those
parts of the Registration Statement that constitute the
Forms T-1, upon which we express no opinion), complied as to
form in all material respects with the Securities Act.
In passing upon the form of the Registration Statement
and the form of the Prospectus, we necessarily assume the
correctness and completeness of the statements made by the
Company and the information included in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus and take no responsibility therefor,
except insofar as such statements relate to us and as set forth
in paragraph 4 above. In the course of the preparation by the
Company of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, we have
had discussions with certain of its officers and representatives,
with counsel for the Company, with Deloitte & Touche LLP, the
independent public accountants who audited certain of the
financial statements incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and with certain of
your representatives. Our examination of the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus and our discussions did not disclose
to us any information which gives us reason to believe that at
the Effective Date the Registration Statement contained an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading or that the Prospectus, at the time it was
filed with or transmitted for filing to the Commission pursuant
to Rule 424, or at the date hereof, included or includes any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state
a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading. We do not express any opinion or belief as
to the financial statements or other financial or statistical
data contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus or as to those parts of the
Registration Statement that constitute the Forms T-1.
This opinion is given to you solely for your use in
connection with the Underwriting Agreement and the transactions
contemplated thereunder and may not be relied upon by any other
person or for any other purpose.
Very truly yours,
WINTHROP, STIMSON, XXXXXX
& XXXXXXX
SCHEDULE V-2
[Letterhead of Winthrop, Stimson, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx]
[Date]
as Underwriters named in the
Underwriting Agreement, dated
, between Texas
Utilities Electric Company and
such Underwriters
c/o
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel for you in connection with the
execution and delivery of the Distribution Agreement dated
(the "Agreement") between each of you and Texas
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Utilities Electric Company (the "Company"), relating to the
proposed issuance and sale by the Company of
$ aggregate principal amount of its % First
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Mortgage Bonds (the "Bonds"), which Bonds are proposed to be
issued under the Company's Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as
of December 1, 1983, to Irving Trust Company (now The Bank of New
York), Trustee, supplemented by all indentures supplemental
thereto, including the Supplemental Indenture, dated
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as of (the Mortgage and Deed of Trust as so
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supplemented being hereinafter called the "Mortgage").
We are members of the New York Bar and do not hold
ourselves out as experts on the laws of the State of Texas. We
have, with your consent, relied upon an opinion of even date
herewith addressed to you by Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx,
L.L.P., of Dallas, Texas, General Counsel for the Company, as to
the matters covered in such opinion relating to Texas law. We
have reviewed such opinion and believe that it is satisfactory
and that you and we are justified in relying thereon. We have
also reviewed the opinion of Xxxx & Priest LLP required by para-
graph (c) of Section 7 of the Agreement, and we believe such
opinion to be satisfactory.
We have, in addition, examined the documents described in
the list of closing papers as having been delivered to you on the
date hereof and such other documents and satisfied ourselves as
to such other matters as we have deemed necessary in order to
enable us to express the opinions set forth below. We have not
examined the Bonds, except specimens thereof. As to various
questions of fact material to this opinion, we have relied upon
representations of the Company and upon statements in the
Registration Statement hereinafter mentioned. In such
examination we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures,
the authenticity of all documents submitted to us and the
genuineness and conformity to original documents of documents
submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies. The words
"Registration Statement," "Prospectus" and "Effective Date" as
used herein have the same meanings as the same words in the
Agreement.
We are of the opinion that:
1. The Mortgage has been duly and validly authorized by
all necessary corporate action, has been duly and validly
executed and delivered, and is a valid and binding instrument
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency or other laws affecting the enforcement of
mortgagees' and other creditors' rights and by general principles
of equity.
2. The Bonds will, when issued and paid for as
contemplated in the Agreement and duly authenticated by the
Trustee under the Mortgage, be legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with
their terms, except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or
other laws affecting the enforcement of mortgagees' and other
creditors' rights and by general principles of equity, and be
entitled to the benefit of the security afforded by the
Mortgage.
3. The statements made in the Prospectus under the
captions "Description of New Bonds" and "Certain Terms of the
Offered Bonds", insofar as they purport to constitute
summaries of the terms of the documents referred to therein,
constitute accurate summaries of the terms of such documents
in all material respects.
4. The Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company.
5. The Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date,
and the Prospectus, at the time it was filed with (or
transmitted for filing to) the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to Rule 424 (as defined
in the Agreement), (except as to the financial statements and
the financial and statistical data contained therein and
except for those parts of the Registration Statement that
constitute the Forms T-1, upon which we do not pass), complied
as to form in all material respects with the applicable
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act") statements and the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended (the "Trust Indenture Act"); and the documents
or portions thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
Act"), and incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement and by Prospectus pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3
(except as to the financial statements and other financial and
statistical data contained or incorporated by reference
therein and except for those parts of the Registration
Statement that constitute the Forms T-1, upon which we do not
pass), at the time they were filed with the Commission,
complied as to form in all material respects with the
requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable instruc-
tions, rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder or
pursuant to said instructions, rules and regulations were
deemed to comply therewith; the Registration Statement has
become and is effective under the Act and, to the best of our
knowledge, no proceedings for a stop order with respect
thereto are pending or threatened under Section 8 of the Act.
6. The Mortgage has been duly qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act.
7. No other approval, authorization, consent or order
of any public board or body (other than in connection or in
compliance with the blue-sky laws of any jurisdiction) is
legally required for the authorization of the issue and sale
by the Company of the Bonds under the Agreement.
In passing upon the forms of the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus, we necessarily assume the correctness and
completeness of the statements made by the Company and the
information included in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus, and take no responsibility therefor, except insofar
as such statements relate to us and as set forth in paragraph 3
above. In the course of the preparation by the Company of the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus we have had discussions
with certain of its officers and representatives, with counsel
for the Company and with Deloitte & Touche LLP, the independent
certified public accountants who examined certain of the xxxxx-
cial statements incorporated in the Registration Statement. Our
examination of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and
our discussions did not disclose to us any information which
gives us reason to believe that on the Effective Date the
Registration Statement contained an untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading or that the Prospectus, contains an untrue statement
of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. We do
not express any opinion or belief as to the financial statements
or other financial data contained in the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus or as to those parts of the Registration
Statement that constitute the Forms T-1.
Very truly yours,
Winthrop, Stimson, Xxxxxx
& Xxxxxxx
