THE EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY First Mortgage Bonds, 3.58% Series due 2027 Bond Purchase Agreement Dated April 2, 2012Purchase Agreement • April 2nd, 2012 • Empire District Electric Co • Electric services • New York
The Company will authorize the issue and sale of $88,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its First Mortgage Bonds, 3.58% Series due 2027 (the “Bonds”) to be issued under and secured by that certain Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of September 1, 1944 (the “Original Mortgage”), between the Company, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “Principal Trustee”) and UMB Bank & Trust, N.A (with the Principal Trustee, the “Trustees,” and individually, a “Trustee”), as to be amended and supplemented by the Thirty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of the Initial Closing (the “Supplemental Indenture”), and entitled to the benefits thereof. The Original Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented and amended including, without limitation, by the Supplemental Indenture, and as may be supplemented and amended in the future, is hereinafter referred to as the “Mortgage.” The Supplemental Indenture, including the form of the Bonds, shall be in the form set out in Exhibi
