TAMPA ELECTRIC COMPANYUnderwriting Agreement • July 1st, 2009 • Tampa Electric Co • Electric services • New York
Tampa Electric Company, a Florida corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 of 6.100% Notes due 2018 (the “Notes”). The Notes will be issued as an additional amount of the Company’s 6.100% Notes due 2018 series issued on May 16, 2008, issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of July 1, 1998 (the “Base Indenture”) between the Company and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), as heretofore amended and as amended and supplemented by the seventh supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 2008 (the Base Indenture, as so supplemented and amended, being referred to herein as the “Indenture”).
