UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT (First Mortgage Bonds)Underwriting Agreement • August 14th, 2013 • Westar Energy Inc /Ks • Electric & other services combined • New York
We (the “Managers”) are acting on behalf of the underwriters (including ourselves) named below (such underwriters being herein called the “Underwriters”), and we understand that Westar Energy, Inc., a Kansas corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its First Mortgage Bonds, 4.625% Series Due 2043 (the “Offered Securities”). The Offered Securities are to be to be issued under and secured by the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated July 1, 1939, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor to Harris Trust and Savings Bank, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by forty-three indentures supplemental thereto, in addition to the Forty-Second Supplemental (Reopening) Indenture (such Mortgage and Deed of Trust, as heretofore amended and supplemented, the “Mortgage”) and as to be amended and supplemented by an additional supplemental indenture thereto, to be dated as of August 19,
