falseUS000134895200013489522022-08-242022-08-24
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) | August 24, 2022 |
|
Entergy Louisiana, LLC |
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) |
|
Texas | 1-32718 | 47-4469646 |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
| | | | |
4809 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, Louisiana | 70121 |
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code | (504) 576-4000 |
|
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.) |
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| | | | | | | | |
Title of Class | Trading Symbol | Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered |
| | |
Mortgage Bonds, 4.875% Series due September 2066 | ELC | New York Stock Exchange |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Item 8.01 Other Events.
On August 18, 2022, Entergy Louisiana, LLC (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement for the sale of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Collateral Trust Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052 (the “Bonds”). The sale of the Bonds closed on August 24, 2022. The Bonds were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, by means of the Company’s automatic shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-266624-04) (the “Registration Statement”), which such Registration Statement became effective upon such filing.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
| | | | | |
Exhibit No. | Description of Exhibit |
| |
4.67 | |
4.68 | |
4.69 | |
4.70 | |
5.05 | |
5.06 | |
5.07 | |
23.06 | |
23.07 | |
23.08 | |
104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| | | | | |
|
Entergy Louisiana, LLC |
| (Registrant)
|
Date August 24, 2022 | |
| /s/ Barrett E. Green |
| (Signature) Barrett E. Green Vice President and Treasurer |
Exhibit 4.67
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
OFFICER’S CERTIFICATE
25-B-19
Establishing the Form and Certain Terms of the
Collateral Trust Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052
The undersigned, Kevin J. Marino, an Authorized Officer of Entergy Louisiana, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (the “Company”) (all capitalized terms used herein which are not defined herein or in Exhibit A hereto but are defined in the Indenture referred to below, shall have the meanings specified in such Indenture), pursuant to the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2022 (the “Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture”), and Sections 101, 104, 201, 301, 303(a), 303(e), and 1602(b)(i)(B) of such Indenture, does hereby certify to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as trustee (the “Trustee”) under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust of the Company, dated as of November 1, 2015 (as amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), as of August 18, 2022, that:
1.The Securities of the twentieth series to be issued under the Indenture (the “Bonds”) shall be issued in a series designated “Collateral Trust Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052”; the Bonds shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto; the Bonds shall initially be issued in the aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000; however, the terms of the Bonds do not limit the aggregate principal amount of Bonds which may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture; and the Bonds issued on the original issue date and any additional Bonds issued thereafter shall be considered one and the same series of Securities under the Indenture; additional Bonds, without limitation as to amount, having substantially the same terms as the then Outstanding Bonds (except for the issue date, price to public and, if applicable, the initial Interest Payment Date) may be issued by the Company without notice to or the consent of the existing Holders of the Bonds;
2.The Bonds shall mature and the principal shall be due and payable on September 15, 2052, and the Company shall not have any right to extend the Stated Maturity of the Bonds as contemplated by Section 301(d) of the Indenture;
3.The Bonds shall bear interest as provided in the form thereof set forth in Exhibit A hereto; the Interest Payment Dates for the Bonds shall be March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing March 15, 2023;
4.Each installment of interest on the Bonds shall be payable as provided in the form thereof set forth in Exhibit A hereto; the Company shall not have any right to extend any interest payment periods for the Bonds as contemplated by Section 301(e) of the Indenture;
5.The principal of, premium, if any, and each installment of interest on the Bonds shall be payable, and registration of transfers and exchanges in respect of the Bonds may be effected, at the office or agency of the Company in The City of New York and as otherwise provided in the form of Bond set forth in Exhibit A hereto; and notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Bonds may be served at the office or agency of the Company in The City of New York; the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee will initially be the agency of the Company for such payment, registration of transfers and exchanges and service of notices and demands, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent for all such purposes; and the Trustee will initially be the Security Registrar and the Paying Agent for the Bonds; provided, however, that the Company reserves the right to change, by one or more Officer’s Certificates, any such office or agency and such agent;
6.The Regular Record Dates for the interest payable on any given Interest Payment Date with respect to the Bonds shall be the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date;
7.The Bonds are subject to redemption as provided in the form thereof set forth in Exhibit A hereto;
8.No service charge shall be made for the registration of transfer or exchange of the Bonds; provided, however, that the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with the exchange or transfer;
9.The Bonds shall be issued initially in global form registered in the name of Cede & Co. (as nominee for The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”)); provided, that the Company reserves the right to provide for another depository, registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act, to act as depository for the global Bonds (DTC and any such successor depository, the “Depository”); beneficial interests in Bonds issued in global form may not be exchanged in whole or in part for individual certificated Bonds in definitive form, and no transfer of a global Bond in whole or in part may be registered in the name of any Person other than the Depository or its nominee except that (i) if the Depository (A) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for the global Bonds or (B) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in either case, a successor depository for such global Bonds has not been appointed by the Company within ninety (90) days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such condition, as the case may be or (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate providing that the global Bonds shall be so exchangeable, in each case, the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Bonds, will authenticate and deliver Bonds in definitive certificated form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the global Bonds representing such Bonds in exchange for such global Bonds, such definitive Bonds to be registered in the names provided by the Depository; each global Bond (i) shall represent and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Bonds to be represented by such global Bond, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to the Depository, its nominee, any custodian for the Depository or otherwise pursuant to the Depository’s instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend restricting the transfer of such global Bond to any person other than the Depository or its nominee; none of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or any Authenticating Agent will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to, or payments made on account of, beneficial ownership interests in a global Bond or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests; the Bonds in global form will contain restrictions on transfer, substantially as described in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto;
10.None of the Trustee, the Security Registrar or the Company shall have any liability for any acts or omissions of the Depository, for any transfers of beneficial interests in the Bonds, for any Depository records of beneficial interests, for any transactions between the Depository and beneficial owners or in respect of any transfers effected by the Depository or by any participant members of the Depository or any beneficial owner of any interest in any Bonds held through any such participant member of the Depository;
11.If the Company shall make any deposit of money and/or Eligible Obligations with respect to any Bonds, or any portion of the principal amount thereof, as contemplated by Section 801 of the Indenture, the Company shall not deliver an Officer’s Certificate described in clause (z) in the first paragraph of said Section 801 unless the Company shall also deliver to the Trustee, together with such Officer’s Certificate, either:
(A) an instrument wherein the Company, notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of its indebtedness in respect of such Bonds, shall assume the obligation (which shall be absolute and unconditional) to irrevocably deposit with the Trustee or Paying Agent such additional sums of money, if any, or additional Eligible Obligations (meeting the requirements of Section 801), if any, or any combination thereof, at such time or times, as shall be necessary, together with the money and/or Eligible Obligations theretofore so deposited, to pay when due the principal of and premium, if any, and interest due and to become due on such Bonds or portions thereof, all in
accordance with and subject to the provisions of said Section 801; provided, however, that such instrument may state that the obligation of the Company to make additional deposits as aforesaid shall be subject to the delivery to the Company by the Trustee of a notice asserting the deficiency accompanied by an opinion of an independent public accountant of nationally recognized standing, selected by the Trustee, showing the calculation thereof; or
(B) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, as a result of a change in law occurring after the date of this certificate, the Holders of such Bonds, or portions of the principal amount thereof, will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of the satisfaction and discharge of the Company’s indebtedness in respect thereof and will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amounts, at the same times and in the same manner as if such satisfaction and discharge had not been effected;
12.The Eligible Obligations with respect to the Bonds shall be Government Obligations;
13.The Bonds shall have such other terms and provisions as are provided in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto;
14.(A) No Event of Default under the Indenture has occurred or is occurring, and (B) no matured event of default has occurred and is continuing under the applicable Class A Mortgage pursuant to which the Class A Bonds delivered with the accompanying Company Order have been issued;
15.The undersigned has read all of the covenants and conditions contained in the Indenture, and the definitions in the Indenture relating thereto, relating to the issuance, authentication and delivery of the Bonds and the execution of the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture and in respect of compliance with which this certificate is made;
16.The statements contained in this certificate are based upon the familiarity of the undersigned with the Indenture, the documents accompanying this certificate, and discussions by the undersigned with officers and employees of the Company familiar with the matters set forth herein;
17.In the opinion of the undersigned, the undersigned has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable the undersigned to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenants and conditions have been complied with;
18.In the opinion of the undersigned, such conditions and covenants, and all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture (including any covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) relating to the authentication and delivery of the Bonds and the execution of the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture requested in the accompanying Company Order have been complied with; and
19.The execution of the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture is authorized or permitted by the Indenture.
[Remainder of page intentionally left blank]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed this Officer’s Certificate as of the date set forth above.
By: /s/ Kevin J. Marino
Name: Kevin J. Marino
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Exhibit A
[FORM OF BOND]
[Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to Entergy Louisiana, LLC, or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is 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 inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]
| | | | | | | | |
No. ___ | | CUSIP No. 29364W BL1 |
| | |
STATED MATURITY: September 15, 2052 | | PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: $____________ |
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
COLLATERAL TRUST MORTGAGE BONDS, 4.75% SERIES DUE SEPTEMBER 15, 2052
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas (herein referred to as the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture referred to below), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
or registered assigns, the principal amount specified above on the Stated Maturity set forth above and to pay interest on the unpaid principal hereof and on any overdue interest from and including August 24, 2022 or from and including the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for semiannually on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing March 15, 2023, and on the Stated Maturity (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 4.75% per annum to but excluding the date on which the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. In the event that any Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day (as defined below), then payment of interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of such delay) with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date (each a “Regular Record Date”), except that interest payable at Maturity will be payable to the Person to whom principal shall be paid. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) 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, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture referred to herein.
Payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest at Maturity on this Security shall be made upon presentation of this Security at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in The City of New York, in the State of New York, 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; provided, however, that, at the option of the Company, interest on this Security (other than interest payable at Maturity) may be paid by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto, as such address shall appear on the Security Register, and provided, further, that if such person is a securities depositary, such payment may be made by such other means in lieu of check as shall be agreed upon by the Company, the Trustee and such person.
All terms used in this Security not otherwise defined herein which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and in the Officer’s Certificate establishing the terms of the Securities of this series (the “Series Officer’s Certificate”). “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed or a day on which the corporate trust office of the Trustee is closed for business.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under a Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of November 1, 2015 (herein, together with any amendments or supplements thereto, including the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2022, with respect to the Securities of this series, called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture, for a statement of the property mortgaged, pledged and held in trust, the nature and extent of the security, the conditions upon which the Lien of the Indenture may be released and to the Indenture and Series Officer’s Certificate creating the series designated on the face hereof, for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The acceptance of this Security shall be deemed to constitute the consent and agreement by the Holder thereof to all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof.
Prior to March 15, 2052 (the “Par Call Date”), the Securities of this series will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, on not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ notice prior to the date fixed for redemption (each, a “Redemption Date”), at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) (a “Redemption Price”) equal to the greater of:
| | | | | | | | |
(1) | | | (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Securities of this series matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points less (b) interest accrued to the Redemption Date, and |
(2) | | | 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed, |
plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest on the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but not including, the Redemption Date.
On or after the Par Call Date, the Securities of this series will be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, on not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but not including, the Redemption Date.
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.
The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily) – H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable:
| | | | | | | | |
(1) | | | the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or |
(2) | | | if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or |
(3) | | | if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. |
For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.
If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, or, if published, no longer contains the yields for Treasury constant maturities, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date as follows:
| | | | | | | | |
(1) | | | the Company shall select (a) the United States Treasury security maturing on the Par Call Date, subject to clause (3) below, or (b) if there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Par Call Date, then the United States Treasury security with the maturity date that is closest to the Par Call Date, subject to clauses (2) and (3) below, as applicable; or |
(2) | | | if there is no United States Treasury security described in clause (1), but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with maturity dates equally distant from the Par Call Date, one or more with maturity dates preceding the Par Call Date and one or more with maturity dates following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding and closest to the Par Call Date, subject to clause (3) below; or |
(3) | | | if there are two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding clauses (1) or (2), the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. |
In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices of such United States Treasury security (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time.
The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
Notice of redemption (other than at the option of the Holder) shall be given by mail to Holders of Securities all as provided in the Indenture. As provided in the Indenture, notice of redemption at the election of the Company as aforesaid may state that such redemption shall be conditional upon the receipt by the applicable Paying Agent or Agents of money sufficient to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Security on or prior to the date fixed for such redemption; a notice of redemption so conditioned shall be of no force or effect if such money is not so received and, in such event, the Company shall not be required to redeem this Security.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series of like tenor representing the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture and the Series Officer’s Certificate.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the
Securities of this series at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding to be directly affected thereby. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or the Securities or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy under or with respect to the Indenture or the Securities, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding in respect of which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as the Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to it, the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all series at the time Outstanding in respect of which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing a direction inconsistent with such request, and the Trustee shall have failed to institute any such proceeding for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein and herein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for Securities of this series, of authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Company shall not be required to execute, and the Security Registrar shall not be required to register, the transfer of or exchange of (a) Securities of this series during a period of 15 days immediately preceding the date notice is to be given identifying the serial numbers of the Securities of this series called for redemption, (b) any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part, or (c) any Security during the 15 days before an Interest Payment Date.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York (including without limitation Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law or any successor to such statute), except to the extent that the Trust Indenture Act shall be applicable.
As provided in the Indenture, no recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities, or any part thereof, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, or of the indebtedness represented thereby, or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement under the Indenture, against, and no personal liability whatsoever shall attach to, or be incurred by, any incorporator, shareholder, member, limited partner, officer, manager or director, as such, past, present or future of the Company or of any predecessor or successor of the Company (either directly or through the Company or a predecessor or successor of the Company), whether by virtue of any constitutional provision, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly agreed and understood that the Indenture and all the Securities are solely corporate obligations and that any such personal liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as part of the consideration for, the execution of the Indenture and the issuance of the Securities.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
By:__________________________________
Name:
Title:
[FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION]
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee
By:_______________________________________
Authorized Signatory
Exhibit 4.68
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
As Trustee under Entergy Louisiana, LLC’s Mortgage and Deed of Trust
dated as of November 1, 2015
________________
Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture
Providing among other things for
Collateral Trust Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052
(Twentieth Series)
Dated as of August 1, 2022
EIGHTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
THIS EIGHTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of August 1, 2022, between ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, a limited liability company of the State of Texas whose post office address is 4809 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, Louisiana 70121 (hereinafter sometimes called the “Company”), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation whose principal corporate trust office is located at 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286 (hereinafter sometimes called the “Trustee”), as Trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of November 1, 2015 (hereinafter called the “Original Indenture”), this Indenture (hereinafter called this “Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture”) being supplemental thereto. The Original Indenture and any and all indentures and instruments supplemental thereto are hereinafter sometime collectively called the “Indenture.” Subject to any amendments provided for in this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, the terms defined in the Original Indenture shall, for all purposes of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, have the meanings specified in the Original Indenture.
WHEREAS, the Original Indenture was authorized, executed and delivered by the Company to provide for the issuance from time to time of its Securities (such term and all other capitalized terms used herein without definition having the meanings assigned to them in the Original Indenture), to be issued in one or more series as contemplated therein, and to provide security for the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities.
WHEREAS, the Original Indenture was recorded with the Secretary of State of Texas under File Number 15-0039013214, in the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana as Mortgage Instrument Number 1205822, and in various other Parishes in the State of Louisiana, which Parishes are the same Parishes in which this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture is to be recorded.
WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered the following supplemental indentures:
| | | | | |
Designation | Dated as of |
First Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2016 |
Second Supplemental Indenture Third Supplemental Indenture | March 15, 2016 March 17, 2016 |
Fourth Supplemental Indenture Fifth Supplemental Indenture Sixth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 2016 May 1, 2016 August 1, 2016 |
Seventh Supplemental Indenture Eighth Supplemental Indenture Ninth Supplemental Indenture Tenth Supplemental Indenture Eleventh Supplemental Indenture | September 15, 2016 May 1, 2017 March 1, 2018 August 1, 2018 March 1, 2019 |
Twelfth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2020 |
Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 2020 |
Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture | November 15, 2020 |
Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2021 |
Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 2021 |
Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 2021 |
which supplemental indentures have been recorded with the Secretary of State of Texas and in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana.
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore issued, in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, as supplemented, the following series of Securities:
| | | | | | | | |
Series | Principal Amount Issued | Principal Amount Outstanding |
LPFA 2016A Series due 2028 | $85,681,000 | $85,681,000 |
LPFA 2016B Series due 2030 | 117,852,000 | 117,852,000 |
3.25% Series due April 1, 2028 | 425,000,000 | 425,000,000 |
Waterford Series due 2017 | 51,971,593.98 | None |
3.05% Series due June 1, 2031 | 325,000,000 | 325,000,000 |
4.875% Series due September 1, 2066 | 270,000,000 | 270,000,000 |
2.40% Series due October 1, 2026 | 400,000,000 | 400,000,000 |
3.12% Series due September 1, 2027 | 450,000,000 | 450,000,000 |
4.00% Series due March 15, 2033 | 750,000,000 | 750,000,000 |
4.20% Series due September 1, 2048 | 900,000,000 | 900,000,000 |
4.20% Series due April 1, 2050 | 525,000,000 | 525,000,000 |
2.90% Series due March 15, 2051 | 650,000,000 | 650,000,000 |
1.60% Series due December 15, 2030 | 300,000,000 | 300,000,000 |
0.62% Series due November 17, 2023 | 1,100,000,000 | 665,000,000 |
2.35% Series due June 15, 2032 | 500,000,000 | 500,000,000 |
3.10% Series due June 15, 2041 | 500,000,000 | 500,000,000 |
LCDA 2021A Series due 2030 | 16,429,500 | 16,429,500 |
LCDA 2021B Series due 2036 | 185,711,417 | 185,711,417 |
0.95% Series due October 1, 2024 | 1,000,000,000 | 1,000,000,000 |
WHEREAS, to subject certain property of the Company located in Union County, Arkansas to the Lien of the Indenture, the Company executed and delivered the Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 1, 2016 to the Original Indenture, and the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth,
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Supplemental Indentures have been recorded in Union County, Arkansas.
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture.
WHEREAS, as contemplated by Section 301 of the Original Indenture, the Company wishes to establish the designation and certain terms of the Securities of the Twentieth Series.
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture to establish the designation and certain terms of the Securities of the Twentieth Series and has duly authorized the issuance of such Securities; and all acts necessary to make this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, and to make the Securities of the Twentieth Series valid obligations of the Company, have been performed.
GRANTING CLAUSES
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS EIGHTEENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that, in consideration of the premises and of the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, and in order to secure the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities from time to time Outstanding and the performance of the covenants therein and herein contained, and to declare the terms and conditions on which such Securities are secured, the Company hereby grants, bargains, sells, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages, pledges, sets over and confirms to the Trustee, in trust, and grants to the Trustee a security interest in and lien on, the following (subject, however, to the terms and conditions set forth in this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture):
First Granting Clause
All right, title and interest of the Company, as of the Execution Date, or thereafter acquired, in and to all of the Company’s tangible electric and gas utility property located in the State of Louisiana (other than Excepted Property), whether real, personal or mixed, together with the Company’s franchises, permits and licenses that are transferable and necessary for the operation of such property and all easements and rights of way with respect to which the ownership interests of the Company have been recorded in the appropriate public records in the State of Louisiana;
Second Granting Clause
All of the Company’s right, title, interest, as of March 1, 2016, or thereafter acquired, in and to all equipment and fixtures (other than Excepted Property) located on the Union Property (as such term is defined in the Fourth Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture), together
with the Company’s franchises, permits and licenses that are transferable and necessary for the operation of such property and all easements and rights of way of the Company relating to such property with respect to which the ownership interests of the Company have been recorded in the appropriate public records in the State of Arkansas;
Third Granting Clause
Any Excepted Property, which may, from time to time after the Execution Date, by delivery or by an instrument supplemental to the Indenture, be subjected to the Lien hereof by the Company, the Trustee being hereby authorized to receive the same at any time as additional security hereunder; it being understood that any such subjection to the Lien hereof of any Excepted Property as additional security may be made subject to such reservations, limitations or conditions respecting the use and disposition of such property or the proceeds thereof as shall be set forth in such instrument;
Excepted Property
Expressly excepting and excluding, however, from the Lien of the Indenture all right, title and interest of the Company in and to the Excepted Property.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such property, real, personal and mixed, unto the Trustee, its successors in trust and their assigns forever;
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to Permitted Liens; and
SUBJECT, FURTHER, to the condition that, with respect to any property which is now or hereafter becomes subject to the Lien of any Class A Mortgage, the Lien of the Indenture shall at all times be junior, subject and subordinate to the Lien of such Class A Mortgage;
IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, for the equal and ratable benefit and security of the Holders from time to time of all Outstanding Securities without any priority of any such Security over any other such Security;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the right, title and interest of the Trustee in and to the Mortgaged Property shall cease, terminate and become void in accordance with, and subject to the conditions set forth in, Article Eight of the Indenture, and if the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Securities shall have been paid to the Holders thereof, or shall have been paid to the Company pursuant to Section 703 of the Indenture or to the appropriate Governmental Authority pursuant to applicable law after the Maturity thereof, then and in that case the Indenture shall terminate, and the Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Company such instruments as the Company shall reasonably require to evidence such termination; otherwise the Indenture, and the estate and rights thereby granted, shall be and remain in full force and effect; and
IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED AND AGREED by and between the Company and the Trustee that all the Securities are to be authenticated and delivered, and that the Mortgaged Property is to be held, subject to the further covenants, conditions and trusts hereinafter set forth, and the Company hereby covenants and agrees to and with the Trustee, for the equal and ratable benefit of all holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
TWENTIETH SERIES OF SECURITIES
SECTION 101. The Securities of the Twentieth Series shall be designated “Collateral Trust Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052,” shall be initially issued in the aggregate principal amount (except as contemplated by Section 301(b) of the Original Indenture) of $500,000,000, and shall have such forms and terms as are established for such Securities of the Twentieth Series in an Officer’s Certificate of the Company pursuant to this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, as contemplated by Sections 201 and 301 of the Original Indenture.
SECTION 102. Trustee to Hold Class A Bonds In New York. So long as any Securities of the Twentieth Series remain Outstanding, the Trustee shall hold in the State of New York all Class A Bonds delivered to and to be held by it pursuant to Sections 1602 and 1701 of the Original Indenture; provided that the Trustee may hold such Class A Bonds in another jurisdiction if it receives an opinion of counsel to the effect that the perfection and priority of the security interest, if any, created by the last sentence of such Section 1701 will continue in such other jurisdiction.
ARTICLE TWO
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 201. This Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture is a supplement to the Original Indenture. As supplemented by this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture is in all respects ratified, approved and confirmed.
SECTION 202. The recitals contained in this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness and makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION 203. Nothing in this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, expressed or implied, is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or give to, any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and the Holders of the Securities Outstanding under the Indenture, any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture or any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise or agreement hereof, and all the
covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, and of the Holders of the Securities Outstanding under the Indenture.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC has caused its company name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed by its President, one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer or one of its Assistant Treasurers, for and in its behalf, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, in token of its acceptance of the trust hereby created, has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed by one of its Vice Presidents, Senior Associates or Associates, all as of the day and year first above written.
| | | | | |
| ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
By: /s/ Kevin J. Marino Name: Kevin J. Marino Title: Assistant Treasurer |
Executed and delivered by ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC in the presence of:
/s/ Daryl Mosley Name: Daryl Mosley
/s/ Linda Prisuta Name: Linda Prisuta | |
| | | | | |
| THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON As Trustee
By /s/ Francine Kincaid Name: Francine Kincaid Title: Vice President |
Executed and delivered by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON in the presence of:
/s/ Leslie Morales Name: Leslie Morales
/s/ Glenn McKeever Name: Glenn McKeever | |
STATE OF LOUISIANA
} ss.:
PARISH OF ORLEANS
On this 19th day of August, 2022, before me appeared KEVIN J. MARINO, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that he is an Assistant Treasurer of ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, and that said instrument was signed in behalf of said entity by authority of its Board of Directors, and said KEVIN J. MARINO, acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.
| | | | | |
| |
| /s/ Dawn A. Balash Dawn A. Balash State of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans Notary Public Identification No. 140967 My commission expires at my death |
| |
STATE OF NEW YORK
} ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
On this 22nd day of August, 2022, before me appeared Francine Kincaid, to me personally known or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence and, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that she is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, and that said instrument was signed in behalf of said entity by authority of its Board of Directors, and said Vice President acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.
| | | | | |
| |
| /s/ Andrey Potulnitskiy Andrey Potulnitskiy Notary Public, State of New York Registration No 01PO6420765 Qualified in Kings County My Commission Expires 08/16/2025 |
| |
Counterpart __ of 30
Exhibit 4.69
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
(as successor by merger to Entergy Gulf States Power, LLC)
4809 Jefferson Highway
Jefferson, Louisiana 70121
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
(formerly The Bank of New York, successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.)
as Trustee
240 Greenwich Street
New York, New York 10286
__________________
Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture
Dated as of August 1, 2022
__________________
Relating to an Issue of First Mortgage Bonds,
4.75% Series due September 15, 2052
and Supplementing Indenture of Mortgage
dated September 1, 1926
__________________
THIS INSTRUMENT GRANTS A SECURITY
INTEREST BY A UTILITY
THIS INSTRUMENT CONTAINS AFTER-ACQUIRED
PROPERTY PROVISIONS
THIS NINETY-SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 1st day of August, 2022, by and between ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC (formerly Entergy Louisiana Power, LLC, successor by merger to Entergy Gulf States Power, LLC, a limited liability company (hereinafter sometimes called the “Predecessor Company”) that was successor to Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (formerly Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C., a Louisiana limited liability company) (hereinafter sometimes called “EGSL”) that was successor by merger to Entergy Gulf States, Inc. (formerly Gulf States Utilities Company), a Texas corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the “Original Company”)), a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas (hereinafter sometimes called the “Company”), party of the first part, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (formerly The Bank of New York, successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), a New York banking corporation and having its corporate trust office in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, as successor trustee under the Indenture of Mortgage and indentures supplemental thereto hereinafter mentioned (hereinafter sometimes called the “Trustee”), party of the second part;
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered its Indenture of Mortgage, dated September 1, 1926 (hereinafter sometimes called the “Original Indenture”), to The Chase National Bank of the City of New York, as trustee, in and by which the Original Company conveyed and mortgaged to said The Chase National Bank of the City of New York, as trustee, certain property, therein described, to secure the payment of its bonds issued and to be issued under said Original Indenture in one or more series, as therein provided; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered to The Chase National Bank of the City of New York, as trustee, the First through the Fourth Supplemental Indentures, all supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, on March 21, 1939, The Chase National Bank of the City of New York resigned as trustee under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto as aforesaid, pursuant to Section 4 of Article XIV of the Original Indenture, and by an Indenture dated March 21, 1939 said resignation was accepted and Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company was duly appointed the successor trustee under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto, said resignation and appointment both being effective as of March 21, 1939, and the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company did by said Indenture dated March 21, 1939 accept the trust under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered to Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, as successor trustee, the Fifth through the Tenth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the name of Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was changed effective June 30, 1951 to “The Hanover Bank”; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered to The Hanover Bank, as successor trustee, the Eleventh through the Twentieth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, on September 8, 1961, pursuant to the laws of the State of New York, The Hanover Bank, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly merged into Manufacturers Trust Company, a New York corporation, under the name “Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company,” and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company thereupon became the duly constituted successor trustee under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified as aforesaid; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered to Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, as successor trustee, the Twenty-first through the Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, on June 19, 1992, pursuant to the laws of the State of New York, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly merged into Chemical Bank, a New York corporation, under the name “Chemical Bank,” and Chemical Bank thereupon became the duly constituted successor trustee under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified as aforesaid; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered to Chemical Bank, as successor trustee, the Fifty-fifth through the Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, effective July 14, 1996, Chemical Bank, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly merged with and its name was duly changed to “The Chase Manhattan Bank”; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as successor trustee, the Fifty-eighth through Sixtieth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the name of The Chase Manhattan Bank, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly changed effective November 10, 2001 to “JPMorgan Chase Bank”; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered to JPMorgan Chase Bank, as successor trustee, the Sixty-first through Sixty-seventh Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, effective November 13, 2004, JPMorgan Chase Bank, successor trustee, was converted from a New York corporation to a national banking association under the name “JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.”; and
WHEREAS, the Original Company heretofore executed and delivered to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor trustee, the Sixty-eighth through Seventy-fourth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, on October 3, 2007, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. resigned as trustee under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto as aforesaid, by an Agreement of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance dated October 3, 2007, said resignation was accepted, and The Bank of New York was duly appointed the successor trustee under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto, said resignation and appointment both being effective as of October 3, 2007, and The Bank of New York did by said Agreement dated October 3, 2007 accept the trust under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto; and
WHEREAS, effective as of December 26, 2007, the Original Company obtained the release from the lien of the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, of all of its real property located in Texas and substantially all of its personal property located in Texas that was part of the trust estate, together with certain associated rights, privileges and franchises, as well as certain undivided interests in mortgaged property located in Louisiana, as more particularly described in the instruments of partial release filed with respect thereto on or before December 26, 2007; and
WHEREAS, effective as of 1:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, December 31, 2007, the Original Company underwent a merger by division under Texas law pursuant to which, among other things, all of its property located in Texas, together with certain property located in Louisiana, was allocated to Entergy Texas, Inc., substantially all of its property located in Louisiana was retained by the Original Company, and all of its obligations and liabilities under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, and the Bonds were retained by the Original Company; and
WHEREAS, effective as of 4:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, December 31, 2007, the Original Company merged (hereinafter sometimes called the “2007 Merger”) into EGSL pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization of Entergy Gulf States, Inc. into Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C. and a Certificate and Articles of Merger (hereinafter sometimes collectively called the “2007 Merger Documents”), pursuant to which, among other things, (1) all of the rights, privileges, franchises, assets, liabilities and obligations of the Original Company were allocated to EGSL; and (2) the identity of the Original Company was merged into that of EGSL; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.01 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, EGSL and the Trustee executed the Seventy-fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 31, 2007 whereby EGSL assumed and agreed to pay duly and punctually the principal of and interest on the Bonds issued under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, in accordance with the provisions of said Bonds and the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, and agreed to perform and fulfill all the terms, covenants and conditions of the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, binding the Original Company; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.02 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, EGSL succeeded to the Original Company under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto with the same effect as if it had been named in the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, as the mortgagor company and in the Bonds as the obligor thereon or maker thereof; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.03 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in respect of property owned by the Original Company at the time of the 2007 Merger as provided in Section 14.01 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, and substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements thereto subsequently made, constructed or acquired, the rights and duties of EGSL were the same as the rights and duties of the Original Company would have been had the 2007 Merger not taken place; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.04 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in respect of property at the time of the 2007 Merger owned by EGSL and/or of property thereafter acquired by EGSL except said substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements to, of or upon the property owned by the Original Company referred to in Section 14.03 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified shall not become or be a lien upon any of such property; and
WHEREAS, effective as of March 25, 2008, EGSL obtained the release from the lien of the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, of all of the remainder of its property located in Texas that was part of the trust estate, together with certain associated rights, privileges and franchises, as well as certain undivided interests in mortgaged property located in Louisiana, as more particularly described in the instruments of partial release filed with respect thereto on or before March 25, 2008; and
WHEREAS, the name of The Bank of New York, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly changed effective July 1, 2008 to “The Bank of New York Mellon”; and
WHEREAS, EGSL heretofore executed and delivered to The Bank of New York Mellon, as successor trustee, the Seventy-sixth through Eighty-first Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, on September 21, 2015, EGSL converted to a Texas limited liability company and changed its name to Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC; and
WHEREAS, effective as of 10:03 A.M. Central Standard Time, October 1, 2015, EGSL transferred (hereinafter sometimes called the “2015 Transfer”), subject to the lien of the Indenture, the trust estate as, or substantially as, an entirety to the Predecessor Company pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization of Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC and Entergy Gulf States Power, LLC and a Certificate of Merger (hereinafter sometimes collectively called the “2015 Transfer Documents”), pursuant to which, among other things, (1) the trust estate as, or substantially as, an entirety, was allocated to the Predecessor Company; and (2) all of the obligations of EGSL under the Indenture and the Bonds outstanding thereunder were allocated to the Predecessor Company; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.01 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Predecessor Company and the Trustee executed the Eighty-second Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 1, 2015 whereby the Predecessor Company assumed and agreed to pay duly and punctually the principal of and interest on the Bonds issued under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified in accordance with the provisions of said Bonds and the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, and agreed to perform and fulfill all the terms, covenants and conditions of the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, binding on EGSL; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.02 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Predecessor Company succeeded to EGSL under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto with the same effect as if it had been named in the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, as the mortgagor company and in the Bonds as the obligor thereon or maker thereof; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.03 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in respect of property owned by EGSL at the time of the 2015 Transfer as provided in Section 14.01 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, and substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements thereto subsequently made, constructed or acquired, the rights and duties of the Predecessor Company were the same as the rights and duties of EGSL would have been had the 2015 Transfer not taken place; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.04 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in respect of property at the time of the 2015 Transfer owned by the Predecessor Company and/or of property thereafter acquired by the Predecessor Company except said substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements to, of or upon the property owned by EGSL referred to in Section 14.03 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified shall not become or be a lien upon any of such property; and
WHEREAS, effective as of 10:05 A.M. Central Time, October 1, 2015, the Predecessor Company was merged (hereinafter sometimes called the “2015 Merger”) into the Company pursuant to a Plan of Merger of Entergy Gulf States Power, LLC into Entergy Louisiana Power,
LLC and a Certificate of Merger (hereinafter sometimes collectively called the “2015 Merger Documents”), pursuant to which, among other things, (1) all of the rights, privileges, franchises, assets, liabilities and obligations of the Predecessor Company were allocated to the Company; and (2) the identity of the Predecessor Company was merged into that of the Company; and
WHEREAS, effective as of 2:02 P.M. Central Time, October 1, 2015, the Company changed its name to “Entergy Louisiana, LLC”; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.01 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Company and the Trustee executed the Eighty-third Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 1, 2015 whereby the Company assumed and agreed to pay duly and punctually the principal of and interest on the Bonds issued under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified in accordance with the provisions of said Bonds and the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, and agreed to perform and fulfill all the terms, covenants and conditions of the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, binding on the Predecessor Company; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.02 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Company succeeded to the Predecessor Company under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto with the same effect as if it had been named in the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, as the mortgagor company and in the Bonds as the obligor thereon or maker thereof; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.03 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in respect of property owned by the Predecessor Company at the time of the 2015 Merger as provided in Section 14.01 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, and substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements thereto subsequently made, constructed or acquired, the rights and duties of the Company were the same as the rights and duties of the Predecessor Company would have been had the 2015 Merger not taken place; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.04 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in respect of property at the time of the 2015 Merger owned by the Company and/or of property thereafter acquired by the Company except said substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements to, of or upon the property owned by the Predecessor Company referred to in Section 14.03 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified shall not become or be a lien upon any of such property; and
WHEREAS, the Company heretofore executed and delivered to The Bank of New York Mellon, as successor trustee, the Eighty-fourth through Ninety-fifth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the series of bonds established under the Seventh Supplemental Indenture supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture and under each successive supplemental indenture have been designated respectively and are referred to herein as “Bonds of the 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1989A, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1998A, 1999, 1999A, 2000, 2000A, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2009A, 1987A, 2010, 1991, 1993, 1992A, 2012, 2013, 2013A, 1994, 2014B, C and D, 2015, 2016, 2016A, 1994A, 2002, 2022, 2004A, 2024, 1996A, 1997A, 1998B, 1999B, 2003A, MTN, 2003B, 2004B, 2007A, 2012A, 2008, 2007B, 2033, 2015A, 2011, 2009B, 2014E, 2035, 2015B, 2010A, 2006A, 2008A, 2011B, 2018, 2024, 2020, 2028E, 2015F, 2025, 2028, 2031, 2066, 2026, 2027, 2033A, 2048, 2050, 2051, 2030, 2032, 2041 and 2024A Series”; and
WHEREAS, under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, any new series of Bonds may at any time be established by the Board of Directors of the Company and the terms thereof may be specified by a supplemental indenture executed by the Company and the Trustee; and
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to create under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified as aforesaid and as further supplemented by this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture (the Original Indenture as so supplemented and modified being hereinafter sometimes called the Indenture), a new series of Bonds to be designated First Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052, such Bonds when originally issued to be dated August 24, 2022, and to mature on September 15, 2052 (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the Bonds of the 2052 Series), and presently to issue $200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Bonds of the 2052 Series; and
WHEREAS, all acts and proceedings required by law and by the Articles of Organization and Operating Agreement of the Company necessary to make the Bonds of the 2052 Series, when executed by the Company, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and duly issued, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to constitute the Indenture a valid and binding mortgage for the security of all of the Bonds of the Company issued or to be issued under the Indenture, in accordance with its and their terms, have been done and taken; and the execution and delivery of this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture have been in all respects duly authorized;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS NINETY-SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
That in order to secure the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, all Bonds at any time issued and outstanding under the Indenture, according to their tenor, purport and effect, and to secure the performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions in said Bonds and in the Indenture contained, and to declare the terms and conditions upon and subject to which the Bonds of the 2052 Series are and are to be issued and secured, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants herein contained, and the acceptance of the Bonds of the 2052 Series by the holder thereof, and of the sum of $1 duly paid to the Company by the Trustee, at or before the execution and delivery hereof, and for other valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the Company has executed and delivered this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture, and by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, hypothecate, pledge, set over and confirm unto the Trustee, its successors in trust and assigns, the following property, rights, privileges and franchises hereinafter described, (1) owned by the Predecessor Company at the time of the 2015 Merger and constituting the trust estate allocated to the Company by the 2015 Merger Documents or (2) acquired or constructed by the Company after the 2015 Merger to the extent constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate, together in each case with any substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements thereto, thereof or thereupon subsequently made, constructed or acquired by the Company (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined):
CLAUSE I
All and singular the lands, real estate, chattels real, interests in land, leaseholds, ways, rights of way, grants, easements, servitudes, rights pursuant to ordinances, consents, permits, patents, licenses, lands under water, water and riparian rights, franchises, privileges, immunities, rights to construct, maintain and operate distribution and transmission systems, all other rights and interests, gas, water, steam and electric light, heat and power plants and systems, dams, and dam
sites, stations and substations, powerhouses, electric transmission and distribution lines and systems, pipe lines, conduits, towers, poles, wires, cables and all other structures, machinery, engines, boilers, dynamos, motors, transformers, generators, electric and mechanical appliances, office buildings, warehouses, garages, stables, sheds, shops, tunnels, subways, bridges, other buildings and structures, implements, tools and other apparatus, appurtenances and facilities, materials and supplies, and all other property of any nature appertaining to any of the plants, systems, business or operations of the Company, whether or not affixed to the realty, used in the operation of any of the premises or plants or systems, or otherwise, constituting part of the trust estate at the time of the 2015 Merger or constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined); including (but not limited to) all its properties situated in the Cities of Baton Rouge, Jennings and Lake Charles and in the Parishes of Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vermilion, Washington, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana, Louisiana, and vicinity constituting part of the trust estate at the time of the 2015 Merger or constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to the trust estate (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined).
CLAUSE II
All corporate, Federal, State, county (parish), municipal and other permits, consents, licenses, bridge licenses, bridge rights, river permits, franchises, patents, rights pursuant to ordinances, grants, privileges and immunities of every kind and description constituting part of the trust estate at the time of the 2015 Merger or constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined).
CLAUSE III
Also all other property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible of every kind, character and description, constituting part of the trust estate at the time of the 2015 Merger or constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined), whether or not useful in the generation, manufacture, production, transportation, distribution, sale or supplying of electricity, steam, water or gas.
CLAUSE IV
PROPERTIES EXCEPTED
There is, however, expressly excepted and excluded from the lien and operation of this Indenture (1) all "excepted property" as defined and described in Granting Clause VII of the Indenture (omitting from such exception specifically described property thereafter expressly subjected to the lien of the Indenture), (2) all property owned by the Company prior to the 2015 Merger and (3) all property acquired by the Company after the 2015 Merger not constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the trust estate and all and singular the lands, properties, estates, rights, franchises, privileges and appurtenances hereby mortgaged, hypothecated, conveyed, pledged or assigned, or intended so to be, together with all the appurtenances thereto appertaining and the rents, issues and profits thereof, unto the Trustee and its successors in trust and to its assigns, forever.
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the exceptions (except as omitted above in Clause IV hereof), reservations, restrictions, conditions, limitations, covenants and matters recited in Article Twenty of the Indenture, and in each respective Article Three of the Eighth and each consecutive succeeding Supplemental Indenture through the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture and, likewise, of the Nineteenth through the Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indentures and, likewise, of the Thirty-ninth through the Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indentures or contained in any deeds and other instruments whereunder the Company has acquired any of the property now owned by it, to permitted encumbrances as defined in Subsection B of Section 1.07 of the Indenture, and, with respect to any property which the Company may hereafter acquire, to all terms, conditions, agreements, covenants, exceptions and reservations expressed or provided in the deeds or other instruments, respectively, under and by virtue of which the Company shall hereafter acquire the same and to any liens thereon existing, and to any liens for unpaid portions of the purchase money placed thereon, at the time of such acquisition.
BUT, IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, for the equal and proportionate use, benefit, security and protection of those who from time to time shall hold the Bonds and coupons, if any, authenticated and delivered under the Indenture and duly issued by the Company, without any discrimination, preference or priority of any one Bond or coupon, if any, over any other by reason of priority in the time of issue, sale or negotiation thereof or otherwise, except as provided in Section 12.28 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, so that, subject to said Section 12.28 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, each and all of said Bonds and coupons, if any, shall have the same right, lien and privilege under the Indenture and shall be equally secured thereby and shall have the same proportionate interest and share in the trust estate, with the same effect as if all the Bonds and coupons, if any, had been issued, sold and negotiated simultaneously.
AND UPON THE TRUSTS, USES AND PURPOSES and subject to the covenants, agreements and conditions of the Original Indenture as modified and supplemented by previous supplemental indentures and by this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture.
ARTICLE ONE
BONDS OF THE 2052 SERIES AND
CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING THERETO
Section 1.01
A. Terms of Bonds of the 2052 Series. There is hereby established a new series of Bonds to be issued under and secured by the Indenture, to be known as and entitled “First Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052.” The definitive Bonds of the 2052 Series shall be registered Bonds without coupons of the denominations of $1,000 and in multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof as shall be authorized by written order of the Company, numbered R-1 consecutively upwards. Bonds of the 2052 Series may be issued in the first instance (until definitive Bonds to be issued in exchange therefor are prepared and ready for delivery) as temporary Bonds dated August 24, 2022, in denominations of $1,000 and of such multiples of $1,000 as shall have been authorized, as aforesaid, numbered TR-1 consecutively upwards, in substantially the form of Bond set forth in Section 1.01B of this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture, with changes therein appropriate to their character.
Bonds of the 2052 Series shall be dated as provided in Section 3.05 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the provisions of said Section 3.05, so long as there is no default in the payment of interest on Bonds of the 2052 Series existing at the time of the authentication hereinafter referred to, all Bonds of the 2052 Series authenticated by the Trustee on any interest payment date for Bonds of the 2052 Series shall be dated the date of and shall bear interest from such interest payment date; provided, however, that if and to the extent the Company shall default in the payment of such interest due on such interest payment date, then any such Bond of the 2052 Series shall bear interest from the interest payment date immediately preceding the date of such Bond of the 2052 Series. The Bonds of the 2052 Series shall mature on September 15, 2052 and, beginning on August 24, 2022, shall bear interest at the rate of 4.75% per annum until the payment of the principal thereof, such interest to be payable semiannually on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing March 15, 2023, and on the maturity date. The interest so payable on any Bonds of the 2052 Series will be paid to the person in whose name such Bonds of the 2052 Series are registered. If any interest payment date for the Bonds of the 2052 Series falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the period from and after such interest payment date. If the maturity date or any redemption date of the Bonds of the 2052 Series falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of principal (and premium, if any) and interest (to the extent payable with respect to the principal being redeemed if on a redemption date) will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the period from and after the maturity date or such redemption date. Interest on the Bonds of the 2052 Series will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
Both principal of and interest on the Bonds of the 2052 Series will be paid in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the corporate trust office in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, of the Trustee.
The definitive Bonds of the 2052 Series may be issued in the form of Bonds engraved, printed, lithographed, or partly engraved and partly printed or lithographed, on steel engraved borders or typed.
Upon compliance with the provisions of Section 3.10 of the Indenture and upon payment, at the option of the Company, of the charges provided in Section 3.11 of the Indenture, subject to the provisions of any legend set forth thereon, Bonds of the 2052 Series may be exchanged for a new Bond or Bonds of the said Series of different authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount.
The Trustee hereunder shall, by virtue of its office as such Trustee, be the registrar and transfer agent of the Company for the purpose of registering and transferring Bonds of the 2052 Series.
B. Form of Bonds of the 2052 Series. The Bonds of the 2052 Series, and the Trustee’s authentication certificate to be executed on the Bonds of the 2052 Series, shall be in substantially the following forms, respectively:
[FORM OF FACE OF BOND OF THE 2052 SERIES]
[legend to be included on Bonds of the 2052 Series]
This Bond is not transferable except to a successor trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage (as defined below) between Entergy Louisiana, LLC and the Collateral Trust Trustee (as defined below). This Bond is a Class A Bond (as defined in the Collateral Trust Mortgage) issued under the EGSL Mortgage (as defined in the Collateral Trust Mortgage).
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
FIRST MORTGAGE BOND 4.75% SERIES
DUE SEPTEMBER 15, 2052
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (hereinafter sometimes called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust of the Company dated as of November 1, 2015 (as the same may be supplemented and amended from time to time, the “Collateral Trust Mortgage”), or its successor as trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage, the principal amount set forth above on September 15, 2052, and to pay interest thereon from August 24, 2022, if the date of this bond is prior to March 15, 2023, or, if the date of this bond is on or after March 15, 2023, from the March 15 or September 15 immediately preceding the date of this bond to which interest has been paid on the bonds of this series (unless the date hereof is an interest payment date to which interest has been paid, in which case from the date hereof) at the rate of 4.75% per annum, on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing March 15, 2023, and at maturity or earlier redemption, until payment of the principal hereof. The interest so payable will be paid to the person in whose name this bond is registered. If any interest payment date for this bond falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the period from and after the interest payment date. If the maturity date or any redemption date of this bond falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of principal and interest (to the extent payable with respect to the principal being redeemed if on a redemption date) will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the period from and after the maturity date or such redemption date.
Both principal of and interest on this bond will be paid in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the corporate trust office in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, of the Trustee under the Indenture.
This bond shall not become or be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the authentication certificate hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee.
The provisions of this bond are continued on the reverse hereof and such continued provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Entergy Louisiana, LLC has caused these presents to be executed in its company name, by facsimile signature or manually, by its President or one of its Vice Presidents under its company seal or a facsimile thereof attested by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary all as of _________, 20__.
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:
And By: __________________________
Name:
Title:
[SEAL]
[FORM OF REVERSE OF BOND OF THE 2052 SERIES]
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
FIRST MORTGAGE BOND, 4.75% SERIES
DUE SEPTEMBER 15, 2052 (Continued)
This bond is one of the bonds, of the above designated series, of an authorized issue of bonds of the Company, known as First Mortgage Bonds, issued or issuable in one or more series under and equally secured (except insofar as any sinking and/or improvement fund or other fund established in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture hereinafter mentioned may afford additional security for the bonds of any specific series) by an Indenture of Mortgage, dated September 1, 1926, as supplemented and modified by indentures supplemental thereto, to and including a Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2022 to The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, to which Indenture of Mortgage, as so supplemented and modified, and all indentures supplemental thereto (herein sometimes called the “Indenture”) reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged as security for said bonds, the nature and extent of the security, and the rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the rights of the holders of said bonds and of the Trustee and of the Company in respect of such security, and the terms upon which said bonds may be issued thereunder.
The bonds of this series shall be issued by the Company, registered in the name of and delivered to The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage, or its successor as trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage (collectively, the “Collateral Trust Trustee”), to provide for the payment when due (whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the principal and interest of the Securities (as defined in the Collateral Trust Mortgage) to be issued from time to time under the Collateral Trust Mortgage.
Any payment by the Company under the Collateral Trust Mortgage of the principal of or interest on the Securities which shall have been authenticated and delivered under the Collateral Trust Mortgage on the basis of the issuance and delivery to the Collateral Trust Trustee of bonds of this series (other than by application of the proceeds of a payment in respect of such bonds) shall, to the extent of such payment, be deemed to satisfy and discharge the obligation of the Company, if any, to make a payment of principal of, or interest on such bonds, as the case may be, which is then due.
The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of and interest on this bond as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until it shall have received a written notice from the Collateral Trust Trustee signed by its President, a Vice President, an Assistant Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that interest or principal due and payable on any Securities issued under the Collateral Trust Mortgage has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.
The holder of this bond hereby consents that the bonds of this series may be redeemable at the option of the Company or pursuant to the requirements of the Indenture in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, prior to the maturity date, without notice provided in Section 10.02 of the Indenture, at the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, in each case, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption by the Company in a notice delivered to the Trustee and to the holder of the bonds to be redeemed on or before the date fixed for redemption.
The bonds of this series shall be redeemed, in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, prior to maturity, at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof, upon receipt by the Trustee of a written notice from the Collateral Trust Trustee (i) delivered to the Trustee and the Company, (ii) signed by its President, a Vice President, an Assistant Vice President or a Trust Officer, (iii) stating that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the
Collateral Trust Mortgage and that, as a result, there then is due and payable a specified amount with respect to the Securities Outstanding under the Collateral Trust Mortgage, for the payment of which the Collateral Trust Trustee has not received funds, and (iv) specifying the principal amount of the bonds of this series to be redeemed. Delivery of such notice shall constitute a waiver by the Collateral Trust Trustee of notice of redemption under the Indenture.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee, with the consent of the holders of not less than seventy-five percent in principal amount of the bonds (exclusive of the bonds disqualified by reason of the Company’s interest therein) at the time outstanding, including, if more than one series of bonds shall be at the time outstanding, not less than sixty percent in principal amount of each series affected, to effect, by an indenture supplemental to the Indenture, modifications or alterations of the Indenture and of the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders of the bonds; provided, however, that no such modification or alteration shall be made without the written approval or consent of the registered owner hereof which will (a) extend the maturity of this bond or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest hereon or reduce the amount of the principal hereof, or (b) permit the creation of any lien, not otherwise permitted, prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Indenture, or (c) reduce the percentage of the principal amount of the bonds upon the approval or consent of the holders of which modifications or alterations may be made as aforesaid. Each initial and future holder of the bonds of this series, by its acquisition of an interest in such bonds, irrevocably (a) consents to the amendments set forth in Article Three of the Eighty-first Supplemental Indenture without any other or further action by any holder of such bonds, and (b) designates the Trustee, and its successors, as its proxy with irrevocable instructions to vote and deliver written consents on behalf of such holder in favor of such amendments at any bondholder meeting, in lieu of any bondholder meeting, in any consent solicitation or otherwise.
This bond shall not be transferable by the Collateral Trust Trustee, except to a successor trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage. This bond so transferable to a successor trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage may be transferred by the registered owner hereof in person or by his or her duly authorized attorney at the corporate trust office in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York of the Trustee upon surrender of this bond for cancellation and upon payment, if the Company shall so require, of the charges provided for in the Indenture, and thereupon a new registered bond of the same series of like principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor.
The registered owner of this bond, at the option of said owner, may surrender the same for cancellation at said office and receive in exchange therefor the same aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series but of other authorized denominations, upon payment, if the Company shall so require, of the charges provided for in the Indenture and subject to the terms and conditions therein set forth.
If a default as defined in the Indenture shall occur, the principal of this bond may become or be declared due and payable before maturity in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The holders, however, of certain specified percentages of the bonds at the time outstanding, including in certain cases specified percentages of bonds of particular series, may in those cases, to the extent and under the conditions provided in the Indenture, waive certain defaults thereunder and the consequences of such defaults.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Indenture, against any incorporator, shareholder, director or officer, past, present or future, as such, of the Company or of any predecessor or successor company, either directly or through the Company or such predecessor or successor company, under any constitution or statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty, or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, shareholders, directors and officers, as such, being waived and released by the holder and owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and as provided in the Indenture.
[FORM OF TRUSTEE’S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE FOR BONDS]
TRUSTEE’S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE
This is one of the bonds, of the series designated therein, described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
| | |
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, As Trustee By: ______________________________ Authorized Officer |
Section 1.02. Redemption Provisions for Bonds of the 2052 Series. The Bonds of the 2052 Series shall be redeemable as provided in the form of Bond set forth in Section 1.01B of this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture.
Section 1.03. Limitation on Issue of Bonds of the 2052 Series. The principal amount of the Bonds of the 2052 Series shall not be limited except as provided in Section 3.01 of the Indenture, and except as may otherwise be provided in an indenture supplemental to the Indenture, including this Section 1.03. Upon the delivery of this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture and upon compliance with the applicable provisions of the Indenture, there shall be an initial issue of Bonds of the 2052 Series in the aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000. Additional Bonds of the 2052 Series having substantially the same terms as the outstanding Bonds of the 2052 Series (except for the issue date and, if applicable, the initial interest payment date) may be issued by the Company, subject to satisfaction of the requirements of the Indenture, without notice to or the consent of the existing holders of the Bonds of the 2052 Series.
Section 1.04. Duration of Effectiveness of Article One. Sections 1.01 and 1.02 of this article shall be of force and effect only so long as any Bonds of the 2052 Series are outstanding.
ARTICLE TWO
Section 2.01. This Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture as supplemented and modified. As heretofore supplemented and modified, and as supplemented hereby, the Original Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Original Indenture, as heretofore supplemented and modified, and this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
Section 2.02. The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made by the Company only and not by the Trustee; and all of the provisions contained in the Original Indenture as supplemented and modified, in respect to the rights, privileges, immunities, powers and duties of the Trustee shall be applicable in respect hereof as fully and with like effect as if set forth herein in full.
Section 2.03. Although this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture is dated for convenience and for the purpose of reference as of August 1, 2022, the actual date or dates of execution by the Company and by the Trustee are as indicated by their respective acknowledgements hereto annexed.
Section 2.04. In order to facilitate the recording or filing of this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture, the same may be simultaneously executed in several counterparts and each shall be deemed to be an original and such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
Section 2.05. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture. All other terms used in this Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture shall be taken to have the same meaning as in the Original Indenture and indentures supplemental thereto, except in cases where the context clearly indicates otherwise.
ARTICLE THREE
Section 3.01. Each initial and future holder of Bonds of the 2052 Series, by its acquisition of an interest in such Bonds, irrevocably (a) consents to the amendment set forth in Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.06 and 3.07 of the Eighty-first Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture dated as of July 1, 2014, without any other or further action by any holder of such Bonds, and (b) designates the Trustee, and its successors, as its proxy with irrevocable instructions to vote and deliver written consents on behalf of such holder in favor of such
amendments at any bondholder meeting, in lieu of any bondholder meeting, in any consent solicitation or otherwise.
[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK]
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC has caused these presents to be executed in its name and behalf by its President, one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer or one of its Assistant Treasurers, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, in token of its acceptance hereof, has likewise caused these presents to be executed in its name and behalf by one of its Vice Presidents, Senior Associates or Associates, each in the presence of the respective undersigned Notaries Public, and of the respective undersigned competent witnesses, as of the day and year first above written.
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
By: /s/ Kevin J. Marino
Name: Kevin J. Marino
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Signed in the presence of:
/s/ Daryl Mosley
Name: Daryl Mosley
/s/ Linda Prisuta
Name: Linda Prisuta
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
as successor Trustee
By: /s/ Francine Kincaid
Name: Francine Kincaid
Title: Vice President
Signed and delivered by
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
in the presence of:
/s/ Leslie Morales
Name: Leslie Morales
/s/ Glenn McKeever
Name: Glenn McKeever
STATE OF LOUISIANA
} ss.:
PARISH OF ORLEANS
On this 19th day of August, 2022, before me appeared KEVIN J. MARINO, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that he is an Assistant Treasurer of ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, and that the above instrument was signed in behalf of said entity by authority of its Board of Directors, and said KEVIN J. MARINO, acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.
| | | | | |
| |
| /s/ Dawn A. Balash Dawn A. Balash State of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans Notary Public Identification No. 140967 My commission expires at my death |
| |
STATE OF NEW YORK
} ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
On this 22nd day of August, 2022, before me appeared Francine Kincaid, to me personally known or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence and, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that she is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, and that the above instrument was signed in behalf of said entity by authority of its Board of Directors, and said Vice President acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.
/s/ Andrey Potulnitskiy
Andrey Potulnitskiy
Notary Public, State of New York
Registration No. 01PO6420765
Qualified in Kings County
My Commission Expires 08/16/2025
Exhibit 4.70
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
(successor to Entergy Louisiana, LLC)
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
(successor to The Chase National Bank of the City of New York)
As Trustee under Entergy Louisiana, LLC’s Mortgage and Deed of Trust
dated as of April 1, 1944
________________
Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture
Providing among other things for
First Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052
(One hundred first Series)
Dated as of August 1, 2022
NINETY-SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2022, between ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, a limited liability company of the State of Texas (formerly Entergy Louisiana Power, LLC and hereinafter sometimes called the “Company”), as successor to ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, a limited liability company of the State of Texas organized on December 31, 2005 (hereinafter sometimes called the “Predecessor Company”), successor to ENTERGY LOUISIANA, INC., a corporation of the State of Louisiana converted to a corporation of the State of Texas on December 31, 2005 (hereinafter sometimes called the “Louisiana Company”), which was the successor by merger to LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Florida (hereinafter sometimes called the “Florida Company”), whose post office address is 4809 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, Louisiana 70121, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation (successor to THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK) whose principal corporate trust office is located at 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286 (hereinafter sometimes called “Trustee”), as Trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of April 1, 1944 (hereinafter called the “Mortgage”), which Mortgage was executed and delivered by the Florida Company to secure the payment of bonds issued or to be issued under and in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, reference to which Mortgage is hereby made, this Indenture (hereinafter called the “Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture”) being supplemental thereto;
WHEREAS, the Mortgage was recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana, which Parishes are the same Parishes in which this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture is to be recorded; and
WHEREAS, by the Mortgage, the Florida Company covenanted that it would execute and deliver such supplemental indenture or indentures and such further instruments and do such further acts as might be necessary or proper to carry out more effectually the purposes of the Mortgage and to make subject to the lien of the Mortgage any property thereafter acquired and intended to be subject to the lien thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Company executed and delivered the following supplemental indentures:
| | | | | |
Designation | Dated as of |
First Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1948 |
Second Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1950 |
Third Supplemental Indenture | September 1, 1953 |
Fourth Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 1954 |
Fifth Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 1957 |
Sixth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1960 |
Seventh Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1964 |
Eighth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1966 |
Ninth Supplemental Indenture | February 1, 1967 |
Tenth Supplemental Indenture | September 1, 1967 |
Eleventh Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1968 |
Twelfth Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1969 |
Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1969 |
Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1970 |
Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1971 |
Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 1972 |
Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1972 |
Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1973 |
Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1974 |
Twentieth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1974 |
| |
which supplemental indentures were recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Company was merged into the Louisiana Company on February 28, 1975, and the Louisiana Company thereupon executed and delivered a Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1975, pursuant to which the Louisiana Company, among other things, assumed and agreed duly and punctually to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds at the time issued and Outstanding under the Mortgage, as then supplemented, in accordance with the provisions of said bonds and of any appurtenant coupons and of the Mortgage as so supplemented, and duly and punctually to observe, perform and fulfill all of the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage, as so supplemented, to be kept or performed by the Florida Company, and said Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture was recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Company succeeded to and was substituted for the Florida Company under the Mortgage with the same effect as if it had been named as mortgagor corporation therein; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Company executed and delivered the following supplemental indentures:
| | | | | |
Designation | Dated as of |
Twenty-second Supplemental Indenture | September 1, 1975 |
Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1976 |
Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 1978 |
Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | July 1, 1978 |
Twenty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 1979 |
Twenty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1979 |
Twenty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1980 |
Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1981 |
Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1981 |
Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1983 |
Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture | September 1, 1983 |
Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 1984 |
Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1984 |
Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1984 |
Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1985 |
Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1986 |
Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 1986 |
Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 1988 |
Fortieth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1988 |
Forty-first Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1990 |
Forty-second Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1991 |
Forty-third Supplemental Indenture | April 1, 1992 |
Forty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | July 1, 1992 |
Forty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1992 |
Forty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1993 |
| | | | | |
Forty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 1993 |
Forty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 1993 |
Forty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | July 1, 1994 |
Fiftieth Supplemental Indenture | September 1, 1994 |
Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1996 |
Fifty-second Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1998 |
Fifty-third Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 1999 |
Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 1999 |
Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | May 15, 2000 |
Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2002 |
Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2004 |
Fifty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 2004 |
Fifty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | October 15, 2004 |
Sixtieth Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 2005 |
Sixty-first Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 2005 |
Sixty-second Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 2005 |
Sixty-third Supplemental Indenture | December 15, 2005 |
| |
which supplemental indentures were recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Company converted into a Texas limited liability company and, pursuant to a Plan of Merger by which the Company and Entergy Louisiana Properties, LLC were created (the “Merger Documents”), underwent a merger by division pursuant to which, among other things, all the Mortgaged and Pledged Property, subject to the Lien of the Mortgage, and all of the rights, obligations and duties of the Louisiana Company under the Mortgage, were allocated to the Predecessor Company on December 31, 2005, and the Predecessor Company thereupon executed and delivered a Sixty-fourth Supplemental Indenture, effective as of January 1, 2006, pursuant to which the Predecessor Company, among other things, assumed and agreed duly and punctually to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds at the time issued and Outstanding under the Mortgage, as then supplemented, in accordance with the provisions of said bonds and of any appurtenant coupons and of the Mortgage as so supplemented, and duly and punctually to observe, perform and fulfill all of the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage, as so supplemented, to be kept or performed by the Louisiana Company, and said Sixty-fourth Supplemental Indenture was recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana and with the Secretary of State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, effective July 1, 2008, The Bank of New York changed its name to The Bank of New York Mellon; and
WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company executed and delivered the following supplemental indentures:
| | | | | |
Designation | Dated as of |
Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 2008 |
Sixty-sixth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 2009 |
Sixty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2010 |
Sixty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | September 1, 2010 |
Sixty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 2010 |
Seventieth Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 2010 |
Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2011 |
Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture | April 30, 2011 |
Seventy-third Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 2011 |
Seventy-fourth Supplemental Indenture | January 1, 2012 |
Seventy-fifth Supplemental Indenture | July 1, 2012 |
Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture | December 1, 2012 |
Seventy-seventh Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 2013 |
Seventy-eighth Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 2013 |
Seventy-ninth Supplemental Indenture | June 1, 2014 |
Eightieth Supplemental Indenture | July 1, 2014 |
Eighty-first Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 2014 |
| |
which supplemental indentures were recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana and with the Secretary of State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, effective as of 10:03 A.M. Central Time, October 1, 2015, the Predecessor Company transferred, subject to the Lien of the Mortgage, all or substantially all of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property as an entirety to the Company (the “2015 Transfer”) pursuant to a Plan of Merger between the Predecessor Company and the Company (the “2015 Transfer Documents”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Company succeeded to the ownership of all of the Predecessor Company’s right, title and interest in and to the Mortgaged and Pledged Property as constituted immediately prior to the time that the 2015 Transfer became effective and
succeeded to all of the Predecessor Company’s duties and obligations under the Mortgage and the bonds outstanding thereunder; and
WHEREAS, upon the 2015 Transfer, the Predecessor Company was released and discharged from all obligations under the Mortgage or any bonds issued thereunder; and
WHEREAS, effective as of 2:02 P.M. Central Time, October 1, 2015, the Company changed its name from “Entergy Louisiana Power, LLC” to “Entergy Louisiana, LLC”;
WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered an Eighty-second Supplemental Indenture, effective as of October 1, 2015, pursuant to which the Company, among other things, assumed and agreed duly and punctually to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds at the time issued and Outstanding under the Mortgage, as then supplemented, in accordance with the provisions of said bonds and of any appurtenant coupons and of the Mortgage as so supplemented, and duly and punctually to observe, perform and fulfill all of the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage, as so supplemented, to be kept or performed by the Predecessor Company thereunder, and said Eighty-second Supplemental Indenture was recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana and with the Secretary of State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered the following supplemental indentures:
| | | | | |
Designation | Dated as of |
Eighty-third Supplemental Indenture | March 15, 2016 |
Eighty-fourth Supplemental Indenture | March 17, 2016 |
Eighty-fifth Supplemental Indenture Eighty-sixth Supplemental Indenture Eighty-seventh Supplemental Indenture | March 17, 2016 August 1, 2016 September 15, 2016 |
Eighty-eighth Supplemental Indenture | May 1, 2017 |
Eighty-ninth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2018 |
Ninetieth Supplemental Indenture | August 1, 2018 |
Ninety-first Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2019 |
Ninety-second Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2020 |
Ninety-third Supplemental Indenture | November 1, 2020 |
Ninety-fourth Supplemental Indenture | November 15, 2020 |
Ninety-fifth Supplemental Indenture | March 1, 2021 |
Ninety-sixth Supplemental Indenture | October 1, 2021 |
which supplemental indentures were recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana and with the Secretary of State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, in addition to the property described in the Mortgage, as supplemented, the Company has acquired certain other property, rights and interests in property; and
WHEREAS, the Florida Company, the Louisiana Company or the Predecessor Company has heretofore issued, in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, as supplemented, the following series of bonds:
| | | | | | | | |
Series | Principal Amount Issued | Principal Amount Outstanding |
3% Series due 1974 | $ 17,000,000 | None |
3 1/8% Series due 1978 | 10,000,000 | None |
3% Series due 1980 | 10,000,000 | None |
4% Series due 1983 | 12,000,000 | None |
3 1/8% Series due 1984 | 18,000,000 | None |
4 3/4% Series due 1987 | 20,000,000 | None |
| | | | | | | | |
5% Series due 1990 | 20,000,000 | None |
4 5/8% Series due 1994 | 25,000,000 | None |
5 3/4% Series due 1996 | 35,000,000 | None |
5 5/8% Series due 1997 | 16,000,000 | None |
6 1/2% Series due September 1, 1997 | 18,000,000 | None |
7 1/8% Series due 1998 | 35,000,000 | None |
9 3/8% Series due 1999 | 25,000,000 | None |
9 3/8% Series due 2000 | 20,000,000 | None |
7 7/8% Series due 2001 | 25,000,000 | None |
7 1/2% Series due 2002 | 25,000,000 | None |
7 1/2% Series due November 1, 2002 | 25,000,000 | None |
8% Series due 2003 | 45,000,000 | None |
8 3/4% Series due 2004 | 45,000,000 | None |
9 1/2% Series due November 1, 1981 | 50,000,000 | None |
9 3/8% Series due September 1, 1983 | 50,000,000 | None |
8 3/4% Series due December 1, 2006 | 40,000,000 | None |
9% Series due January 1, 1986 | 75,000,000 | None |
10% Series due July 1, 2008 | 60,000,000 | None |
10 7/8% Series due May 1, 1989 | 45,000,000 | None |
13 1/2% Series due November 1, 2009 | 55,000,000 | None |
15 3/4% Series due December 1, 1988 | 50,000,000 | None |
16% Series due April 1, 1991 | 75,000,000 | None |
16 1/4% Series due December 1, 1991 | 100,000,000 | None |
12% Series due March 1, 1993 | 100,000,000 | None |
13 1/4% Series due March 1, 2013 | 100,000,000 | None |
13% Series due September 1, 2013 | 50,000,000 | None |
16% Series due August 1, 1994 | 100,000,000 | None |
14 3/4% Series due November 1, 2014 | 55,000,000 | None |
15 1/4% Series due December 1, 2014 | 35,000,000 | None |
14% Series due December 1, 1992 | 60,000,000 | None |
14 1/4% Series due December 1, 1995 | 15,000,000 | None |
10 1/2% Series due April 1, 1993 | 200,000,000 | None |
| | | | | | | | |
10 3/8% Series due November 1, 2016 | 280,000,000 | None |
Series 1988A due September 30, 1988 | 13,334,000 | None |
Series 1988B due September 30, 1988 | 10,000,000 | None |
Series 1988C due September 30, 1988 | 6,667,000 | None |
10.36% Series due December 1, 1995 | 75,000,000 | None |
10 1/8% Series due April 1, 2020 | 100,000,000 | None |
Environmental Series A due June 1, 2021 | 52,500,000 | None |
Environmental Series B due April 1, 2022 | 20,940,000 | None |
7.74% Series due July 1, 2002 | 179,000,000 | None |
8 1/2% Series due July 1, 2022 | 90,000,000 | None |
Environmental Series C due December 1, 2022 | 25,120,000 | None |
6% Series due March 1, 2000 | 100,000,000 | None |
Environmental Series D due May 1, 2023 | 34,364,000 | None |
Environmental Series E due December 1, 2023 | 25,991,667 | None |
Environmental Series F due July 1, 2024 | 21,335,000 | None |
Collateral Series 1994-A, due July 2, 2017 | 117,805,000 | None |
Collateral Series 1994-B, due July 2, 2017 | 58,865,000 | None |
Collateral Series 1994-C, due July 2, 2017 | 31,575,000 | None |
8 3/4% Series due March 1, 2026 | 115,000,000 | None |
6 1/2% Series due March 1, 2008 | 115,000,000 | None |
5.80% Series due March 1, 2002 | 75,000,000 | None |
Environmental Series G due June 1, 2030 | 67,200,000 | None |
8 1/2% Series due June 1, 2003 | 150,000,000 | None |
7.60% Series due April 1, 2032 | 150,000,000 | None |
5.5% Series due April 1, 2019 | 100,000,000 | None |
6.4% Series due October 1, 2034 | 70,000,000 | None |
5.09% Series due November 1, 2014 | 115,000,000 | None |
4.67% Series due June 1, 2010 | 55,000,000 | None |
5.56% Series due September 1, 2015 | 100,000,000 | None |
6.3% Series due September 1, 2035 | 100,000,000 | None |
5.83% Series due November 1, 2010 | 150,000,000 | None |
6.50% Series due September 1, 2018 | 300,000,000 | None |
| | | | | | | | |
5.40% Series due November 1, 2024 | 400,000,000 | 400,000,000 |
6.0% Series due March 15, 2040 | 150,000,000 | None |
4.44% Series due January 15, 2026 | 250,000,000 | 250,000,000 |
Environmental Series H due June 1, 2030 | 119,073,000 | None |
5.875% Series due June 15, 2041 | 150,000,000 | None |
4.80% Series due May 1, 2021 | 200,000,000 | None |
1.1007% Series due December 31, 2012 | 750,000,000 | None |
1.875% Series due December 15, 2014 | 250,000,000 | None |
5.25% Series due July 1, 2052 | 200,000,000 | None |
3.30% Series due December 1, 2022 | 200,000,000 | 200,000,000 |
4.70% Series due June 1, 2063 | 100,000,000 | None |
4.05% Series due September 1, 2023 | 325,000,000 | 325,000,000 |
5% Series due July 15, 2044 | 170,000,000 | 170,000,000 |
3.78% Series due April 1, 2025 | 190,000,000 | 190,000,000 |
4.95% Series due January 15, 2045 LPFA 2016A Series due 2028 LPFA 2016B Series due 2030 | 450,000,000 85,681,000 117,852,000 | 450,000,000 85,681,000 117,852,000 |
3.25% Series due April 1, 2028 | 255,000,000 | 255,000,000 |
Waterford Series due 2017 | 51,971,593.98 | None |
4.875% Series due September 1, 2066 2.40% Series due October 1, 2026 | 70,000,000 240,000,000 | 70,000,000 240,000,000 |
3.12% Series due September 1, 2027 | 270,000,000 | 270,000,000 |
4.00% Series due March 15, 2033 | 450,000,000 | 450,000,000 |
4.20% Series due September 1, 2048 | 660,000,000 | 660,000,000 |
4.20% Series due April 1, 2050 | 315,000,000 | 315,000,000 |
2.90% Series due March 15, 2051 | 390,000,000 | 390,000,000 |
1.60% Series due December 15, 2030 | 180,000,000 | 180,000,000 |
0.62% Series due November 17, 2023 | 1,100,000,000 | 665,000,000 |
3.10% Series due June 15, 2041 | 100,000,000 | 100,000,000 |
0.95% Series due October 1, 2024 | 600,000,000 | 600,000,000 |
which bonds are also hereinafter sometimes called bonds of the First through One Hundredth Series, respectively; and
WHEREAS, Section 8 of the Mortgage provides that the form of each series of bonds (other than the First Series) issued thereunder and of the coupons to be attached to coupon bonds of such series shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and that the form of such series, as established by said Board of Directors, shall specify the descriptive title of the bonds and various other terms thereof, and may also contain such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of the Mortgage as the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, cause to be inserted therein expressing or referring to the terms and conditions upon which such bonds are to be issued and/or secured under the Mortgage; and
WHEREAS, Section 120 of the Mortgage provides, among other things, that without the consent of any holders of bonds, the Company and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more supplemental indentures, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, in order to establish the form and terms of bonds of any series; and
WHEREAS, the Company now desires to create a new series of bonds and establish the terms of bonds of such series; and
WHEREAS, the execution and delivery by the Company of this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture, and the terms of the bonds of the One Hundred First Series, hereinafter referred to, have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company by appropriate Resolutions of said Board of Directors;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That the Company, in consideration of the premises and of One Dollar to it duly paid by the Trustee at or before the delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in further evidence of assurance of the estate, title and rights of the Trustee and in order further to secure the payment both of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from time to time issued under the Mortgage, according to their tenor and effect, and the performance of all the provisions of the Mortgage (including any instruments supplemental thereto and any modification made as in the Mortgage provided) and of said bonds, hereby grants, bargains, sells, releases, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages, hypothecates, affects, pledges, sets over and confirms (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as defined in Section 6 of the Mortgage, as supplemented) unto The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee under the Mortgage, as supplemented, and to its successor or successors in said trust, and to said Trustee and its successors and assigns forever, (a) all of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property acquired by the Company from the Predecessor Company pursuant to the 2015 Transfer Documents, and improvements, extensions and additions thereto and renewals and replacements thereof, (b) the property made and used by the Company as the basis under any of the provisions of the Mortgage, as supplemented, for the authentication and delivery of additional bonds or the withdrawal of cash or the release of property, and (c) such franchises, repairs and additional property as may be acquired, made or constructed by the Company (1) to maintain, renew and preserve the franchises covered by this Mortgage, as supplemented, or (2) to maintain the
property mortgaged and intended to be mortgaged under the Mortgage, as supplemented, as an operating system or systems in good repair, working order and condition, or (3) in rebuilding or renewal of property, subject to the Lien of the Mortgage, as supplemented, damaged or destroyed, or (4) in replacement of or substitution for machinery, apparatus, equipment, frames, towers, poles, wire, pipe, tools, implements and furniture, subject to the Lien of the Mortgage, as supplemented, which shall have become old, inadequate, obsolete, worn out, unfit, unadapted, unserviceable, undesirable or unnecessary for use in the operation of the property mortgaged and intended to be mortgaged under the Mortgage, as supplemented.
PROVIDED THAT the following are not and are not intended to be now or hereafter granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, hypothecated, affected, pledged, set over or confirmed hereunder and are hereby expressly excepted from the lien and operation of this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture and Mortgage, as supplemented, and from the lien and operation of the Mortgage, namely: (1) cash, shares of stock, bonds, notes and other obligations and other securities not hereafter specifically pledged, paid, deposited, delivered or held under the Mortgage or covenanted so to be; (2) merchandise, equipment, materials or supplies held for the purpose of sale in the usual course of business and fuel, oil and similar materials and supplies consumable in the operation of any properties of the Company; rolling stock, buses, motor coaches, automobiles and other vehicles and all aircraft; (3) bills, notes and accounts receivable, judgments, demands and choses in action, and all contracts, leases and operating agreements not specifically pledged under the Mortgage or covenanted so to be; (4) the last day of the term of any lease or leasehold which may hereafter become subject to the lien of the Mortgage; (5) electric energy, gas, ice, and other materials or products generated, manufactured, produced or purchased by the Company for sale, distribution or use in the ordinary course of its business; all timber, minerals, mineral rights and royalties; (6) the Company’s franchise to be a corporation; and (7) any property heretofore released pursuant to any provisions of the Mortgage; provided, however, that the property and rights expressly excepted from the lien and operation of the Mortgage in the above subdivisions (2) and (3) shall (to the extent permitted by law) cease to be so excepted in the event and as of the date that the Trustee or its successor or successors in said trust or a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property in the manner provided in Article XIII of the Mortgage by reason of the occurrence of a Default as defined in Section 65 thereof.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal and mixed, granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, hypothecated, affected, pledged, set over or confirmed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, and its successors and assigns forever.
IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, for the same purposes and upon the same terms, trusts and conditions and subject to and with the same provisos and covenants as are set forth in the Mortgage, as supplemented, this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture being supplemental thereto.
AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED by the Company that all the terms, conditions, provisos, covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage, as supplemented, shall affect and apply to the property hereinbefore described and conveyed and to the estate, rights, obligations and duties of the Company and the Trustee and the beneficiaries of the trust with respect to said property, and to the Trustee and its successors as Trustee of said property in the same manner and with the same effect as if said property had been owned by the Florida Company at the time of the execution of the Mortgage, and had been specifically and at length described in and conveyed to said Trustee by the Mortgage as a part of the property therein stated to be conveyed.
The Company further covenants and agrees to and with the Trustee and its successor or successors in said trust under the Mortgage as follows:
ARTICLE I
ONE HUNDRED FIRST SERIES BONDS
SECTION 1There shall be a series of bonds designated “4.75% Series due September 15, 2052” (herein sometimes called the “One Hundred First Series”), each of which shall also bear the descriptive title “First Mortgage Bond,” and the form thereof, which has been established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, is attached hereto as Exhibit A. Bonds of the One Hundred First Series (which shall be issued initially in the aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000) shall be dated as in Section 10 of the Mortgage provided, shall mature on September 15, 2052, shall be issued as fully registered bonds in any integral multiple or multiples of One Thousand Dollars, and shall bear interest at the rate of 4.75% per annum, the first interest payment to be made on March 15, 2023, for the period from August 24, 2022 to March 15, 2023 with subsequent interest payments payable semiannually on March 15 and September 15 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), the principal of and interest on each said bond to be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts. Interest on the bonds of the One Hundred First Series shall be paid to the Person in whose name such bonds of the One Hundred First Series are registered.
Interest on the bonds of the One Hundred First Series will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, redemption date or the maturity date of any bond of the One Hundred First Series shall not be a Business Day, then payment of interest or principal and premium, if any, need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day, with the same force and effect, and in the same amount, as if made on the corresponding Interest Payment Date, redemption date, or at maturity, as the case may be, and, if such payment is made or duly provided for on such Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, redemption date or the maturity date, as the
case may be, to such Business Day. “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed or a day on which the corporate trust office of the Trustee is closed for business.
The bonds of the One Hundred First Series shall be issued by the Company, registered in the name of and delivered to The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (together with its successors as trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage referenced below, the “Collateral Trust Trustee”) under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust of the Company dated as of November 1, 2015 as the same may be supplemented and amended from time to time (the “Collateral Trust Mortgage”), to provide for the payment when due (whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the principal and interest of the Securities (as defined in the Collateral Trust Mortgage) to be issued from time to time under the Collateral Trust Mortgage.
Any payment by the Company under the Collateral Trust Mortgage of the principal of or interest on the Securities which shall have been authenticated and delivered under the Collateral Trust Mortgage on the basis of the issuance and delivery to the Collateral Trust Trustee of bonds of the One Hundred First Series (other than by application of the proceeds of a payment in respect of such bonds) shall, to the extent of such payment, be deemed to satisfy and discharge the obligation of the Company, if any, to make a payment of principal of, or interest on such bonds, as the case may be, which is then due.
The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds of the One Hundred First Series as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until it shall have received a written notice from the Collateral Trust Trustee signed by its President, a Vice President, an Assistant Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that interest or principal due and payable on any Securities issued under the Collateral Trust Mortgage has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.
(I) Each holder of a bond of the One Hundred First Series consents that the bonds of the One Hundred First Series may be redeemed at the option of the Company or pursuant to the requirements of the Mortgage in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, prior to maturity, without notice provided in Section 52 of the Mortgage, at the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, in each case, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption by the Company in a notice delivered to the Trustee and to the holder of the bonds to be redeemed on or before the date fixed for redemption.
The bonds of the One Hundred First Series shall be redeemed, in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, prior to maturity, at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof, upon receipt by the Trustee of a written notice from the Collateral Trust Trustee (i) delivered to the Trustee and the Company, (ii) signed by its President, a Vice President, an
Assistant Vice President or a Trust Officer, (iii) stating that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Collateral Trust Mortgage and that, as a result, there then is due and payable a specified amount with respect to the Securities Outstanding under the Collateral Trust Mortgage, for the payment of which the Collateral Trust Trustee has not received funds, and (iv) specifying the principal amount of the bonds of the One Hundred First Series to be redeemed. Delivery of such notice shall constitute a waiver by the Collateral Trust Trustee of notice of redemption under the Mortgage.
(II) The bonds of the One Hundred First Series shall not be transferable by the Collateral Trust Trustee, except to a successor trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage. Bonds of this series so transferable to a successor trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage may be transferred by the registered owner thereof, in person, or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in the manner prescribed in the Mortgage.
At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the One Hundred First Series, upon surrender thereof for cancellation at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, shall be exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the One Hundred First Series of other authorized denominations.
Upon any exchange or transfer of bonds of the One Hundred First Series, the Company may make a charge therefor sufficient to reimburse it for any tax or taxes or other governmental charge, as provided in Section 12 of the Mortgage, but the Company hereby waives any right to make a charge in addition thereto for any exchange or transfer of bonds of said Series.
(III) Upon the delivery of this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture and upon compliance with the applicable provisions of the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, there shall be an initial issue of bonds of the One Hundred First Series in the aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000. Additional bonds of the One Hundred First Series, without limitation as to amount, having substantially the same terms as the Outstanding bonds of the One Hundred First Series (except for the issue date and, if applicable, the initial Interest Payment Date) may be issued by the Company, subject to satisfaction of the requirements of the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, without notice to or the consent of the existing holders of the bonds of the One Hundred First Series.
ARTICLE II
CONSENT TO AMENDMENTS
SECTION 1Each initial and future holder of bonds of the One Hundred First Series, by its acquisition of an interest in such bonds, irrevocably (a) consents to the amendment set forth in Sections 1 and 3 of Article II of the Eighty-first Supplemental Indenture to the Mortgage dated as
of November 1, 2014, without any other or further action by any holder of such bonds, and (b) designates the Trustee, and its successors, as its proxy with irrevocable instructions to vote and deliver written consents on behalf of such holder in favor of such amendments at any bondholder meeting, in lieu of any bondholder meeting, in any consent solicitation or otherwise.
ARTICLE III
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 1Subject to any amendments provided for in this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture, the terms defined in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, shall, for all purposes of this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture, have the meanings specified in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented.
SECTION 2The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts herein declared, provided, created or supplemented and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions herein and in the Mortgage, as heretofore amended, set forth and upon the following terms and conditions:
The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made by the Company solely. In general, each and every term and condition contained in Article XVII of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended, shall apply to and form part of this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture with the same force and effect as if the same were herein set forth in full with such omissions, variations and insertions, if any, as may be appropriate to make the same conform to the provisions of this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION 3Whenever in this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture any of the parties hereto is named or referred to, this shall, subject to the provisions of Articles XVI and XVII of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended, be deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party, and all covenants and agreements in this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company, or by or on behalf of the Trustee, shall, subject as aforesaid, bind and inure to the respective benefits of the respective successors and assigns of such parties, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 4Nothing in this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture, expressed or implied, is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or give to, any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and the holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Mortgage, any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture or any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise or agreement hereof, and all the covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company shall be for the sole and
exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, and of the holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Mortgage.
SECTION 5It is the intention and it is hereby agreed that, so far as concerns that portion of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property situated within the State of Louisiana, the general language of conveyance contained in this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture is intended and shall be construed as words of hypothecation and not of conveyance, and that, so far as the said Louisiana property is concerned, this Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture shall be considered as an act of mortgage and pledge under the laws of the State of Louisiana, and the Trustee herein named is named as mortgagee and pledgee in trust for the benefit of itself and of all present and future holders of bonds and coupons issued and to be issued under the Mortgage, and is irrevocably appointed special agent and representative of the holders of the bonds and coupons issued and to be issued under the Mortgage and vested with full power in their behalf to effect and enforce the mortgage and pledge hereby constituted for their benefit, or otherwise to act as herein provided for.
SECTION 6This Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture shall be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC has caused its company name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer or one of its Assistant Treasurers, for and in its behalf, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, in token of its acceptance of the trust hereby created, has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed by one of its Vice Presidents, Senior Associates or Associates, all as of the day and year first above written.
| | | | | |
| ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
By: /s/ Kevin J. Marino Name: Kevin J. Marino Title: Assistant Treasurer |
Executed and delivered by ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC in the presence of:
/s/ Daryl Mosley Name: Daryl Mosley
/s/ Linda Prisuta Name: Linda Prisuta | |
| | | | | | | | |
| |
| THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON As Successor Trustee
By /s/ Francine Kincaid Name: Francine Kincaid Title: Vice President | |
Executed and delivered by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON in the presence of:
/s/ Leslie Morales Name: Leslie Morales
/s/ Glenn McKeever Name: Glenn McKeever | | |
STATE OF LOUISIANA
} ss.:
PARISH OF ORLEANS
On this 19th day of August, 2022, before me appeared KEVIN J. MARINO, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that he is an Assistant Treasurer of ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, and that the above instrument was signed in behalf of said entity by authority of its Board of Directors, and said KEVIN J. MARINO, acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.
| | | | | |
| |
| /s/ Dawn A. Balash Dawn A. Balash State of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans Notary Public Identification No. 140967 My commission expires at my death |
STATE OF NEW YORK
} ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
On this 22nd of August, 2022, before me appeared Francine Kincaid, to me personally known or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence and, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that she is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, and that the above instrument was signed in behalf of said entity by authority of its Board of Directors, and said Vice President acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.
/s/ Andrey Potulnitskiy
Andrey Potulnitskiy
Notary Public, State of New York
Registration No. 01PO6420765
Qualified in Kings County
My Commission Expires 08/16/2025
This Bond is not transferable except to a successor trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage (as defined below) between Entergy Louisiana, LLC and the Collateral Trust Trustee (as defined below). This Bond is a Class A Bond (as defined in the Collateral Trust Mortgage) issued under the ELL Mortgage (as defined in the Collateral Trust Mortgage).
(TEMPORARY REGISTERED BOND)
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
First Mortgage Bond, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052
TR- $________
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, a limited liability company of the State of Texas (hereinafter called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust of the Company dated as of November 1, 2015 (as the same may be supplemented and amended from time to time, the “Collateral Trust Mortgage”), or its successor as trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage, on September 15, 2052, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,
in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts, and to pay to the registered owner hereof interest thereon from August 24, 2022, if the date of this bond is prior to March 15, 2023, or if the date of this bond is on or after March 15, 2023, from the March 15 or September 15 immediately preceding the date of this bond to which interest has been paid on the bonds of this series (unless the date hereof is an interest payment date to which interest has been paid, in which case from the date hereof), at the rate of 4.75% per annum in like coin or currency at said office or agency on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing March 15, 2023 until the principal of this bond shall have become due and payable, and to pay interest on any overdue principal and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue installment of interest at the rate of 6% per annum. Interest hereon shall be paid to the Person in whose name this bond is registered.
Interest on the bonds of this series will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, redemption date or the maturity
date of any bond of this series shall not be a Business Day, then payment of interest or principal and premium, if any, need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day, with the same force and effect, and in the same amount, as if made on the corresponding Interest Payment Date, redemption date, or at maturity, as the case may be, and, if such payment is made or duly provided for on such Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, redemption date or the maturity date, as the case may be, to such Business Day. “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed or a day on which the corporate trust office of the Trustee is closed for business.
This bond is a temporary bond and is one of an issue of bonds of the Company issuable in series and is one of a series known as its First Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052, all bonds of all series issued and to be issued under and equally secured (except insofar as any sinking or other fund, established in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned, may afford additional security for the bonds of any particular series) by the Company’s Mortgage and Deed of Trust (herein, together with any indenture supplemental thereto, including the Ninety-seventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 1, 2022, called the “Mortgage”), dated as of April 1, 1944, executed by the Company to The Bank of New York Mellon, successor trustee (the “Trustee”). Reference is made to the Mortgage for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders of the bonds and of the Trustee in respect thereof, the duties and immunities of the Trustee, the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are and are to be secured, the circumstances under which additional bonds may be issued and the rights of the Company to amend the Mortgage without any consent or other action by the holders of any series of bonds (including this series). With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Mortgage, the rights and obligations of the Company and/or the rights of the holders of the bonds and/or coupons and/or the terms and provisions of the Mortgage may be modified or altered by such affirmative vote or votes of the holders of bonds then outstanding as are specified in the Mortgage. Each initial and future holder of the bonds of this series, by its acquisition of an interest in such bonds, irrevocably (a) consents to the amendments set forth in Sections 1 and 3 of Article II of the Eighty-first Supplemental Indenture without any other or further action by any holder of such bonds, and (b) designates the Trustee, and its successors, as its proxy with irrevocable instructions to vote and deliver written consents on behalf of such holder in favor of such amendments at any bondholder meeting, in lieu of any bondholder meeting, in any consent solicitation or otherwise.
The bonds of this series shall be issued by the Company, registered in the name of and delivered to The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage, or its successor as trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage (collectively, the “Collateral Trust Trustee”), to provide for the payment when due (whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the principal and
interest of the Securities (as defined in the Collateral Trust Mortgage) to be issued from time to time under the Collateral Trust Mortgage.
Any payment by the Company under the Collateral Trust Mortgage of the principal of or interest on the Securities which shall have been authenticated and delivered under the Collateral Trust Mortgage on the basis of the issuance and delivery to the Collateral Trust Trustee of bonds of this series (other than by application of the proceeds of a payment in respect of such bonds) shall, to the extent of such payment, be deemed to satisfy and discharge the obligation of the Company, if any, to make a payment of principal of, or interest on such bonds, as the case may be, which is then due.
The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of and interest on this bond as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until it shall have received a written notice from the Collateral Trust Trustee signed by its President, a Vice President, an Assistant Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that interest or principal due and payable on any Securities issued under the Collateral Trust Mortgage has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.
The holder of this bond hereby consents that the bonds of this series may be redeemable at the option of the Company or pursuant to the requirements of the Mortgage in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, prior to the maturity date, without notice provided in Section 52 of the Mortgage, at the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, in each case, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption by the Company in a notice delivered to the Trustee and to the holder of the bonds to be redeemed on or before the date fixed for redemption.
The bonds of this series shall be redeemed, in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, prior to the maturity date, at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof, upon receipt by the Trustee of a written notice from the Collateral Trust Trustee (i) delivered to the Trustee and the Company, (ii) signed by its President, a Vice President, an Assistant Vice President or a Trust Officer, (iii) stating that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Collateral Trust Mortgage and that, as a result, there then is due and payable a specified amount with respect to the Securities Outstanding under the Collateral Trust Mortgage, for the payment of which the Collateral Trust Trustee has not received funds, and (iv) specifying the principal amount of the bonds of this series to be redeemed. Delivery of such notice shall constitute a waiver by the Collateral Trust Trustee of notice of redemption under the Mortgage.
The principal hereof may be declared or may become due prior to the maturity date hereinbefore named on the conditions, in the manner and at the time set forth in the Mortgage, upon the occurrence of a default as in the Mortgage provided.
This bond is not transferable except to any successor trustee under the Collateral Trust Mortgage, any such transfer to be made in the manner prescribed in the Mortgage, by the registered owner hereof in person, or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond, together with a written instrument of transfer whenever required by the Company duly executed by the registered owner or by his duly authorized attorney, and thereupon a new fully registered bond of the same series for a like principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor as provided in the Mortgage.
The Company and the Trustee may deem and treat the person in whose name this bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment and for all other purposes and neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
In the manner prescribed in the Mortgage, any bonds of this series, upon surrender thereof, for cancellation, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations.
Upon any transfer or exchange of bonds of this series, the Company may make a charge therefor sufficient to reimburse it for any tax or taxes or other governmental charge, as provided in Section 12 of the Mortgage, but the Company hereby waives any right to make a charge in addition thereto for any exchange or transfer of bonds of this series.
In the manner prescribed in the Mortgage, this temporary bond is exchangeable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, without charge, for a definitive bond or bonds of the same series of a like aggregate principal amount when such definitive bonds are prepared and ready for delivery.
As provided in the Mortgage, the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of bonds of any series for a period of ten days next preceding any interest payment date for bonds of said series, or next preceding any designation of bonds of said series to be redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of any bonds designated in whole or in part for redemption.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or interest on this bond against any incorporator or any past, present or future subscriber to the capital stock, stockholder, officer or director of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation, as such, either directly or through the Company or any predecessor or successor corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitution or by the enforcement of any assessment or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, subscribers, stockholders, officers and directors being released by the holder or owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage.
This bond shall not become obligatory until The Bank of New York Mellon, the Trustee under the Mortgage, or its successor thereunder, shall have signed the form of authentication certificate endorsed hereon.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC has caused this bond to be signed in its company name by its President or one of its Vice Presidents by his or her signature or a facsimile thereof, and its company seal to be impressed or imprinted hereon and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries by his or her signature or a facsimile thereof.
DATED: ____________ ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
By:__________________________________________
Vice President and Treasurer
Attest:
________________________________
Assistant Secretary
TRUSTEE’S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE
This bond is one of the bonds, of the series herein designated, described or provided for in the within-mentioned Mortgage.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
as Trustee
By:_________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
Dated: ______________
Exhibit 5.05
August 24, 2022
Entergy Louisiana, LLC
4809 Jefferson Highway
Jefferson, Louisiana 70121
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel for Entergy Louisiana, LLC (the “Company”) in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-266624-04) (the “Registration Statement”), relating to $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s Collateral Trust Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052 (the “Bonds”). The Bonds have been issued pursuant to the Company’s Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of November 1, 2015, with The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (the Mortgage, as amended and supplemented, including by the supplemental indenture and officer’s certificate establishing the terms of the Bonds, being hereinafter referred to as the “Mortgage”).
In our capacity as such counsel, we have examined the Registration Statement and the Mortgage, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. As to questions of fact material to the opinions expressed herein, we have relied upon representations and certifications of the officers of the Company and appropriate public officials without independent verification of such matters except as otherwise described herein. We have also examined or have caused to be examined such other documents and have satisfied ourselves as to such other matters as we have deemed necessary in order to render this opinion. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the authenticity of the documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as certified, facsimile or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. We have not examined the Bonds, except a specimen thereof, and we have relied upon a certificate of the Trustee as to the authentication and delivery thereof.
Subject to the foregoing and the further exceptions and qualifications set forth below, we are of the opinion that the Bonds are legally valid and are binding obligations of the Company.
This opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York, except as set forth in the following two sentences. To the extent that the opinions relate to or are dependent upon matters governed by the laws of the State of Louisiana, we have relied upon the opinion of Dawn A. Balash, Esq., Assistant General Counsel - Corporate and Securities of Entergy Services, LLC, which is being filed as Exhibit 5.06 to the Registration Statement. To the extent that the opinions relate to or are dependent upon matters governed by the laws of the State of Texas, we have relied upon the opinion of Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP, which is being filed as Exhibit 5.07 to the Registration Statement. As to all matters of the laws of the State of New York, Dawn A. Balash, Esq., Assistant General
Entergy Louisiana, LLC
August 24, 2022
Page 2
Counsel - Corporate and Securities of Entergy Services, LLC and Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP are authorized to rely on this opinion as if it were addressed to each of them.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.05 to a Current Report on Form 8-K, which will be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to us in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement under the caption “Legality.” In giving the foregoing consents, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
| | | | | |
| Entergy Services, LLC 639 Loyola Avenue (70113) P.O. Box 61000 New Orleans, LA 70161 Tel: 504-576-6755 Fax: 504-574-4150 e-mail: dbalash@entergy.com |
| |
| Dawn A. Balash Assistant General Counsel Corporate and Securities |
Exhibit 5.06
August 24, 2022
Entergy Louisiana, LLC
4809 Jefferson Highway
Jefferson, Louisiana 70121
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I have acted as counsel for Entergy Louisiana, LLC (the “Company”) in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-266624-04) (the “Registration Statement”), relating to $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s Collateral Trust Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052 (the “Bonds”). The Bonds have been issued pursuant to the Company’s Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of November 1, 2015, with The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (the Mortgage, as amended and supplemented, including by the supplemental indenture and officer’s certificate establishing the terms of the Bonds, being hereinafter referred to as the “Mortgage”).
In my capacity as such counsel, I have examined the Registration Statement and the Mortgage, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. As to questions of fact material to the opinions expressed herein, I have relied upon representations and certifications of the officers of the Company and appropriate public officials without independent verification of such matters except as otherwise described herein. I have also examined or have caused to be examined such other documents and have satisfied myself as to such other matters as I have deemed necessary in order to render this opinion. In such examination, I have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the authenticity of the documents submitted to me as originals, the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to me as certified, facsimile or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of all documents submitted to me as copies. I have not examined the Bonds, except a specimen thereof, and I have relied upon a certificate of the Trustee as to the authentication and delivery thereof.
Entergy Louisiana, LLC
August 24, 2022
Page 2
Subject to the foregoing and the further exceptions and qualifications set forth below, I am of the opinion that the Bonds are legally valid and are binding obligations of the Company.
This opinion is limited to the laws of the State of Louisiana, except as set forth in the following two sentences. To the extent that the opinions relate to or are dependent upon matters governed by the laws of the State of New York, I have relied upon the opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, which is being filed as Exhibit 5.05 to the Registration Statement. To the extent that the opinions relate to or are dependent upon matters governed by the laws of the State of Texas, I have relied upon the opinion of Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP, which is being filed as Exhibit 5.07 to the Registration Statement. As to all matters of the laws of the State of Louisiana, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP are authorized to rely on this opinion as if it were addressed to each of them.
I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.06 to a Current Report on Form 8-K, which will be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement. I also consent to the reference to me in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement under the caption “Legality.” In giving the foregoing consents, I do not admit that I am within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Dawn A. Balash
[Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP letterhead]
August 24, 2022
Exhibit 5.07
Entergy Louisiana, LLC
4809 Jefferson Highway
Jefferson, Louisiana 70121
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel for Entergy Louisiana, LLC (the “Company”) in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-266624-04) (the “Registration Statement”), relating to $500,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s Collateral Trust Mortgage Bonds, 4.75% Series due September 15, 2052 (the “Bonds”). The Bonds have been issued pursuant to the Company’s Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of November 1, 2015, with The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (the Mortgage, as amended and supplemented, including by the supplemental indenture and officer’s certificate establishing the terms of the Bonds, being hereinafter referred to as the “Mortgage”).
In our capacity as such counsel, we have examined the Registration Statement and the Mortgage, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. As to questions of fact material to the opinions expressed herein, we have relied upon representations and certifications of the officers of the Company and appropriate public officials without independent verification of such matters except as otherwise described herein. We have also examined or have caused to be examined such other documents and have satisfied ourselves as to such other matters as we have deemed necessary in order to render this opinion. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the authenticity of the documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as certified, facsimile or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. We have not examined the Bonds, except a specimen thereof, and we have relied upon a certificate of the Trustee as to the authentication and delivery thereof.
Subject to the foregoing and the further exceptions and qualifications set forth below, we are of the opinion that the Bonds are legally valid and are binding obligations of the Company.
This opinion is limited to the laws of the State of Texas, except as set forth in the following two sentences. To the extent that the opinions relate to or are dependent upon matters governed by the laws of the State of Louisiana, we have relied upon the opinion of Dawn A. Balash, Esq., Assistant General Counsel - Corporate and Securities of Entergy Services, LLC, which is being filed as Exhibit 5.06 to the Registration Statement. To the extent that the opinions relate to or are dependent upon matters governed by the laws of the State of New York, we have relied upon the opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, which is being filed as Exhibit 5.05 to the Registration Statement. As to all matters of the laws of the State of Texas, Dawn A. Balash, Esq., Assistant General Counsel - Corporate and Securities of Entergy Services, LLC, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP are authorized to rely on this opinion as if it were addressed to each of them.
[Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP letterhead]
August 24, 2022
Page 2
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.07 to a Current Report on Form 8-K, which will be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to us in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement under the caption “Legality.” In giving the foregoing consents, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Duggins Wren Mann & Romero, LLP
DUGGINS WREN MANN & ROMERO, LLP