Registration No. 02-35570
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549
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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 47 TO
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
and
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
under
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
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PRINCIPAL VARIABLE CONTRACTS FUND, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in Charter)
The Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, Iowa 50392
(Address of principal executive offices)
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Telephone Number (515) 248-3842
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MICHAEL D. ROUGHTON Copy to:
The Principal Financial Group JONES & BLOUCH L.L.P.
Des Moines, Iowa 50392 Suite 405 West
1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007-0805
(Name and address of agent for service)
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It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)
___ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)of Rule 485
XXX on October 24, 2000 pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485
___ 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485
___ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485
___ 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485
___ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485
If appropriate, check the following box:
XXX This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for
a previously filed post-effective amendment.
This amendment is being filed pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) solely for
the purpose of designating a new effective date for the post-effective amendment
filed pursuant to Rule 485(a) on July 11, 2000 (the "Previously filed
Post-Effective Amendment"). Part A, B and C of the Previously Filed
Post-Effective Amendment are incorporated herein by reference.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the
Investment Company Act of 1940 the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the
requirments for effectiveness of this Registration Statement and has duly caused
this Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Des Moines and State of
Iowa, on the 20th day of September, 2000.
Principal Variable Contracts Fund, Inc.
(Registrant)
By /s/ R. C. Eucher
______________________________________
R. C. Eucher
President and Director
Attest:
/s/ A. S. Filean
______________________________________
A. S. Filean
Senior Vice President and Secretary
Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment
to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in
the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
/s/ R. C. Eucher
_____________________________ President and Director September 20, 2000
R. C. Eucher (Principal Executive _________________
Officer)
(J. B. Griswell)*
_____________________________ Director and September 20, 2000
J. B. Griswell Chairman of the Board _________________
_____________________________ Senior Vice President and September 20, 2000
K. L. Tibbetts Chief Financial Officer _________________
(Principal Fianncial
and Accounting Officer)
(J. D. Davis)*
_____________________________ Director September 20, 2000
J. D. Davis _________________
(P. A. Ferguson)*
_____________________________ Director September 20, 2000
P. A. Ferguson _________________
(R. W. Gilbert)*
_____________________________ Director September 20, 2000
R. W. Gilbert _________________
(W. C. Kimball)*
_____________________________ Director September 20, 2000
W. C. Kimball _________________
(B. A. Lukavsky)*
_____________________________ Director September 20, 2000
B. A. Lukavsky _________________
*By /s/ R. C. Eucher
_____________________________________
R. C. Eucher
President and Director
Pursuant to Powers of Attorney
Previously Filed or Included
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints R. C. Eucher, J. B. Griswell, M.
D. Roughton, E. H. Gillum and A. S. Filean and each of them (with full power to
each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact
and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the
name of the undersigned, to execute and file any documents relating to
registration under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of
1940 with respect to open-end management investment companies currently
organized or to be organized in the future which are sponsored by Principal Life
Insurance Company, and any and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder
with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or appropriate in connection
therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or their
substitutes being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to
have full power and authority to do or cause to be done in the name and on
behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing necessary or appropriate
to be done in order to effectuate the same, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to
be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand
this 14th day of September, 2000.
/s/K. L. Tibbetts
K. L. Tibbetts
