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GARDNER, CARTON & DOUGLAS
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321 North Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610-4795
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WRITER'S DIRECT DIAL NUMBER
PAULITA PIKE-BOKHARI
312-245-8759
[email protected]
March 4, 1998
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Prudential Utility Fund, Inc.
Post-Effective Amendment No. 26 to Registration Statement on Form N-1A
1933 Act File No. 2-72097
1940 Act File No. 811-3175
Dear Sir or Madam:
This letter is to certify that the form of prospectus and the Statement
of Additional Information that would have been filed under paragraph (b) or
(c) of Rule 497 under the Securities Act of 1933 by the above-referenced
registrant would not have differed from that contained in the most recent
post-effective amendment to the registration statement on Form N-1A filed by
registrant which was filed electronically on or about February 27, 1998.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Marguerite E.H. Morrison
Marguerite E.H. Morrison
Assistant Secretary
