AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON MARCH 29, 1999.
SUBJECT TO AMENDMENT. REGISTRATION NOS. 333-
333- -01
333- -02
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY GEORGIA 58-0257110
GEORGIA POWER CAPITAL TRUST V DELAWARE 58-6380849
GEORGIA POWER CAPITAL TRUST VI DELAWARE 58-6380850
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Identification
charter) incorporation or organization) No.)
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241 RALPH MCGILL BOULEVARD, N.E.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30308-3374
(404) 506-6526
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of each
registrant's principal executive offices)
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JUDY M. ANDERSON
VICE PRESIDENT AND CORPORATE SECRETARY
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
241 RALPH MCGILL BOULEVARD, N.E.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30308-3374
(404) 506-6526
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service of each registrant)
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THE COMMISSION IS REQUESTED TO MAIL SIGNED COPIES OF ALL ORDERS, NOTICES AND
COMMUNICATIONS TO:
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W . L . WESTBROOK JOHN D. MCLANAHAN, ESQ.
FINANCIAL VICE PRESIDENT TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP
THE SOUTHERN COMPANY 600 PEACHTREE STREET, N.E.
270 PEACHTREE STREET, N.W. SUITE 5200
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30308-2216
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APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC: From time
to time after the effective date of this registration statement.
If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered
pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following
box. [ ]
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on
a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of
1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box: [X]
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box
and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier
effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ] __________
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering. [ ] __________
If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434,
please check the following box. [ ]
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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TITLE OF AMOUNT PROPOSED MAXIMUM PROPOSED MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF
EACH CLASS OF SECURITIES TO BE OFFERING PRICE AGGREGATE OFFERING REGISTRATION
TO BE REGISTERED REGISTERED(1) PER UNIT(1)(2)(3) PRICE(1)(2)(3) FEE(1)
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Georgia Power Capital Trust V Preferred Securities...
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Georgia Power Capital Trust VI Preferred
Securities...........................................
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Georgia Power Company Senior Notes...................
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Georgia Power Company Junior Subordinated Notes......
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Georgia Power Company Guarantees with respect to
Preferred Securities of Georgia Power Capital Trust V
and Georgia Power Capital Trust VI(4)(5).............
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Total................................................ $1,000,000,000(6) 100% $1,000,000,000 $278,000(7)
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(1) There are being registered hereunder such presently indeterminate number of
Preferred Securities of Georgia Power Capital Trust V and Georgia Power
Capital Trust VI and such presently indeterminate principal amount of Senior
Notes and Junior Subordinated Notes of Georgia Power Company with an
aggregate initial offering price not to exceed $1,000,000,000. Junior
Subordinated Notes also may be issued to Georgia Power Capital Trust V or
Georgia Power Capital Trust VI and later distributed upon dissolution and
distribution of the assets thereof, which would include such Junior
Subordinated Notes for which no separate consideration will be received.
Pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, which permits the
registration fee to be calculated on the basis of the maximum offering price
of all the securities listed, the table does not specify by each class
information as to the amount to be registered, proposed maximum offering
price per unit or proposed maximum aggregate offering price.
(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee.
(3) Exclusive of accrued interest and distributions, if any.
(4) No separate consideration will be received for the Georgia Power Company
Guarantees. Pursuant to Rule 457(n) no separate fee is payable in respect of
the Georgia Power Company Guarantees.
(5) Includes the obligations of Georgia Power Company under the respective Trust
Agreements, the Subordinated Note Indenture, the related series of Junior
Subordinated Notes, the respective Guarantees and the respective Agreements
as to Expenses and Liabilities, which include the Company's covenant to pay
any indebtedness, expenses or liabilities of the Trusts (other than
obligations pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities or other
similar interests), all as described in this registration statement.
(6) Includes $205,000,000 of unsold securities previously registered under
Registration Statement No. 333-43895.
(7) Pursuant to Rule 429 under the Securities Act of 1933, the registration fee
consists of $221,010 paid herewith and $56,990 which has previously been
paid. See Note (6).
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THE REGISTRANTS HEREBY AMEND THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR
DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANTS
SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION
STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(A) OF
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR UNTIL THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID SECTION 8(A),
MAY DETERMINE.
THE WITHIN PROSPECTUS CONTAINS THE INFORMATION REQUIRED BY RULE 429 OF THE
COMMISSION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 WITH RESPECT TO THE $205,000,000 OF
SECURITIES REMAINING UNSOLD UNDER REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-43895.
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THE INFORMATION IN THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT COMPLETE AND MAY BE CHANGED. WE MAY
NOT SELL THESE SECURITIES UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FILED WITH THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IS EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT AN OFFER
TO SELL THESE SECURITIES AND IT IS NOT SOLICITING AN OFFER TO BUY THESE
SECURITIES IN ANY STATE WHERE THE OFFER OR SALE IS NOT PERMITTED.
SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED MARCH 29, 1999
PROSPECTUS
$1,000,000,000
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
SENIOR NOTES
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES
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GEORGIA POWER CAPITAL TRUST V
GEORGIA POWER CAPITAL TRUST VI
TRUST PREFERRED SECURITIES
FULLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED, AS SET FORTH HEREIN, BY
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A SUBSIDIARY OF THE SOUTHERN COMPANY
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We will provide the specific terms of these securities in supplements to
this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the applicable prospectus
supplement carefully before you invest.
NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES
COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR DETERMINED IF THIS
PROSPECTUS IS TRUTHFUL OR COMPLETE. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A
CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS
This Prospectus is part of a registration statement filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") using a "shelf"
registration process under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933
Act"). Under the shelf process, Georgia Power Company (the "Company") may sell,
in one or more transactions,
- senior notes (the "Senior Notes")
- junior subordinated notes (the "Junior Subordinated Notes")
and Georgia Power Capital Trust V and Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(individually, a "Trust" and collectively, the "Trusts") may sell
- trust preferred securities (the "Preferred Securities")
in one or more offerings up to a total dollar amount of $1,000,000,000. This
Prospectus provides a general description of those securities. Each time the
Company sells securities, the Company will provide a prospectus supplement that
will contain specific information about the terms of that offering ("Prospectus
Supplement"). The Prospectus Supplement may also add, update or change
information contained in this Prospectus. You should read this Prospectus and
the applicable Prospectus Supplement together with additional information under
the heading "Available Information."
AVAILABLE INFORMATION
The Company and the Trusts have filed with the Commission a combined
registration statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement," which term
encompasses any amendments thereof and exhibits thereto) under the 1933 Act. As
permitted by the rules and regulations of the Commission, this Prospectus does
not contain all of the information set forth in the Registration Statement and
the exhibits and schedules thereto, to which reference is hereby made.
The Company is subject to the informational requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), and in accordance therewith
files reports and other information with the Commission. Such reports and other
information can be inspected and copied at the public reference facilities of
the Commission at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549, and at the
Commission's Regional Offices at 500 West Madison Street, Suite 1400, Chicago,
Illinois 60661 and Seven World Trade Center, 13th Floor, New York, New York
10048. Copies of such material can also be obtained at prescribed rates by
writing to the Public Reference Section of the Commission at 450 Fifth Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549. The Commission maintains a Web site that contains
reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding
registrants including the Company that file electronically at
http://www.sec.gov. In addition, reports and other material concerning the
Company can be inspected at the offices of the New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad
Street, New York, New York 10005, on which Exchange certain of the Company's
securities are listed.
No separate financial statements of any Trust are included herein. The
Company considers that such statements would not be material to holders of the
Preferred Securities because each Trust has no independent operations and exists
for the sole purpose of investing the proceeds of the sale of its Trust
Securities (as defined below) in Junior Subordinated Notes.
INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
The following documents have been filed with the Commission pursuant to the
1934 Act and are incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this
Prospectus:
(a) the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1998; and
(b) the Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K dated February 10, 1999,
February 17, 1999 and March 3, 1999.
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All documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act subsequent to the date of this
Prospectus and prior to the termination of this offering shall be deemed to be
incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Prospectus from the
date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to
be modified or superseded for purposes of this Prospectus to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this
Prospectus.
THE COMPANY WILL PROVIDE WITHOUT CHARGE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS
PROSPECTUS IS DELIVERED, ON THE WRITTEN OR ORAL REQUEST OF ANY SUCH PERSON, A
COPY OF ANY OR ALL DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE (OTHER THAN THE
EXHIBITS TO SUCH DOCUMENTS UNLESS SUCH EXHIBITS ARE SPECIFICALLY INCORPORATED BY
REFERENCE). SUCH REQUESTS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO JUDY M. ANDERSON, VICE PRESIDENT
AND CORPORATE SECRETARY, GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, 241 RALPH MCGILL BOULEVARD,
N.E., ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30308-3374, TELEPHONE: (404) 506-6526.
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SELECTED INFORMATION
The following material, which is presented herein solely to furnish limited
introductory information regarding the Company, has been selected from, or is
based upon, the detailed information and financial statements appearing in the
documents incorporated herein by reference or elsewhere in this Prospectus, is
qualified in its entirety by reference thereto and, therefore, should be read
together therewith.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
Business......................... Generation, transmission, distribution and
sale of electric energy
Service Area..................... Approximately 57,200 square miles
comprising most of the State of Georgia
Service Area Population (1990
Census).......................... Approximately 6,200,000
Customers at December 31, 1998... 1,830,187
Generating Capacity at December
31, 1998 (kilowatts)............. 14,436,974
Sources of Generation during 1998
(kilowatt-hours)............... Coal (73%), Nuclear (22%), Hydro (3%), Oil
and Gas (2%)
Sources of Generation Estimated
for 1999 (kilowatt-hours)........ Coal (74%), Nuclear (22%), Hydro (3%), Oil
and Gas (1%)
CERTAIN RATIOS
The following table sets forth the Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges and
Earnings to Fixed Charges Plus Preferred Dividend Requirements (Pre-Income Tax
Basis) for the periods indicated.
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1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
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Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges(1)...................... 3.65 4.51 4.99 4.66 4.49
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges Plus Preferred Dividend
Requirements (Pre-Income Tax Basis)(2)................... 2.99 3.60 3.89 4.19 4.34
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(1) This ratio is computed as follows: (i) "Earnings" have been calculated by
adding to "Income Before Interest Charges" all income taxes deducted
therefrom and the debt portion of allowance for funds used during
construction; and (ii) "Fixed Charges" consist of "Net Interest Charges"
plus the debt portion of allowance for funds used during construction.
(2) In computing this ratio, "Preferred Dividend Requirements" represent the
before tax earnings necessary to pay such dividends, computed at the
effective tax rates for the applicable periods.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
The Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Southern Company, a holding
company registered under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as
amended. The Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of Georgia on
June 26, 1930. It is engaged in the generation and purchase of electric energy
and the transmission, distribution and sale of such energy within the State of
Georgia at retail in over 600 communities (including Athens, Atlanta, Augusta,
Columbus, Macon, Rome and Valdosta), as well as in rural areas, and at wholesale
currently to 39 electric cooperative associations through Oglethorpe Power
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Corporation, a corporate cooperative of electric membership corporations in
Georgia, and to 50 municipalities, 48 of which are served through the Municipal
Electric Authority of Georgia, a public corporation and an instrumentality of
the State of Georgia. The Company and one of its affiliates, Alabama Power
Company, each owns 50% of the common stock of Southern Electric Generating
Company ("SEGCO"). SEGCO owns electric generating units near Wilsonville,
Alabama. The principal executive offices of the Company are located at 241 Ralph
McGill Boulevard, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30308-3374, and the telephone number is
(404) 506-6526.
THE TRUSTS
Each Trust is a statutory business trust created under Delaware law
pursuant to the filing of a certificate of trust with the Delaware Secretary of
State on December 16, 1997. Each Trust's business is defined in a trust
agreement, executed by the Company, as Depositor, and the Delaware Trustee
thereunder. This trust agreement of each Trust will be amended and restated in
its entirety substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement of which this Prospectus forms a part (the "Trust Agreement"). Each
Trust Agreement will be qualified as an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended (the "1939 Act"). The Company will own all the common
securities (the "Common Securities" and, together with the Preferred Securities,
the "Trust Securities") of each Trust. The Trust Securities represent undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the respective Trusts. Each Trust exists
for the exclusive purposes of (i) issuing its Trust Securities representing
undivided beneficial interests in the assets of such Trust, (ii) investing the
gross proceeds of its Trust Securities in a related series of Junior
Subordinated Notes, and (iii) engaging in only those other activities necessary,
appropriate, convenient or incidental thereto. The payment of periodic cash
distributions on the Preferred Securities of each Trust and payments on
liquidation and redemption with respect to the Preferred Securities of each
Trust, in each case to the extent each Trust has funds legally and immediately
available therefor, will be guaranteed by the Company (individually, a
"Guarantee" and collectively, the "Guarantees") to the extent set forth under
"Description of the Guarantees."
Each Trust's business and affairs will be conducted by its trustees, which
shall be appointed by the Company as the holder of the Common Securities: two
officers of the Company as Administrative Trustees; The Chase Manhattan Bank as
Property Trustee; and Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware as Delaware Trustee
(collectively, the "Securities Trustees"). The Property Trustee of each Trust
will act as the indenture trustee with respect to such Trust for purposes of
compliance with the provisions of the 1939 Act.
The principal place of business of each Trust shall be c/o the Company, 241
Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30308-3374, telephone (404)
506-6526, Attn: Corporate Secretary.
Reference is made to the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Preferred
Securities of a Trust for further information concerning such Trust.
ACCOUNTING TREATMENT OF TRUSTS
For financial reporting purposes, the Trusts will be treated as
subsidiaries of the Company and, accordingly, the accounts of the Trusts will be
included in the consolidated financial statements of the Company. The Preferred
Securities will be presented as a separate line item in the consolidated balance
sheet of the Company, and appropriate disclosures concerning the Preferred
Securities, the Guarantees and the Junior Subordinated Notes will be included in
the notes to the consolidated financial statements. For financial reporting
purposes, the Company will record distributions payable on the Preferred
Securities as an expense.
USE OF PROCEEDS
Each Trust will invest the proceeds received from the sale of its Preferred
Securities in Junior Subordinated Notes. Except as may be otherwise described in
an applicable Prospectus Supplement, the net proceeds received by the Company
from such investment and any proceeds received from the sale of its Senior
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Notes or other sales of its Junior Subordinated Notes will be used in connection
with its ongoing construction program, to pay scheduled maturities and/or
refundings of its securities, to repay short-term indebtedness to the extent
outstanding and for other general corporate purposes.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SENIOR NOTES
Set forth below is a description of the general terms of the Senior Notes.
The following description does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and
is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the Senior Note Indenture, dated
as of January 1, 1998, between the Company and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
trustee (the "Senior Note Indenture Trustee"), as to be supplemented by a
supplemental indenture thereto establishing the Senior Notes of each series (the
Senior Note Indenture, as so supplemented, is hereinafter referred to as the
"Senior Note Indenture"), the forms of which are filed as exhibits to the
Registration Statement of which this Prospectus forms a part. The terms of the
Senior Notes will include those stated in the Senior Note Indenture and those
made a part of the Senior Note Indenture by reference to the 1939 Act. Certain
capitalized terms used herein are defined in the Senior Note Indenture.
GENERAL
The Senior Notes will be issued as unsecured senior debt securities under
the Senior Note Indenture and will rank pari passu with all other unsecured and
unsubordinated debt of the Company. The Senior Notes will be effectively
subordinated to all secured debt of the Company, including its first mortgage
bonds, aggregating approximately $2,166,000,000 outstanding at December 31,
1998. The Senior Note Indenture does not limit the aggregate principal amount of
Senior Notes that may be issued thereunder and provides that Senior Notes may be
issued from time to time in one or more series pursuant to an indenture
supplemental to the Senior Note Indenture.
Reference is made to the Prospectus Supplement that will accompany this
Prospectus for the following terms of the series of Senior Notes being offered
thereby: (i) the title of such Senior Notes; (ii) any limit on the aggregate
principal amount of such Senior Notes; (iii) the date or dates on which the
principal of such Senior Notes is payable; (iv) the rate or rates at which such
Senior Notes shall bear interest, if any, or any method by which such rate or
rates will be determined, the date or dates from which such interest will
accrue, the interest payment dates on which such interest shall be payable, and
the regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;
(v) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest, if any, on such Senior Notes shall be payable; (vi) the period or
periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions
on which such Senior Notes may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option
of the Company; (vii) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or
purchase such Senior Notes; (viii) the denominations in which such Senior Notes
shall be issuable; (ix) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of such Senior Notes which shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof; (x) any deletions from,
modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the
Company as provided in the Senior Note Indenture pertaining to such Senior
Notes; (xi) whether such Senior Notes shall be issued in whole or in part in the
form of a Global Security; and (xii) any other terms of such Senior Notes.
The Senior Note Indenture does not contain provisions that afford holders
of Senior Notes protection in the event of a highly leveraged transaction
involving the Company.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
The Senior Note Indenture provides that any one or more of the following
described events with respect to the Senior Notes of any series, which has
occurred and is continuing, constitutes an "Event of Default" with respect to
the Senior Notes of such series:
(a) failure for 10 days to pay interest on the Senior Notes of such
series, when due on an Interest Payment Date other than at maturity or upon
earlier redemption; or
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(b) failure to pay principal or premium, if any, or interest on the
Senior Notes of such series when due at maturity or upon earlier
redemption; or
(c) failure for three Business Days to deposit any sinking fund
payment when due by the terms of a Senior Note of such series; or
(d) failure to observe or perform any other covenant or warranty of
the Company in the Senior Note Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty
which has expressly been included therein solely for the benefit of one or
more series of Senior Notes other than such series) for 90 days after
written notice to the Company from the Senior Note Indenture Trustee or the
holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes
of such series; or
(e) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency, or reorganization of the
Company.
The holders of not less than a majority in aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Senior Notes of any series have the right to direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Senior Note Indenture Trustee with respect to the Senior Notes of such series.
If a Senior Note Indenture Event of Default occurs and is continuing with
respect to the Senior Notes of any series, then the Senior Note Indenture
Trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Senior Notes of such series may declare the principal amount
thereof due and payable immediately by notice in writing to the Company (and to
the Senior Note Indenture Trustee if given by the holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal amount shall become immediately due and payable. At
any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Senior
Notes of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of
the money due has been obtained as provided in Article Five of the Senior Note
Indenture, the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate outstanding
principal amount of the Senior Notes of such series may rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences if the default has been cured or waived and the
Company has paid or deposited with the Senior Note Indenture Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and principal due
otherwise than by acceleration and all sums paid or advanced by the Senior Note
Indenture Trustee, including reasonable compensation and expenses of the Senior
Note Indenture Trustee.
The holders of not less than a majority in aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Senior Notes of any series may, on behalf of the holders of all
the Senior Notes of such series, waive any past default with respect to such
series, except (i) a default in the payment of principal or interest or (ii) a
default in respect of a covenant or provision which under Article Nine of the
Senior Note Indenture cannot be modified or amended thereunder without the
consent of the holder of each outstanding Senior Note of such series affected
thereby.
REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER
The Company shall not be required to (i) issue, register the transfer of or
exchange Senior Notes of any series during a period of 15 days immediately
preceding the date notice is given identifying the Senior Notes of such series
called for redemption, or (ii) register the transfer of or exchange any Senior
Notes so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed
portion of any Senior Note being redeemed in part.
PAYMENT AND PAYING AGENT
Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus Supplement, payment
of principal of any Senior Notes will be made only against surrender to the
Paying Agent of such Senior Notes. Principal of and interest on Senior Notes
will be payable, subject to any applicable laws and regulations, at the office
of such Paying Agent or Paying Agents as the Company may designate from time to
time, except that, at the option of the Company, payment of any interest may be
made by wire transfer or by check mailed to the address of the person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register with respect to
the Senior Notes. Payment of interest on Senior Notes on any interest payment
date will be made to the person in whose name the Senior Notes (or predecessor
security) are registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such
interest payment (the fifteenth calendar day before such interest payment date).
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Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
Senior Indenture Trustee will act as Paying Agent with respect to the Senior
Notes. The Company may at any time designate additional Paying Agents or rescind
the designation of any Paying Agents or approve a change in the office through
which any Paying Agent acts.
All moneys paid by the Company to a Paying Agent for the payment of the
principal of or interest on the Senior Notes of any series which remain
unclaimed at the end of two years after such principal or interest shall have
become due and payable will be repaid to the Company, and the holder of such
Senior Notes will thereafter look only to the Company for payment thereof.
MODIFICATION
The Senior Note Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and
the Senior Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of the outstanding Senior Notes of each series
affected thereby, to modify the Senior Note Indenture or the rights of the
holders of the Senior Note of such series; provided, that no such modification
may, without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Senior Note affected
thereby, (i) change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of principal of or interest on, any Senior Note, or reduce the principal amount
thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the
redemption thereof, or change the method of calculating the rate of interest
thereon, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment on or after the stated maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption,
on or after the redemption date), or (ii) reduce the percentage of principal
amount of the outstanding Senior Notes of any series, the consent of whose
holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of the
Senior Note Indenture or certain defaults thereunder and their consequences)
provided for in the Senior Note Indenture, or (iii) modify any of the provisions
of the Senior Note Indenture relating to supplemental indentures, waiver of past
defaults, or waiver of certain covenants, except to increase any such percentage
or to provide that certain other provisions of the Senior Note Indenture cannot
be modified or waived without the consent of the holder of each outstanding
Senior Note affected thereby.
In addition, the Company and the Senior Note Indenture Trustee may execute,
without the consent of any holders of Senior Notes, any supplemental indenture
for certain other usual purposes, including the creation of any new series of
senior notes.
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other corporation
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any person, unless (1) such other corporation or person is a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any
state thereof or the District of Columbia and such other corporation or person
expressly assumes, by supplemental indenture executed and delivered to the
Senior Note Indenture Trustee, the payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on all the Senior Notes and the performance of every covenant
of the Senior Note Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or
observed; (2) immediately after giving effect to such transactions, no Event of
Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become
an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and (3) the Company
has delivered to the Senior Note Indenture Trustee an officers' certificate and
an opinion of counsel, each stating that such transaction complies with the
provisions of the Senior Note Indenture governing consolidation, merger,
conveyance, transfer or lease and that all conditions precedent thereto have
been complied with.
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SENIOR NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
The Senior Note Indenture Trustee, prior to an Event of Default with
respect to Senior Notes of any series, undertakes to perform, with respect to
Senior Notes of such series, only such duties as are specifically set forth in
the Senior Note Indenture and, in case an Event of Default with respect to
Senior Notes of any series has occurred and is continuing, shall exercise, with
respect to Senior Notes of such series, the same
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degree of care as a prudent individual would exercise in the conduct of his or
her own affairs. Subject to such provision, the Senior Note Indenture Trustee is
under no obligation to exercise any of the powers vested in it by the Senior
Note Indenture at the request of any holder of Senior Notes of any series,
unless offered reasonable indemnity by such holder against the costs, expenses
and liabilities which might be incurred thereby. The Senior Note Indenture
Trustee is not required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of its duties if the Senior Note
Indenture Trustee reasonably believes that repayment or adequate indemnity is
not reasonably assured to it.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, the Senior Note Indenture Trustee, also serves as
Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee, as Property Trustee and as Guarantee
Trustee. The Company and certain of its affiliates maintain deposit accounts and
banking relationships with The Chase Manhattan Bank. The Chase Manhattan Bank
also serves as trustee under other indentures pursuant to which securities of
the Company and affiliates of the Company are outstanding.
GOVERNING LAW
The Senior Note Indenture and the Senior Notes will be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Company will have the right at all times to assign any of its rights or
obligations under the Senior Note Indenture to a direct or indirect wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company; provided, that, in the event of any such assignment,
the Company will remain primarily liable for all such obligations. Subject to
the foregoing, the Senior Note Indenture will be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the parties thereto and their respective successors and assigns.
DESCRIPTION OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES
Set forth below is a description of the general terms of the Junior
Subordinated Notes. The following description does not purport to be complete
and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the
Subordinated Note Indenture, dated as of June 1, 1997, between the Company and
The Chase Manhattan Bank, as trustee (the "Subordinated Note Indenture
Trustee"), as to be supplemented by a supplemental indenture thereto
establishing the Junior Subordinated Notes of each series (the Subordinated Note
Indenture, as so supplemented, is hereinafter referred to as the "Subordinated
Note Indenture"), the forms of which are filed as exhibits to the Registration
Statement of which this Prospectus forms a part. The terms of the Junior
Subordinated Notes will include those stated in the Subordinated Note Indenture
and those made a part of the Subordinated Note Indenture by reference to the
1939 Act. Certain capitalized terms used herein are defined in the Subordinated
Note Indenture.
GENERAL
The Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued as unsecured junior
subordinated debt securities under the Subordinated Note Indenture. The
Subordinated Note Indenture does not limit the aggregate principal amount of
Junior Subordinated Notes that may be issued thereunder and provides that Junior
Subordinated Notes may be issued from time to time in one or more series
pursuant to an indenture supplemental to the Subordinated Note Indenture.
Reference is made to the Prospectus Supplement that will accompany this
Prospectus for the following terms of the series of Junior Subordinated Notes
being offered thereby: (i) the title of such Junior Subordinated Notes; (ii) any
limit on the aggregate principal amount of such Junior Subordinated Notes; (iii)
the date or dates on which the principal of such Junior Subordinated Notes is
payable; (iv) the rate or rates at which such Junior Subordinated Notes shall
bear interest, if any, or any method by which such rate or rates will be
determined, the date or dates from which such interest will accrue, the interest
payment dates on which such interest shall be payable, and the regular record
date for the interest payable on any interest
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payment date; (v) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest, if any, on such Junior Subordinated Notes shall be payable;
(vi) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the
terms and conditions on which such Junior Subordinated Notes may be redeemed, in
whole or in part, at the option of the Company; (vii) the obligation, if any, of
the Company to redeem or purchase such Junior Subordinated Notes; (viii) the
denominations in which such Junior Subordinated Notes shall be issuable; (ix) if
other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of
such Junior Subordinated Notes which shall be payable upon declaration of
acceleration of the maturity thereof; (x) any deletions from, modifications of
or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Company as provided in
the Subordinated Note Indenture pertaining to such Junior Subordinated Notes;
(xi) whether such Junior Subordinated Notes shall be issued in whole or in part
in the form of a Global Security; (xii) the right, if any, of the Company to
extend the interest payment periods of such Junior Subordinated Notes; and
(xiii) any other terms of such Junior Subordinated Notes. The terms of each
series of Junior Subordinated Notes issued to a Trust will correspond to those
of the related Preferred Securities of such Trust as described in the Prospectus
Supplement relating to such Preferred Securities.
The Subordinated Note Indenture does not contain provisions that afford
holders of Junior Subordinated Notes protection in the event of a highly
leveraged transaction involving the Company.
SUBORDINATION
The Junior Subordinated Notes are subordinated and junior in right of
payment to all Senior Indebtedness (as defined below) of the Company. No payment
of principal of (including redemption payments, if any), or premium, if any, or
interest on (including Additional Interest (as defined herein)) the Junior
Subordinated Notes may be made if (a) any Senior Indebtedness is not paid when
due and any applicable grace period with respect to such default has ended with
such default not being cured or waived or otherwise ceasing to exist, or (b) the
maturity of any Senior Indebtedness has been accelerated because of a default,
or (c) notice has been given of the exercise of an option to require repayment,
mandatory payment or prepayment or otherwise. Upon any payment or distribution
of assets of the Company to creditors upon any liquidation, dissolution,
winding-up, reorganization, assignment for the benefit of creditors, marshalling
of assets or liabilities, or any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceedings
of the Company, the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive
payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all
Senior Indebtedness before the holders of the Junior Subordinated Notes are
entitled to receive or retain any payment or distribution. Subject to the prior
payment of all Senior Indebtedness, the rights of the holders of the Junior
Subordinated Notes will be subrogated to the rights of the holders of Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments and distributions applicable to such Senior
Indebtedness until all amounts owing on the Junior Subordinated Notes are paid
in full.
The term "Senior Indebtedness" means, with respect to the Company, (i) any
payment due in respect of indebtedness of the Company, whether outstanding at
the date of execution of the Subordinated Note Indenture or thereafter incurred,
created or assumed, (a) in respect of money borrowed (including any financial
derivative, hedging or futures contract or similar instrument) and (b) evidenced
by securities, debentures, bonds, notes or other similar instruments issued by
the Company that, by their terms, are senior or senior subordinated debt
securities including, without limitation, all obligations under its indentures
with various trustees; (ii) all capital lease obligations; (iii) all obligations
issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all conditional
sale obligations and all obligations of the Company under any title retention
agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course
of business and long-term purchase obligations); (iv) all obligations for the
reimbursement of any letter of credit, banker's acceptance, security purchase
facility or similar credit transaction; (v) all obligations of the type referred
to in clauses (i) through (iv) above of other persons the payment of which the
Company is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise; and (vi)
all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above of
other persons secured by any lien on any property or asset of the Company
(whether or not such obligation is assumed by the Company), except for (1) any
such indebtedness that is by its terms subordinated to or pari passu with the
Junior Subordinated Notes and (2) any unsecured indebtedness between or among
the Company or its affiliates. Such Senior Indebtedness shall continue to be
Senior Indebtedness and be entitled
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to the benefits of the subordination provisions contained in the Subordinated
Note Indenture irrespective of any amendment, modification or waiver of any term
of such Senior Indebtedness.
The Subordinated Note Indenture does not limit the aggregate amount of
Senior Indebtedness that may be issued by the Company. As of December 31, 1998,
Senior Indebtedness of the Company aggregated approximately $3,490,000,000.
ADDITIONAL INTEREST
"Additional Interest" is defined in the Subordinated Note Indenture as (i)
such additional amounts as may be required so that the net amounts received and
retained by a holder of Junior Subordinated Notes (if the holder is a Trust)
after paying taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever
nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed by the United States or any other
taxing authority will not be less than the amounts the holder would have
received had no such taxes, duties, assessments, or other governmental charges
been imposed; and (ii) any interest due and not paid on an interest payment
date, together with interest thereon from such interest payment date to the date
of payment, compounded quarterly, on each interest payment date.
CERTAIN COVENANTS
The Company covenants in the Subordinated Note Indenture, for the benefit
of the holders of each series of Junior Subordinated Notes, that, (i) if at such
time the Company shall have given notice of its election to extend an interest
payment period for such series of Junior Subordinated Notes and such extension
shall be continuing, (ii) if at such time the Company shall be in default with
respect to its payment or other obligations under the Guarantee with respect to
the Trust Securities, if any, related to such series of Junior Subordinated
Notes, or (iii) if at such time an Event of Default thereunder with respect to
such series of Junior Subordinated Notes shall have occurred and be continuing,
(a) the Company shall not declare or pay any dividend or make any distributions
with respect to, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with
respect to, any of its capital stock, and (b) the Company shall not make any
payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or
redeem any debt securities (including guarantees other than the Guarantees)
issued by the Company which rank pari passu with or junior to the Junior
Subordinated Notes. None of the foregoing, however, shall restrict (i) any of
the actions described in the preceding sentence resulting from any
reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of
one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another class or series
of the Company's capital stock, or (ii) the purchase of fractional interests in
shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange
provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged.
The Subordinated Note Indenture further provides that, for so long as the
Trust Securities of any Trust remain outstanding, the Company covenants (i) to
directly or indirectly maintain 100% ownership of the Common Securities of such
Trust; provided, however, that any permitted successor of the Company under the
Subordinated Note Indenture may succeed to the Company's ownership of such
Common Securities, and (ii) to use its reasonable efforts to cause such Trust
(a) to remain a statutory business trust, except in connection with the
distribution of Junior Subordinated Notes to the holders of Trust Securities in
liquidation of such Trust, the redemption of all of the Trust Securities of such
Trust, or certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted by
the related Trust Agreement, and (b) to otherwise continue to be classified as a
grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
The Subordinated Note Indenture provides that any one or more of the
following described events with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes of any
series, which has occurred and is continuing, constitutes an "Event of Default"
with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes of such series:
(a) failure for 10 days to pay interest on the Junior Subordinated
Notes of such series, including any Additional Interest (as defined in
clause (ii) of the definition thereof in the Subordinated Note Indenture)
in respect thereof, when due on an Interest Payment Date other than at
maturity or upon
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earlier redemption; provided, however, that a valid extension of the
interest payment period by the Company shall not constitute a default in
the payment of interest for this purpose; or
(b) failure for 10 days to pay Additional Interest (as defined in
clause (i) of the definition thereof in the Subordinated Note Indenture);
or
(c) failure to pay principal or premium, if any, or interest,
including Additional Interest (as defined in clause (ii) of the definition
thereof in the Subordinated Note Indenture), on the Junior Subordinated
Notes of such series when due at maturity or upon earlier redemption; or
(d) failure for three Business Days to deposit any sinking fund
payment when due by the terms of a Junior Subordinated Note of such series;
or
(e) failure to observe or perform any other covenant or warranty of
the Company in the Subordinated Note Indenture (other than a covenant or
warranty which has expressly been included therein solely for the benefit
of one or more series of Junior Subordinated Notes other than such series)
for 90 days after written notice to the Company from the Subordinated Note
Indenture Trustee or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
outstanding Junior Subordinated Notes of such series; or
(f) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency, or reorganization of the
Company.
The holders of not less than a majority in aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes of any series have the right to direct
the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available
to the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee with respect to the Junior
Subordinated Notes of such series. If a Subordinated Note Indenture Event of
Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes
of any series, then the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee or the holders of
not less than 25% in aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Junior
Subordinated Notes of such series may declare the principal amount thereof due
and payable immediately by notice in writing to the Company (and to the
Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee if given by the holders), and upon any such
declaration such principal amount shall become immediately due and payable. At
any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Junior
Subordinated Notes of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree
for payment of the money due has been obtained as provided in Article Five of
the Subordinated Note Indenture, the holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes of such
series may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if the
default has been cured or waived and the Company has paid or deposited with the
Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest (including any Additional Interest) and principal due
otherwise than by acceleration and all sums paid or advanced by the Subordinated
Note Indenture Trustee, including reasonable compensation and expenses of the
Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee.
A holder of Preferred Securities may institute a legal proceeding directly
against the Company, without first instituting a legal proceeding against the
Property Trustee or any other person or entity, for enforcement of payment to
such holder of principal of or interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes of the
related series having a principal amount equal to the aggregate stated
liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of such holder on or after the
due dates specified in the Junior Subordinated Notes of such series.
The holders of not less than a majority in aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes of any series may, on behalf of the
holders of all the Junior Subordinated Notes of such series, waive any past
default with respect to such series, except (i) a default in the payment of
principal or interest or (ii) a default in respect of a covenant or provision
which under Article Nine of the Subordinated Note Indenture cannot be modified
or amended thereunder without the consent of the holder of each outstanding
Junior Subordinated Note of such series affected thereby.
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REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER
The Company shall not be required to (i) issue, register the transfer of or
exchange Junior Subordinated Notes of any series during a period of 15 days
immediately preceding the date notice is given identifying the Junior
Subordinated Notes of such series called for redemption, or (ii) register the
transfer of or exchange any Junior Subordinated Notes so selected for
redemption, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Junior
Subordinated Note being redeemed in part.
PAYMENT AND PAYING AGENT
Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus Supplement, payment
of principal of any Junior Subordinated Notes will be made only against
surrender to the Paying Agent of such Junior Subordinated Notes. Principal of
and interest on Junior Subordinated Notes will be payable, subject to any
applicable laws and regulations, at the office of such Paying Agent or Paying
Agents as the Company may designate from time to time, except that, at the
option of the Company, payment of any interest may be made by wire transfer or
by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address
shall appear in the Security Register with respect to the Junior Subordinated
Notes. Payment of interest on Junior Subordinated Notes on any interest payment
date will be made to the person in whose name the Junior Subordinated Notes (or
predecessor security) are registered at the close of business on the Record Date
for such interest payment (the fifteenth calendar day before such interest
payment date).
Unless otherwise indicated in an applicable Prospectus Supplement, the
Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee will act as Paying Agent with respect to the
Junior Subordinated Notes. The Company may at any time designate additional
Paying Agents or rescind the designation of any Paying Agents or approve a
change in the office through which any Paying Agent acts.
All moneys paid by the Company to a Paying Agent for the payment of the
principal of or interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes of any series which
remain unclaimed at the end of two years after such principal or interest shall
have become due and payable will be repaid to the Company, and the holder of
such Junior Subordinated Notes will thereafter look only to the Company for
payment thereof.
MODIFICATION
The Subordinated Note Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company
and the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the holders of
not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Junior
Subordinated Notes of each series affected thereby, to modify the Subordinated
Note Indenture or the rights of the holders of the Junior Subordinated Note of
such series; provided, that no such modification may, without the consent of the
holder of each outstanding Junior Subordinated Note affected thereby, (i) change
the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or
interest on, any Junior Subordinated Note, or reduce the principal amount
thereof or the rate of interest (including Additional Interest) thereon or any
premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the method of calculating
the rate of interest thereon, or impair the right to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after the stated maturity thereof (or, in
the case of redemption, on or after the redemption date), or (ii) reduce the
percentage of principal amount of the outstanding Junior Subordinated Notes of
any series, the consent of whose holders is required for any such supplemental
indenture, or the consent of whose holders is required for any waiver (of
compliance with certain provisions of the Subordinated Note Indenture or certain
defaults thereunder and their consequences) provided for in the Subordinated
Note Indenture, or (iii) modify any of the provisions of the Subordinated Note
Indenture relating to supplemental indentures, waiver of past defaults, or
waiver of certain covenants, except to increase any such percentage or to
provide that certain other provisions of the Subordinated Note Indenture cannot
be modified or waived without the consent of the holder of each outstanding
Junior Subordinated Note affected thereby, or (iv) modify the provisions of the
Subordinated Note Indenture with respect to the subordination of the Junior
Subordinated Notes in a manner adverse to such holder.
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In addition, the Company and the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee may
execute, without the consent of any holders of Junior Subordinated Notes, any
supplemental indenture for certain other usual purposes, including the creation
of any new series of junior subordinated notes.
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER AND SALE
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other corporation
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any person, unless (1) such other corporation or person is a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any
state thereof or the District of Columbia and such other corporation or person
expressly assumes, by supplemental indenture executed and delivered to the
Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee, the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest (including Additional Interest) on all the Junior
Subordinated Notes and the performance of every covenant of the Subordinated
Note Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed; (2)
immediately after giving effect to such transactions, no Event of Default, and
no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of
Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and (3) the Company has
delivered to the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee an officers' certificate
and an opinion of counsel, each stating that such transaction complies with the
provisions of the Subordinated Note Indenture governing consolidation, merger,
conveyance, transfer or lease and that all conditions precedent thereto have
been complied with.
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SUBORDINATED NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
The Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee, prior to an Event of Default with
respect to Junior Subordinated Notes of any series, undertakes to perform, with
respect to Junior Subordinated Notes of such series, only such duties as are
specifically set forth in the Subordinated Note Indenture and, in case an Event
of Default with respect to Junior Subordinated Notes of any series has occurred
and is continuing, shall exercise, with respect to Junior Subordinated Notes of
such series, the same degree of care as a prudent individual would exercise in
the conduct of his or her own affairs. Subject to such provision, the
Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee is under no obligation to exercise any of
the powers vested in it by the Subordinated Note Indenture at the request of any
holder of Junior Subordinated Notes of any series, unless offered reasonable
indemnity by such holder against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might
be incurred thereby. The Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee is not required to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of its duties if the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee reasonably
believes that repayment or adequate indemnity is not reasonably assured to it.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee, also
serves as Senior Note Indenture Trustee, as Property Trustee and as Guarantee
Trustee. The Company and certain of its affiliates maintain deposit accounts and
banking relationships with The Chase Manhattan Bank. The Chase Manhattan Bank
also serves as trustee under other indentures pursuant to which securities of
the Company and affiliates of the Company are outstanding.
GOVERNING LAW
The Subordinated Note Indenture and the Junior Subordinated Notes will be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of
New York.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Company will have the right at all times to assign any of its rights or
obligations under the Subordinated Note Indenture to a direct or indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company; provided, that, in the event of any such
assignment, the Company will remain primarily liable for all such obligations.
Subject to the foregoing, the Subordinated Note Indenture will be binding upon
and inure to the benefit of the parties thereto and their respective successors
and assigns.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES
Each Trust may issue only one series of Preferred Securities having terms
described in the Prospectus Supplement relating thereto. The Trust Agreement of
each Trust will authorize the Administrative Trustees, on behalf of the Trust,
to issue the Preferred Securities of such Trust. The Preferred Securities of
each Trust will have such terms, including distributions, redemption, voting,
liquidation rights and such other preferred, deferral or other special rights or
such restrictions as shall be set forth in the Trust Agreement of such Trust.
Reference is made to the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Preferred
Securities of a Trust for specific terms, including (i) the distinctive
designation of such Preferred Securities; (ii) the number of Preferred
Securities issued by such Trust; (iii) the annual distribution rate (or method
of determining such rate) for Preferred Securities of such Trust and the date or
dates on which such distributions shall be payable; (iv) whether distributions
on such Preferred Securities shall be cumulative and, in the case of Preferred
Securities having cumulative distribution rights, the date or dates, or method
of determining the date or dates, from which distributions on such Preferred
Securities shall be cumulative; (v) the amount or amounts that shall be paid out
of the assets of such Trust to the holders of the Preferred Securities of such
Trust upon voluntary or involuntary dissolution, winding-up or termination of
such Trust; (vi) the obligation, if any, of such Trust to purchase or redeem
such Preferred Securities and the price or prices at which, the period or
periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which such Preferred
Securities shall be purchased or redeemed, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation; (vii) the voting rights, if any, of such Preferred Securities in
addition to those required by law, including the number of votes per Preferred
Security and any requirement for the approval by the holders of Preferred
Securities as a condition to specified action or amendments to the Trust
Agreement of such Trust; (viii) the rights, if any, to defer distributions on
the Preferred Securities by extending the interest payment period on the related
Junior Subordinated Notes; and (ix) any other relative rights, preferences,
privileges, limitations or restrictions of such Preferred Securities not
inconsistent with the Trust Agreement of such Trust or applicable law. All
Preferred Securities offered hereby will be guaranteed by the Company to the
extent set forth under "Description of the Guarantees." Any material United
States federal income tax considerations applicable to an offering of Preferred
Securities will be described in the Prospectus Supplement relating thereto.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GUARANTEES
Set forth below is a summary of information concerning the Guarantees that
will be executed and delivered by the Company for the benefit of the holders of
Preferred Securities of the respective Trusts from time to time. Each Guarantee
will be qualified as an indenture under the 1939 Act. The Chase Manhattan Bank
will act as indenture trustee under each Guarantee (the "Guarantee Trustee") for
purposes of the 1939 Act. The terms of the respective Guarantees will be those
set forth therein and those made part thereof by the 1939 Act. The following
summary does not purport to be complete and is subject in all respects to the
provisions of, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the Guarantees,
the form of which is filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which
this Prospectus forms a part, and the 1939 Act. Each Guarantee will be held by
the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of holders of the Preferred Securities to
which it relates.
GENERAL
Pursuant to each Guarantee, the Company will irrevocably and
unconditionally agree, to the extent set forth therein, to pay in full, to the
holders of the related Preferred Securities, the Guarantee Payments (as defined
herein), to the extent not paid by, or on behalf of, the related Trust,
regardless of any defense, right of set-off or counterclaim that the Company may
have or assert against any person. The following payments or distributions with
respect to the Preferred Securities of any Trust to the extent not paid or made
by, or on behalf of, such Trust will be subject to the Guarantee related thereto
(without duplication): (i) any accrued and unpaid distributions required to be
paid on the Preferred Securities of such Trust but if and only if and to the
extent that such Trust has funds legally and immediately available therefor,
(ii) the redemption price, including all accrued and unpaid distributions to the
date of redemption (the "Redemption Price"), with respect to any Preferred
Securities called for redemption by such Trust, but if and only to the extent
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Trust has funds legally and immediately available therefor, and (iii) upon a
dissolution, winding-up or termination of such Trust (other than in connection
with the distribution of Junior Subordinated Notes to the holders of Trust
Securities of such Trust or the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities of
such Trust), the lesser of (a) the aggregate of the liquidation amount and all
accrued and unpaid distributions on the Preferred Securities of such Trust to
the date of payment, to the extent such Trust has funds legally and immediately
available therefor, and (b) the amount of assets of such Trust remaining
available for distribution to holders of Preferred Securities of such Trust in
liquidation of such Trust (the "Guarantee Payments"). The Company's obligation
to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct payment of the required
amounts by the Company to the holders of the related Preferred Securities or by
causing the related Trust to pay such amounts to such holders.
Each Guarantee will be a guarantee of the Guarantee Payments with respect
to the related Preferred Securities from the time of issuance of such Preferred
Securities, but will not apply to the payment of distributions and other
payments on such Preferred Securities when the related Trust does not have
sufficient funds legally and immediately available to make such distributions or
other payments. IF THE COMPANY DOES NOT MAKE INTEREST PAYMENTS ON THE JUNIOR
SUBORDINATED NOTES HELD BY THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE UNDER ANY TRUST, SUCH TRUST WILL
NOT MAKE DISTRIBUTIONS ON ITS PREFERRED SECURITIES.
SUBORDINATION
The Company's obligations under each Guarantee to make the Guarantee
Payments will constitute an unsecured obligation of the Company and will rank
(i) subordinate and junior in right of payment to all other liabilities of the
Company, including the Junior Subordinated Notes, except those obligations or
liabilities made pari passu or subordinate by their terms, (ii) pari passu with
the most senior preferred or preference stock now or hereafter issued by the
Company and with any guarantee now or hereafter entered into by the Company in
respect of any preferred or preference securities of any affiliate of the
Company, and (iii) senior to all common stock of the Company. The terms of the
Preferred Securities will provide that each holder of Preferred Securities by
acceptance thereof agrees to the subordination provisions and other terms of the
Guarantee related thereto. The Company has outstanding preferred stock that
ranks pari passu to the Guarantees and common stock that ranks junior to the
Guarantees.
Each Guarantee will constitute a guarantee of payment and not of collection
(that is, the guaranteed party may institute a legal proceeding directly against
the guarantor to enforce its rights under the guarantee without first
instituting a legal proceeding against any other person or entity).
AMENDMENTS AND ASSIGNMENT
Except with respect to any changes that do not materially and adversely
affect the rights of holders of the related Preferred Securities (in which case
no consent will be required), each Guarantee may be amended only with the prior
approval of the holders of not less than 66 2/3% in liquidation amount of such
outstanding Preferred Securities. The manner of obtaining any such approval of
holders of the Preferred Securities will be as set forth in an accompanying
Prospectus Supplement. All guarantees and agreements contained in each Guarantee
shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of
the Company and shall inure to the benefit of the holders of the related
Preferred Securities then outstanding.
TERMINATION
Each Guarantee will terminate and be of no further force and effect as to
the related Preferred Securities upon full payment of the Redemption Price of
all such Preferred Securities, upon distribution of Junior Subordinated Notes to
the holders of such Preferred Securities, or upon full payment of the amounts
payable upon liquidation of the related Trust. Each Guarantee will continue to
be effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any
holder of the related Preferred Securities must restore payment of any sums paid
with respect to such Preferred Securities or under such Guarantee.
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT
An event of default under each Guarantee will occur upon the failure by the
Company to perform any of its payment obligations thereunder. The holders of a
majority in liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities to which any
Guarantee relates have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in
respect of such Guarantee or to direct the exercise of any trust or power
conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under such Guarantee. Any holder of the
related Preferred Securities may institute a legal proceeding directly against
the Company to enforce its rights under such Guarantee without first instituting
a legal proceeding against the Guarantee Trustee or any other person or entity.
The holders of a majority in liquidation amount of Preferred Securities of any
series may, by vote, on behalf of the holders of all the Preferred Securities of
such series, waive any past event of default and its consequences.
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
The Guarantee Trustee, prior to the occurrence of any event of default with
respect to any Guarantee and after the curing or waiving of all events of
default with respect to such Guarantee, undertakes to perform only such duties
as are specifically set forth in such Guarantee and, in case an event of default
has occurred, shall exercise the same degree of care as a prudent individual
would exercise in the conduct of his or her own affairs. Subject to such
provisions, the Guarantee Trustee is under no obligation to exercise any of the
powers vested in it by any Guarantee at the request of any holder of the related
Preferred Securities, unless offered reasonable indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred thereby.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, the Guarantee Trustee, also serves as Property
Trustee, as Senior Note Indenture Trustee and as Subordinated Note Indenture
Trustee. The Company and certain of its affiliates maintain deposit accounts and
banking relationships with The Chase Manhattan Bank. The Chase Manhattan Bank
serves as trustee under other indentures pursuant to which securities of the
Company and affiliates of the Company are outstanding.
GOVERNING LAW
Each Guarantee will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the
internal laws of the State of New York.
THE AGREEMENTS AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES
Pursuant to an Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities to be entered into
by the Company under each Trust Agreement, the Company will irrevocably and
unconditionally guarantee to each person or entity to whom each Trust becomes
indebted or liable the full payment of any indebtedness, expenses or liabilities
of such Trust, other than obligations of such Trust to pay to the holders of the
related Preferred Securities or other similar interests in such Trust the
amounts due such holders pursuant to the terms of such Preferred Securities or
such other similar interests, as the case may be.
RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE PREFERRED SECURITIES,
THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES AND THE GUARANTEES
As long as payments of interest and other payments are made when due on
each series of Junior Subordinated Notes issued to a Trust, such payments will
be sufficient to cover distributions and payments due on the related Trust
Securities of such Trust primarily because (i) the aggregate principal amount of
each series of Junior Subordinated Notes will be equal to the sum of the
aggregate stated liquidation amount of the related Trust Securities; (ii) the
interest rate and interest and other payment dates on each series of Junior
Subordinated Notes will match the distribution rate and distribution and other
payment dates for the related Preferred Securities; (iii) the Company shall pay
for all costs and expenses of each Trust pursuant to the Agreements as to
Expenses and Liabilities; and (iv) each Trust Agreement provides that the
Securities
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Trustees thereunder shall not cause or permit the Trust to, among other things,
engage in any activity that is not consistent with the purposes of the Trust.
Payments of distributions (to the extent funds therefor are legally and
immediately available) and other payments due on the Preferred Securities (to
the extent funds therefor are legally and immediately available) will be
guaranteed by the Company as and to the extent set forth under "Description of
the Guarantees." If the Company does not make interest payments on any series of
Junior Subordinated Notes, it is not expected that the related Trust will have
sufficient funds to pay distributions on its Preferred Securities. Each
Guarantee is a guarantee from the time of its issuance, but does not apply to
any payment of distributions unless and until the related Trust has sufficient
funds legally and immediately available for the payment of such distributions.
If the Company fails to make interest or other payments on any series of
Junior Subordinated Notes when due (taking into account any extension period as
described in the applicable Prospectus Supplement), the Trust Agreement provides
a mechanism whereby the holders of the related Preferred Securities may appoint
a substitute Property Trustee. Such holders may also direct the Property Trustee
to enforce its rights under the Junior Subordinated Notes of such series,
including proceeding directly against the Company to enforce such Junior
Subordinated Notes. If the Property Trustee fails to enforce its rights under
any series of Junior Subordinated Notes, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, any holder of related Preferred Securities may institute a legal
proceeding directly against the Company to enforce the Property Trustee's rights
under such series of Junior Subordinated Notes without first instituting any
legal proceeding against the Property Trustee or any other person or entity.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a holder of Preferred Securities may institute a
legal proceeding directly against the Company, without first instituting a legal
proceeding against the Property Trustee or any other person or entity, for
enforcement of payment to such holder of principal of or interest on Junior
Subordinated Notes of the related series having a principal amount equal to the
aggregate stated liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of such holder
on or after the due dates specified in the Junior Subordinated Notes of such
series.
If the Company fails to make payments under any Guarantee, such Guarantee
provides a mechanism whereby the holders of the Preferred Securities to which
such Guarantee relates may direct the Guarantee Trustee to enforce its rights
thereunder. In addition, any holder of Preferred Securities may institute a
legal proceeding directly against the Company to enforce the Guarantee Trustee's
rights under the related Guarantee without first instituting a legal proceeding
against the Guarantee Trustee or any other person or entity.
Each Guarantee, the Subordinated Note Indenture, the Junior Subordinated
Notes of the related series, the related Trust Agreement and the related
Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities, as described above, constitute a full
and unconditional guarantee by the Company of the payments due on the related
series of Preferred Securities.
Upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, winding-up or termination of
any Trust, unless Junior Subordinated Notes of the related series are
distributed in connection therewith, the holders of Preferred Securities of such
Trust will be entitled to receive, out of assets legally available for
distribution to holders, a liquidation distribution in cash as described in the
applicable Prospectus Supplement. Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation
or bankruptcy of the Company, the Property Trustee, as holder of the related
series of Junior Subordinated Notes, would be a subordinated creditor of the
Company, subordinated in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness, but
entitled to receive payment in full of principal and interest, before any
stockholders of the Company receive payments or distributions. Because the
Company is guarantor under each Guarantee and has agreed to pay for all costs,
expenses and liabilities of each Trust (other than the Trust's obligations to
holders of the Preferred Securities) pursuant to the related Agreement as to
Expenses and Liabilities, the positions of a holder of Preferred Securities and
a holder of Junior Subordinated Notes of the related series relative to other
creditors and to stockholders of the Company in the event of liquidation or
bankruptcy of the Company would be substantially the same.
A default or event of default under any Senior Indebtedness would not
constitute a default or Event of Default under the Subordinated Note Indenture.
However, in the event of payment defaults under, or
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acceleration of, Senior Indebtedness, the subordination provisions of the Junior
Subordinated Notes provide that no payments may be made in respect of the Junior
Subordinated Notes until such Senior Indebtedness has been paid in full or any
payment default thereunder has been cured or waived. Failure to make required
payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes of any series would constitute an
Event of Default under the Subordinated Note Indenture with respect to the
Junior Subordinated Notes of such series except that failure to make interest
payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes of such series will not be an Event of
Default during an extension period as described in the applicable Prospectus
Supplement.
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
The Company may sell the Senior Notes and the Junior Subordinated Notes and
the Trusts may sell the Preferred Securities in one or more of the following
ways from time to time: (i) to underwriters for resale to the public or to
institutional investors; (ii) directly to institutional investors; or (iii)
through agents to the public or to institutional investors. The Prospectus
Supplement with respect to each series of Senior Notes, Junior Subordinated
Notes or Preferred Securities will set forth the terms of the offering of such
Senior Notes, Junior Subordinated Notes or Preferred Securities, including the
name or names of any underwriters or agents, the purchase price of such Senior
Notes, Junior Subordinated Notes or Preferred Securities and the proceeds to the
Company or the applicable Trust from such sale, any underwriting discounts or
agency fees and other items constituting underwriters' or agents' compensation,
any initial public offering price, any discounts or concessions allowed or
reallowed or paid to dealers and any securities exchange on which such Senior
Notes, Junior Subordinated Notes or Preferred Securities may be listed.
If underwriters participate in the sale, such Senior Notes, Junior
Subordinated Notes or Preferred Securities will be acquired by the underwriters
for their own account and may be resold from time to time in one or more
transactions, including negotiated transactions, at a fixed public offering
price or at varying prices determined at the time of sale.
Unless otherwise set forth in the Prospectus Supplement, the obligations of
the underwriters to purchase any series of Senior Notes, Junior Subordinated
Notes or Preferred Securities will be subject to certain conditions precedent
and the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all of such series of Senior
Notes, Junior Subordinated Notes or Preferred Securities, if any are purchased.
Underwriters and agents may be entitled under agreements entered into with
the Company and/or the applicable Trust to indemnification against certain civil
liabilities, including liabilities under the 1933 Act. Underwriters and agents
may engage in transactions with, or perform services for, the Company in the
ordinary course of business.
Each series of Senior Notes, Junior Subordinated Notes or Preferred
Securities will be a new issue of securities and will have no established
trading market. Any underwriters to whom Senior Notes, Junior Subordinated Notes
or Preferred Securities are sold for public offering and sale may make a market
in such Senior Notes, Junior Subordinated Notes or Preferred Securities, but
such underwriters will not be obligated to do so and may discontinue any market
making at any time without notice. The Senior Notes, Junior Subordinated Notes
or Preferred Securities may or may not be listed on a national securities
exchange.
LEGAL MATTERS
Certain matters of Delaware law relating to the validity of the Preferred
Securities will be passed upon on behalf of the Company and the Trusts by
Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, special Delaware counsel
to the Company and the Trusts. The validity of the Senior Notes, the Junior
Subordinated Notes, the Guarantees and certain matters relating thereto will be
passed upon on behalf of the Company by Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, Georgia.
Certain legal matters will be passed upon for the Underwriters by Dewey
Ballantine LLP, New York, New York.
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EXPERTS
The financial statements and schedules of the Company included in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998,
incorporated by reference in this Prospectus, have been audited by Arthur
Andersen LLP, independent public accountants, as indicated in their reports with
respect thereto, and are incorporated herein in reliance upon the authority of
said firm as experts in accounting and auditing in giving said reports.
Statements as to matters of law and legal conclusions in the Company's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998, relating to
titles to property of the Company under "Item 2 -- Properties -- Titles to
Property", and relating to the Company under "Item 1 -- Business -- Regulation",
"Item 1 -- Business -- Rate Matters" and "Item 1 -- Business -- Competition",
have been reviewed by Troutman Sanders LLP, general counsel for the Company, and
such statements are made upon the authority of such firm as experts.
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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
ITEM 14. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.
The estimated expenses of issuance and distribution, other than
underwriting discounts and commissions, to be borne by the Company are as
follows:
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Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee......... $ 278,000
Fees and expenses of trustees and/or Transfer Agent and
Registrar................................................. 57,000
Listing fees of New York Stock Exchange..................... 116,300
Printing and engraving expenses............................. 150,000
Rating Agency fees.......................................... 366,500
Services of Southern Company Services, Inc.................. 105,000
Fees and expenses of counsel................................ 170,000
Blue sky fees and expenses.................................. 21,000
Fees of accountants......................................... 170,000
Miscellaneous expenses...................................... 21,200
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Total............................................. $1,455,000*
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* Each Prospectus Supplement will reflect estimated expenses of the Company
based upon the amount of the related offering.
ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
The applicable statutes of the State of Georgia provide that a corporation
may indemnify an individual who is a party to a proceeding because he or she is
or was a director of the corporation or who, while a director of the
corporation, is or was serving at the corporation's request as a director,
officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another domestic or foreign
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other
entity against liability incurred in the proceeding if such individual conducted
himself or herself in good faith and such individual reasonably believed, in the
case of conduct in his or her official capacity, that such conduct was in the
best interest of the corporation, in all other cases, that such conduct was at
least not opposed to the best interest of the corporation and, in the case of
any criminal proceeding, that the individual had no reasonable cause to believe
his conduct was unlawful. However, a corporation may not indemnify a director in
connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation except for
reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the proceeding if it is
determined that the director has met the relevant standard of conduct or in
connection with any proceeding in which he or she was adjudged liable on the
basis that personal benefit was improperly received by him or her, whether or
not involving action in his or her official capacity. In addition, a corporation
shall indemnify a director who was wholly successful, on the merits or
otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which he or she was a party
because he or she was a director of the corporation against reasonable expenses
incurred by the director in connection with the proceeding. Also, a corporation
may indemnify and advance expenses to an officer of the corporation who is a
party to a proceeding because he or she is an officer of the corporation to the
same extent as a director and, if he or she is not a director, to such further
extent as may be provided by the articles of incorporation, the by-laws, a
resolution of the board of directors or contract, except for liability arising
out of conduct that constitutes: appropriation, in violation of his or her
duties, or any business opportunity of the corporation; acts or omissions which
involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; unlawful
distributions; or receipt of an improper personal benefit, and a corporation may
also indemnify an employee or agent who is not a director to the extent,
consistent with public policy, that may be provided by its articles of
incorporation, by-laws, general or specific action of its board of directors, or
contract.
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Section 41 of the By-laws of the Company provides in pertinent part as
follows:
Each person who is or was a director or officer of the Company or is
or was an employee of the Company holding one or more positions of
management through and inclusive of department managers (but not positions
below the level of department managers) (such positions being hereinafter
referred to as "Management Positions") and who was or is a party or was or
is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed
claim, action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative
or investigative, by reason of the fact that he is or was a director or
officer of the Company or is or was an employee of the Company holding one
or more Management Positions, or is or was serving at the request of the
Company as a director, officer, employee, agent or trustee of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or
other enterprise, shall be indemnified by the Company as a matter of right
against any and all expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and
reasonably incurred by him and against any and all claims, judgments,
fines, penalties, liabilities and amounts paid in settlement actually
incurred by him in defense of such claim, action, suit or proceeding,
including appeals, to the full extent permitted by applicable law. The
indemnification provided by this Section shall inure to the benefit of the
heirs, executors and administrators of such person.
Expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by a director or officer
of the Company or employee of the Company holding one or more Management
Positions with respect to the defense of any such claim, action, suit or
proceeding may be advanced by the Company prior to the final disposition of
such claim, action, suit or proceeding, as authorized by the Board of
Directors in the specific case, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on
behalf of such person to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be
determined that such person is entitled to be indemnified by the Company
under this Section or otherwise; provided, however, that the advancement of
such expenses shall not be deemed to be indemnification unless and until it
shall ultimately be determined that such person is entitled to be
indemnified by the Company.
The Company may purchase and maintain insurance at the expense of the
Company on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee
or agent of the Company, or any person who is or was serving at the request
of the Company as a director (or the equivalent), officer, employee, agent
or trustee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust,
employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against any liability or expense
(including attorneys' fees) asserted against him and incurred by him in any
such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the
Company would have the power to indemnify him against such liability or
expense under this Section or otherwise.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions of this
Section, no present or future director or officer of the Company, or his
heirs, executors, or administrators, shall be liable for any act, omission,
step, or conduct taken or had in good faith, which is required, authorized,
or approved by any order or orders issued pursuant to the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935, the Federal Power Act, or any federal or state
statute or municipal ordinance regulating the Company, its parent or its
subsidiaries by reason of their being holding or investment companies,
public utility companies, public utility holding companies, or subsidiaries
of public utility holding companies. In any action, suit, or proceeding
based on any act, omission, step, or conduct, as in this paragraph
described, the provisions hereof shall be brought to the attention of the
court. In the event that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph are
found by the court not to constitute a valid defense on the grounds of not
being applicable to the particular class of plaintiff, each such director
and officer, and his heirs, executors, and administrators, shall be
reimbursed for, or indemnified against, all expenses and liabilities
incurred by him or imposed on him, in connection with, or arising out of,
any such action, suit, or proceeding based on any act, omission, step, or
conduct taken or had in good faith as in this paragraph described. Such
expenses and liabilities shall include, but shall not be limited to,
judgments, court costs, and attorneys' fees.
The foregoing rights shall not be exclusive of any other rights to
which any such director or officer may otherwise be entitled and shall be
available whether or not the director or officer continues to be a director
or officer at the time of incurring any such expenses and liabilities.
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The Company has an insurance policy covering its liabilities and expenses
which might arise in connection with its lawful indemnification of its directors
and officers for certain of their liabilities and expenses and also covering its
officers and directors against certain other liabilities and expenses.
ITEM 16. EXHIBITS.
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NUMBER
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1.1 -- Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Senior Notes.*
1.2 -- Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Junior
Subordinated Notes.*
1.3 -- Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Preferred
Securities.*
4.1 -- Senior Note Indenture between Georgia Power Company and The
Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee (Designated in the
Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 21,
1998 as Exhibit 4.1).
4.2 -- Form of Supplemental Indenture to Senior Note Indenture to
be used in connection with the issuance of Senior Notes.*
4.3 -- Subordinated Note Indenture between Georgia Power Company
and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee (Designated in
Certificate of Notification, File No. 70-8461, as Exhibit
D).
4.4 -- Form of Supplemental Indenture to Subordinated Note
Indenture to be used in connection with the issuance of
Junior Subordinated Notes.*
4.5-A -- Certificate of Trust of Georgia Power Capital Trust V
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.5-B).
4.5-B -- Certificate of Trust of Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.5-C).
4.6-A -- Trust Agreement of Georgia Power Capital Trust V (Designated
in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit 4.6-B).
4.6-B -- Trust Agreement of Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.6-C).
4.7-A -- Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Georgia
Power Capital Trust V (Designated in Registration No.
333-43895 as Exhibit 4.7-B).
4.7-B -- Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Georgia
Power Capital Trust VI (Designated in Exhibit 333-43895 as
Exhibit 4.7-C).
4.8-A -- Form of Preferred Security of Georgia Power Capital Trust V
(included in Exhibit 4.7-A above).
4.8-B -- Form of Preferred Security of Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(included in Exhibit 4.7-B above).
4.9 -- Form of Senior Note (included in Exhibit 4.2 above).
4.10 -- Form of Junior Subordinated Note (included in Exhibit 4.4
above).
4.11-A -- Form of Guarantee relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust V
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.11-B).
4.11-B -- Form of Guarantee relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.11-C).
4.12-A -- Form of Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities relating to
Georgia Power Capital Trust V (included in Exhibit 4.7-A
above).
4.12-B -- Form of Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities relating to
Georgia Power Capital Trust VI (included in Exhibit 4.7-B
above).
5.1 -- Opinion of Troutman Sanders LLP.
5.2-A -- Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. relating to
Georgia Power Capital Trust V.
5.2-B -- Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. relating to
Georgia Power Capital Trust VI.
12.1 -- Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges.
12.2 -- Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges plus
preferred dividend requirements (pre-income tax basis).
23.1 -- Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.
23.2 -- Consent of Troutman Sanders LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1
above).
23.3 -- Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. (included in
Exhibits 5.2-A and 5.2-B above).
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NUMBER
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24.1 -- Powers of Attorney and Resolution.
25.1 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Senior Note
Indenture Trustee.
25.2 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Subordinated
Note Indenture Trustee.
25.3 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Property
Trustee, relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust V.
25.4 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Guarantee
Trustee, relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust V.
25.5 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Property
Trustee, relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust VI.
25.6 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Guarantee
Trustee, relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust VI.
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Exhibits listed above which have heretofore been filed with the Commission
and which were designated as noted above are hereby incorporated herein by
reference and made a part hereof with the same effect as if filed herewith.
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* To be subsequently filed or incorporated by reference.
ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.
(a) Undertaking related to Rule 415 offering:
The undersigned registrants hereby undertake:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
the Securities Act of 1933;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in
the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set
forth in the registration statement; Notwithstanding the foregoing,
any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which
was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of
prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in
the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than
20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
"Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration
statement.
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement;
Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not
apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, S-8 or F-3 and the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrants
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
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securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at
the termination of the offering.
(b) Undertaking related to filings incorporating subsequent Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 documents by reference:
The undersigned registrants hereby undertake that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of
the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in
the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of
such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide
offering thereof.
(c) Undertaking related to acceleration of effectiveness:
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
controlling persons of the registrants pursuant to the foregoing provisions
or otherwise, the registrants have been advised that in the opinion of the
Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than
the payment by the registrants of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
officer or controlling person of the registrants in the successful defense
of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
registrants will, unless in the opinion of their counsel the matter has
been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against
public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
(d) The undersigned registrants hereby undertake that:
(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act
of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part
of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in
a form of prospectus filed by the registrants pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or
(4) or 497(h) under the Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration
statement as of the time it was declared effective.
(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
Act of 1933, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of
prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
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SIGNATURES
PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, GEORGIA POWER
COMPANY CERTIFIES THAT IT HAS REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT IT MEETS ALL OF
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR FILING ON FORM S-3 AND HAS DULY CAUSED THIS REGISTRATION
STATEMENT TO BE SIGNED ON ITS BEHALF BY THE UNDERSIGNED, THEREUNTO DULY
AUTHORIZED, IN THE CITY OF ATLANTA, STATE OF GEORGIA, ON THE 29TH DAY OF MARCH,
1999.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
By: H. ALLEN FRANKLIN,
President and Chief Executive
Officer
By: WAYNE BOSTON,
Attorney-in-fact
PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, GEORGIA POWER
CAPITAL TRUST V CERTIFIES THAT IT HAS REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT IT
MEETS ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR FILING ON FORM S-3 AND HAS DULY CAUSED THIS
REGISTRATION STATEMENT TO BE SIGNED ON ITS BEHALF BY THE UNDERSIGNED, THEREUNTO
DULY AUTHORIZED, IN THE CITY OF ATLANTA, STATE OF GEORGIA, ON THE 29TH DAY OF
MARCH, 1999.
GEORGIA POWER CAPITAL TRUST V
By: GEORGIA POWER COMPANY,
Depositor
By: WAYNE BOSTON,
Assistant Secretary
PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, GEORGIA POWER
CAPITAL TRUST VI CERTIFIES THAT IT HAS REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT IT
MEETS ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR FILING ON FORM S-3 AND HAS DULY CAUSED THIS
REGISTRATION STATEMENT TO BE SIGNED ON ITS BEHALF BY THE UNDERSIGNED, THEREUNTO
DULY AUTHORIZED, IN THE CITY OF ATLANTA, STATE OF GEORGIA, ON THE 29TH DAY OF
MARCH, 1999.
GEORGIA POWER CAPITAL TRUST VI
By: GEORGIA POWER COMPANY,
Depositor
By: WAYNE BOSTON,
Assistant Secretary
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PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, THIS
REGISTRATION STATEMENT HAS BEEN SIGNED BY THE FOLLOWING DIRECTORS AND
OFFICERS OF GEORGIA POWER COMPANY IN THE CAPACITIES AND ON THE DATE INDICATED.
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SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
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<C> <S> <C>
H. ALLEN FRANKLIN President, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
(Principal Executive
Officer)
DAVID M. RATCLIFFE Executive Vice President,
Treasurer and Chief
Financial Officer (Principal
Financial Officer)
CLIFF S. THRASHER Vice President and Comptroller
(Principal Accounting
Officer)
JUANITA P. BARANCO
A.W. DAHLBERG
WILLIAM A. FICKLING, JR.
L. G. HARDMAN III
WARREN Y. JOBE
JAMES R. LIENTZ, JR. Directors
ZELL MILLER
G. JOSEPH PRENDERGAST
HERMAN J. RUSSELL
WILLIAM JERRY VEREEN
CARL WARE
BY WAYNE BOSTON March 29, 1999
(WAYNE BOSTON, ATTORNEY-IN-FACT)
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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EXHIBIT
NUMBER
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1.1 -- Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Senior Notes.*
1.2 -- Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Junior
Subordinated Notes.*
1.3 -- Form of Underwriting Agreement relating to Preferred
Securities.*
4.1 -- Senior Note Indenture between Georgia Power Company and The
Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee (Designated in the
Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 21,
1998 as Exhibit 4.1).
4.2 -- Form of Supplemental Indenture to Senior Note Indenture to
be used in connection with the issuance of Senior Notes.*
4.3 -- Subordinated Note Indenture between Georgia Power Company
and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee (Designated in
Certificate of Notification, File No. 70-8461, as Exhibit
D).
4.4 -- Form of Supplemental Indenture to Subordinated Note
Indenture to be used in connection with the issuance of
Junior Subordinated Notes.*
4.5-A -- Certificate of Trust of Georgia Power Capital Trust V
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.5-B).
4.5-B -- Certificate of Trust of Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.5-C).
4.6-A -- Trust Agreement of Georgia Power Capital Trust V (Designated
in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit 4.6-B).
4.6-B -- Trust Agreement of Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.6-C).
4.7-A -- Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Georgia
Power Capital Trust V (Designated in Registration No.
333-43895 as Exhibit 4.7-B).
4.7-B -- Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Georgia
Power Capital Trust VI (Designated in Exhibit 333-43895 as
Exhibit 4.7-C).
4.8-A -- Form of Preferred Security of Georgia Power Capital Trust V
(included in Exhibit 4.7-A above).
4.8-B -- Form of Preferred Security of Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(included in Exhibit 4.7-B above).
4.9 -- Form of Senior Note (included in Exhibit 4.2 above).
4.10 -- Form of Junior Subordinated Note (included in Exhibit 4.4
above).
4.11-A -- Form of Guarantee relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust V
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.11-B).
4.11-B -- Form of Guarantee relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
(Designated in Registration No. 333-43895 as Exhibit
4.11-C).
4.12-A -- Form of Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities relating to
Georgia Power Capital Trust V (included in Exhibit 4.7-A
above).
4.12-B -- Form of Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities relating to
Georgia Power Capital Trust VI (included in Exhibit 4.7-B
above).
5.1 -- Opinion of Troutman Sanders LLP.
5.2-A -- Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. relating to
Georgia Power Capital Trust V.
5.2-B -- Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. relating to
Georgia Power Capital Trust VI.
12.1 -- Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges.
12.2 -- Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges plus
preferred dividend requirements (pre-income tax basis).
23.1 -- Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.
23.2 -- Consent of Troutman Sanders LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1
above).
23.3 -- Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. (included in
Exhibits 5.2-A and 5.2-B above).
24.1 -- Powers of Attorney and Resolution.
25.1 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Senior Note
Indenture Trustee.
25.2 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Subordinated
Note Indenture Trustee.
25.3 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Property
Trustee, relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust V.
25.4 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Guarantee
Trustee, relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust V.
25.5 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Property
Trustee, relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust VI.
25.6 -- Statement of Eligibility under Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Guarantee
Trustee, relating to Georgia Power Capital Trust VI.
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Exhibits listed above which have heretofore been filed with the Commission
and which were designated as noted above are hereby incorporated herein by
reference and made a part hereof with the same effect as if filed herewith.
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* To be subsequently filed or incorporated by reference.
Exhibit 5.1
TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP
600 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 5200
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-2216
(404) 885-3000
March 29, 1999
Georgia Power Company
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-3374
Re: Registration Statement on Form S-3
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are acting as counsel to Georgia Power Company (the "Company") in
connection with the preparation of a Registration Statement on Form S-3,
including a preliminary prospectus, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") on March 29, 1999 (the "Registration Statement"),
for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"),
of (1) Junior Subordinated Notes (the "Junior Subordinated Notes") to be issued
by the Company, (2) Trust Preferred Securities to be issued by Georgia Power
Capital Trust V and Georgia Power Capital Trust VI, (3) the Company's Guarantees
(as defined in the Registration Statement) with respect to such Preferred
Securities and (4) Senior Notes (the "Senior Notes") to be issued by the
Company. The Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued pursuant to the
Subordinated Note Indenture, dated as of June 1, 1997, as supplemented, between
the Company and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as trustee (the "Subordinated Note
Indenture"), the Guarantees will be issued pursuant to separate guarantee
agreements between the Company and the trustee named therein (the "Guarantee
Agreements") and the Senior Notes will be issued pursuant to the Senior Note
Indenture, dated as of January 1, 1998, as supplemented, between the Company and
The Chase Manhattan Bank, as trustee (the "Senior Note Indenture"), in each case
in the respective forms filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement.
We are of the opinion that, upon compliance with the pertinent
provisions of the Act, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, upon compliance with
applicable securities or blue sky laws of various jurisdictions, upon the
adoption of appropriate resolutions by the Board of Directors of the Company or
a duly authorized committee thereof, when the Subordinated Note Indenture, the
Guarantee Agreements and the Senior Note Indenture have been duly executed and
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Georgia Power Company
March 29, 1999
Page 2
delivered by the proper officers of the Company and the trustees named therein,
and when the Junior Subordinated Notes, the Guarantees and the Senior Notes have
been executed, authenticated and delivered in accordance with the terms of the
Subordinated Note Indenture, the Guarantee Agreements and the Senior Note
Indenture, as the case may be, the Junior Subordinated Notes, the Guarantees and
the Senior Notes will be valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company
(subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and to
general principles of equity, whether considered in a proceeding at law or in
equity). In rendering the foregoing opinion, with respect to matters of New York
law, we have relied on the opinion of Dewey Ballantine LLP attached hereto as
Annex I.
We also advise you that we have reviewed certain statements in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998, as
indicated under the caption "Experts" in the prospectus forming part of the
Registration Statement, as to matters of law and legal conclusions and, in our
opinion, such statements are correct in all material respects.
In connection with the opinions expressed above, we have assumed that,
at or prior to the time of the delivery of any such security, (i) the
Registration Statement shall have been declared effective and such effectiveness
shall not have been terminated or rescinded and (ii) there shall not have
occurred any change in law affecting the validity or enforceability of such
security. We have also assumed that none of the terms of any security to be
established subsequent to the date hereof, nor the issuance and delivery of such
security, nor the compliance by the Company with the terms of such security will
violate any applicable law or will result in a violation of any provision of any
instrument or agreement then binding upon the Company, or any restriction
imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement and to the statements with respect to our firm under the
caption "Experts" in the prospectus forming part of the Registration Statement.
Very truly yours,
/s/Troutman Sanders LLP
TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP
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Annex I
Dewey Ballantine LLP
New York, New York
March 29, 1999
Troutman Sanders LLP
600 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Suite 5200
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Re: Registration Statement on Form S-3
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are acting as counsel to the prospective underwriters in connection
with the preparation of a Registration Statement on Form S-3, including a
preliminary prospectus, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") on March 29, 1999 (the "Registration Statement"), for the
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), of (1)
Junior Subordinated Notes (the "Junior Subordinated Notes") to be issued by
Georgia Power Company (the "Company"), (2) Trust Preferred Securities to be
issued by Georgia Power Capital Trust V and Georgia Power Capital Trust VI, (3)
the Company's Guarantees (as defined in the Registration Statement) with respect
to such Preferred Securities and (4) Senior Notes (the "Senior Notes") to be
issued by the Company. The Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued pursuant to
a subordinated note indenture, as supplemented, between the Company and the
trustee named therein (the "Subordinated Note Indenture"), the Guarantees will
be issued pursuant to separate guarantee agreements between the Company and the
trustee named therein (the "Guarantee Agreements") and the Senior Notes will be
issued pursuant to a senior note indenture, as supplemented, between the Company
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Troutman Sanders LLP
March 29, 1999
Page 2
and the trustee named therein (the "Senior Note Indenture"), in each case in the
respective forms filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement.
We are of the opinion that, upon compliance with the pertinent
provisions of the Act, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, upon compliance with
applicable securities or blue sky laws of various jurisdictions, upon the
adoption of appropriate resolutions by the Board of Directors of the Company or
a duly authorized committee thereof, when the Subordinated Note Indenture, the
Guarantee Agreements and the Senior Note Indenture have been duly executed and
delivered by the proper officers of the Company and the trustees named therein,
and when the Junior Subordinated Notes, the Guarantees and the Senior Notes have
been executed, authenticated and delivered in accordance with the terms of the
Subordinated Note Indenture, the Guarantee Agreements and the Senior Note
Indenture, as the case may be, the Junior Subordinated Notes, the Guarantees and
the Senior Notes will be valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company
(subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally and to
general principles of equity, whether considered in a proceeding at law or in
equity).
In connection with the opinions expressed above, we have assumed that,
at or prior to the time of the delivery of any such security, (i) the
Registration Statement shall have been declared effective and such effectiveness
shall not have been terminated or rescinded and (ii) there shall not have
occurred any change in law affecting the validity or enforceability of such
security. We have also assumed that none of the terms of any security to be
established subsequent to the date hereof, nor the issuance and delivery of such
security, nor the compliance by the Company with the terms of such security will
violate any applicable law or will result in a violation of any provision of any
instrument or agreement then binding upon the Company, or any restriction
imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company.
We are members of the State Bar of New York and we do not express any
opinion concerning any law other than the law of the State of New York.
This opinion is furnished solely for your benefit in connection with
your rendering an opinion to the Company to be filed as Exhibit 5.1 to the
Registration Statement and we hereby consent to your attaching this opinion as
an annex to such opinion. This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any
other purpose, or quoted to or relied upon by any other person, firm or entity
for any purpose, without our prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
/s/Dewey Ballantine LLP
DEWEY BALLANTINE LLP
Exhibit 5.2-A
Richards, Layton & Finger
One Rodney Square
Wilmington, Delaware 19899
302-658-6541
March 29, 1999
Georgia Power Capital Trust V
c/o Georgia Power Company
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Re: Georgia Power Capital Trust V
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special Delaware counsel for Georgia Power
Company, a Georgia corporation (the "Company"), and Georgia Power Capital Trust
V, a Delaware business trust (the "Trust" ), in connection with the matters set
forth herein. At your request, this opinion is being furnished to you.
For purposes of giving the opinions hereinafter set forth, our
examination of documents has been limited to the examination of originals or
copies of the following:
(a) The Certificate of Trust of the Trust, dated December 16,
1997 as filed with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
(the "Secretary of State") on December 16, 1997;
(b) The Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of December 16,
1997, between the Company and the trustees of the Trust named therein;
(c) The Registration Statement (the "Registration Statement")
on Form S-3, including a preliminary prospectus (the "Prospectus"), relating to
the Trust Preferred Securities of the Trust representing preferred undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust (each, a "Preferred Security"
and collectively, the "Preferred Securities"), filed by the Company and the
Trust with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about March 29, 1999;
(d) A form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for the
Trust, to be entered into between the Company, the trustees of the Trust named
therein, and the holders, from
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Georgia Power Capital Trust V
March 29, 1999
Page 2
time to time, of the undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust
(including Exhibits C and E thereto) (the "Trust Agreement"), attached as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement; and
(e) A Certificate of Good Standing for the Trust, dated March
29, 1999, obtained from the Secretary of State.
Initially capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined are used as defined in the Trust Agreement.
For purposes of this opinion, we have not reviewed any
documents other than the documents listed in paragraphs (a) through (e) above.
In particular, we have not reviewed any document (other than the documents
listed in paragraphs (a) through (e) above) that is referred to in or
incorporated by reference into the documents reviewed by us. We have assumed
that there exists no provision in any document that we have not reviewed that is
inconsistent with the opinions stated herein. We have conducted no independent
factual investigation of our own but rather have relied solely upon the
foregoing documents, the statements and information set forth therein and the
additional matters recited or assumed herein, all of which we have assumed to be
true, complete and accurate in all material respects.
With respect to all documents examined by us, we have assumed
(i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as authentic originals,
(ii) the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as
copies or forms, and (iii) the genuineness of all signatures.
For purposes of this opinion, we have assumed (i) that the
Trust Agreement and the Certificate of Trust are in full force and effect and
have not been amended, (ii) except to the extent provided in paragraph 1 below,
the due organization or due formation, as the case may be, and valid existence
in good standing of each party to the documents examined by us under the laws of
the jurisdiction governing its creation, organization or formation, (iii) the
legal capacity of natural persons who are parties to the documents examined by
us, (iv) that each of the parties to the documents examined by us has the power
and authority to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, such
documents, (v) the due authorization, execution and delivery by all parties
thereto of all documents examined by us, (vi) the receipt by each Person to whom
a Preferred Security is to be issued by the Trust (collectively, the "Preferred
Security Holders") of a certificate for such Preferred Security in the form
prescribed by the Trust Agreement and the payment for such Preferred Security,
in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the Registration Statement, and (vii)
that the Preferred Securities are issued and sold to the Preferred Security
Holders in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the Registration Statement.
We have not participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement and
assume no responsibility for its contents.
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Georgia Power Capital Trust V
March 29, 1999
Page 3
This opinion is limited to the laws of the State of Delaware
(excluding the securities laws of the State of Delaware), and we have not
considered and express no opinion on the laws of any other jurisdiction,
including federal laws and rules and regulations relating thereto. Our opinions
are rendered only with respect to Delaware laws and rules, regulations and
orders thereunder which are currently in effect.
Based upon the foregoing, and upon our examination of such
questions of law and statutes of the State of Delaware as we have considered
necessary or appropriate, and subject to the assumptions, qualifications,
limitations and exceptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:
1. The Trust has been duly created and is validly existing in
good standing as a business trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act.
2. The Preferred Securities of the Trust will represent valid
and, subject to the qualifications set forth in paragraph 3 below, fully paid
and nonassessable undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
3. The Preferred Security Holders, as beneficial owners of the
Trust, will be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to
stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. We note that the Preferred Security
Holders may be obligated to make payments as set forth in the Trust Agreement.
We consent to the filing of this opinion with the Securities
and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We hereby
consent to the use of our name under the heading "Legal Matters" in the
Prospectus. In giving the foregoing consents, we do not thereby admit that we
come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder. Except as stated above, without
our prior written consent, this opinion may not be furnished or quoted to, or
relied upon by, any other person for any purpose.
Very truly yours,
/s/Richards, Layton & Finger
CDK
Exhibit 5.2-B
Richards, Layton & Finger
One Rodney Square
Wilmington, Delaware 19899
302-658-6541
March 29, 1999
Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
c/o Georgia Power Company
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Re: Georgia Power Capital Trust VI
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special Delaware counsel for Georgia Power
Company, a Georgia corporation (the "Company"), and Georgia Power Capital Trust
VI, a Delaware business trust (the "Trust" ), in connection with the matters set
forth herein. At your request, this opinion is being furnished to you.
For purposes of giving the opinions hereinafter set forth, our
examination of documents has been limited to the examination of originals or
copies of the following:
(a) The Certificate of Trust of the Trust, dated December 16,
1997 as filed with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
(the "Secretary of State") on December 16, 1997;
(b) The Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of December 16,
1997, between the Company and the trustees of the Trust named therein;
(c) The Registration Statement (the "Registration Statement")
on Form S-3, including a preliminary prospectus (the "Prospectus"), relating to
the Trust Preferred Securities of the Trust representing preferred undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust (each, a "Preferred Security"
and collectively, the "Preferred Securities"), filed by the Company and the
Trust with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about March 29, 1999;
(d) A form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for the
Trust, to be entered into between the Company, the trustees of the Trust named
therein, and the holders, from
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March 29, 1999
Page 2
time to time, of the undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust
(including Exhibits C and E thereto) (the "Trust Agreement"), attached as an
exhibit to the Registration Statement; and
(e) A Certificate of Good Standing for the Trust, dated March
29, 1999, obtained from the Secretary of State.
Initially capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined are used as defined in the Trust Agreement.
For purposes of this opinion, we have not reviewed any
documents other than the documents listed in paragraphs (a) through (e) above.
In particular, we have not reviewed any document (other than the documents
listed in paragraphs (a) through (e) above) that is referred to in or
incorporated by reference into the documents reviewed by us. We have assumed
that there exists no provision in any document that we have not reviewed that is
inconsistent with the opinions stated herein. We have conducted no independent
factual investigation of our own but rather have relied solely upon the
foregoing documents, the statements and information set forth therein and the
additional matters recited or assumed herein, all of which we have assumed to be
true, complete and accurate in all material respects.
With respect to all documents examined by us, we have assumed
(i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as authentic originals,
(ii) the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as
copies or forms, and (iii) the genuineness of all signatures.
For purposes of this opinion, we have assumed (i) that the
Trust Agreement and the Certificate of Trust are in full force and effect and
have not been amended, (ii) except to the extent provided in paragraph 1 below,
the due organization or due formation, as the case may be, and valid existence
in good standing of each party to the documents examined by us under the laws of
the jurisdiction governing its creation, organization or formation, (iii) the
legal capacity of natural persons who are parties to the documents examined by
us, (iv) that each of the parties to the documents examined by us has the power
and authority to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, such
documents, (v) the due authorization, execution and delivery by all parties
thereto of all documents examined by us, (vi) the receipt by each Person to whom
a Preferred Security is to be issued by the Trust (collectively, the "Preferred
Security Holders") of a certificate for such Preferred Security in the form
prescribed by the Trust Agreement and the payment for such Preferred Security,
in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the Registration Statement, and (vii)
that the Preferred Securities are issued and sold to the Preferred Security
Holders in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the Registration Statement.
We have not participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement and
assume no responsibility for its contents.
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March 29, 1999
Page 3
This opinion is limited to the laws of the State of Delaware
(excluding the securities laws of the State of Delaware), and we have not
considered and express no opinion on the laws of any other jurisdiction,
including federal laws and rules and regulations relating thereto. Our opinions
are rendered only with respect to Delaware laws and rules, regulations and
orders thereunder which are currently in effect.
Based upon the foregoing, and upon our examination of such
questions of law and statutes of the State of Delaware as we have considered
necessary or appropriate, and subject to the assumptions, qualifications,
limitations and exceptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:
1. The Trust has been duly created and is validly existing in
good standing as a business trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act.
2. The Preferred Securities of the Trust will represent valid
and, subject to the qualifications set forth in paragraph 3 below, fully paid
and nonassessable undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
3. The Preferred Security Holders, as beneficial owners of the
Trust, will be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to
stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. We note that the Preferred Security
Holders may be obligated to make payments as set forth in the Trust Agreement.
We consent to the filing of this opinion with the Securities
and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We hereby
consent to the use of our name under the heading "Legal Matters" in the
Prospectus. In giving the foregoing consents, we do not thereby admit that we
come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder. Except as stated above, without
our prior written consent, this opinion may not be furnished or quoted to, or
relied upon by, any other person for any purpose.
Very truly yours,
/s/Richards, Layton & Finger
CDK
Exhibit 12.1
3/16/99
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the
the five years ended December 31, 1998
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Year Ended December 31,
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1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
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EARNINGS AS DEFINED IN ITEM 503 OF REGULATION S-K:
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Income Before Interest Charges $ 927,336 $ 959,692 $ 875,626 $ 880,209 $ 849,056
Federal and state income taxes 360,380 411,675 383,668 419,230 493,826
Deferred income taxes, net 34,130 35,367 35,830 (21,874) (100,301)
Deferred investment tax credits (489) 1,127 - - 7,187
AFUDC - Debt funds 11,613 12,123 11,452 9,030 7,117
----------- ----------- ----------- -------------- ------------
Earnings as defined $1,332,970 $1,419,984 $1,306,576 $1,286,595 $1,256,885
=========== =========== =========== ============== ============
FIXED CHARGES AS DEFINED IN ITEM 503 OF REGULATION S-K
Interest on long-term debt $ 308,611 $ 257,092 $ 210,149 $ 196,707 $ 182,879
Interest on interim obligations 17,529 21,463 15,478 7,795 12,213
Amort of debt disc, premium and expense, net 15,776 15,846 14,802 14,191 13,378
Other interest charges 23,483 20,400 21,296 57,623 71,536
----------- ----------- ----------- --------------- -----------
Fixed charges as defined $ 365,399 $ 314,801 $ 261,725 $ 276,316 $ 280,006
=========== =========== =========== =============== ===========
RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES 3.65 4.51 4.99 4.66 4.49
==== ==== ==== ==== ====
</TABLE>
Note: The above figures have been adjusted to give effect to Georgia
Power Company's 50% ownership of Southern Electric Generating
Company.
Exhibit 12.2
3/16/99
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges plus preferred
dividend requirements for the five years ended December 31, 1998
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Year ended December 31,
=====================================================================
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
==== ==== ==== ==== ====
EARNINGS AS DEFINED IN ITEM 503 OF REGULATION S-K:
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Income Before Interest Charges $ 927,336 $ 959,692 $ 875,626 $ 880,209 $ 849,056
Federal and state income taxes 360,380 411,675 383,668 419,230 493,826
Deferred income taxes, net 34,130 35,367 35,830 (21,874) (100,301)
Deferred investment tax credits (489) 1,127 - - 7,187
AFUDC - Debt funds 11,613 12,123 11,452 9,030 7,117
---------- ----------- ----------- -------------- -----------
Earnings as defined $1,332,970 $1,419,984 $1,306,576 $1,286,595 $1,256,885
========== =========== =========== ============== ===========
FIXED CHARGES AS DEFINED IN ITEM 503 OF REGULATION S-K:
Interest on long-term debt $ 308,611 $ 257,092 $ 210,149 $ 196,707 $ 182,879
Interest on interim obligations 17,529 21,463 15,478 7,795 12,213
Amort of debt disc, premium and expense, net 15,776 15,846 14,802 14,191 13,378
Other interest charges 23,483 20,400 21,296 57,623 71,536
---------- ----------- ----------- ------------- -----------
Fixed charges as defined 365,399 314,801 261,725 276,316 280,006
Tax deductible preferred dividends 1,753 1,753 1,753 912 297
---------- ----------- ----------- ------------- -----------
367,152 316,554 263,478 277,228 280,303
---------- ----------- ----------- ------------- -----------
Non-tax deductible preferred dividends 46,253 46,399 43,273 18,015 5,642
Ratio of net income before taxes to net income x 1.687 x 1.682 x 1.671 x 1.648 x 1.695
---------- ----------- ----------- ------------- -----------
Pref dividend requirements before income taxes 78,029 78,043 72,309 29,689 9,563
---------- ----------- ----------- ------------- -----------
Fixed charges plus pref dividend requirements $ 445,181 $ 394,597 $ 335,787 $ 306,917 $ 289,866
========== =========== =========== ============= ===========
RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES PLUS
PREFERRED DIVIDEND REQUIREMENTS 2.99 3.60 3.89 4.19 4.34
==== ==== ==== ==== ====
</TABLE>
Note: The above figures have been adjusted to gigia Power Company's 50%
ownership of Southern Electric Generating Company.
EXHIBIT 23.1
Arthur Andersen LLP
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
As independent public accountants, we hereby consent to the incorporation by
reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 (relating to Georgia Power
Capital Trust V Preferred Securities, Georgia Power Capital Trust VI Preferred
Securities, Georgia Power Company Junior Subordinated Notes, Georgia Power
Company Senior Notes and Georgia Power Company Guarantees with respect to
Preferred Securities of Georgia Power Capital Trust V and Georgia Power Capital
Trust VI) of our reports on Georgia Power Company dated February 10, 1999
included in Georgia Power Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
1998 and to all references to our firm included in this Registration Statement.
/s/Arthur Andersen LLP
Atlanta, Georgia
March 22, 1999
February 17, 1999
W. L. Westbrook, David M. Ratcliffe and Wayne Boston
Dear Sirs:
Georgia Power Company proposes to file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission a registration statement or statements under the Securities Act of
1933 with respect to preferred securities of a statutory business trust or
trusts (or other special purpose entity or entities) and guarantee or guarantees
and debt instruments of Georgia Power Company, or any combination of such
securities, in an aggregate amount of up to an additional $1,000,000,000.
Georgia Power Company and the undersigned directors and officers of
said Company, individually as a director and/or as an officer of the Company,
hereby make, constitute and appoint each of you our true and lawful Attorney
(with full power of substitution) for each of us and in each of our names,
places and steads to sign and cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission the aforementioned registration statement or statements and
appropriate amendment or amendments thereto (including post-effective
amendments), to be accompanied in each case by a prospectus and any
appropriately amended prospectus or supplement thereto and any necessary
exhibits.
Georgia Power Company hereby authorizes you or any one of you to
execute said registration statement or statements and any amendments thereto
(including post-effective amendments) on its behalf as attorney-in-fact for it
and its authorized officers, and to file the same as aforesaid.
The undersigned directors and officers of Georgia Power Company hereby
authorize you or any one of you to sign said registration statement or
statements on their behalf as attorney-in-fact and to amend, or remedy any
deficiencies with respect to, said registration statement or statements by
appropriate amendment or amendments (including post-effective amendments) and to
file the same as aforesaid.
Yours very truly,
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
By /s/H. Allen Franklin
H. Allen Franklin
President and
Chief Executive Officer
<PAGE>
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______________________________ /s/G. Joseph Prendergast
Daniel P. Amos G. Joseph Prendergast
/s/Juanita P. Baranco /s/Herman J. Russell
Juanita P. Baranco Herman J. Russell
/s/A. W. Dahlberg ______________________________
A. W. Dahlberg Gloria M. Shatto
/s/William A. Fickling, Jr. /s/William Jerry Vereen
William A. Fickling, Jr. William Jerry Vereen
/s/H. Allen Franklin /s/Carl Ware
H. Allen Franklin Carl Ware
/s/L. G. Hardman III /s/Judy M. Anderson
L. G. Hardman III Judy M. Anderson
/s/Warren Y. Jobe /s/David M. Ratcliffe
Warren Y. Jobe David M. Ratcliffe
/s/James R. Lientz, Jr. /s/Cliff S. Thrasher
James R. Lientz, Jr. Cliff S. Thrasher
/s/Zell Miller
Zell Miller
<PAGE>
- 3 -
Extract from minutes of meeting of the board of directors of Georgia Power
Company.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
RESOLVED: That for the purpose of signing and filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
a registration statement or statements covering up to an additional
$1,000,000,000 of preferred securities of a statutory business trust or trusts
(or other special purpose entity or entities) and guarantee or guarantees and
debt instruments of Georgia Power Company, or any combination of such
securities, and of amending such registration statement or statements or
remedying any deficiencies with respect thereto by appropriate amendment or
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to such registration statement
or statements (both before and after such statement or statements become
effective), this Company, its officers and the members of its Board of Directors
are authorized to grant their several powers of attorney to W. L. Westbrook,
David M. Ratcliffe and Wayne Boston.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
The undersigned officer of Georgia Power Company does hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution duly and regularly
adopted at a meeting of the Board of Directors of Georgia Power Company, duly
held on February 17, 1999, at which a quorum was in attendance and voting
throughout, and that said resolution has not since been rescinded but is still
in full force and effect.
Dated March 29, 1999 GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
By /s/Wayne Boston
Wayne Boston
Assistant Secretary
Exhibit 25.1
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
-------------------------
FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF
A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
-------------------------------------------
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF
A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO SECTION 305(b)(2) ________
----------------------------------------
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
New York 13-4994650
(State of incorporation (I.R.S. employer
if not a national bank) identification No.)
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
William H. McDavid
General Counsel
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (212) 270-2611
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
--------------------------------------------
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
Delaware 58-0257110
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization) identification No.)
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Senior Notes
(Title of the indenture securities)
GENERAL
Item 1. General Information.
Furnish the following information as to the trustee:
(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to
which it is subject.
New York State Banking Department, Suite 2310, 5 Empire State
Plaza, Albany, New York 12223. Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System 20th and C Street NW, Washington, D.C.,
20551 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, District No. 2, 33
Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045. Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, 550 Seventeenth Street NW Washington,
D.C., 20429.
(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
Yes.
Item 2. Affiliations with the Obligor.
If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such
affiliation.
None.
<PAGE>
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Item 16. List of Exhibits
List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of
Eligibility.
1. A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee as now in
effect, including the Organization Certificate and the Certificates of Amendment
dated February 17, 1969, August 31, 1977, December 31, 1980, September 9, 1982,
February 28, 1985, December 2, 1991 and July 10, 1996 (see Exhibit 1 to Form T-1
filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
2. A copy of the Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to Commence
Business (see Exhibit 2 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration
Statement No. 33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in
connection with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed
The Chase Manhattan Bank).
3. None, authorization to exercise corporate trust powers being
contained in the documents identified above as Exhibits 1 and 2.
4. A copy of the existing By-Laws of the Trustee (see Exhibit 4 to Form
T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
5. Not applicable.
6. The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act
(see Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No.
33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in connection
with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank (National
Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed The Chase
Manhattan Bank).
7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee, published
pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.
8. Not applicable.
9. Not applicable.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the
Trustee, The Chase Manhattan Bank, a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in
the City of New York and State of New York, on the 24th day of March, 1999.
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
By _/s/_P. Morabito__________
Vice President
<PAGE>
Exhibit 7 to Form T-1
Bank Call Notice
RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 2
CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The Chase Manhattan Bank
of 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017
and Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System,
at the close of business December 31, 1998, in
accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this
District pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Reserve Act.
Dollar Amounts
ASSETS in Millions
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and
currency and coin ...............................................$ 13,915
Interest-bearing balances ....................................... 7,805
Securities:
Held to maturity securities........................................... 1,429
Available for sale securities......................................... 56,327
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under
agreements to resell ............................................ 21,733
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and leases, net of unearned income $131,095
Less: Allowance for loan and lease losses 2,711
Less: Allocated transfer risk reserve ...... 0
---------------
Loans and leases, net of unearned income,
allowance, and reserve .......................................... 128,384
Trading Assets ....................................................... 48,949
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized
leases).......................................................... 3,095
Other real estate owned .............................................. 239
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and
associated companies............................................. 199
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances
outstanding ..................................................... 1,209
Intangible assets .................................................... 2,081
Other assets ......................................................... 11,352
TOTAL ASSETS ......................................................... $296,717
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<PAGE>
LIABILITIES
Deposits
In domestic offices ............................................. $105,879
Noninterest-bearing ............. $39,175
Interest-bearing ................ 66,704
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In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement,
subsidiaries and IBF's .......................................... 79,294
Noninterest-bearing...............$ 4,082
Interest-bearing ................. 75,212
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agree-
ments to repurchase .................................................. 32,546
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury ............................. 629
Trading liabilities .................................................. 36,807
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness
and obligations under capitalized leases):
With a remaining maturity of one year or less ................... 4,478
With a remaining maturity of more than one year
through three years............................................ 213
With a remaining maturity of more than three years............... 115
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding.............. 1,209
Subordinated notes and debentures .................................... 5,408
Other liabilities .................................................... 10,855
TOTAL LIABILITIES .................................................... 277,433
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EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus 0
Common stock ......................................................... 1,211
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)............. 11,016
Undivided profits and capital reserves ............................... 6,762
Net unrealized holding gains (losses)
on available-for-sale securities ..................................... 279
Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments .................. 16
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL ................................................. 19,284
------
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL ................................. $296,717
==========
I, Joseph L. Sclafani, E.V.P. & Controller of the above-named bank, do hereby
declare that this Report of Condition has been prepared in conformance with the
instructions issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true
to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JOSEPH L. SCLAFANI
We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of
Condition and declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our
knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions
issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true and correct.
WALTER V. SHIPLEY )
THOMAS G. LABRECQUE ) DIRECTORS
WILLIAM B. HARRISON, JR. )
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Exhibit 25.2
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
-------------------------
FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF
A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
-------------------------------------------
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF
A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO SECTION 305(b)(2) ________
----------------------------------------
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
New York 13-4994650
(State of incorporation (I.R.S. employer
if not a national bank) identification No.)
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
William H. McDavid
General Counsel
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (212) 270-2611
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
--------------------------------------------
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
Delaware 58-0257110
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization) identification No.)
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Junior Subordinated Notes
(Title of the indenture securities)
GENERAL
Item 1. General Information.
Furnish the following information as to the trustee:
(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to
which it is subject.
New York State Banking Department, Suite 2310, 5 Empire State
Plaza, Albany, New York 12223. Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System 20th and C Street NW, Washington, D.C.,
20551 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, District No. 2, 33
Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045. Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, 550 Seventeenth Street NW Washington,
D.C., 20429.
(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
Yes.
Item 2. Affiliations with the Obligor.
If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such
affiliation.
None.
<PAGE>
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Item 16. List of Exhibits
List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of
Eligibility.
1. A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee as now in
effect, including the Organization Certificate and the Certificates of Amendment
dated February 17, 1969, August 31, 1977, December 31, 1980, September 9, 1982,
February 28, 1985, December 2, 1991 and July 10, 1996 (see Exhibit 1 to Form T-1
filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
2. A copy of the Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to Commence
Business (see Exhibit 2 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration
Statement No. 33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in
connection with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed
The Chase Manhattan Bank).
3. None, authorization to exercise corporate trust powers being
contained in the documents identified above as Exhibits 1 and 2.
4. A copy of the existing By-Laws of the Trustee (see Exhibit 4 to Form
T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
5. Not applicable.
6. The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act
(see Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No.
33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in connection
with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank (National
Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed The Chase
Manhattan Bank).
7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee, published
pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.
8. Not applicable.
9. Not applicable.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the
Trustee, The Chase Manhattan Bank, a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in
the City of New York and State of New York, on the 24th day of March, 1999.
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
By _/s/_P. Morabito__________
Vice President
<PAGE>
Exhibit 7 to Form T-1
Bank Call Notice
RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 2
CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The Chase Manhattan Bank
of 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017
and Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System,
at the close of business December 31, 1998, in
accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this
District pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Reserve Act.
Dollar Amounts
ASSETS in Millions
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and
currency and coin ...............................................$ 13,915
Interest-bearing balances ....................................... 7,805
Securities:
Held to maturity securities........................................... 1,429
Available for sale securities......................................... 56,327
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under
agreements to resell ............................................ 21,733
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and leases, net of unearned income $131,095
Less: Allowance for loan and lease losses 2,711
Less: Allocated transfer risk reserve ...... 0
---------------
Loans and leases, net of unearned income,
allowance, and reserve .......................................... 128,384
Trading Assets ....................................................... 48,949
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized
leases).......................................................... 3,095
Other real estate owned .............................................. 239
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and
associated companies............................................. 199
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances
outstanding ..................................................... 1,209
Intangible assets .................................................... 2,081
Other assets ......................................................... 11,352
TOTAL ASSETS ......................................................... $296,717
=========
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<PAGE>
LIABILITIES
Deposits
In domestic offices ............................................. $105,879
Noninterest-bearing ............. $39,175
Interest-bearing ................ 66,704
-------
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement,
subsidiaries and IBF's .......................................... 79,294
Noninterest-bearing...............$ 4,082
Interest-bearing ................. 75,212
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agree-
ments to repurchase .................................................. 32,546
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury ............................. 629
Trading liabilities .................................................. 36,807
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness
and obligations under capitalized leases):
With a remaining maturity of one year or less ................... 4,478
With a remaining maturity of more than one year
through three years............................................ 213
With a remaining maturity of more than three years............... 115
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding.............. 1,209
Subordinated notes and debentures .................................... 5,408
Other liabilities .................................................... 10,855
TOTAL LIABILITIES .................................................... 277,433
-------
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus 0
Common stock ......................................................... 1,211
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)............. 11,016
Undivided profits and capital reserves ............................... 6,762
Net unrealized holding gains (losses)
on available-for-sale securities ..................................... 279
Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments .................. 16
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL ................................................. 19,284
------
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL ................................. $296,717
==========
I, Joseph L. Sclafani, E.V.P. & Controller of the above-named bank, do hereby
declare that this Report of Condition has been prepared in conformance with the
instructions issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true
to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JOSEPH L. SCLAFANI
We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of
Condition and declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our
knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions
issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true and correct.
WALTER V. SHIPLEY )
THOMAS G. LABRECQUE ) DIRECTORS
WILLIAM B. HARRISON, JR. )
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Exhibit 25.3
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
-------------------------
FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF
A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
-------------------------------------------
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF
A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO SECTION 305(b)(2) ________
----------------------------------------
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
New York 13-4994650
(State of incorporation (I.R.S. employer
if not a national bank) identification No.)
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
William H. McDavid
General Counsel
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (212) 270-2611
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
--------------------------------------------
GEORGIA POWER CAPITAL TRUST V
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
Delaware Applied For
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization) identification No.)
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Trust Preferred Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
GENERAL
Item 1. General Information.
Furnish the following information as to the trustee:
(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to
which it is subject.
New York State Banking Department, Suite 2310, 5 Empire State
Plaza, Albany, New York 12223. Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System 20th and C Street NW, Washington, D.C.,
20551 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, District No. 2, 33
Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045. Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, 550 Seventeenth Street NW Washington,
D.C., 20429.
(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
Yes.
Item 2. Affiliations with the Obligor.
If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such
affiliation.
None.
<PAGE>
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Item 16. List of Exhibits
List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of
Eligibility.
1. A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee as now in
effect, including the Organization Certificate and the Certificates of Amendment
dated February 17, 1969, August 31, 1977, December 31, 1980, September 9, 1982,
February 28, 1985, December 2, 1991 and July 10, 1996 (see Exhibit 1 to Form T-1
filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
2. A copy of the Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to Commence
Business (see Exhibit 2 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration
Statement No. 33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in
connection with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed
The Chase Manhattan Bank).
3. None, authorization to exercise corporate trust powers being
contained in the documents identified above as Exhibits 1 and 2.
4. A copy of the existing By-Laws of the Trustee (see Exhibit 4 to Form
T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
5. Not applicable.
6. The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act
(see Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No.
33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in connection
with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank (National
Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed The Chase
Manhattan Bank).
7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee, published
pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.
8. Not applicable.
9. Not applicable.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the
Trustee, The Chase Manhattan Bank, a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in
the City of New York and State of New York, on the 24th day of March, 1999.
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
By _/s/_P. Morabito__________
Vice President
<PAGE>
Exhibit 7 to Form T-1
Bank Call Notice
RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 2
CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The Chase Manhattan Bank
of 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017
and Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System,
at the close of business December 31, 1998, in
accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this
District pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Reserve Act.
Dollar Amounts
ASSETS in Millions
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and
currency and coin ...............................................$ 13,915
Interest-bearing balances ....................................... 7,805
Securities:
Held to maturity securities........................................... 1,429
Available for sale securities......................................... 56,327
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under
agreements to resell ............................................ 21,733
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and leases, net of unearned income $131,095
Less: Allowance for loan and lease losses 2,711
Less: Allocated transfer risk reserve ...... 0
---------------
Loans and leases, net of unearned income,
allowance, and reserve .......................................... 128,384
Trading Assets ....................................................... 48,949
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized
leases).......................................................... 3,095
Other real estate owned .............................................. 239
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and
associated companies............................................. 199
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances
outstanding ..................................................... 1,209
Intangible assets .................................................... 2,081
Other assets ......................................................... 11,352
TOTAL ASSETS ......................................................... $296,717
=========
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<PAGE>
LIABILITIES
Deposits
In domestic offices ............................................. $105,879
Noninterest-bearing ............. $39,175
Interest-bearing ................ 66,704
-------
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement,
subsidiaries and IBF's .......................................... 79,294
Noninterest-bearing...............$ 4,082
Interest-bearing ................. 75,212
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agree-
ments to repurchase .................................................. 32,546
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury ............................. 629
Trading liabilities .................................................. 36,807
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness
and obligations under capitalized leases):
With a remaining maturity of one year or less ................... 4,478
With a remaining maturity of more than one year
through three years............................................ 213
With a remaining maturity of more than three years............... 115
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding.............. 1,209
Subordinated notes and debentures .................................... 5,408
Other liabilities .................................................... 10,855
TOTAL LIABILITIES .................................................... 277,433
-------
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus 0
Common stock ......................................................... 1,211
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)............. 11,016
Undivided profits and capital reserves ............................... 6,762
Net unrealized holding gains (losses)
on available-for-sale securities ..................................... 279
Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments .................. 16
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL ................................................. 19,284
------
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL ................................. $296,717
==========
I, Joseph L. Sclafani, E.V.P. & Controller of the above-named bank, do hereby
declare that this Report of Condition has been prepared in conformance with the
instructions issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true
to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JOSEPH L. SCLAFANI
We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of
Condition and declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our
knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions
issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true and correct.
WALTER V. SHIPLEY )
THOMAS G. LABRECQUE ) DIRECTORS
WILLIAM B. HARRISON, JR. )
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Exhibit 25.4
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
-------------------------
FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF
A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
-------------------------------------------
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF
A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO SECTION 305(b)(2) ________
----------------------------------------
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
New York 13-4994650
(State of incorporation (I.R.S. employer
if not a national bank) identification No.)
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
William H. McDavid
General Counsel
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (212) 270-2611
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
--------------------------------------------
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
Delaware 58-0257110
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization) identification No.)
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee
(Georgia Power Capital Trust V)
(Title of the indenture securities)
GENERAL
Item 1. General Information.
Furnish the following information as to the trustee:
(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to
which it is subject.
New York State Banking Department, Suite 2310, 5 Empire State
Plaza, Albany, New York 12223. Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System 20th and C Street NW, Washington, D.C.,
20551 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, District No. 2, 33
Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045. Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, 550 Seventeenth Street NW Washington,
D.C., 20429.
(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
Yes.
Item 2. Affiliations with the Obligor.
If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such
affiliation.
None.
<PAGE>
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Item 16. List of Exhibits
List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of
Eligibility.
1. A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee as now in
effect, including the Organization Certificate and the Certificates of Amendment
dated February 17, 1969, August 31, 1977, December 31, 1980, September 9, 1982,
February 28, 1985, December 2, 1991 and July 10, 1996 (see Exhibit 1 to Form T-1
filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
2. A copy of the Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to Commence
Business (see Exhibit 2 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration
Statement No. 33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in
connection with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed
The Chase Manhattan Bank).
3. None, authorization to exercise corporate trust powers being
contained in the documents identified above as Exhibits 1 and 2.
4. A copy of the existing By-Laws of the Trustee (see Exhibit 4 to Form
T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
5. Not applicable.
6. The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act
(see Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No.
33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in connection
with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank (National
Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed The Chase
Manhattan Bank).
7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee, published
pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.
8. Not applicable.
9. Not applicable.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the
Trustee, The Chase Manhattan Bank, a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in
the City of New York and State of New York, on the 24th day of March, 1999.
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
By _/s/_P. Morabito__________
Vice President
<PAGE>
Exhibit 7 to Form T-1
Bank Call Notice
RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 2
CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The Chase Manhattan Bank
of 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017
and Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System,
at the close of business December 31, 1998, in
accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this
District pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Reserve Act.
Dollar Amounts
ASSETS in Millions
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and
currency and coin ...............................................$ 13,915
Interest-bearing balances ....................................... 7,805
Securities:
Held to maturity securities........................................... 1,429
Available for sale securities......................................... 56,327
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under
agreements to resell ............................................ 21,733
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and leases, net of unearned income $131,095
Less: Allowance for loan and lease losses 2,711
Less: Allocated transfer risk reserve ...... 0
---------------
Loans and leases, net of unearned income,
allowance, and reserve .......................................... 128,384
Trading Assets ....................................................... 48,949
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized
leases).......................................................... 3,095
Other real estate owned .............................................. 239
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and
associated companies............................................. 199
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances
outstanding ..................................................... 1,209
Intangible assets .................................................... 2,081
Other assets ......................................................... 11,352
TOTAL ASSETS ......................................................... $296,717
=========
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<PAGE>
LIABILITIES
Deposits
In domestic offices ............................................. $105,879
Noninterest-bearing ............. $39,175
Interest-bearing ................ 66,704
-------
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement,
subsidiaries and IBF's .......................................... 79,294
Noninterest-bearing...............$ 4,082
Interest-bearing ................. 75,212
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agree-
ments to repurchase .................................................. 32,546
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury ............................. 629
Trading liabilities .................................................. 36,807
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness
and obligations under capitalized leases):
With a remaining maturity of one year or less ................... 4,478
With a remaining maturity of more than one year
through three years............................................ 213
With a remaining maturity of more than three years............... 115
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding.............. 1,209
Subordinated notes and debentures .................................... 5,408
Other liabilities .................................................... 10,855
TOTAL LIABILITIES .................................................... 277,433
-------
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus 0
Common stock ......................................................... 1,211
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)............. 11,016
Undivided profits and capital reserves ............................... 6,762
Net unrealized holding gains (losses)
on available-for-sale securities ..................................... 279
Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments .................. 16
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL ................................................. 19,284
------
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL ................................. $296,717
==========
I, Joseph L. Sclafani, E.V.P. & Controller of the above-named bank, do hereby
declare that this Report of Condition has been prepared in conformance with the
instructions issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true
to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JOSEPH L. SCLAFANI
We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of
Condition and declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our
knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions
issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true and correct.
WALTER V. SHIPLEY )
THOMAS G. LABRECQUE ) DIRECTORS
WILLIAM B. HARRISON, JR. )
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Exhibit 25.5
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
-------------------------
FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF
A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
-------------------------------------------
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF
A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO SECTION 305(b)(2) ________
----------------------------------------
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
New York 13-4994650
(State of incorporation (I.R.S. employer
if not a national bank) identification No.)
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
William H. McDavid
General Counsel
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (212) 270-2611
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
--------------------------------------------
GEORGIA POWER CAPITAL TRUST VI
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
Delaware Applied For
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization) identification No.)
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Trust Preferred Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)
GENERAL
Item 1. General Information.
Furnish the following information as to the trustee:
(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to
which it is subject.
New York State Banking Department, Suite 2310, 5 Empire State
Plaza, Albany, New York 12223. Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System 20th and C Street NW, Washington, D.C.,
20551 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, District No. 2, 33
Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045. Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, 550 Seventeenth Street NW Washington,
D.C., 20429.
(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
Yes.
Item 2. Affiliations with the Obligor.
If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such
affiliation.
None.
<PAGE>
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Item 16. List of Exhibits
List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of
Eligibility.
1. A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee as now in
effect, including the Organization Certificate and the Certificates of Amendment
dated February 17, 1969, August 31, 1977, December 31, 1980, September 9, 1982,
February 28, 1985, December 2, 1991 and July 10, 1996 (see Exhibit 1 to Form T-1
filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
2. A copy of the Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to Commence
Business (see Exhibit 2 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration
Statement No. 33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in
connection with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed
The Chase Manhattan Bank).
3. None, authorization to exercise corporate trust powers being
contained in the documents identified above as Exhibits 1 and 2.
4. A copy of the existing By-Laws of the Trustee (see Exhibit 4 to Form
T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
5. Not applicable.
6. The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act
(see Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No.
33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in connection
with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank (National
Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed The Chase
Manhattan Bank).
7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee, published
pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.
8. Not applicable.
9. Not applicable.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the
Trustee, The Chase Manhattan Bank, a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in
the City of New York and State of New York, on the 24th day of March, 1999.
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
By _/s/_P. Morabito__________
Vice President
<PAGE>
Exhibit 7 to Form T-1
Bank Call Notice
RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 2
CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The Chase Manhattan Bank
of 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017
and Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System,
at the close of business December 31, 1998, in
accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this
District pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Reserve Act.
Dollar Amounts
ASSETS in Millions
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and
currency and coin ...............................................$ 13,915
Interest-bearing balances ....................................... 7,805
Securities:
Held to maturity securities........................................... 1,429
Available for sale securities......................................... 56,327
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under
agreements to resell ............................................ 21,733
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and leases, net of unearned income $131,095
Less: Allowance for loan and lease losses 2,711
Less: Allocated transfer risk reserve ...... 0
---------------
Loans and leases, net of unearned income,
allowance, and reserve .......................................... 128,384
Trading Assets ....................................................... 48,949
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized
leases).......................................................... 3,095
Other real estate owned .............................................. 239
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and
associated companies............................................. 199
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances
outstanding ..................................................... 1,209
Intangible assets .................................................... 2,081
Other assets ......................................................... 11,352
TOTAL ASSETS ......................................................... $296,717
=========
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<PAGE>
LIABILITIES
Deposits
In domestic offices ............................................. $105,879
Noninterest-bearing ............. $39,175
Interest-bearing ................ 66,704
-------
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement,
subsidiaries and IBF's .......................................... 79,294
Noninterest-bearing...............$ 4,082
Interest-bearing ................. 75,212
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agree-
ments to repurchase .................................................. 32,546
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury ............................. 629
Trading liabilities .................................................. 36,807
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness
and obligations under capitalized leases):
With a remaining maturity of one year or less ................... 4,478
With a remaining maturity of more than one year
through three years............................................ 213
With a remaining maturity of more than three years............... 115
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding.............. 1,209
Subordinated notes and debentures .................................... 5,408
Other liabilities .................................................... 10,855
TOTAL LIABILITIES .................................................... 277,433
-------
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus 0
Common stock ......................................................... 1,211
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)............. 11,016
Undivided profits and capital reserves ............................... 6,762
Net unrealized holding gains (losses)
on available-for-sale securities ..................................... 279
Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments .................. 16
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL ................................................. 19,284
------
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL ................................. $296,717
==========
I, Joseph L. Sclafani, E.V.P. & Controller of the above-named bank, do hereby
declare that this Report of Condition has been prepared in conformance with the
instructions issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true
to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JOSEPH L. SCLAFANI
We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of
Condition and declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our
knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions
issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true and correct.
WALTER V. SHIPLEY )
THOMAS G. LABRECQUE ) DIRECTORS
WILLIAM B. HARRISON, JR. )
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Exhibit 25.6
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
-------------------------
FORM T-1
STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF
A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE
-------------------------------------------
CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF
A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO SECTION 305(b)(2) ________
----------------------------------------
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)
New York 13-4994650
(State of incorporation (I.R.S. employer
if not a national bank) identification No.)
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
William H. McDavid
General Counsel
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (212) 270-2611
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
--------------------------------------------
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)
Delaware 58-0257110
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization) identification No.)
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Trust Preferred Securities Guarantee
(Georgia Power Capital Trust VI)
(Title of the indenture securities)
GENERAL
Item 1. General Information.
Furnish the following information as to the trustee:
(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to
which it is subject.
New York State Banking Department, Suite 2310, 5 Empire State
Plaza, Albany, New York 12223. Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System 20th and C Street NW, Washington, D.C.,
20551 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, District No. 2, 33
Liberty Street, New York, N.Y. 10045. Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, 550 Seventeenth Street NW Washington,
D.C., 20429.
(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
Yes.
Item 2. Affiliations with the Obligor.
If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such
affiliation.
None.
<PAGE>
- 2 -
Item 16. List of Exhibits
List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of
Eligibility.
1. A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee as now in
effect, including the Organization Certificate and the Certificates of Amendment
dated February 17, 1969, August 31, 1977, December 31, 1980, September 9, 1982,
February 28, 1985, December 2, 1991 and July 10, 1996 (see Exhibit 1 to Form T-1
filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
2. A copy of the Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to Commence
Business (see Exhibit 2 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration
Statement No. 33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in
connection with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed
The Chase Manhattan Bank).
3. None, authorization to exercise corporate trust powers being
contained in the documents identified above as Exhibits 1 and 2.
4. A copy of the existing By-Laws of the Trustee (see Exhibit 4 to Form
T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No. 333-06249, which is
incorporated by reference).
5. Not applicable.
6. The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act
(see Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed in connection with Registration Statement No.
33-50010, which is incorporated by reference. On July 14, 1996, in connection
with the merger of Chemical Bank and The Chase Manhattan Bank (National
Association), Chemical Bank, the surviving corporation, was renamed The Chase
Manhattan Bank).
7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee, published
pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.
8. Not applicable.
9. Not applicable.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the
Trustee, The Chase Manhattan Bank, a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in
the City of New York and State of New York, on the 24th day of March, 1999.
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
By _/s/_P. Morabito__________
Vice President
<PAGE>
Exhibit 7 to Form T-1
Bank Call Notice
RESERVE DISTRICT NO. 2
CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The Chase Manhattan Bank
of 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017
and Foreign and Domestic Subsidiaries,
a member of the Federal Reserve System,
at the close of business December 31, 1998, in
accordance with a call made by the Federal Reserve Bank of this
District pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Reserve Act.
Dollar Amounts
ASSETS in Millions
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and
currency and coin ...............................................$ 13,915
Interest-bearing balances ....................................... 7,805
Securities:
Held to maturity securities........................................... 1,429
Available for sale securities......................................... 56,327
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under
agreements to resell ............................................ 21,733
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and leases, net of unearned income $131,095
Less: Allowance for loan and lease losses 2,711
Less: Allocated transfer risk reserve ...... 0
---------------
Loans and leases, net of unearned income,
allowance, and reserve .......................................... 128,384
Trading Assets ....................................................... 48,949
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized
leases).......................................................... 3,095
Other real estate owned .............................................. 239
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and
associated companies............................................. 199
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances
outstanding ..................................................... 1,209
Intangible assets .................................................... 2,081
Other assets ......................................................... 11,352
TOTAL ASSETS ......................................................... $296,717
=========
- 3 -
<PAGE>
LIABILITIES
Deposits
In domestic offices ............................................. $105,879
Noninterest-bearing ............. $39,175
Interest-bearing ................ 66,704
-------
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement,
subsidiaries and IBF's .......................................... 79,294
Noninterest-bearing...............$ 4,082
Interest-bearing ................. 75,212
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agree-
ments to repurchase .................................................. 32,546
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury ............................. 629
Trading liabilities .................................................. 36,807
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness
and obligations under capitalized leases):
With a remaining maturity of one year or less ................... 4,478
With a remaining maturity of more than one year
through three years............................................ 213
With a remaining maturity of more than three years............... 115
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding.............. 1,209
Subordinated notes and debentures .................................... 5,408
Other liabilities .................................................... 10,855
TOTAL LIABILITIES .................................................... 277,433
-------
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus 0
Common stock ......................................................... 1,211
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)............. 11,016
Undivided profits and capital reserves ............................... 6,762
Net unrealized holding gains (losses)
on available-for-sale securities ..................................... 279
Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments .................. 16
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL ................................................. 19,284
------
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL ................................. $296,717
==========
I, Joseph L. Sclafani, E.V.P. & Controller of the above-named bank, do hereby
declare that this Report of Condition has been prepared in conformance with the
instructions issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true
to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JOSEPH L. SCLAFANI
We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of
Condition and declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our
knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions
issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true and correct.
WALTER V. SHIPLEY )
THOMAS G. LABRECQUE ) DIRECTORS
WILLIAM B. HARRISON, JR. )
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