Exhibit 24.01
POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation
(the “Company”), is about to file with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, under the provisions of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, registration statements for its Dividend
Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Stock Ownership
Plan and Executive Long-Term Incentive Award Stock Plan in
connection with the registration of additional shares for
issuance under such plans; and
WHEREAS, each of the undersigned holds the office or offices in
the Company herein below set opposite his/her name, respectively.
NOW, THEREFORE, each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints GARY R. JOHNSON, EDWARD J. MCINTYRE and JOHN P. MOORE,
JR., and each of them individually, his/her attorney, with full
power to act for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, to
sign his/her name in the capacity or capacities set forth below
to (i) a registration statement on Form S-3 relating to
the issuance of up to an additional 1,600,000 shares pursuant to
the Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan; (ii) a
registration statement on Form S-8 relating to the issuance
of up to an additional 500,000 shares pursuant to the Employee
Stock Ownership Plan; and (iii) a registration statement on
Form S-8 relating to the issuance of up to an additional
300,000 shares pursuant to the Executive Long-Term Incentive
Award Stock Plan, and to any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to such registration statements, and
hereby ratifies and confirms all that said attorney may or shall
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands
this 27th day of October, 1999.
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James J. Howard, Principal Executive Officer & Director |
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H. Lyman Bretting, Director |
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David A. Christensen, Director |
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W. John Driscoll, Director |
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Giannantonio Ferrari, Director |
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Douglas W. Leatherdale, Director |
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Margaret R. Preska, Director |
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A. Patricia Sampson, Director |
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Allan L. Schuman, Director |
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Edward J. McIntyre, Principal Financial Officer |
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Roger D. Sandeen, Principal Accounting Officer |
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STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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On this 27th day of October, 1999, before me, John P. Moore, Jr.
a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally
appeared each of the above-named directors and officers of
Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation, and known
to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to in the
foregoing instrument, and each person acknowledged to me that he
or she executed the same as his or her own free act and deed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal on the date set forth above.
[Notary Seal]
