SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549
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FORM 8-A
FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES
PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR 12(g) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Virginia 54-0857512
(State of incorporation or (IRS employer
organization) identification no.)
10 South Sixth Street
Richmond, Virginia
(Address of principal executive 23219
offices) (Zip code)
If this form relates to the If this form relates to the
registration of a class of registration of a class of
securities pursuant to Section securities pursuant to Section
12(b) of the Exchange Act and is 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is
effective pursuant to General effective pursuant to General
Instruction A.(c), please check Instruction A.(d), please check
the following box. |X| the following box. |_|
Securities Act registration statement file number to which this form relates:
333-27221
Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class Name of each exchange on which
to be so registered each class is to be registered
8 1/2% Monthly Income Notes
Due 2008 New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
N/A
(Title of class)
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Item 1. Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered.
This registration statement relates to the registration with the
Securities and Exchange Commission of 8 1/2% Monthly Income Notes Due 2008 (the
"Monthly Income Notes") of United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc., a Virginia
corporation (the "Registrant"). A description of the Monthly Income Notes is
incorporated herein by reference to the Section entitled "Description of Offered
Securities" in the Registrant's Prospectus Supplement relating to the Notes to
be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") pursuant to
Rule 424(b) subsequent to the date hereof and the Section entitled "Description
of Debt Securities" in the related prospectus contained in the Company's
registration statement on Form S-3 (file number 333-27221) filed with the SEC on
May 15, 1997 as amended on May 21, 1997.
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Item 2. Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed as a part hereof:
1. Form of Monthly Income Note.
2. Indenture between the Registrant and First Union National
Bank of Virginia, as Trustee (filed as Exhibit 4(ii)(h)(1) to the
Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
30, 1996 (File No. 1-10524), and incorporated by reference herein).
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized.
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
(Registrant)
By: /s/ Katheryn E. Surface
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Name: Katheryn E. Surface
Title: Senior Vice President, Secretary
and General Counsel
Dated: November 11, 1998
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit No. Description Pages
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1 Form of Monthly Income Note
2 Indenture between the Registrant and First Union
National Bank of Virginia, as Trustee (filed as Exhibit
4(ii)(h)(1) to the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for
the quarter ended June 30, 1996 (File No. 1-10524), and
incorporated by reference herein).
Exhibit 1
Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The
Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to the Company (as
defined below) or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment,
and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such
other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any
payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
REGISTERED PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
No.: __ $
( Notes, $25 principal amount each)
CUSIP No.: 910197 40 9
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
8 1/2% MONTHLY INCOME NOTE DUE 2008
UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC., a Virginia corporation (hereinafter
called the "Company," which term shall include any successor corporation under
the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to
pay to , or registered assigns, upon presentation, the principal sum
of on November 15, 2008, and to
pay interest on the outstanding principal amount thereon from November 18, 1998,
or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, monthly in arrears on the fifteenth day of the month (each an
"Interest Payment Date"), commencing December 15, 1998, and at maturity, at the
rate of 8 1/2% per annum, until the entire principal amount hereof is paid or
made available for payment. Interest on this Note shall be calculated on the
basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. The interest so
payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this
Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest which shall be the first
day of the month (whether or not a Business Day), immediately preceding such
Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided
for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record
Date, and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of the Notes not more than 15
days and not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid
at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the
Indenture. Payment of the principal of and interest on this Note will be made at
the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York and in Charlotte, North Carolina, in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at
the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (i) check mailed to
the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the
Security Register kept for the Notes pursuant to Section 305 of the Indenture
(the "Note Register") or (ii) transfer to an account of the Person entitled
thereto located inside the United States.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company
(herein called the "Notes"), issued and to be issued in one or more series under
an Indenture, dated as of November 1, 1995 (herein called the "Indenture"),
between the Company and First Union National Bank (formerly First Union National
Bank of Virginia) (herein called the "Trustee," which term includes any
successor trustee under the Indenture with respect to the Notes), to which
Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a
statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the
terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This
Note is one of the series designated as the "8 1/2% Monthly Income Notes due
2008," limited (subject to the exceptions set forth in the Board Resolution with
respect to the Indenture) in aggregate principal amount to $ .
This Note is not redeemable at the option of the Company.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (a) the
entire indebtedness of the Company on the Notes and (b) certain restrictive
covenants and the related defaults and Events of Default applicable to the
Company, in each case upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set
forth in the Indenture, which provisions apply to this Note.
If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder
of this Note shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect
to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any
other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the
Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Notes, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Notes at the
time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute
proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the
Trustee reasonable indemnity and the Trustee shall not have received from the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding a
direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any
such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of
indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of
this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any interest
hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less
than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal
amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all
Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the
Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.
Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and
binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or
in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon
this Note.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of
the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Note Register, upon
surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of
the Company in any Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar for the Notes (the "Note Registrar") duly executed by, the
Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or
more new Notes of this series, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons in
denominations of $25 and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Notes are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of a different
authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained
in the Indenture or in this Note, or because of any indebtedness evidenced
thereby, shall be had against any promoter, as such, or against any past,
present or future shareholder, officer or director, as such, of the Company or
of any successor, either directly or through the Company or any successor, under
any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of
any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such
liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of this Note by
the Holder thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Notes.
All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have
the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES, INCLUDING THIS NOTE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform
Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused "CUSIP" numbers to be
printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes. No
representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of such CUSIP numbers
as printed on the Notes, and reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed hereon.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by or on
behalf of the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to
any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: UNITED DOMINION REALTY TRUST, INC.
By:_____________________________________
Name: James Dolphin
Title: Executive Vice President and
[SEAL] Chief Financial Officer
Attest:
By:_________________________________
Name: Katheryn E. Surface
Title: Senior Vice President, Secretary
and General Counsel
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein and referred
to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK,
as Trustee
By:_________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby
sells, assigns and transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL
SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING
NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
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(Please Print or Typewrite Name and Address including
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the within Note of United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc., and
irrevocably constitutes and appoints
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Attorney to transfer said Note on the books of the within-named Company with
full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it
appears on the first page of the within Note in every particular, without
alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
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