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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-24-200205
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		20
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20240812
ITEM INFORMATION:		Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240814
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240814

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001130310
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		IRS NUMBER:				740694415
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			TX
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-31447
		FILM NUMBER:		241204072

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1111 LOUISIANA ST.
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77002
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7132073000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1111 LOUISIANA ST.
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77002

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	RELIANT ENERGY REGCO INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20001220
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">$800,000,000 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">$400,000,000 7.000% <FONT
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">August&nbsp;12, 2024 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Barclays Capital Inc. </P>
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The Company understands that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Notes for sale upon the terms and conditions contemplated by this Agreement and by the documents listed in Schedule&nbsp;III (such documents herein called the
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters, on and as of the date hereof and the Closing Date (as
defined in Section&nbsp;2) that: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) A joint registration statement on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-3</FONT> with respect to
the Notes and other securities (File Nos. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025,</FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025-01</FONT></FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025-02),</FONT></FONT> copies of which have been made available to the Underwriters, has been prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;<B>Commission</B>&#148;) by the Company,
together with CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC and CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. Such registration statement, including a prospectus relating to the Notes, has become effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
&#147;<B>1933 Act</B>&#148;), and no stop order suspending its effectiveness has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section&nbsp;8A of the 1933 Act against the Company or related to the offering has been initiated or, to
the best knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission. The term &#147;<B>Registration Statement</B>&#148;<B> </B>means such registration statement, as deemed revised pursuant to Rule&nbsp;430B(f)(1) under the 1933 Act on the date of such
registration statement&#146;s effectiveness for purposes of Section&nbsp;11 of the 1933 Act, as such section applies to the Company and the Underwriters for the Notes pursuant to Rule&nbsp;430B(f)(2) under the 1933 Act (the &#147;<B>Effective
Date</B>&#148;).<B> </B>The base prospectus relating to the Notes included in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any supplement filed pursuant to Rule&nbsp;424 under the 1933 Act) is herein called the &#147;<B>Basic Prospectus</B>.&#148; The
Basic Prospectus as amended and supplemented by a preliminary prospectus supplement dated August&nbsp;12, 2024 relating to the Notes immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined below) is hereinafter called the &#147;<B>Preliminary
Prospectus</B>.&#148; The Company proposes to file together with the Basic Prospectus and pursuant to Rule&nbsp;424 under the 1933 Act a prospectus supplement specifically relating to the Notes and reflecting the terms of the Notes and plan of
distribution arising from this Agreement (herein called the &#147;<B>Pricing Supplement</B>&#148;) and has previously advised the Underwriters of all the information to be set forth therein. The term &#147;<B>Prospectus</B>&#148;<B> </B>means the
Basic Prospectus together with the Pricing Supplement, as first filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule&nbsp;424 under the 1933 Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any reference herein to the Basic Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the
documents incorporated by reference therein, or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, and filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;<B>1934 Act</B>&#148;), on or before the date of such Basic Prospectus,
Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as applicable; any reference herein to the terms &#147;amend,&#148; &#147;amendment&#148; or &#147;supplement&#148; with respect to the Basic Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus shall be deemed
to refer to and include, without limitation, the filing of any document under the 1934 Act deemed to be incorporated therein by reference after the date of such Basic Prospectus, Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For purposes of this Agreement, the &#147;<B>Applicable Time</B>&#148;<B> </B>is 3:40 p.m. (New York City Time) on the date of this Agreement.
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) The Registration Statement, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus (as defined in
Section&nbsp;3(a)), the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus conform, and any amendments or supplements thereto will conform, in all material respects, to the requirements of the 1933 Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the
&#147;<B>TIA</B>&#148;), and the rules and regulations of the Commission under the 1933 Act and the TIA; and (A)&nbsp;the Registration Statement will not, as of the Effective Date, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and (B) (i)&nbsp;the Pricing Disclosure Package does not, as of the Applicable Time, (ii)&nbsp;the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement
thereto will not, as of their dates, and (iii)&nbsp;the Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented pursuant to Section&nbsp;4 hereof, as of the Closing Date will not, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; <I>provided, however, </I>that this representation and warranty shall not apply to: (A)&nbsp;any statements or omissions
made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information furnished in writing by, or through the Representatives on behalf of, any Underwriter for use therein, and (B)&nbsp;any Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">T-1</FONT> Statement of
Eligibility and Qualification included as an exhibit to the Registration Statement; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) Each document filed, and to the extent such
document has been amended, as so amended, or to be filed pursuant to the 1934 Act and incorporated by reference, or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (including, without limitation, any document
to be filed pursuant to the 1934 Act which will be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus) conformed or, when so filed, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the 1934 Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder, and none of such documents included, and to the extent such document has been amended, as so amended, or, when so filed, will include any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or, when so filed, will omit to state any
material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) Any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (such term having the meaning assigned to it by Rule 433
under the 1933 Act (&#147;<B>Rule 433</B>&#148;)) does not include anything that conflicts with the information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus; and any such
Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when taken together with the information contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, did not, when issued or filed pursuant to
Rule 433, and does not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, that
this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information furnished in writing by, or through the Representatives on behalf of, any Underwriter for use therein; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v)&nbsp;(A) At the time of filing of the Registration Statement, (B)&nbsp;at the time of the most recent amendment to the Registration
Statement for the purposes of complying with Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act or form of prospectus) and
(C)&nbsp;at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c) under the 1933 Act) made any offer relating to the Notes in reliance on the exemption of Rule 163 under the 1933 Act, the
Company was a &#147;well-known seasoned issuer&#148; (as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act); </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi) With respect to the Registration Statement, (A)&nbsp;the Registration Statement is an
&#147;automatic shelf registration statement&#148; (as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act), (B) the Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act objecting to the use of the automatic shelf
registration statement and (C)&nbsp;the conditions for use of Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-3</FONT> have been, and continue to be, satisfied by the Company; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vii) At the determination date for purposes of the Notes within the meaning of Rule 164(h) under the 1933 Act, the Company was not an
&#147;ineligible issuer&#148; as defined in Rule&nbsp;405 under the 1933 Act; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(viii) The Company has been duly incorporated and is
validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Texas, with corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ix) Each Significant Subsidiary (as defined in <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Regulation&nbsp;S-X</FONT> under the 1933 Act) (each such
subsidiary, a &#147;<B>Significant Subsidiary</B>&#148;) of the Company has been duly formed, and each Significant Subsidiary is validly existing in good standing (if applicable) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, with power and
authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except to the extent that the failure to be in good standing or to have such power or authority would
not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition, business or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (&#147;<B>Material Adverse
Effect</B>&#148;); and each Significant Subsidiary of the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease
of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; all of the
issued and outstanding ownership interests of each Significant Subsidiary of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued in accordance with the organizational documents of such Significant Subsidiary, except to the extent that the
failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the ownership interests of each Significant Subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries,
are owned free from liens, encumbrances and defects; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(x) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xi) The Notes and the Indenture have been duly authorized by the Company and, when the Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture has been
duly executed and delivered by the Company in accordance with their terms, and assuming the valid execution and delivery thereof by the Trustee, the Indenture will constitute, and, in the case of the Notes, when they are delivered
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by the Company, paid for pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture and duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, the Notes will, on the Closing Date, constitute, valid and legally
binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors&#146; rights and to general equity principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); the Notes, when delivered by the Company, paid for pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture
and duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture; and the Notes and the Indenture conform to the descriptions thereof in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; the Indenture has been
qualified under the TIA; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xii) The issuance by the Company of the Notes, the compliance by the Company with all of the applicable
provisions of this Agreement, the Notes and the Indenture, and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated herein and therein (a)&nbsp;will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions
of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any subsidiary is a party or by which the Company or any subsidiary is bound or to which any of the
property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary is subject, which conflict, breach, violation, or default would individually, or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and (b)&nbsp;will not result in any violation of the provisions of
the Restated Articles of Incorporation or the Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws or other organizational documents of the Company, the charter, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">by-laws</FONT> or other organizational documents of any subsidiary of
the Company or any existing statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company&#146;s or any of its or its subsidiaries&#146; properties; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xiii) No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental agency or body is
required for the issuance of the Notes or the consummation by the Company of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Indenture, except such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required
under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the issuance by the Company of the Notes and the purchase and distribution of the Notes by the Underwriters; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xiv) The Company and its subsidiaries possess certificates, authorities or permits issued by appropriate governmental agencies or bodies
necessary to conduct the business now operated by them and have not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authority or permit that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its
subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xv) Except as disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure
Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, any rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal
or release of hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the protection or restoration of the environment or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, &#147;<B>Environmental Laws</B>&#148;), owns or operates any real property
contaminated with any substance that is subject to any Environmental Laws, is liable for any <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">off-site</FONT> disposal or contamination </P>
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pursuant to any Environmental Laws, or is subject to any claim relating to any Environmental Laws, which violation, contamination, liability or claim would individually or in the aggregate have a
Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is not aware of any pending investigation which has a reasonable possibility of leading to such a claim; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xvi) Except as disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no pending actions, suits or proceedings against or
affecting the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, or would materially
and adversely affect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, or which are otherwise material in the context of the sale of the Notes; and except as disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus, no such actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or, to the Company&#146;s knowledge, contemplated; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xvii) The
financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of
the dates shown and their results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown, and, except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, such financial statements have been prepared
in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission&#146;s rules and guidelines applicable thereto; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xviii) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements of the Company incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (a)&nbsp;there has been no material adverse change in the business, financial condition,
prospects or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, and (b)&nbsp;there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its equity interests (other than
regular quarterly dividends on the Company&#146;s common stock, par value $0.01 per share); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xix) The Company maintains a system of
internal accounting controls and maintains disclosure controls and procedures in conformity with the requirements of the 1934 Act and is otherwise in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the
rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xx) Deloitte&nbsp;&amp; Touche LLP, who have certified certain financial
statements of each of the Company and its subsidiaries, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries, within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the 1933 Act; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xxi) The Company is not, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Notes and
the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Prospectus under the caption &#147;Use of Proceeds,&#148; will not be an &#147;investment company&#148; as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the
&#147;<B>Investment Company Act</B>&#148;); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xxii) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and, since January&nbsp;1,
2006, have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements and the money laundering statutes and the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or
guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the &#147;<B>Money Laundering Laws</B>&#148;) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator
involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xxiii) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or
affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (&#147;<B>OFAC</B>&#148;); and the Company will not directly or indirectly
use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any
U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>2. Sale and Delivery. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the
Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, the principal amount of the Notes set forth in Schedule&nbsp;I opposite the name of such Underwriter (plus an additional amount of Notes that such Underwriter may become
obligated to purchase pursuant to the provisions of Section&nbsp;8 hereof) at (i)&nbsp;with respect to the Series A Notes, a price equal to 99.00% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest, if any, from August&nbsp;14, 2024 to the
Closing Date and (ii)&nbsp;with respect to the Series B Notes, a price equal to 99.00% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest, if any, from August&nbsp;14, 2024 to the Closing Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The Notes to be purchased by each Underwriter hereunder will be represented by one or more registered global securities in book-entry form
which will be deposited by or on behalf of the Company with The Depository Trust Company (&#147;<B>DTC</B>&#148;) or its designated custodian. The Company will deliver the Notes to Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, acting on behalf of the
Underwriters for the account of each Underwriter, against payment by or on behalf of such Underwriter of the amount therefor, as set forth above, by wire transfer of Federal (same day) funds to a commercial bank account located in the United States
and designated in writing at least forty-eight hours prior to the Closing Date by the Company to Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, by causing DTC to credit the Notes to the account of Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, at DTC. The Company will
cause the global certificates representing the Notes to be made available to Barclays Capital Inc., Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC and Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, as joint-book running
managing underwriters (together, the </P>
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&#147;<B>Representatives</B>&#148;), acting on behalf of the Underwriters, for checking at least twenty-four hours prior to the Closing Date at the office of DTC or its designated custodian (the
&#147;<B>Designated Office</B>&#148;). The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on August&nbsp;14, 2024 or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing. Such
time and date are herein called the &#147;<B>Closing Date</B>.&#148; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The documents to be delivered on the Closing Date by or on
behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section&nbsp;6 hereof, including the cross-receipt for the Notes and any additional certificates requested by the Underwriters pursuant to Section&nbsp;6(h) hereof, will be delivered at such time and date at
the offices of Baker Botts L.L.P., 910 Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas 77002-4995 or such other location as the Representatives and the Company may agree in writing (the &#147;<B>Closing Location</B>&#148;), and the Notes will be delivered at the
Designated Office, all on the Closing Date. A meeting will be held at the Closing Location at 1:00 p.m., New York City time or at such other time as the Representatives and the Company may agree in writing, on the New York Business Day next
preceding the Closing Date, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered pursuant to the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties hereto. For the purposes of this Section&nbsp;2, &#147;<B>New York Business
Day</B>&#148;<B> </B>shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>3. Free Writing Prospectuses. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The
Company represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Representatives, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Notes that would constitute a &#147;free writing prospectus&#148; as defined in Rule&nbsp;405 under the
1933 Act, other than a free writing prospectus (which shall include the Pricing Term Sheet discussed in Section&nbsp;3(b) hereof and as defined below), the use of which has been consented to by the Company and the Representatives; provided that the
prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the free writing prospectuses listed on Schedule IV hereto. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representatives and the Company is herein
called a &#147;<B>Permitted Free Writing Prospectus</B>&#148;; each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Company and the Representatives, it has not made and will not make any offer
relating to the Notes that would constitute a &#147;free writing prospectus&#148; as defined in Rule&nbsp;405 under the 1933 Act, other than a Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or a free writing prospectus that is not required to be filed by the
Company pursuant to Rule&nbsp;433. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The Company agrees to prepare a term sheet specifying the terms of the Notes not contained in the
Preliminary Prospectus, substantially in the form of Schedule&nbsp;II hereto and approved by the Representatives (the <B>&#147;Pricing Term Sheet&#148;</B>), and to file the Pricing Term Sheet pursuant to Rule&nbsp;433(d)&nbsp;under the 1933 Act
within the time period prescribed by such Rule. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The Company and the Representatives have complied and will comply with the
requirements of Rule&nbsp;433 under the 1933 Act applicable to any free writing prospectus, including timely Commission filing where required and legending. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) The Company agrees that if at any time following issuance of a Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus or other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus any event has occurred that results in such Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicting, or it becomes known that such Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or
other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicts with the information in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or the Pricing Disclosure Package including an untrue statement of a material fact or omitting to state
any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will give prompt notice thereof to the Representatives and, if requested by the Representatives, will
prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter a free writing prospectus or other document, the use of which has been consented to by the Representatives, which will correct such conflict, statement or omission; provided, however, that this
representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions in the Pricing Disclosure Package made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by, or through the Representatives on behalf
of, any Underwriter expressly for use therein. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>4. Covenants and Agreements. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company covenants and agrees with each of the Underwriters: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) That the Company will furnish without charge to the Underwriters a copy of the Registration Statement, including all documents incorporated
by reference therein and exhibits filed with the Registration Statement (other than exhibits which are incorporated by reference and have previously been so furnished), and, during the period mentioned in paragraph (c)&nbsp;below, as many written
and electronic copies of the Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, any documents incorporated by reference therein at or after the date thereof (including documents from which information has been so
incorporated) and any supplements and amendments thereto as each Underwriter may reasonably request; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) That the Company will cause the
Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus to be filed pursuant to, and in compliance with, Rule 424(b) and will promptly advise the Underwriters (i)&nbsp;when any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed; provided, that, with
respect to documents filed pursuant to the 1934 Act and incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, such notice shall only be required during such time as the Underwriters are required in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives,
based on advice of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the 1933 Act), (ii)&nbsp;of any request by the Commission for any amendment of the
Registration Statement, (iii)&nbsp;of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section&nbsp;8A of
the 1933 Act against the Company or related to the offering, (iv)&nbsp;of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Notes for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening
of any proceeding for such purpose, and (v)&nbsp;of the receipt by the Company of any notice from the Commission pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act. So long as any Underwriter is required in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives,
based on advice of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, to deliver a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule&nbsp;173(a)&nbsp;under the 1933 Act), the Company will not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement to the
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus to which the Representatives or Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP shall have reasonably objected in writing and the </P>
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Company shall furnish one copy of every such amendment or supplement to each of the Representatives and to Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. If the Commission shall issue a stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the Company will take such steps to obtain the lifting of that order as promptly as practical. If the Company receives a notice from the Commission pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act, the Company
will promptly take such steps including, without limitation, amending the Registration Statement or filing a new registration statement, at its own expense, as may be necessary to permit offers and sales of the Notes by the Underwriters (references
herein to the Registration Statement shall include any such amendment or new registration statement); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) That if, at any time when in
the reasonable opinion of the Representatives, based on advice of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, the information in the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule&nbsp;173(a)&nbsp;under the 1933 Act)
is required by law to be delivered by an Underwriter or a dealer, any event shall occur as a result of which it is necessary, in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives, based on advice of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, or counsel for the Company,
to amend or supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or modify the information incorporated by reference therein in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing when the information in the Pricing
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the 1933 Act) is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary in the reasonable opinion of any such counsel, to amend or
supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or modify such information to comply with law, the Company will forthwith (i)&nbsp;prepare and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses
the Underwriters will furnish to the Company) to whom Notes may have been sold by the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon reasonable request, either amendments or supplements to the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or
(ii)&nbsp;file with the Commission documents incorporated by reference in the Pricing Disclosure Package and Prospectus, which shall be so supplied to the Underwriters and such dealers, in either case so that the statements in the Pricing Disclosure
Package or the Prospectus as so amended, supplemented or modified will not, in light of the circumstances when the information in the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the
1933 Act) is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus will comply with law; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) That the Company will endeavor to qualify, at its expense, the Notes for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such
jurisdictions as the Underwriters shall reasonably request and to pay all filing fees, reasonable expenses and legal fees in connection therewith and in connection with the determination of the eligibility for investment of the Notes; provided, that
the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or a dealer in securities or to file any consents to service of process under the laws of any jurisdiction; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) That the Company will make generally available to its security holders and the holders of the Notes as soon as practicable an earnings
statement of the Company covering a twelve-month period beginning after the Closing Date which shall satisfy the provisions of Section&nbsp;11(a)&nbsp;of the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (including
Rule&nbsp;158 under the 1933 Act); and </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) That during the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and continuing to and
including the Closing Date, the Company will not offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise distribute any notes, any security convertible into or exchangeable into or exercisable for notes or any other debt securities substantially similar to the
Notes (except for the Notes issued pursuant to this Agreement), without the prior written consent of the Representatives. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>5. Expenses. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i)&nbsp;all
expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement as originally filed and of each amendment thereto; (ii)&nbsp;the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company&#146;s counsel and accountants in
connection with the issue of the Notes and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the Basic Prospectus, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, any other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Preliminary
Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and any amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers; (iii)&nbsp;all reasonable expenses in connection with the
qualification of the Notes for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section&nbsp;4(d) hereof, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in
connection with the Blue Sky and legal investment surveys; (iv)&nbsp;any fees charged by rating services for rating the Notes; (v)&nbsp;the cost of preparing the Notes; (vi)&nbsp;costs and expenses relating to investor presentations or any
&#147;road show&#148; in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes including, without limitation, any travel expenses of the Company&#146;s officers and employees; (vii)&nbsp;the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any agent of the Trustee
and the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture; and (viii)&nbsp;all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in
this Section. It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section, and Sections&nbsp;7 and 10 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including any advertising expenses connected with any offers they
may make and the fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>6. Conditions of Underwriters&#146; Obligations. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder shall be subject to the accuracy, at and (except as otherwise stated herein) as of the date
hereof, at and as of the Applicable Time, and at and as of the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties made herein by the Company, to compliance at and as of the Closing Date by the Company with its covenants and agreements herein
contained and the other provisions hereof to be satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date, and to the following additional conditions: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)
(i)&nbsp;No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose or pursuant to Section&nbsp;8A of the 1933 Act against the Company or related to the offering shall be pending
before or threatened by the Commission and no notice from the Commission pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act shall have been received, (ii)&nbsp;the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the
applicable time period prescribed for filing by the rules and regulations under the 1933 Act and in accordance herewith and each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus shall have been filed </P>
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by the Company with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by, and otherwise in compliance with Rule&nbsp;433 under the 1933 Act to the extent so required
and (iii)&nbsp;the Underwriters shall have received on and as of the Closing Date, a certificate dated such date, signed by an executive officer (including, without limitation, the Treasurer) of the Company, to the foregoing effect (which
certificate may be to the best of such officer&#146;s knowledge after reasonable investigation). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Subsequent to the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred (i)&nbsp;any change in the business, financial condition, prospects or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as one enterprise which, in the reasonable judgment of
the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impractical to proceed with completion of the offering or the sale of and payment for the Notes on the terms set forth herein; (ii)&nbsp;any downgrading in the rating of any debt securities
of the Company by any &#147;nationally recognized statistical rating organization&#148; (as defined under the 1934 Act), or any public announcement that any such organization has newly placed under surveillance or review its rating of any debt
securities of the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii)&nbsp;any material suspension or material limitation of trading in
securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, or on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">over-the-counter</FONT></FONT> market or any suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or
in the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">over-the-counter</FONT></FONT> market; (iv)&nbsp;any general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared by U.S. Federal or New York State authorities; (v)&nbsp;any
major disruption of settlements of securities or clearance services in the United States or (vi)&nbsp;any act of terrorism in the United States, any attack on, outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States, any declaration of war
by Congress or any other national or international calamity or crisis if, in the judgment of the Representatives, the effect of any such attack, outbreak, escalation, act, declaration, calamity or crisis on the financial markets makes it impractical
to proceed with completion of the offering or sale of and payment for the Notes on the terms set forth herein. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) Hunton Andrews Kurth
LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, shall have furnished to you such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect to such matters as you may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may
reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) Monica Karuturi, Esq., Executive Vice President and General Counsel of
the Company, shall have furnished to you her written opinion, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) The Company is validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Texas and has corporate power and authority to own its
properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes, and the Company is duly qualified to do business
as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify would not reasonably be expected,
individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) Each Significant Subsidiary of the Company is validly existing in good standing (if
applicable) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and each Significant
Subsidiary of the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its
business requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) No consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration with, any governmental regulatory body (other than such as may be
required under applicable state securities laws, as to which such counsel need not express an opinion) is required for the issuance and sale of the Notes being delivered at the Closing Date or for the consummation by the Company of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) To such counsel&#146;s knowledge and other than as set forth or
contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or threatened to which the Company is subject, which, individually or in the aggregate, have a reasonable possibility of having
a Material Adverse Effect; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v) The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement, the Indenture and the issuance
and sale of the Notes, will not result in the breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, (a)&nbsp;the Restated Articles of Incorporation, the Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws or other organizational documents of the Company, each as
amended to date, (b)&nbsp;any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument for borrowed money to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound or to which its property is subject or (c)&nbsp;any law, order, rule or
regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or its property, in any manner which, in the case of clause (b), individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi) The description of statutes and regulations set forth in Part&nbsp;I of the Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT> for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2023 under the captions &#147;Business&#151;Regulation&#148; and &#147;Business&#151;Environmental Matters,&#148; and those described elsewhere in the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, fairly describe in all material respects the portions of the statutes and regulations addressed thereby; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vii) Such counsel does not know of any contracts or documents of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement, Pricing
Disclosure Package or Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement which are not so described or filed. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) Baker
Botts L.L.P., counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to you their written opinion, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) The statements set forth in (A)&nbsp;the Pricing Disclosure Package under the caption &#147;Description of Notes&#148; and those in the
Basic Prospectus under the caption &#147;Description of Our Debt Securities,&#148; taken together, and (B)&nbsp;the Prospectus under the caption &#147;Description of Notes&#148; and those in the Basic Prospectus under the caption &#147;Description
of Our Debt Securities,&#148; taken together, accurately summarize in all material respects the terms of the Notes; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) The Notes are in the form prescribed in or pursuant to the Indenture, have been duly
and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and, when duly executed, issued and authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and delivered against payment therefor pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms and will be entitled to the benefits afforded by the Indenture, except as such enforceability and entitlement are
subject to the effect of (a)&nbsp;any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, fraudulent transfer or conveyance, moratorium, conservatorship and similar laws relating to or affecting creditors&#146; rights generally,
(b)&nbsp;general principles of equity (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (c)&nbsp;principles of materiality and reasonableness and implied covenants of good faith and fair dealing (together, the &#147;<B>Enforceability
Exceptions</B>&#148;); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) The execution and delivery of the Indenture have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate
action on the part of the Company; the Indenture has been duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company; the Indenture constitutes a valid and binding instrument enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability is subject to the Enforceability Exceptions; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) The Indenture has been duly qualified under the TIA; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v) The Registration Statement has become effective under the 1933 Act, and, to such counsel&#146;s knowledge, no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section&nbsp;8A of the 1933 Act against the Company or related to the offering of the Notes have been instituted and
are pending by the Commission under the 1933 Act; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi) The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement has been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company, and this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vii) The Company is not and, immediately after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Notes and the application of the proceeds
therefrom as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will not be required to register as an &#147;investment company&#148; as defined in the Investment Company Act; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(viii) Although the discussion set forth in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus under the heading &#147;Material U.S. Federal Income
Tax Consequences&#148; does not purport to discuss all possible United States Federal tax consequences of the purchase, ownership, and disposition of the Notes, such discussion constitutes, in all material respects, a fair and accurate summary of
the United States Federal income tax consequences of the ownership of the Notes and the disposition of the Notes by the holders addressed therein, based upon current law and subject to the qualifications set forth therein. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In addition, the opinion shall contain a section or paragraph substantially to the following
effect: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Such counsel has reviewed the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and has participated in
conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, with representatives of the Company&#146;s independent registered public accounting firm and with the Underwriters and their counsel, at which the contents of the Registration
Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and related matters were discussed. The purpose of their professional engagement was not to establish or confirm factual matters set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, and they have not undertaken to verify independently any of the factual matters in such documents. Moreover, many of the determinations required to be made in the preparation of the Registration Statement, the
Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus involve matters of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-legal</FONT> nature. Accordingly, they are not passing upon, and do not assume any responsibility for, the accuracy, completeness or fairness of
the statements contained or included in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (except to the extent stated in subparagraphs (i)&nbsp;and (viii) above). Subject to the foregoing and on the basis of the
information they gained in the course of performing the services referred to above, they advise the Underwriters that: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">I.
the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Time, the Preliminary Prospectus, as of the Applicable Time, the Pricing Term Sheet, as of its date, and the Prospectus, as of its date and the Closing Date, appear on their face to be appropriately
responsive in all material respects to the requirements of the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and each document incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Time, and the
Prospectus, as of its date and the Closing Date, as originally filed pursuant to the 1934 Act, appears on its face to be appropriately responsive in all material respects to the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">II. nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe that: </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Time, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, included an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">the Prospectus, as of its date or as of the Closing Date, included or includes an untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">it being understood that in each case they have not been asked to, and do not, express any belief with respect to (a)&nbsp;the financial statements and
schedules or other financial, accounting or statistical information contained or included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom, (b)&nbsp;representations and warranties and other statements of fact contained in the exhibits to
the Registration Statement or documents incorporated by reference therein or (c)&nbsp;that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">T-1.</FONT> </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For purposes of such opinion, the term &#147;<B>Effective Time</B>&#148; shall mean the
earlier of the date the Prospectus is first used or the date and time of the first contract of sale for the Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) At the time of
execution of this Agreement, Deloitte&nbsp;&amp; Touche LLP shall have furnished to you a letter dated the date of such execution, substantially in the form heretofore supplied and deemed satisfactory to you with respect to the audited and unaudited
consolidated financial statements and certain financial information of the Company included or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) At the Closing Date, Deloitte&nbsp;&amp; Touche LLP shall have furnished you a letter, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that such
accountants reaffirm, as of the Closing Date and as though made on the Closing Date, the statements made in the letter furnished by such accountants pursuant to paragraph (f)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;6, except that the specified date referred to in
such letter will be a date not more than three business days prior to the Closing Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h) The Company shall have furnished or caused to
be furnished to you at the Closing Date certificates of the President or any Vice President and a principal financial or accounting officer of the Company in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall
state that (i)&nbsp;the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, (ii)&nbsp;the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at
or prior to the Closing Date, and (iii)&nbsp;subsequent to the date of the most recent financial statements in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change in the business, financial condition,
prospects or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole except as set forth in or contemplated by the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and (iv)&nbsp;as to such other matters as you may reasonably request.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any
governmental agency or body which would as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or the sale of the Notes; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other nature by any court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued as of the
Closing Date which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j) The Notes shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through
DTC. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>7. Indemnification and Contribution. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, the directors and officers of each Underwriter and each
person, if any, who controls each Underwriter within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act, against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses (including the reasonable cost of investigating and defending against any claims therefor
and counsel fees incurred in connection therewith as such expenses are incurred), joint or several, which may be based upon either the 1933 Act, or the 1934 Act, or any other statute or at common law, on the ground or alleged ground that the
Registration Statement, </P>
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any preliminary prospectus, the Basic Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, the Prospectus or any other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any such
document, as from time to time amended, or deemed to be amended, supplemented or modified) includes or allegedly includes an untrue statement of material fact or omits or allegedly omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, unless such statement or omission was made in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by, or through the Representatives on behalf of, any
Underwriter specifically for use in the preparation thereof, it being understood and agreed that the only such information consists of the information described as such in subsection (b)&nbsp;below; provided that in no case is the Company to be
liable with respect to any claims made against any Underwriter, or any such affiliate, director, officer or controlling person unless such Underwriter or such affiliate, director, officer or controlling person shall have notified the Company in
writing within a reasonable time after the summons or other first legal process giving information of the nature of the claim shall have been served upon such Underwriter or such affiliate, director, officer or controlling person, but failure to
notify the Company of any such claim (i)&nbsp;shall not relieve the Company from liability under this paragraph unless and to the extent the Company did not otherwise learn of such claim and such failure results in the forfeiture by the Company of
substantial rights and defenses and (ii)&nbsp;shall not relieve the Company from any liability which it may have to such Underwriter or such affiliate, director, officer or controlling person otherwise than on account of the indemnity agreement
contained in this paragraph. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company will be entitled to participate at its own expense in the defense, or, if it so elects, to
assume the defense of any suit brought to enforce any such liability, but, if the Company elects to assume the defense, such defense shall be conducted by counsel chosen by it; provided, however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to
the Underwriters. In the event that the Company elects to assume the defense of any such suit and retains such counsel, the Underwriter or Underwriters or affiliate or affiliates, director or directors, officer or officers controlling person or
persons, defendant or defendants in the suit, may retain additional counsel but shall bear the fees and expenses of such counsel unless (i)&nbsp;the Company shall have specifically authorized the retaining of such counsel or (ii)&nbsp;the parties to
such suit include the Underwriter or Underwriters or affiliate or affiliates, director or directors, officer or officers, or controlling person or persons and the Underwriter or Underwriters or affiliate or affiliates, director or directors, officer
or officers or controlling person or persons and the Company have been advised by such counsel that one or more legal defenses may be available to it or them which may not be available to the Company, in which case the Company shall not be entitled
to assume the defense of such suit on behalf of such Underwriter or Underwriters or affiliate or affiliates, director or directors, officer or officers or controlling person or persons, notwithstanding their obligation to bear the reasonable fees
and expenses of such counsel, it being understood, however, that the Company shall not, in connection with any one such suit or proceeding or separate but substantially similar or related actions or proceedings in the same jurisdiction arising out
of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (and not more than one local counsel) at any time for all such Underwriter or Underwriters or affiliate or
affiliates, director or directors, officer or officers or controlling person or persons, which firm shall be designated in writing by the Representatives. The Company shall not be liable to indemnify any person for any settlement of any such claim
effected without the Company&#146;s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Underwriter or Underwriters or
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affiliate or affiliates, director or directors, officer or officers or controlling person or persons, effect any settlement, compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or
threatened action, suit or proceeding in respect of which any Underwriter or affiliate, director, officer or controlling person is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought hereunder by such Underwriter or affiliate,
director, officer or controlling person, unless such settlement, compromise or consent (x)&nbsp;includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding
and (y)&nbsp;does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Underwriter or affiliate, director, officer or controlling person. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any
liability which the Company might otherwise have. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Each Underwriter agrees severally and not jointly to indemnify and hold harmless
the Company, each of the Company&#146;s directors, each of the Company&#146;s officers who have signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act, against any
losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses (including the reasonable cost of investigating and defending against any claims therefor and counsel fees incurred in connection therewith as such expenses are incurred), joint or several, which may
be based upon the 1933 Act, or any other statute or at common law, on the ground or alleged ground that the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Basic Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus,
the Prospectus or any other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any such document, as from time to time amended, or deemed to be amended, supplemented or modified) includes or allegedly includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits or
allegedly omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, but only insofar as any such statement or omission was made in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written
information furnished to the Company by, or through the Representatives on behalf of, such Underwriter specifically for use in the preparation thereof, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter
consists of the following information in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus: the information in the third paragraph, the third and fourth sentences of the fifth paragraph, the sixth paragraph and the seventh paragraph under the heading
&#147;Underwriting (Conflicts of Interest)&#148;; provided that in no case is such Underwriter to be liable with respect to any claims made against the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person unless the Company or any such
director, officer or controlling person shall have notified such Underwriter in writing within a reasonable time after the summons or other first legal process giving information of the nature of the claim shall have been served upon the Company or
any such director, officer or controlling person, but failure to notify such Underwriter of any such claim (i)&nbsp;shall not relieve such Underwriter from liability under this paragraph unless and to the extent such Underwriter did not otherwise
learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by such Underwriter of substantial rights and defenses and (ii)&nbsp;shall not relieve such Underwriter from any liability which it may have to the Company or any such director, officer
or controlling person otherwise than on account of the indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph. Such Underwriter will be entitled to participate at its own expense in the defense, or, if it so elects, to assume the defense of any suit
brought to enforce any such liability, but, if such Underwriter elects to assume the defense, such defense shall be conducted by counsel chosen by it; provided, however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company. In the event
that such Underwriter elects to assume the defense of any such suit and retain such counsel, the Company or such director, officer or controlling person, defendant or defendants in the suit, may retain
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additional counsel but shall bear the fees and expenses of such counsel unless (i)&nbsp;such Underwriter shall have specifically authorized the retaining of such counsel or (ii)&nbsp;the parties
to such suit include the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person and such Underwriter and the Company or such director, officer or controlling person have been advised by such counsel that one or more legal defenses may be
available to it or them which may not be available to such Underwriter, in which case such Underwriter shall not be entitled to assume the defense of such suit on behalf of the Company or such director, officer or controlling person, notwithstanding
its obligation to bear the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel, it being understood, however, that such Underwriter shall not, in connection with any one such suit or proceeding or separate but substantially similar or related actions or
proceedings in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (and not more than one local counsel) at any time for all
of the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person, which firm shall be designated in writing by the Company. Such Underwriter shall not be liable to indemnify any person for any settlement of any such claim effected without such
Underwriter&#146;s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. No Underwriter shall, without the prior written consent of the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person, effect any settlement, compromise
or consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding in respect of which the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought
hereunder by the Company or director, officer or controlling person, unless such settlement, compromise or consent (x)&nbsp;includes an unconditional release of the Company or director, officer or controlling person from all liability on claims that
are the subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding and (y)&nbsp;does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of the Company or any such director, officer or controlling person.
This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which such Underwriter might otherwise have. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) If the indemnification
provided for in this Section&nbsp;7 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a)&nbsp;or (b)&nbsp;above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified
party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in subsection (a)&nbsp;or (b)&nbsp;above (i)&nbsp;in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the
Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Notes or (ii)&nbsp;if the allocation provided by clause (i)&nbsp;above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to
in clause (i)&nbsp;above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities as well as any other
relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses)
received by the Company bear to the total discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters from the Company under this Agreement. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Underwriters and the parties&#146; relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to
correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (c)&nbsp;shall be deemed to include any
legal </P>
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or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (c). Notwithstanding the
provisions of this subsection (c), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Notes purchased by it were resold exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has
otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section&nbsp;11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to
contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters&#146; obligations in this subsection (c)&nbsp;to contribute are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations and not joint. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>8. Substitution of Underwriters. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any
Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase the Notes which it has agreed to purchase hereunder and the aggregate principal amount of such Notes which such defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed 10% of the
total principal amount of Notes, the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-defaulting</FONT> Underwriters may make arrangements satisfactory to the Company for the purchase of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes by other persons, including
any of the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-defaulting</FONT> Underwriters, but if no such arrangements are made by the Closing Date, the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-defaulting</FONT> Underwriters shall be obligated severally, in
proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to purchase the Notes that such defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase. If any Underwriter or Underwriters shall so default and the aggregate principal amount of Notes with respect
to which such default or defaults occur exceeds 10% of the total principal amount of Notes and arrangements satisfactory to the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-defaulting</FONT> Underwriters and the Company for the purchase of such Notes by
other persons are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement will terminate. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-defaulting</FONT> Underwriter or Underwriters or substituted underwriter or underwriters are required hereby or agree to take up all or part of the Notes of the defaulting Underwriter as provided in this
Section&nbsp;8, (i)&nbsp;the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date for a period of not more than five full business days, in order that the Company may effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration
Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package or Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees to promptly file any amendments to the Registration Statement or supplements to the Prospectus which may thereby be made necessary,
and (ii)&nbsp;the respective aggregate principal amount of Notes which the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-defaulting</FONT> Underwriters or substituted purchaser or purchasers shall thereafter be obligated to purchase shall be taken as the
basis of their underwriting obligation for all purposes of this Agreement. Nothing herein contained shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability to the Company or the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-defaulting</FONT> Underwriters
for damages occasioned by its default hereunder. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section&nbsp;8 shall be without liability on the part of the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-defaulting</FONT> Underwriters or the Company,
other than as provided in Sections&nbsp;7 and 10. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the several Underwriters, as set
forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any
Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Company, or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Notes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>10. Termination. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If this Agreement shall
be terminated pursuant to Section&nbsp;8 or if for any reason the purchase of the Notes by the Underwriters is not consummated, the Company shall remain responsible for the expenses to be paid or reimbursed by it pursuant to Section&nbsp;5 and the
respective obligations of the Company and the Underwriters pursuant to Section&nbsp;7 shall remain in effect. If the purchase of the Notes by the Underwriters is not consummated for any reason other than solely because of the termination of this
Agreement pursuant to Section&nbsp;8 or the occurrence of any event specified in clause (iii), (iv), (v)&nbsp;or (vi)&nbsp;of Section&nbsp;6(b), the Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">out-of-pocket</FONT></FONT> expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel) reasonably incurred by them in connection with the offering of the Notes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>11. Notices. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In all dealings hereunder,
the Representatives shall act on behalf of each of the Underwriters, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Underwriter made or given by the Representatives. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and (i)&nbsp;if to the Underwriters shall be delivered or sent
by mail, or facsimile transmission to the Underwriters in care of Barclays Capital Inc. 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Syndicate Registration, Fax No.: (646) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">834-8133);</FONT> Goldman
Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, Attention: Registration Department; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, 3rd Floor, Fax No. (212) <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">834-6081;</FONT> Mizuho Securities USA LLC 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020, Attention: Debt Capital Markets, Fax No.: (212) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">205-7812</FONT> and Morgan
Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Investment Banking Division, Facsimile: (212) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">507-8999</FONT> (ii)&nbsp;if to the Company shall be delivered or sent by mail, email or
facsimile transmission to the Company, 1111 Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention: Monica Karuturi, Esq., <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">E-mail:</FONT> monica.karuturi@centerpointenergy.com, (Fax No.: (713) <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">207-0141).</FONT> Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>12.
Successors. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the several Underwriters and the Company and their
respective successors and the directors, officers and controlling persons referred to in Section&nbsp;7 of this Agreement. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person other than the persons
mentioned in the preceding sentence any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement, or any provisions herein contained; this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being
</P>
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intended to be, and being, for the sole and exclusive benefit of such persons and for the benefit of no other person; except that the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements and
indemnities of the Company contained in this Agreement shall also be for the benefit of the person or persons, if any, who control any Underwriter within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act, and the representations, warranties, covenants,
agreements and indemnities of the several Underwriters shall also be for the benefit of each director of the Company, each person who has signed the Registration Statement and the person or persons, if any, who control the Company within the meaning
of the 1933 Act. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>13. Relationship. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i)&nbsp;the purchase and sale of the Notes pursuant to this Agreement is an <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">arm&#146;s-length</FONT> commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other, (ii)&nbsp;in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each
Underwriter is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, (iii)&nbsp;no Underwriter has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the
process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement and
(iv)&nbsp;the Company has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect,
or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>14. Applicable Law. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company hereby submits to the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-exclusive</FONT> jurisdiction of the Federal and state courts in the
Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>15. Waiver of Jury Trial. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Each of the
parties hereto hereby waives any right to trial by jury in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>16. Patriot Act.
</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">107-56</FONT>
(signed into law October&nbsp;26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the names and address of their respective
clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such respective counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or any other rapid transmission device designed to produce a written record
of the communication transmitted shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The words
&#147;execution,&#148; &#147;executed,&#148; &#147;signed,&#148; signature,&#148; and words of like import in this Agreement or in any other certificate, agreement or document related to this Agreement shall include images of manually executed
signatures transmitted by facsimile, email or other electronic format (including, without limitation, &#147;pdf,&#148; &#147;tif&#148; or &#147;jpg&#148;) and other electronic signatures (including, without limitation, DocuSign and AdobeSign). The
use of electronic signatures and electronic records (including, without limitation, any contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means) shall be of the same legal effect, validity and
enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State
Electronic Signatures and Records Act and any other applicable law, including, without limitation, any state law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act or the Uniform Commercial Code. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>18. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the
transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any
such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) In the event that any
Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted
to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) For purposes of this Section&nbsp;18, (A) the term &#147;BHC Act Affiliate&#148; has the meaning assigned to the term
&#147;affiliate&#148; in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. &#167; 1841(k); (B) the term &#147;Covered Entity&#148; means any of the following: (1)&nbsp;a &#147;covered entity&#148; as that term is defined in, and interpreted in
accordance with, 12 C.F.R. &#167; 252.82(b); (2) a &#147;covered bank&#148; as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. &#167; 47.3(b); or (3)&nbsp;a &#147;covered FSI&#148; as that term is defined in, and interpreted
in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. &#167; 382.2(b); (C) the term &#147;Default Rights&#148; has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. &#167;&#167; 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable; and
(D)&nbsp;the term &#147;U.S Special Resolution Regime&#148; means each of (1)&nbsp;the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (2)&nbsp;Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
and the regulations promulgated thereunder. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us the
enclosed duplicate hereof and upon the acceptance hereof by you, on behalf of each of the Underwriters, this letter and such acceptance hereof shall constitute a binding agreement between each of the Underwriters and the Company. It is understood
that your acceptance of this letter on behalf of each of the Underwriters is pursuant to the authority set forth in a form of Agreement among Underwriters, the form of which shall be submitted to the Company for examination upon request, but without
warranty on your part as to the authority of the signers thereof. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000">/s/ Christopher A. Foster</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000">/s/ John Lembeck</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000">/s/ George Graf von Waldersee</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff" STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">J.P. Morgan Securities LLC</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mizuho Securities USA LLC</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">BNP Paribas Securities Corp.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff" STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RBC Capital Markets, LLC</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Truist Securities, Inc.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff" STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Total:</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">400,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">400,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>PRICING TERM SHEET </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">(to
Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, dated August&nbsp;12, 2024) </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This free writing prospectus relates only to the securities described
below and should be read together with CenterPoint Energy, Inc.&#146;s preliminary prospectus supplement dated August&nbsp;12, 2024 (the &#147;Preliminary Prospectus Supplement&#148;), the accompanying prospectus dated May&nbsp;17, 2023 and the
documents incorporated and deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Issuer:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (the &#147;Issuer&#148;)</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Legal Format:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">SEC Registered</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Anticipated Ratings*:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">Intentionally omitted in exhibit format</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Security:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">7.000% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fixed-to-Fixed</FONT></FONT> Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes, Series A, due 2055 (the &#147;Series A Notes&#148;)</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">6.850% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fixed-to-Fixed</FONT></FONT> Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes, Series B, due 2055 (the &#147;Series B Notes&#148;, and together with the Series A Notes,
the &#147;Notes&#148;)</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Principal Amount:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">$400,000,000</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">$400,000,000</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Maturity Date:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">February&nbsp;15, 2055</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">February&nbsp;15, 2055</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Interest Payment Dates:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">February&nbsp;15 and August&nbsp;15 of each year, commencing February&nbsp;15, 2025</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">February&nbsp;15 and August&nbsp;15 of each year, commencing February&nbsp;15, 2025</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Regular Record Dates</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">February&nbsp;1 and August&nbsp;1 of each year, immediately preceding any February&nbsp;15 and August&nbsp;15 interest payment date, as the case may be.</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">February&nbsp;1 and August&nbsp;1 of each year, immediately preceding any February&nbsp;15 and August&nbsp;15 interest payment date, as the case may be.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Ranking:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">The Notes will be the Issuer&#146;s unsecured obligations and will rank junior and subordinate in right of payment to the prior payment in full of the Issuer&#146;s existing and future Senior Indebtedness (including
(i)&nbsp;any indebtedness the Issuer may incur in the future under the Issuer&#146;s Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated December&nbsp;6, 2022, by and among the Issuer, as borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent,
the lenders and other parties thereto (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the &#147;Credit Agreement&#148;), (ii) the Issuer&#146;s $500&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of the Issuer&#146;s 2.50%
Senior Notes due 2024, (iii) the Issuer&#146;s $1&nbsp;billion aggregate principal amount of 4.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026, (iv) the Issuer&#146;s $400&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of 5.25% Senior Notes due 2026, (v) the
Issuer&#146;s $500&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of 1.45%</TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">Senior Notes due 2026, (vi) the Issuer&#146;s $150&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of 4.25% Senior Notes due 2028, (vii) the Issuer&#146;s $700&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of 5.40% Senior Notes due
2029, (viii) the Issuer&#146;s $400&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of 2.95% Senior Notes due 2030, (ix) the Issuer&#146;s $500&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of 2.65% Senior Notes due 2031 and (x)&nbsp;the Issuer&#146;s
$300&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of 3.70% Senior Notes due 2049) as described in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. The Notes will rank equally in right of payment with (x)&nbsp;the Issuer&#146;s existing 2.0% Zero-Premium
Exchangeable Subordinated Notes due 2029, (y) for a given series of the Notes, the Notes of the other series and (z)&nbsp;any future unsecured indebtedness that the Issuer may incur from time to time if the terms of such indebtedness provide that it
ranks equally with the Notes in right of payment. See &#147;Description of Notes&#151;Ranking&#148; in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. For the definition of the term &#147;Senior Indebtedness,&#148; see &#147;Description of
Notes&#151;Subordination&#148; in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">First Reset Date:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">February&nbsp;15, 2030 (the &#147;First Series A Reset Date&#148;)</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">February&nbsp;15, 2035 (the &#147;First Series B Reset Date&#148;)</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Interest Rate:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">The Series A Notes will bear interest (i)&nbsp;from and including August&nbsp;14, 2024 to, but excluding, the First Series A Reset Date at rate of 7.000% and (ii)&nbsp;from and including the First Series A Reset Date during each
Series A Interest Reset Period (as defined in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement) at rate equal to the Five-Year Treasury Rate (as defined in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement) as of the most recent Series A Reset Interest Determination Date
(as defined in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement), plus 3.254%.</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">The Series B Notes will bear interest (i)&nbsp;from and including August&nbsp;14, 2024 to, but excluding, the First Series B Reset Date at rate of 6.850% and (ii)&nbsp;from and including the First Series B Reset Date during each
Series B Interest Reset Period (as defined in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement) at rate equal to the Five-Year Treasury Rate (as defined in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement) as of the most recent Series B Reset Interest Determination Date
(as defined in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement), plus 2.946%.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Reset Period:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">The period from and including the Series A First Reset Date to but excluding the next following Series A Reset Date and thereafter each period from</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">The period from and including the Series B First Reset Date to but excluding the next following Series B Reset Date and thereafter each period from and</TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD VALIGN="top">and including a Series A Reset Date to but excluding the next following Series A Reset Date, or the maturity date, or the date of redemption or repayment, as the case may be.</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">including a Series B Reset Date to but excluding the next following Series B Reset Date, or the maturity date, or the date of redemption or repayment, as the case may be.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Reset Date:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">The First Series A Reset Date and February&nbsp;15 of every fifth year after 2030</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">The First Series B Reset Date and February&nbsp;15 of every fifth year after 2035</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">Cumulative deferral for one or more deferral periods of up to 20 consecutive semi-annual interest payment periods (as defined in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement).</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Par Call:</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">In whole or in part on one or more occasions at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date (i)&nbsp;on any day in the period commencing on
the date falling 90 days prior to the First Series A Reset Date and ending on and including the First Series A Reset Date and (ii)&nbsp;after the First Series A Reset Date, on any interest payment date.</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">In whole or in part on one or more occasions at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date (i)&nbsp;on any day in the period commencing on
the date falling 90 days prior to the First Series B Reset Date and ending on and including the First Series B Reset Date and (ii)&nbsp;after the First Series B Reset Date, on any interest payment date.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Tax Event Call:</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">In whole, but not in part, at 100% of the principal amount of the applicable series of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date, at any time within 120 days after the occurrence
of a tax event with respect to such series of the Notes.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Rating Agency Event Call:</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">In whole, but not in part, at 102% of the principal amount of the applicable series of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date, at any time within 120 days after the occurrence
of a rating agency event with respect to such series of the Notes.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">CUSIP/ISIN:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">15189T BH9 / US15189TBH95</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">15189T BJ5 / US15189TBJ51</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">$1,000</TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">$2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Barclays Capital Inc.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Goldman
Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">J.P. Morgan Securities LLC</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mizuho
Securities USA LLC</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">BNP
Paribas Securities Corp.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RBC Capital Markets, LLC</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Truist
Securities, Inc.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.</P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The terms &#147;Series A Interest Reset Period,&#148; &#147;Series B Interest Reset Period,&#148; &#147;Five-Year Treasury
Rate,&#148; &#147;Reset Interest Determination Date,&#148; &#147;Series A Reset Date,&#148; &#147;Series B Reset Date,&#148; &#147;Senior Indebtedness,&#148; &#147;interest payment periods,&#148; &#147;tax event&#148; and &#147;rating agency
event&#148; have the meanings given in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. Other capitalized terms used and not defined herein have the meanings assigned in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Note</B>: A securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to
revision or withdrawal at any time. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">The Issuer expects that delivery of the Notes offered hereby will be made against payment therefor on or about
August&nbsp;14, 2024, which will be the second business day following the date of pricing of the Notes (this settlement cycle being referred to as &#147;T+2&#148;). Under Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">15c6-1</FONT> of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in one business day, unless the parties to such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to trade the Notes on the initial pricing date
of the Notes will be required, by virtue of the fact that the Notes initially will settle in T+2, to specify alternative settlement arrangements at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement and should consult their own advisors.
</P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication
relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the Issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by
visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the Issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling Barclays Capital Inc. toll-free at (888) <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">603-5847,</FONT> Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC toll-free at (866) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">471-2526,</FONT> J.P. Morgan Securities LLC collect at (212) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">834-4533,</FONT> Mizuho
Securities USA LLC toll-free at (866) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">271-7403</FONT> or Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC toll-free at (866) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">718-1649.</FONT> </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>PRICING DISCLOSURE PACKAGE </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>To </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>THE BANK OF NEW
YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Trustee </B></P>
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INDENTURE ACT OF 1939: </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Section</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">3.10(a)(1)</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not Applicable</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not Applicable</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">(d)</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">3.14(a)</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not Applicable</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not Applicable</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Compliance Certificates and Opinions</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Form of Trustee&#146;s Certificate of Authentication</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">21</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Denominations</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">27</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.07</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved; Optional Interest Reset</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">29</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.08</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Optional Extension of Maturity</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">32</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.09</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Persons Deemed Owners</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">32</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.10</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Cancellation</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;4.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;4.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Application of Trust Money</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">35</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE V REMEDIES</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">35</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Events of Default</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">35</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">37</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.03</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">38</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.04</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Trustee May File Proofs of Claim</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.05</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Application of Money Collected</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.07</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Limitation on Suits</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.08</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.09</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Restoration of Rights and Remedies</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">40</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.10</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Rights and Remedies Cumulative</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.11</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Delay or Omission Not Waiver</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.12</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Control by Holders</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">41</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.13</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Waiver of Past Defaults</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Undertaking for Costs</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">42</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">42</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Certain Duties and Responsibilities</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">42</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of Defaults</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">42</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.03</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Certain Rights of Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">43</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.04</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">44</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.05</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">May Hold Securities</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">44</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Money Held in Trust</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">44</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.07</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Compensation and Reimbursement</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">44</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.08</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Conflicting Interests</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">45</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.09</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">45</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.10</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">46</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.11</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Acceptance of Appointment by Successor</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">47</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.12</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">48</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.13</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">48</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.14</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Appointment of Authenticating Agent</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">49</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE VII HOLDERS&#146; LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">50</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">50</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.02</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">50</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Reports by Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">51</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.04</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Reports by Company</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">51</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE VIII CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">51</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">51</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Successor Substituted</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">52</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">53</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">53</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.02</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">54</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.03</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Execution of Supplemental Indentures</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">55</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.04</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Effect of Supplemental Indentures</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">56</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.05</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Conformity with Trust Indenture Act</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">56</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" NOWRAP> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">56</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">56</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">56</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Maintenance of Office or Agency</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">56</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">57</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.04</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Statement by Officers as to Default</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">58</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.05</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Existence</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">58</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Waiver of Certain Covenants</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">58</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE XI REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">58</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Applicability of Article</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">58</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">59</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">59</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.04</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of Redemption</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">60</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.05</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Deposit of Redemption Price</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">60</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.06</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities Payable on Redemption Date</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">61</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.07</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities Redeemed in Part</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">61</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE XII SINKING FUNDS</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">61</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Applicability of Article</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">61</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.02</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">62</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">62</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE XIII REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF THE HOLDERS</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">62</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Applicability of Article</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">62</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.02</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Repayment of Securities</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">62</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Exercise of Option</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">63</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.04</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">63</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.05</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities Repaid in Part</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE XIV DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Company&#146;s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.02</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Defeasance and Discharge</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Covenant Defeasance</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.04</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">65</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.05</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Acknowledgment of Discharge By Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">67</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.06</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous
Provisions</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">67</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.07</P></TD>
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EMPLOYEES</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">68</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Exemption from Individual Liability</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">68</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">68</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">68</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payment over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">69</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.03</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No Payment When Senior Debt in Default</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">69</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" NOWRAP> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.04</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Prior Payment to Senior Debt Upon Acceleration of Securities</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">70</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.05</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payment Permitted in Certain Situations</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">70</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.07</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">71</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.08</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Trustee to Effectuate Subordination</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">71</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.09</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No Waiver of Subordination Provisions</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">71</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.10</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice to Trustee</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">72</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.11</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">73</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.12</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">73</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.13</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee&#146;s Rights</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">73</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.14</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article Applicable to Paying Agents</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">73</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.15</P></TD>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE (herein called this &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;), dated as of
August&nbsp;14, 2024, between CenterPoint Energy, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas (herein called the &#147;<U>Company</U>&#148;), having its principal office at 1111 Louisiana, Houston, Texas
77002, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, a New York state banking corporation having an office in Houston, Texas, as Trustee (herein called the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RECITALS OF THE COMPANY </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its junior
subordinated debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for
the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, as follows: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE I </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.01&#8195;<U>Definitions</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to them in this Article I and include the plural as well as the
singular; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein,
have the meanings assigned to them therein; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term &#147;generally accepted accounting principles&#148; with respect to any computation
required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States of America at the date of such computation, provided that when two or more principles are so generally accepted, it shall mean that
set of principles consistent with those in use by the Company; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
&#147;Article&#148; or a &#147;Section&#148; refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;the words &#147;herein&#148;, &#147;hereof&#148; and &#147;hereunder&#148; and
other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;words importing any gender include the other genders; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;references to statutes are to be construed as including all statutory provisions consolidating, amending or replacing the statute
referred to; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&#8195;references to &#147;writing&#148; include printing, typing, lithography, electronic mail and other means of
reproducing words in a tangible, visible form; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;the words &#147;including,&#148; &#147;includes&#148; and &#147;include&#148;
shall be deemed to be followed by the words &#147;without limitation&#148;; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&#8195;unless otherwise provided, references to
agreements and other instruments shall be deemed to include all amendments and other modifications to such agreements and instruments, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of this Indenture.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Act</U>&#148;, when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;1.04. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Affiliate</U>&#148; of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, &#147;control&#148; when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or
indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms &#147;controlling&#148; and &#147;controlled&#148; have meanings correlative to the foregoing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Authenticating Agent</U>&#148; means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section&nbsp;6.14 to act on behalf of the
Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Board of Directors</U>&#148; means either the board of directors of
the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Board Resolution</U>&#148; means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or officers of the Company to which authority to act on behalf of the Board
of Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Business Day</U>&#148;, when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Commission</U>&#148; means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or,
if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Company</U>&#148; means the Person named as the &#147;Company&#148; in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter &#147;Company&#148; shall mean such successor Person. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Company Request</U>&#148; or &#147;<U>Company Order</U>&#148; mean, respectively, a written request or order signed in the name of
the Company by its Chair of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, a Vice Chair of the Board, its Chief Financial Officer, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Corporate Secretary or an Assistant
Corporate Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Corporate Trust Office</U>&#148; means the principal office of the Trustee at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which, in the case of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, shall be as follows: (a)&nbsp;for payment, registration, transfer and exchange of
the Securities: 500 Ross Street, Suite 625, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, Attention: Bondholder Communications; telephone: (800) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">254-2826;</FONT> and (b)&nbsp;for all other communications relating to the
Securities: 601 Travis Street, 16th Floor, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention: Global Corporate Trust; telephone: (713) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">483-6529.</FONT> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Corporation</U>&#148; means a corporation, association, company, limited liability company, joint-stock company or business trust.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Covenant Defeasance</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;14.03. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Defaulted Interest</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.07(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Defeasance</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;14.02. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Depositary</U>&#148; means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
Securities, a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Event of Default</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;5.01. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Exchange Act</U>&#148; means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time
to time. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Exchange Rate</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;5.01. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Expiration Date</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;1.04. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Extension Notice</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.08. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Extension Period</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.08. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Final Maturity</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.08. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Global Security</U>&#148; means a Security that evidences all or part of the
Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section&nbsp;2.04 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 for such Securities). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Holder</U>&#148; means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148; means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or
more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part
of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term &#147;Indenture&#148; shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;I<U>nterest</U>&#148;, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after
Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Payment Date</U>&#148;, when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Investment Company Act</U>&#148; means the Investment
Company Act of 1940 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Junior Securities</U>&#148;
has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;16.15. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Maturity</U>&#148;, when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal or premium, if any, becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Maximum Interest Rate</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.11. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Notice of Default</U>&#148; means a written notice of the kind specified in Section&nbsp;5.01(d). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Officers&#146; Certificate</U>&#148; means a certificate signed by the Chair of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, a Vice Chair
of the Board, the Chief Financial Officer, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Opinion of Counsel</U>&#148; means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company (and who may be an employee of
the Company), and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Optional Reset Date</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in
Section&nbsp;3.07(b). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Original Issue Discount Security</U>&#148; means any Security which provides for an amount less than the
principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.02. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Original Stated Maturity</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.08.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Outstanding</U>&#148;, when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;Securities for which payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore
deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and irrevocably segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if
such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section&nbsp;14.02; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.06 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands
such Securities are valid obligations of the Company; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (A)&nbsp;the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof which would be due and
payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.02, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of
such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which
shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in
Clause (A)&nbsp;or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D)&nbsp;Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded
and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which the Trustee knows
to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee&#146;s right so to act with respect to such
Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Paying Agent</U>&#148; means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company. The Company initially authorizes and appoints the Trustee as the Paying Agent for the Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Person</U>&#148; means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Place of Payment</U>&#148;, when used with respect to
the Securities of any series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Predecessor Security</U>&#148; of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt
as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section&nbsp;3.06 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed
to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Redemption Date</U>&#148;, when used with
respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Redemption
Price</U>&#148;, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Regular Record Date</U>&#148; for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date
specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Repayment Date</U>&#148; means, when used with respect to any
Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such repayment by or pursuant to this Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reset
Notice</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.07(b). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Responsible Officer</U>,&#148; when used with respect to The
Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee, means an officer in the Institutional Trust Services department of the Trustee having direct responsibility for administration of this Indenture and, when used with respect to
any successor Trustee, means the chairman or any vice chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or any vice chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the chairman of the trust committee, the president, any vice president,
the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller or any assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of
and familiarity with the particular subject. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148; has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture
and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Securities Act</U>&#148; means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Security Register</U>&#148; and &#147;<U>Security Registrar</U>&#148; have
the respective meanings specified in Section&nbsp;3.05. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Senior Debt</U>&#148; shall mean, with respect to the Company, the
principal, premium, if any, and interest on </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;all indebtedness and obligations of, or guaranteed or assumed by, the Company for
borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, whether outstanding on the date hereof or hereafter created, incurred or assumed, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;all amendments, renewals, extensions, modifications and refundings of any indebtedness or obligations of that kind, unless in any
instrument or instruments evidencing or securing such indebtedness, guarantee or other obligation, or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, or in any such amendment, renewal, extension or refunding, it is expressly provided that such
indebtedness is not superior in right of payment to the Securities of any series; provided that Senior Debt shall not include (A)&nbsp;indebtedness of the Company to any Subsidiary and (B)&nbsp;trade accounts payable and accrued liabilities arising
in the ordinary course of business. The Senior Debt shall continue to be Senior Debt and entitled to the benefits of the subordination provisions irrespective of any amendment, modification or waiver of any term of the Senior Debt or extension or
renewal of the Senior Debt (except to the extent otherwise expressly provided in such amendment, modification, waiver, extension or renewal).Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, &#147;Senior Debt&#148; of the Company shall include, but
not be limited to, any debt of the Company issued at the date hereof pursuant to the Senior Subordinated Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Senior
Indenture</U>&#148; means that certain Indenture, dated as of May&nbsp;19, 2003, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association (successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association (formerly JPMorgan Chase
Bank)), as trustee, as the same may be amended from time to time. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Senior Subordinated Indenture</U>&#148; means that certain
Indenture, dated as of September&nbsp;1, 1999, between Reliant Energy, Incorporated and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association (successor to Chase Bank of Texas, National Association), as trustee, as the same may be amended
from time to time. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Special Record Date</U>&#148; for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee
pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.07(a). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Stated Maturity</U>&#148;, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of
principal thereof or premium, if any, or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of or premium, if any, on such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Subsequent Interest Period</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.07(b). </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Subsidiary</U>&#148; means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting
stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, &#147;voting stock&#148; means stock which ordinarily
has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Trust Indenture Act</U>&#148; means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed;
provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, &#147;Trust Indenture Act&#148; means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148; means the Person named as the &#147;Trustee&#148; in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor
Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter &#147;Trustee&#148; shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person,
&#147;Trustee&#148; as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>U.S. Government Obligation</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;14.04. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Vice President</U>&#148;, when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated
by a number or a word or words added before or after the title &#147;vice president&#148;. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Yield to Maturity</U>&#148; means the
yield to maturity, computed at the time of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such Security) and as set forth in such Security in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield
computation principles. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.02&#8195;<U>Compliance Certificates and Opinions</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers&#146; Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an
Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or
opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based; </P>
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or caused to be made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such individual to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.03&#8195;<U>Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that
all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other
such Persons may certify or give an opinion as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which such officer&#146;s certificate or opinion is
based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with
respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.04&#8195;<U>Acts
of Holders; Record Dates</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted
by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein
otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the &#147;Act&#148; of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for
any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section&nbsp;6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section&nbsp;1.04. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Trustee
deems sufficient. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall </P>
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also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in
any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may set any day as a record date for the
purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given,
made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or
direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action,
whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon
the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount
of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by
Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing (including by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices or procedures at the Depositary) and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the
manner set forth in Section&nbsp;1.06. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of
Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i)&nbsp;any Notice of Default, (ii)&nbsp;any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section&nbsp;5.02, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in
Section&nbsp;5.07(2) or (iv)&nbsp;any direction referred to in Section&nbsp;5.12, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on
such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless
taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new
record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record </P>
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date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by
Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company&#146;s expense, shall cause
notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section&nbsp;1.06. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section&nbsp;1.04, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as
the &#147;Expiration Date&#148; and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in
writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section&nbsp;1.06, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this
Section&nbsp;1.04, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as
provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with
regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents, each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.05&#8195;<U>Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Institutional Trust Services, or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid (or by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices or procedures at the Depositary), to the Company addressed to the attention of the Treasurer of the Company at the address
of the Company&#146;s principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.06&#8195;<U>Notice to Holders; Waiver</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid (or by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices or procedures at the Depositary), to each Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security
</P>
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Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice
may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not
be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case by reason of the suspension of regular
mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.07&#8195;<U>Conflict with Trust Indenture Act</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act which is required under such Act
to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be
deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.08&#8195;<U>Effect of Headings and
Table of Contents</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction hereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.09&#8195;<U>Successors and Assigns</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.10&#8195;<U>Separability Clause</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.11&#8195;<U>Benefits of
Indenture</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto
and their successors hereunder, the holders of Senior Debt (to the extent contemplated herein) and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO
CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.13&#8195;<U>Legal Holidays</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of
Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section&nbsp;1.13)) payment of interest or
principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption
Date, or at the Stated Maturity, and no additional interest shall accrue as the result of such delayed payment. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE II </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITY FORMS </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.01&#8195;<U>Forms Generally</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Securities of each series and the Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article
II, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or
automated quotation system on which the Securities of such series may be listed or traded or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If
the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.03 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The definitive Securities of each series shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these
methods, if required by any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities of such series may be listed or traded, on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any securities
exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities of such series may be listed or traded, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">[INSERT ANY LEGEND REQUIRED BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">AND THE REGULATIONS THEREUNDER.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">(Title
of Security) </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">$ </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">CUSIP No.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">CenterPoint Energy, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas (herein called the
&#147;Company&#148;, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ____, or registered assigns, the principal sum of ____Dollars _____ on [if the Security is to
bear interest prior to Maturity, insert &#151; , and to pay interest thereon from or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on ____and ____ in each year, commencing _____, at
the rate of % per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [if applicable, insert &#151; , provided that any principal and premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate
of ___% per annum (to the extent permitted by applicable law), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand]. [If applicable, insert &#151; The amount of interest
payable for any period shall be computed on the basis of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months and a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year. The amount of interest payable for any partial period shall be computed
on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months and the days elapsed in any partial month. In the event that any date on which interest is payable on this
Security is not a Business Day, then a payment of the interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay) with the same force and
effect as if made on the date the payment was originally payable. A &#147;Business Day&#148; shall mean, when used with respect to any Place of Payment, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking
institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.] The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to
the Person in whose name this Security (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 ______ or _______ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may
be, next 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
Security (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 Securities of this
series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities of this series
may be listed or traded, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert &#151; The principal of
this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall bear interest at the rate of
___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be payable on
demand.] </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert &#151; any such] interest on this Security will be
made at the office or agency of the Paying Agent maintained for that purpose in ____, 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 [if applicable, insert
&#151; ; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made (i)&nbsp;by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (ii)&nbsp;by wire transfer
in immediately available funds at such place and to such account as may be designated in writing by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Security Register]. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or electronic signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed. </P>
<P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Dated: <U>&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;</U></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="3">CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC.</TD></TR>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.03&#8195;<U>Form of Reverse of Security</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the &#147;Securities&#148;), issued and to be
issued in one or more series under a Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024 (herein called the &#147;Indenture&#148;, which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and The Bank of
New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee (herein called the &#147;Trustee&#148;, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), 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, the holders of the Senior Debt (to the extent contemplated in the Indenture) and the Holders of the Securities and of
the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert &#151;, limited in aggregate principal amount to $____; provided, however,
that the authorized aggregate principal amount of the Securities may be increased above such amount by a Board Resolution to such effect]. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert&#151; The interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to
calculate such interest rate, if applicable) on this Security may be reset by the Company on ___ (each an &#147;Optional Reset Date&#148;). The Company may exercise such option with respect to this Security by notifying the Trustee of such exercise
at least 50 but not more than 60 days prior to an Optional Reset Date for this Security. Not later than 40 days prior to each Optional Reset Date, the Trustee shall transmit, in the manner provided for in Section&nbsp;1.06 of the Indenture, to the
Holder of this Security a notice (the &#147;Reset Notice&#148;) indicating whether the Company has elected to reset the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable), and if so (i)&nbsp;such
new interest rate (or such new spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) and (ii)&nbsp;the provisions, if any, for redemption during the period from such Optional Reset Date to the next Optional Reset Date or if there is no such next Optional
Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity of this Security (each such period a &#147;Subsequent Interest Period&#148;), including the date or dates on which or the period or periods during which and the price or prices at which such redemption may occur
during the Subsequent Interest Period. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to the Optional Reset Date, the
Company may, at its option, revoke the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice and establish an interest rate (or a spread or spread multiplier used to
calculate such interest rate, if applicable) that is higher than the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice, for the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the Trustee to transmit, in the
manner provided for in Section&nbsp;1.06 of the Indenture, notice of such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) to the Holder of this Security. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Securities of this
series with respect to which the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) is reset on an Optional Reset Date, and with respect to which the Holders of such Securities have not tendered
such Securities for repayment (or have validly revoked any such tender) pursuant to the next succeeding paragraph, will bear such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or spread multiplier, if applicable). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Holder of this Security will have the option to elect repayment by the Company of the principal of this Security on each Optional Reset
Date at a price equal to the principal amount hereof plus interest accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In order to obtain repayment on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder must follow the procedures set forth in Article XIII of the Indenture for
repayment at the option of Holders except that the period for delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to such Optional Reset Date and except that, if the Holder has tendered this Security for
repayment pursuant to the Reset Notice, the Holder may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender or repayment until the close of business on the tenth day before such Optional Reset Date.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert &#151; The Stated Maturity of this Security may be extended at the option of the Company for ____ (each an
&#147;Extension Period&#148;) up to but not beyond ____ (the &#147;Final Maturity&#148;). The Company may exercise such option with respect to this Security by notifying the Trustee of such exercise at least 50 but not more than 60 days prior to the
Stated Maturity of this </P>
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Security in effect prior to the exercise of such option (the &#147;Original Stated Maturity&#148;). If the Company exercises such option, the Trustee shall transmit, in the manner provided for in
Section&nbsp;1.06 of the Indenture, to the Holder of this Security not later than 40 days prior to the Original Stated Maturity a notice (the &#147;Extension Notice&#148;) indicating (i)&nbsp;the election of the Company to extend the Maturity,
(ii)&nbsp;the new Stated Maturity, (iii)&nbsp;the interest rate applicable to the Extension Period and (iv)&nbsp;the provisions, if any, for redemption during such Extension Period. Upon the Trustee&#146;s transmittal of the Extension Notice, the
Stated Maturity of this Security shall be extended automatically and, except as modified by the Extension Notice and as described in the next paragraph, this Security will have the same terms as prior to the transmittal of such Extension Notice.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days before the Original Stated Maturity of this Security, the Company may, at its
option, revoke the interest rate provided for in the Extension Notice and establish a higher interest rate for the Extension Period by causing the Trustee to transmit, in the manner provided for in Section&nbsp;1.06 of the Indenture, notice of such
higher interest rate to the Holder of this Security. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Securities of this series with respect to which the Stated Maturity is extended will bear such higher interest rate. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Company extends the Maturity of this Security, the Holder will have the option to elect repayment of this Security by the Company on
the Original Stated Maturity at a price equal to the principal amount hereof, plus interest accrued to such date. In order to obtain repayment on the Original Stated Maturity once the Company has extended the Maturity hereof, the Holder hereof must
follow the procedures set forth in Article XIII of the Indenture for repayment at the option of Holders, except that the period for delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to the Original Stated
Maturity and except that, if the Holder has tendered this Security for repayment pursuant to an Extension Notice, the Holder may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until the close of business on the tenth day before
the Original Stated Maturity.] </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert &#151; The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than
10 days&#146; notice by mail, [if applicable, insert &#151; (1) on ____ in any year commencing with the year ____ and ending with the year ____ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the
principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert &#151; on or after ___, 20___], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed
[if applicable, insert &#151; on or before ___, ___%, and if redeemed] during the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">12-month</FONT> period beginning ___ of the years indicated, </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" STYLE="border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Year</P></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ___% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if
applicable, insert &#151; (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the
Holders of such Securities, </P>
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or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert &#151; The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 10 days&#146; notice by mail,
(1)&nbsp;on ___ in any year commencing with the year ___ and ending with the year ___ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of
the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2)&nbsp;at any time [if applicable, insert &#151; on or after ___], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through
operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">12-month</FONT> period beginning ___ of the years indicated, </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" STYLE="border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Redemption Price For<BR>Redemption Through<BR>Operation of
the<BR>Sinking Fund</P></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ___% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption
(whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or
one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert &#151; Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to ___, redeem any Securities of this series as
contemplated by [if applicable, insert &#151; Clause (2)&nbsp;of] the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the
Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than ___% per annum.] </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert &#151;
The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on ___ in each year beginning with the year ___ and ending with the year of ___ [if applicable, insert &#151; not less than $__<U> </U>(&#147;mandatory sinking fund&#148;) and not more
than] $__<U> </U>aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if applicable, insert &#151; mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against
subsequent [if applicable, insert &#151; mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert &#151;, in the inverse order in which they become due].] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert &#151; In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security
or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert &#151; The Securities of this series are not subject to redemption by the Company prior to their Stated Maturity and
will not be entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund.] </P>
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subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by accepting the same,
(a)&nbsp;agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b)&nbsp;authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination so provided and
(c)&nbsp;appoints the Trustee his or her <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorney-in-fact</FONT></FONT> for any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof, hereby waives all notice of
the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such Holder upon said provisions. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert&#151;The Securities shall [not be superior in right of payment to, and shall] rank pari passu with[,]&#151;insert
description of existing debt of the Company that is intended to rank on a parity with the Securities.] </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Indenture contains provisions
for satisfaction and discharge of the entire indebtedness of this Security upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If applicable, insert &#151; The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or]
[certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert &#151; If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series
shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert &#151; If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall
occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to &#151; insert formula for determining the
amount. Upon payment (i)&nbsp;of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii)&nbsp;of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable), all of the Company&#146;s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">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 Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the
time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all
Securities of such series, 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
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Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security 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 Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As provided in and subject to the
provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security 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 (i)&nbsp;such
Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, (ii)&nbsp;the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series 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, (iii)&nbsp;the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and (iv)&nbsp;the Trustee 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 Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates
expressed herein. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the
Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by
a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like
tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. 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. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Prior to due
presentment of this Security 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 Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this
Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Securities
of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $___<U> </U>and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THE INDENTURE AND THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.04&#8195;<U>Form of Legend for Global
Securities</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global
Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall, in addition to the provisions contained in Sections 2.02 and 2.03, bear a legend in substantially the following form: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY
OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS
A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.05&#8195;<U>Form of Trustee</U><U>&#146;</U><U>s Certificate of Authentication</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee&#146;s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>THE SECURITIES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.01&#8195;<U>Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to
Section&nbsp;3.03, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers&#146; Certificate or in a Company Order, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other
series); </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series
which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.04, 3.05,
3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.03, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder); provided, however, that the authorized aggregate principal amount of such series may be
increased above such amount by a Board Resolution to such effect; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of
the series is payable, or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined or extended; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;the rate or rates at which
the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined, the
Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date, or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined, and the basis upon which
interest shall be calculated if other than that of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months, the right, if any, to extend or defer interest payments and the duration of
such extension or deferral; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities of the
series shall be payable, the place or places where the Securities of such series may be presented for registration of transfer or exchange, and the place or places where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such
series may be made; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;the period or periods within or the date or dates on which, the price or prices at which and the term and
conditions upon which any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be
evidenced; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;the obligation or the right, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to
any sinking fund, amortization or analogous provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in which and the other
terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&#8195;if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series
shall be issuable; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined
with reference to an index or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&#8195;if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency,
currencies or currency units, including composite currencies, in which the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United
States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of &#147;Outstanding&#148; in Section&nbsp;1.01; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k)&#8195;if
the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are
stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the period or periods within or the date or dates on which
and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(l)&#8195;the percentage of the principal amount at which such Securities will be issued and, if other than the principal amount thereof, the
portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.02 or the method by which such portion shall be determined; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(m)&#8195;if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or
more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and
payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be
determined); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(n)&#8195;if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or any specified part, shall not be defeasible or shall
be defeasible in a manner varying from Section&nbsp;14.02 and Section&nbsp;14.03 and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to defease such Securities shall be evidenced; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(o)&#8195;whether the Securities of the series, or any portion thereof, shall initially be issuable in the form of a temporary Global Security
representing all or such portion of the Securities of such series and provisions for the exchange of such temporary Global Security for definitive Securities of such series; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(p)&#8195;if applicable, that any Securities of the series, or any portion thereof, shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one
or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section&nbsp;2.04
and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2)&nbsp;of the last paragraph of Section&nbsp;3.05 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of
such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof; </P>
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shall be subject to the optional interest reset provisions of Section&nbsp;3.07(b); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(r)&#8195;if applicable, that the Securities of the
series, in whole or any specified part, shall be subject to the optional extension of maturity provisions of Section&nbsp;3.08; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(s)&#8195;any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the
Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.02; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(t)&#8195;any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article X which applies to Securities of the series; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(u)&#8195;the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series as shall be necessary to permit or
facilitate the issuance of the Securities of such series in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v)&#8195;the appointment of any Paying Agent or Agents for the Securities of such series, if other than the Company; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(w)&#8195;if the Securities are subordinate other than in accordance with Article XVI, such other subordination provisions; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(x)&#8195;the terms of any right to convert or exchange Securities of such series into any other securities or property of the Company or of
any other corporation or Person, and the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series to permit or facilitate such conversion or exchange; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(y)&#8195;the terms and conditions, if any, pursuant to which the Securities of the series are secured; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(z)&#8195;any restriction or condition on the transferability of the Securities of such series; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(aa)&#8195;any other terms of the Securities of such series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture,
except as permitted by Section&nbsp;9.01(e)). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination
and except as may otherwise be provided herein or in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section&nbsp;3.03) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers&#146; Certificate referred to above or in
any such indenture supplemental hereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are established by action taken pursuant to a
Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Corporate Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers&#146;
Certificate or Company Order setting forth the terms of the series. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All Securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior Debt as provided in
Article XVI and/or as specified as contemplated by this Section. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.02&#8195;<U>Denominations</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.03&#8195;<U>Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chair of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its Vice Chair of the Board,
its Chief Financial Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, and attested by its Corporate Secretary or one of its Assistant Corporate Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual, electronic or
facsimile. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities bearing the manual, electronic or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of
the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series
executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If
the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under
this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section&nbsp;6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section&nbsp;2.01, that such
form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;if the terms of such Securities have been
established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section&nbsp;3.01, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors&#146; rights and to general equity principles. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to
authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee&#146;s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.01 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a
series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers&#146; Certificate or Company Order otherwise required pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required
pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such
Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by the manual or electronic signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company,
and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section&nbsp;3.10, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never
be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.04&#8195;<U>Temporary Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities of such series in lieu of which they are
issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at
the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in
all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.05&#8195;<U>Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any
other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the &#147;Security Register&#148;) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed &#147;Security Registrar&#148; for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided. If any indenture supplemental hereto
refers to any transfer agents (in addition to the Security Registrar) initially designated by the Company with respect to any series of Securities, the Company may at any time rescind the designation of any such transfer agent or approve a change in
the location through which any such transfer agent acts, provided that the Company maintains a transfer agent in each Place of Payment for such series. The Company may at any time designate additional transfer agents with respect to any series of
Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of
Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like
tenor and aggregate principal amount. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the
same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All
Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so
required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Securities of any series are to be redeemed in part, neither the Trustee nor the Company shall be required, pursuant to the provisions
of this Section&nbsp;3.05, (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the
mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section </P>
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11.03 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B)&nbsp;to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except, in
the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, any portion not to be redeemed. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of Clauses (a), (b), (c) and
(d)&nbsp;below shall apply only to Global Securities: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all
purposes of this Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole
or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A)&nbsp;such Depositary
(i)&nbsp;has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security, (ii)&nbsp;defaults in the performance of its duties as Depositary, or (iii)&nbsp;has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under
the Exchange Act at a time when the Depositary is required to be so registered to act as depositary, in each case, unless the Company has approved a successor Depositary within 90 days, (B)&nbsp;the Company in its sole discretion determines that
such Global Security will be so exchangeable or transferable or (C)&nbsp;there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;Subject to Clause (b)&nbsp;above, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all
Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or
any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section&nbsp;3.05, Section&nbsp;3.04, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the
name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.06&#8195;<U>Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together with such security or
indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of them harmless, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding and shall cancel and destroy such mutilated Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If there shall be
delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)&nbsp;evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii)&nbsp;such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of
them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost
or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor </P>
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and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. If, after the delivery of such new Security, a bona fide purchaser of the original Security in lieu of which such new
Security was issued presents for payment or registration such original Security, the Trustee shall be entitled to recover such new Security from the party to whom it was delivered or any party taking therefrom, except a bona fide purchaser, and
shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Company and the Trustee in connection therewith and shall cancel and destroy such new Security. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section&nbsp;3.06, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of counsel to the Company and the fees and expenses of
the Trustee, its agents and counsel) connected therewith. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section&nbsp;3.06 in
lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of this Section&nbsp;3.06 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.07&#8195;<U>Payment of Interest; Interest
Rights Preserved; Optional Interest Reset</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 with respect to
any series of Securities, interest on any Security of any series which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest in respect of Securities of such series, except that, unless otherwise provided in the Securities of such series, interest payable on the Stated Maturity
of the principal of a Security shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is paid. The initial payment of interest on any Security of any series which is issued between a Regular Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date shall be payable
as provided in such Security or in the Board Resolution pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01 with respect to the related series of Securities. Except in the case of a Global Security, at the option of the Company, interest on any series of Securities may
be paid (i)&nbsp;by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it shall appear on the Security Register of such series or (ii)&nbsp;by wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place and to such account as designated in
writing by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Security Register of such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any Paying Agents will be identified in a
supplemental indenture hereto. The Company may at any time designate additional Paying Agents or rescind the designation of any Paying Agent; however, the Company at all times will be required to maintain a Paying Agent in each Place of Payment for
each series of Securities. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 with respect to any series of
Securities, any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not timely paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series (herein called &#147;Defaulted Interest&#148;) shall forthwith cease to
be payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (i)&nbsp;or (ii) below: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series in
respect of which interest is in default (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The
Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of
money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as provided in this Clause (1). Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not
less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name
and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth in Section&nbsp;1.06, not
less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&#8195;The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which such Securities may be listed or traded, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section&nbsp;3.07, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of
or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;The provisions of this Section&nbsp;3.07(b) may be made applicable to any series
of Securities pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01 (with such modifications, additions or substitutions as may be specified pursuant to such Section&nbsp;3.01). The interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if
applicable) on any Security of such series may be reset by the Company on the date or dates specified on the face of such Security (each an &#147;Optional Reset Date&#148;). The Company may exercise such option with respect to such Security by
notifying the Trustee of such exercise at least 50 but not more than 60 days prior to an Optional Reset Date for such Security. Not later than 40 days prior to each Optional Reset Date, the Trustee shall transmit, in the manner provided for in
Section&nbsp;1.06, to the Holder of any such Security a notice (the &#147;Reset Notice&#148;) indicating whether the Company has elected to reset the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if
applicable), and if so (i)&nbsp;such new interest rate (or such new spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) and (ii)&nbsp;the provisions, if any, for redemption during the period from such Optional Reset Date to the next Optional Reset Date or
if there is no such next Optional Reset Date, to the Stated Maturity of such Security (each such period a &#147;Subsequent Interest Period&#148;), including the date or dates on which or the period or periods during which and the price or prices at
which such redemption may occur during the Subsequent Interest Period. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days prior to the
Optional Reset Date, the Company may, at its option, revoke the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice and establish an interest rate (or a spread or
spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) that is higher than the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) provided for in the Reset Notice, for the Subsequent Interest Period by causing the
Trustee to transmit, in the manner provided for in Section&nbsp;1.06, notice of such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or spread multiplier, if applicable) to the Holder of such Security. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Securities
with respect to which the interest rate (or the spread or spread multiplier used to calculate such interest rate, if applicable) is reset on an Optional Reset Date, and with respect to which the Holders of such Securities have not tendered such
Securities for repayment (or have validly revoked any such tender) pursuant to the next succeeding paragraph, will bear such higher interest rate (or such higher spread or spread multiplier, if applicable). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Holder of any such Security will have the option to elect repayment by the Company of the principal of such Security on each Optional
Reset Date at a price equal to the principal amount thereof plus interest accrued to such Optional Reset Date. In order to obtain repayment on an Optional Reset Date, the Holder must follow the procedures set forth in Article XIII for repayment at
the option of Holders except that the period for delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to such Optional Reset Date and except that, if the Holder has tendered any Security for repayment pursuant
to the Reset Notice, the Holder may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender or repayment until the close of business on the tenth day before such Optional Reset Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section&nbsp;3.07 and Section&nbsp;3.05, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon
registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.08&#8195;<U>Optional Extension of Maturity</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of this Section&nbsp;3.08 may be made applicable to any series of Securities pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01 (with such
modifications, additions or substitutions as may be specified pursuant to such Section&nbsp;3.01). The Stated Maturity of any Security of such series may be extended at the option of the Company for the period or periods specified on the face of
such Security (each an &#147;Extension Period&#148;) up to but not beyond the date (the &#147;Final Maturity&#148;) set forth on the face of such Security. The Company may exercise such option with respect to any Security by notifying the Trustee of
such exercise at least 50 but not more than 60 days prior to the Stated Maturity of such Security in effect prior to the exercise of such option (the &#147;Original Stated Maturity&#148;). If the Company exercises such option, the Trustee shall
transmit, in the manner provided for in Section&nbsp;1.06, to the Holder of such Security not later than 40 days prior to the Original Stated Maturity a notice (the &#147;Extension Notice&#148;) indicating (i)&nbsp;the election of the Company to
extend the Maturity, (ii)&nbsp;the new Stated Maturity, (iii)&nbsp;the interest rate applicable to the Extension Period and (iv)&nbsp;the provisions, if any, for redemption during such Extension Period. Upon the Trustee&#146;s transmittal of the
Extension Notice, the Stated Maturity of such Security shall be extended automatically and, except as modified by the Extension Notice and as described in the next paragraph, such Security will have the same terms as prior to the transmittal of such
Extension Notice. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the foregoing, not later than 20 days before the Original Stated Maturity of such Security, the Company
may, at its option, revoke the interest rate provided for in the Extension Notice and establish a higher interest rate for the Extension Period by causing the Trustee to transmit, in the manner provided for in Section&nbsp;1.06, notice of such
higher interest rate to the Holder of such Security. Such notice shall be irrevocable. All Securities with respect to which the Stated Maturity is extended will bear such higher interest rate. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Company extends the Maturity of any Security, the Holder will have the option to elect repayment of such Security by the Company on the
Original Stated Maturity at a price equal to the principal amount thereof, plus interest accrued to such date. In order to obtain repayment on the Original Stated Maturity once the Company has extended the Maturity thereof, the Holder must follow
the procedures set forth in Article XIII for repayment at the option of Holders, except that the period for delivery or notification to the Trustee shall be at least 25 but not more than 35 days prior to the Original Stated Maturity and except that,
if the Holder has tendered any Security for repayment pursuant to an Extension Notice, the Holder may, by written notice to the Trustee, revoke such tender for repayment until the close of business on the tenth day before the Original Stated
Maturity. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.09&#8195;<U>Persons Deemed Owners</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may
treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered on the applicable record date as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section&nbsp;3.07) any interest on such
Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall,
if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not
issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section&nbsp;3.10, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be treated in accordance with its document retention policies. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.11&#8195;<U>Computation of Interest; Usury Not Intended</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series
shall be computed on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months and interest on the Securities of each series for any partial period shall be computed on the
basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months and the number of days elapsed in any partial month. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The amount of interest (or amounts deemed to be interest under applicable law) payable or paid on any Security shall be limited to an amount
which shall not exceed the lesser of (i)&nbsp;the maximum nonusurious rate of interest allowed by the applicable laws of the State of Texas or (ii)&nbsp;the maximum nonusurious rate of interest allowed by the applicable laws of the State of New
York, or any applicable law of the United States permitting a higher maximum nonusurious rate that preempts such applicable Texas and New York laws, which could lawfully be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received (the &#147;Maximum
Interest Rate&#148;). If, as a result of any circumstances whatsoever, the Company or any other Person is deemed to have paid interest (or amounts deemed to be interest under applicable law) or any Holder of a Security is deemed to have contracted
for, taken, reserved, charged or received interest (or amounts deemed to be interest under applicable law), in excess of the Maximum Interest Rate, then, ipso facto, the obligation to be fulfilled shall be reduced to the limit of validity, and if
from any such circumstance, the Trustee, acting on behalf of the Holders, or any Holder shall ever receive interest or anything that might be deemed interest under applicable law that would exceed the Maximum Interest Rate, such amount that would be
excessive interest shall be applied to the reduction of the principal amount owing on the applicable Security or Securities and not to the payment of interest, or if such excessive interest exceeds the unpaid principal balance of any such Security
or Securities, such excess shall be refunded to the Company. In addition, for purposes of determining whether payments in respect of any Security are usurious, all sums paid or agreed to be paid with respect to such Security for the use, forbearance
or detention of money shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be amortized, prorated, allocated and spread throughout the full term of such Security. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.12&#8195;<U>CUSIP Numbers</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company in issuing the Securities may use &#147;CUSIP&#148; numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use
&#147;CUSIP&#148; numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any
notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company shall promptly notify
the Trustee in writing of any change in &#147;CUSIP&#148; numbers. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE IV </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;4.01&#8195;<U>Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for and as otherwise provided in this Section&nbsp;4.01), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture, when </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;either </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i)&nbsp;Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen
and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section&nbsp;3.06 and (ii)&nbsp;Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section&nbsp;10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&#8195;all
such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(A)&#8195;have become due and payable, or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(B)&#8195;will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year of the date of deposit, or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(C)&#8195;are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of
notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, and the Company, in the case of (A), (B) or (C)&nbsp;above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for such purpose money
in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities
which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the
Company; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating
that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.07, the
obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section&nbsp;6.14 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (ii)&nbsp;of Clause (A)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.01, the obligations of the Trustee
under Section&nbsp;4.02 and the last paragraph of Section&nbsp;10.03 shall survive. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;4.02&#8195;<U>Application of Trust
Money</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section&nbsp;10.03, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
Section&nbsp;4.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as
the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE V </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>REMEDIES
</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.01&#8195;<U>Events of Default</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Event of Default</U>&#148;, wherever used herein with respect to the Securities of any series, means any one of the following events
(whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article XVI or be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any
order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body): </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;default in the payment of any interest upon any Security
of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;default in the
payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of that series at its Maturity; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;default in the deposit of any
sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;default in the performance, or breach, in
any material respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture with respect to a Security of that series (other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance of which or the breach of which is elsewhere in this
Section&nbsp;5.01 specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there
has been given, by registered or certified </P>
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mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying
such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a &#147;Notice of Default&#148; under this Indenture; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (i)&nbsp;a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (ii)&nbsp;a decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of
the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90
consecutive days; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary
case or proceeding under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or
consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment of a substantial part of its property for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its
inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series; provided, however, that no event described in Clause
(d)&nbsp;above shall constitute an Event of Default hereunder until a Responsible Officer assigned to and working in the Trustee&#146;s corporate trust department has received written notice thereof as contemplated in Section&nbsp;6.02. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section&nbsp;5.01, if the principal or any premium or interest on any Security is payable in
a currency other than the currency of the United States of America and such currency is not available to the Company for making payment thereof due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the control of the Company, the
Company will be entitled to satisfy its obligations to Holders of the Securities by making such payment in the currency of the United States of America in an amount equal to the currency of the United States of America equivalent of the amount
payable in such other currency, as determined by the Trustee by reference to the noon buying rate in The City of New York for cable transfers for such currency (&#147;Exchange Rate&#148;), as such Exchange Rate is reported or otherwise made
available by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the date of such payment, or, if such rate is not then available, on the basis of the most recently available Exchange Rate. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section&nbsp;5.01, any
payment made under such </P>
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circumstances in the currency of the United States of America where the required payment is in a currency other than the currency of the United States of America will not constitute an Event of
Default under this Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.02&#8195;<U>Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an Event of Default (other than (a)&nbsp;an Event of Default specified in Section&nbsp;5.01(g) which is common to all Outstanding series of
Securities or (b)&nbsp;an Event of Default specified in Section&nbsp;5.01(e) or 5.01(f)) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than
25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal
amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified
amount) shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default under Section&nbsp;5.01(g) which is common to all Outstanding series of Securities occurs and is continuing, then in such case, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25%
in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities then Outstanding hereunder (treated as one class), by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders) may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified by the terms thereof) of all the Securities then Outstanding to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or
specified amount) shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section&nbsp;5.01(e) or 5.01(f) with respect to the Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs, then in such case the principal amount of
all the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) shall automatically, and without any
declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">At any time after such a
declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article V, the Event of Default giving
rise to such declaration of acceleration shall, without further act, be deemed to have been waived, and such declaration and its consequences shall, without further act, be deemed to have been rescinded and annulled, if: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;all overdue installments of interest on all Securities of that series, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&#8195;the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration
of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii)&#8195;to the extent that
payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv)&#8195;all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;all Events of Default with
respect to Securities of that series, other than the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-payment</FONT> of the principal of Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as
provided in Section&nbsp;5.13. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.03&#8195;<U>Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company covenants that if: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues
for a period of 30 days, or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the
Maturity thereof, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the
extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing
the Trustee, its agents and counsel under Section&nbsp;6.07. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and
enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.04&#8195;<U>Trustee May File Proofs of Claim</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the
Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In
particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee
any amount due it and any predecessor Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.07. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
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authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee
in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors&#146; or other similar committee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.05&#8195;<U>Trustee May
Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be
prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an
express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of all amounts owing the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.07, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.06&#8195;<U>Application of Money Collected</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any money or property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect to a series of Securities pursuant to this Article V shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money or property on account of principal or any premium or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of
the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee,
including in its other capacities provided for herein, under Section&nbsp;6.07; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECOND: Subject to Article XVI, to the payment of the
amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any premium and interest on such series of Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to
the amounts due and payable on such series of Securities for principal and any premium and interest, respectively; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THIRD: To the
payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.07&#8195;<U>Limitation on Suits</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator or sequestrator (or other similar official), or for any other remedy hereunder, unless </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of
that series; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made
written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;the Trustee for 60 days
after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of security or indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">60-day</FONT> period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">it
being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of
Securities, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.08&#8195;<U>Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and </U><U>Interest</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section&nbsp;3.07) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute
suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.09&#8195;<U>Restoration of Rights and Remedies</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored
severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.10&#8195;<U>Rights and Remedies Cumulative</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last
paragraph of Section&nbsp;3.06, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.11&#8195;<U>Delay or Omission Not Waiver</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall
impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.12&#8195;<U>Control by
Holders</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right
to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction, and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;6.01, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow such direction if a
Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee shall, in good faith, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability or would otherwise be contrary to applicable law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.13&#8195;<U>Waiver of Past Defaults</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder
of each Outstanding Security of such series affected. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.14&#8195;<U>Undertaking for Costs</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court
may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for </P>
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any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and such court may in its discretion assess reasonable
costs including reasonable attorneys&#146; fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that the provisions of this
Section&nbsp;5.14 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder or group of Holders holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by
any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Security. Neither this Section&nbsp;5.14 nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize
any court to require such an undertaking or such an assessment in any proceeding instituted by the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.15&#8195;<U>Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that
it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE VI </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>THE TRUSTEE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.01&#8195;<U>Certain Duties and Responsibilities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.02&#8195;<U>Notice of Defaults</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice
of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section&nbsp;5.01(d) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders
shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section&nbsp;6.02, the term &#147;default&#148; means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with
respect to Securities of such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee is not required to take notice or deemed to have notice of any Event of Default with
respect to the Securities, unless a Responsible Officer shall have received written notice of such Event of Default from the Company, any Subsidiary or the Holder of any Security. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;6.01: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or
Company Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;whenever in
the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may
rely upon an Officers&#146; Certificate; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;the Trustee may consult with counsel, and the written advice of such counsel or any
Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or
by agent or attorney; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either
directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&#8195;the Trustee is not required to give any bond or surety with respect to the performance of its duties or the exercise of its powers
under this Indenture; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;in the event the Trustee receives inconsistent or conflicting requests and indemnity from two or more
groups of Holders of Securities, each representing less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities Outstanding, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may determine what action, if any, shall be taken; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&#8195;the Trustee&#146;s immunities and protections from liability and its right to indemnification in connection with the performance of
its duties under this Indenture shall extend </P>
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to the Trustee&#146;s officers, directors, agents and employees. Such immunities and protections and right to indemnification, together with the Trustee&#146;s right to compensation, shall
survive the Trustee&#146;s resignation or removal and final payment of the Securities; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k)&#8195;except for information provided by
the Trustee concerning the Trustee, the Trustee shall have no responsibility for any information in any offering memorandum or other disclosure material distributed with respect to the Securities, and the Trustee shall have no responsibility for
compliance with any state or federal securities laws in connection with the Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.04&#8195;<U>Not Responsible for
Recitals or Issuance of Securities</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee&#146;s certificates of
authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.05&#8195;<U>May Hold Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any
other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.08 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security
Registrar or such other agent. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.06&#8195;<U>Money Held in Trust</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be
under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.07&#8195;<U>Compensation and Reimbursement</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company agrees: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in such amounts as the Company
and the Trustee shall agree in writing from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as
may be attributable to its negligence or willful misconduct; and </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability
or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim
or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, except those attributable to its negligence or willful misconduct. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity under this Section&nbsp;6.07. The Company shall
defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have separate counsel and, in the event the subject matter of the claim involves a conflict of interest between the Company and the Trustee, the Company shall pay the
reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent. The provisions of this Section&nbsp;6.07 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the termination of this
Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in any proceedings which result from an Event of Default under
Section&nbsp;5.01(e) or (f), or from any default which, with the passage of time, would become such Event of Default, the expenses so incurred and compensation for services so rendered are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the
United States Bankruptcy Code or equivalent law. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.08&#8195;<U>Conflicting Interests</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate
such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest
by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series or a trustee under the Senior Indenture with respect to one or more series of Senior Debt. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.09&#8195;<U>Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder
for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section&nbsp;6.09 and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus
of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section&nbsp;6.09, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VI. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.10&#8195;<U>Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section&nbsp;6.11. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee may
resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section&nbsp;6.11 shall not have been delivered to the
Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If at any time: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section&nbsp;6.08 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been
a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section&nbsp;6.09 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;the Trustee shall become incapable
of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any such case, (i)&nbsp;the Company, acting pursuant to the authority of a Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii)&nbsp;subject to Section&nbsp;5.14, any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and
the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a
vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or
those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section&nbsp;6.11. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section&nbsp;6.11, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed
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by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by
Section&nbsp;6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of
the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section&nbsp;1.06. Each notice
shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.11&#8195;<U>Acceptance of Appointment by Successor</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring
Trustee hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not
all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment
and which (a)&nbsp;shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities
of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (b)&nbsp;if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (c)&nbsp;shall
add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental
indenture shall constitute such Trustee&#146;s <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">co-trustees</FONT> of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder
administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee
relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor </P>
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Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of
that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article VI. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.12&#8195;<U>Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not
delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated, and in case any Securities shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor Trustee or in the name of such successor Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of authentication shall have the full force which
it is provided anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture that the certificate of the Trustee shall have. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.13&#8195;<U>Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject
to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor). For purposes of Section&nbsp;3.11(b)(4) and (6)&nbsp;of the Trust Indenture Act: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;&#147;<U>cash transaction</U>&#148; means any transaction in which full payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven
days after delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in checks or other orders drawn upon banks and payable upon demand; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;&#147;<U>self-liquidating paper</U>&#148; means any draft, bill of exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn,
negotiated or incurred by the Company (or any such obligor) for the purpose of financing the purchase, processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to,
possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or merchandise previously constituting the security; provided the security is received by the Trustee
simultaneously with the creation of the creditor relationship with the Company (or any such obligor) arising from the making, drawing, negotiating or incurring of the draft, bill of exchange, acceptance or obligation. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.14&#8195;<U>Appointment of Authenticating Agent</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on
behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.06, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia,
authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section&nbsp;6.14, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section&nbsp;6.14, such Authenticating Agent
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section&nbsp;6.14. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any corporation into which an
Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all
or substantially all of the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent shall be the successor Authenticating Agent hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section&nbsp;6.14, without
the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">An Authenticating Agent
may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company.
Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section&nbsp;6.14, the Trustee may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such appointment in the manner provided in Section&nbsp;1.06 to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will
serve. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No
successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section&nbsp;6.14. </P>
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compensation for its services under this Section&nbsp;6.14, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;6.07. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section&nbsp;6.14, the Securities of such series may have
endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>HOLDERS&#146; LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.01&#8195;<U>Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;semi-annually, not later than January&nbsp;15 and July&nbsp;15 in each year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of the preceding January&nbsp;1 or July&nbsp;1 as the case may be, and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that if and so long as the Trustee shall be Security Registrar for Securities of a series, no such list need be
furnished with respect to such series of Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.02&#8195;<U>Preservation of Information; Communications to
Holders</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained
in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section&nbsp;7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section&nbsp;7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under
this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.03&#8195;<U>Reports by Trustee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Reports so required to be transmitted at stated
intervals of not more than 12 months shall be transmitted no later than January&nbsp;31 in each calendar year, commencing with the first January&nbsp;31 after the first issuance of Securities under this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.04&#8195;<U>Reports by Company</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant
to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the Commission. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE VIII </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.01&#8195;<U>Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any Person, unless: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer
or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and
assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and
shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, </P>
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executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance
or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;immediately after
giving effect to such transaction, 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 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such consolidation,
merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture complies with this Article VIII and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with; provided, however, that the delivery of an Officers&#146; Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel is not required with respect to any consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease involving the Company
and any wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.02&#8195;<U>Successor Substituted</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the
properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section&nbsp;8.01, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made
shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein; and in the event of any such conveyance or
transfer (but not in the case of a lease) the Company shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the Securities and may be dissolved and liquidated. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Such successor Person may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the Securities
issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this
Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication pursuant to such provisions and any
Securities which such successor Person thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf for the purpose pursuant to such provisions. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and
benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, such changes in phraseology and form may be made in the Securities
thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.01&#8195;<U>Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time,
may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor
corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company pursuant to Article VIII; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;to add to the covenants of
the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of
such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;to add any additional Events of Default
for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included
solely for the benefit of such series), provided, however, that in respect of any such additional Events of Default such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer than
that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such default or may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of that or those series of Securities to which such additional Events of Default apply to waive such default; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;to add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to
permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions
of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, including any of the provisions of Article XVI; provided, however, that if such addition, change or elimination shall adversely affect the interests of Holders of Securities of any
series, such addition, change or elimination shall become effective with respect to such series only when no such Security of such series remains Outstanding; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Trustee or to surrender any right or power herein
conferred upon the Company; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and
3.01; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&#8195;to provide for uncertificated securities in addition to certificated securities; or </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Section&nbsp;6.11; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&#8195;to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein
which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this Clause (j)&nbsp;shall not adversely
affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k)&#8195;to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Sections 4.01, 14.02 and 14.03; provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of
Securities of such series or any other series of Securities; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(l)&#8195;to comply with the rules or regulations of any securities
exchange or automated quotation system on which any of the Securities may be listed or traded; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(m)&#8195;to add to, change or
eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance with any amendments to the Trust Indenture Act, provided that such action does not adversely affect the rights or interests of any Holder of
Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.02&#8195;<U>Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture (treated as one class), by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that
no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;except
to the extent permitted by Section&nbsp;3.07(b) or Section&nbsp;3.08 or otherwise specified in the form or terms of the Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01 with respect to extending the Stated Maturity of any Security of
such series, change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof,
or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.02, or change any Place of
Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, 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 </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities 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 this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their
consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;modify any of the provisions of this Section&nbsp;9.02, Section&nbsp;5.13 or
Section&nbsp;10.06, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however,
that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to &#147;the Trustee&#148; and concomitant changes in this Section&nbsp;9.02 and Section&nbsp;10.06, or the deletion of this proviso,
in accordance with the requirements of Sections 6.11 and 9.01(i), or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;if the Securities of any series are convertible or
exchangeable into any other securities or property of the Company, make any change that adversely affects the right to convert or exchange any Security of such series (except as permitted by Section&nbsp;9.01) or decrease the conversion or exchange
rate or increase the conversion price of any such Security of such series, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect
to the subordination of any Security in a manner adverse to the Holder thereof; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;if the Securities of any series are secured,
change the terms and conditions pursuant to which the Securities of such series are secured in a manner adverse to the Holders of the secured Securities of such series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">An amendment under this Section may not make any change that adversely affects the rights under Article XVI of any holder of Senior Debt
unless the holders of each issue of Senior Debt pursuant to its terms consent to the change. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">A supplemental indenture which changes or
eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with
respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section&nbsp;9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.03&#8195;<U>Execution of
Supplemental Indentures</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this
Article IX or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section&nbsp;6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee&#146;s own rights,
duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article IX, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.05&#8195;<U>Conformity with Trust Indenture Act</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.06&#8195;<U>Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and
shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion
of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE X </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>COVENANTS
</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.01&#8195;<U>Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any
premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.02&#8195;<U>Maintenance of Office or Agency</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be
presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may
be served. The Company initially appoints the Trustee, acting through its Corporate Trust Office, as its agent for said purpose. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such
office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be
presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such </P>
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designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.03&#8195;<U>Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate to the extent required by law and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and
interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will provide to a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to
pay the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or
failure so to act. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to
the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section&nbsp;10.03, that such Paying Agent will (a)&nbsp;comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a
Paying Agent and (b)&nbsp;during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable may be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and
all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a
newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The City of New York, notice that such money </P>
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remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be
repaid to the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.04&#8195;<U>Statement by Officers as to Default</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an
Officers&#146; Certificate, one of the signers of which shall be the principal executive, principal accounting or principal financial officer of the Company, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof, the Company is in
default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in default,
specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.05&#8195;<U>Existence</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to Article VIII and the Company&#146;s ability to convert into a limited liability company, limited partnership or limited liability
partnership under applicable law, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence. On and after any conversion of the Company into a limited liability company,
limited partnership or limited liability partnership under applicable law, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its limited liability company, limited partnership or limited
liability partnership existence, as applicable. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.06&#8195;<U>Waiver of Certain Covenants</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 for Securities of such series, the Company may, with respect to the
Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01(t), 9.01(b) or 9.01(g) for the benefit of the Holders of such series or in
Section&nbsp;10.05, if the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term,
provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the
Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE XI </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.01&#8195;<U>Applicability of Article</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article XI. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by
Section&nbsp;3.01 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities of any series (including any such redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, not less than 10 nor
more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and,
if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the
Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance with such restriction. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.03&#8195;<U>Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be
redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not
previously called for redemption, by lot or by such other customary method prescribed by the Depositary, if applicable, and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series,
provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series
and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee
shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such
Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to
the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed. If the Company shall so direct,
Securities registered in the name of the Company, any Affiliate or any Subsidiary thereof shall not be included in the Securities selected for redemption. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.04&#8195;<U>Notice of Redemption</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 10 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">With respect to Securities of each
series to be redeemed, each notice of redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed (including CUSIP numbers) and shall state: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Redemption Date, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the Redemption Price, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to
be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be redeemed, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price
will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company&#146;s
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable. The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such
notice. In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other
Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.05&#8195;<U>Deposit of Redemption Price</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On or before the Redemption Date specified in the notice of redemption given as provided in Section&nbsp;11.04, the Company shall deposit with
the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section&nbsp;10.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date
shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.06&#8195;<U>Securities Payable on Redemption Date</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at
the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for
redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section&nbsp;3.01, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.07. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any Security called for redemption shall not
be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.07&#8195;<U>Securities Redeemed in Part</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so
requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal
to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE XII </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SINKING FUNDS </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.01&#8195;<U>Applicability of Article</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of this Article XII shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 for such Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of any Securities of any series is herein referred to as a &#147;mandatory sinking fund payment&#148;, and any sinking fund payment in excess of such minimum amount which is permitted to be made by the terms of such Securities is herein
referred to as an &#147;optional sinking fund payment&#148;. If provided for by the terms of any Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section&nbsp;12.02. Each sinking fund
payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of such Securities. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company (a)&nbsp;may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (b)&nbsp;may apply as
a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities,
in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities;
provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities so to be
redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.03&#8195;<U>Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an
Officers&#146; Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof,
if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section&nbsp;12.02 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 45 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date, the
Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section&nbsp;11.03 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the
manner provided in Section&nbsp;11.04. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 11.06 and 11.07. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE XIII </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>REPAYMENT
AT THE OPTION OF THE HOLDERS </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.01&#8195;<U>Applicability of Article</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Repayment of securities of any series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders thereof shall be made in accordance with the terms
of such Securities and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 for Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article XIII. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.02&#8195;<U>Repayment of Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities of any series subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders thereof will, unless otherwise provided in the
terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price equal to the principal amount thereof, together with interest and/or premium, if any, thereon accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities. The Company
covenants that on or before the Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section&nbsp;10.03) an amount of money
sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the Securities of any series, a percentage of the principal) of, the premium, if any, and (except if the Repayment Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all
the Securities or portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid on such date. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.03&#8195;<U>Exercise of Option</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities of any series subject to repayment at the option of the Holders thereof will contain an &#147;Option to Elect Repayment&#148; form
on the reverse of such Securities. To be repaid at the option of the Holder, any Security so providing for such repayment, with the &#147;Option to Elect Repayment&#148; form on the reverse of such Security duly completed by the Holder (or by the
Holder&#146;s attorney duly authorized in writing), must be received by the Company at the Place of Payment therefor specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the
Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 45 days nor later than 30 days prior to the Repayment Date. If less than the entire principal amount of such Security is to be repaid in accordance with the terms of such Security, the principal amount of
such Security to be repaid, in increments of the minimum denomination for Securities of such series, the premium, if any, to be paid, and the denomination or denominations of the Security or Securities to be issued to the Holder for the portion of
the principal amount of such Security surrendered that is not to be repaid, must be specified. The principal amount of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof may not be repaid in part if, following such repayment,
the unpaid principal amount of such Security would be less than the minimum authorized denomination of Securities of the series of which such Security to be repaid is a part. Except as otherwise may be provided by the terms of any Security providing
for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof and as provided in Sections 3.07(b) and 3.08, exercise of the repayment option by the Holder shall be irrevocable unless waived by the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.04&#8195;<U>When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the option of the Holders thereof shall have been surrendered as provided in this
Article XIII and as provided by or pursuant to the terms of such Securities, such Securities or the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repayment Date therein
specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such Securities on such Repayment Date) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such
Security for repayment in accordance with such provisions, the principal amount of such Security so to be repaid shall be paid by the Company, together with accrued interest and/or premium, if any, to (but excluding) the Repayment Date; provided,
however, that installments of interest, if any, whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable (but without interest thereon, unless the Company shall default in the payment thereof) to the Holders of such Securities, or
one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.07. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for repayment shall not be so repaid upon surrender thereof, such principal amount
(together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to such Repayment Date) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Repayment Date at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) set forth in such
Security. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.05&#8195;<U>Securities Repaid in Part</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon surrender of any Security which is to be repaid in part only, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to
the Holder of such Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination specified by the Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange
for the portion of the principal of such Security so surrendered which is not to be repaid. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE XIV </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.01&#8195;<U>Company</U><U>&#146;</U><U>s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have Section&nbsp;14.02 or Section&nbsp;14.03 applied to any Securities or any series of
Securities, as the case may be, (unless designated pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01 as not being defeasible pursuant to such Section&nbsp;14.02 or 14.03), in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01 and upon
compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article XIV. Any such election shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 for such Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.02&#8195;<U>Defeasance and Discharge</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the Company&#146;s exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section&nbsp;14.02 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities,
as the case may be, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations, and the provisions of Article XVI shall cease to be effective, with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section&nbsp;14.02 on and after the date
the conditions set forth in Section&nbsp;14.04 are satisfied (hereinafter called &#147;Defeasance&#148;). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by
such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the
same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a)&nbsp;the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section&nbsp;14.04 and as more fully set
forth in such Section&nbsp;14.04, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (b)&nbsp;the Company&#146;s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06,
10.02 and 10.03, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (d)&nbsp;this Article XIV. Subject to compliance with this Article XIV, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to have this Section&nbsp;14.02
applied to any Securities notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have Section&nbsp;14.03 applied to such Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.03&#8195;<U>Covenant Defeasance</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the Company&#146;s exercise of its option (if any) to have this Section&nbsp;14.03 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities,
as the case may be, (a)&nbsp;the Company shall be released from its obligations under any covenants provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01(t), 9.01(b) or 9.01(g) for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, (b)&nbsp;the occurrence of any event
specified in </P>
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Sections 5.01(d) (with respect to any such covenants provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.01(t), 9.01(b) or 9.01(g)) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, and (c)&nbsp;the
provisions of Article XVI shall cease to be effective in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section&nbsp;14.03 on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section&nbsp;14.04 are satisfied (hereinafter called
&#147;Covenant Defeasance&#148;). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in
any such specified Section (to the extent so specified in the case of Section&nbsp;5.01(d)) or Article, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or Article or by reason of any reference in any
such Section or Article to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.04&#8195;<U>Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section&nbsp;14.02 or Section&nbsp;14.03 to any Securities or any series of
Securities, as the case may be: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or
another trustee which satisfies the requirements contemplated by Section&nbsp;6.09 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article XIV applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically
pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such Securities, (A)&nbsp;money in an amount, or (B)&nbsp;U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof
in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C)&nbsp;a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized independent registered
public accounting firm expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any
premium and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, &#147;U.S. Government Obligation&#148; means (x)&nbsp;any security which is (i)&nbsp;a
direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii)&nbsp;an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i)&nbsp;or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the
option of the issuer thereof, and (y)&nbsp;any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section&nbsp;3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in Clause (x)&nbsp;above and
held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that (except as required by
law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal
or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt. </P>
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any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i)&nbsp;the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or
(ii)&nbsp;since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case (i)&nbsp;or (ii) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will
not recognize gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at
the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;In the event of an election to
have Section&nbsp;14.03 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss
for federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the
case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers&#146; Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any
other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 5.01(e) and (f), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood
that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not
cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other
agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&#8195;Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall
not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered under the Investment Company Act or exempt from registration thereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an agreement whereby the Company irrevocably agrees to forfeit its right, if any,
(i)&nbsp;to reset the interest rate of such Securities pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.07(b) and (ii)&nbsp;to extend the Stated Maturity of such Securities pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.08. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&#8195;The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been complied with. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to Section&nbsp;14.07 below and after the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel,
each stating that all conditions precedent referred to in Section&nbsp;14.04 relating to the defeasance or satisfaction and discharge, as the case may be, of this Indenture have been complied with, the Trustee upon request of the Company shall
acknowledge in writing the defeasance or the satisfaction and discharge, as the case may be, of this Indenture and the discharge of the Company&#146;s obligations under this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.06&#8195;<U>Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section&nbsp;10.03, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds
thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section&nbsp;14.06, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the &#147;Trustee&#148;) pursuant to Section&nbsp;14.04 in
respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as
its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or
assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section&nbsp;14.04 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of
Outstanding Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Anything in this Article XIV to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company
from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section&nbsp;14.04 with respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such
Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.07&#8195;<U>Reinstatement</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article XIV with respect to any Securities by reason of
any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or released
pursuant to Section&nbsp;14.02 or 14.03 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article XIV with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money
held in trust pursuant to Section&nbsp;14.06 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article XIV; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;15.01&#8195;<U>Exemption from Individual Liability</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of this Indenture, or of any Security, or for any claim based thereon or
otherwise in respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company, any Subsidiary or any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company,
whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that this Indenture and the obligations issued hereunder are solely corporate obligations
of the Company, and that no such personal liability whatever shall attach to, or is or shall be incurred by, the incorporators, stockholders, officers, directors, or employees, as such, of the Company, any Subsidiary or any successor corporation, or
any of them, because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities or implied therefrom; and that any and all such
personal liability, either at common law or in equity or by constitution or statute, of, and any and all such rights and claims against, every such incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, because of the creation of the
indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities or implied therefrom, are hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a
consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of such Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE XVI </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SUBORDINATION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.01&#8195;<U>Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of Securities of any series by the Holder&#146;s acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and
agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article XVI, subject to the provisions of Article IV and except as may otherwise be specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01 and set forth in the Securities of a
series, the indebtedness represented by the Securities of such series and the payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on each and all of the Securities of such series are hereby expressly made subordinate and junior in right of
payment to the prior payment in full of all amounts then due and payable in respect of all Senior Debt of the Company, to the extent and in the manner herein set forth (unless a different manner is set forth in the Securities of such series). No
provision of this Article shall prevent the occurrence of any default or Event of Default hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Senior Debt shall not be deemed to
have been paid in full unless the holders thereof shall have received cash, securities or other property equal to the amount of such Senior Debt then outstanding. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event of </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;any
insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization, readjustment, composition or other similar proceeding in respect of the Company or its property, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;any proceeding for the liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, or bankruptcy
proceedings, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;any assignment by the Company for the benefit of its creditors, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;any other marshalling of the assets of the Company, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">all Senior Debt shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made by the Company on
account of the Securities of any series. Any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property (other than securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for by a plan or reorganization or a readjustment, the
payment of which is subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these subordination provisions with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities of any series, to the payment of all Senior Debt at the time outstanding and to any
securities issued in respect thereof under any such plan of reorganization or readjustment), which would otherwise (but for these subordination provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities of any series shall be paid or
delivered directly to the holders of Senior Debt in accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders until all Senior Debt shall have been paid in full. No present or future holder of any Senior Debt shall be prejudiced in the right
to enforce subordination of the indebtedness constituting the Securities of any series by any act of failure to act on the part of the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.03&#8195;<U>No Payment When Senior Debt in Default</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as may otherwise be specified in respect of Securities of a series as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01(w) hereof, in the event that
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Company shall default in the payment of any principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Senior Debt when the same
becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or declaration or otherwise, or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;an event of
default occurs with respect to any Senior Debt permitting the holders thereof to accelerate the maturity thereof and written notice describing such event of default and requesting commencement of payment blockage on transactions as thereinafter
described is given to the Company by the holders of Senior Debt, then, unless and until such default in payment and event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist, no direct or indirect payment (in cash, property,
securities, by <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">set-off</FONT> or otherwise) shall be made or agreed to be made on account of the Securities of any series or any interest thereon in respect of any repayment, redemption, retirement, purchase or other
acquisition of the Securities of any series. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.04&#8195;<U>Prior Payment to Senior Debt Upon Acceleration of
Securities</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event that any Securities are declared due and payable before their Stated Maturity, then and in such event the
holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all Senior Debt, or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents, before the Holders of the
Securities are entitled to receive any payment (including any payment which may be payable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities) by the Company on account of the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in
accordance with Article XII by delivering and crediting pursuant to Section&nbsp;12.02 Outstanding Securities which have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such declaration of acceleration. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited
by the foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and
delivered forthwith to the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.05&#8195;<U>Payment Permitted in Certain Situations</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nothing contained in this Article XVI or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the Securities of any series shall prevent </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Company, at any time except during the pendency of any dissolution, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up,</FONT>
liquidation or reorganization of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other proceedings of the Company referred to in Section&nbsp;16.02 or under the conditions described in Section&nbsp;16.03
or as may be specified in respect of Securities of a series as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01(w) hereof, from making payments at any time of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities of such series, or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the application by the Trustee of any money deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on the Securities of such series or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time of such application by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge that such payment would have been prohibited by the
provisions of this Article XVI. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.06&#8195;<U>Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the payment in full of all Senior Debt, the rights of the holders of Securities of any series shall be subrogated to all the rights of any
holders of Senior Debt to receive any further payments or distributions applicable to the Senior Debt until the Securities of any series shall have been paid in full, and such payments or distributions received by the Holders of Securities of any
series by reason of such subrogation, of cash, securities or other property which otherwise would be paid or distributed to the holders of Senior Debt, shall, as between the Company and its creditors other than the holders of Senior Debt, on the one
hand, and the Holders of Securities of any series, on the other, be deemed to be a payment by the Company on account of Senior Debt, and not on account of the Securities of any series. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.07&#8195;<U>Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of Securities of any
series on the one hand and the holders of Senior Debt on the other hand. Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in the Indenture or in the Securities of such series is intended to or shall </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;impair, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of Securities of such series, the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional (and which, subject to the rights under this Article XVI of the holders of Senior Debt, is intended to rank equally with all other general obligations of the Company), to pay to the
Holders of Securities of such series the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of such series as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;affect the relative rights against the Company of the Holders of Securities of such series and creditors of the Company, as the case
may be, other than the holders of Senior Debt; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Securities of such series from
exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article of the holders of Senior Debt to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or
deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.08&#8195;<U>Trustee to Effectuate Subordination</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Each Holder of Securities of any series by such Holder&#146;s acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Holder&#146;s
behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge and effectuate the subordination provided in this Article and appoints the Trustee his
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorney-in-fact</FONT></FONT> for any and all such purposes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.09&#8195;<U>No Waiver of Subordination Provisions</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture,
regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Without in any way limiting the generality of
the foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior Debt may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities of any series, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the
Securities of such series and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article XVI or the obligations hereunder of the Holders of Securities of such series to the holders of Senior Debt, do any one or more of the following:
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or
renew or alter, Senior Debt, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Debt or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt is outstanding; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Debt; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;release any Person liable in any manner for the collection of Senior Debt; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.10&#8195;<U>Notice to Trustee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to
or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities of any series pursuant to the provisions of this Article XVI. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article XVI or any other provision of the Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge
of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of any Securities of any series pursuant to the provisions of this Article XVI, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written
notice thereof from the Company or a holder or holders of Senior Debt or from any trustee therefor; and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;6.03, shall be entitled in all respects
to assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section at least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become payable for
any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Securities of any series), then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and
authority to receive such moneys and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be received by it within two Business Days prior to such date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;6.03, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person
representing himself to be a holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee therefor) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee therefor). In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence
is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article XVI, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article XVI, and if such
evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment. </P>
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Agent</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article XVI, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Section&nbsp;6.03, and the Holders of Securities of any series shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership,
liquidation, reorganization, dissolution, winding up or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person
making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities of such series, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and
other indebtedness of the Company, as the case may be, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XVI. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.12&#8195;<U>Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">With respect to the holders of Senior Debt, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Article XVI, and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of such Senior Debt shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to
the holders of Senior Debt with respect to its obligations and duties created hereunder and shall not be liable to any such holders or creditors if it shall in good faith pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities of any series or to the
Company or to any other Person cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled by virtue of this Article XVI or otherwise. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.13&#8195;<U>Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of </U><U>Trustee</U><U>&#146;</U><U>s</U><U> Rights</U>.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Debt which
may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt, and nothing in the Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nothing in this Article XVI shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section&nbsp;6.07. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.14&#8195;<U>Article Applicable to Paying Agents</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term
&#147;Trustee&#148; as used in this Article XVI shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent
were named in this Article XVI in addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, however, that this Section&nbsp;16.14 shall not apply to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Affiliate acts as Paying Agent. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For the purposes of this Article XVI only, (a)&nbsp;the issuance and delivery of securities which are subordinate in right of payment to all
then outstanding Senior Debt to substantially the same extent as the Securities are so subordinate (&#147;Junior Securities&#148;) (or cash paid in lieu of fractional shares) upon conversion or exchange of Securities of any series as contemplated by
Section&nbsp;3.01, shall not be deemed to constitute a payment or distribution on account of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on Securities of such series or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities of such
series and (b)&nbsp;the payment, issuance or delivery of cash, property or securities (other than Junior Securities and cash paid in lieu of fractional shares) upon conversion or exchange of Securities of any series shall be deemed to constitute
payment on account of the principal of such Securities of such series. Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in the Indenture or in the Securities of any series is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its creditors other than
holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of Securities of such series the right, which is absolute and unconditional, of the Holder of any Securities of such series to convert or exchange such Securities of such series in accordance with the terms
specified as contemplated by Section&nbsp;3.01. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;16.16&#8195;<U>Defeasance of This Article XVI</U>. </P>
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defeasance in Article XIV hereof and, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, upon the effectiveness of any such defeasance or covenant defeasance, the Securities then outstanding shall thereupon cease to be subordinated pursuant to this
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>BETWEEN </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CENTERPOINT
ENERGY, INC. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>AND </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>TRUSTEE </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>DATED AS OF
AUGUST&nbsp;14, 2024 </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>7.000% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">FIXED-TO-FIXED</FONT></FONT> RESET
RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES, </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SERIES&nbsp;A, DUE 2055 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>6.850% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">FIXED-TO-FIXED</FONT></FONT> RESET RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES,
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;I DEFINITIONS</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Definition of Terms</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;II GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Designation and Principal Amount</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.03</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">12</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.04</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Application of Monies Collected by Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">14</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.05</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Proceedings by Holders</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">15</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Proceedings by Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">16</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.07</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Remedies Cumulative and Continuing</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">16</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.08</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">16</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.09</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of Defaults</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">17</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.10</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Undertaking to Pay Costs</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">17</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;IV OPTION TO DEFER INTEREST PAYMENTS</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">17</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;4.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Option to Defer Interest Payments</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">17</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;V FORM OF NOTE</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">21</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Form of Note</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">21</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;VI ORIGINAL ISSUE OF NOTES</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">21</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Original Issue of Notes</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">21</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">21</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subordination</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">21</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice to Trustee of Facts Prohibiting Payments</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">22</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Application by Trustee of Moneys Deposited With It</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">22</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.04</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subrogation</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">22</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.05</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of Company or Holders of Senior
Indebtedness</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">22</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">23</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.07</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not to Prevent Defaults (Including Events of Default)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">23</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Trustee&#146;s Rights to Compensation, Reimbursement of Expenses and Indemnification</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">23</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.09</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.10</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;VIII SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">24</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">24</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Supplemental Indenture with Consent of Holders</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">25</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.03</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Conformity with Trust Indenture</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">26</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.04</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Effect of Supplemental Indentures</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">26</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.05</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notation on Notes</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">26</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.06</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">26</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;IX SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">26</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.01</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Satisfaction and Discharge</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">26</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;X CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">27</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">27</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.02</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Successor Company to Be Substituted</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">27</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Officer&#146;s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">28</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;XI OTHER AMENDMENTS</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">28</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Amendment to Section&nbsp;1.05 of the Base Indenture</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">28</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.02</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Amendment to Section&nbsp;1.12 of the Base Indenture</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">29</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Amendment to Section&nbsp;6.01 of the Base Indenture</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">30</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.04</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Amendment to Section&nbsp;6.02 of the Base Indenture</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">30</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.05</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Amendment to Section&nbsp;6.03 of the Base Indenture</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">31</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;XII TAX TREATMENT</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Tax Treatment</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;XIII THE TRUSTEE</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Appointment of Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.02</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Eligibility of Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Security Registrar and Paying Agent</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.04</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Concerning the Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.05</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Patriot Act Requirements of Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.06</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice upon Trustee</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE&nbsp;XIV MISCELLANEOUS</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.01</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indenture Controls</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.02</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Recitals</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.03</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Separability</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" NOWRAP> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.04</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Counterparts</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">35</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Form of Series&nbsp;A Note and the Trustee&#146;s Certificate of Authentication</P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THIS <B>SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE</B>, dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024 (this &#147;<U>Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;), is between CENTERPOINT
ENERGY, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas, having its principal office at 1111 Louisiana, Houston, Texas 77002 (the &#147;<U>Company</U>&#148;), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company,
National Association, as trustee of the Securities established by this Supplemental Indenture, having a Corporate Trust Office at 601 Travis Street, 16th Floor, Houston, Texas 77002 (herein called the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore entered into a Junior Subordinated Indenture (the &#147;<U>Base Indenture</U>&#148;), dated as of
August&nbsp;14, 2024 between the Company and the Trustee; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the Base Indenture is incorporated herein by this reference and the
Base Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture, and as may be hereafter supplemented or amended from time to time in accordance herewith and therewith, is herein called the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, under the Base Indenture, an unlimited amount of Securities in one or more series may at any time be established in accordance with
the provisions of the Base Indenture and the terms of such series may be described by a supplemental indenture executed by the Company and the Trustee; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the Company proposes to create under the Base Indenture two new series of Securities and to appoint the Trustee as Trustee under the
Base Indenture with respect to such Securities; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this Supplemental
Indenture and all requirements necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid instrument in accordance with its terms, and to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, the valid obligations
of the Company, have been performed, and the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized in all respects; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the Holders, and for the purpose of setting forth, as provided
in the Base Indenture, the form and substance of the Notes and the terms, provisions and conditions thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;I </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>DEFINITIONS </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.01&#8195;<U>Definition of Terms</U>. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in
the Base Indenture or, if not defined in the Base Indenture; </P>
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Article and include the plural as well as the singular; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended, whether directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;a reference to a
Section or Article is to a Section or Article of this Supplemental Indenture unless otherwise stated; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;a reference to a Section
or Article in the Base Indenture that has been replaced or amended in this Supplemental Indenture shall be construed for purposes of the Notes to refer to such Section or Article as replaced or amended in this Supplemental Indenture; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;the words &#147;herein,&#148; &#147;hereof&#148; and &#147;hereunder&#148; and other words of similar import refer to this
Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;headings are for convenience
of reference only and do not affect interpretation; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Business Day</U>&#148; means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a
day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Calculation Agent</U>&#148; shall have the meaning set forth in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.04</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Capital Stock</U>&#148; means (i)&nbsp;in the case of a corporation or a company, corporate stock or shares; (ii)&nbsp;in the case of
an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock; (iii)&nbsp;in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership
interests (whether general or limited); and (iv)&nbsp;any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Compound Interest</U>&#148; shall have the meaning specified in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.04</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Default</U>&#148; means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>DTC</U>&#148; shall have the meaning set forth in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.06</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Event of Default</U>&#148; shall have the meaning set forth in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.01</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Five-Year Treasury Rate</U>&#148; means, as of any Reset Interest Determination Date, the average of the yields on actively traded
United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity, for five-year maturities, for the most recent five Business Days appearing under the caption &#147;Treasury Constant Maturities&#148; in the most recent H.15. If the Five-Year Treasury
Rate cannot be determined pursuant to the method described above, the Calculation Agent, after </P>
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consulting such sources as it deems comparable to any of the foregoing calculations, or any such source as it deems reasonable from which to estimate the Five-Year Treasury Rate, will determine
the Five-Year Treasury Rate in its sole discretion, <U>provided</U> that if the Calculation Agent determines there is an industry-accepted successor Five-Year Treasury Rate, then the Calculation Agent will use such successor rate. If the Calculation
Agent has determined a substitute or successor base rate in accordance with the foregoing, the Calculation Agent in its sole discretion may determine the business day convention, the definition of &#147;Business Day&#148; and the Reset Interest
Determination Date to be used and any other relevant methodology for calculating such substitute or successor base rate, including any adjustment factor needed to make such substitute or successor base rate comparable to the Five-Year Treasury Rate,
in a manner that is consistent with industry-accepted practices for such substitute or successor base rate. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Guarantee</U>&#148;
means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect,
contingent or otherwise, of such Person (i)&nbsp;to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by
agreement to keep well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">take-or-pay,</FONT></FONT> or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or
(ii)&nbsp;entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness of other obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); <U>provided</U> that
the term &#147;Guarantee&#148; shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term &#147;Guarantee&#148; used as a verb has a corresponding meaning. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>H.15</U>&#148; means the daily statistical release designated as such, or any successor publication as determined by the Calculation
Agent in its sole discretion, published by the Federal Reserve Board, and &#147;most recent H.15&#148; means the H.15 published closest in time but prior to the close of business on the applicable Reset Interest Determination Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Holder</U>&#148; means the Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the books of the Trustee kept for that
purpose. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Indebtedness</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Person at any date of determination (without duplication), (i) all
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (ii)&nbsp;all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, including obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or
businesses, (iii)&nbsp;all obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit or bankers&#146; acceptances or other similar instruments (or reimbursement obligations thereto) issued on the account of such Person, (iv)&nbsp;all obligations of
such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except Trade Payables, (v)&nbsp;all obligations of such Person as lessee under capitalized leases, (vi)&nbsp;all Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on any asset of such
Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person; <U>provided</U> that, for purposes of determining the amount of any Indebtedness of the type described in this <U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(vi)</U>, if recourse with respect to
such Indebtedness is limited to such asset, the amount of such Indebtedness shall be limited to the lesser of the fair market value of such asset or the amount of such Indebtedness, (vii)&nbsp;all </P>
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Indebtedness of others Guaranteed by such Person to the extent such Indebtedness is Guaranteed by such Person, and (viii)&nbsp;to the extent not otherwise included in this definition, all
obligations of such Person for claims in respect of derivative products, including interest rate, foreign exchange rate and commodity prices, forward contracts, options, swaps, collars and similar arrangements. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Payment</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Interest Payment Date, the interest payment on the applicable series of Notes
due on such Interest Payment Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Payment Date</U>&#148; shall have the meaning set forth in
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.04</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Payment Period</U>&#148; means the semi-annual period from, and including, an
Interest Payment Date to, but excluding, the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, except for the first Interest Payment Date, which shall be the period from, and including, August&nbsp;14, 2024 to, but excluding, February&nbsp;15, 2025. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Period</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Interest Payment Date, the period from and including the immediately preceding
Interest Payment Date (or if none, August&nbsp;14, 2024) to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Lien</U>&#148; means,
with respect to any property, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such property. For purposes of this Indenture, the Company shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any property which it
has acquired or hold subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such property. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Notes</U>&#148; shall have the meaning specified in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.01</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Optional Deferral Period</U>&#148; has the meaning set forth in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;4.01</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Original Issue Date</U>&#148; means the date on which the Notes are originally issued. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Person</U>&#148; means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or
any agency or political subdivision thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Rating Agency Event</U>&#148; means, as of any date, a change, clarification or
amendment in the methodology in assigning equity credit to securities such as the Notes published by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of Section&nbsp;3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act (or any successor
provision thereto) that then publishes a rating for the Company (together with any successor thereto, a &#147;<U>Rating Agency</U>&#148;), (i) as such methodology was in effect on August&nbsp;12, 2024, in the case of any Rating Agency that published
a rating for the Company on August&nbsp;12, 2024, or (ii)&nbsp;as such methodology was in effect on the date such Rating Agency first published a rating for the Company, in the case of any Rating Agency that first publishes a rating for the Company
on August&nbsp;12, 2024 (in the case of either <U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(i)</U> or <U>(ii)</U>, the &#147;<U>Current Methodology</U>&#148;), that results in (a)&nbsp;any shortening of the length of time for which a particular level of equity
credit pertaining to the Notes by such Rating Agency would have been in effect had the Current Methodology not been changed, clarified or amended or (b)&nbsp;a lower equity credit (including up to a lesser amount) being assigned by such Rating
Agency to the Notes as of the date of such change, clarification or amendment than the equity credit that would have been assigned to the Notes of the applicable series by such Rating Agency had the Current Methodology not been changed, clarified or
amended. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Regular Record Date</U>&#148; shall have the meaning set forth in
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.04</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reset Interest Determination Date</U>&#148; means any Series&nbsp;A Reset Interest
Determination Date or any Series B Reset Interest Determination Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Senior Indebtedness</U>&#148; means the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on and all other amounts due in connection with all Indebtedness of the Company whether created, incurred or assumed before, on or after the date of this Supplemental Indenture; <U>provided</U> that such Senior
Indebtedness shall not include (i)&nbsp;Indebtedness of us to any of the Company&#146;s Subsidiaries, (ii)&nbsp;the Company&#146;s Trade Payables, (iii)&nbsp;the Company&#146;s Indebtedness that, when incurred and without respect to any election
under Section&nbsp;1111(b) of Title&nbsp;11 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, was without recourse to the Company, and (iv)&nbsp;any other Indebtedness of the Company which by the terms of the instrument creating or evidencing the
same is specifically designated as being subordinated to or <I>pari passu</I> with the Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;A
Notes</U>&#148; shall have the meaning specified in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.01</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;B
Notes</U>&#148; shall have the meaning specified in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.01</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;A Interest
Reset Period</U>&#148; means the period from and including February&nbsp;15, 2030 to, but not including, the next following Series&nbsp;A Reset Date and thereafter each period from and including each Series&nbsp;A Reset Date to, but not including,
the next following Series&nbsp;A Reset Date or the maturity date or date of redemption, as the case may be. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;B Interest Reset Period</U>&#148; means the period from and including February&nbsp;15, 2035 to, but not
including, the next following Series&nbsp;B Reset Date and thereafter each period from and including each Series&nbsp;B Reset Date to, but not including, the next following Series&nbsp;B Reset Date or the maturity date or date of redemption, as the
case may be. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;A Maturity Date</U>&#148; shall have the meaning specified in
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.02</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;B Maturity Date</U>&#148; shall have the meaning specified in
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.02</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;A Reset Date</U>&#148; means February&nbsp;15, 2030 and each
date falling on the five-year anniversary of the preceding Series&nbsp;A Reset Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;B Reset
Date</U>&#148; means February&nbsp;15, 2035 and each date falling on the five-year anniversary of the preceding Series&nbsp;B Reset Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series A Reset Interest Determination Date</U>&#148; means, in respect of any Series A Interest Reset Period, the day falling two
Business Days prior to the beginning of the applicable Series A Interest Reset Period. </P>
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Series B Interest Reset Period, the day falling two Business Days prior to the beginning of the applicable Series B Interest Reset Period. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Successor Company</U>&#148; shall have the meaning specified in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;10.01</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Tax Event</U>&#148; means receipt by the Company of a written opinion of a nationally recognized accounting firm or counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;any amendment to, clarification of, or change, including any
announced prospective change, in the laws or treaties of the United States or any of its political subdivisions or taxing authorities, or any regulations under those laws or treaties; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;an administrative action, which means any judicial decision or any official administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory
procedure, notice or announcement, including any notice or announcement of intent to issue or adopt any administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure or regulation; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;any amendment to, clarification of, or change in the official position or the interpretation of any administrative action or
judicial decision or any interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a position with respect to an administrative action or judicial decision that differs from the previously generally accepted position, in each case by any legislative body,
court, governmental authority or regulatory body, regardless of the time or manner in which that amendment, clarification or change is introduced or made known; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;a threatened challenge asserted in writing in connection with a tax audit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or a
publicly-known threatened challenge asserted in writing against any other taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are substantially similar to the applicable series of Notes, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">which amendment, clarification or change is effective or the administrative action is taken or judicial decision, interpretation or pronouncement is issued or
threatened challenge is asserted or becomes publicly known after August&nbsp;12, 2024, there is more than an insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Company on the applicable series of Notes is not deductible, or within 90 days would not be
deductible, in whole or in part, by the Company for United States federal income tax purposes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Tax Event Redemption
Date</U>&#148; shall have the meaning specified in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.06</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Trade Payables</U>&#148; means, with
respect to any Person, any accounts payable or any other indebtedness or monetary obligation to trade creditors created, assumed or Guaranteed by such Person or any of its subsidiaries arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with
the acquisition of goods or services. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The terms &#147;<U>Company</U>,&#148; &#147;<U>Trustee</U>,&#148; &#147;<U>Base
Indenture</U>,&#148; and &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148; shall have the respective meanings set forth in the recitals to this Supplemental Indenture. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.01&#8195;<U>Designation and Principal Amount</U>. There are hereby authorized two new series of Securities, to be designated
the &#147;7.000% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fixed-to-Fixed</FONT></FONT> Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes, Series&nbsp;A, due 2055,&#148; (the &#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;A Notes</U>&#148;) and
&#147;6.850% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fixed-to-Fixed</FONT></FONT> Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes, Series&nbsp;B, due 2055,&#148; (the &#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;B Notes</U>,&#148; collectively,
the &#147;<U>Notes</U>&#148;) in the initial aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000 and $400,000,000, respectively, which amount shall be set forth in any written orders of the Company for the authentication and delivery of Notes pursuant to
Section&nbsp;3.01 of the Base Indenture and <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;6.01</U> hereof. The Company may, without the consent of the Holders, create and issue an unlimited amount of additional Notes of a given series ranking equally with the Notes
of such series in all respects and having the same terms (except for the price to public, the issue date and the initial interest accrual date and the first interest payment date, as applicable) as the Notes of such series, so that such additional
Notes shall be consolidated and form a single series with, and shall have the same terms as to status, redemption or otherwise as, the Notes of such series authenticated and delivered on the date hereof. Such additional Notes will have the same
CUSIP number as the Notes of a given series being authenticated on the date hereof, provided that such additional Notes of such series must be part of the same issue as the Notes of such series being authenticated on the date hereof for U.S. federal
income tax purposes or, if they are not part of the same issue for such purposes, such additional Notes of such series must be issued with a separate CUSIP number. No additional Notes of a series may be issued if an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing with respect to the Notes of such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.02&#8195;<U>Stated Maturity</U>. The
&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;A Maturity Date</U>&#148; of the Notes is February&nbsp;15, 2055. The &#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;B Maturity Date</U>&#148; of the Notes is February&nbsp;15, 2055. For the avoidance of doubt, with respect to
the Notes of each series, the Series&nbsp;A Maturity Date and the Series&nbsp;B Maturity Date, as applicable, refers only to the date on which principal is due and payable as set forth in this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.02</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.03&#8195;<U>Form and Payment; Minimum Transfer Restriction</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;Except as provided in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.04</U>, the Notes shall be issued in fully registered definitive form without
coupons. All Series&nbsp;A Notes shall have identical terms and all Series&nbsp;B Notes shall have identical terms. Principal of the Notes will be payable (subject to the last clause of this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.03(a)</U>), the transfer
of such Notes will be registrable, and such Notes will be exchangeable for Notes of the same series of a like aggregate principal amount bearing identical terms and provisions, at the Corporate Trust Office; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that,
except as otherwise provided in the form of Series&nbsp;A Note and Series&nbsp;B Note attached hereto as Exhibit&nbsp;A and Exhibit&nbsp;B, as applicable, payment of interest will be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto
as such address shall appear in the Security Register or, if such Person so requests and designates an account in writing to the Trustee at least five Business Days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, by wire transfer to such account, and
<U>provided</U>, <U>further</U>, that the Company, in its discretion may remove the Paying Agent and may appoint one or more additional Paying Agents (including the Company or any of its affiliates). </P>
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multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.04&#8195;<U>Interest</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;The Series&nbsp;A Notes bear interest (i)&nbsp;from and including the date of the original issuance to, but excluding,
February&nbsp;15, 2030 at an annual rate of 7.000% and (ii)&nbsp;from and including February&nbsp;15, 2030 during each Series&nbsp;A Interest Reset Period at an annual rate equal to the Five-Year Treasury Rate as of the most recent Series A Reset
Interest Determination Date, plus 3.254%. The Series&nbsp;A Notes will mature on the Series&nbsp;A Maturity Date. The Series&nbsp;B Notes bear interest (i)&nbsp;from and including the date of the original issuance to, but excluding,
February&nbsp;15, 2035 at an annual rate of 6.850% and (ii)&nbsp;from and including February&nbsp;15, 2035 during each Series&nbsp;B Interest Reset Period at an annual rate equal to the Five-Year Treasury Rate as of the most recent Series B Reset
Interest Determination Date, plus 2.946%. The Series&nbsp;B Notes will mature on the Series&nbsp;B Maturity Date. Interest will accrue from August&nbsp;14, 2024 and will, subject to the Company&#146;s right to defer Interest Payments (as described
in <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;IV</U>), be payable semi-annually in arrears on February&nbsp;15 and August&nbsp;15 of each year (each, an &#147;<U>Interest Payment Date</U>&#148;), beginning on February&nbsp;15, 2025. If Interest Payments are
deferred or otherwise not paid, they will accrue and compound until paid at the same rate at which the applicable Notes bear interest to the extent permitted by law. As permitted by the terms of the Notes, if Interest Payments are deferred or
otherwise not paid up to a redemption date that does not fall on an Interest Payment Date, they will accrue and compound until paid at the same rate at which the Notes of the applicable series bear interest to the extent permitted by law. The amount
of interest payable for any interest accrual period will be computed on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year consisting of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months. The amount of interest payable
for any period shorter than a full semi-annual period for which interest is computed will be computed on the basis of the number of days in the period using <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> calendar months. All references to
&#147;interest&#148; on the Notes and, insofar as its relates to the Notes, this Indenture, shall be deemed to include any deferred interest pursuant to <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;IV</U> and interest on deferred interest (&#147;<U>Compound
Interest</U>&#148;) that may accrue at the interest rate then-applicable to the Notes, to the extent permitted by law. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;Unless
all of the Outstanding Notes of the applicable series have been redeemed, the Company will appoint a calculation agent (the &#147;<U>Calculation Agent</U>&#148;) with respect to the Notes of such series prior to the applicable Reset Interest
Determination Date. The Company or any of its affiliates may assume the duties of the Calculation Agent. The applicable interest rate for each Series&nbsp;A Interest Reset Period or Series&nbsp;B Interest Reset Period, as applicable, will be
determined by the Calculation Agent as of the applicable Reset Interest Determination Date. If the Company or one of its affiliates is not the Calculation Agent, the Calculation Agent will notify the Company of the interest rate for the relevant
Series&nbsp;A Interest Reset Period or Series&nbsp;B Interest Reset Period, as applicable, promptly upon such determination. The Company will notify the Trustee of such interest rate, promptly upon making or being notified of such determination. The
Calculation Agent&#146;s determination of any interest rate and its calculation of the amount of interest for any Series&nbsp;A Interest Reset Period or Series&nbsp;B Interest Reset Period, as applicable, will be conclusive and binding absent
manifest error, will be made in the Calculation Agent&#146;s sole discretion and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the documentation relating to the Notes of the applicable series, will become effective without consent from any other
person or entity. Such determination of any interest rate and calculation </P>
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of the amount of interest will be on file at the Company&#146;s principal offices and will be made available to any holder of the Notes of the applicable series upon request. In no event shall
the Trustee be the Calculation Agent (unless upon receiving reasonable advance notice it agrees to the appointment as Calculation Agent in writing), nor shall it have any liability for any determination made by or on behalf of such Calculation
Agent. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;If an Interest Payment Date, a redemption date or the maturity date of the applicable Notes falls on a day that is not a
Business Day, the required payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such scheduled payment date, and no interest on such payment will accrue in respect of the delay. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;So long as all of the Notes of the applicable series remain in book-entry only form, the record date for each Interest Payment Date
will be the close of business on February&nbsp;1 or August&nbsp;1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) (each, a &#147;<U>Regular Record Date</U>&#148;) immediately preceding the applicable February&nbsp;15 or August&nbsp;15 Interest Payment
Date. If any of the Notes of such series do not remain in book-entry only form, the record date for each Interest Payment Date will be the fifteenth calendar day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date whether or not a Business
Day. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.05&#8195;<U>No Sinking Fund or Repayment at Option of the Holder</U>. The Notes shall not be subject to any sinking
fund or analogous provision and shall not be repayable at the option of a Holder thereof prior to the Series&nbsp;A Maturity Date or the Series&nbsp;B Maturity Date, as applicable. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.06&#8195;<U>Optional Redemption</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;The Company may redeem the Series&nbsp;A Notes in whole or in part upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days&#146; notice, at a
redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Series&nbsp;A Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date (i)&nbsp;on any day in the period commencing on the date falling 90 days prior
to the first Series&nbsp;A Reset Date and ending on and including the first Series&nbsp;A Reset Date and (ii)&nbsp;after the first Series&nbsp;A Reset Date, on any Interest Payment Date. The Company may redeem the Series&nbsp;B Notes in whole or in
part upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days&#146; notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Series&nbsp;B Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date (i)&nbsp;on
any day in the period commencing on the date falling 90 days prior to the first Series&nbsp;B Reset Date and ending on and including the first Series&nbsp;B Reset Date and (ii)&nbsp;after the first Series&nbsp;B Reset Date, on any Interest Payment
Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;If notice of redemption is given pursuant to <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.06(a)</U> above, the Notes so to be redeemed
will, on the redemption date (subject, in the case of a conditional redemption, to the satisfaction of all conditions precedent), become due and payable at the redemption price together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and from and
after such date (unless the Company has defaulted in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest) such Notes shall cease to bear interest. If any Notes called for redemption shall not be paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the
principal shall, until paid, bear interest from the redemption date at the rate then applicable to the Notes. </P>
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not in part, upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days&#146; notice, following the occurrence of a Tax Event, at the redemption price equal to the sum of: (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus (2)&nbsp;accrued and
unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date fixed for redemption (the &#147;<U>Tax Event Redemption Date</U>&#148;). In such case, the Company will deliver a notice of redemption specifying the Tax Event Redemption Date, which shall be no later
than 120 days following the Tax Event. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;If at the time notice of redemption is given pursuant to
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.06(c)</U> above, the redemption moneys are not on deposit with the Trustee, then the redemption shall be subject to their receipt on or before the Tax Event Redemption Date and such notice shall be of no effect unless
such moneys are so received. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;In addition, the applicable series of the Notes may be redeemable, in whole but not in part, upon
not less than 10 nor more than 60 days&#146; notice, for either series of the Notes following the occurrence of a Rating Agency Event, at 102% of their principal amount plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;If, at the time a notice of redemption is given, (i)&nbsp;the Company has not effected satisfaction and discharge or defeasance of
the Notes of a given series as described in <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;IX</U> and (ii)&nbsp;such notice of redemption is not being given in connection with or in order to effect satisfaction and discharge or defeasance of the Notes of the
applicable series, then, if the notice of redemption so provides and at the Company&#146;s option, the redemption may be subject to the condition that the Trustee shall have received, on or before the applicable redemption date, monies in an amount
sufficient to pay the redemption price and accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes called for redemption to, but excluding, the redemption date. If monies in such amount are not received by the Trustee on or before such redemption date, such notice
of redemption shall be automatically canceled and of no force or effect, such proposed redemption shall be automatically canceled, and the Company shall not be required to redeem the Notes called for redemption on such redemption date. In the event
that a redemption is canceled, the Company will, not later than the Business Day immediately following the proposed redemption date, deliver, or cause to be delivered, notice of such cancellation to the registered Holders of the Notes of the
applicable series called for redemption (which notice will also indicate that any Notes or portions thereof surrendered for redemption shall be returned to the applicable Holders), and the Company will direct the Trustee to, and the Trustee will,
promptly return any Notes or portions thereof that have been surrendered for redemption to the applicable Holders. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price or the proposed redemption is canceled in accordance with the
provisions set forth in this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.06(f)</U>, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the Notes of the applicable series or portions thereof called for redemption. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;If less than all of the Notes of a series are redeemed at any time, the Trustee will select the Notes or any portions thereof in
integral multiples of $1,000 to be redeemed, by lot and, when the Notes are in the form of global securities, in accordance with the applicable procedures of The Depository Trust Company (&#147;<U>DTC</U>&#148;). </P>
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United States federal securities laws), the Company or its affiliates may, at any time and from time to time, purchase Outstanding Notes by tender, in the open market or by private agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.07&#8195;<U>No Additional Amounts</U>. The Company will not pay any additional amounts to any Holder in respect of any tax,
assessment or governmental charge. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;III </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article&nbsp;V of the Base Indenture is replaced in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.01&#8195;<U>Events of Default</U>. An &#147;<U>Event of Default</U>&#148; occurs with respect to each series of Notes if: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Company does not pay any interest on any Note of a series when it becomes due and payable and such default continues for 30 days
(regardless of whether such payment is prohibited by the subordination provisions under <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U>), except as a result of a deferral of Interest Payments in accordance with <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;IV</U>; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the Company does not pay any principal of or premium, if any, on any Note of such series when it becomes due and payable (regardless
of whether such payment is prohibited by the subordination provisions under <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U>); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;the Company
remains in breach of any other covenant under this Indenture or the Notes of the applicable series for 60 days after there has been given to the Company a written notice of default (which notice must be sent by either the Trustee or registered
Holders of at least 33% of the aggregate principal amount of the then-Outstanding Notes of a series) specifying such default or breach and requiring remedy of the default or breach; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;the Company shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to
the Company or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or any substantial part of
its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or
shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against
the Company seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator,
custodian or other similar official of the Company or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 30 consecutive days. </P>
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of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to a series of Notes, then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.01(c)</U>), either the Trustee or the registered
Holders of at least 33% of the aggregate principal amount of the then-Outstanding Notes of such series may declare the principal amount of all of the Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, to be due and payable immediately, and
upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable, anything contained in this Indenture or in the Notes of such series to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default specified in
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.01(c)</U> occurs and is continuing, neither the Trustee nor the registered Holders of the Notes of such series shall be entitled to declare the principal of such series of Notes, or accrued or unpaid interest thereon,
to be due or payable immediately; <U>provided</U> that the Trustee and the Holders may exercise the other rights and remedies available under this Indenture and under applicable law upon the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.01(c)</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The immediately preceding paragraph, however, is subject to the conditions that if, at any
time after the principal of the applicable series of Notes shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, and if
(1)&nbsp;rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2)&nbsp;any and all existing Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, on the applicable series of Notes that shall have become due solely by such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.08</U>, then and in every such case (except as provided in the
immediately succeeding sentence) the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then-Outstanding of such series, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to
the Notes of such series and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences and such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no
such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no such waiver or rescission and
annulment shall extend to or shall affect any Default or Event of Default resulting from (i)&nbsp;the nonpayment of the principal (including the redemption price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, any Notes of such series or
(ii)&nbsp;a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article&nbsp;IX of the Base Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of the Notes of such series affected. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note of a series, the Company&#146;s valid utilization of an
Optional Deferral Period pursuant to <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;IV</U> shall not constitute a default in the payment of interest giving rise to an Event of Default. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.03&#8195;<U>Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor</U>. If an Event of Default described in
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.01(a)</U> or <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.01(b)</U> shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes of such
series, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes of such series for principal and interest, if any, with interest on any overdue principal and interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Notes of such series at such time and, in addition
thereto, such further amount </P>
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as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.07 of the Base Indenture. If the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the
Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company
or any other obligor upon the Notes of such series and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes of such series, wherever situated. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes
under Title&nbsp;11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken
possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor upon a series of the Notes, or to the creditors or
property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes of such series shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee
shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.03</U>, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, in respect of the Notes of such series, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such other actions as it may deem necessary
or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders of Notes of such series allowed in such
judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on such series of Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to
distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due to the Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.07 of the Base Indenture; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby
authorized by each of the Holders of Notes of such series to make such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders of Notes of such
series, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements, including agents and counsel fees and expenses, and including any other amounts due to the Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.07 of the Base
Indenture, incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the
same shall be secured by a lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property that the Holders of a series of Notes may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or
under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting such Holder or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the
claim of any Holder in any such proceeding. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the
Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the
Holders of a series of Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any
provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of a series of Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of such series of Notes parties to any such
proceedings. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been
discontinued or abandoned because of any waiver pursuant to <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.08</U> or any rescission and annulment pursuant to <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.08</U> or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to
the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers
of the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.04&#8195;<U>Application of Monies Collected by Trustee</U>. Any monies or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.04</U> with respect to a series of Notes shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies or property, upon presentation of the several Notes of
such series, and, with respect to any certificated Notes, stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if fully paid: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>First</B>, to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee in all of its capacities under this Indenture; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Second</B>, in case the principal of the Outstanding Notes of a series shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of interest
on such series of Notes in default in the order of the date due of the payments of such interest with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon such overdue payments at the rate of interest borne by such
series of Notes at such time, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Third</B>, in case the principal of
the Outstanding Notes of a series shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid, to the payment of the whole amount (including, if applicable, the payment of the redemption price) then owing and unpaid upon such series of Notes
for principal and interest, if any, with interest on the overdue principal and, to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee, upon overdue installments of interest at the rate of interest borne by such series of Notes at such
time, and in case such monies shall be </P>
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insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon such series of Notes, then to the payment of such principal (including, if applicable, the redemption price) and interest
without preference or priority of principal over interest, or of interest over principal or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Note of a series over any other Note of such series, ratably to the
aggregate of such principal (including, if applicable, the redemption price) and accrued and unpaid interest; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Fourth</B>, to the
payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.05&#8195;<U>Proceedings by Holders</U>.Except to enforce the right to
receive payment of principal (including, if applicable, the redemption price) or interest when due, no Holder of any Note of a series shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture or the Notes of a series to
institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default for such series of Notes and of
the continuance thereof; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;Holders of at least 33% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series then-Outstanding
shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee such security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against any loss, claim,
liability or expense (including reasonable attorney&#146;s fees and expenses) to be incurred therein or thereby; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;the Trustee
for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of such security or indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;no direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee by
the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series then-Outstanding within such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">60-day</FONT> period pursuant to <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.08</U>, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Note of a series with every other taker and Holder of a
series of Notes and the Trustee that no one or more Holders of such series of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other
Holder, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances affect, disturb or prejudice
the rights of any other Holder or obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other Holder), or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all
Holders of such series of Notes (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.05</U>, each and every Holder of such series of Notes and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief
as can be given either at law or in equity. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, and
subject to the Company&#146;s right to defer the payment of interest on the Notes as provided in <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;IV</U>, each Holder shall have the right to receive payment of (x)&nbsp;the principal (including the redemption price, if
applicable) of, and (y)&nbsp;accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, such series of Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in such series of Note or in this Indenture, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.06&#8195;<U>Proceedings by Trustee</U>. In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may in its discretion
proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy
or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by
this Indenture or by law. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.07&#8195;<U>Remedies Cumulative and Continuing</U>. Except as provided in Section&nbsp;3.06 of
the Base Indenture, all powers and remedies given by this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;III</U> to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and
remedies available to the Trustee or the Holders of a series of Notes, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the
Trustee or of any Holder of any of such series of Notes to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default
or any acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.05</U>, every power and remedy given by this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;III</U> or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time
to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.08&#8195;<U>Direction of Proceedings
and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders</U>. The Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of a series at the time Outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to such series of Notes; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that (a)&nbsp;such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture, and (b)&nbsp;the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee and that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that it determines is unduly prejudicial to the
rights of any other Holder (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not any such direction is unduly prejudicial to the rights of another Holder) or that would involve the Trustee in personal
liability. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes of a series at the time Outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes of such series waive any past Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except
any continuing defaults relating to (i)&nbsp;a default in the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the principal (including any redemption price) of, the Notes of such series when due that has not been cured pursuant to the
provisions of this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.08</U>, or (ii)&nbsp;a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article&nbsp;IX of the Base Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of the
Notes of such series affected. Upon any such waiver the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes of such series </P>
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shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Whenever any Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.08</U>, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Notes of such Series and this Indenture be deemed to have been
cured and to be not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.09&#8195;<U>Notice of Defaults</U>. If a Default occurs and is continuing and a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives
written notice of such Default, the Trustee shall deliver to each Holder notice of the Default within 90 days after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives such notice or obtains actual knowledge thereof, unless such Defaults shall have been
cured or waived before the giving of such notice; <U>provided</U> that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of (including the redemption price, if applicable), or accrued and unpaid interest on, any of the Notes, the
Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as it determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.10&#8195;<U>Undertaking to Pay Costs</U>. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any series of Note by its
acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it
as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys&#146; fees and expenses, against any party
litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; <U>provided</U> that the provisions of this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.10</U> (to the extent permitted by law) shall
not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of a series of Notes at the time Outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any
Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on any Note of a series (including, but not limited to, the redemption price, if applicable) on or after the due date expressed or provided for in
such Note. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;IV </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>OPTION TO DEFER INTEREST PAYMENTS </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;4.01&#8195;<U>Option to Defer Interest Payments</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;The Company may, at its option, elect at one or more times to defer payment of interest on a given series of the Notes, from time to
time, for one or more consecutive Interest Periods (each, an &#147;<U>Optional Deferral Period</U>&#148;) of up to 20 consecutive Interest Payment Periods (each period commencing on the date that the first such Interest Payment would otherwise have
been made on the applicable series of Notes); <U>provided</U> that the Company may not elect to defer payment of interest on a given series of Notes if an Event of Default with respect to such series of Notes has occurred and is continuing;
<U>provided</U>, <U>further</U>, that the deferral of Interest Payments cannot extend beyond the maturity date of the applicable series of Notes or end on a day other than the day immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195; The Company may pay at any time all or any portion of the interest accrued to
that point during an Optional Deferral Period. At the end of the Optional Deferral Period or on any redemption date, the Company will be obligated to pay all accrued and unpaid interest. The Company may not pay current interest on a series of Notes
until it has paid all accrued interest on such series of Notes from the previous Optional Deferral Period. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;Once all accrued and
unpaid interest on a given series of the Notes has been paid, the Company again can defer Interest Payments on that series of Notes as described above, <U>provided</U> that an Optional Deferral Period cannot extend beyond the maturity date of such
Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;Before the end of any Optional Deferral Period that is shorter than 20 consecutive Interest Payment Periods, the Company
may elect, at its option, to extend such Optional Deferral Period, so long as the entire Optional Deferral Period does not exceed 20 consecutive Interest Payment Periods or extend beyond the maturity date of the Notes of the applicable series. The
Company may also elect, at its option, to shorten the length of any Optional Deferral Period. No Optional Deferral Period (including as extended or shortened) may end on a day other than the day immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date. At the
end of any Optional Deferral Period, if all amounts then due on the Notes of the applicable series, including all accrued and unpaid interest thereon (including, without limitation and to the extent permitted by applicable law, any deferred interest
and any Compound Interest), are paid, the Company may elect to begin a new Optional Deferral Period; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that, without limitation of the foregoing, the Company may not begin a new Optional Deferral Period unless the
Company has paid all accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes of the applicable series (including, without limitation and to the extent permitted by applicable law, any deferred interest and any Compound Interest) from any previous Optional Deferral
Period. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;If the Company defers interest for a period of 20 consecutive Interest Payment Periods from the commencement of an
Optional Deferral Period, the Company will be required to pay all accrued and unpaid interest at the conclusion of the 20 consecutive Interest Payment Periods. If the Company fails to pay in full all accrued and unpaid interest at the conclusion of
the 20 consecutive Interest Payment Periods, and such failure continues for 30 days, an Event of Default that gives rise to acceleration of principal and interest on the Notes will occur under this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;During an Optional Deferral Period, interest will continue to accrue on the Notes of the applicable series, and deferred Interest
Payments will accrue additional interest on a semi-annual basis at a rate equal to the interest rate then-applicable to such series of Notes (including, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any Compound Interest). No interest will be due and
payable on the Notes until the end of the Optional Deferral Period except upon a redemption of the Notes during the Optional Deferral Period. The Interest Payment Date falling immediately after the last day of an Optional Deferral Period shall not
be deemed to fall on a day during such Optional Deferral Period. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;No interest will be due or payable on the Notes of a given series during any
Optional Deferral Period, except upon a redemption pursuant to <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;2.06</U> of any Notes of such series on any redemption date during such optional deferral period (in which case all accrued and unpaid interest (including,
to the extent permitted by applicable law, any Compound Interest) on the Notes of such series to be redeemed to, but excluding, such redemption date will be due and payable on such redemption date), or unless the principal of and interest on the
Notes of such series shall have been declared due and payable as the result of an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of such series (in which case all accrued and unpaid interest, including, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any
Compound Interest, on the Notes shall become due and payable). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&#8195;During an Optional Deferral Period, the Company will not, and
will cause its majority-owned subsidiaries, as applicable, not to: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;declare or pay any dividends or distributions on any shares
of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&#8195;redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to any shares of
the Company&#146;s Capital Stock; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii)&#8195;make any payment of principal of, or interest (to the extent such interest is deferrable)
or premium, if any, on, or repay, repurchase or redeem any of the Company&#146;s Indebtedness ranking on a parity with, or ranking junior to, the Notes in right of payment (including debt securities of other series, such as the other series of Notes
hereunder); or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv)&#8195;make any payments with respect to any guarantees by the Company of any Indebtedness if such Guarantees rank on
a parity with or junior to the Notes in right of payment. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;However, the foregoing provisions of
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;4.01(h)</U> shall not prevent or restrict the Company from making: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;purchases, redemptions or
other acquisitions of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors, agents or consultants or a stock purchase,
dividend reinvestment or similar plan, or the satisfaction of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred requiring it to purchase, redeem or acquire the Company&#146;s
Capital Stock; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&#8195;any payment, repayment, redemption, purchase, acquisition or declaration of a dividend described in
<U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(h)(i)</U> above as a result of a reclassification of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock, or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock for another class or
series of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii)&#8195;the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company&#146;s Capital
Stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts outstanding on the date that the payment of
interest is deferred; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv)&#8195;declaration or making of dividends, payments or distributions payable in the
Company&#146;s Capital Stock (or rights to acquire the Company&#146;s Capital Stock), or purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock (or
of securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company&#146;s Capital Stock) and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v)&#8195;redemptions, exchanges, acquisitions or repurchases of, or with respect to, (A)&nbsp;any rights outstanding under any employment
contract, incentive plan, benefit plan or similar arrangement of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (B)&nbsp;in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stock purchase plan, in each case outstanding on the date that the payment of interest
is deferred or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi)&#8195;implementation of a shareholders rights plan, or issuance of rights, stock or other property under such plan, or redemption,
repurchase of otherwise acquisition of any such rights pursuant thereto; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vii)&#8195;settling conversions of any convertible notes
that rank equally with the Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&#8195;In the event that the Company elects to defer any Interest Payment, the Company shall notify
the Trustee and the Holders in writing of such election at least one Business Day prior to the Regular Record Date for the Interest Payment Date on which the Company intends to begin an Optional Deferral Period; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that
the Company&#146;s failure to pay the interest owed on a particular Interest Payment Date shall also constitute the commencement of an Optional Deferral Period, unless such interest is paid within five Business Days after such Interest Payment Date,
whether or not the Company provides a notice of deferral. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k)&#8195;In the event that the Company elects to defer any Interest Payment,
the Company will give DTC, the Holders of the Notes of the applicable series and the Trustee written notice of its election of, or any shortening or extension of, an Optional Deferral Period at least 15 Business Days prior to the earlier of
(1)&nbsp;each next succeeding Interest Payment Date or (2)&nbsp;the date upon which the Company is required to give notice to any applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Notes of the applicable series of the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date or the regular record date therefor. The record date for the payment of deferred interest and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any compound interest payable on the Interest Payment Date immediately following the last
day of an optional deferral period will be the regular record date with respect to such Interest Payment Date. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM OF NOTE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.01&#8195;<U>Form of </U><U>Note</U>. The Series&nbsp;A Notes, the Series&nbsp;B Notes and the Trustee&#146;s Certificate of
Authentication to be endorsed thereon are to be substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit&nbsp;A and Exhibit&nbsp;B, as applicable. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;VI </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ORIGINAL ISSUE OF NOTES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.01&#8195;<U>Original Issue of </U><U>Notes</U>. Series&nbsp;A Notes in the initial aggregate principal amount of up to
$400,000,000 and Series&nbsp;B Notes in the initial aggregate principal amount of up to $400,000,000 may be executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for authentication by it, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver said
Notes to or upon the written order of the Company, signed by any Officer of the Company, without any further corporate action by the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;VII </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SUBORDINATION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article&nbsp;XVI of the Base Indenture is replaced in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.01&#8195;<U>Subordination</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;The Notes will be subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness. Accordingly, upon: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;any payment by, or distribution of the assets of, the Company upon its dissolution,
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up,</FONT> liquidation or reorganization, whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other proceedings; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&#8195;a failure to pay any interest, principal or other monetary amounts due on any Senior Indebtedness when due and continuance of that
default beyond any applicable grace periods; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:13%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii)&#8195;acceleration of the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness as a result of a
default; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">holders of all Senior Indebtedness will be entitled to receive: (A)&nbsp;in the case of <U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(i)</U> above, payment of
all amounts due or to become due on all Senior Indebtedness; or (B)&nbsp;in the case of <U>clauses</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(ii)</U> and <U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(iii)</U> above, payment of all amounts due on all Senior Indebtedness, before Holders of
the Notes are entitled to receive any payment. So long as any events in <U>clauses</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(i)</U>, <U>(ii)</U> or <U>(iii)</U>&nbsp;above has occurred and is continuing, any amounts payable or assets distributable on the Notes will
instead be paid or distributed, as the case may be, directly to holders of Senior Indebtedness to the extent necessary to pay, in the case of <U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(i)</U> above, all amounts due or to become due upon all such Senior
Indebtedness, or, in the case of <U>clauses</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(ii)</U> and <U>(iii)</U>&nbsp;above, all amounts due on all such Senior Indebtedness, and, if any such payment or distribution is received by the Trustee or Holders of any of the Notes
before all Senior Indebtedness due and to become due, as applicable, is paid, such payment or distribution must be paid over to holders of the unpaid Senior Indebtedness. </P>
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Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not at any time be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of
any payment of funds to or by the Trustee unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee assigned to its corporate trust division shall have received at the Corporate Trust Office written notice thereof from the Company or from one or more
holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor who shall have been certified by the Company or otherwise established to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee to be such a holder or trustee; and, prior to the receipt of such written
notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;6.01 of the Base Indenture, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist; <U>provided</U> that if prior to the fifth Business Day preceding the date upon which by
the terms hereof any such funds may become payable, or if prior to the third Business Day preceding the date of the execution of instruments pursuant to <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;IX</U> acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture,
the Trustee shall not have received with respect to such funds the notice provided for in this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;7.02</U>, then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority
to receive such moneys and/or apply the same to the purpose for which they were received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be received by it on or after such date; <U>provided</U> that no such application shall affect
the obligations under this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> of the Persons receiving such moneys from the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.03&#8195;<U>Application by Trustee of Moneys Deposited With It</U>. Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding,
any deposit of a sum by the Company with the Trustee or any agent (whether or not in trust) for any payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Notes shall, except as provided in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;7.02</U>, be
subject to the provisions of <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;7.01</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.04&#8195;<U>Subrogation</U>. Subject to paying the
Senior Indebtedness due and to become due in the case of <U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(i)</U> of <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;7.01(a)</U> or Senior Indebtedness due in the case of <U>clauses</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(ii)</U> and <U>(iii)</U>&nbsp;of
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;7.01(a)</U>, the Holders of the Notes shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of assets of the Company applicable to such Senior Indebtedness
until the Notes shall be paid in full, and none of the payments or distributions to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to which the Holders of the Notes or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this
<U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> or of payments over, pursuant to the provisions of this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U>, to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness by the Holders of such Notes or the Trustee shall, as among the Company,
its creditors other than the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of such Notes, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or on account of such Senior Indebtedness; it being understood that the provisions of this
<U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Notes, on one hand, and the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.05&#8195;<U>Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness</U>. No right
of any present or future holders of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be </P>
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prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with the
terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof with which any such holder may have or be otherwise charged. The holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time or from time to time and in their absolute
discretion, change the manner, place or terms of payment, change or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, any such Senior Indebtedness, or amend or supplement any instrument pursuant to which any such Senior Indebtedness is issued or by
which it may be secured, or release any security therefor, or exercise or refrain from exercising any other of their rights under the Senior Indebtedness including, without limitation, the waiver of default thereunder, all without notice to or
assent from the Holders or the Trustee and without affecting the obligations of the Company, the Trustee or the Holders under this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.06&#8195;<U>Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness</U>. The Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in
this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it in its individual capacity to the same extent as any other holder of such Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall be construed
to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.07&#8195;<U>Not to Prevent Defaults (Including Events of
Default)</U>. The failure to make any payment pursuant to the terms of the Notes by reason of any provision in this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> shall not be construed as preventing the occurrence of a Default (including an Event of
Default, if any). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.08&#8195;<U>Trustee</U><U>&#146;</U><U>s Rights to Compensation, Reimbursement of Expenses and
Indemnification</U>. The Trustee&#146;s rights to compensation, reimbursement of expenses and indemnification under Section&nbsp;6.07 of the Base Indenture are not subordinated to the payment of Senior Indebtedness. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.09&#8195;<U>Article Applicable to Paying Agents</U>. The term &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148; as used in this
<U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> shall (unless the context shall otherwise require) be construed as extending to and including each Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent and Security Registrar appointed by the Company or the Trustee, as the case
may be, and acting hereunder within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent or Security Registrar were named in this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> in addition to the Trustee; <U>provided</U> that
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;7.02</U> and <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;7.06</U> shall not apply to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if the Company or such Affiliate acts as Paying Agent or Security Registrar. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.10&#8195;<U>Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness</U>. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary
duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and shall not be liable to any such holders if the Trustee shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Notes or to the Company or to any other person cash, property or securities to
which any holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> or otherwise. With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its
covenants or obligations as are specifically set forth in this <U>Article VII</U> and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article&nbsp;IX of the Base Indenture is replaced in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.01&#8195;<U>Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders</U>. Without the consent of any Holders, the Company and the
Trustee, at the Company&#146;s expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture pursuant to
<U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;X</U>; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;to add guarantees with respect to the Notes; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;to secure the Notes; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;to add to the covenants or Events of Default of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred
upon the Company; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder as determined by the Company in
good faith; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;to conform the provisions of this Indenture or the Notes to the &#147;Description of Notes&#148; section of the
Company&#146;s prospectus supplement, dated August&nbsp;12, 2024, as evidenced in an Officer&#146;s Certificate; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&#8195;to comply with
the rules of any applicable Depositary, including DTC, so long as such amendment does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any material respect; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;to appoint a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&#8195;to provide for the acceptance of appointment by a successor Trustee, Security Registrar or Paying Agent to facilitate the
administration of the trusts under this Indenture by more than one trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee is
hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to, but may in its
discretion, enter into any supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee&#146;s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;8.01</U> may be executed by the Company and the
Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any of the Notes at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;8.02</U>. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.02&#8195;<U>Supplemental Indenture with Consent of Holders</U>. With the
consent of the Holders of at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a repurchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, the Notes), the
Company and the Trustee, at the Company&#146;s expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of this Indenture, the Notes or any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that, without the consent of each Holder of an Outstanding Note affected, no such
supplemental indenture shall: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment;(b) reduce the
rate of or extend the stated time for payment of interest on any Note beyond the maximum time period of any permitted deferral of interest pursuant to <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;IV</U> or to increase the maximum time period for any such interest
deferral or to increase the maximum number of times the Company may defer such Interest Payment; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;reduce the principal of or
extend the maturity date of any Note;(d) reduce the redemption price of any Note or amend or modify in any manner adverse to the Holders the Company&#146;s obligation to make such payments, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the
covenants, definitions or otherwise; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;make any Note payable in a currency, or at a place of payment, other than that stated in
the Note;(f) change the subordination provisions of the Notes set forth in <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VII</U> in a manner adverse to Holders; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;make any change in this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VIII</U> that requires each Holder&#146;s consent or in the waiver provisions
in <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.02</U> or <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.08</U>.Upon the written request of the Company, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Holders as aforesaid and subject to
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;8.05</U>, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee&#146;s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Holders do not need under this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;8.02</U> to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture.
It shall be sufficient if such Holders approve the substance thereof. After any such supplemental indenture becomes effective, the Company shall deliver to the Holders a notice (with a copy to the Trustee) briefly describing such supplemental
indenture. However, the failure to give such notice to all the Holders (with a copy to the Trustee), or any defect in the notice, will not impair or affect the validity of the supplemental indenture. </P>
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executed pursuant to this <U>Article VIII</U> shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.04&#8195;<U>Effect of Supplemental Indentures</U>. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions
of this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VIII</U>, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties, indemnities, privileges and immunities
under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental
indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.05&#8195;<U>Notation on Notes</U>. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant
to the provisions of this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VIII</U> may, at the Company&#146;s expense, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee shall so
determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Company&#146;s expense, be prepared and executed by the
Company, authenticated by the Trustee (or an Authenticating Agent duly appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section&nbsp;6.14 of the Base Indenture) upon receipt of an Officer&#146;s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and a Company Order and
delivered in exchange for the Notes then outstanding, upon surrender of such Notes then outstanding. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.06&#8195;<U>Evidence
of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished</U>. In addition to the documents required by Section&nbsp;1.02 of the Base Indenture, the Trustee shall receive an Officer&#146;s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence
that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;VIII</U> and is permitted or authorized by this Indenture; <U>provided</U> that such Opinion of Counsel shall include a
customary legal opinion stating that such supplemental indenture is the valid and binding obligation of the Company, subject to customary exceptions and qualifications. The Trustee shall have no responsibility for determining whether any amendment
or supplemental indenture will or may have an adverse effect on any Holder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;IX </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article&nbsp;IV of the Base Indenture is replaced in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.01&#8195;<U>Satisfaction and Discharge</U>. (a)&nbsp;This Indenture and the Notes of a given series shall cease to be of
further effect when (i)&nbsp;all Notes of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (x)&nbsp;Notes of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section&nbsp;3.06
of the Base Indenture and (y)&nbsp;Notes of such series for whose payment money has heretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in
Section&nbsp;10.03 of the Base Indenture) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii)&nbsp;the Company has irrevocably deposited with the Trustee or delivered to Holders, as applicable, after the Notes of such series have become due
and payable, </P>
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whether on the maturity date, any Redemption Date or otherwise, cash sufficient, without consideration of reinvestment, to pay all of the outstanding Notes of such series and all other sums due
and payable under this Indenture or the Notes by the Company; and (b)&nbsp;the Trustee upon request of the Company contained in an Officer&#146;s Certificate and at the expense of the Company, shall execute such instruments reasonably requested by
the Company acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the Notes of such series, when the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer&#146;s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the Notes of such series have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee
under Section&nbsp;6.07 of the Base Indenture shall survive. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;X </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article&nbsp;VIII of the Base Indenture is replaced in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.01&#8195;<U>Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms</U>. Subject to the provisions of
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;10.02</U>, the Company shall not consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of the consolidated properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as
a whole, to another Person (other than any such sale, conveyance, transfer or lease to one or more of the Company&#146;s direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiaries) unless: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the &#147;<U>Successor Company</U>&#148;), if not the Company, shall be a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture all of the obligations of the
Company under the Notes and this Indenture; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For purposes of this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;10.01</U>, the
sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would
constitute all or substantially all of the consolidated properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, shall be deemed to be the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the consolidated
properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to another Person. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.02&#8195;<U>Successor
Company to Be Substituted</U>. In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form
to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company,
such Successor Company (if not the Company) </P>
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shall succeed to and, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the consolidated properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, shall be
substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part, and may thereafter exercise every right and power of the Company under this Indenture. Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be
signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor
Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have
been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in
all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In
the event of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer (but not in the case of a lease), upon compliance with this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;X</U> the Person named as the &#147;Company&#148; in the first paragraph of this
Indenture (or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this <U>Article</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;X</U>) may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person
shall be released from its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes. In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and
form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.03 <U>Officer</U><U>&#146;</U><U>s
Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee</U>. No such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease shall be effective unless the Trustee shall receive an Officer&#146;s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating and as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such assumption and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture,
complies with the provisions of this <U>Article X</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;XI </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>OTHER AMENDMENTS </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.01&#8195;<U>Amendment to Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;1.05 of the Base Indenture</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.05 of the Base Indenture is replaced in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or
permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;the Trustee by any Holder or
by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Institutional Trust Services, </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to the attention of the Treasurer of the Company at the address of the Company&#146;s principal
office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee shall have the right to accept and act upon instructions (&#147;<U>Instructions</U>&#148;) given pursuant to this
Indenture and delivered using Electronic Means (as defined below); <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that the Company shall provide to the Trustee an incumbency certificate listing officers with the authority to provide such Instructions
(&#147;<U>Authorized Officers</U>&#148;) and containing specimen signatures of such Authorized Officers, which incumbency certificate shall be amended by the Company whenever a person is to be added or deleted from the listing. If the Company elects
to give the Trustee Instructions using Electronic Means and the Trustee in its discretion elects to act upon such Instructions, the Trustee&#146;s understanding of such Instructions shall be deemed controlling. The Company understands and agrees
that the Trustee cannot determine the identity of the actual sender of such Instructions and that the Trustee shall conclusively presume that directions that purport to have been sent by an Authorized Officer listed on the incumbency certificate
provided to the Trustee have been sent by such Authorized Officer. The Company shall be responsible for ensuring that only Authorized Officers transmit such Instructions to the Trustee and that the Company and all Authorized Officers are solely
responsible to safeguard the use and confidentiality of applicable user and authorization codes, passwords and/or authentication keys upon receipt by the Company. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or
indirectly from the Trustee&#146;s reliance upon and compliance with such Instructions notwithstanding such directions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent written instruction. The Company agrees: (i)&nbsp;to assume all risks arising out
of the use of Electronic Means to submit Instructions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized Instructions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties; (ii)&nbsp;that it is fully
informed of the protections and risks associated with the various methods of transmitting Instructions to the Trustee and that there may be more secure methods of transmitting Instructions than the method(s) selected by the Company; (iii)&nbsp;that
the security procedures (if any) to be followed in connection with its transmission of Instructions provide to it a commercially reasonable degree of protection in light of its particular needs and circumstances; and (iv)&nbsp;to notify the Trustee
immediately upon learning of any compromise or unauthorized use of the security procedures. &#147;<U>Electronic Means</U>&#148; shall mean the following communications methods: <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">e-mail,</FONT> secure electronic
transmission containing applicable authorization codes, passwords and/or authentication keys issued by the Trustee, or another method or system specified by the Trustee as available for use in connection with its services hereunder.&#148; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.02&#8195;<U>Amendment to Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;1.12 of the Base Indenture</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.12 of the Base Indenture is replaced in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF. </P>
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any of its assets or property, to the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-exclusive</FONT> jurisdiction of any court of the State of New York or any United States federal court sitting, in each case, in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New
York, New York, United States of America, and any appellate court from any thereof in any suit, action or proceeding that may be brought in connection with this Indenture or the securities, and waives any immunity from the jurisdiction of such
courts. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection to any such suit, action or
proceeding that may be brought in such courts whether on the grounds of venue, residence or domicile or on the ground that any such suit, action or proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum.&#148; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.03&#8195;<U>Amendment to Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;6.01 of the Base Indenture</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.01 of the Base Indenture is amended and restated in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company, each Holder by its acceptance of the Notes and the Trustee hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Indenture, the Notes or the transactions contemplated hereby.&#148; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.04&#8195;<U>Amendment to Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;6.02 of the Base Indenture</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.02 of the Base Indenture is amended and restated in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities
of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section&nbsp;3.01(c) with respect to Securities of such
series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section&nbsp;6.02, the term &#147;<U>default</U>&#148; means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee is not required to take notice or
deemed to have notice of any Event of Default with respect to the Securities, unless a Responsible Officer shall have received written notice of such Event of Default from the Company, any Subsidiary or the Holder of any Security. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee,
as applicable, will exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person&#146;s own
affairs.&#148; </P>
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Indenture</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.03 of the Base Indenture is amended and restated in its entirety as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;&#147;the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently
evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or
established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may rely upon an Officers&#146; Certificate; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;the Trustee may consult with counsel, and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full
and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&#8195;the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at
the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance
with such request or direction; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&#8195;the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or
matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion,
may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the
Company, personally or by agent or attorney; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&#8195;the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&#8195;the Trustee is not required to give any bond or surety with
respect to the performance of its duties or the exercise of its powers under this Indenture; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&#8195;in the event the
Trustee receives inconsistent or conflicting requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Securities, each representing less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities Outstanding, the Trustee, in its sole
discretion, may determine what action, if any, shall be taken; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&#8195;the Trustee&#146;s immunities and protections
from liability and its right to indemnification in connection with the performance of its duties under this Indenture shall extend to the Trustee&#146;s officers, directors, agents and employees. Such immunities and protections and right to
indemnification, together with the Trustee&#146;s right to compensation, shall survive the Trustee&#146;s resignation or removal and final payment of the Securities; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k)&#8195;except for information provided by the Trustee concerning the Trustee, the Trustee shall have no responsibility for
any information in any prospectus supplement or other disclosure material distributed with respect to the Securities, and the Trustee shall have no responsibility for compliance with any state or federal securities laws in connection with the
Securities; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(l)&#8195;delivery of reports or other information by the Trustee shall not constitute actual or constructive
knowledge or notice upon the Trustee; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(m)&#8195;the Trustee will not be liable for any error of judgment made in good
faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(n)&#8195;the Trustee will not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted in good faith in accordance with
directions received by the required Holders; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(o)&#8195;The delivery of any reports, information and documents to the
Trustee (including pursuant to <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;7.04</U>) is for informational purposes only and the Trustee&#146;s receipt of the foregoing shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable
from information contained therein, including the Company&#146;s compliance with any of their covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers&#146; Certificates or Opinions of Counsel, as applicable); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(p)&#8195;In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or
damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action. The Trustee shall not be responsible
for any loss or damage resulting from any action or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-action</FONT> based on its good faith reliance upon such opinion or advice or for any errors in judgment made in good faith; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(q)&#8195;In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any
failure or delay in the performance of their obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or
military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, governmental action, wire, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(r)&#8195;In order to comply with applicable tax laws, rules and regulations (inclusive of directives, guidelines and
interpretations promulgated by competent authorities) in effect from time to time (&#147;<U>Applicable Tax Law</U>&#148;) related to this Indenture, the Company agrees (i)&nbsp;to provide to the Trustee information about holders or other applicable
parties and/or transactions (including any modification to the terms of such transactions) that is within the possession of the Company and reasonably requested by the Trustee so the Trustee can determine whether it has tax related obligations under
Applicable Tax Law and (ii)&nbsp;that the Trustee shall be entitled to make any withholding or deduction from payments under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Tax Law for which the Trustee shall not have any
liability.&#148; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;XII </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>TAX TREATMENT </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.01&#8195;<U>Tax Treatment</U>. The Company agrees, and by acquiring an interest in a Note each Holder and beneficial owner of
a Note agrees, to treat the Notes as indebtedness for U.S.&nbsp;federal, state and local tax purposes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;XIII </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>THE TRUSTEE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.01&#8195;<U>Appointment of Trustee</U>. Pursuant to the Base Indenture and pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture, the
Company hereby appoints the Trustee as Trustee under the Base Indenture with respect to the Notes, and by execution hereof the Trustee accepts such appointment. Pursuant to the Base Indenture, all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the Trustee
under the Base Indenture shall be vested in the Trustee with respect to the Notes and there shall continue to be vested in the Trustee all of its rights, powers, trusts and duties as Trustee under the Base Indenture with respect to all of the series
of Securities as to which it has served and continues to serve as Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.02&#8195;<U>Eligibility of Trustee</U>. The
Trustee hereby represents that it is qualified and eligible under Section&nbsp;6.09 of the Base Indenture and the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act to accept its appointment as Trustee with respect to the Notes under the Base Indenture and
hereby accepts the appointment as such Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.03&#8195;<U>Security Registrar and Paying Agent</U>. Pursuant to the Base
Indenture, the Company hereby appoints The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association as registrar and &#147;Paying Agent&#148; with respect to the Notes. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.04&#8195;<U>Concerning the Trustee</U>. The Trustee does not assume any
duties, responsibilities or liabilities by reason of this Supplemental Indenture other than as set forth in the Base Indenture or as expressly set forth herein and, in carrying out its responsibilities hereunder, shall have all of the rights,
powers, privileges, protections, duties and immunities which it possesses under the Base Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.05&#8195;<U>Patriot
Act Requirements of Trustee</U>. The parties hereto acknowledge that in order to help the United States government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, pursuant to Federal regulations that became effective on
October&nbsp;1, 2003 (Section&nbsp;326 of the USA PATRIOT Act) all financial institutions are required to obtain, verify, record and update information that identifies each person establishing a relationship or opening an account. The parties to
this Supplemental Indenture agree that they will provide to the Trustee such information as it may request, from time to time, in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, including but not limited to the name,
address, tax identification number and other information that will allow it to identify the individual or entity who is establishing the relationship or opening the account and may also ask for formation documents such as articles of incorporation
or other identifying documents to be provided. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.06&#8195;<U>Notice upon Trustee</U>. Any notice, direction, request,
demand, consent or waiver by the Company or any Holder to or upon the Trustee, Security Registrar or Paying Agent for the Notes shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given, made or filed, for all purposes, if given, made or filed in writing at
the Corporate Trust Office. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ARTICLE&nbsp;XIV </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>MISCELLANEOUS </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.01&#8195;<U>Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indenture Controls</U>. The Base Indenture, as supplemented and (solely
for purposes of the Notes) amended by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed part of the Base Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided. The
provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall supersede the provisions of the Base Indenture to the extent the Base Indenture is inconsistent herewith with respect to the Notes only. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.02&#8195;<U>Recitals</U>. The recitals herein contained are made by the Company only and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee
does not assume any responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture. All of the provisions contained in the Base Indenture in respect of the rights,
powers, privileges, protections, duties and immunities of the Trustee shall be applicable in respect of the Notes and of this Supplemental Indenture as fully and with like effect as if set forth herein in full. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.03&#8195;<U>Separability</U>. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Supplemental Indenture or in the
Notes shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes, but this Supplemental
Indenture and the Notes shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein. </P>
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any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. This Supplemental Indenture and any ancillary documents may be signed by manual,
facsimile or electronic signature, provided any electronic signature is a true representation of the signer&#146;s actual signature. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><B>CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC.</B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Executive Vice President and Chief<BR>Financial Officer</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM OF 7.000% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">FIXED-TO-FIXED</FONT></FONT> RESET RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED
NOTES, SERIES&nbsp;A, DUE 2055 </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME
OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE
(OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO., ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THE NOTES EVIDENCED HEREBY WILL BE ISSUED, AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED, ONLY IN DENOMINATIONS OF $2,000 AND ANY GREATER INTEGRAL MULTIPLE OF $1,000, EXCEPT AS
PROVIDED IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER, SALE OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF NOTES IN A DENOMINATION OF NOTES IN A DENOMINATION OF LESS THAN $1,000 SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN
THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. ANY SUCH TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH NOTES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE RECEIPT OF PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF SUCH NOTES, AND SUCH TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>$&#8195;&#8195;&#8195; </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>7.000% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">FIXED-TO-FIXED</FONT></FONT> RESET RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES
</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SERIES&nbsp;A, DUE 2055 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Dated: August&nbsp;14, 2024 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">NUMBER <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">R-1</FONT> CUSIP NO: 15189T BH9 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Registered Holder: CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO. ISIN NO: US15189TBH95 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the state of Texas (herein referred to as the
&#147;<U>Company</U>,&#148; which term includes any successor person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to the Registered Holder named above, the principal sum specified in the Schedule of
Increases or Decreases in this Note annexed hereto on February&nbsp;15, 2055 (the &#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;A Maturity Date</U>&#148;), and to pay (subject to deferral as set forth herein) interest thereon (i)&nbsp;from and including the
date of the original issuance to, but excluding, February&nbsp;15, 2030 at an annual rate of 7.000% and (ii)&nbsp;from and including February&nbsp;15, 2030 during each Series&nbsp;A Interest Reset Period at an annual rate equal to the Five-Year
Treasury Rate as of the most recent Reset Interest Determination Date, plus 3.254%. Subject to the Company&#146;s right to defer interest payments as set forth in the Supplemental Indenture (as defined on the reverse hereof), interest is payable
semi-annually in arrears on February&nbsp;15 and August&nbsp;15 of each year beginning on February&nbsp;15, 2025 (the &#147;<U>Interest Payment Dates</U>&#148;), until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. If interest payments
are deferred or otherwise not paid, they will accrue and compound until paid at the same rate at which the Notes (as defined on the reverse hereof) bear interest to the extent permitted by law. As permitted by the terms of the Notes, if interest
payments are deferred or otherwise not paid up to a redemption date that does not fall on an Interest Payment Date, they will accrue and compound until paid at the same rate at which the Notes bear interest to the extent permitted by law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of
twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months, and with respect to any period less than a full calendar month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed during the period. The interest so payable on an Interest Payment Date
will be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered, at the close of business on the Regular Record Date next preceding such Interest Payment Date; <U>provided</U> that interest payable at Series&nbsp;A Maturity Date will be paid to the
Person to whom principal is payable. Any such interest that is not so punctually paid or duly provided for, and that is not deferred as described below, will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be
paid (i)&nbsp;to the Person in whose name this Note (or any Note issued upon registration of transfer or exchange thereof) is registered at the close of business on the record date for the payment of such defaulted interest established in accordance
with Section&nbsp;3.07 of the Base Indenture or (ii)&nbsp;at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of the securities exchange, if any, on which the Note may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by
such exchange. The &#147;<U>Regular Record Date</U>&#148; with respect to any Interest Payment Date for the Notes, will be the close of business on February&nbsp;1 or August&nbsp;1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding
the applicable February&nbsp;15 or August&nbsp;15 Interest Payment Date. </P>
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any) on which the Company is required to purchase the Notes falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the applicable payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest shall accrue or be paid in respect of such delay. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Note may be presented for payment of principal and interest at the office of the Paying Agent, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
<U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that at the option of the Company, interest on this Note may be paid by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto, as the address shall appear on the Security Register, or by a wire transfer to an
account designated by the Person entitled thereto. Payment of the principal and interest on this Note shall be made 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. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Calculation Agent</U>&#148; means the Company, an affiliate of the Company selected by the Company, or any other firm
appointed by the Company, in each case, in the Company&#146;s sole discretion, acting as calculation agent in respect of the Notes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Five-Year Treasury Rate</U>&#148; means, as of any Reset Interest Determination Date, the average of the yields on actively traded
U.S.&nbsp;Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity, for five-year maturities, for the most recent five Business Days appearing under the caption &#147;Treasury Constant Maturities&#148; in the Most Recent H.15. If the Five-Year Treasury
Rate cannot be determined pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Calculation Agent, after consulting such sources as it deems comparable to any of the foregoing calculations, or any such source as it deems reasonable from which to estimate the
Five-Year Treasury Rate, will determine the Five- Year Treasury Rate in its sole discretion, <U>provided</U> that if the Calculation Agent determines there is an industry-accepted successor Five-Year Treasury Rate, then the Calculation Agent will
use such successor rate. If the Calculation Agent has determined a substitute or successor base rate in accordance with the foregoing, the Calculation Agent in its sole discretion may determine the business day convention, the definition of
&#147;Business Day&#148; and the Reset Interest Determination Date to be used and any other relevant methodology for calculating such substitute or successor base rate, including any adjustment factor needed to make such substitute or successor base
rate comparable to the Five-Year Treasury Rate, in a manner that is consistent with industry-accepted practices for such substitute or successor base rate. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>H.15</U>&#148; means the daily statistical release designated as such, or any successor publication as determined by the Calculation
Agent in its sole discretion, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Payment
Period</U>&#148; means the semi-annual period from, and including, an Interest Payment Date to, but excluding, the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, except for the first Interest Payment Date, which shall be the period from, and including,
August&nbsp;14, 2024 to, but excluding, February&nbsp;15, 2025. </P>
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each date falling on the five-year anniversary of the preceding Series&nbsp;A Reset Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;A Interest
Reset Period</U>&#148; means the period from and including February&nbsp;15, 2030 to, but not including, the next following Series&nbsp;A Reset Date and thereafter each period from and including each Series&nbsp;A Reset Date to, but not including,
the next following Series&nbsp;A Reset Date or the maturity date or date of redemption, as the case may be. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Most Recent
H.15</U>&#148; means the H.15 published closest in time but prior to the close of business on the applicable Reset Interest Determination Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reset Interest Determination Date</U>&#148; means, in respect of any Series&nbsp;A Interest Reset Period, the day falling two
Business Days prior to the beginning of such Series&nbsp;A Interest Reset Period. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">So long as no Event of Default with respect to the
Notes of this series has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right on one or more occasions, to defer payment of all or part of the current and accrued interest otherwise due on this Security by extending the interest payment
period for up to twenty (20)&nbsp;consecutive Interest Payment Periods (each period, commencing on the date that the first such interest payment would otherwise have been made, an &#147;<U>Optional Deferral Period</U>&#148;). The Company may not
elect to defer payment of interest if an Event of Default (as set forth in the Supplemental Indenture) with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing; <U>provided</U> that the deferral of interest payments may not extend beyond the
Series&nbsp;A Maturity Date or end on a day other than the day immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date. As provided in the Indenture, interest will continue to accrue on the Notes, and deferred interest payments will accrue additional
interest on a semi-annual basis at a rate equal to the interest rate then-applicable to the Notes, including, to the extent permitted by law, interest on the deferred interest (&#147;<U>Compound Interest</U>&#148;). No interest shall be due and
payable during an Optional Deferral Period, except at the end of such Optional Deferral Period or upon a redemption of this Note during such Optional Deferral Period. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, prior to the termination of any Optional Deferral Period, the Company
may further defer the payment of interest by extending such Optional Deferral Period; <U>provided</U><I> </I>that such Optional Deferral Period together with all such previous and further deferrals of interest payments shall not exceed twenty
(20)&nbsp;consecutive Interest Payment Periods at any one time or extend beyond the Series&nbsp;A Maturity Date. Upon the termination of any Optional Deferral Period, which shall be an Interest Payment Date, the Company shall pay all interest
accrued and unpaid on this Note, including any Compound Interest, to the Person in whose name this Note is registered on the Regular Record Date for such Interest Payment Date, <U>provided</U> that interest accrued and unpaid on this Security,
including any Compound Interest, payable at Series&nbsp;A Maturity Date or on any Tax Event Redemption Date will be paid to the Person to whom principal is payable. Once the Company pays all interest accrued and unpaid on this Note, including any
Compound Interest, it shall be entitled again to defer interest payments on this Note as described above. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may redeem the Series&nbsp;A Notes in whole or in part upon not less than 10 nor
more than 60 days&#146; notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Series&nbsp;A Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (i)&nbsp;on any day in the period
commencing on the date falling 90 days prior to the first Series&nbsp;A Reset Date and ending on and including the first Series&nbsp;A Reset Date and (ii)&nbsp;after the first Series&nbsp;A Reset Date, on any Interest Payment Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In addition, the Series&nbsp;A Notes may be redeemable, in whole but not in part, at the option of the Company, by a notice of redemption
delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to the Indenture (except as otherwise set forth below), following the occurrence of a Tax Event (as defined below), at a redemption price equal to the sum of: (1) 100% of the principal amount of the
Notes being redeemed plus (2)&nbsp;accrued and unpaid interest (including any Compound Interest) thereon, if any, to such Tax Event Redemption Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Tax Event</U>&#148; means receipt by the Company of a written opinion of a nationally recognized accounting firm or counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;any amendment to, clarification of, or change, including any
announced prospective change, in the laws or treaties of the United States or any of its political subdivisions or taxing authorities, or any regulations under those laws or treaties; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;an administrative action, which means any judicial decision or any official administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory
procedure, notice or announcement including any notice or announcement of intent to issue or adopt any administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure or regulation; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;any amendment to, clarification of, or change in the official position or the interpretation of any administrative action or
judicial decision or any interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a position with respect to an administrative action or judicial decision that differs from the previously generally accepted position, in each case by any legislative body,
court, governmental authority or regulatory body, regardless of the time or manner in which that amendment, clarification or change is introduced or made known; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;a threatened challenge asserted in writing in connection with an audit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or a
publicly-known threatened challenge asserted in writing against any other taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are substantially similar to the Notes of this series, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">which amendment, clarification or change is effective or administrative action is taken or judicial decision, interpretation or pronouncement is issued or
threatened challenge is asserted or becomes publicly known after August&nbsp;12, 2024, there is more than an insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Company on the Securities of this series is not deductible, or within 90 days would not be
deductible, in whole or in part, by the Company for United States federal income tax purposes. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In addition, the Notes of this series may be redeemable, in whole but not in part, at the
option of the Company, by a notice of redemption delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to the Indenture (except as otherwise set forth in the immediately succeeding paragraph), following the occurrence of a Rating Agency Event (as
defined below), at a redemption price equal to 102% of the principal amount of such Securities of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest (including any Compound Interest) to, but excluding, such Tax Event Redemption Date.
&#147;<U>Rating Agency Event</U>&#148; means, as of any date, a change, clarification or amendment in the methodology in assigning equity credit to securities such as the Notes published by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization
within the meaning of Section&nbsp;3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act (or any successor provision thereto) that then publishes a rating for the Company (together with any successor thereto, a &#147;<U>Rating Agency</U>&#148;), (i) as such methodology was
in effect on August&nbsp;12, 2024, in the case of any Rating Agency that published a rating for the Company on August&nbsp;12, 2024, or (ii)&nbsp;as such methodology was in effect on the date such Rating Agency first published a rating for the
Company, in the case of any Rating Agency that first publishes a rating for the Company on August&nbsp;12, 2024 (in the case of either <U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(i)</U> or <U>(ii)</U>, the &#147;<U>Current Methodology</U>&#148;), that results in
(a)&nbsp;any shortening of the length of time for which a particular level of equity credit pertaining to the Notes by such Rating Agency would have been in effect had the Current Methodology not been changed, clarified or amended or (b)&nbsp;a
lower equity credit (including up to a lesser amount) being assigned by such Rating Agency to the Notes as of the date of such change, clarification or amendment than the equity credit that would have been assigned to the Notes by such Rating Agency
had the Current Methodology not been changed, clarified or amended. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The indebtedness of the Company evidenced by this Note, including the
principal hereof and interest hereon, is, to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the Company&#146;s obligations to Holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company and each Holder of
this Note, by acceptance hereof, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions of the Indenture and all other provisions of the Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Note and
the provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and control. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Note shall not be entitled to any benefit
under the Indenture, or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been manually or electronically signed by an authorized signatory of the Trustee under the Indenture. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This is one of the Securities, of the series designated herein, referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Dated: August&nbsp;14, 2024</TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;), issued and to
be issued pursuant to the Junior Subordinated Indenture (the &#147;<U>Base</U><U>&nbsp;Indenture</U>&#148;), dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, as supplemented
and amended by the Supplemental Indenture dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024 by and between the Company and the Trustee (the &#147;<U>Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;, and together with the Base Indenture, as it may be hereafter supplemented or
amended from time to time, the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;). Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders
(the word &#147;<U>Holder</U>&#148; or &#147;<U>Holders</U>&#148; meaning the registered holder or registered holders) of the Notes. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof (the &#147;<U>Notes</U>&#148;) which is limited in
aggregate principal amount to $&#8195; . </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned
thereto in the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Notes are not subject to the operation of any sinking fund and, except as set forth in the Supplemental
Indenture, are not repayable at the option of a Holder thereof prior to the Series&nbsp;A Maturity Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the case an Event of Default,
as defined in the Indenture, shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all of the Notes may be declared, and upon such declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in
the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company will not pay any additional amounts to any Holder in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">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 by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes outstanding. 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 outstanding Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture, and contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount in certain instances of the outstanding Notes, to waive on behalf of all of the Holders of Notes, 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. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture,
no Holder of Notes shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of the Indenture to institute any suit, </P>
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action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such holder
previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as provided in the Indenture, and unless also the Holders of not less than 33% in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities at
the time outstanding (considered as one class) shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee under the Indenture and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable
indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute
any such action, suit or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.12 of the Base Indenture; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by
the taker and Holder of every Note with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of the Holders of any other of such Securities, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under the Indenture, except in the manner therein provided and for the
equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Securities. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.05 of the Supplemental Indenture, each and every Holder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be
given either at law or in equity. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nothing contained in the Indenture is intended to or shall impair, as between the Company and the
Holders of the Notes, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to such Holders the principal of and interest on such Notes when, where and as the same shall become due and payable, all in accordance with the terms
of the Notes, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of such Holders and creditors of the Company other than the holders of the Senior Indebtedness of the Company, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the Holder
of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under the Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under Article&nbsp;VII of the Supplemental Indenture of the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the
Company in respect of cash, property, or securities of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Security Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the offices maintained by the Company or its agent for
such purpose, duly endorsed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or
his attorney duly authorized in writing, but without payment of any charge other than a sum sufficient to reimburse the Company for any tax or other governmental charge incident thereto. Upon any such registration of transfer, a new Note or Notes of
authorized denomination or denominations for the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor. </P>
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Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company agrees, and by acceptance of this Note or a beneficial interest in this Note, each Holder hereof and any Person acquiring a
beneficial interest herein agrees, to treat this Note as indebtedness for United States federal, state and local tax purposes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Prior to
due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may deem and treat the person in whose name this Note shall be registered upon the Security Register of this series as
the absolute owner of this Note (whether or not this Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and, subject to the
provisions on the face hereof, interest due hereon and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or interest on this Note, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect
hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture, against any stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor person, either directly or through the Company, whether by virtue of any
constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as a part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York and for all purposes shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of said State. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000">PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING POSTAL ZIP CODE OFASSIGNEE the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">agent to transfer said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.</TD></TR>
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name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular without alteration or enlargement, or any change whatever</P></TD></TR>
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</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">The initial principal amount of this Note is: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">$&#8195;&#8195;&#8195; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Changes&nbsp;to&nbsp;Principal&nbsp;Amount&nbsp;of&nbsp;Global&nbsp;Note </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" STYLE="border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Principal Amount by</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>which this Note is to be</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Decreased or Increased</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>and
the Reason for the</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Decrease or Increase</B></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Amount of this Note</B></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM OF 6.850% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">FIXED-TO-FIXED</FONT></FONT> RESET RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED
NOTES, SERIES&nbsp;B, DUE 2055 </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME
OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE
(OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO., ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THE NOTES EVIDENCED HEREBY WILL BE ISSUED, AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED, ONLY IN DENOMINATIONS OF $2,000 AND ANY GREATER INTEGRAL MULTIPLE OF $1,000, EXCEPT AS
PROVIDED IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER, SALE OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF NOTES IN A DENOMINATION OF NOTES IN A DENOMINATION OF LESS THAN $1,000 SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN
THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. ANY SUCH TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH NOTES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE RECEIPT OF PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF SUCH NOTES, AND SUCH TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO
INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH NOTES. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>$&#8195;&#8195;&#8195; </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>6.850% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">FIXED-TO-FIXED</FONT></FONT> RESET RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES,
</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SERIES B, DUE 2055 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Dated: August&nbsp;14, 2024 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">NUMBER <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">R-1</FONT> CUSIP NO: 15189T BJ5 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Registered Holder: CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO. ISIN NO: US15189TBJ51 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the state of Texas (herein referred to as the
&#147;<U>Company</U>,&#148; which term includes any successor person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to the Registered Holder named above, the principal sum specified in the Schedule of
Increases or Decreases in this Note annexed hereto on February&nbsp;15, 2055 (the &#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;B Maturity Date</U>&#148;), and to pay (subject to deferral as set forth herein) interest thereon (i)&nbsp;from and including the
date of the original issuance to, but excluding, February&nbsp;15, 2035 at an annual rate of 6.850% and (ii)&nbsp;from and including February&nbsp;15, 2035 during each Series&nbsp;B Interest Reset Period at an annual rate equal to the Five-Year
Treasury Rate as of the most recent Reset Interest Determination Date, plus 2.946%. Subject to the Company&#146;s right to defer interest payments as set forth in the Supplemental Indenture (as defined on the reverse hereof), interest is payable
semi-annually in arrears on February&nbsp;15 and August&nbsp;15 of each year beginning on February&nbsp;15, 2025 (the &#147;<U>Interest Payment Dates</U>&#148;), until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. If interest payments
are deferred or otherwise not paid, they will accrue and compound until paid at the same rate at which the Notes (as defined on the reverse hereof) bear interest to the extent permitted by law. As permitted by the terms of the Notes, if interest
payments are deferred or otherwise not paid up to a redemption date that does not fall on an Interest Payment Date, they will accrue and compound until paid at the same rate at which the Notes bear interest to the extent permitted by law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of
twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months, and with respect to any period less than a full calendar month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed during the period. The interest so payable on an Interest Payment Date
will be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered, at the close of business on the Regular Record Date next preceding such Interest Payment Date; <U>provided</U> that interest payable at Series&nbsp;B Maturity Date will be paid to the
Person to whom principal is payable. Any such interest that is not so punctually paid or duly provided for, and that is not deferred as described below, will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be
paid (i)&nbsp;to the Person in whose name this Note (or any Note issued upon registration of transfer or exchange thereof) is registered at the close of business on the record date for the payment of such defaulted interest established in accordance
with Section&nbsp;3.07 of the Base Indenture or (ii)&nbsp;at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of the securities exchange, if any, on which the Note may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by
such exchange. The &#147;<U>Regular Record Date</U>&#148; with respect to any Interest Payment Date for the Notes, will be the close of business on February&nbsp;1 or August&nbsp;1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding
the applicable February&nbsp;15 or August&nbsp;15 Interest Payment Date. </P>
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any) on which the Company is required to purchase the Notes falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the applicable payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest shall accrue or be paid in respect of such delay. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Note may be presented for payment of principal and interest at the office of the Paying Agent, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
<U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that at the option of the Company, interest on this Note may be paid by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto, as the address shall appear on the Security Register, or by a wire transfer to an
account designated by the Person entitled thereto. Payment of the principal and interest on this Note shall be made 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. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Calculation Agent</U>&#148; means the Company, an affiliate of the Company selected by the Company, or any other firm
appointed by the Company, in each case, in the Company&#146;s sole discretion, acting as calculation agent in respect of the Notes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Five-Year Treasury Rate</U>&#148; means, as of any Reset Interest Determination Date, the average of the yields on actively traded
U.S.&nbsp;Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity, for five-year maturities, for the most recent five Business Days appearing under the caption &#147;Treasury Constant Maturities&#148; in the Most Recent H.15. If the Five-Year Treasury
Rate cannot be determined pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Calculation Agent, after consulting such sources as it deems comparable to any of the foregoing calculations, or any such source as it deems reasonable from which to estimate the
Five-Year Treasury Rate, will determine the Five- Year Treasury Rate in its sole discretion, <U>provided</U> that if the Calculation Agent determines there is an industry-accepted successor Five-Year Treasury Rate, then the Calculation Agent will
use such successor rate. If the Calculation Agent has determined a substitute or successor base rate in accordance with the foregoing, the Calculation Agent in its sole discretion may determine the business day convention, the definition of
&#147;Business Day&#148; and the Reset Interest Determination Date to be used and any other relevant methodology for calculating such substitute or successor base rate, including any adjustment factor needed to make such substitute or successor base
rate comparable to the Five-Year Treasury Rate, in a manner that is consistent with industry-accepted practices for such substitute or successor base rate. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>H.15</U>&#148; means the daily statistical release designated as such, or any successor publication as determined by the Calculation
Agent in its sole discretion, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Payment
Period</U>&#148; means the semi-annual period from, and including, an Interest Payment Date to, but excluding, the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, except for the first Interest Payment Date, which shall be the period from, and including,
August&nbsp;14, 2024 to, but excluding, February&nbsp;15, 2025. </P>
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each date falling on the five-year anniversary of the preceding Series&nbsp;B Reset Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;B Interest
Reset Period</U>&#148; means the period from and including February&nbsp;15, 2035 to, but not including, the next following Series&nbsp;B Reset Date and thereafter each period from and including each Series&nbsp;B Reset Date to, but not including,
the next following Series&nbsp;B Reset Date or the maturity date or date of redemption, as the case may be. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Most Recent
H.15</U>&#148; means the H.15 published closest in time but prior to the close of business on the applicable Reset Interest Determination Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reset Interest Determination Date</U>&#148; means, in respect of any Series&nbsp;B Interest Reset Period, the day falling two
Business Days prior to the beginning of such Series&nbsp;B Interest Reset Period. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">So long as no Event of Default with respect to the
Notes of this series has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right on one or more occasions, to defer payment of all or part of the current and accrued interest otherwise due on this Security by extending the interest payment
period for up to twenty (20)&nbsp;consecutive Interest Payment Periods (each period, commencing on the date that the first such interest payment would otherwise have been made, an &#147;<U>Optional Deferral Period</U>&#148;). The Company may not
elect to defer payments of interest if an Event of Default (as set forth in the Supplemental Indenture) with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing; <U>provided</U> that the deferral of interest payments may not extend beyond the
Series&nbsp;B Maturity Date or end on a day other than the day immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date. As provided in the Indenture, interest will continue to accrue on the Notes, and deferred interest payments will accrue additional
interest on a semi-annual basis at a rate equal to the interest rate then-applicable to the Notes, including, to the extent permitted by law, interest on the deferred interest (&#147;<U>Compound Interest</U>&#148;). No interest shall be due and
payable during an Optional Deferral Period, except at the end of such Optional Deferral Period or upon a redemption of this Note during such Optional Deferral Period. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, prior to the termination of any Optional Deferral Period, the Company
may further defer the payment of interest by extending such Optional Deferral Period; <U>provided</U><I> </I>that such Optional Deferral Period together with all such previous and further deferrals of interest payments shall not exceed twenty
(20)&nbsp;consecutive Interest Payment Periods at any one time or extend beyond the Series&nbsp;B Maturity Date. Upon the termination of any Optional Deferral Period, which shall be an Interest Payment Date, the Company shall pay all interest
accrued and unpaid on this Note, including any Compound Interest, to the Person in whose name this Note is registered on the Regular Record Date for such Interest Payment Date, <U>provided</U> that interest accrued and unpaid on this Security,
including any Compound Interest, payable at Series&nbsp;B Maturity Date or on any Tax Event Redemption Date will be paid to the Person to whom principal is payable. Once the Company pays all interest accrued and unpaid on this Note, including any
Compound Interest, it shall be entitled again to defer interest payments on this Note as described above. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may redeem the Series&nbsp;B Notes in whole or in part upon not less than 10 nor
more than 60 days&#146; notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Series&nbsp;B Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (i)&nbsp;on any day in the period
commencing on the date falling 90 days prior to the first Series&nbsp;B Reset Date and ending on and including the first Series&nbsp;B Reset Date and (ii)&nbsp;after the first Series&nbsp;B Reset Date, on any Interest Payment Period. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In addition, the Series&nbsp;B Notes may be redeemable, in whole but not in part, at the option of the Company, by a notice of redemption
delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to the Indenture (except as otherwise set forth below), following the occurrence of a Tax Event (as defined below), at a redemption price equal to the sum of: (1) 100% of the principal amount of the
Notes being redeemed plus (2)&nbsp;accrued and unpaid interest (including any Compound Interest) thereon, if any, to such Tax Event Redemption Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Tax Event</U>&#148; means receipt by the Company of a written opinion of a nationally recognized accounting firm or counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&#8195;any amendment to, clarification of, or change, including any
announced prospective change, in the laws or treaties of the United States or any of its political subdivisions or taxing authorities, or any regulations under those laws or treaties; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&#8195;an administrative action, which means any judicial decision or any official administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory
procedure, notice or announcement including any notice or announcement of intent to issue or adopt any administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure or regulation; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&#8195;any amendment to, clarification of, or change in the official position or the interpretation of any administrative action or
judicial decision or any interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a position with respect to an administrative action or judicial decision that differs from the previously generally accepted position, in each case by any legislative body,
court, governmental authority or regulatory body, regardless of the time or manner in which that amendment, clarification or change is introduced or made known; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&#8195;a threatened challenge asserted in writing in connection with an audit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or a
publicly-known threatened challenge asserted in writing against any other taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are substantially similar to the Notes of this series, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">which amendment, clarification or change is effective or administrative action is taken or judicial decision, interpretation or pronouncement is issued or
threatened challenge is asserted or becomes publicly known after August&nbsp;12, 2024, there is more than an insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Company on the Securities of this series is not deductible, or within 90 days would not be
deductible, in whole or in part, by the Company for United States federal income tax purposes. </P>
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option of the Company, by a notice of redemption delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to the Indenture (except as otherwise set forth in the immediately succeeding paragraph), following the occurrence of a Rating Agency Event (as
defined below), at a redemption price equal to 102% of the principal amount of such Securities of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest (including any Compound Interest) to, but excluding, such Tax Event Redemption Date.
&#147;<U>Rating Agency Event</U>&#148; means, as of any date, a change, clarification or amendment in the methodology in assigning equity credit to securities such as the Notes published by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization
within the meaning of Section&nbsp;3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act (or any successor provision thereto) that then publishes a rating for the Company (together with any successor thereto, a &#147;<U>Rating Agency</U>&#148;), (i) as such methodology was
in effect on August&nbsp;12, 2024, in the case of any Rating Agency that published a rating for the Company on August&nbsp;12, 2024, or (ii)&nbsp;as such methodology was in effect on the date such Rating Agency first published a rating for the
Company, in the case of any Rating Agency that first publishes a rating for the Company on August&nbsp;12, 2024 (in the case of either <U>clause</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;(i)</U> or <U>(ii)</U>, the &#147;<U>Current Methodology</U>&#148;), that results in
(a)&nbsp;any shortening of the length of time for which a particular level of equity credit pertaining to the Notes by such Rating Agency would have been in effect had the Current Methodology not been changed, clarified or amended or (b)&nbsp;a
lower equity credit (including up to a lesser amount) being assigned by such Rating Agency to the Notes as of the date of such change, clarification or amendment than the equity credit that would have been assigned to the Notes by such Rating Agency
had the Current Methodology not been changed, clarified or amended. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The indebtedness of the Company evidenced by this Note, including the
principal hereof and interest hereon, is, to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the Company&#146;s obligations to Holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company and each Holder of
this Note, by acceptance hereof, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions of the Indenture and all other provisions of the Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Note and
the provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and control. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Note shall not be entitled to any benefit
under the Indenture, or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been manually or electronically signed by an authorized signatory of the Trustee under the Indenture. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;), issued and to
be issued pursuant to the Junior Subordinated Indenture (the &#147;<U>Base</U><U>&nbsp;Indenture</U>&#148;), dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, as supplemented
and amended by the Supplemental Indenture dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024 by and between the Company and the Trustee (the &#147;<U>Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;, and together with the Base Indenture, as it may be hereafter supplemented or
amended from time to time, the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;). Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders
(the word &#147;<U>Holder</U>&#148; or &#147;<U>Holders</U>&#148; meaning the registered holder or registered holders) of the Notes. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof (the &#147;<U>Notes</U>&#148;) which is limited in
aggregate principal amount to $&#8195;&#8195;&#8195; . </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the respective
meanings assigned thereto in the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Notes are not subject to the operation of any sinking fund and, except as set forth in
the Supplemental Indenture, are not repayable at the option of a Holder thereof prior to the Series&nbsp;B Maturity Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the case an
Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all of the Notes may be declared, and upon such declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the
conditions provided in the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company will not pay any additional amounts to any Holder in respect of any tax, assessment or
governmental charge. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">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 by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes outstanding. 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 outstanding Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture, and
contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount in certain instances of the outstanding Notes, to waive on behalf of all of the Holders of Notes, 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. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, no Holder of Notes shall have
any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of the Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless such holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as provided in the Indenture, and unless also the Holders of not less than 33% in aggregate
principal amount of all the Securities at the time outstanding (considered as one class) shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee under the Indenture and shall have
offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, shall
have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.12 of the Base Indenture; it being understood and
intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Note with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the Holders of any other of such Securities, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under the Indenture,
except in the manner therein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Securities. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.05 of the Supplemental Indenture, each and every Holder and the
Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nothing contained in the Indenture is intended to or
shall impair, as between the Company and the Holders of the Notes, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to such Holders the principal of and interest on such Notes when, where and as the same shall become due
and payable, all in accordance with the terms of the Notes, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of such Holders and creditors of the Company other than the holders of the Senior Indebtedness of the Company, nor shall anything
herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under the Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under Article&nbsp;VII of the Supplemental
Indenture of the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company in respect of cash, property, or securities of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Security
Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the offices maintained by the Company or its agent for such purpose, duly endorsed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, but without payment of any charge other than a sum sufficient to reimburse the
Company for any tax or other governmental charge incident thereto. Upon any such registration of transfer, a new Note or Notes of authorized denomination or denominations for the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in
exchange herefor. </P>
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Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company agrees, and by acceptance of this Note or a beneficial interest in this Note, each Holder hereof and any Person acquiring a
beneficial interest herein agrees, to treat this Note as indebtedness for United States federal, state and local tax purposes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Prior to
due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may deem and treat the person in whose name this Note shall be registered upon the Security Register of this series as
the absolute owner of this Note (whether or not this Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and, subject to the
provisions on the face hereof, interest due hereon and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or interest on this Note, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect
hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture, against any stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor person, either directly or through the Company, whether by virtue of any
constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as a part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top">agent to transfer said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">CenterPoint Energy, Inc. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">1111 Louisiana Street </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Houston, Texas 77002 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Ladies and Gentlemen: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In connection with the issuance by CenterPoint Energy, Inc., a Texas corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;), of (i) $400,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of the Company&#146;s 7.000% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fixed-to-Fixed</FONT></FONT> Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes, Series A, due 2055 (the &#147;Series A Notes&#148;), and (ii)
$400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company&#146;s 6.850% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fixed-to-Fixed</FONT></FONT> Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes, Series B, due 2055 (the &#147;Series B
Notes&#148;, and together with the Series A Notes, the &#147;Notes&#148;), pursuant to (a)&nbsp;the Registration Statement on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-3</FONT> (Registration Nos. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025,</FONT> <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025-01</FONT></FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025-02)</FONT></FONT> (the &#147;Registration Statement&#148;), which was filed by
the Company, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC and CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Act&#148;), on May&nbsp;17,
2023, and (b)&nbsp;the related prospectus of the Company dated May&nbsp;17, 2023, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement of the Company relating to the sale of the Notes dated August&nbsp;12, 2024 (as so supplemented, the
&#147;Prospectus&#148;), as filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, certain legal matters with respect to the Notes are being passed upon for you by us. At your request, this opinion letter is being furnished
to you for filing as Exhibit 5.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> to be filed with the Commission on the date hereof (the &#147;Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K&#148;).</FONT> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Notes are to be issued pursuant to the Junior Subordinated Indenture, to be dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024 (the &#147;Base
Indenture&#148;), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the &#147;Trustee&#148;), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture thereto, to be dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024 (the
&#147;Supplemental Indenture&#148; and, together with the Base Indenture, the &#147;Indenture&#148;), between the Company and the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In our capacity as your counsel in the connection referred to above, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified,
of (i)&nbsp;the Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company and the Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, each as amended to date; (ii)&nbsp;the Underwriting Agreement, dated
August&nbsp;12, 2024 (the &#147;Underwriting Agreement&#148;), by and among the Company and the Underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (the &#147;Underwriters&#148;), relating to the issuance and sale of the Notes; (iii)&nbsp;the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus; (iv)&nbsp;the form of Base Indenture and the form of Supplemental Indenture as filed as an exhibit to the Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K;</FONT> and (v)&nbsp;corporate records of the Company, including
certain resolutions of the board of directors of the Company, as furnished to us by you, certificates of governmental and public officials and of representatives of the Company, statutes and other instruments and documents as we have deemed
necessary or advisable for purposes of the opinions hereinafter expressed. In giving the opinions set forth below, we have relied, to the extent we deemed appropriate without independent investigation or verification, upon certificates, statements
or other representations of officers or other authorized representatives of the Company and of governmental and public officials with respect to the accuracy of the factual matters contained in or covered by such certificates, statements or
representations. In giving the opinions set forth below, we have assumed that all signatures on all documents examined by us are genuine, all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and complete, all documents submitted to us as
certified or photostatic copies are true, correct and complete copies of the originals thereof and all information submitted to us was accurate and complete. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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set forth herein, we are of the opinion that the Notes will, when duly executed, issued and delivered by the Company in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture and duly purchased and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms,
except as that enforcement is subject to any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer or conveyance or other laws relating to or affecting creditors&#146; rights generally, general principles of equity
(regardless of whether that enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and any implied covenants of good faith and fair dealing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The opinions set forth above in this opinion letter are limited in all respects to matters of the laws of the State of Texas, applicable
federal law of the United States and the contract law of the State of New York as in effect on the date hereof. We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K.</FONT> We also
consent to the references to our Firm under the heading &#147;Legal Matters&#148; in the Prospectus. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section&nbsp;7 of the Act or
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">77002-4995</P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">TEL +1 713.229.1234</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">FAX +1 713.229.1522</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">AUSTIN</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">BRUSSELS</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">CenterPoint Energy, Inc. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">1111 Louisiana Street </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Houston, Texas 77002 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Ladies and Gentlemen: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In connection with the issuance by CenterPoint Energy, Inc., a Texas corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;), of (i) $400,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of the Company&#146;s 7.000% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fixed-to-Fixed</FONT></FONT> Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2055, Series A (the &#147;Series A Notes&#148;), and (ii)
$400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company&#146;s 6.850% <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fixed-to-Fixed</FONT></FONT> Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2055, Series B (the &#147;Series B
Notes&#148;, and together with the Series A Notes, the &#147;Notes&#148;), pursuant to (a)&nbsp;the Registration Statement on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-3</FONT> (Registration Nos. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025,</FONT> <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025-01</FONT></FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-272025-02)</FONT></FONT> (the &#147;Registration Statement&#148;), which was filed by
the Company, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC and CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Act&#148;), on May&nbsp;17,
2023, and (b)&nbsp;the related prospectus of the Company dated May&nbsp;17, 2023, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement of the Company relating to the sale of the Notes dated August&nbsp;12, 2024 (as so supplemented, the
&#147;Prospectus&#148;), as filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act, certain legal matters with respect to the Notes are being passed upon for you by us. At your request, this opinion letter is being furnished
to you for filing as Exhibit 8.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> to be filed with the Commission on the date hereof (the &#147;Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K&#148;).</FONT> We
prepared the discussion (the &#147;Discussion&#148;) set forth under the caption &#147;Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences&#148; in the Prospectus. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Notes are to be issued pursuant to the Junior Subordinated Indenture, to be dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024 (the &#147;Base
Indenture&#148;), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the &#147;Trustee&#148;), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture thereto, to be dated as of August&nbsp;14, 2024 (the
&#147;Supplemental Indenture&#148; and, together with the Base Indenture, the &#147;Indenture&#148;), between the Company and the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This opinion is based on various facts and assumptions and is conditioned upon certain representations made to us by the Company as to factual
matters through a certificate of an officer of the Company (the &#147;Officer&#146;s Certificate&#148;). In addition, this opinion is based upon the factual representations of the Company concerning its business, properties and governing documents
as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Indenture and the Company&#146;s responses to our examinations and inquiries. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In our capacity as special tax counsel to the Company, we have made such legal and factual examinations and inquiries, including an
examination of originals or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of such documents, corporate records and other instruments, as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for purposes of this opinion. In our examination, we have
assumed the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the genuineness of all signatures thereon, the legal capacity of natural persons executing such documents and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents
submitted to us as copies. For purposes of our opinion, we have not made an independent investigation or audit of the facts set forth in the above-referenced documents or representations. In addition, in rendering this opinion we have assumed the
truth and accuracy of all representations and statements made to us which are qualified as to knowledge or belief, without regard to such qualification. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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constitute the opinion of Baker Botts L.L.P. with respect to the matters set forth therein as of the date hereof, subject to the assumptions, qualifications and limitations set forth therein. This opinion is based on various statutory provisions,
regulations promulgated thereunder and interpretations thereof by the Internal Revenue Service and the courts having jurisdiction over such matters, all of which are subject to change either prospectively or retroactively. Also, any variation or
difference in the facts from those set forth in the representations described above, including in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Indenture and the Officer&#146;s Certificate, may affect the conclusions stated herein. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No opinion is expressed as to any matter not discussed in the Discussion. We are opining herein only as to the federal income tax matters
described above, and we express no opinion with respect to the applicability to, or the effect on, any transaction of other federal laws, foreign laws, the laws of any state or any other jurisdiction or as to any matters of municipal law or the laws
of any other local agencies within any state. This letter speaks as of the date hereof, and we disclaim any obligation to update it. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This
opinion is furnished to you and is for your use in connection with the transactions set forth in the Prospectus. This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose or furnished to, assigned to, quoted to or relied upon by any other
person, firm or other entity, for any purpose, without our prior written consent, except that this opinion may be relied upon by persons entitled to rely on it pursuant to applicable provisions of federal securities law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion of counsel as Exhibit 8.1 to the Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K.</FONT> We also
consent to the reference to our Firm and this opinion in the Discussion and under the heading &#147;Legal Matters&#148; in the Prospectus. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is
required under Section&nbsp;7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The opinion expressed herein is given
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<th class="th"><div>Aug. 12, 2024</div></th>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityRegistrantName', window );">Entity Registrant Name</a></td>
<td class="text">CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_AmendmentFlag', window );">Amendment Flag</a></td>
<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityCentralIndexKey', window );">Entity Central Index Key</a></td>
<td class="text">0001130310<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_DocumentType', window );">Document Type</a></td>
<td class="text">8-K<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate', window );">Document Period End Date</a></td>
<td class="text">Aug. 12,  2024<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityIncorporationStateCountryCode', window );">Entity Incorporation State Country Code</a></td>
<td class="text">TX<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityFileNumber', window );">Entity File Number</a></td>
<td class="text">1-31447<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber', window );">Entity Tax Identification Number</a></td>
<td class="text">74-0694415<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityAddressAddressLine1', window );">Entity Address, Address Line One</a></td>
<td class="text">1111 Louisiana<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityAddressCityOrTown', window );">Entity Address, City or Town</a></td>
<td class="text">Houston<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityAddressStateOrProvince', window );">Entity Address, State or Province</a></td>
<td class="text">TX<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityAddressPostalZipCode', window );">Entity Address, Postal Zip Code</a></td>
<td class="text">77002<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_CityAreaCode', window );">City Area Code</a></td>
<td class="text">(713)<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_LocalPhoneNumber', window );">Local Phone Number</a></td>
<td class="text">207-1111<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_WrittenCommunications', window );">Written Communications</a></td>
<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_Security12bTitle', window );">Security 12b Title</a></td>
<td class="text">Common Stock, $0.01 par value<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_TradingSymbol', window );">Trading Symbol</a></td>
<td class="text">CNP<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_SecurityExchangeName', window );">Security Exchange Name</a></td>
<td class="text">NYSE<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>For the EDGAR submission types of Form 8-K: the date of the report, the date of the earliest event reported; for the EDGAR submission types of Form N-1A: the filing date; for all other submission types: the end of the reporting or transition period.  The format of the date is YYYY-MM-DD.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The type of document being provided (such as 10-K, 10-Q, 485BPOS, etc). The document type is limited to the same value as the supporting SEC submission type, or the word 'Other'.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Address Line 1 such as Attn, Building Name, Street Name</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Name of the City or Town</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Code for the postal or zip code</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Name of the state or province.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>A unique 10-digit SEC-issued value to identify entities that have filed disclosures with the SEC. It is commonly abbreviated as CIK.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Indicate if registrant meets the emerging growth company criteria.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher SEC<br> -Name Exchange Act<br> -Number 240<br> -Section 12<br> -Subsection b-2<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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