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                                                                   Exhibit a.9



                      DUFF & PHELPS UTILITIES INCOME INC.

                             Articles of Amendment

     Duff & Phelps Utilities Income Inc., a Maryland corporation having its
principal office in Baltimore City, Maryland (hereinafter called the
corporation), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and
Taxation of Maryland, that:

     FIRST: The charter of the corporation, as heretofore amended, is hereby
further amended as follows:

         Article SECOND of the charter is hereby amended to read as follows

               SECOND. Name. The name of the corporation is DNP Select Income
               Fund Inc.

     SECOND: The foregoing amendment was approved by a majority of the entire
board of directors of the corporation at a regular meeting held on February
22, 2002 and such amendment is limited to a change expressly authorized by
Section 2-605 of the Maryland General Corporation Law to be made without
action by the stockholders of the corporation.

     THIRD: This amendment does not increase the authorized stock of the
corporation.

     FOURTH: This amendment shall become effective at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time,
on April 23, 2002.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Duff & Phelps Utilities Income Inc., has caused these
articles to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its president and chief
executive officer and attested by its secretary, on April 9th, 2002.

                                  DUFF & PHELPS UTILITIES INCOME INC.


                                  By   /s/ Nathan I. Partain
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                                       Nathan I. Partain
                                       President and Chief Executive Officer



Attest:    /s/ T. Brooks Beittel
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           T. Brooks Beittel, Secretary


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     THE UNDERSIGNED, president and chief executive officer of Duff & Phelps
Utilities Income Inc., who executed on behalf of said corporation the
foregoing articles of amendment, of which this certificate is made a part,
hereby acknowledges, in the name and on behalf of said corporation, the
foregoing articles of amendment to be the corporate act of said corporation
and further certifies that to the best of his knowledge, information and
belief, the matters and facts set forth therein with respect to the approval
thereof are true in all material respects, under the penalties of perjury.

                                /s/ Nathan I. Partain
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                                Nathan I. Partain
















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