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TangerBond2014-NinthSupplementalIndenture

EXHIBIT 4.1

TANGER PROPERTIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 
AS ISSUER
AND
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 
AS TRUSTEE
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NINTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 
DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 21, 2014
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$250,000,000 3.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2024
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SUPPLEMENT TO INDENTURE 
DATED AS OF MARCH 1, 1996, BETWEEN 
TANGER PROPERTIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (AS ISSUER) AND 
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (AS TRUSTEE)

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NINTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of November 21, 2014, between TANGER PROPERTIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a limited partnership duly organized and existing under the laws of North Carolina (hereinafter called the “Issuer”), having its principal executive office located at 3200 Northline Avenue, Suite 360, Greensboro, North Carolina 27408, and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (as successor in interest to State Street Bank and Trust Company), a national banking association having a corporate trust office at One Federal Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02110 as successor trustee under the Original Indenture (as defined below) (the “Trustee”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Issuer executed and delivered the Indenture (the “Original Indenture”), dated as of March 1, 1996, to the Trustee to issue from time to time for its lawful purposes debt securities evidencing the Issuer’s senior Unsecured Indebtedness.
WHEREAS, Section 301 of the Original Indenture provides that by means of a supplemental indenture the Issuer may create one or more series of its debt securities and establish the form, terms and provisions thereof.
WHEREAS, the Issuer intends by this Supplemental Indenture to (i) create a series of Issuer’s debt securities, in an aggregate principal amount equal to $250,000,000, entitled 3.750% Senior Notes due 2024 (the “Notes”) and (ii) establish the form and the terms and provisions of the Notes.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. (the “Company”), the sole owner of Tanger GP Trust who is the sole general partner of the Issuer, has approved the creation of the Notes and the form, terms and provisions thereof.
WHEREAS, the consent of Holders to the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture is not required, and all other actions required to be taken under the Original Indenture with respect to this Supplemental Indenture have been taken.
NOW, THEREFORE IT IS AGREED:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS, CREATION, FORM AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE DEBT SECURITIES
Section 1.1    Definitions.  Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Ninth Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Original Indenture.  In addition, the following terms shall have the following meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and the plural forms of the terms set forth below:
“COMPARABLE TREASURY ISSUE” means, with respect to any redemption or acceleration date for the Notes, the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time 

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of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed.
“COMPARABLE TREASURY PRICE” means, with respect to any redemption or acceleration date for the Notes:  (a) the average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption or acceleration date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (b) if the Issuer obtains fewer than five but more than one such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption or acceleration date, the average of all such quotations, or (c) if the Issuer obtains only one such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation for such redemption or acceleration date, that Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation.
“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles, as in effect from time to time, as used in the United States applied on a consistent basis.
“GLOBAL NOTE” means a single fully-registered global note in book-entry form, without coupons, substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto, which represents the Notes. 
“INDENTURE” means the Original Indenture as supplemented by this Ninth Supplemental Indenture and as further amended, modified or supplemented with respect to the Notes pursuant to the provisions of the Original Indenture.
“INDEPENDENT INVESTMENT BANKER” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Issuer.
“INTERCOMPANY DEBT” means indebtedness owed by the Issuer, the Company or any Subsidiary solely to the Issuer, Company or any Subsidiary.
“MATURITY DATE,” when used with respect to any Note, means the date on which the principal of such Note or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption, notice of option to elect repayment or otherwise.
“REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER” means with respect to any redemption or acceleration date for the Notes, Jefferies LLC , Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and a Primary Treasury Dealer (defined herein) selected by each of, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc., and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (and their respective successors provided, however, that if any such firm or any such successor, as the case may be, ceases to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in The City of New York (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Issuer shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer) and one other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Issuer.
“REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER QUOTATIONS” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption or acceleration date for the Notes, the average, as determined by the Issuer, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage 

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of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Issuer by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption or acceleration date.
“STATED MATURITY” when used with respect to any Note or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Note or a coupon representing such installment of interest as the fixed date on which the principal of such Note or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
“SUBSIDIARY” means any entity of which at the time of determination the Issuer or one or more other Subsidiaries owns or controls, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the shares of Voting Stock.  The foregoing definition of  “Subsidiary” shall only be applicable with respect to the covenants and other definitions set forth herein.
“TOTAL UNENCUMBERED ASSETS” as of any date means Total Assets minus the value of any properties of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries that are encumbered by any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, security interest, trust deed, deed of trust, deed to secure debt, security agreement, or other encumbrance of any kind to secure Indebtedness (other than those relating to Intercompany Debt), including the value of any stock of any Subsidiary that is so encumbered determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that, in determining Total Unencumbered Assets as a percentage of outstanding Unsecured Indebtedness for purposes of the covenant set forth below in Section 2.1(a) “Maintenance of Total Unencumbered Assets,” all investments in any Person that is not consolidated with the Issuer for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP shall be excluded from Total Unencumbered Assets to the extent that such investments would have otherwise been included.  For purposes of this definition, the value of each property shall be equal to the purchase price or cost of each such property (original cost plus capital improvements) and the value of any stock subject to any encumbrance shall be determined by reference to the value of the properties owned by the issuer of such stock as aforesaid.
“TREASURY RATE” means, with respect to any redemption or acceleration date for the Notes:  (a) the yield, under the heading that represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after the Maturity Date of the Notes, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (b) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.  The Treasury Rate shall be calculated by the Issuer and certificated to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the applicable redemption or acceleration date.

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“UNSECURED INDEBTEDNESS” means Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Subsidiary that is not secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance or security interest of any kind upon any property of the Issuer or any Subsidiary. ·
Section 1.2    Creation of Notes.  In accordance with Section 301 of the Original Indenture, the Issuer hereby creates the Notes as a separate series of its debt securities, entitled “3.750% Senior Notes due 2024,” issued pursuant to the Indenture.  The Notes shall initially be limited to an aggregate principal amount equal to $250,000,000, subject to the exceptions set forth in Section 301(2) of the Original Indenture and section 1.4(f) hereof.
Section 1.3    Form of Notes.  The Notes will be issued as registered securities and represented by a single Global Note, without coupons, registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, subject to the provisions of the seventh paragraph of Section 305 of the Original Indenture.  So long as DTC, or its nominee, is the registered owner of the Global Note, DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, will be considered the sole Holder of the Notes represented by the Global Note for all purposes under the Indenture.
Section 1.4    Terms and Provisions of Notes.  The Notes shall be governed by all of the terms and provisions of the Original Indenture, as supplemented by this Ninth Supplemental Indenture, and in particular, the following provisions shall be terms of the Notes:
(a)    Registration and Form.  The Notes shall be issuable as registered securities as provided in Section 1.3 of this Ninth Supplemental Indenture.  The Notes shall be issued and may be transferred only in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of 1,000 in excess thereof. 
(b)    Payment of Principal and Interest.  All payments of principal and interest in respect of the Global Note will be made by the Issuer in immediately available funds to DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, as the Holder of the Global Note.  The Notes shall mature, and the unpaid principal thereon, shall be payable, on December 1, 2024, subject to the provisions of the Original Indenture.  The rate per anum at which interest shall be payable on the Notes shall be 3.750%.  Interest on the Notes will be payable semi-annually in arrears on each June 1 and December 1, commencing June 1, 2015 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”) and on the Stated Maturity as specified in Section 1.4(b) hereof, to the Persons in whose names the Notes are registered in the Security Register applicable to the Notes at the close of business on the 15th calendar day immediately prior to such payment date regardless of whether such payment date is a Business Day (each a “Regular Record Date”).  Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.  Interest on the Notes shall accrue from November 21, 2014.
(c)    Sinking Fund, Redemption or Repayment.  No sinking fund shall be provided for the Notes and the Notes shall not be repayable at the option of the Holders thereof prior to Stated Maturity.
(d)    Redemption at the Option of the Issuer.

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(1)    Prior to September 1, 2024 the Notes will be redeemable at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at the option of the Issuer on any date at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, and (ii) the sum of the present values as of the date of redemption or accelerated payment of the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (exclusive of interest accrued to the applicable redemption or acceleration date) discounted to such redemption or acceleration date on a semiannual basis, assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months, at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points, plus, in the case of both clauses (i) and (ii) above, any accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the notes being redeemed to, but excluding, such Redemption Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due and payable on an Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to the relevant Redemption Date will be payable to the persons who were the Holders of the Notes registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Dates according to the terms and provisions of the Indenture.  If the Notes are redeemed on or after September 1, 2024, the redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding the redemption date.
(2)    Notice of any redemption by the Issuer will be mailed at least 30 days but no more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed.  The notice of redemption will specify among other things, the Redemption Price and principal amount of the Notes held by the Holder to be redeemed.
(3)    If the Issuer chooses to redeem less than all of the Notes of a series, the Issuer will notify the Trustee at least 40 days prior to the Redemption Date, or a shorter period as may be satisfactory to the Trustee, of the aggregate principal amount of Notes of the series to be redeemed, if less than all of the Notes of that series are to be redeemed, and their Redemption Date.  The Trustee will select, based on a method that most nearly approximates a pro rata selection unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange or depositary requirements, no less than 30 days nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, the Notes of that series to be redeemed in whole or in part.
(4)    Unless the Issuer defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after any Redemption Date interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption
(e)    Defeasance: Covenant Defeasance; Waiver.  The provisions for defeasance in Section 402(2) of the Original Indenture for covenant defeasance in Sections 402(3) and 1012 of the Original Indenture shall apply to the Notes (including, without limitation, to the covenants set forth in Article Two hereof and Article Ten of the Original Indenture as if such covenants were referred to therein).
(f)    Further Issues.  The Issuer may, from time to time, without the consent of the Holders, create and issue further securities having the same terms and conditions as the Notes in all respects, except for issue date and issue price.  Additional Notes issued in this manner shall be consolidated with and shall form a single series with the previously outstanding Notes.  Notice of any such issuance shall be given to the Trustee and a new supplemental indenture shall be executed in connection with the issuance of such securities.

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ARTICLE TWO
COVENANTS FOR BENEFIT OF HOLDERS OF NOTES
Section 2.1    Additional Covenants.  In addition to the covenants set forth in the Original Indenture, the Issuer hereby further covenants as follows:
(a)    Maintenance of Total Unencumbered Assets.  The Issuer will maintain at all times Total Unencumbered Assets of not less than 150% of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Unsecured Indebtedness of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries, computed on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
Section 2.2    Amendment of Existing Covenants.  The Issuer hereby amends Section 1010(b) of the Original Indenture and replaces it in its entirety with the following:
(a)    Debt Service Coverage.  In addition to the other limitations set forth in Section 1010 of the Original Indenture, the Issuer will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, incur any Indebtedness if, for the period consisting of the four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the date on which such additional Indebtedness is to be incurred, the ratio of Consolidated Income Available for Debt Service to the Annual Service Charge shall have been less than 1.5 to 1, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and to the application of the proceeds therefrom, and calculated on the assumption that (i) such Indebtedness and any other Indebtedness incurred by the Issuer or its Subsidiaries since the first day of such four-quarter period and the application of the proceeds therefrom, including to refinance other Indebtedness, had occurred at the beginning of such period, (ii) the repayment or retirement of any other Indebtedness by the Issuer or its Subsidiaries since the first day of such four-quarter period had been incurred, repaid or retired at the beginning of such period (except that, in making such computation, the amount of Indebtedness under any revolving credit facility shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during such period), and (iii) any income earned as a result of any increase in Adjusted Total Assets since the end of such four-quarter period had been earned, on an annualized basis, during such period, and (iv) in the case of an acquisition or disposition by the Issuer of any Subsidiary or any asset or group of assets since the first day of such four-quarter period, including, without limitation, by merger, stock purchase or sale, or asset purchase or sale, such acquisition or disposition or any related repayment of Indebtedness had incurred as of the first day of such period with the appropriate adjustments with respect to such acquisition or disposition being included in such pro forma calculation.
Section 2.3    Deletion of Existing Covenants.  The Issuer hereby deletes Section 1014 of the Original Indenture in its entirety, but only insofar as it relates to the Notes.

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ARTICLE THREE
TRUSTEE
Section 3.1    Trustee.  The Trustee is appointed as the principal paying agent, transfer agent and registrar for the Notes and for the purposes of Section 1002 of the Indenture.  The Notes may be presented for payment at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in Boston, Massachusetts or at any other corporate trust office as may be appointed from time to time by the Issuer.  The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or the due execution hereof by the Issuer.  The recitals of fact contained herein shall be taken as the statements solely of the Issuer, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof.
ARTICLE FOUR
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 4.1    Ratification of Original Indenture.  This Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture, and as supplemented and modified hereby, the Original Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Original Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
Section 4.2    Effect of Headings.  The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 4.3    Successors and Assigns.  All covenants and agreements in this Supplemental Indenture by the Issuer shall bind its respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 4.4    Separability Clause.  In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Supplemental Indenture shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 4.5    Governing Law.  This Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and instruments entered into and, in each case, performed in said state.  This Ninth Supplemental Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, that are required to be part of this Ninth Supplemental Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
Section 4.6    Counterparts. This Supplemental Indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute one and the same instrument.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Ninth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the date first above written.
	
					
	 
	 
	TANGER PROPERTIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP,

	 
	 
	an ISSUER

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	By:
	Tanger GP Trust, as General Partner

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	By:
	/s/ Frank C. Marchisello, Jr.

	 
	 
	 
	 
	Name:   Frank C. Marchisello, Jr.

	 
	 
	 
	 
	Title:     Vice President and Treasurer

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	Attest:
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	/s/ Chad D. Perry
	 
	 
	 
	 

	Name:    Chad D. Perry
	 
	 
	 
	 

	Title:    Vice President and Secretary
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

	 
	 
	 
	as TRUSTEE

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

	 
	 
	 
	By:
	/s/ Carolina D. Altomare

	 
	 
	 
	 
	Name:    Carolina D. Altomare

	 
	 
	 
	 
	Title:    Vice President

	 
	 
	 
	 
	 

[Signature Page to Ninth Supplemental Indenture]EX-10.1

 Exhibit 10.1 
  

					
		 	 EXHIBIT A  	 	

  

			
	     	 	 PERFORMANCE SHARE GRANT #18  

 WGL Holdings, Inc. 

Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan 

Performance Shares (Series #18) Award 

Terms and Conditions 

This document sets forth the terms and conditions related to the Series #18 grant of performance share awards under the WGL
Holdings, Inc. Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan (the “Plan”). The following terms have the meanings ascribed below: 

“Award Agreement” means the agreement between an award recipient and WGL Holdings, Inc. relating to the grant of performance shares
subject to the terms of the WGL Holdings, Inc. Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan and this document. 
 “Company” means WGL
Holdings, Inc., a Virginia corporation. 
 “Participant” means a person that has been awarded Performance Shares subject to the
terms and conditions set forth in this document and the WGL Holdings, Inc. Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan. 
 “Performance
Shares” means the target number of performance shares awarded pursuant to an Award Agreement. 
 “Performance Period” means
October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2017. 
 “Performance Measure” means the annualized total shareholder return (as
determined below) compared to the peer group shown on Schedule 1 attached hereto (the “Performance Measure”). 

“Plan” means the WGL Holdings, Inc. Omnibus Incentive Compensation Plan. 

The Plan provides a complete description of the terms and conditions governing the Performance Shares. If there is any
inconsistency between the terms of this document and the terms of the Plan, the Plan’s terms shall completely supersede and replace the conflicting terms of this document. All capitalized terms have the meanings ascribed to them in the Plan,
unless otherwise indicated herein. 
 

1.        Value of Performance Shares.  Each Performance Share
represents and has a value equal to one share of common stock (“Stock”) of the Company. 
  

 
 This
document constitutes part of a prospectus covering securities which have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933.
                                         
                                         
             October 1, 2014 

 2.        Performance Shares Payout and Total
Shareholder Return Performance Measure. 
 The number of Performance Shares to be earned pursuant to an Award Agreement
is based upon the Company’s Total Shareholder Return (as defined below) as compared to the Total Shareholder Return of the Company’s peer group (the peer group is identified on Schedule 1 attached hereto) during the
Performance Period. The determination of Total Shareholder Return is described below. 
  

							
	         Total Shareholder    

        Return
	 	=      	 	Change in Stock Price + Dividends Paid	 	
	 	 	Beginning Stock Price	 	

 “Beginning Stock Price” means the average closing prices as reported on the New York
Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) of one share of the Stock for the thirty (30) trading days ending immediately prior to the first calendar day of the Performance Period. “Ending Stock Price” means the price of one share of Stock
as determined at a particular date during the Performance Period. “Change in Stock Price” means the difference between the Beginning Stock Price and the Ending Stock Price. “Dividends Paid” means the total of all dividends paid
on one share of stock during the Performance Period, provided that dividends shall be treated as though they are reinvested at the end of each calendar quarter. The Company’s Total Shareholder Return will be calculated at the end of each of the
four fiscal quarters of the third fiscal year of the Performance Period and a hypothetical payout calculated for each quarter. The results of the four quarterly payouts will be averaged to determine the final payout for the Performance Period. 

In connection with the Total Shareholder Return determination (as described above), the Company’s “Percentile
Rank” shall be determined as follows: 
  

							
	         Percentile

        Rank
	  	
          =          
	  	      Company Rank (from the bottom)      	  	
	  	  	 Total number of companies in peer group

including the Company
	  	

 “Company Rank” shall be determined by listing from highest Total Shareholder Return
to lowest Total Shareholder Return each company in the peer group (including the Company) and counting up from the company with the lowest Total Shareholder Return. The percent of Performance Shares earned is determined based on the following chart:

  

					
	  
	 
	  
 Company’s Percentile Rank
	 	  

Percent of    
Target Award    
Earned    

 
	 
	  
	 
		
	 90th
	 	 	200%          	  
	 70th
	 	 	150%          	  
	 50th
	 	 	100%          	  
	 25th
	 	 	50%          	  
	 Below 25th percentile and WGL dividend increases at
least 9% over 3-year period
	 	 	25%          	  
	 Below 25th percentile and dividend test not
met
	 	 	0%          	  
		 			
	  
	 

 Interpolation shall be used to determine the percent of target award earned in
the event the Company’s Percentile Rank does not fall directly on one of the ranks listed in the foregoing chart. 

3.        Change or Termination of Employment or Service: For purposes of
this Section 3, the term “Employer” means the Company or the Company’s subsidiary that employs the Participant, or to which the Participant provides services, on the effective date of the grant. Except as provided below, and
subject to the provisions of Section 4 relating to a Change of Control, a Participant is eligible for payment of earned Performance Shares, as specified in paragraph 2, only if the Participant’s employment or service with the Employer
continues through the end of the Performance Period, provided however that, a Participant that is an employee of the Company will not be eligible for the payment of earned Performance Shares if the Participant has been demoted from the position he
or she held at the date of grant to a position that is below the management level of “director”. Further, a Participant will not be eligible for payment of earned Performance Shares if he or she is suspended from employment with the
Employer as of the date of the end of the Performance Period. 
 Subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this
Agreement, if a Participant terminates employment or services with the Employer prior to the end of the Performance Period for any reason, including voluntary or involuntary termination, death, disability or retirement, the Human Resources Committee
of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Committee”), in its sole discretion, may determine that the Participant shall be eligible for that proportion of the number of Performance Shares earned under Section 2 for such
Performance Period that his or her number of full months of participation during the Performance Period bears to the total number of months in the Performance Period. In the event of the death of the Participant, the Participant’s designated
beneficiary or estate shall be entitled to the Performance Shares under the same conditions as would have been applicable to the Participant. 

4.        Change of Control.   In the event of a Change of
Control, as defined in the Plan, the number of Performance Shares shall vest pursuant to the terms of the Company’s Change in Control Policy. 

5.        Dividends.     The Participant has no right
to any dividends with respect to the Performance Shares until the Performance Shares are issued by the Company and delivered to the Participant following the completion of the Performance Period and achievement of the Performance Measure. 

6.        Rights as a Stockholder.      The
Participant shall have no rights as a stockholder of the Company with respect to the Performance Shares until the Performance Shares have been issued and delivered to the Participant. 

7.        Form and Timing of Delivery of Performance
Shares.    Delivery of earned Performance Shares to the Participant shall be made in shares of Company Stock. Performance Shares shall be issued to the Participant as promptly as practicable following the close of the
Performance Period. 

8.        Adjustments.  Subject to Section 4(d) and 8(e) of the
Plan, if the Committee determines that any recapitalization, forward or reverse split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, combination, repurchase, exchange of stock, stock or cash dividend, other distribution, liquidation, dissolution
or other similar corporate transaction or event affects the Stock such that an adjustment is appropriate in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the rights of Participants, then the Committee shall, in such manner as it may deem equitable,
adjust any of all of the certain specified terms of any Award Agreement. These adjustments may include, among other adjustments, adjustments to the number and kind of shares of stock relating to an Award Agreement (or, if deemed appropriate, the
Committee may make provisions for a cash payment with respect to an Award Agreement). In addition, the Committee is authorized to make adjustments in the terms and conditions of, and the criteria of any grant or award under the Plan (including,
without limitation, cancellation of outstanding awards or substitution of awards using stock of a successor or other entity) in recognition of unusual or nonrecurring events (including, among other matters, events constituting a Change of Control)
affecting the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or the financial statements of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or in response to changes in applicable laws, regulations or accounting principles. 

9.        Tax Withholding.    The Company may deduct or
withhold, or require the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary to remit to the Company or its affiliates, an amount sufficient to satisfy federal, state, and local taxes, domestic or foreign, required by law or regulation to be withheld
with respect to any taxable event arising as a result of an award of Performance Shares. 

10.        Share Withholding.  At the discretion of the Company,
Participants may be able to elect to satisfy the tax withholding requirement, in whole or in part, by having the Company or any of its subsidiaries withhold Shares having a fair market value equal to taxes required to be withheld on the transaction.
All such elections shall be irrevocable, made in writing, signed by the Participant, and shall be subject to any restrictions or limitations that the Committee, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate. 

11.        Limitations on
Transferability.      Except as otherwise provided by the Plan or by the Committee, the Participant’s rights to Performance Shares may not be sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or
hypothecated, other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. The Participant’s rights under an Award Agreement shall be exercisable during the Participant’s lifetime only by the Participant or the Participant’s legal
representative. 
 12.        Beneficiary
Designation.     The Participant may, from time to time, name any beneficiary or beneficiaries (who may be named contingently or successively) to whom any benefit under an Award Agreement is to be distributed in case of
his or her death before he or she receives any or all of such benefit. Each such designation shall revoke all prior designations by the Participant, shall be in a form prescribed by the Company, and will be effective only when filed by the
Participant in writing with the Secretary of the Company during the Participant’s lifetime. In the absence of any such designation, benefits remaining unpaid at the Participant’s death shall be paid to the Participant’s estate. 

13.        No Right to Continued Employment or Service.  Neither the
Plan nor an Award Agreement shall be construed as giving the Participant or any employee or any person the 

 
right to be retained in the employ or service of the Company or any of its subsidiaries nor shall it interfere in any way with the right of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to terminate the
Participant’s employment or service at any time. 
 14.      Successors and
Assigns.      All obligations of the Company and any of its subsidiaries under the Plan and an Award Agreement, with respect to an award of Performance Units, shall be binding on any successor to the Company,
whether the existence of such successor is the result of a direct or indirect purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise of all of the business and/or assets of the Company. 

15.      Administration.       Award Agreements and
the rights of Participants are subject to all the terms and conditions of the Plan, as the Plan may be amended from time to time, as well as to such rules and regulations as the Committee may adopt for administration of the Plan. The Committee is
authorized to administer, construe, and make all determinations necessary or appropriate to the administration of the Plan and any Award Agreement, all of which shall be binding upon the Participant. Any inconsistency between Award Agreements and
the Plan shall be resolved in favor of the Plan. 
 16.      Amendment and Termination of
the Plan.  The Plan may be amended or terminated by the Board of Directors of the Company without stockholder approval unless the Board seeks to increase the number of shares of common stock subject to the Plan or stockholder approved
is required by law or regulation or under the rules of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which the common stock is then listed or quoted. Stockholder approval will not be deemed to be required under laws or regulations that
condition favorable tax treatment on such approval, although the Board may, in its discretion, seek stockholder approval in any circumstances in which it deems such approval advisable. 

17.      Severability.  If any portion of the Award Agreement or the terms and
conditions set forth in this document are declared invalid or unenforceable by a court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction, this shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any remaining portion, which such remaining
portion(s) shall remain in full force and effect as if the Award Agreement and/or this document had been agreed to with the invalid or unenforceable portion(s) eliminated. 

18.      Miscellaneous.  If the Performance Period ends on a non-trading day,
the Performance Period will be deemed to end on the immediately preceding trading day. If the day for any other action to be taken falls on a non-business day for the Company, the period for taking such action will extend through the Company’s
next business day. 
 [Schedule 1 is the provided on the following page] 

 Schedule 1 

Peer Group 
 Consolidated
Edison Inc. 
 Northeast Utilities 

Centerpoint Energy Inc. 
 AGL
Resources Inc. 
 Pepco Holdings Inc. 

Integrys Energy Group Inc. 
 Atmos
Energy Corp. 
 Vectren Corp. 

Piedmont Natural Gas Co. 
 WGL
Holdings Inc. 
 Southwest Gas Corp. 

UIL Holdings Inc. 
 South Jersey
Industries 
 New Jersey Resources 

Northwestern Corp. 
 Laclede Group
Inc. 
 MGE Energy Inc. 

Northwest Natural Gas Co. 

Chesapeake Utilities Corp.

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