Form S-3ASR - Automatic shelf registration statement of securities of well-known seasoned issuers

Share Name	Share Symbol	Market	Type
Stock Yards Bancorp Inc	NASDAQ:SYBT	NASDAQ	Common Stock

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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 4, 2024

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

	Kentucky			61-1137529
	(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)			(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

1040 East Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40206
(502) 582-2571

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Mr. T. Clay Stinnett
Executive Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer
Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
1040 East Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40206
Phone: (502) 582-2571

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

Copies to:

Nathan L. Berger
General Counsel
Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
1040 East Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40206
(502) 582-2571

James A. Giesel
Nicole R. Karr
Frost Brown Todd LLP
400 West Market Street
32nd Floor
Louisville, Kentucky 40202
(502) 589-5400

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale of the securities to the public: From time to time after this registration statement becomes effective.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box: ☐

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box: ☒

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

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If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☒

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

	Large accelerated filer ☒			Accelerated filer ☐
	Non-accelerated filer ☐			Smaller reporting company ☐
	Emerging Growth Company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This registration statement contains two prospectuses:

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A base prospectus (the “Base Prospectus”) which covers the offering, issuance and sale by us or the offering and sale by selling securityholders of the securities identified in the Base Prospectus from time to time in one or more offerings; and

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A prospectus to be used for the offering and sale by the selling stockholders named in such prospectus of up to a maximum of 1,631,002 shares of our common stock (the “Resale Prospectus”), which shares were previously registered pursuant to a prospectus supplement, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 6, 2022, to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-261637) (the “Prior Registration Statement”), but have not been sold (the “Unsold Shares”). The Prior Registration Statement was filed with the SEC and became automatically effective on December 14, 2021. The Prior Registration Statement is scheduled to expire on December 14, 2024 pursuant to Rule 415(a)(5) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In accordance with Rule 415(a)(6) under the Securities Act, effectiveness of this registration statement will be deemed to terminate the offering of the Unsold Shares under the Prior Registration Statement.

The Base Prospectus immediately follows this explanatory note. The specific terms of any securities to be offered pursuant to the Base Prospectus will be specified in one or more prospectus supplements to the Base Prospectus. Information about the selling stockholders that may sell shares of our common stock registered pursuant to the Resale Prospectus is included in the Resale Prospectus that immediately follows the Base Prospectus.

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Prospectus

DEBT SECURITIES
COMMON STOCK
PREFERRED STOCK
DEPOSITARY SHARES
WARRANTS
PURCHASE CONTRACTS
UNITS

Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (“SYBT,” “Stock Yards Bancorp” or the “Company”) may offer, issue and sell from time to time, together or separately:

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debt securities, which may be senior or subordinated debt securities;

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shares of its common stock;

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shares of its preferred stock, which it may issue in one or more series;

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depositary shares representing shares of its preferred stock;

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warrants to purchase debt or equity securities;

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purchase contracts; and

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units, each representing ownership of a combination of two or more securities.

We will provide the specific terms of these securities in supplements to this prospectus. We may describe the terms of these securities in a term sheet that will precede the prospectus supplement. We may also authorize one or more free writing prospectuses to be provided to you that may contain material information relating to these offerings. You should read this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement and/or free writing prospectus carefully before you make your investment decision. References to “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Stock Yards Bancorp.

THIS PROSPECTUS MAY NOT BE USED TO SELL SECURITIES UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY A PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT.

We may offer securities through underwriting syndicates managed or co-managed by one or more underwriters, through agents or directly to purchasers. These securities also may be resold by selling shareholders, whether owned on the date hereof or hereafter. The prospectus supplement for each offering of securities will describe in detail the plan of distribution for that offering and the identities of any selling shareholders. For general information about the distribution of securities offered, please see “Plan of Distribution” in this prospectus.

Stock Yards Bancorp’s common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) under the symbol “SYBT.” Each prospectus supplement will indicate if the securities offered thereby will be listed on any securities exchange.

The securities offered by this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement are not savings or deposit accounts or other obligations of any bank or non-bank subsidiary of Stock Yards Bancorp, and they are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency.

Investing in our securities involves risks. Before buying our securities, you should refer to the risk factors included in our periodic reports, in prospectus supplements relating to specific offerings of securities and in other information that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. See “Risk Factors” on page 4.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus or any accompanying prospectus supplement is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

The date of this prospectus is December 4, 2024.

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	ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS					1
	WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION					1
	INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE					2
	CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS					2
	OUR COMPANY					4
	RISK FACTORS					4
	USE OF PROCEEDS					5
	DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES					5
	DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK					13
	DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSITARY SHARES					17
	DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS					19
	DESCRIPTION OF PURCHASE CONTRACTS					19
	DESCRIPTION OF UNITS					20
	SELLING SHAREHOLDERS					20
	PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION					20
	LEGAL MATTERS					21
	EXPERTS					21

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement on Form S-3 that we filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) using an automatic “shelf” registration process. Under this automatic shelf registration process, we or any selling shareholders may, from time to time, offer and sell any combination of the securities described in this prospectus, in one or more offerings at an unspecified aggregate initial offering price.

This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we or the selling shareholders may offer. Each time we offer to sell securities under this prospectus, we will provide a prospectus supplement containing specific information about the terms of that offering. We may also authorize one or more free writing prospectuses to be provided to you that may contain material information relating to these offerings. The prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus may add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. If there is any inconsistency between the information in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus, you should rely on the information in the prospectus supplement or free writing prospectus, as applicable. You should read both this prospectus and any prospectus supplement and/or free writing prospectus together with additional information described under the headings “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.”

You should only rely on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. Neither we nor any selling shareholder have authorized anyone to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. Neither we nor any selling shareholder are making an offer to sell or soliciting an offer to buy securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale thereof is not permitted.

You should assume that the information in this prospectus is accurate as of the date of this prospectus. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.

This prospectus contains summary descriptions of the securities that we or selling shareholders may sell from time to time. These summary descriptions are not meant to be complete descriptions of each security. The particular terms of any security will be described in the related prospectus supplement and/or free writing prospectus.

Our principal executive office is located at 1040 East Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40206 (telephone number: (502) 582-2571).

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. The SEC maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC, including us. The SEC’s internet site can be found at http://www.sec.gov. We make available free of charge most of our SEC filings on the investor relations page of our website at https://stockyardsbancorp.q4ir.com/overview/default.aspx as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file these materials with the SEC. You may access these SEC filings on our website. Except for those SEC filings incorporated by reference in this prospectus, none of the other information on our website is part of this prospectus or incorporated by reference into this prospectus or any accompanying prospectus supplement.

This prospectus is part of a registration statement filed on Form S-3 with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder. This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules to the registration statement. For further information concerning us and the securities, you should read the entire registration statement and the additional information described under “Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference” below. The registration statement has been filed electronically and may be obtained in any manner listed above. Any statements contained herein concerning the provisions of any document are not necessarily complete, and, in each instance, please refer to the copy of the relevant document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement or otherwise filed with the SEC. Each such statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the document it describes.

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INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” into this prospectus information that we file with the SEC. This permits us to disclose important information to you by referencing these filed documents. Any information referenced this way is considered to be a part of this prospectus and any information filed by us with the SEC subsequent to the date of this prospectus will automatically be deemed to update and supersede this prospectus. We incorporate by reference into this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement the following documents that we have already filed with the SEC (other than any portion of such filings that are furnished, rather than filed, under the SEC’s applicable rules):

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Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed on February 27, 2024;

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Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2024, filed on May 7, 2024, the quarterly period ended June 30, 2024, filed on August 6, 2024, and the quarterly period ended September 30, 2024, filed on November 5, 2024;

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Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on May 1, 2024 and August 21, 2024;

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The Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on March 14, 2024; and

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The description of Stock Yards Bancorp’s common stock set forth in its registration statement on Form 8-A Filed on July 22, 2005, as updated by Exhibit 4.1 to Stock Yards Bancorp’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed on February 27, 2024.

We incorporate by reference additional documents that we may file with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), after the date of this prospectus and before the termination of the offering of the securities described in this prospectus (other than any information that has been “furnished” but not “filed” for purposes of the Exchange Act and applicable SEC rules). These documents include our periodic reports, such as Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, as well as our proxy statements. Any statement made in this prospectus or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in this prospectus or in any other subsequently filed document that is also incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus modifies or supersedes that statement. Any statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this prospectus.

We will provide without charge to each person to whom this prospectus is delivered, upon written or oral request, a copy of any or all of the documents that are incorporated by reference into this prospectus, excluding any exhibits to those documents unless the exhibit is specifically incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Requests should be directed to Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., Attention: Chief Financial Officer, 1040 East Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40206 (telephone number: (502) 582-2571).

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This document contains statements relating to future results of the Company that are considered “forward-looking” as defined by Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the statement. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “conclude,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “foresee,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “outlook,” “possible,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “will likely,” “would,” or other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts and are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry, management’s beliefs and certain assumptions made by management, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and beyond our control.

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Forward-looking statements detail management’s expectations regarding the future and are based on information known to management only as of the date the statements are made and management undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date forward-looking statements are made, except as required by applicable regulation.

As set forth more fully under “Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent combined Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, each of which is incorporated by reference herein, important factors that could cause actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the following:

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changes in, or forecasts of, future political and economic conditions, inflation or recession and efforts to control related development;

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accuracy of assumptions and estimates used in establishing the Allowance for Credit Losses on loans, Allowance for Credit Losses for off-balance sheet credit exposures and other estimates;

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impairment of investment securities, goodwill, other intangible assets or Deferred Tax Assets;

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ability to effectively navigate an economic slowdown or other economic or market disruptions;

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changes in laws and regulations or the interpretation thereof;

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changes in fiscal, monetary, and/or regulatory policies;

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changes in tax polices including but not limited to changes in federal and state statutory rates;

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behavior of securities and capital markets, including changes in market volatility and liquidity;

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ability to effectively manage capital and liquidity;

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long-term and short-term interest rate fluctuations, as well as the shape of the U.S. Treasury yield curve;

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the magnitude and frequency of changes to the Federal Funds Target Rate implemented by the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank;

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competitive product and pricing pressures;

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projections of revenue, expenses, capital expenditures, losses, Earnings Per Share, dividends, capital structure, etc.;

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integration of acquired financial institutions, businesses or future acquisitions;

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changes in the credit quality of Stock Yards Bancorp’s customers and counterparties, deteriorating asset quality and charge-off levels;

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changes in technology instituted by Stock Yards Bancorp, its counterparties or competitors;

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changes to or the effectiveness of Stock Yards Bancorp’s overall internal control environment;

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adequacy of Stock Yards Bancorp’s risk management framework, disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting;

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changes in applicable accounting standards, including the introduction of new accounting standards;

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changes in investor sentiment or consumer/business spending or savings behavior;

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ability to appropriately address social, environmental and sustainability concerns that may arise from business activities;

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occurrence of natural or man-made disasters or calamities, including health emergencies, the spread of infectious diseases, pandemics or outbreaks of hostilities, and Stock Yards Bancorp’s ability to deal effectively with disruptions caused by the foregoing;

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ability to maintain the security of its financial, accounting, technology, data processing and other operational systems and facilities;

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ability to withstand disruptions that may be caused by any failure of its operational systems or those of third parties;

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ability to effectively defend itself against cyberattacks or other attempts by unauthorized parties to access information of Stock Yards Bancorp, its vendors or its customers or to disrupt systems; and

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other risks and uncertainties reported from time-to-time in Stock Yards Bancorp’s filings with the SEC, including Part I Item 1A “Risk Factors” of Stock Yards Bancorp’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.

We also direct readers to the other risks and uncertainties discussed in other documents we file with the SEC.

The forward-looking statements made or incorporated by reference in this prospectus relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement except as required by law, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

If one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, our actual results may vary materially from what we may have expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. We caution that you should not place undue reliance on any of our forward-looking statements. You should specifically consider the factors identified in this prospectus that could cause actual results to differ before making an investment decision to purchase our securities. Furthermore, new risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and it is impossible for us to predict those events or how they may affect us.

OUR COMPANY

Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. is a financial holding company, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Stock Yards Bancorp is the holding company for Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company (“Stock Yards Bank”). Stock Yards Bancorp, which was incorporated in 1988 in Kentucky, is registered with, and subject to supervision, regulation and examination by, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Stock Yards Bank, chartered in 1904, is a state-chartered non-member financial institution that provides services in Louisville, central, eastern and northern Kentucky, as well as the Indianapolis, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan markets through 72 full service banking center locations.

As of September 30, 2024, Stock Yards Bancorp had total consolidated assets of approximately $8.43 billion, total loans of approximately $6.28 billion, total deposits of approximately $6.73 billion, and total shareholders’ equity of approximately $934 million. As of September 30, 2024, Stock Yards Bancorp had approximately $7.32 billion of assets under management as part of its Wealth Management & Trust operations. Stock Yards Bank is registered with, and subject to supervision, regulation and examination by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions.

Stock Yards Bancorp’s common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol “SYBT.”

Our executive offices are located at 1040 East Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40206. Our telephone number is (502) 582-2571. Our website address is https://www.syb.com. The information on our website is not part of this prospectus and is not incorporated into this prospectus or any accompanying prospectus supplement by reference.

RISK FACTORS

Before you invest in any of our securities, in addition to the other information in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement or other offering materials, you should carefully consider the risk factors in any prospectus supplement as well the risk factors discussed under “Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus and any prospectus supplement, as the same may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time by our filings under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act. These risks could materially and adversely affect our business, operating

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results, cash flows and financial condition and could result in a partial or complete loss of your investment. See “Incorporation of Certain Documents By Reference” and “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

USE OF PROCEEDS

Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement or other offering material, we will use the net proceeds from any sale of securities for general corporate purposes. We may provide additional information on the use of the net proceeds from any sale of securities in an applicable prospectus supplement or other offering materials relating to the securities. Unless set forth in an accompanying prospectus supplement, we will not receive any proceeds in the event that securities are sold by a selling shareholder. We may pay expenses in connection with sales by selling shareholders.

DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES

We may offer from time to time debt securities in the form of either senior debt securities or subordinated debt securities. Unless otherwise specified in a prospectus supplement, the debt securities will be our direct, unsecured obligations and will rank equally with all of our other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness. We will issue debt securities under one or more separate indentures between us and a trustee to be identified in the applicable prospectus supplement.

The following summary of the general terms and provisions of the indenture is not complete (the text below refers to both indentures as the form of “indenture”). Forms of indentures for senior indebtedness and subordinated indebtedness are included as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. The indentures are substantially identical except as described below under “Subordinated Debt Securities” in this section. You should read the indentures for provisions that may be important to you.

When we offer to sell a particular series of debt securities, the prospectus supplement will describe the specific terms of the series, and it will also address whether the general terms and provisions described below apply to the particular series of debt securities. Capitalized terms used in the summary have the meanings specified in the forms of indenture.

General

Unless otherwise provided in a supplemental indenture, our board of directors will set the particular terms of each series of debt securities, which will be described in a prospectus supplement relating to such series. We can issue an unlimited amount of debt securities under the indenture, in one or more series with the same or various maturities, at par, at a premium or at a discount. Among other things, the prospectus supplement relating to a series of debt securities being offered will address the following terms of the debt securities:

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the title of the debt securities;

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the price(s), expressed as a percentage of the principal amount, at which we will sell the debt securities;

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whether the debt securities will be senior or subordinated, and, if subordinated, any such provisions that are different from those described below under “Subordinated Debt Securities;”

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any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities;

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the date(s) when principal payments are due on the debt securities;

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the interest rate(s) on the debt securities, which may be fixed or variable, per annum or otherwise, and the method used to determine the rate(s), the dates on which interest will begin to accrue and be payable, and any regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;

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the place(s) where principal of, premium and interest on the debt securities will be payable;

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provisions governing redemption of the debt securities, including any redemption or purchase requirements pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a holder of debt securities, and the redemption price and other detailed terms and provisions of such repurchase obligations;

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the denominations in which the debt securities will be issued, if other than minimum denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple in excess thereof;

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whether the debt securities will be issued in the form of certificated debt securities or global debt securities;

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the portion of the principal of the debt securities payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity date, if other than the entire principal amount;

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any additional or modified events of default from those described in this prospectus or in the indenture and any change in the acceleration provisions described in this prospectus or in the indenture;

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any additional or modified covenants from those described in this prospectus or in the indenture with respect to the debt securities;

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any depositaries, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate calculation agents or other agents with respect to the debt securities; and

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any other specific terms of such debt securities.

In addition, we may issue convertible debt securities. Any conversion provisions of a particular series of debt securities will be set forth in the officer’s certificate or supplemental indenture related to that series of debt securities and will be described in the relevant prospectus supplement. To the extent applicable, conversion may be mandatory, at the option of the holder or at our option, in which case the number of shares of common or preferred stock to be received upon conversion would be calculated as of a time and in the manner stated in the prospectus supplement.

The applicable prospectus supplement will provide an overview of the U.S. federal income tax considerations and other special considerations applicable to any debt securities we offer for sale.

Transfer and Exchange

As described in the applicable prospectus supplement, each debt security will be represented by either a certificate issued in definitive registered form (we will refer to any debt security represented by a certificated security as a “certificated debt security”) or one or more global securities registered in the name of a depositary, or its nominee (we will refer to any debt security represented by a global debt security as a “book-entry debt security”), in the aggregate principal amount of the series of debt securities. Except as described below under the heading “Global Debt Securities and Book-Entry System,” book-entry debt securities will not be certificated.

Certificated Debt Securities

You can transfer certificated debt securities (and the right to receive the principal of, premium and interest thereon) only by surrendering the certificate representing those certificated debt securities. Either we or the trustee will reissue the existing certificate, or issue a new certificate, to the new holder.

You may transfer or exchange certificated debt securities at any office we maintain for this purpose in accordance with the terms of the indenture. There is no service charge, but we may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any taxes or other governmental charges payable in connection with a transfer or exchange.

Global Debt Securities and Book-Entry System

Each global debt security representing book-entry debt securities will be deposited with, or on behalf of, The Depository Trust Company (which we refer to below as “DTC” or the “depositary”), as the depositary, and registered in its (or its nominee’s) name. DTC is a limited-purpose trust company and a “banking organization” organized under New York law, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a “clearing corporation” within in the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code and a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act. We understand that DTC intends to follow the following procedures with respect to book-entry debt securities.

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Ownership of beneficial interests in book-entry debt securities will be limited to “participants” or persons that may hold interests through participants (sometimes called “indirect participants”). A participant is a person having an account with the depositary for the related global debt security, typically broker-dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations. Upon the issuance of a global debt security, the depositary will credit the participants’ accounts on its book-entry registration and transfer system with the respective principal amounts of the book-entry debt securities owned by such participants; the depositary will have no knowledge of the underlying beneficial owners of the book-entry debt securities owned by participants. Any dealers, underwriters or agents participating in the distribution of the book-entry debt securities will designate accounts to be credited. Ownership of book-entry debt securities will be shown on, and the transfer of such ownership interests will be effected only through, records maintained by the depositary for the related global debt security (with respect to interests of participants) and on the records of participants (with respect to interests of indirect participants). Some states may legally require certain purchasers to take physical delivery of such securities, which may impair your ability to own, transfer or pledge beneficial interests in book-entry debt securities.

So long as DTC (or its nominee) is the registered owner of a global debt security, DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, will be considered the sole owner or holder of the book-entry debt securities represented by such global debt security for all purposes under the indenture. This means that, except as described below, beneficial owners of book-entry debt securities will not be entitled to have securities registered in their names or to receive physical delivery of a certificate in definitive form nor will such beneficial owners be considered the owners or holders of those securities under the indenture. Accordingly, to exercise any rights of a holder under the indenture each person beneficially owning book-entry debt securities must rely on DTC’s procedures for the related global debt security and, if such person is not a participant, on the procedures of the participant through which such person owns its interest. As a beneficial owner of book-entry debt securities, information regarding your holdings will come through the participant, or indirect participant, through which you own such securities.

Notwithstanding the above, under existing industry practice, the depositary may authorize persons on whose behalf it holds a global debt security to exercise certain of a holder’s rights. For purposes of obtaining any consents or directions required to be given by holders of the debt securities under the indenture, we, the trustee and our respective agents will treat DTC as the holder of a debt security and/or any persons specified in a written statement of the depositary with respect to that global debt security.

All payments of principal of, and premium and interest on, book-entry debt securities will be paid to DTC (or its nominee) as the registered holder of the related global debt security, and any redemption notices will be sent directly to DTC. Neither we, the trustee nor any other agent of ours or agent of the trustee will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in a global debt security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to beneficial ownership interests. We expect DTC, upon receipt of any payment of principal of, premium or interest on a global debt security, to immediately credit participants’ accounts with payments ratably according to the respective amounts of book-entry debt securities held by each participant. We also expect that payments by participants to owners of beneficial interests in book-entry debt securities held through those participants will be governed by standing customer instructions and customary practices, similar to those for securities held in “street name.”

We will issue certificated debt securities in exchange for each global debt security if the depositary at any time cannot or will not continue as depositary or ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and we fail to appoint a successor depositary registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days. In addition, we may at any time and in our sole discretion decide not to have the book-entry debt securities represented by global debt securities; in that event, we will issue certificated debt securities in exchange for the global debt securities of that series. If an event of default with respect to the book-entry debt securities represented by those global debt securities has occurred and is continuing, holders may exchange global debt securities for certificated debt securities.

We have obtained the foregoing information concerning DTC and its book-entry system from sources we believe to be reliable, but we take no responsibility for the accuracy of this information.

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No Protection in the Event of a Change in Control

Unless we state otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, the debt securities will not contain any provisions affording holders of the debt securities protection, such as prior consent or acceleration rights, in the event we agree to a change in control or a highly leveraged transaction (whether or not such transaction results in a change in control), which could adversely affect holders of debt securities.

Covenants

The applicable prospectus supplement will describe any restrictive covenants applicable to any debt securities we offer for sale.

Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets

We may not consolidate or merge with, or sell or lease all or substantially all of our properties and assets to, any person, which we refer to as a “successor,” unless:

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we are the surviving corporation or the successor (if not us) is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of any U.S. domestic jurisdiction and expressly assumes our obligations on the debt securities and under the indenture;

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immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no event of default, and no event which after the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would become an event of default, shall have occurred and be continuing under the indenture; and

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certain other conditions are met.

Events of Default

For any series of debt securities, in addition to any event of default described in the prospectus supplement applicable to that series, an event of default will include the following events, unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement:

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default in the payment when due of any interest on any debt security of that series, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (unless we deposit the entire amount of such payment with the trustee or with a paying agent prior to the expiration of such 30-day period);

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default in the payment when due of principal of any debt security of that series;

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default in the deposit when due of any sinking fund payment in respect of any debt security of that series;

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default in the performance or breach of any other covenant or warranty in the indenture that applies to such series, which default continues (without such default or breach having been waived in accordance with the provisions of the indenture) for a period of 90 days after we have received written notice of the failure to perform in the manner specified in the indenture; and

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certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization involving us.

The applicable prospectus supplement will explain whether or not an event of default with respect to one series of debt securities will constitute a cross-default with respect to any other series of debt securities (except that certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization will always constitute cross-defaults).

If an event of default with respect to any outstanding debt securities occurs and is continuing, then the trustee or the holders of 25.0% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series may, by written notice to us (and to the trustee if given by the holders), accelerate the payment of the principal (or, if the debt securities of that series are discount securities, that portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all debt securities of that series. Such acceleration is automatic (without any notice required) in the case of an event of default resulting from certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization. Following acceleration, payments on our subordinated debt securities, if any, will be subject to the subordination provisions described below under “Subordinated Debt Securities.” At any time after acceleration with respect to debt securities

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of any series, but before the trustee has obtained a court judgment or decree for payment of the amounts due, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series may rescind and annul the acceleration if all events of default, other than the non-payment of accelerated principal and interest, if any, with respect to debt securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in the indenture. The prospectus supplement relating to any series of debt securities that are discount securities will contain particular provisions relating to acceleration of a portion of the principal amount of such discount securities upon the occurrence of an event of default.

The indenture provides that the trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any rights or powers under the indenture at the request of any holder of outstanding debt securities unless the trustee is indemnified against any loss, liability or expense. Subject to certain rights of the trustee, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series will 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 debt securities of that series.

No holder of any debt security may institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to the indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any remedy under the indenture, unless:

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that holder has previously given to the trustee written notice of a continuing event of default with respect to debt securities of that series; and

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the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series have requested the trustee in writing (and offered reasonable indemnity to the trustee) to institute the proceeding (and have not subsequently given contrary instructions), and the trustee has failed to institute the proceeding within 60 days.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the holder of any debt security will have an absolute and unconditional right to receive payment of the principal of and any interest on that debt security on or after the due dates expressed in that debt security and to institute suit for the enforcement of payment.

Under the indenture we must furnish the trustee a statement as to compliance with the indenture within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year. The indenture provides that, other than with respect to payment defaults, the trustee may withhold notice to the holders of debt securities of any series of a default or event of default if it in good faith determines that withholding notice is in the interests of the holders of those debt securities.

Modification and Waiver

We may amend or supplement the indenture or a series of debt securities if the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of each series affected by the modifications or amendments consent thereto. We may not make any amendment or waiver without the consent of the specific holder of an affected debt security then outstanding if that amendment or waiver will:

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reduce the amount of debt securities whose holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

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reduce the rate of, or extend the time for payment of, interest (including default interest) on any debt security;

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reduce the principal or change the stated maturity of any debt security or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;

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reduce the principal amount of discount securities payable upon acceleration of maturity;

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waive a default or event of default in the payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on any debt security (except a rescission of acceleration by the holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding debt securities of that series and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);

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make the principal of or interest, if any, on any debt security payable in any currency other than that stated in the debt security;

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make any change to certain provisions of the indenture relating to, among other things, holders’ rights to receive payment of the principal of, premium and interest on those debt securities and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment and to waivers or amendments; or

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waive a redemption payment with respect to any debt security.

Except for certain specified provisions, the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may on behalf of all holders waive our compliance with provisions of the indenture. The holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may on behalf of all holders waive any past default under the indenture with respect to that series and its consequences, except a payment default or a default of a covenant or provision which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security of the series affected; provided, however, that the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration.

Defeasance of Debt Securities and Certain Covenants in Certain Circumstances

Legal Defeasance

We may deposit with the trustee, in trust, cash or U.S. government securities in an amount that, which through the payment of interest and principal in accordance with their terms, will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, which is sufficient in the opinion of our independent public accountants to make all payments of principal and interest on, and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of, the debt securities of that series on the due dates for such payments in accordance with the terms of the indenture and those debt securities. If we make such a deposit, unless otherwise provided under the applicable series of debt securities, we will be discharged from any and all obligations in respect of the debt securities of such series (except for obligations relating to the transfer or exchange of debt securities and the replacement of stolen, lost or mutilated debt securities and relating to maintaining paying agencies and the treatment of funds held by paying agents and certain rights of the trustee and our obligations with respect thereto). However, this discharge may occur only if, among other things, we have delivered to the trustee a legal opinion stating that we have received from, or there has been published by, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service a ruling or, since the date of execution of the indenture, there has been a change in the applicable U.S. federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and, based thereon confirming that, the holders of the debt securities of that series will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if the deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred.

Defeasance of Certain Covenants

Under the indenture (and unless otherwise provided by the terms of the applicable series of debt securities), upon making the deposit and delivering the legal opinion described in “Legal Defeasance” above, we will not need to comply with the covenants described under the heading “Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets” and certain other covenants set forth in the indenture, as well as any additional covenants that may be set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement, and any such noncompliance will not constitute a default or an event of default with respect to the debt securities of that series, or covenant defeasance.

Covenant Defeasance and Events of Default

If we exercise our option to effect covenant defeasance with respect to any series of debt securities and the debt securities of that series are declared due and payable because of the occurrence of any event of default, the amounts on deposit with the trustee will be sufficient to pay amounts due on the debt securities of that series at the time of their stated maturity but may not be sufficient to pay amounts due on the debt securities of that series at the time of the acceleration resulting from the event of default. We will remain liable for those payments.

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The Trustee

The indentures limit the right of the trustee, should it become a creditor of us, to obtain payment of claims or secure its claims. The trustee is permitted to engage in certain other transactions. However, if the trustee acquires any conflicting interest, and there is a default under the debt securities of any series for which it is trustee, the trustee must eliminate the conflict or resign.

Subordinated Debt Securities

The indenture will govern the extent to which payment on any subordinated debt securities will be subordinated to the prior payment in full of all of our senior indebtedness. The subordinated debt securities also are effectively subordinated to all debt and other liabilities, including trade payables and lease obligations, if any, of our subsidiaries.

Upon any distribution of our assets upon any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization, the payment of principal and interest on subordinated debt securities will be subordinated to the prior payment in full of all senior indebtedness in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such senior indebtedness. If subordinated debt securities are accelerated because of an event of default, the holders of any senior indebtedness would be entitled to payment in full in cash or other payment satisfactory to such holders of all senior indebtedness obligations before the holders of the subordinated debt securities are entitled to receive any payment or distribution. The indenture requires us or the trustee to promptly notify holders of designated senior indebtedness of any acceleration of payment of the subordinated debt securities.

We may not make any payment on the subordinated debt securities, including upon redemption (whether at the holder’s or our option) if:

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a default in the payment of the principal, premium, if any, interest, rent or other obligations in respect of any senior indebtedness occurs and is continuing beyond any applicable grace period (called a “payment default”); or

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a default (other than a payment default) with respect to designated senior indebtedness occurs and is continuing that permits holders of designated senior indebtedness to accelerate its maturity, and the trustee receives a notice of such default (called a “payment blockage notice”) from us or any other person permitted to give such notice under the indenture (called a “non-payment default”).

We may resume payments and distributions on the subordinated debt securities, in the case of a payment default, upon the date on which such default is cured or waived or ceases to exist; and, in the case of a non-payment default, the earlier of the date on which such nonpayment default is cured or waived and 179 days after the date on which the payment blockage notice is received, if the maturity of the designated senior indebtedness has not been accelerated, unless the indenture otherwise prohibits such payment or distribution at the time of such payment or distribution.

No new payment blockage notice may be given unless and until 365 days have elapsed since the initial effectiveness of the immediately prior payment blockage notice and all scheduled payments, premium, if any, and interest on the debt securities that have come due have been paid in full in cash. A non-payment default existing or continuing on the date of delivery of any payment blockage notice cannot be the basis for any later payment blockage notice.

If the trustee or any holder of the notes receives any payment or distribution of our assets in contravention of the foregoing subordination provisions, then such payment or distribution will be held in trust for the benefit of holders of senior indebtedness or their representatives to the extent necessary to make payment in full in cash or payment satisfactory to the holders of senior indebtedness of all unpaid senior indebtedness.

In the event of our bankruptcy, dissolution or reorganization, holders of senior indebtedness may receive more, ratably, and holders of the subordinated debt securities may receive less, ratably, than our other creditors (including our trade creditors). This subordination will not prevent the occurrence of any event of default under the indenture.

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The indenture does not prohibit us from incurring debt, including senior indebtedness. We may from time to time incur additional debt, including senior indebtedness.

We are obligated to pay reasonable compensation to the trustee, reimburse the trustee for reasonable expenses and to indemnify the trustee against certain losses, liabilities or expenses it incurs in connection with its duties relating to the subordinated debt securities. The trustee’s claims for these payments will generally be senior to those of noteholders in respect of all funds collected or held by the trustee and will not be subject to subordination.

Certain Definitions

“Indebtedness” means:

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all indebtedness, obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) for borrowed money (including our obligations in respect of overdrafts, foreign exchange contracts, currency exchange agreements, interest rate protection agreements, and any loans or advances from banks, whether or not evidenced by notes or similar instruments) or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such person or to only a portion thereof) (other than any account payable or other accrued current liability or obligation incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the obtaining of materials or services);

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all reimbursement obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) with respect to letters of credit, bank guarantees or bankers’ acceptances;

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all obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) in respect of leases required, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, to be accounted for as capitalized lease obligations on our balance sheet, and all obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) under any lease or related document (including a purchase agreement) in connection with the lease of real property which contractually obligates us to purchase or cause a third party to purchase the leased property and thereby guarantee a minimum residual value of the leased property to the lessor and the obligations of such person under such lease or related document to purchase or to cause a third party to purchase such leased property;

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all obligations (contingent or otherwise) with respect to an interest rate or other swap, cap or collar agreement or other similar instrument or agreement or foreign currency hedge, exchange, purchase or similar instrument or agreement;

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all direct or indirect guaranties or similar agreements in respect of, and obligations or liabilities (contingent or otherwise), to purchase or otherwise acquire or otherwise assure a creditor against loss in respect of indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of others of the type described in (1) through (4) above;

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any indebtedness or other obligations described in (1) through (5) above secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien or other encumbrance existing on property which we own or hold, regardless of whether the indebtedness or other obligation secured thereby shall be assumed by us; and

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any and all refinancings, replacements, deferrals, renewals, extensions and refundings of, or amendments, modifications or supplements to, any indebtedness, obligation or liability of the kind described in clauses (1) through (6) above.

“Senior indebtedness” means the principal, premium, if any, interest, including any interest accruing after bankruptcy, additional amounts, if any, and rent or termination payment on or other amounts due on our current or future indebtedness, whether created, incurred, assumed, guaranteed or in effect guaranteed by us, including any deferrals, renewals, extensions, refundings, amendments, modifications or supplements to the above. Senior indebtedness does not include:

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indebtedness that expressly provides that it shall not be senior in right of payment to subordinated debt securities or expressly provides that it is on the same basis or junior to subordinated debt securities; and

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our indebtedness to any of our majority-owned subsidiaries.

Governing Law

Unless otherwise set forth in the prospectus supplement applicable to the particular series of debt securities, the indenture and the debt securities will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The following is a description of our capital stock and the material provisions of Stock Yards Bancorp’s amended and restated articles of incorporation, as amended (the “articles”) and bylaws (the “bylaws”). The following summary of the terms of the capital stock of Stock Yards Bancorp is not intended to be complete and is subject in all respects to the applicable provisions of federal law governing bank holding companies, the Kentucky Business Corporation Act (the “KBCA”) and Stock Yards Bancorp’s articles and bylaws. See the section of this Registration Statement entitled “Where You Can Find More Information” on page 1 for more information.

General

The authorized capital stock of Stock Yards Bancorp consists of 40,000,000 shares of common stock, no par value, and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, no par value. As of December 2, 2024, 29,431,116 shares of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock were outstanding, and no shares of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock were outstanding. Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock may be issued in one or more series with those terms and at those times and for any consideration as the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors determines.

Common Stock

The outstanding shares of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock are fully paid and nonassessable. Holders of shares of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders. Holders of shares of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock do not have preemptive rights and are not entitled to cumulative voting rights with respect to the election of directors. Holders of shares of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock are entitled to receive and share equally in dividends, if, as, and when such dividends are declared by our board of directors out of assets legally available for such purpose, subject to the rights of holders of any class or series of preferred stock which may then be outstanding. Shares of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock are neither redeemable nor convertible into other securities, and there are no sinking fund provisions with respect to the Stock Yards Bancorp common stock.

Subject to the preferences applicable to any shares of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock outstanding at the time, holders of shares of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock are entitled to, in the event of liquidation, share pro rata in all assets remaining after payment of liabilities.

Preferred Stock

No shares of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock are currently outstanding. Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock may be issued by vote of the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors without shareholder approval. Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock may be issued in one or more classes and series, with such designations, voting rights (or without voting rights), redemption, conversion or sinking fund provisions, dividend rates or provisions, liquidation rights, and other preferences and limitations as the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors may determine in the exercise of its business judgment. Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock may be issued by the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors for a variety of reasons.

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the merger. The issuance of shares of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock could serve to dilute the voting rights or ownership percentage of the holders of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock. The issuance of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock might also serve to deter or block any attempt to obtain control of Stock Yards Bancorp or to facilitate any such attempt.

Stock Yards Bancorp’s Articles and Bylaws

Authorized but Unissued Shares

Stock Yards Bancorp is authorized to issue 40,000,000 shares of common stock, no par value, and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, no par value per share. The board of directors may issue shares of the preferred stock from time to time, in one or more series, without shareholder approval. The board of directors may determine the preferences, limitations and relative rights, to the extent permitted by Kentucky law, of any class, or series within a class, of preferred stock that it designates.

Preemptive Rights

The shareholders of Stock Yards Bancorp do not have any preemptive rights.

Dividend Rights

Stock Yards Bancorp shareholders are entitled to receive and share equally in the dividends, if, as, and when such dividends are declared by the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors out of assets legally available for such purpose, subject to the rights of holders of any class or series of preferred stock which may then be outstanding.

Voting Rights

Stock Yards Bancorp’s shareholders are entitled to voting rights of one vote per share on all matters which require their vote and do not have the right to cumulate votes in the election of directors.

Size of Board of Directors

Stock Yards Bancorp’s articles of incorporation state that its board shall be composed of not less than nine directors and the bylaws provide that the number shall not be less than nine nor more than 20 directors. Within those limits, the number of directors will be fixed by resolution of the board, subject to revision by resolution of the shareholders of Stock Yards Bancorp.

Classes of Directors

Each director shall be elected to serve a term of one year, with each director’s term to expire at the annual meeting of shareholders next following the director’s election as a director. Notwithstanding the expiration of the term of a director, the director shall continue to serve until the director’s successor shall be elected and qualified. The board of directors is not classified.

Election of Directors

The Stock Yards Bancorp directors are elected by shareholders of Stock Yards Bancorp at an annual meeting of shareholders or a special meeting called for the purpose of electing directors. The articles of incorporation and bylaws require majority voting for the election of directors in uncontested elections. This means that the director nominees in an uncontested election for directors must receive a number of votes cast “for” his or her election that exceeds the number of votes cast “against.” If the number of nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected, the directors are elected by a plurality of the votes cast.

Vacancies on the Board of Directors

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the number of such votes are less than a quorum, or by the sole remaining director. Each such elected director serves until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal.

Removal or Resignation of Directors

A director of Stock Yards Bancorp may only be removed for cause and only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the then outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote in the election of the Stock Yards Bancorp directors.

Nominees for directors in uncontested elections are elected by a majority of votes cast in the election. An incumbent director who fails to receive a majority vote in an uncontested election in accordance with Stock Yards Bancorp’s articles of incorporation and bylaws shall, within five days following the certification of the election results, tender his or her written resignation to the Chairman of the Board for consideration by Stock Yards Bancorp’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Amendments to Organizational Documents

Except as otherwise specified therein, the Stock Yards Bancorp articles of incorporation may be amended if proposed by the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors and approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote. With respect to provisions relating to the approval of certain types of business combination transactions, the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors may propose an amendment to the charter for submission to the shareholders and will be adopted by the shareholders if approved by at least (i) 80% of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote, voting as a single class, and (ii) two-thirds of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote which is not beneficially owned by an interested shareholder (as defined in the articles of incorporation), voting together as a single class. With respect to provisions relating to the removal of directors, the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors may propose an amendment to the charter for submission to the shareholders and will be adopted by the shareholders if approved by at least two-thirds of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote, voting as a single class.

Stock Yards Bancorp’s bylaws may be amended by the majority vote of the entire Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors at any regular or special meeting of the board of directors at which a quorum is present, subject, however, to repeal or change by action of the shareholders at any annual or special meeting of shareholders at which a quorum is present by vote of a majority of the shares entitled to vote at such meeting provided that the notice of such shareholders’ meeting shall have included notice of any such shareholders’ proposed repeal or change.

Shareholder Action by Written Consent

The KBCA and Stock Yards Bancorp’s bylaws expressly allow shareholders to act without a meeting. If all shareholders entitled to vote on an action consent to taking such action without a meeting, the affirmative vote of the number of shares that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting is the act of the shareholders.

Special Meetings of Shareholders

Stock Yards Bancorp’s bylaws allow for special meetings of the shareholders to be called at any time by the Chairman of its board of directors, the CEO, a majority of the board of directors, or, upon written demand, by the holders of not less than 33 1/3% of all shares entitled to vote on any proposed issue to be considered at such meeting.

Record Date:

The Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors must fix the record date for the determination of shareholders on a date that is not more than 70 days and, in the case of a meeting of shareholders, not less than ten days before the date of which the particular action requiring such determination of shareholders, is to be taken.

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Quorum

At any meeting of the shareholders, the holders of record of a majority of Stock Yards Bancorp’s issued and outstanding capital stock then having voting rights, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Notice of Shareholder Actions/Meetings

At least ten days and not more than 60 days before each meeting of shareholders, written notice of the time, date and place of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be given to each shareholder.

Advance Notice Requirements for Shareholder Nominations and Other Proposals

In order for a shareholder to properly bring any item of business before a meeting of shareholders, such shareholder must give timely notice thereof in writing to Stock Yards Bancorp in compliance with the requirements of the Stock Yards Bancorp bylaws. To be timely, the notice must be given not later than the close of business on the 90th day before the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting and must contain certain specified information concerning the person to be nominated or the matter to be brought before the meeting and concerning the shareholder submitting the proposal.

Limitation of Liability of Directors and Officers

Stock Yards Bancorp’s articles of incorporation and bylaws state that the Stock Yards Bancorp directors shall not be personally liable to Stock Yards Bancorp or the shareholders for monetary damages for breach of any fiduciary duty as a director of Stock Yards Bancorp, except for liability (i) for any transaction in which the director’s personal, financial interest is in conflict with the financial interests of Stock Yards Bancorp, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or are known to the director to be a violation of law, (iii) for any vote for or assent to an unlawful distribution to shareholders prohibited under the KBCA, or (iv) any transaction in which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Stock Yards Bancorp’s bylaws require the company to indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any person made a party to any proceeding against any liability incurred by such person by reason of the fact that the person was a director of Stock Yards Bancorp if (a) they conducted themself in good faith; and (b) they reasonably believed (1) in the case of conduct in their official capacity with Stock Yards Bancorp, that their conduct was in its best interests; and (2) in all other cases, that his conduct was at least not opposed to Stock Yards Bancorp’s best interests; and (c) in the case of any criminal proceeding, they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful.

Anti-Takeover Provisions

Stock Yards Bancorp’s articles of incorporation and bylaws contain a number of provisions that may be deemed to have an anti-takeover effect and may delay, deter or prevent a tender offer or takeover attempt that a shareholder might consider in its best interest, including those attempts that might result in a premium over the market price for the shareholders’ shares. Those provisions include: (i) requiring special voting approvals for certain types of business combination transactions; (ii) an advance notice procedure with regard to the nomination, other than by or at the direction of the board of directors, of candidates for election as directors and with regard to certain matters to be brought before an annual meeting of our shareholders; (iii) limitations on the right of its shareholders to remove directors from office to those circumstances meeting the definition of “cause” under the articles of incorporation; and (iv) its unissued shares of common stock and preferred stock are available for future issuance without shareholder approval, subject to limitations imposed by the NASDAQ.

Shareholder Rights Plan/ Shareholders Agreement

Stock Yards Bancorp does not currently have a shareholder rights plan or a shareholders agreement in effect.

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Listing and trading market for common stock

Stock Yards Bancorp common stock is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol “SYBT.”

Transfer agent and registrar

The transfer agent and registrar for the Stock Yards Bancorp common stock is Computershare Investor Services LLC.

DESCRIPTION OF DEPOSITARY SHARES

We may issue depositary receipts representing interests in shares of particular series of preferred stock which are called depositary shares. We will deposit the preferred stock of a series which is the subject of depositary shares with a depositary, which will hold that preferred stock for the benefit of the holders of the depositary shares, in accordance with a depositary agreement between the depositary and us. The holders of depositary shares will be entitled to all the rights and preferences of the preferred stock to which the depositary shares relate, including dividend, voting, conversion, redemption and liquidation rights, to the extent of their interests in that preferred stock.

While the depositary agreement relating to a particular series of preferred stock may have provisions applicable solely to that series of preferred stock, unless otherwise stated in the applicable prospectus supplement, all depositary agreements relating to preferred stock we issue will include the following provisions:

Dividends and Other Distributions

Each time we pay a cash dividend or make any other type of cash distribution with regard to preferred stock of a series, the depositary will distribute to the holder of record of each depositary share relating to that series of preferred stock an amount equal to the dividend or other distribution per depositary share the depositary receives. If there is a distribution of property other than cash, the depositary either will distribute the property to the holders of depositary shares in proportion to the depositary shares held by each of them, or the depositary will, if we approve, sell the property and distribute the net proceeds to the holders of the depositary shares in proportion to the depositary shares held by them.

Withdrawal of Preferred Stock

A holder of depositary shares will be entitled to receive, upon surrender of depositary receipts representing depositary shares, the number of whole or fractional shares of the applicable series of preferred stock, and any money or other property, to which the depositary shares relate.

Redemption of Depositary Shares

Whenever we redeem shares of preferred stock held by a depositary, the depositary will be required to redeem, on the same redemption date, depositary shares constituting, in total, the number of shares of preferred stock held by the depositary which we redeem, subject to the depositary’s receiving the redemption price of those shares of preferred stock. If fewer than all the depositary shares relating to a series are to be redeemed, the depositary shares to be redeemed will be selected by lot or by another method we determine to be equitable.

Voting

Any time we send a notice of meeting or other materials relating to a meeting to the holders of a series of preferred stock to which depositary shares relate, we will provide the depositary with sufficient copies of those materials so they can be sent to all holders of record of the applicable depositary shares, and the depositary will send those materials to the holders of record of the depositary shares on the record date for the meeting. The depositary will solicit voting instructions from holders of depositary shares and will vote or not vote the preferred stock to which the depositary shares relate in accordance with those instructions.

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Liquidation Preference

In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the holder of each depositary share will be entitled to what the holder of the depositary share would have received if the holder had owned the number of shares (or fraction of a share) of preferred stock which is represented by the depositary share.

Conversion

If shares of a series of preferred stock are convertible into common stock or other of our securities or property, holders of depositary shares relating to that series of preferred stock will, if they surrender depositary receipts representing depositary shares and appropriate instructions to convert them, receive the shares of common stock or other securities or property into which the number of shares (or fractions of shares) of preferred stock to which the depositary shares relate could at the time be converted.

Amendment and Termination of a Depositary Agreement

We and the depositary may amend a depositary agreement, except that an amendment which materially and adversely affects the rights of holders of depositary shares, or would be materially and adversely inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of the preferred stock to which they relate, must be approved by holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding depositary shares. No amendment will impair the right of a holder of depositary shares to surrender the depositary receipts evidencing those depositary shares and receive the preferred stock to which they relate, except as required to comply with law. We may terminate a depositary agreement with the consent of holders of a majority of the depositary shares to which it relates. Upon termination of a depositary agreement, the depositary will make the whole or fractional shares of preferred stock to which the depositary shares issued under the depositary agreement relate available to the holders of those depositary shares. A depositary agreement will automatically terminate if:

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all outstanding depositary shares to which it relates have been redeemed or converted; or

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the depositary has made a final distribution to the holders of the depositary shares issued under the depositary agreement upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

Miscellaneous

There will be provisions: (1) requiring the depositary to forward to holders of record of depositary shares any reports or communications from us which the depositary receives with respect to the preferred stock to which the depositary shares relate; (2) regarding compensation of the depositary; (3) regarding resignation of the depositary; (4) limiting our liability and the liability of the depositary under the depositary agreement (usually to failure to act in good faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct); and (5) indemnifying the depositary against certain possible liabilities.

The preceding description and any description of depositary shares in the applicable prospectus supplement does not purport to be complete and is subject to and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the form of depositary receipt which will be filed with the SEC in connection with the offering of such depositary shares.

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DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS

We may issue warrants to purchase debt or equity securities. We may issue warrants independently or together with any offered securities. The warrants may be attached to or separate from those offered securities. We will issue the warrants under warrant agreements to be entered into between us and a bank or trust company, as warrant agent, all as described in the applicable prospectus supplement. The warrant agent will act solely as our agent in connection with the warrants and will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders or beneficial owners of warrants.

The prospectus supplement relating to any warrants that we may offer will contain the specific terms of the warrants. These terms may include the following:

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the title of the warrants;

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the designation, amount and terms of the securities for which the warrants are exercisable;

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the designation and terms of the other securities, if any, with which the warrants are to be issued and the number of warrants issued with each other security;

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the price or prices at which the warrants will be issued;

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the aggregate number of warrants;

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any provisions for adjustment of the number or amount of securities receivable upon exercise of the warrants or the exercise price of the warrants;

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the price or prices at which the securities purchasable upon exercise of the warrants may be purchased;

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if applicable, the date on and after which the warrants and the securities purchasable upon exercise of the warrants will be separately transferable;

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if applicable, a discussion of the material U.S. federal income tax considerations applicable to the exercise of the warrants;

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any other terms of the warrants, including terms, procedures and limitations relating to the exchange and exercise of the warrants;

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the date on which the right to exercise the warrants will commence, and the date on which the right will expire;

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the maximum or minimum number of warrants that may be exercised at any time; and

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information with respect to book-entry procedures, if any.

Exercise of Warrants

Each warrant will entitle the holder of warrants to purchase for cash the amount of debt or equity securities, at the exercise price stated or determinable in the prospectus supplement for the warrants. Warrants may be exercised at any time up to the close of business on the expiration date shown in the applicable prospectus supplement, unless otherwise specified in such prospectus supplement. After the close of business on the expiration date, unexercised warrants will become void. Warrants may be exercised as described in the applicable prospectus supplement. When the warrant holder makes the payment and properly completes and signs the warrant certificate at the corporate trust office of the warrant agent or any other office indicated in the prospectus supplement, we will, as soon as possible, forward the debt or equity securities that the warrant holder has purchased. If the warrant holder exercises the warrant for less than all of the warrants represented by the warrant certificate, we will issue a new warrant certificate for the remaining warrants.

The preceding description and any description of warrants in the applicable prospectus supplement does not purport to be complete and is subject to and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the form of warrant which will be filed with the SEC in connection with the offering of such warrants.

DESCRIPTION OF PURCHASE CONTRACTS

We may issue purchase contracts, including contracts obligating or entitling holders to purchase from us, and obligating or entitling us to sell to holders, a specific number of shares of common stock, preferred

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stock, debt securities or other securities, property or assets, at a future date or dates. Alternatively, the purchase contracts may obligate or entitle us to purchase from holders, and obligate or entitle holders to sell to us, a specific or varying number of shares of preferred stock, common stock, debt securities or other securities, property or assets, at a future date. The price per share of preferred stock or common stock may be fixed at the time the purchase contracts are issued or may be determined by reference to a specific formula described in the purchase contracts. We may issue purchase contracts separately or as a part of units each consisting of a purchase contract and debt securities, undivided beneficial ownership interests in debt securities or shares of preferred stock or debt obligations of third parties, including U.S. Treasury securities, securing holders’ obligations to purchase the preferred stock, common stock, debt securities or other securities, property or assets, under the purchase contracts. The purchase contracts may require us to make periodic payments to holders or vice versa and the payments may be unsecured or prefunded on some basis. The purchase contracts may require holders to secure their obligations in a specified manner. The terms of any purchase contracts and any related guarantee will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

The preceding description and any description of purchase contracts in the applicable prospectus supplement does not purport to be complete and is subject to and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the form of purchase contract agreement which will be filed with the SEC in connection with the offering of such purchase contracts.

DESCRIPTION OF UNITS

We may issue units comprised of two or more of the other securities described in this prospectus in any combination. Each unit will be issued so that the holder of the unit is also the holder of each security included in the unit. Thus, the holder of a unit will have the rights and obligations of a holder of each included security. The unit agreement under which a unit is issued may provide that the securities included in the unit may not be held or transferred separately, at any time or at any time before a specified date.

The applicable prospectus supplement may describe:

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the designation and terms of the units and of the securities comprising the units, including whether and under what circumstances those securities may be held or transferred separately;

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any provisions for the issuance, payment, settlement, transfer or exchange of the units or of the securities comprising the units;

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the terms of the unit agreement governing the units;

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United States federal income tax considerations relevant to the units; and

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whether the units will be issued in fully registered or global form.

The preceding description and any description of units in the applicable prospectus supplement does not purport to be complete and is subject to and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the form of unit agreement which will be filed with the SEC in connection with the offering of such units.

SELLING SHAREHOLDERS

Information about selling shareholders, when applicable, will be set forth in a prospectus supplement, in a post-effective amendment or in filings we make with the SEC under the Exchange Act which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus.

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We or the selling shareholders may sell the securities being offered hereby in one or more of the following ways from time to time:

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to underwriters for resale to purchasers;

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directly to purchasers;

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through agents or dealers to purchasers; or

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through a combination of any of the foregoing methods of sale.

In addition, we may enter into derivative or hedging transactions with third parties, or sell securities not covered by this prospectus to third parties in privately negotiated transactions. In connection with such a transaction, the third parties may sell securities covered by and pursuant to this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement. If so, the third party may use securities borrowed from us or others to settle such sales and may use securities received from us to close out any related short positions. We may also loan or pledge securities covered by this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement to third parties, who may sell the loaned securities or, in an event of default in the case of a pledge, sell the pledged securities pursuant to this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement.

We will identify the specific plan of distribution, including any underwriters, dealers, agents or direct purchasers and their compensation in a prospectus supplement.

LEGAL MATTERS

Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, certain legal matters will be passed upon for us by Frost Brown Todd LLP, Louisville, Kentucky.

EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements and the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference from our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, have been audited by Forvis Mazars, LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report thereon, and have been incorporated in this prospectus in reliance upon such report and upon the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

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PROSPECTUS

1,631,002 Shares of Common Stock

This prospectus relates to the resale of an aggregate of 1,631,002 shares of common stock, no par value (the “common stock”) of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (“our,” “we,” “us,” the “Company” or “Stock Yards Bancorp”), issued to the selling shareholders listed on page 10 of this prospectus (the “Selling Shareholders”) in connection with the Registration Rights Agreement (as defined herein).

The Selling Shareholders may elect to sell, from time to time, the shares of common stock offered pursuant to this prospectus in a number of different ways and at varying prices. We provide more information about how the Selling Shareholders may elect to sell their shares of common stock in the section titled “Plan of Distribution” on page 10 of this prospectus. We will not receive any proceeds from the shares of common stock sold by the Selling Shareholders.

Stock Yards Bancorp’s common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (the “NASDAQ”) under the symbol “SYBT.” The last reported sale price of our common shares on December 2, 2024, was $76.80 per share.

The securities offered by this prospectus are not savings or deposit accounts or other obligations of any bank or non-bank subsidiary of Stock Yards Bancorp, and they are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency.

Investing in our securities involves risks. Before buying our securities, you should refer to the risk factors included in our periodic reports, in this prospectus and in other information that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. See “Risk Factors” on page 4.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

The date of this prospectus is December 4, 2024.

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	ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS					1
	WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION					1
	INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE					1
	CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS					2
	PROSPECTUS SUMMARY					4
	RISK FACTORS					4
	USE OF PROCEEDS					5
	DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK					5
	SELLING SHAREHOLDERS					9
	PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION					10
	LEGAL MATTERS					13
	EXPERTS					13

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement on Form S-3 that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), using an automatic “shelf” registration process. Both this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement include or incorporate by reference important information about us, our common stock and other information you should know before investing.

We are filing this prospectus to satisfy one of our obligations under the registration rights agreement, dated as of March 3, 2022 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), entered into in connection with the merger of Commonwealth Bancshares, Inc. with and into Stock Yards Bancorp (the “Commonwealth Merger”). The shares of common stock were issued on March 7, 2022 in a private transaction exempt from registration in connection with the Commonwealth Merger. We are not selling any shares of common stock under this prospectus and will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale or other disposition of the shares of common stock by the Selling Shareholders.

You should only rely on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. Neither we nor any Selling Shareholder have authorized anyone to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. Neither we nor any Selling Shareholder are making an offer to sell or soliciting an offer to buy securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale thereof is not permitted.

Unless the context requires otherwise, references to “Stock Yards Bancorp,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” “ours” and “us” are to Stock Yards Bancorp and its subsidiaries.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. The SEC maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC, including us. The SEC’s internet site can be found at http://www.sec.gov. We make available free of charge most of our SEC filings on the investor relations page of our website at https://stockyardsbancorp.q4ir.com/corporate-overview/corporate-profile/ as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file these materials with the SEC. You may access these SEC filings on our website. Except for those SEC filings incorporated by reference in this prospectus, none of the other information on our website is part of this prospectus or incorporated by reference into this prospectus.

This prospectus is part of a registration statement filed on Form S-3ASR with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder. This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules to the registration statement. For further information concerning us and our common stock, you should read the entire registration statement and the additional information described under “Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference” below. The registration statement has been filed electronically and may be obtained in any manner listed above. Any statements contained herein concerning the provisions of any document are not necessarily complete, and, in each instance, reference is made to the copy of such document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement or otherwise filed with the SEC. Each such statement is qualified in its entirety by such reference.

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” into this prospectus information that Stock Yards Bancorp files with the SEC. This permits us to disclose important information to you by referencing these filed documents. Any information referenced this way is considered to be a part of this prospectus and any information filed by us with the SEC subsequent to the date of this prospectus will automatically be deemed to update and supersede this prospectus. We incorporate by reference into this prospectus the following documents that Stock Yards Bancorp has already filed with the SEC (other than any portion of such filings that are furnished, rather than filed, under the SEC’s applicable rules):

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Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed on February 27, 2024;

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Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed on May 1, 2024 and August 21, 2024;

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The Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on March 14, 2024; and

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We incorporate by reference additional documents that Stock Yards Bancorp may file with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), after the date of this prospectus and before the termination of the offering of the securities described in this prospectus (other than any information that has been “furnished” but not “filed” for purposes of the Exchange Act and applicable SEC rules). These documents include our periodic reports, such as Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, as well as our proxy statements. Any statement made in this prospectus or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in this prospectus or in any other subsequently filed document that is also incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus modifies or supersedes that statement. Any statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this prospectus.

We will provide without charge, upon written or oral request, a copy to each person to whom this prospectus is delivered of any or all of the documents that are incorporated by reference into this prospectus, excluding any exhibits to those documents unless the exhibit is specifically incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Requests should be directed to Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., 1040 East Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40206 Attn: Chief Financial Officer (telephone number: (502) 582-2571).

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This document contains statements relating to future results of Bancorp that are considered “forward-looking” as defined by Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the statement. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “can,” “conclude,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “foresee,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “outlook,” “possible,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “will likely,” “would,” or other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts and are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry, management’s beliefs and certain assumptions made by management, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and beyond our control.

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changes in, or forecasts of, future political and economic conditions, inflation or recession and efforts to control related development;

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changes in the credit quality of Stock Yards Bancorp’s customers and counterparties, deteriorating asset quality and charge-off levels;

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accuracy of assumptions and estimates used in establishing the Allowance for Credit Losses on loans, Allowance for Credit Losses for off-balance sheet credit exposures and other estimates;

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impairment of investment securities, goodwill, other intangible assets or Deferred Tax Assets;

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ability to effectively navigate an economic slowdown or other economic or market disruptions;

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changes in laws and regulations or the interpretation thereof;

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changes in fiscal, monetary, and/or regulatory policies;

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changes in tax polices including but not limited to changes in federal and state statutory rates;

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behavior of securities and capital markets, including changes in market volatility and liquidity;

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ability to effectively manage capital and liquidity;

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long-term and short-term interest rate fluctuations, as well as the shape of the U.S. Treasury yield curve;

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the magnitude and frequency of changes to the Federal Funds Target Rate implemented by the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank;

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competitive product and pricing pressures;

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projections of revenue, expenses, capital expenditures, losses, Earnings Per Share, dividends, capital structure, etc.;

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integration of acquired financial institutions, businesses or future acquisitions;

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changes in the credit quality of Stock Yards Bancorp’s customers and counterparties, deteriorating asset quality and charge-off levels;

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changes in technology instituted by Stock Yards Bancorp, its counterparties or competitors;

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changes to or the effectiveness of Stock Yards Bancorp’s overall internal control environment;

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adequacy of Stock Yards Bancorp’s risk management framework, disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting;

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changes in applicable accounting standards, including the introduction of new accounting standards;

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changes in investor sentiment or consumer/business spending or savings behavior;

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ability to appropriately address social, environmental and sustainability concerns that may arise from business activities;

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ability to maintain the security of its financial, accounting, technology, data processing and other operational systems and facilities;

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ability to withstand disruptions that may be caused by any failure of its operational systems or those of third parties;

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ability to effectively defend itself against cyberattacks or other attempts by unauthorized parties to access information of Stock Yards Bancorp, it’s vendors or its customers or to disrupt systems; and

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We also direct readers to the other risks and uncertainties discussed in other documents we file with the SEC.

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights selected information contained elsewhere, or incorporated by reference, in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information that you should consider before deciding to invest in our common stock. You carefully should read the entire prospectus, any accompanying prospectus supplement and any related free writing prospectus, including the risks of investing in our securities discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” contained herein and in any accompanying prospectus supplement and any related free writing prospectus, and under a similar heading in other documents that are incorporated by reference into this prospectus. You also should carefully read the information incorporated by reference into this prospectus, including our financial statements and the exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Company Overview

Corporate Information

RISK FACTORS

Before you invest in our common stock, in addition to the other information in this prospectus, you should carefully consider the risk factors discussed under “Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus, as the same may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time by our filings under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as well as

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other risk factors described under “Risk Factors” in any prospectus supplement to this prospectus. These risks could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results, cash flows and financial condition and could result in a partial or complete loss of your investment. See “Incorporation of Certain Documents By Reference” and “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

USE OF PROCEEDS

The proceeds from any sale of our common stock by the Selling Shareholders under this prospectus are solely for the account of the Selling Shareholders. We will not receive any proceeds from any sale of our common stock by the Selling Shareholders.

All expenses of registration incurred in connection with this offering are being borne by us. All selling and other expenses incurred by the Selling Shareholders will be borne by the Selling Shareholders.

DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The Selling Shareholders may offer from time to time up to 1,631,002 shares of our common stock, no par value.

The following is a description of our capital stock and the material provisions of Stock Yards Bancorp’s amended and restated articles of incorporation, as amended (the “articles”) and bylaws (the “bylaws”). The following summary of the terms of the capital stock of Stock Yards Bancorp is not intended to be complete and is subject in all respects to the applicable provisions of federal law governing bank holding companies, the Kentucky Business Corporation Act (the “KBCA”) and Stock Yards Bancorp’s articles and bylaws. See the section entitled “Where You Can Find More Information” on page 1 for more information.

General

Common Stock

Preferred Stock

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Bancorp board of directors may determine in the exercise of its business judgment. Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock may be issued by the Stock Yards Bancorp board of directors for a variety of reasons.

Shares of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock could be issued in public or private transactions in one or more (isolated or series of) issues. The shares of any issue of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock could be issued with rights, including voting, dividend, and liquidation features, superior to those of any issue or class of shares, including the shares of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock to be issued in connection with the merger. The issuance of shares of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock could serve to dilute the voting rights or ownership percentage of the holders of Stock Yards Bancorp common stock. The issuance of Stock Yards Bancorp preferred stock might also serve to deter or block any attempt to obtain control of Stock Yards Bancorp or to facilitate any such attempt.

Stock Yards Bancorp’s Articles and Bylaws

Authorized but Unissued Shares

Preemptive Rights

The shareholders of Stock Yards Bancorp do not have any preemptive rights.

Dividend Rights

Voting Rights

Size of Board of Directors

Classes of Directors

Election of Directors

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cast “for” his or her election that exceeds the number of votes cast “against.” If the number of nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected, the directors are elected by a plurality of the votes cast.

Vacancies on the Board of Directors

Any vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors on the Stock Yards Bancorp board is filled by a majority vote of the Stock Yards Bancorp directors, even if the number of such votes are less than a quorum, or by the sole remaining director. Each such elected director serves until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal.

Removal or Resignation of Directors

Amendments to Organizational Documents

Shareholder Action by Written Consent

Special Meetings of Shareholders

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demand, by the holders of not less than 33 1/3% of all shares entitled to vote on any proposed issue to be considered at such meeting.

Record Date:

Quorum

Notice of Shareholder Actions/Meetings

Advance Notice Requirements for Shareholder Nominations and Other Proposals

Limitation of Liability of Directors and Officers

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Anti-Takeover Provisions

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voting approvals for certain types of business combination transactions; (ii) an advance notice procedure with regard to the nomination, other than by or at the direction of the board of directors, of candidates for election as directors and with regard to certain matters to be brought before an annual meeting of our shareholders; (iii) limitations on the right of its shareholders to remove directors from office to those circumstances meeting the definition of “cause” under the articles of incorporation; and (iv) its unissued shares of common stock and preferred stock are available for future issuance without shareholder approval, subject to limitations imposed by the NASDAQ.

Shareholder Rights Plan/ Shareholders Agreement

Stock Yards Bancorp does not currently have a shareholder rights plan or a shareholders agreement in effect.

Listing and trading market for common stock

Stock Yards Bancorp common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol “SYBT.”

Transfer agent and registrar

The transfer agent and registrar for the Stock Yards Bancorp common stock is Computershare Investor Services LLC.

SELLING SHAREHOLDERS

The Selling Shareholders named in this prospectus, including their respective donees, pledgees, transferees or other successors-in-interest selling shares of common stock or interests in shares of common stock received after the date of this prospectus from the Selling Shareholders as a gift, pledge, partnership distribution or other transfer, may offer and sell up to 1,631,002 shares of our common stock. Other than disclosed herein, the foregoing shares represent all the shares of common stock reported to us as held by the Selling Shareholders as of December 4, 2024.

Effective as of March 3, 2022, the Company and the Selling Shareholders named in this prospectus entered into the Registration Rights Agreement, pursuant to which we agreed to register the shares of our common stock held by the Selling Shareholders. We are registering the shares of the Selling Shareholders to fulfill our obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement. We have agreed to pay all fees and expenses incurred in connection with this registration, but not any selling expenses of any Selling Shareholders (including all underwriting discounts, selling commissions and stock transfer taxes applicable to the sale of shares of common stock and fees and disbursements of counsel for any Selling Shareholder).

The table below sets forth certain information known to us, based upon written representations from the Selling Shareholders, with respect to the beneficial ownership of our shares of common stock held by the Selling Shareholders as of December 4, 2024. Because the Selling Shareholders may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of all, some or none of the shares of common stock covered by this prospectus, we cannot determine the number of shares that will be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Selling Shareholders, or the amount or percentage of shares of common stock that will be held by the Selling Shareholders upon termination of any particular offering. See “Plan of Distribution.” For purposes of the table below, we assume that the Selling Shareholders will sell all of their shares of common stock covered by this prospectus.

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of our shares of common stock by the Selling Shareholders, immediately before and as adjusted to give effect to this offering. Percentage of beneficial ownership is based on 29,431,116 shares of common stock outstanding as of December 2, 2024. Beneficial ownership for the purposes of the following table is determined in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. These rules generally provide that a person is the beneficial owner of securities if such person has or shares the power to vote or direct the voting thereof or to dispose or direct the disposition thereof, or has the right to acquire any such powers within 60 days. Except as disclosed in the footnotes to this table and subject to applicable community property laws, we believe that each shareholder identified in the

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table possesses sole voting and dispositive power over all shares of common stock shown as beneficially owned by the shareholder.

To our knowledge, except as may be disclosed herein, none of the selling shareholders (i) currently have or within the past three years have had, any position, office or other material relationship with the Company or any of our affiliates or (ii) is a broker-dealer, or at the time of the acquisition of our common stock had a direct or indirect agreement or understanding with any person to distribute any of our common stock.

	Shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned Prior to Offering		Maximum Number of Shares of Common Stock Being Offered		Shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned After Offering(1)
Name	Number		Maximum Number of Shares of Common Stock Being Offered		Number		% of Class
Darrell Wells Trust(2)		31,905		31,905		—		*
Laura Lee Wells(3)		15,567		13,824		1,743		*
The Darrell R. Wells Revocable Trust dated March 8, 2024(4)		1,375,175		1,375,175		—		*
The Margaret C. Wells Revocable Trust dated March 8, 2024(5)		210,098		210,098		—		*

Represents less than one percent (1%) of the total aggregate amount of common shares outstanding as of December 2, 2024.

(1)

Assumes the sale of all shares offered pursuant to this prospectus.

(2)

Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, Successor Trustee of the Darrell Wells Trust, has voting and dispositive power over the shares held by the Darrell Wells Trust.

(3)

Laura Lee Wells is a member of our Board of Directors.

(4)

Darrell R. Wells, Trustee of The Darrell R. Wells Revocable Trust, has voting and dispositive power over the shares held by The Darrell R. Wells Revocable Trust.

(5)

Margaret C. Wells, Trustee of The Margaret C. Wells Revocable Trust, has voting and dispositive power over the shares held by The Margaret C. Wells Revocable Trust.

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

The Selling Shareholders may, from time to time, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus on any stock exchange, market or trading facility on which such common stock is traded or in private transactions. These prices will be determined by the Selling Shareholders or by agreement between the Selling Shareholders and underwriters, broker-dealers or agents who may receive fees or commissions in connection with any such sale.

The Selling Shareholders may use any one or more of the following methods when disposing of the offered shares of common stock:

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sales on the NASDAQ or any national securities exchange or quotation service on which our common stock may be listed or quoted at the time of sale;

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to or through underwriters, brokers or dealers;

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directly to one or more purchasers;

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through agents;

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“at the market offerings” to or through market makers or into an existing market for the securities;

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ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;

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block trades (which may involve crosses) in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the securities as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;

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purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account;

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privately negotiated transactions;

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an exchange distribution and/or secondary distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;

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short sales (including short sales “against the box”);

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through the writing or settlement of standardized or over-the-counter options or other hedging or derivative transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise;

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by pledge to secure debts and other obligations;

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in other ways not involving market makers or established trading markets, including direct sales to purchasers or sales effected through agents;

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broker-dealers may agree to sell a specified number of such common stock at a stipulated price per share;

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through the distributions of the shares by any selling shareholder to its general or limited partners, members, managers, affiliates, funds, employees, directors or shareholders;

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in option transactions;

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a combination of any such methods of sale; and

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any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law and described in an applicable prospectus supplement.

Any public offering price and any discounts, commissions or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers may be changed from time to time.

The Selling Shareholders may effect the distribution of the securities from time to time in one or more transactions either:

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at a fixed price or prices, which may be changed from time to time;

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at market prices prevailing at the time of sale;

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at prices relating to the prevailing market prices; or

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at negotiated prices.

The Selling Shareholders may act independently of us in making decisions with respect to the timing, manner and size of each of each sale.

The Selling Shareholders may transfer their shares of common stock in other circumstances, in which case the transferees or other successors in interest will be the selling beneficial owners for purposes of this prospectus.

The Selling Shareholders may, from time to time, pledge or grant a security interest in some or all of the shares of common stock owned by them and, if they default in the performance of their secured obligations, the pledgees or secured parties may offer and sell the shares of common stock, from time to time, under this prospectus, or under an amendment to this prospectus under Rule 424(b)(3) or other applicable provision of the Securities Act, amending the list of Selling Shareholders to include the pledgee, transferee or other successors in interest as Selling Shareholders under this prospectus. The Selling Shareholders also may transfer the shares of common stock in other circumstances, in which case the transferees, pledgees or other successors in interest will be the selling beneficial owners for purposes of this prospectus.

Offers to purchase securities may be solicited directly by the Selling Shareholders and the sale thereof may be made by the Selling Shareholders directly to institutional investors or others. In such a case, no underwriters or agents would be involved. The Selling Shareholders may use electronic media, including the internet, to sell offered securities directly.

If underwriters are used in the sale of any securities, the securities will be acquired by the underwriters for their own account and may be resold from time to time in one or more transactions, including negotiated

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transactions, at a fixed public offering price or at varying prices determined at the time of sale. The securities may be either offered to the public through underwriting syndicates represented by managing underwriters, or directly by underwriters. Generally, the underwriters’ obligations to purchase the securities will be subject to certain conditions precedent. Depending on the type of offering, the underwriters may be obligated to purchase all of the securities if they purchase any of the securities. The underwriters may receive compensation from the Selling Shareholders, for whom they may act as agents, in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions. Underwriters may sell our common stock to or through dealers, and the dealers may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions from the underwriters and/or commissions from the purchasers for whom they may act as agents. Such compensation may be in excess of customary discounts, concessions or commissions.

The Selling Shareholders may offer the securities covered by this prospectus into an existing trading market on the terms described herein. Underwriters, dealers and agents who participate in any at-the-market offerings will be described in a prospectus supplement relating thereto. The terms of each such agreement will be set forth in more detail in the applicable prospectus supplement.

The Selling Shareholders may sell the securities through agents from time to time. Generally, any agent will be acting on a best efforts basis for the period of its appointment.

If the Selling Shareholders utilize a dealer in the sale of the securities in respect of which this prospectus is delivered, the selling shareholder may sell such securities to the dealer, as principal. The dealer may then resell such securities to the public at varying prices to be determined by the dealer at the time of resale.

In effecting sales, broker-dealers or agents engaged by the selling shareholder may arrange for other broker-dealers to participate. Broker-dealers or agents may receive commissions, discounts, or concessions from the selling shareholder in amounts to be negotiated immediately before the sale. Such compensation may be in excess of customary discounts, concessions or commissions.

In connection with the sale of the securities or otherwise, the Selling Shareholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers, which may in turn engage in short sales of the securities covered by this prospectus in the course of hedging the positions they assume. The Selling Shareholders may also sell short the securities covered by this prospectus and deliver the securities to close out short positions, or loan or pledge the securities covered by this prospectus to broker-dealers that in turn may sell these securities. The Selling Shareholders may enter into options or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institution that involve the delivery of the shares offered hereby to the broker-dealers or other financial institution, who may then resell or otherwise transfer those securities.

A selling shareholder that is an entity may elect to make a pro rata in-kind distribution of shares of common stock to its members, partners or shareholders. To the extent a distributee is an affiliate of ours (or to the extent otherwise required by law), we may file an amendment or supplement to this prospectus in order to permit the distributees to use this prospectus to resell the common stock acquired in the distribution. To the extent that such members, partners or shareholders are not affiliates of ours, such members, partners or shareholders would thereby receive freely tradeable shares of our common stock pursuant to the distribution through this registration statement. A selling shareholder that is an individual may make gifts of shares of common stock covered hereby. Such donees may use the prospectus to resell the shares or, if required by law, we may file an amendment or supplement to this prospectus naming such donees. Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this prospectus, “selling shareholder” includes donees, pledgees, transferees or other successors-in-interest selling shares received from the selling shareholder as the result of a gift, pledge, partnership distribution or other transfer after the date of this prospectus, and any such persons will be named in an amendment or supplement to this prospectus.

Any underwriter, broker-dealer, or agent that participates in the distribution of the securities may be deemed to be an “underwriter” as defined in the Securities Act. Any commissions paid or any discounts or concessions allowed to any such persons, and any profits they receive on resale of the securities, may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act. We will identify any underwriters or agents and describe their compensation in an amendment or supplement to this prospectus. Any compensation paid to underwriters, dealers or agents in connection with the offering of the securities, and any discounts, concessions or commissions allowed by underwriters to participating dealers will be provided in the applicable amendment or supplement to this prospectus.

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The aggregate proceeds to the selling shareholder from the sale of any securities will be the purchase price of such securities less discounts and commissions, if any.

Underwriters or agents may purchase and sell the securities in the open market. These transactions may include over-allotment, stabilizing transactions, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids. Over-allotment involves sales in excess of the offering size, which creates a short position. Stabilizing transactions consist of bids or purchases for the purpose of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the securities and are permitted so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specified maximum. Syndicate covering transactions involve the placing of any bid on behalf of the underwriting syndicate or the effecting of any purchase to reduce a short position created in connection with the offering. The underwriters or agents also may impose a penalty bid, which permits them to reclaim selling concessions allowed to syndicate members or certain dealers if they repurchase the securities in stabilizing or covering transactions. These activities may stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the market price of the securities, which may be higher than the price that might otherwise prevail in the open market. These activities, if begun, may be discontinued at any time. These transactions may be effected on any exchange on which the securities are traded, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.

Agents, broker-dealers and underwriters may be entitled to indemnification by us and, if applicable, the selling shareholder, against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribution with respect to payments which the agents or underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof.

Agents, broker-dealers and underwriters or their affiliates may engage in transactions with, or perform services for, the Selling Shareholders (or their affiliates) in the ordinary course of business. The Selling Shareholders may also use underwriters or other third parties with whom such Selling Shareholders have a material relationship. The Selling Shareholders (or their affiliates) will describe the nature of any such relationship in the applicable amendment or supplement to this prospectus.

The Selling Shareholders are subject to the applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations under the Exchange Act, including Regulation M, which may limit the timing of purchases and sales of any of the securities offered in this prospectus by the Selling Shareholders and any other person. The anti-manipulation rules under the Exchange Act may apply to sales of securities in the market and to the actions of the Selling Shareholders and their respective affiliates.

In order to comply with the securities laws of certain states, if applicable, the securities must be sold in such jurisdictions only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers. In addition, in certain states the securities may not be sold unless they have been registered or qualified for sale in the applicable state or an exemption from the registration or qualification requirement is available and is complied with.

There can be no assurances that the Selling Shareholders will sell, nor are the Selling Shareholders required to sell, any or all of the securities offered under this prospectus.

To the extent required, this prospectus may be amended and/or supplemented from time to time to describe a specific plan of distribution. Instead of selling securities under this prospectus, the Selling Shareholders may sell the securities offered under Rule 144 or pursuant to any other available exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, if, when and to the extent such exemption is available to them at the time of such sale.

LEGAL MATTERS

The validity of the securities offered will be passed upon by Frost Brown Todd LLP, Louisville, Kentucky.

EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, incorporated in this prospectus by reference from our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, have been audited by Forvis Mazars, LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report thereon, and have been incorporated in this prospectus in reliance upon such report and upon the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

ITEM 14. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.

The following table sets forth the estimated costs and expenses, other than underwriting discounts and commissions payable by us or any selling shareholders, to be incurred by the registrant in connection with the sale or distribution of securities registered under this registration statement:

Securities and Exchange Commission Registration Fee	$	(1)*
Trustee Fees and Expenses	$	(2)
Transfer Agent Fees and Expenses	$	(2)
Printing and Engraving Fees and Expenses	$	(2)
Accounting Fees and Expenses	$	(2)
Legal Fees and Expenses	$	(2)
Miscellaneous	$	(2)
Total	$	(2)

(1)

To be deferred pursuant to Rule 456(b) of the Securities Act, and calculated in connection with an offering of securities under this registration statement pursuant to Rule 457(r) of the Securities Act.

(2)

These fees cannot be estimated at this time, as they are calculated based on the securities offered and the number of issuances. An estimate of the aggregate expenses in connection with the sale and distribution of the securities being offered will be included in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Excludes registration fees of $8,043.52 that were previously paid by the registrant relating to certain securities (the “Carry-Forward Securities”) previously registered pursuant to a prospectus supplement, filed with the SEC on April 6, 2022, to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-261637) (the “Prior Registration Statement”). The Prior Registration Statement was filed with the SEC and became automatically effective on December 14, 2021. Pursuant to Rule 415(a)(6) under the Securities Act, the registration fee relating to the Carry-Forward Securities under the Prior Registration Statement will continue to be applied to such securities hereunder.

ITEM 15. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

Section 271B.8-510 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes (“KRS”) empowers a Kentucky corporation to indemnify an individual (including his estate) who was, is or is threatened to be made a party to a threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, and whether formal or informal, because he is or was a director against liability incurred in the proceeding if: (i) he conducted himself in good faith; (ii) he honestly believed, in the case of conduct in his official capacity with the corporation, that his conduct was in the corporation’s best interests and, in all other cases, that his conduct was at least not opposed to its best interests; and (iii) in the case of any criminal proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. Indemnification may be made against the obligation to pay a judgment, settlement, penalty, fine, or reasonable expenses (including counsel fees) incurred with respect to a proceeding, except that if the proceeding was by or in the right of the corporation, indemnification may be made only against reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the proceeding.

A corporation may not indemnify a director under KRS 271B.8-510 in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation in which the director was adjudged liable to the corporation or in connection with any other proceeding charging improper personal benefit to him, whether or not involving action in his official capacity, in which he was adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by him. Pursuant to KRS 271B.8-530, a corporation may pay for or reimburse the reasonable expenses incurred by a director in advance of final disposition of the proceeding if (i) the director undertakes in writing the personal obligation to repay such advance upon an ultimate determination that he failed to

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meet such standard of conduct; and (ii) the corporation determines that the facts then known to those making the determination would not preclude indemnification.

Unless limited by the articles of incorporation, a director who has been wholly successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which he was a party because he is or was a director of the corporation is entitled to indemnification against reasonable expenses incurred by him in connection with the proceeding. Unless limited by its articles of incorporation, a Kentucky corporation may indemnify and advance expenses to an officer, employee or agent of the corporation to the same extent that it may indemnify and advance expenses to directors.

The indemnification provided by or granted pursuant to KRS 271B.8-510 is not exclusive of any rights to which those seeking indemnification may otherwise be entitled. KRS 271B.8-570 empowers a Kentucky corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of its directors, officers, employees, or agents of the corporation, whether or not the corporation would have the power under KRS 271B.8-510 or 271B.8-520 to indemnify them against such liability. Stock Yards Bancorp has purchased and maintains directors’ and officers’ liability insurance which insures the directors and officers against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933. Stock Yards Bancorp has also entered into an agreement with each of its directors which requires the corporation to indemnify the director to the fullest extent permitted by Kentucky law.

The Stock Yards Bancorp bylaws require the corporation to indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by the KBCA, any person made a party to any proceeding against any liability incurred by such person by reason of the fact that the person was a director of Stock Yards Bancorp if (a) he conducted himself in good faith; and (b) he reasonably believed (1) in the case of conduct in his official capacity with Stock Yards Bancorp, that his conduct was in its best interests; and (2) in all other cases, that his conduct was at least not opposed to Stock Yards Bancorp’s best interests; and (c) in the case of any criminal proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.

Article X of the Stock Yards Bancorp articles of incorporation limits the liability of directors of Stock Yards Bancorp pursuant to the KBCA. Under this article, directors generally will be personally liable to Stock Yards Bancorp or its shareholders for monetary damages only for transactions involving conflicts of interest or from which a director derives an improper personal benefit, acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law, and unlawful distributions.

ITEM 16. EXHIBITS.

	Exhibit Number			Description
	1.1			Form of Underwriting Agreement*
	3.1			Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., filed with the Secretary of State of Kentucky on April 25, 2013. Exhibit 3.1 to Stock Yards Bancorp’s current report on Form 8-K filed April 25, 2013, is incorporated by reference herein.
	3.2			Articles of Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to change the name of the company to Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., filed with the Secretary of State of Kentucky on April 23, 2014. Exhibit 3.1 to Stock Yards Bancorp’s current report on Form 8-K filed April 25, 2014, is incorporated by reference herein.
	3.3			Articles of Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock and adopt majority voting in uncontested director elections, filed with the Secretary of State of Kentucky on April 23, 2015. Exhibit 3.1 to Stock Yards Bancorp’s current report on Form 8-K filed April 27, 2015, is incorporated by reference herein.
	3.4			Bylaws of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. as Exhibit 3.1 to Stock Yards Bancorp’s current report on Form 8-K/A filed October 1, 2018, is incorporated by reference herein.
	4.1			Form of Indenture for Senior Debt Securities.
	4.2			Form of Indenture for Subordinated Debt Securities.

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	Exhibit Number			Description
	4.3			Form of Senior Debt Security.*
	4.4			Form of Subordinated Debt Security.*
	4.5			Form of Depositary Agreement (including Form of Depositary Receipt).*
	4.6			Form of Preferred Stock Certificate.*
	4.7			Form of Articles of Amendment for series of Preferred Stock.*
	4.8			Form of Warrant Agreement (including Form of Warrant Certificate).*
	4.9			Form of Purchase Contract Agreement.*
	4.10			Form of Unit Agreement (including Form of Unit Certificate).*
	5.1			Opinion of Frost Brown Todd LLP as to the legality of the securities described in Base Prospectus and Resale Prospectus.
	23.1			Consent of Forvis Mazars, LLP.
	23.2			Consent of Frost Brown Todd LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
	24.1			Powers of Attorney (contained in the signature pages of this Registration Statement).
	25.1			Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, under the Indenture for Senior Debt Securities.**
	25.2			Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, under the Indenture for Subordinated Debt Securities.**
	107			Filing Fee Table

To be filed, if necessary, as an exhibit to a post-effective amendment to this registration statement or as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by the registrant in connection with a specific offering and incorporated herein by reference.

To be filed separately pursuant to Section 305(b)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, if applicable.

ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.

(a)

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

(1)

To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i)

To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(ii)

To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

(iii)

To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement; provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC

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by such registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

(2)

That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3)

To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(4)

That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

(i)

Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

(ii)

Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5) or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a) (1)(i), (vii) or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which the prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

(5)

That, the purpose of determining liability of such registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, such undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of such undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, such undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i)

Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of such undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii)

Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of such undersigned registrant or used or referred to by such undersigned registrant;

(iii)

The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about such undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of such undersigned registrant; and

(iv)

Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by such undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

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(b)

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of such registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c)

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, such registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by a registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of a registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, that registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

(d)

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file an application for the purpose of determining the eligibility of the trustee to act under subsection (a) of section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act (“Act”) in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission under section 305(b)(2) of the Act.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Louisville, Commonwealth of Kentucky, on December 4, 2024.

STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.

By:

/s/ T. Clay Stinnett

T. Clay Stinnett, Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints James A. Hillebrand and T. Clay Stinnett his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting alone, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and any and all additional registration statements filed under Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 462(e), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ James A. Hillebrand James A. Hillebrand	Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO (Principal Executive Officer)	December 4, 2024
/s/ T. Clay Stinnett T. Clay Stinnett	EVP, Treasurer and CFO (Principal Financial Officer)	December 4, 2024
/s/ Michael B. Newton Michael B. Newton	SVP and Principal Accounting Officer	December 4, 2024
/s/ Philip S. Poindexter Philip S. Poindexter	Director and President	December 4, 2024
/s/ Stephen M. Priebe Stephen M. Priebe	Lead Director	December 4, 2024
/s/ Shannon B. Arvin Shannon B. Arvin	Director	December 4, 2024

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Paul J. Bickel III Paul J. Bickel III	Director	December 4, 2024
/s/ Allison J. Donovan Allison J. Donovan	Director	December 4, 2024
/s/ David P. Heintzman David P. Heintzman	Director	December 4, 2024
/s/ Carl G. Herde Carl G. Herde	Director	December 4, 2024
/s/ Richard A. Lechleiter Richard A. Lechleiter	Director	December 4, 2024
/s/ Edwin S. Saunier Edwin S. Saunier	Director	December 4, 2024
/s/ John L. Schutte John L. Schutte	Director	December 4, 2024
/s/ Laura L. Wells Laura L. Wells	Director	December 4, 2024

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Exhibit 4.1

STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.

SENIOR DEBT INDENTURE

DATED AS OF ______________, 20__

[__________________], AS TRUSTEE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE		1

Section 1.1	Definitions	1
Section 1.2	Other Definitions	5
Section 1.3	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act	5
Section 1.4	Rules of Construction	5

ARTICLE II THE SECURITIES		6

Section 2.1	Issuable in Series	6
Section 2.2	Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities	6
Section 2.3	Execution and Authentication	8
Section 2.4	Registrar and Paying Agent	9
Section 2.5	Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust	9
Section 2.6	Securityholder Lists	9
Section 2.7	Transfer and Exchange	10
Section 2.8	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities	10
Section 2.9	Outstanding Securities	11
Section 2.10	Treasury Securities	11
Section 2.11	Temporary Securities	11
Section 2.12	Cancellation	12
Section 2.13	Defaulted Interest	12
Section 2.14	Global Securities	12
Section 2.15	CUSIP Numbers	13

ARTICLE III REDEMPTION		14

Section 3.1	Notice to Trustee	14
Section 3.2	Selection of Securities to be Redeemed	14
Section 3.3	Notice of Redemption	14
Section 3.4	Effect of Notice of Redemption	15
Section 3.5	Deposit of Redemption Price	15
Section 3.6	Securities Redeemed in Part	15

ARTICLE IV COVENANTS		16

Section 4.1	Payment of Principal and Interest	16
Section 4.2	SEC Reports	16
Section 4.3	Compliance Certificate	16
Section 4.4	Stay, Extension and Usury Laws	16
Section 4.5	Corporate Existence	17
Section 4.6	Taxes	17

ARTICLE V SUCCESSORS		17

Section 5.1	When Company May Merge, Etc.	17
Section 5.2	Successor Corporation Substituted	17

ARTICLE VI DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES		18

Section 6.1	Events of Default	18
Section 6.2	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	19
Section 6.3	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee	20
Section 6.4	Trustee may File Proofs of Claim	20
Section 6.5	Trustee may Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities	21
Section 6.6	Application of Money Collected	21
Section 6.7	Limitation on Suits	21
Section 6.8	Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest	22
Section 6.9	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	22
Section 6.10	Rights and Remedies Cumulative	22
Section 6.11	Delay or Omission Not Waiver	22
Section 6.12	Control by Holders	23
Section 6.13	Waiver of Past Defaults	23
Section 6.14	Undertaking for Costs	23

ARTICLE VII TRUSTEE		23

Section 7.1	Duties of Trustee	23
Section 7.2	Rights of Trustee	25
Section 7.3	Individual Rights of Trustee	27
Section 7.4	Trustee’s Disclaimer	27
Section 7.5	Notice of Defaults	27
Section 7.6	Reports by Trustee to Holders	27
Section 7.7	Compensation and Indemnity	27
Section 7.8	Replacement of Trustee	28
Section 7.9	Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc.	29
Section 7.10	Eligibility; Disqualification	29
Section 7.11	Referential Collection of Claims Against Company	29

ARTICLE VIII SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE		29

Section 8.1	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	29
Section 8.2	Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification	30
Section 8.3	Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series	31
Section 8.4	Covenant Defeasance	32
Section 8.5	Repayment to Company	33

ARTICLE IX AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS		33

Section 9.1	Without Consent of Holders	33
Section 9.2	With Consent of Holders	35

Section 9.3	Limitations	35
Section 9.4	Compliance with Trust Indenture Act	36
Section 9.5	Revocation and Effect of Consents	36
Section 9.6	Notation on or Exchange of Securities	36
Section 9.7	Trustee Protected	36

ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS		37

Section 10.1	Trust Indenture Act Controls	37
Section 10.2	Notices	37
Section 10.3	Communication by Holders with Other Holders	37
Section 10.4	Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent	38
Section 10.5	Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion	38
Section 10.6	Rules by Trustee and Agents	38
Section 10.7	Legal Holidays	38
Section 10.8	No Recourse Against Others	38
Section 10.9	Counterparts	39
Section 10.10	Governing Laws	39
Section 10.11	No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements	39
Section 10.12	Successors	39
Section 10.13	Severability	39
Section 10.14	Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.	39

ARTICLE XI SINKING FUNDS		39

Section 11.1	Applicability of Article	39
Section 11.2	Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities	40
Section 11.3	Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund	40

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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE

Trust Indenture		Indenture
Act Section		Section
Section 310	(a)(1)	7.10
	(a)(2)	7.10
	(a)(3)	N/A
	(a)(4)	N/A
	(a)(5)	7.10
	(b)	7.10
Section 311	(a)	7.11
	(b)	7.11
	(c)	N/A
Section 312	(a)	2.6
	(b)	10.3
	(c)	10.3
Section 313	(a)	7.6
	(b)(1)	7.6
	(b)(2)	7.6
	(c)(1)	7.6
	(d)	7.6
Section 314	(a)	4.2, 10.5
	(b)	N/A
	(c)(1)	10.4
	(c)(2)	10.4
	(c)(3)	N/A
	(d)	N/A
	(e)	10.5
Section 315	(a)	7.1
	(b)	7.5
	(c)	7.1
	(d)	7.1
	(e)	6.14
Section 316	(a)	2.10
	(a)(1)(A)	6.12
	(a)(1)(B)	6.13
	(b)	6.8
Section 317	(a)(1)	6.3
	(a)(2)	6.4
	(b)	2.5
Section 318	(a)	10.1

* This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of the Indenture.

This SENIOR DEBT INDENTURE, dated as of _____________, 20__ is made by and between STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC., a Kentucky corporation (the “Company”), and [______________], not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee (the “Trustee”).

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities issued under this Indenture:

ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.1 Definitions.

“Additional Amounts” means any additional amounts which are required hereby or by any Security, under circumstances specified herein or therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes imposed on Holders specified herein or therein and which are owing to such Holders.

“Affiliate” 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, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any person, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by agreement or otherwise.

“Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent.

“Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper in an official language of the country of publication customarily published at least once a day for at least five days in each calendar week and of general circulation in the place in connection with which the term is used. If it shall be impractical in the opinion of the Trustee to make any publication of any notice required hereby in an Authorized Newspaper, any publication or other notice in lieu thereof that is made or given by the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient publication of such notice.

“Bearer Security” means any Security, including any interest coupon appertaining thereto, that does not provide for the identification of the Holder thereof.

“Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee thereof.

“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been adopted by the Board of Directors or pursuant to authorization by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of the certificate and delivered to the Trustee.

“Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, any day except a Saturday, Sunday, a legal holiday or any other day on which banking institutions in the City of New York, New York, or any Place of Payment are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

“Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock.

“Company” means the party named as such above until a successor replaces it and thereafter means the successor.

“Company Order” means a written order signed in the name of the Company by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer.

“Company Request” means a written request signed in the name of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at [____________________], Attention: Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., Administrator, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

“Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

“Depository” means, with respect to the Securities of any Series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the person designated as Depository for such Series by the Company, which Depository shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act; and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Depository” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Depository with respect to the Securities of such Series.

“Discount Security” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Stated Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

“Dollars” and “$” means the currency of the United States of America. “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect as of the date of determination.

“Global Security” or “Global Securities” means a Security or Securities, as the case may be, in the form established pursuant to Section 2.2 evidencing all or part of a Series of Securities, issued to the Depository for such Series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depository or nominee.

“Holder” or “Securityholder” means a person in whose name a Security is registered or the holder of a Bearer Security.

“Indenture” means this Senior Debt Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.

“interest” with respect to any Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.

“Maturity”, when used with respect to any Security or installment of principal thereof, means the date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise.

“Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.

“person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, limited liability company, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

“Place of Payment”, when used with respect to the Securities of or within any Series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities are payable as specified and as contemplated by Section 2.1.

“principal” or “principal amount” of a Security means the principal amount of the Security plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, the Security.

“Responsible Officer” means any officer of the Trustee in its Corporate Trust Office and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject, in each case, who has direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Securities” means the debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

“Series” or “Series of Securities” means each series of debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company created pursuant to Section 2.1 and Section 2.2.

“Stated Maturity” when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.

“Subsidiary” of any specified person means any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that person or a combination thereof.

“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act as so amended.

“Trustee” means the person named as the “Trustee” 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 “Trustee” shall mean each person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that Series.

“U.S. Government Obligations” means securities which are (a) direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (b) obligations 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, and which in the case of clauses (a) and (b) are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, 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 depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

Section 1.2 Other Definitions.

Term		Defined in Section
“Bankruptcy Law		6.1
“Custodian”		6.1
“Event of Default”		6.1
“Legal Holiday”		10.7
“mandatory sinking fund payment”		11.1
“optional sinking fund payment”		11.1
“Paying Agent”		2.4
“Registrar”		2.4
“Service Agent”		2.4
“successor person”		5.1

Section 1.3 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

“Commission” means the SEC.

“indenture securities” means the Securities.

“indenture security holder” means a Securityholder.

“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.

“obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company and any successor obligor upon the Securities.

All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as so defined.

Section 1.4 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)

a term has the meaning assigned to it;

(b)

an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(c)

references to “generally accepted accounting principles” and “GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, in effect as of the time when and for the period as to which such accounting principles are to be applied;

(d)

“or” is not exclusive;

(e)

words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular; and

(f)

provisions apply to successive events and transactions.

ARTICLE II
THE SECURITIES

Section 2.1 Issuable in Series. The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be identical except as may be set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution. In the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time, the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution may provide for the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date, record date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to be determined. Securities may differ between Series in respect of any matters; provided that all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

Section 2.2 Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities. At or prior to the issuance of any Securities within a Series, the following shall be established (as to the Series generally, in the case of Section 2.2(a) and either as to such Securities within the Series or as to the Series generally, in the case of Section 2.2(b) through Section 2.2(q)) by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or an Officers’ Certificate:

(a)

the title of the Series (which shall distinguish the Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other Series);

(b)

the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) at which the Securities of the Series will be issued;

(c)

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 2.7, Section 2.8, Section 2.11, Section 3.6 or Section 9.6);

(d)

the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is payable;

(e)

the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) per annum or, if applicable, the method used to determine such rate or rates (including, but not limited to, any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index) at which the Securities of the Series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest, if any, shall accrue, the date or dates on which such interest, if any, shall commence and be payable and any regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;

(f)

the Place of Payment where the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series shall be payable, where the Securities of such 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 such Series and this Indenture may be served, and the method of such payment, if by wire transfer, mail or other means;

(g)

if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the Series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;

(h)

the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase the Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the Series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

(i)

the dates, if any, on which and the price or prices at which the Securities of the Series will be repurchased by the Company at the option of the Holders thereof and other detailed terms and provisions of such repurchase obligations;

(j)

if other than minimum denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple in excess thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be issuable;

(k)

the forms of the Securities of the Series in bearer or fully registered form (and, if in fully registered form, whether the Securities will be issuable as Global Securities);

(l)

if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2;

(m)

the provisions, if any, relating to any lien, security or encumbrance provided for the Securities of the Series;

(n)

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 6.2;

(o)

any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in ARTICLE IV or ARTICLE V which applies to Securities of the Series;

(p)

any other terms of the Securities of the Series (which may modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to such Series); and

(q)

any depositories, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate calculation agents or other agents with respect to Securities of such Series if other than those appointed herein.

All Securities of any one Series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate referred to above, and the authorized principal amount of any Series may not be increased to provide for issuances of additional Securities of such Series, unless otherwise provided in such Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate.

Section 2.3 Execution and Authentication.

Two Officers shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.

If an Officer whose signature is on a Security No longer holds that office at the time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid.

A Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent. Such a signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.

The Trustee shall at any time, and from time to time, authenticate Securities for original issue in the principal amount provided in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order. Such Company Order may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to oral or electronic instructions from the Company or its duly authorized agent or agents, which oral instructions shall be promptly confirmed in writing. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication unless otherwise provided by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate.

The aggregate principal amount of Securities of any Series outstanding at any time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal amount for such Series set forth in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2, except as provided in Section 2.8.

Prior to the issuance of Securities of any Series, the Trustee shall have received and (subject to Section 7.2) shall be fully protected in relying on: (a) the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officers’ Certificate establishing the form of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series and the terms of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series, (b) an Officers’ Certificate complying with Section 10.4, and (c) an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.4.

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not be taken lawfully; or (b) if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any then outstanding Series of Securities.

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.

Section 2.4 Registrar and Paying Agent. The Company shall maintain, with respect to each Series of Securities, at the Place of Payment specified with respect to such Series pursuant to Section 2.2, an office or agency where Securities of such Series may be presented or surrendered for payment (the “Paying Agent”), where Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (the “Registrar”) and where notices and demands (other than service of process) to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be served (the “Service Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register with respect to each Series of Securities and to their transfer and exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the name or address, of each Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the name and 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 (other than service of process).

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more co-registrars, additional paying agents or additional service agents and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that No such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligations to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent and Service Agent in each place so specified pursuant to Section 2.2 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 name or address of any such co-registrar, additional paying agent or additional service agent. The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar; the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent; and the term “Service Agent” includes any additional service agent.

The Company hereby appoints the Trustee as the initial Registrar, Paying Agent and Service Agent for each Series unless another Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent, as the case may be, is appointed prior to the time Securities of that Series are first issued.

Section 2.5 Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust. The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust, for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities, or the Trustee, all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or interest on the Series of Securities, and will notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment. While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) shall have No further liability for the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities all money held by it as Paying Agent.

Section 2.6 Securityholder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities.

Section 2.7   Transfer and Exchange. Where Securities of a Series are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such transactions are met. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Section 2.11, Section 3.6 or Section 9.6).

Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange Securities of any Series for the period beginning at the opening of business 15 days immediately preceding the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that Series selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Securities selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

Section 2.8 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (a) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (b) such security or satisfactory 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 upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

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.

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, 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 the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Security of any Series issued pursuant to this Section 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.

The provisions of this Section 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.

Section 2.9         Outstanding Securities. The Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions in the interest on a Global Security effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof and those described in this Section as not outstanding.

If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser.

If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds on the Maturity of Securities of a Series money sufficient to pay such Securities payable on that date, then on and after that date such Securities of the Series cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue (to the extent of the Maturity of such Security if less than the entire principal amount is due and payable on such date of Maturity).

A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security.

In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

Section 2.10       Treasury Securities. In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities of a Series have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, Securities of a Series owned by the Company shall be disregarded, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities of a Series that the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.

Section 2.11       Temporary Securities. Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon a Company Order. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee upon request shall authenticate definitive Securities of the same Series and Stated Maturity in exchange for temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, temporary Securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the definitive Securities.

Section 2.12       Cancellation. All Securities and coupons surrendered for payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder, 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 any such Securities and coupons and Securities and coupons surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. 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 cancelled by the Trustee. If the Company shall so acquire any of the Securities, however, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. Cancelled Securities and coupons held by the Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee in accordance with its customary procedures. The Company by Company Order may direct the Trustee to deliver a certificate of such destruction to the Company.

Section 2.13       Defaulted Interest. If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on a Series of Securities, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent permitted by law, any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons who are Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date. The Company shall fix the record date and payment date. At least 10 days before the record date, the Company shall mail to the Trustee and to each Securityholder of the Series a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount of interest to be paid. The Company may pay defaulted interest in any other lawful manner.

Section 2.14       Global Securities.

(a)

Terms of Securities. A Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate shall establish whether the Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and the Depository for such Global Security or Securities.

(b)

Transfer and Exchange. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in Section 2.7 and in addition thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to Section 2.7 for Securities registered in the names of Holders other than the Depository for such Security or its nominee only if (i) such Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such Global Security or if at any time such Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, the Company fails to appoint a successor Depository registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days of such event, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented by such Global Security shall have happened and be continuing. Any Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as the Depository shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security with like tenor and terms.

Except as provided in this Section 2.14(b), a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository with respect to such Global Security to a nominee of such Depository, by a nominee of such Depository to such Depository or another nominee of such Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such a successor Depository.

(c)

Legend. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

“This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of the Depository or a nominee of the Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture, and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository, by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such a successor Depository.”

(d)

Acts of Holders. The Depository, as a Holder, may appoint agents and otherwise authorize participants to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under the Indenture.

(e)

Payments. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Indenture, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.2, payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on any Global Security shall be made to the Holder thereof.

(f)

Consents, Declaration and Directions. Except as provided in Section 2.14(e), the Company, the Trustee and any Agent shall treat a person as the Holder of such principal amount of outstanding Securities of such Series represented by a Global Security as shall be specified in a written statement of the Depository with respect to such Global Security, for purposes of obtaining any consents, declarations, waivers or directions required to be given by the Holders pursuant to this Indenture.

Section 2.15       CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” 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 elements of identification printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.

ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION

Section 3.1         Notice to Trustee. The Company may, with respect to any Series of Securities, reserve the right to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof prior to the Stated Maturity thereof at such time and on such terms as provided for in such Securities. If a Series of Securities is redeemable and the Company wants or is obligated to redeem prior to the Stated Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, it shall notify the Trustee of the redemption date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice at least 45 days before the redemption date (or such shorter notice as may be acceptable to the Trustee).

Section 3.2         Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officers’ Certificate, if less than all the Securities of any Series issued on the same day with the same terms are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the redemption date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such Series issued on such date with the same terms not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate, and, in the case of global Securities, in accordance with the procedures of the depositary; provided that such method complies with the rules of any national securities exchange or quotation system on which the Securities are listed, and may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that Series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such Series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that Series; provided, however, that No such partial redemption shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Security not redeemed to less than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such Series.

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

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 Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security to be redeemed is a Global Security then any partial redemption of that Series of Securities will be made in accordance with the Depository’s applicable procedures among all Holders of such Series of Securities.

Section 3.3         Notice of Redemption. Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate, at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company shall mail a notice of redemption by first-class mail to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish on one occasion a notice in an Authorized Newspaper.

The notice shall identify the Securities of the Series to be redeemed and shall state:

(a)

the redemption date;

(b)

the redemption price and accrued interest, if any, to the redemption date payable as provided;

(c)

the name and address of the Paying Agent;

(d)

that Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

(e)

that interest on Securities of the Series called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;

(f)

the CUSIP number, if any;

(g)

any conditions precedent that must be satisfied prior to the redemption; and

(h)

any other information as may be required by the terms of the particular Series or the Securities of a Series being redeemed.

At the Company’s request given at least five Business Days prior to the date such notice is given to Holders, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense.

Section 3.4         Effect of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of redemption is mailed or published as provided in Section 3.3, Securities of a Series called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price, subject to, with respect to any redemption that is conditioned upon the satisfaction of any conditions precedent, (i) the delay of such redemption date until such time as any or all of such conditions precedent have been satisfied or (ii) the revocation of such redemption if the Company determines that such conditions precedent will not be satisfied. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued interest to, but excluding, the redemption date; provided that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the redemption date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities (or one or more predecessor Securities) registered at the close of business on the relevant record date therefor according to their terms and the terms of this Indenture.

Section 3.5         Deposit of Redemption Price. On or before the redemption date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Securities to be redeemed on that date.

Section 3.6         Securities Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security of the same Series and the same maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.

ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS

Section 4.1         Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.

Section 4.2         SEC Reports. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA Section 314(a). Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on an Officers’ Certificate).

Section 4.3         Compliance Certificate. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an Officers’ Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his/her knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he may have knowledge).

The Company will, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

Section 4.4         Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture or the Securities and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, 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 has been enacted.

Section 4.5          Corporate Existence. Subject to ARTICLE V, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is No longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders.

Section 4.6         Taxes. The Company shall pay prior to delinquency all taxes, assessments and governmental levies, except as contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings.

ARTICLE V
SUCCESSORS

Section 5.1         When Company May Merge, Etc. The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, any person (a “successor person”), nor shall the Company permit any other person to consolidate with or merge into it or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to it, in either case unless:

(a)

the Company is the surviving corporation or the successor person (if other than the Company) is a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of any U.S. domestic jurisdiction and expressly assumes the Company’s obligations on the Securities and under this Indenture; and

(b)

immediately after giving effect to the transaction, and treating any indebtedness that becomes the obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as having been incurred at the effective date of such transaction No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officers’ Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and any supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture.

Section 5.2         Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition 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 has been named as the Company herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Company in the case of a sale, conveyance or other disposition (other than a lease) shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

ARTICLE VI
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Section 6.1         Events of Default.

“Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events, unless in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate, it is provided that such Series shall not have the benefit of said Event of Default:

(a)

default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that Series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (unless the entire amount of such payment is deposited by the Company with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent prior to the expiration of such period of 30 days);

(b)

default in the payment of principal of any Security of that Series at its Maturity;

(c)

default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due in respect of any Security of that Series;

(d)

default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty for which the consequences of nonperformance or breach are addressed elsewhere in this Section 6.1 and other than a covenant or warranty that has been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of Series of Securities other than that Series), which default or breach continues uncured or unwaived in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of not less than 25.0% 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 “Notice of Default” hereunder;

(e)

the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

commences a voluntary case,

ii.

consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,

iii.

consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property,

iv.

makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or

generally is unable to pay its debts as the same become due; or

(f)

a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

is for relief against the Company in an involuntary case,

ii.

appoints a Custodian of the Company or for all or substantially all of its property, or

iii.

orders the liquidation of the Company, and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or

(g)

any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that Series, which is specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officers’ Certificate, in accordance with Section 2.2(n).

The term “Bankruptcy Law” means title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal or State law for the relief of debtors. The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

Section 6.2         Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. Except to the extent provided otherwise in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate for such Series, if an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any Series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or Section 6.1(f)), then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25.0% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Securities of that Series 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 portion thereof) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(e) or Section 6.1(f) shall occur, the principal amount (or portion thereof) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding Securities shall automatically become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to 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 in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that Series, other than the non-payment of the principal and interest, if any, of Securities of that Series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.13.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 6.3          Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. The Company covenants that if:

(a)

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,

(b)

default is made in the payment of principal of any Security at the Maturity thereof, or

(c)

default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the terms of a Security, then, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and any overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

If the Company fails 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 such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or deemed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.

If an Event of Default with respect to any 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.

Section 6.4         Trustee may File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities 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 on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be 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 allowed in such judicial proceeding, and (b) 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 for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7.

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 the Securities 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.

Section 6.5         Trustee may Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities. 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 the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

Section 6.6         Application of Money Collected. Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 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 on account of principal 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:

First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7; and

Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and interest on the 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 Securities for principal and interest, respectively; and

Third: To the Company.

Section 6.7         Limitation on Suits. 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 or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

(a)

such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that Series;

(b)

the Holders of not less than 25.0% 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;

(c)

such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

(d)

the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

(e)

No direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series;

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 of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, 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.

Section 6.8         Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest. 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 interest, if any, on such Security on the Stated Maturity or 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.

Section 6.9         Restoration of Rights and Remedies. 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.

Section 6.10       Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.8, 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, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 6.11       Delay or Omission Not Waiver. 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 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.

Section 6.12       Control by Holders. The Holders of 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:

(a)

such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture;

(b)

the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and

(c)

subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability.

Section 6.13       Waiver of Past Defaults. 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 (a) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of such Series (provided, however, that the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration) or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security of such Series affected. 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.

Section 6.14       Undertaking for Costs. 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 any action taken, suffered 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’ fees, 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; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, 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 of any Series, 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 Stated Maturity or Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date).

ARTICLE VII
TRUSTEE

Section 7.1         Duties of Trustee.

(a)

If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of their own affairs.

(b)

Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

The Trustee need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and No others, and No implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers. 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. The permissive right of the Trustee to take the actions permitted by this Indenture shall not be construed as an obligation or duty to do so.

ii.

In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon Officers’ Certificates or Opinions of Counsel furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, in the case of any such Officers’ Certificates or Opinions of Counsel which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such Officers’ Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

(c)

The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, its own bad faith or its own willful misconduct, except that:

This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section.

ii.

The Trustee shall 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.

iii.

The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it with respect to Securities of any Series in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series.

(d)

Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (g) of this Section.

(e)

The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power at the request or direction of any Holder unless it receives security or indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense.

(f)

The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company. Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

(g)

No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or satisfactory indemnity against such risk is not assured to it.

(h)

The Paying Agent, the Registrar and any authenticating agent shall be entitled to the protections, immunities and standard of care as are set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section with respect to the Trustee.

Section 7.2         Rights of Trustee.

(a)

The Trustee may rely on and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

(b)

Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel, or both. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers’ Certificate and/or Opinion of Counsel.

(c)

The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care. No Depository shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any act or omission by any Depository.

(d)

The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers, provided that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute negligence or willful misconduct.

(e)

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 of Securities unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

(f)

The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the 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 without negligence and in good faith and in reliance thereon.

(g)

The Trustee may conclusively rely upon and 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.

(h)

The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities generally or the Securities of a particular Series and this Indenture.

(i)

Delivery of reports, information and documents (including, without limitation, reports contemplated in this Section) to the Trustee is for information purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipts thereof shall not constitute actual or constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with covenants under the Indenture, Securities, and guarantees (if any), as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates.

(j)

The Trustee shall have No responsibility for monitoring the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants under this Indenture.

(k)

The Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for punitive, special, indirect, 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 actions.

(l)

Any permissive right of the Trustee to take or refrain from taking actions enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty.

(m)

The Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Indenture arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God; earthquakes; fire; flood; terrorism; wars and other military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics; riots; interruptions; loss or malfunction of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communication services; accidents; labor disputes; and acts of civil or military authorities and governmental action.

(n)

The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series.

Section 7.3         Individual Rights of Trustee. The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee is also subject to Section 7.10 and Section 7.11.

Section 7.4         Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Trustee makes No representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities other than its authentication.

Section 7.5         Notice of Defaults. If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Securities of any Series and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder of the Securities of that Series and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper, notice of a Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs or, if later, after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge of such Default or Event of Default. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security of any Series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as it in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Securityholders of that Series.

Section 7.6         Reports by Trustee to Holders. Within 60 days after September 15 in each year, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on the register kept by the Registrar and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish in an Authorized Newspaper, a brief report dated as of such September 15, in accordance with, and to the extent required under, TIA Section 313.

A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders of any Series shall be filed with the SEC and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Securities of that Series are listed. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee when Securities of any Series are listed on any stock exchange.

Section 7.7         Compensation and Indemnity. The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time compensation for its services as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree upon in writing. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable expenses incurred by it. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel.

The Company shall indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee (including the cost of defending itself) against any loss, liability, claim (including any between the parties to this Indenture), suit or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based upon, measured by or determined by the income of the Trustee) incurred by it except as set forth in the next paragraph in the performance of its duties under this Indenture as Trustee or Agent. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. This indemnification shall apply to officers, directors, employees, shareholders and agents of the Trustee.

The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee or by any officer, director, employee, shareholder or agent of the Trustee to the extent of its negligence or willful misconduct.

To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any Series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Securities of that Series.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(e) or Section 6.1(f) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

The provisions of this Section shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the termination of this Indenture.

Section 7.8         Replacement of Trustee. A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section.

The Trustee may resign with respect to the Securities of one or more Series by so notifying the Company at least 30 days prior to the date of the proposed resignation. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of any Series may remove the Trustee with respect to that Series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company. The Company may remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of one or more Series if:

(a)

the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

(b)

the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;

(c)

a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

(d)

the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.

If a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any one or more Series does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities of the applicable Series may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee with respect to each Series of Securities for which it is acting as Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to each Securityholder of each such Series and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish such notice on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.7 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses and liabilities incurred by it prior to such replacement.

Section 7.9         Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another person, the successor person without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.

Section 7.10       Eligibility; Disqualification. This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA Sections 310(a)(1), 310(a)(2) and 310(a)(5). The Trustee shall always have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 310(b).

Section 7.11       Referential Collection of Claims Against Company. The Trustee is subject to TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.

ARTICLE VIII
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

Section 8.1         Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall upon Company Order cease to be of further effect (except as hereinafter provided in this Section 8.1), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

(a)

either:

all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

ii.

all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation

(1)

have become due and payable, or

(2)

will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or

(3)

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; or

(4)

are deemed paid and discharged pursuant to Section 8.3, as applicable;

and the Company, in the case of clauses (1), (2) and (3) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount sufficient for the purpose of paying and discharging the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable on or prior to the date of such deposit) or to the Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the case may be;

(b)

the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and

(c)

the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ 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.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.7, and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a) of this Section, the provisions of Section 2.4, Section 2.7, Section 2.8, Section 8.1, Section 8.2 and Section 8.5 shall survive.

Section 8.2         Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification.

(a)

Subject to the provisions of Section 8.5, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, all money and U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or Section 8.4 and all money received by the Trustee in respect of U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or Section 8.4, 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 (other than the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Section 8.3 or Section 8.4.

(b)

The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 8.3 or Section 8.4 or the interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or on behalf of Holders.

(c)

The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any U.S. Government Obligations or money held by it as provided in Section 8.3 or Section 8.4 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such U.S. Government Obligations or money were deposited or received. This provision shall not authorize the sale by the Trustee of any U.S. Government Obligations held under this Indenture.

Section 8.3         Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series. Unless this Section 8.3 is otherwise specified, pursuant to Section 2.2(p), to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding Securities of any Series on the 90th day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (c) hereof, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such outstanding Securities of such Series, shall No longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall, at Company Request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:

(a)

the rights of Holders of Securities of such Series to receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph (c) hereof, (i) payment of the principal of and each installment of principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the Securities of such Series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such Series;

(b)

the provisions of Section 2.4, Section 2.7, Section 2.8, Section 8.2, Section 8.3 and Section 8.5; and

(c)

the rights, powers, trust and immunities of the Trustee hereunder; provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

the Company shall have deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for and dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming No tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a regionally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest, if any, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of interest or principal and such sinking fund payments are due;

ii.

such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

iii.

No Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 90th day after such date;

iv.

the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (B) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred;

the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities of such Series over any other creditors of the Company or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company; and

vi.

the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

Section 8.4         Covenant Defeasance. Unless this Section 8.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.2(p) to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, on and after the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (a) hereof, the Company may omit to comply with respect to the Securities of any Series with any term, provision or condition set forth under Section 4.2, Section 4.3, Section 4.4, Section 4.6, and Section 5.1 as well as any additional covenants specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2(p) (and the failure to comply with any such covenants shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to such Series under Section 6.1) and the occurrence of any event specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2(n) and designated as an Event of Default shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default hereunder, with respect to the Securities of such Series; provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

(a)

With reference to this Section 8.4, the Company has deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming No tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a regionally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest, if any, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of interest or principal and such sinking fund payments are due;

(b)

Such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

(c)

(d)

The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance had not occurred; and

(e)

The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the covenant defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

Section 8.5         Repayment to Company. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that remains unclaimed for six months. After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person.

ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

Section 9.1         Without Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any Securityholder by indentures supplemental hereto:

(a)

to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;

(b)

to comply with ARTICLE V;

(c)

to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company, or successive successions, pursuant to ARTICLE XI, and the assumption by the successor corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company herein and in the Securities;

(d)

to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as its Board of Directors shall consider to be for the protection of the holders of Securities, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any of such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth, with such period of grace, if any, and subject to such conditions as such supplemental indenture may provide;

(e)

to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal, to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of or any premium or interest on Bearer Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of Securities of any Series or any related coupons in any material respect;

(f)

to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA, or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted, and to add to this Indenture such other provisions as may be expressly permitted by the TIA, excluding however, the provisions referred to in Section 316(a)(2) of the TIA or any corresponding provision in any similar federal statute hereafter enacted;

(g)

to add any additional Events of Default (and if such Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all Series of Securities, stating that such are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such Series);

(h)

to modify, eliminate or add to any of the provisions of this Indenture; provided that any such change or elimination (i) shall become effective only when there is No Security of any Series Outstanding and created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture that is entitled to the benefit of such provision or (ii) shall not apply to any Security Outstanding;

(i)

to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities;

(j)

to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder;

(k)

to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by this Indenture;

(l)

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; or

(m)

to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.

Section 9.2         With Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of each Series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Securityholders of each such Series. Except as provided in Section 6.13, the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series) may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities with respect to such Series.

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Securities under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof. After a supplemental indenture or waiver under this Section becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders of Securities affected thereby and, if any Bearer Securities affected thereby are outstanding, publish on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper, a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver. Any failure by the Company to mail or publish such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.

Section 9.3         Limitations. Without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or waiver may not:

(a)

reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

(b)

reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any Security;

(c)

reduce the principal or change the Stated Maturity of any Security or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;

(d)

reduce the principal amount of Discount Securities payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof;

(e)

waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security (except a rescission of acceleration of the Securities of any Series by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);

(f)

make the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security payable in any currency other than that stated in the Security;

(g)

make any change in Section 6.8, Section 6.13, or Section 9.3 (this sentence); or

(h)

waive a redemption payment with respect to any Security.

Section 9.4         Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect.

Section 9.5         Revocation and Effect of Consents. Until an amendment is set forth in a supplemental indenture or a waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date of the supplemental indenture or the date the waiver becomes effective.

Any amendment or waiver once effective shall bind every Securityholder of each Series affected by such amendment or waiver unless it is of the type described in any of clauses (a) through (h) of Section 9.3. In that case, the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security.

Section 9.6         Notation on or Exchange of Securities. The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated. The Company in exchange for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate upon request new Securities of that Series that reflect the amendment or waiver.

Section 9.7         Trustee Protected. In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent have been satisfied, the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such supplemental indenture is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms. The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects it.

ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS

Section 10.1       Trust Indenture Act Controls. If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, such required or deemed provision shall control.

Section 10.2       Notices. Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other, or by a Holder to the Company or the Trustee, is duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail:

if to the Company:

[                    ]
[                    ]
[                    ]

if to the Trustee:

[                    ]
[                    ]
[                    ]

The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

Any notice or communication to a Securityholder shall be mailed by first-class mail to his address shown on the register kept by the Registrar and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, published in an Authorized Newspaper. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder of any Series or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders of that or any other Series.

If a notice or communication is mailed or published in the manner provided above, within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the Securityholder receives it.

If the Company mails a notice or communication to Securityholders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Indenture or any Security, where the Indenture or any Security provides for notice of any event or any other communication (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) to a Securityholder of a Security (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to Depository (or its designee) pursuant to the applicable procedures from Depository or its designee, including by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices at Depository.

Section 10.3       Communication by Holders with Other Holders. Securityholders of any Series may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other Securityholders of that Series or any other Series with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities of that Series or all Series. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).

Section 10.4       Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:

(a)

an Officers’ Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

(b)

an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

Section 10.5       Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA Section 314(e) and shall include:

(a)

a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

(b)

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;

(c)

a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

(d)

a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Section 10.6       Rules by Trustee and Agents. The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by, or a meeting of, Securityholders of one or more Series. Any Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

Section 10.7       Legal Holidays. Unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, a “Legal Holiday” is any day that is not a Business Day. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and No interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

Section 10.8       No Recourse Against Others. A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 10.9       Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or electronic format (e.g., “.pdf” or “.tif”) transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or electronic format (e.g., “.pdf” or “.tif”) shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

Section 10.10     Governing Laws. THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN SUCH STATE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF (OTHER THAN SECTIONS 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW).

Section 10.11     No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

Section 10.12     Successors. All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor.

Section 10.13     Severability. 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.

Section 10.14     Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table, and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in No way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

ARTICLE XI
SINKING FUNDS

Section 11.1       Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of a Series, except as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued pursuant to this Indenture.

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any Series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment” and any other amount provided for by the terms of Securities of such Series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of Securities of any Series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 11.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any Series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of such Series.

Section 11.2       Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities. The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any Series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (a) deliver outstanding Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable (other than any of such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (b) apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable and which have been repurchased by the Company or redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments or other optional redemptions pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together with an Officers’ Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 15 days prior to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 11.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption, except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that Series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment required to be released to the Company.

Section 11.3       Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate in respect of a particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, 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 of Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 11.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a particular Series of Securities) before 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 3.2 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 3.3. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Section 3.4, Section 3.5 and Section 3.6.

[Signature page follows]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

	STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.


	By:
	Name:
	Title:


	[_________________], as Trustee


	By:
	Name:
	Title:

End of Document

Signature Page to
Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.

Senior Debt Indenture

Exhibit 4.2

STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.

SUBORDINATED INDENTURE

DATED AS OF ______________, 20__

[____________________], AS TRUSTEE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE			1

	Section 1.1	Definitions	1
	Section 1.2	Other Definitions	6
	Section 1.3	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act	6
	Section 1.4	Rules of Construction	6

ARTICLE II THE SECURITIES			7

	Section 2.1	Issuable in Series	7
	Section 2.2	Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities	7
	Section 2.3	Execution and Authentication	9
	Section 2.4	Registrar and Paying Agent	10
	Section 2.5	Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust	10
	Section 2.6	Securityholder Lists	11
	Section 2.7	Transfer and Exchange	11
	Section 2.8	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities	11
	Section 2.9	Outstanding Securities	12
	Section 2.10	Treasury Securities	12
	Section 2.11	Temporary Securities	13
	Section 2.12	Cancellation	13
	Section 2.13	Defaulted Interest	13
	Section 2.14	Global Securities	13
	Section 2.15	CUSIP Numbers	15

ARTICLE III REDEMPTION			15

	Section 3.1	Notice to Trustee	15
	Section 3.2	Selection of Securities to be Redeemed	15
	Section 3.3	Notice of Redemption	16
	Section 3.4	Effect of Notice of Redemption	16
	Section 3.5	Deposit of Redemption Price	17
	Section 3.6	Securities Redeemed in Part	17

ARTICLE IV COVENANTS			17

	Section 4.1	Payment of Principal and Interest	17
	Section 4.2	SEC Reports	17
	Section 4.3	Compliance Certificate	17
	Section 4.4	Stay, Extension and Usury Laws	18
	Section 4.5	Corporate Existence	18
	Section 4.6	Taxes	18

ARTICLE V SUCCESSORS			18

	Section 5.1	When Company May Merge, Etc.	18

ARTICLE VI DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES			19

	Section 6.1	Events of Default	19
	Section 6.2	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	20
	Section 6.3	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee	21
	Section 6.4	Trustee may File Proofs of Claim	21
	Section 6.5	Trustee may Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities	22
	Section 6.6	Application of Money Collected	22
	Section 6.7	Limitation on Suits	22
	Section 6.8	Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest	23
	Section 6.9	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	23
	Section 6.10	Rights and Remedies Cumulative	23
	Section 6.11	Delay or Omission Not Waiver	23
	Section 6.12	Control by Holders	24
	Section 6.13	Waiver of Past Defaults	24
	Section 6.14	Undertaking for Costs	24

ARTICLE VII TRUSTEE			25

	Section 7.1	Duties of Trustee	25
	Section 7.2	Rights of Trustee	26
	Section 7.3	Individual Rights of Trustee	28
	Section 7.4	Trustee’s Disclaimer	28
	Section 7.5	Notice of Defaults	28
	Section 7.6	Reports by Trustee to Holders	28
	Section 7.7	Compensation and Indemnity	28
	Section 7.8	Replacement of Trustee	29
	Section 7.9	Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc.	30
	Section 7.10	Eligibility; Disqualification	30
	Section 7.11	Referential Collection of Claims Against Company	30

ARTICLE VIII SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE			30

	Section 8.1	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	30
	Section 8.2	Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification	31
	Section 8.3	Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series	32
	Section 8.4	Covenant Defeasance	33
	Section 8.5	Repayment to Company	34

ARTICLE IX AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS			34

	Section 9.1	Without Consent of Holders	34
	Section 9.2	With Consent of Holders	36
	Section 9.3	Limitations	36

	Section 9.4	Compliance with Trust Indenture Act	37
	Section 9.5	Revocation and Effect of Consents	37
	Section 9.6	Notation on or Exchange of Securities	37
	Section 9.7	Trustee Protected	37

ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS			38

	Section 10.1	Trust Indenture Act Controls	38
	Section 10.2	Notices	38
	Section 10.3	Communication by Holders with Other Holders	38
	Section 10.4	Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent	39
	Section 10.5	Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion	39
	Section 10.6	Rules by Trustee and Agents	39
	Section 10.7	Legal Holidays	39
	Section 10.8	No Recourse Against Others	39
	Section 10.9	Counterparts	39
	Section 10.10	Governing Laws	40
	Section 10.11	No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements	40
	Section 10.12	Successors	40
	Section 10.13	Severability	40
	Section 10.14	Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.	40

ARTICLE XI SINKING FUNDS			40

	Section 11.1	Applicability of Article	40
	Section 11.2	Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities	41
	Section 11.3	Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund	41

ARTICLE XII SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES			41

	Section 12.1	Agreement of Subordination	41
	Section 12.2	Payments to Holders	42
	Section 12.3	Subrogation of Securities	44
	Section 12.4	Authorization to Effect Subordination	45
	Section 12.5	Notice to Trustee	45
	Section 12.6	Trustee’s Relation to Senior Indebtedness	46
	Section 12.7	No Impairment of Subordination	46
	Section 12.8	Article Applicable to Paying Agents	47
	Section 12.9	Senior Indebtedness Entitled to Rely	47

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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE

Trust Indenture Act Section		Indenture Section
Section 310	(a)(1)	7.10
	(a)(2)	7.10
	(a)(3)	N/A
	(a)(4)	N/A
	(a)(5)	7.10
	(b)	7.10
Section 311	(a)	7.11
	(b)	7.11
	(c)	N/A
Section 312	(a)	2.6
	(b)	10.3
	(c)	10.3
Section 313	(a)	7.6
	(b)(1)	7.6
	(b)(2)	7.6
	(c)(1)	7.6
	(d)	7.6
Section 314	(a)	4.2, 10.5
	(b)	N/A
	(c)(1)	10.4
	(c)(2)	10.4
	(c)(3)	N/A
	(d)	N/A
	(e)	10.5
	(f)	N/A
Section 315	(a)	7.1
	(b)	7.5
	(c)	7.1
	(d)	7.1
	(e)	6.14
Section 316	(a)	2.10
	(a)(1)(A)	6.12
	(a)(1)(B)	6.13
	(b)	6.8
Section 317	(a)(1)	6.3
	(a)(2)	6.4
	(b)	2.5
Section 318	(a)	10.1

* This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of the Indenture.

This SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of _____________, 20__ is made by and between STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC., a Kentucky corporation (the “Company”), and [_________________________], not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee (the “Trustee”).

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities issued under this Indenture:

ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.1 Definitions.

“Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Service Agent.

“Bearer Security” means any Security, including any interest coupon appertaining thereto, that does not provide for the identification of the Holder thereof.

“Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee thereof.

“Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock.

“Company” means the party named as such above until a successor replaces it and thereafter means the successor.

“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at [_________________], Attention: Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. Administrator, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

“Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

“Designated Senior Indebtedness” means any of the Company’s senior indebtedness that expressly provides that it is “designated senior indebtedness” for purposes of this Indenture (provided that the instrument, agreement or other document creating or evidencing such Senior Indebtedness may place limitations and conditions on the right of such Senior Indebtedness to exercise the rights of Designated Senior Indebtedness).

“Dollars” and “$” means the currency of the United States of America. “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

“Holder” or “Securityholder” means a person in whose name a Security is registered or the holder of a Bearer Security.

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any person, and without duplication, (a) all indebtedness, obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of such person for borrowed money (including obligations of the Company in respect of overdrafts, foreign exchange contracts, currency exchange agreements, interest rate protection agreements, and any loans or advances from banks, whether or not evidenced by notes or similar instruments) or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such person or to only a portion thereof) (other than any account payable or other accrued current liability or obligation incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the obtaining of materials or services), (b) all reimbursement obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of such person with respect to letters of credit, bank guarantees or bankers’ acceptances, (c) all obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) in respect of leases of such person required, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, to be accounted for as capitalized lease obligations on the balance sheet of such person and all obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) under any lease or related document (including a purchase agreement) in connection with the lease of real property which provides that such person is contractually obligated to purchase or cause a third party to purchase the leased property and thereby guarantee a minimum residual value of the leased property to the lessor and the obligations of such person under such lease or related document to purchase or to cause a third party to purchase such leased property, (d) all obligations of such person (contingent or otherwise) with respect to an interest rate or other swap, cap or collar agreement or other similar instrument or agreement or foreign currency hedge, exchange, purchase or similar instrument or agreement, (e) all direct or indirect guaranties or similar agreements by such person in respect of, and obligations or liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of such person to purchase or otherwise acquire or otherwise assure a creditor against loss in respect of indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of another person of the kind described in clauses (a) through (d), (f) any indebtedness or other obligations described in clauses (a) through (e) secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien or other encumbrance existing on property which is owned or held by such person, regardless of whether the indebtedness or other obligation secured thereby shall have been assumed by such person and (g) any and all refinancings, replacements, deferrals, renewals, extensions and refundings of, or amendments, modifications or supplements to, any indebtedness, obligation or liability of the kind described in clauses (a) through (f).

“Indenture” means this Subordinated Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.

“interest” with respect to any Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.

“Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by two Officers, one of whom must be the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.

“Representative” means the (a) indenture trustee or other trustee, agent or representative for any Senior Indebtedness or (b) with respect to any Senior Indebtedness that does not have any such trustee, agent or other representative, (i) in the case of such Senior Indebtedness issued pursuant to an agreement providing for voting arrangements as among the holders or owners of such Senior Indebtedness, any holder or owner of such Senior Indebtedness acting with the consent of the required persons necessary to bind such holders or owners of such Senior Indebtedness and (ii) in the case of all other such Senior Indebtedness, the holder or owner of such Senior Indebtedness.

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Securities” means the debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

“Senior Indebtedness” means the principal, premium, if any, interest, including any interest accruing after bankruptcy, Additional Amounts, if any, and rent or termination payment on or other amounts due on the Company’s current or future indebtedness, whether created, incurred, assumed, guaranteed or in effect guaranteed by us, including any deferrals, renewals, extensions, refundings, amendments, modifications or supplements to the above. However, Senior Indebtedness does not include: (i) indebtedness that expressly provides that it shall not be senior in right of payment to the Securities or expressly provides that it is on the same basis or junior to the Securities; (ii) the Company’s indebtedness to any of the Company’s Subsidiaries; and (iii) the Securities.

“Series” or “Series of Securities” means each series of debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company created pursuant to Section 2.1 and Section 2.2.

Section 1.2 Other Definitions.

Term		Defined in Section
“Bankruptcy Law”		6.1
“Custodian”		6.1
“Event of Default”		6.1
“Legal Holiday”		10.7
“mandatory sinking fund payment”		11.1
“optional sinking fund payment”		11.1
“Paying Agent”		2.4
“Payment Blockage Notice”		12.2
“Registrar”		2.4
“Service Agent”		2.4
“successor person”		5.1

“Commission” means the SEC.

“indenture securities” means the Securities.

“indenture security holder” means a Securityholder.

“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.

“obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company and any successor obligor upon the Securities.

Section 1.4 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)

a term has the meaning assigned to it;

(b)

an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(c)

(d)

“or” is not exclusive;

(e)

words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular; and

(f)

provisions apply to successive events and transactions.

ARTICLE II
THE SECURITIES

Section 2.1 Issuable in Series. The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be identical except as may be set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution. In the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time, the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution may provide for the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date, record date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to be determined. Securities may differ between Series in respect of any matters; provided that all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, but all Securities issued hereunder shall be subordinate and junior in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner set forth in ARTICLE XII, to all Senior Indebtedness of the Company.

(a)

the title of the Series (which shall distinguish the Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other Series);

(b)

the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) at which the Securities of the Series will be issued;

(c)

(d)

the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is payable;

(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

(j)

if other than minimum denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple in excess thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be issuable;

(k)

the forms of the Securities of the Series in bearer or fully registered form (and, if in fully registered form, whether the Securities will be issuable as Global Securities);

(l)

(m)

the provisions, if any, relating to any lien, security or encumbrance provided for the Securities of the Series;

(n)

(o)

any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in ARTICLE IV or ARTICLE V which applies to Securities of the Series;

(p)

any other terms of the Securities of the Series (which may modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to such Series); and

(q)

any depositories, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate calculation agents or other agents with respect to Securities of such Series if other than those appointed herein.

Section 2.3 Execution and Authentication.

Two Officers shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.

If an Officer whose signature is on a Security No longer holds that office at the time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid.

Section 2.6         Securityholder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities.

Section 2.7         Transfer and Exchange. Where Securities of a Series are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such transactions are met. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Section 2.11, Section 3.6 or Section 9.6).

Section 2.8        Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser.

A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security.

Section 2.14       Global Securities.

(a)

(b)

(c)

Legend. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

(d)

(e)

(f)

Section 2.15       CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” 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 elements of identification printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.

ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION

Section 3.2         Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officers’ Certificate, if less than all the Securities of any Series issued on the same day with the same terms are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the redemption date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such Series issued on such date with the same terms not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate, and, in the case of global Securities, in accordance with the procedures of the depositary; provided that such method complies with the rules of any national securities exchange or quotation system on which the Securities are listed, and may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that Series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such Series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that Series; provided, however, that No such partial redemption shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Security not redeemed to less than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such Series.

The notice shall identify the Securities of the Series to be redeemed and shall state:

(a)

the redemption date;

(b)

the redemption price and accrued interest, if any, to the redemption date payable as provided;

(c)

the name and address of the Paying Agent;

(d)

that Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

(e)

that interest on Securities of the Series called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;

(f)

the CUSIP number, if any;

(g)

any conditions precedent that must be satisfied prior to the redemption; and

(h)

any other information as may be required by the terms of the particular Series or the Securities of a Series being redeemed.

Section 3.4         Effect of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of redemption is mailed or published as provided in Section 3.3, Securities of a Series called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price, subject to, with respect to any redemption that is conditioned upon the satisfaction of any conditions precedent, (i) the delay of such redemption date until such time as any or all of such conditions precedent have been satisfied or (ii) the revocation of such redemption if the Company determines that such conditions precedent will not be satisfied. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued interest to, but excluding, the redemption date; provided that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the redemption date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities (or one or more predecessor Securities) registered at the close of business on the relevant record date therefor according to their terms and the terms of this Indenture.

ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS

Section 4.5         Corporate Existence. Subject to ARTICLE V, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is No longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders.

ARTICLE V
SUCCESSORS

(a)

(b)

Section 5.2         Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition 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 has been named as the Company herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Company in the case of a sale, conveyance or other disposition (other than a lease) shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

ARTICLE VI
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Section 6.1         Events of Default. “Event of Default”, wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events, unless in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate, it is provided that such Series shall not have the benefit of said Event of Default:

(a)

(b)

default in the payment of principal of any Security of that Series at its Maturity;

(c)

default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due in respect of any Security of that Series;

(d)

(e)

the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

commences a voluntary case,

ii.

consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,

iii.

consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property,

iv.

makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or

generally is unable to pay its debts as the same become due; or

(f)

a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

is for relief against the Company in an involuntary case,

ii.

appoints a Custodian of the Company or for all or substantially all of its property, or

iii.

orders the liquidation of the Company, and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or

(g)

Section 6.2         Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. Except to the extent provided otherwise in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate for such Series, if an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any Series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(e) or 6.1(f), then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25.0% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Securities of that Series 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 portion thereof) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(e) or Section 6.1(f) shall occur, the principal amount (or portion thereof) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding Securities shall automatically become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 6.3         Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. The Company covenants that if:

(a)

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,

(b)

default is made in the payment of principal of any Security at the Maturity thereof, or

(c)

default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the terms of a Security,

then, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and any overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7; and

Third: To the Company.

(a)

such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that Series;

(b)

(c)

such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

(d)

the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

(e)

(a)

such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture;

(b)

the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and

(c)

ARTICLE VII
TRUSTEE

Section 7.1         Duties of Trustee.

(a)

(b)

Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

ii.

(c)

The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, its own bad faith or its own willful misconduct, except that:

This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section.

ii.

The Trustee shall 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.

iii.

(d)

Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (g) of this Section.

(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

Section 7.2 Rights of Trustee.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

(j)

The Trustee shall have No responsibility for monitoring the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants under this Indenture.

(k)

(l)

Any permissive right of the Trustee to take or refrain from taking actions enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty.

(m)

(n)

Section 7.3 Individual Rights of Trustee. The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee is also subject to Section 7.10 and Section 7.11.

Section 7.4   Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Trustee makes No representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities other than its authentication.

Section 7.5 Notice of Defaults. If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Securities of any Series and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder of the Securities of that Series and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish on one occasion in an Authorized Newspaper, notice of a Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs or, if later, after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge of such Default or Event of Default. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security of any Series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as it in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Securityholders of that Series.

Section 7.6 Reports by Trustee to Holders. Within 60 days after September 15 in each year, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on the register kept by the Registrar and, if any Bearer Securities are outstanding, publish in an Authorized Newspaper, a brief report dated as of such September 15, in accordance with, and to the extent required under, TIA Section 313.

Section 7.7 Compensation and Indemnity. The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time compensation for its services as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree upon in writing. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable expenses incurred by it. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(e) or 6.1(f) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

The provisions of this Section shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the termination of this Indenture.

Section 7.8 Replacement of Trustee. A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section.

(a)

the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

(b)

the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;

(c)

a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

(d)

the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

Section 7.9 Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another person, the successor person without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.

Section 7.10 Eligibility; Disqualification. This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA Sections 310(a)(1), 310(a)(2) and 310(a)(5). The Trustee shall always have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 310(b).

Section 7.11 Referential Collection of Claims Against Company. The Trustee is subject to TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.

ARTICLE VIII
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

Section 8.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall upon Company Order cease to be of further effect (except as hereinafter provided in this Section 8.1), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

(a)

either:

ii.

all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation

(1)

have become due and payable, or

(2)

will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or

(3)

(4)

are deemed paid and discharged pursuant to Section 8.3, as applicable; and the Company, in the case of clauses (1), (2) and (3) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount sufficient for the purpose of paying and discharging the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable on or prior to the date of such deposit) or to the Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the case may be;

(b)

the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and

(c)

Section 8.2 Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification.

(a)

(b)

(c)

Section 8.3 Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series. Unless this Section 8.3 is otherwise specified, pursuant to Section 2.2(p), to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding Securities of any Series on the 90th day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (c) hereof, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such outstanding Securities of such Series, shall No longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall, at Company Request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:

(a)

(b)

the provisions of Section 2.4, Section 2.7, Section 2.8, Section 8.2, Section 8.3 and Section 8.5; and

(c)

the rights, powers, trust and immunities of the Trustee hereunder; provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

ii.

such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

iii.

iv.

vi.

Section 8.4 Covenant Defeasance. Unless this Section 8.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.2(p) to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, on and after the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (a) hereof, the Company may omit to comply with respect to the Securities of any Series with any term, provision or condition set forth under Section 4.2, Section 4.3, Section 4.4, Section 4.6, and Section 5.1 as well as any additional covenants specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2(p) (and the failure to comply with any such covenants shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to such Series under Section 6.1) and the occurrence of any event specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2(n) and designated as an Event of Default shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default hereunder, with respect to the Securities of such Series; provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

(a)

(b)

Such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

(c)

(d)

(e)

Section 8.5 Repayment to Company. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that remains unclaimed for six months. After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person.

ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

Section 9.1 Without Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any Securityholder by indentures supplemental hereto:

(a)

to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;

(b)

to comply with ARTICLE V;

(c)

(d)

(e)

to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to principal, to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of or any premium or interest on Bearer Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of Securities of any Series or any related coupons in any material respect;

(f)

(g)

(h)

to modify, eliminate or add to any of the provisions of this Indenture; provided that any such change or elimination (i) shall become effective only when there is No Security of any Series Outstanding and created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture that is entitled to the benefit of such provision or (ii) shall not apply to any Security Outstanding;

(i)

to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities;

(j)

to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder;

(k)

to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by this Indenture;

(l)

(m)

to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.

Section 9.2 With Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of each Series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Securityholders of each such Series. Except as provided in Section 6.13, the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series) may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities with respect to such Series.

Section 9.3 Limitations. Without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or waiver may not:

(a)

reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

(b)

reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any Security;

(c)

reduce the principal or change the Stated Maturity of any Security or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;

(d)

reduce the principal amount of Discount Securities payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof;

(e)

(f)

make the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security payable in any currency other than that stated in the Security;

(g)

make any change in Section 6.8, Section 6.13, or Section 9.3 (this sentence); or

(h)

waive a redemption payment with respect to any Security.

Section 9.4 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect.

Section 9.5 Revocation and Effect of Consents. Until an amendment is set forth in a supplemental indenture or a waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date of the supplemental indenture or the date the waiver becomes effective.

Section 9.6 Notation on or Exchange of Securities. The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated. The Company in exchange for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate upon request new Securities of that Series that reflect the amendment or waiver.

Section 9.7     Trustee Protected. In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent have been satisfied, the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such supplemental indenture is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms. The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects it.

ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS

Section 10.1 Trust Indenture Act Controls. If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, such required or deemed provision shall control.

Section 10.2 Notices. Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other, or by a Holder to the Company or the Trustee, is duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail:

if to the Company:

[_________________]
[_________________]
[_________________]

if to the Trustee:

[_________________]
[_________________]
[_________________]

The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

If a notice or communication is mailed or published in the manner provided above, within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the Securityholder receives it.

Section 10.3 Communication by Holders with Other Holders. Securityholders of any Series may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other Securityholders of that Series or any other Series with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities of that Series or all Series. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).

Section 10.4 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:

(a)

an Officers’ Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

(b)

an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

Section 10.5 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA Section 314(e) and shall include:

(a)

a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

(b)

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;

(c)

(d)

a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Section 10.6 Rules by Trustee and Agents. The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by, or a meeting of, Securityholders of one or more Series. Any Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

Section 10.7 Legal Holidays. Unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, a “Legal Holiday” is any day that is not a Business Day. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and No interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

Section 10.8 No Recourse Against Others. A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 10.9 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or electronic format (e.g., “.pdf” or “.tif”) transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or electronic format (e.g., “.pdf” or “.tif”) shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

Section 10.10 Governing Laws. THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN SUCH STATE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF (OTHER THAN SECTIONS 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW).

Section 10.11 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

Section 10.12 Successors. All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor.

Section 10.13 Severability. 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.

Section 10.14 Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table, and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in No way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

ARTICLE XI
SINKING FUNDS

Section 11.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of a Series, except as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued pursuant to this Indenture.

Section 11.2    Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities. The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any Series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (a) deliver outstanding Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable (other than any of such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (b) apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable and which have been repurchased by the Company or redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments or other optional redemptions pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together with an Officers’ Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 15 days prior to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 11.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption, except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that Series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment required to be released to the Company.

Section 11.3     Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate in respect of a particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, 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 of Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 11.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a particular Series of Securities) before 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 3.2 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 3.3. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Section 3.4, Section 3.5 and Section 3.6.

ARTICLE XII
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES

Section 12.1    Agreement of Subordination. The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of Securities issued hereunder by accepting a Security likewise covenants and agrees, that all Securities shall be issued subject to the provisions of this ARTICLE XII; and each Person holding any Security, whether upon original issue or upon transfer, assignment or exchange thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by such provisions.

The payment of the principal of and interest on all Securities (including, but not limited to, the redemption price with respect to the Securities called for redemption in accordance with ARTICLE III as provided in the Indenture) issued hereunder shall, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth, be subordinated and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, whether outstanding at the date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred.

No provision of this ARTICLE XII shall prevent the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default hereunder.

Section 12.2    Payments to Holders. Except as otherwise provided in a supplemental indenture, No payment shall be made with respect to the principal of or interest on the Securities (including, but not limited to, the redemption price with respect to the Securities to be called for redemption in accordance with ARTICLE III as provided in the Indenture), except payments and distributions made by the Trustee as permitted by the first or second paragraph of Section 12.5, if:

(a)

a default in the payment of principal, premium, interest, rent or other obligations due on any Senior Indebtedness occurs and is continuing (or, in the case of Senior Indebtedness for which there is a period of grace, in the event of such a default that continues beyond the period of grace, if any, specified in the instrument or lease evidencing such Senior Indebtedness), unless and until such default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist; or

(b)

a default, other than a payment default, on a Designated Senior Indebtedness occurs and is continuing that then permits holders of such Designated Senior Indebtedness to accelerate its maturity and the Trustee receives a notice of the default (a “Payment Blockage Notice”) from a Representative or the Company.

If the Trustee receives any Payment Blockage Notice pursuant to clause (b) above, No subsequent Payment Blockage Notice shall be effective for purposes of this Section unless and until (A) at least 365 days shall have elapsed since the initial effectiveness of the immediately prior Payment Blockage Notice, and (B) all scheduled payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities that have come due have been paid in full in cash. No nonpayment default that existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of any Payment Blockage Notice to the Trustee shall be, or be made, the basis for a subsequent Payment Blockage Notice.

The Company may and shall resume payments on and distributions in respect of the Securities upon the earlier of:

(1)

the date upon which the default is cured or waived or ceases to exist, or

(2)

in the case of a default referred to in clause (b) above, 179 days pass after notice is received if the maturity of such Designated Senior Indebtedness has not been accelerated, unless this ARTICLE XII otherwise prohibits the payment or distribution at the time of such payment or distribution.

Upon any payment by the Company, or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors upon any dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or reorganization of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other proceedings, all amounts due or to become due upon all Senior Indebtedness shall first be paid in full in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, or payment thereof in accordance with its terms provided for in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any payment is made on account of the principal of or interest on the Securities (except payments made pursuant to ARTICLE VI from monies deposited with the Trustee pursuant thereto prior to commencement of proceedings for such dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization); and upon any such dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or reorganization of the Company or bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other proceeding, any payment by the Company, or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled, except for the provision of this ARTICLE XII, shall (except as aforesaid) be paid by the Company or by any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, or by the Holders of the Securities or by the Trustee under this Indenture if received by them or it, directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness (pro rata to such holders on the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by such holders, or as otherwise required by law or a court order) or their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full, in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution or provision therefor is made to the Holders of the Securities or to the Trustee.

For purposes of this ARTICLE XII, the words, “cash, property or securities” shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other person provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which is subordinated at least to the extent provided in this ARTICLE XII with respect to the Securities to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness which may at the time be outstanding; provided that (i) the Senior Indebtedness is assumed by the new person, if any, resulting from any reorganization or readjustment, and (ii) the rights of the holders of Senior Indebtedness (other than leases which are not assumed by the Company or the new person, as the case may be) are not, without the consent of such holders, altered by such reorganization or readjustment. The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into, another person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the conveyance or transfer of its property as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to another person upon the terms and conditions provided for in ARTICLE V shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization for the purposes of this Section 12.2 if such other person shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions stated in ARTICLE V.

In the event of the acceleration of the Securities because of an Event of Default, No payment or distribution shall be made to the Trustee or any Holder of Securities in respect of the principal of or interest on the Securities (including, but not limited to, the redemption price with respect to the Securities called for redemption in accordance with ARTICLE III as provided in the Indenture), except payments and distributions made by the Trustee as permitted by the first or second paragraph of Section 12.5, until all Senior Indebtedness has been paid in full in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or such acceleration is rescinded in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. If payment of the Securities is accelerated because of an Event of Default, the Company shall promptly notify holders of Senior Indebtedness of the acceleration at the address set forth in the notice from the Agent (or successor agent) to the Trustee as being the address to which the Trustee should send its notice pursuant to this Section 12.2, unless there are No payment obligations of the Company thereunder and all obligations thereunder to extend credit have been terminated or expired.

In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (including, without limitation, by way of setoff or otherwise), prohibited by the foregoing, shall be received by the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, or provision is made for such payment thereof in accordance with its terms in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, such payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of and shall be paid over or delivered to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, as calculated by the Company, for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full in cash or other payment satisfactory to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.

Nothing in this Section 12.2 shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 7.7. This Section 12.2 shall be subject to the further provisions of Section 12.5.

Section 12.3    Subrogation of Securities. Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the rights of the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of this ARTICLE XII (equally and ratably with the holders of all indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is subordinated to other indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as the Securities are subordinated and is entitled to like rights of subrogation) to the rights of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of cash, property or securities of the Company applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the principal and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full; and, for the purposes of such subrogation, No payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this ARTICLE XII, and No payment over pursuant to the provisions of this ARTICLE XII, to or for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or on account of the Senior Indebtedness; and No payments or distributions of cash, property or securities to or for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities pursuant to the subrogation provisions of this ARTICLE XII, which would otherwise have been paid to the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or for the account of the Securities. It is understood that the provisions of this ARTICLE XII are and are intended solely for the purposes of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities, on the one hand, and the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.

Nothing contained in this ARTICLE XII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, 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 this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this ARTICLE XII of the holders of Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy.

Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this ARTICLE XII, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such bankruptcy, dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization proceedings are pending, or a certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of the Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this ARTICLE XII.

Section 12.4    Authorization to Effect Subordination. Each Holder of a Security by the holder’s acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on the holder’s behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in this ARTICLE XII and appoints the Trustee to act as the holder’s attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. If the Trustee does not file a proper proof of claim or proof of debt in the form required in any proceeding referred to in Section 6.3 hereof at least 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such claim, the holders of any Senior Indebtedness or their representatives are hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the Holders of the Securities.

Section 12.5    Notice to Trustee. The Company shall give prompt written notice in the form of an Officers’ Certificate to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee and to any paying agent of any fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee or any paying agent in respect of the Securities pursuant to the provisions of this ARTICLE XII. Notwithstanding the provisions of this ARTICLE XII or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities pursuant to the provisions of this ARTICLE XII, unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof at the Corporate Trust Office from the Company (in the form of an Officers’ Certificate) or a Representative or a holder or holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee thereof; and before the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that No such facts exist; provided that if on a date not fewer than two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any such monies may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on any Security) the Trustee shall not have received, with respect to such monies, the notice provided for in this Section 12.5, then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such monies and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which may be received by it on or after such prior date.

Notwithstanding anything in this ARTICLE XII to the contrary, nothing shall prevent any payment by the Trustee to the Holders of monies deposited with it pursuant to Section 8.1, and any such payment shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 12.1 or Section 12.2.

The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Representative or a person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee on behalf of such holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a Representative or a holder of Senior Indebtedness or a trustee on behalf of any such holder or holders. 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 Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this ARTICLE XII, the Trustee may request such person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness 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 XII, 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.

Section 12.6    Trustee’s Relation to Senior Indebtedness. The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this ARTICLE XII in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in Section 7.11 or elsewhere in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder. Nothing in this ARTICLE XII shall apply to the Company’s obligations to the Trustee under Section 7.7.

With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this ARTICLE XII, and No implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness 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 Indebtedness and, subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, the Trustee shall not be liable to any holder of Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to Holders of Securities, the Company or any other person money or assets to which any holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this ARTICLE XII or otherwise.

Section 12.7     No Impairment of Subordination. No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness 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 which any such holder may have or otherwise be charged with.

Section 12.8    Article Applicable to Paying Agents. If at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used in this Article shall (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 in addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, however, that the first paragraph of Section 12.5 shall not apply to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.

Section 12.9    Senior Indebtedness Entitled to Rely. The holders of Senior Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Designated Senior Indebtedness) shall have the right to rely upon this ARTICLE XII, and No amendment or modification of the provisions contained herein shall diminish the rights of such holders unless such holders shall have agreed in writing thereto.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

	STOCK YARDS BANCORP, INC.


	By:
	Name:
	Title:


	[___________________], as Trustee


	By:
	Name:
	Title:

End of Document

Exhibit 5.1

[FROST BROWN TODD LLP LETTERHEAD]

December 4, 2024

Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.

1040 East Main Street

Louisville, Kentucky 40206

Re:        Registration Statement on Form S-3

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel for Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., a Kentucky corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) filed on or about the date hereof with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Registration Statement contains a prospectus (the “Base Prospectus”) that provides it will be supplemented in the future by one or more prospectus supplements, and a resale prospectus (the “Resale Prospectus”). The Registration Statement relates to:

(a)	The Company’s offer and sale from time to time, pursuant to Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act, of an undetermined amount of the following securities:

(i) common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”);

(ii) preferred stock, no par value (the “Preferred Stock”);

(iii) depositary shares representing fractional interests in a share or multiple shares of Preferred Stock (“Depositary Shares”);

(iv) senior debt securities (the “Senior Debt Securities”);

(v) subordinated debt securities (the “Subordinated Debt Securities” and, together with the Senior Debt Securities, the “Debt Securities”);

(vi) warrants to purchase debt or equity securities (the “Warrants”);

(vii) purchase contracts for Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Debt Securities or other securities, property or assets (the “Purchase Contracts”); and

(viii) units of a combination of one or more of the securities described above (the “Units” and together with the Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, Debt Securities, Warrants, and Purchase Contracts, the “Company Securities”).

(b)

The proposed resale, also pursuant to Rule 415, of up to 1,631,002 shares of Common Stock (the “Resale Shares” and, together with the Company Securities, the “Securities”). The Resale Shares are to be offered and sold by the Selling Shareholders listed in the Resale Prospectus (the “Selling Shareholders”).

We are acting as counsel for the Company in connection with the filing of the Registration Statement. The Senior Debt Securities may be issued pursuant to a senior indenture (the “Senior Indenture”) between the Company and a trustee to be named in the Senior indenture and duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”). Tthe Subordinated Debt Securities may be issued pursuant to a subordinated indenture (together with the Senior Indenture, the “Indentures”) between the Company and a trustee to be named in the subordinated indenture and duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. The Preferred Stock represented by Depositary Shares may be deposited pursuant to a Depositary Agreement (the “Depositary Agreement”) to be entered into between the Company and a bank or trust company to be named as depositary. The Warrants may be issued pursuant to a warrant agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) to be entered into between the Company and a bank or trust company to be named as warrant agent. The Purchase Contracts may be issued pursuant to a Purchase Contract Agreement (the “Purchase Contract Agreement”) to be entered into between the Company and a bank or trust company to be named as purchase agent. The Units may be issued pursuant to a Unit Agreement (the “Unit Agreement”) to be entered into between the Company and a bank or trust company to be named as unit agent.

We have examined the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, the Resale Prospectus, the exhibits thereto, the articles of incorporation of the Company, as amended to the date hereof (the “Articles”), and the bylaws of the Company, as amended to the date hereof (the “Bylaws”). We have also examined originals, or copies of originals certified to our satisfaction, of such agreements, documents, certificates and statements of the Company and have examined such questions of law, as we have considered relevant and necessary as a basis for this opinion letter. In our examination of the documents described above, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all signatories, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies, and the authenticity of such original documents. As to facts relevant to the opinions expressed herein, we have relied without independent investigation or verification upon, and assumed the accuracy and completeness of, certificates, letters and oral and written statements and representations of public officials and officers and other representatives of the Company.

We have relied as to certain matters on information obtained from public officials and officers of the Company, and we have assumed that (i) the Registration Statement will be effective and will comply with all applicable laws at the time any Securities are offered or issued as contemplated by the Registration Statement, (ii) one or more prospectus supplements and term sheets, as applicable, will be prepared and filed with the Commission describing the Company Securities offered thereby, (iii) all Securities will be issued and sold in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and in the manner stated in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, Resale Prospectus, and the applicable prospectus supplements, (iv) any applicable Indenture will be duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the trustee named therein in substantially the forms filed as Exhibits 4.1 and 4.2 to the Registration Statement, (v) any applicable Indenture will be duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and the applicable trustee will be duly eligible to serve as trustee, (vi) the Debt Securities will be duly authenticated by the trustee named in the applicable Indenture, (vii) in the case of an Indenture, Depositary Agreement, Warrant Agreement, Purchase Contract Agreement, Unit Agreement or other agreement pursuant to which any Securities are to be issued, there shall be no terms or provisions contained therein that would affect the opinions rendered herein, (viii) a definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement with respect to any Securities offered will be duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and all other parties thereto, (ix) any Securities issuable upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any Security being offered will be duly authorized, created and, if appropriate, reserved for issuance upon such conversion, exchange or exercise, (x) with respect to Common Stock or Preferred Stock offered, there will be sufficient Common Stock or Preferred Stock authorized under the Company’s governing documents and not otherwise reserved for issuance, (xi) if issued in certificated form, certificates representing the Company Securities will be duly executed and delivered and, to the extent required by any applicable agreement, duly authenticated and countersigned, and if issued in book-entry form, the Company Securities will be duly registered to the extent required by any applicable agreement, and (xii) the Company will be validly existing as a company in good standing under the laws of Kentucky at the time any Securities are offered or issued as contemplated by the Registration Statement.

We are expressing no opinion herein as to the application of any federal, state or foreign law or regulation to the power, authority or competence of any party to any agreement with respect to any of the Securities other than the Company. We have assumed that such agreements are, or will be, the valid and binding obligations of each party thereto other than the Company, and enforceable against each such other party in accordance with their respective terms. Our opinions are subject to (i) the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, preference, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors; and (ii) the effect of general principles of equity, whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law (including the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief), concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, and the discretion of the court before which a proceeding is brought.

We have assumed for purposes of our opinions below that no authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body or any other third party is required for the due execution, delivery or performance by the Company of the Indentures, the Depositary Agreement, the Unit Agreement, the Purchase Contract Agreement, and the Warrant Agreement or, if any such authorization, approval, consent, action, notice or filing is required, it will have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and will be in full force and effect. We have also assumed that the execution and delivery by the Company of the Indentures, the Depositary Agreement, the Unit Agreement, the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Warrant Agreement and the Securities and the performance by the Company of its obligations thereunder do not and will not violate, conflict with or constitute a default under (i) any agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its properties is subject, (ii) any law, rule or regulation to which the Company or any of its properties is subject or (iii) any judicial or regulatory order or decree of any governmental authority.

We have also assumed that there will not have occurred, prior to the date of issuance of the Company Securities, any change in law affecting the validity or enforceability of such Securities and that at the time of the issuance and sale of the Company Securities, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) (or any committee thereof acting pursuant to authority properly delegated to such committee by the Board) shall not have taken any action to rescind or otherwise reduce its prior authorization of the issuance of the Company Securities.

Our opinion is limited to the matters set forth herein, and we express no opinion other than as expressly set forth herein. In rendering the opinion set forth below, we do not express any opinion concerning laws other than those of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State of New York and the federal laws of the United States as in effect on the date hereof. Our opinion is expressed as of the date hereof and is based on laws currently in effect. Accordingly, the conclusions set forth in this opinion are subject to change if any laws should change or be enacted in the future. We make no undertaking and expressly disclaim any duty to supplement or update our opinion, if, after the date hereof, facts or circumstances come to our attention or changes in the law occur which could affect this opinion and other statements expressed herein. We express no opinion herein with respect to compliance by the Company with securities or “blue sky” laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States or of any foreign jurisdiction. In addition, we express no opinion and make no statement herein with respect to the antifraud laws of any jurisdiction.

We also express no opinion herein as to any provision of any agreement (i) that may be deemed to or construed to waive any right of the Company, (ii) to the effect that rights and remedies are not exclusive, that every right or remedy is cumulative and may be exercised in addition to or with any other right or remedy and does not preclude recourse to one or more other rights or remedies, (iii) relating to the effect of invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of any agreement on the validity or enforceability of any other provision thereof, (iv) that is in violation of public policy, (v) relating to indemnification and contribution with respect to securities law matters, (vi) which provides that the terms of any agreement may not be waived or modified except in writing, (vii) purporting to indemnify any person against his, her or its own negligence or intentional misconduct, (viii) requiring the payment of penalties, consequential damages or liquidated damages or (ix) relating to choice of law or consent to jurisdiction.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:

With respect to shares of Common Stock, when (i) the Board has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance of and the terms of the offering of the shares of Common Stock and related matters, including without limitation the determination by the Board that the consideration received or to be received for the Common Stock upon its issuance is adequate, (ii) there are sufficient numbers of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock, and (iii) certificates representing the shares of Common Stock have been duly executed, countersigned, registered and duly delivered in accordance with the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement to the purchasers thereof against payment of the agreed consideration therefor in an amount not less than the Board determined adequate or, if any shares of such series of Common Stock are to be issued in uncertificated form, the Company’s books have reflected the issuance of such shares in accordance with the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement upon payment of the agreed consideration therefor in an amount not less than the Board determined adequate, then such shares of Common Stock will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

With respect to any particular series of shares of Preferred Stock, when (i) the Board has taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance and terms of the shares of Preferred Stock, the terms of the offering thereof and related matters, including without limitation the determination by the Board that the consideration received or to be received for the Preferred Stock upon its issuance is adequate and the adoption of articles of amendment relating to such Preferred Stock (the “Articles of Amendment”) conforming to the Company’s Articles and Bylaws and the Kentucky Business Corporation Act and the filing of the Articles of Amendment by the Kentucky Secretary of State, and (ii) certificates representing such series of Preferred Stock shall have been duly executed, countersigned and registered and duly delivered in accordance with the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement to the purchasers thereof against payment of the agreed consideration therefor in an amount not less than the Board determined adequate or, if any shares of such series of Preferred Stock are to be issued in uncertificated form, the Company’s books have reflected the issuance of such shares in accordance with the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement upon payment of the agreed consideration therefor in an amount not less than the Board determined adequate, then such shares of Preferred Stock will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

With respect to the Depositary Shares, when (i) specifically authorized for issuance by proper action of the Company’s Board or an authorized committee thereof (the “Authorizing Resolutions”), (ii) the applicable Depositary Agreement relating to the Depositary Shares has been duly authorized, executed and delivered; any depositary receipts evidencing rights in the Depositary Shares have been executed; and the depositary appointed by the Company, (iii) the terms of the issuance and sale of the Depositary Shares have been duly established in conformity with the Company’s governing documents and the Authorizing Resolutions, (iv) the Depositary Shares have been issued and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement in accordance with the applicable underwriting or other purchase agreement against payment therefor, (v) the shares of Preferred Stock underlying the Depositary Shares have been deposited with a bank or trust company (which meets the requirements for the depositary set forth in the Registration Statement) and (vi) the Company has received the consideration provided for in the Authorizing Resolutions and the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement, the Depositary Shares will be validly issued and will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company and will entitle the holders of such Depositary Shares to the rights specified in the applicable Depositary Agreement and the applicable depositary receipts.

	4.	With respect to the Debt Securities, when (i) Authorizing Resolutions have specifically authorized the issuance and terms of the Debt Securities, (ii) the applicable Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, (iii) the terms of the Debt Securities and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the applicable Indenture and the Authorizing Resolutions and assuming such terms and sale do not violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company, (iv) such Debt Securities have been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the applicable Indenture and delivered and sold as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement in accordance with the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement against payment therefor and (v) the Company has received the consideration provided for in the Authorizing Resolutions and the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement, such Debt Securities will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

	5.	With respect to the Warrants, when (i) specifically authorized for issuance by Authorizing Resolutions, (ii) the applicable Warrant Agreement relating to the Warrants has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, (iii) the terms of the Warrants and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the applicable Warrant Agreement and the Authorizing Resolutions, (iv) the Warrants have been duly executed and countersigned in accordance with the applicable Warrant Agreement and Authorizing Resolutions and issued and delivered as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement in accordance with the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement against payment therefor and (v) the Company has received the consideration provided for in the Authorizing Resolutions and the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement, such Warrants will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.
	6.	With respect to any Purchase Contracts, when (i) specifically authorized for issuance by Authorizing Resolutions, (ii) the applicable Purchase Contract Agreement relating to the Purchase Contracts has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, (iii) the terms of the Purchase Contracts and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the applicable Purchase Contract Agreement and the Authorizing Resolutions, (iv) the Purchase Contracts have been duly executed and countersigned in accordance with the applicable Purchase Contract Agreement and Authorizing Resolutions and issued and delivered as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus and applicable prospectus supplement in accordance with the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement against payment therefor and (v) the Company has received the consideration provided for in the Authorizing Resolutions and the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement, such Purchase Contracts will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.
	7.	With respect to the Units, when (i) specifically authorized for issuance by Authorizing Resolutions, (ii) the applicable Unit Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, (iii) the terms of the Units and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the applicable Unit Agreement and the Authorizing Resolutions, (iv) the Units have been duly executed and delivered in accordance with the applicable Unit Agreement and issued and delivered as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement in accordance with the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement against payment therefor and (v) the Company has received the consideration provided for in the Authorizing Resolutions and the applicable purchase, underwriting or similar agreement, such Units will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.
	8.	With respect to the Resale Shares, such Resale Shares have been duly authorized by the Company and are validly issued, fully paid, and nonassessable.

Please note that we are opining only as to the matters expressly set forth herein, and no opinion should be inferred as to any other matters. This opinion is based upon currently existing statutes, rules, regulations and judicial decisions, and we disclaim any obligation to advise you of any change in any of these sources of law or subsequent legal or factual developments which might affect any matters or opinions set forth herein.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act and to the use of our name therein and in the related Base Prospectus, Resale Prospectus, and any prospectus supplement under the caption “Legal Matters.” In giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.

	Very truly yours,

	/s/ Frost Brown Todd LLP

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statement on Form S-3 of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) of our reports dated February 27, 2024, on our audits of the consolidated financial statements of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2023, which report is included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. We also consent to the incorporation by reference of our report dated February 27, 2024, on our audit of the internal control over financial reporting of the Company as of December 31, 2023, which report is included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. We also consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” on the Form S-3.

/s/ Forvis Mazars, LLP

Indianapolis, Indiana

December 4, 2024

S-3 S-3ASR EX-FILING FEES 0000835324 Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. 0000835324 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 0000835324 1 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 0000835324 2 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 0000835324 3 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 0000835324 4 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 0000835324 5 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 0000835324 6 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 0000835324 7 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 0000835324 8 2024-12-03 2024-12-03 iso4217:USD xbrli:pure xbrli:shares

Calculation of Filing Fee Tables
S-3
Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.

Table 1: Newly Registered and Carry Forward Securities

		Security Type	Security Class Title	Fee Calculation or Carry Forward Rule	Amount Registered	Maximum Aggregate Offering Price	Fee Rate	Amount of Registration Fee	Carry Forward Form Type	Carry Forward File Number	Carry Forward Initial Effective Date	Filing Fee Previously Paid in Connection with Unsold Securities to be Carried Forward
Newly Registered Securities
Fees to be Paid	1	Equity	Common Stock, no par value	457(r)			0.0001531
Fees to be Paid	2	Equity	Preferred Stock, no par value	457(r)			0.0001531
Fees to be Paid	3	Equity	Depositary Shares	457(r)			0.0001531
Fees to be Paid	4	Debt	Debt Securities	457(r)			0.0001531
Fees to be Paid	5	Other	Warrants	457(r)			0.0001531
Fees to be Paid	6	Other	Purchase Contracts	457(r)			0.0001531
Fees to be Paid	7	Other	Units	457(r)			0.0001531
Fees Previously Paid
Carry Forward Securities
Carry Forward Securities	8	Equity	Common Stock, no par value	415(a)(6)	1,631,002	$ 86,769,306.40			S-3	333-261637	12/14/2021	$ 8,043.52
			Total Offering Amounts:			$ 86,769,306.40		$ 0.00
			Total Fees Previously Paid:					$ 0.00
			Total Fee Offsets:					$ 0.00
			Net Fee Due:					$ 0.00

Offering Note

¹	The Company is registering such indeterminate number or amount, as the case may be, of the securities of each identified class as may from time to time be offered and sold at indeterminate prices. This registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of each identified class of securities as may be issued upon conversion of, in exchange for, upon exercise of, or pursuant to, convertible or exchangeable securities that provide for exercise or conversion into or purchase of such securities of the Company. Separate consideration may or may not be received for securities that are issuable on exercise, conversion or exchange of other securities. Pursuant to Rule 416, this registration statement also relates to an indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock which may be issued with respect to such shares of Common Stock by way of stock splits, stock dividends, reclassifications or similar transactions. The registrant is relying on Rule 456(b) and Rule 457(r) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), to defer payment of all of the registration fee.

²	See offering note 1.

³	See offering note 1.

⁴	See offering note 1.

⁵	See offering note 1.

⁶	See offering note 1.

⁷	See offering note 1. Units may be issued under a unit agreement and will be comprised of two or more of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares, debt securities, warrants, and/or purchase contracts in any combination.

⁸	With respect to this secondary offering, this registration statement registers 1,631,002 shares of Common Stock, no par value, of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. Pursuant to Rule 416, this registration statement also relates to an indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock which may be issued with respect to such shares of Common Stock by way of stock splits, stock dividends, reclassifications or similar transactions. Pursuant to Rule 415(a)(6) under the Securities Act, the securities registered pursuant to this registration statement include 1,631,002 unsold shares (the "Unsold Shares") of common stock having an aggregate offering price of $86,769,306.40 previously registered pursuant to a prospectus supplement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 6, 2022 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-261637) (the "Prior Registration Statement"). The Prior Registration Statement was filed with the SEC and became automatically effective on December 14, 2021. Pursuant to Rule 415(a)(6), $8,043.52 (based on the filing fee rates in effect at the time such shares were initially registered) of the filing fees previously paid in connection with the Unsold Shares will continue to be applied to such Unsold Shares. The offering of the Unsold Shares under the Prior Registration Statement will be deemed terminated as of the date of effectiveness of this registration statement.

Submission	Dec. 03, 2024
Submission [Line Items]
Central Index Key	0000835324
Registrant Name	Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc.
Form Type	S-3
Submission Type	S-3ASR
Fee Exhibit Type	EX-FILING FEES

Offerings	Dec. 03, 2024 USD ($) shares
Offering: 1
Offering:
Fee Previously Paid	false
Rule 457(r)	true
Security Type	Equity
Security Class Title	Common Stock, no par value
Fee Rate	0.01531%
Offering Note	The Company is registering such indeterminate number or amount, as the case may be, of the securities of each identified class as may from time to time be offered and sold at indeterminate prices. This registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of each identified class of securities as may be issued upon conversion of, in exchange for, upon exercise of, or pursuant to, convertible or exchangeable securities that provide for exercise or conversion into or purchase of such securities of the Company. Separate consideration may or may not be received for securities that are issuable on exercise, conversion or exchange of other securities. Pursuant to Rule 416, this registration statement also relates to an indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock which may be issued with respect to such shares of Common Stock by way of stock splits, stock dividends, reclassifications or similar transactions. The registrant is relying on Rule 456(b) and Rule 457(r) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), to defer payment of all of the registration fee.
Offering: 2
Offering:
Fee Previously Paid	false
Rule 457(r)	true
Security Type	Equity
Security Class Title	Preferred Stock, no par value
Fee Rate	0.01531%
Offering Note	See offering note 1.
Offering: 3
Offering:
Fee Previously Paid	false
Rule 457(r)	true
Security Type	Equity
Security Class Title	Depositary Shares
Fee Rate	0.01531%
Offering Note	See offering note 1.
Offering: 4
Offering:
Fee Previously Paid	false
Rule 457(r)	true
Security Type	Debt
Security Class Title	Debt Securities
Fee Rate	0.01531%
Offering Note	See offering note 1.
Offering: 5
Offering:
Fee Previously Paid	false
Rule 457(r)	true
Security Type	Other
Security Class Title	Warrants
Fee Rate	0.01531%
Offering Note	See offering note 1.
Offering: 6
Offering:
Fee Previously Paid	false
Rule 457(r)	true
Security Type	Other
Security Class Title	Purchase Contracts
Fee Rate	0.01531%
Offering Note	See offering note 1.
Offering: 7
Offering:
Fee Previously Paid	false
Rule 457(r)	true
Security Type	Other
Security Class Title	Units
Fee Rate	0.01531%
Offering Note	See offering note 1. Units may be issued under a unit agreement and will be comprised of two or more of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares, debt securities, warrants, and/or purchase contracts in any combination.
Offering: 8
Offering:
Rule 415(a)(6)	true
Security Type	Equity
Security Class Title	Common Stock, no par value
Amount Registered \| shares	1,631,002
Maximum Aggregate Offering Price	$ 86,769,306.40
Carry Forward Form Type	S-3
Carry Forward File Number	333-261637
Carry Forward Initial Effective Date	Dec. 14, 2021
Filing Fee Previously Paid in Connection with Unsold Securities to be Carried Forward	$ 8,043.52
Offering Note	With respect to this secondary offering, this registration statement registers 1,631,002 shares of Common Stock, no par value, of Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc. Pursuant to Rule 416, this registration statement also relates to an indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock which may be issued with respect to such shares of Common Stock by way of stock splits, stock dividends, reclassifications or similar transactions. Pursuant to Rule 415(a)(6) under the Securities Act, the securities registered pursuant to this registration statement include 1,631,002 unsold shares (the "Unsold Shares") of common stock having an aggregate offering price of $86,769,306.40 previously registered pursuant to a prospectus supplement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 6, 2022 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-261637) (the "Prior Registration Statement"). The Prior Registration Statement was filed with the SEC and became automatically effective on December 14, 2021. Pursuant to Rule 415(a)(6), $8,043.52 (based on the filing fee rates in effect at the time such shares were initially registered) of the filing fees previously paid in connection with the Unsold Shares will continue to be applied to such Unsold Shares. The offering of the Unsold Shares under the Prior Registration Statement will be deemed terminated as of the date of effectiveness of this registration statement.

Fees Summary	Dec. 03, 2024 USD ($)
Fees Summary [Line Items]
Total Offering	$ 86,769,306.40
Previously Paid Amount	0.00
Total Fee Amount	0.00
Total Offset Amount	0.00
Net Fee	$ 0.00

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