As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 22, 2018

Registration No. 333-135602

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		51-0064146
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

 

909 Silver Lake Boulevard

Dover, Delaware 19904

(302) 734-6799

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Beth W. Cooper

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation

909 Silver Lake Boulevard

Dover, Delaware, 19904

(302) 734-6799

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

Jeffrey E. Decker, Esq.

Baker & Hostetler, LLP

2300 SunTrust Center

200 S. Orange Avenue

Orlando, Florida 32801

(407) 649-4000

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-135602) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (the “Company”) on July 5, 2006. The Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment to withdraw and remove from registration the unissued and unsold shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.4867 par value per share, issuable by the Company pursuant to the Registration Statement.

In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of its securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all such securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Dover, State of Delaware, on the 22nd day of August, 2018.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

/s/ John R. Schimkaitis				/s/ Michael P. McMasters
John R. Schimkaitis, Chairman of the Board and Director Date: August 22, 2018				Michael P. McMasters, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer) Date: August 22, 2018
/s/ Beth W. Cooper				/s/ Eugene H. Bayard
Beth W. Cooper, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) Date: August 22, 2018				Eugene H. Bayard, Esq., Director Date: August 22, 2018
/s/ Thomas J. Bresnan				/s/ Dr. Ronald G. Forsythe, Jr.
Thomas J. Bresnan, Director Date: August 22, 2018				Dr. Ronald G. Forsythe, Jr., Director Date: August 22, 2018
/s/ Thomas P. Hill, Jr.				/s/ Dennis S. Hudson, III
Thomas P. Hill, Jr., Director Date: August 22, 2018				Dennis S. Hudson, III, Director Date: August 22, 2018
/s/ Paul L. Maddock, Jr.				/s/ Calvert A. Morgan
Paul L. Maddock, Jr. Director Date: August 22, 2018				Calvert A. Morgan, Jr., Director Date: August 22, 2018
/s/ Dianna F. Morgan
Dianna F. Morgan, Director Date: August 22, 2018