SEC Form S-8 filed by York Water Company

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2025

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

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FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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THE YORK WATER COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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The York Water Company 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

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Joseph T. Hand

President and Chief Executive Officer

The York Water Company

130 East Market Street

York, Pennsylvania 17401

(Name and address of agent for service)

717-845-3601

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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Copy of all communications to:

Jeffrey G. Aromatorio

Reed Smith LLP

Reed Smith Centre

225 Fifth Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA  15222

(412) 288-3364

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by The York Water Company, a Pennsylvania corporation (the “Registrant”), relating to 150,000 shares of its common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”), issuable to eligible employees and non-employee directors of the Registrant under the Registrant’s 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), as amended and restated through January 27, 2025, which Common Stock is in addition to the 100,000 shares of Common Stock registered on the Registrant’s Form S-8 filed on May 11, 2016 (File No. 333-211287) (the “Prior Registration Statement”).

 

This Registration Statement relates to securities of the same class as that to which the Prior Registration Statement relates, and is submitted in accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8 regarding Registration of Additional Securities. Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements are incorporated herein by reference and made part of this Registration Statement, except as amended hereby.

PART I

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

 

The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or given to participants as specified by Securities Act Rule 428(b)(1).

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

 

The following documents filed by The York Water Company (the “Registrant”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

 

 

 

 

 

In addition, each document filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than portions of those documents furnished or otherwise not deemed to be filed) after the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered hereunder have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold under this registration statement, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document incorporated herein by reference modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part hereof.

 

Not applicable.

 

 

Not applicable.

The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration Statement:

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-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in York, Pennsylvania, on this 5^th day of May, 2025.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the Securities Act of 1933, each person whose signature appears below makes, constitutes and appoints Joseph T. Hand and Matthew E. Poff and each of them acting alone, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute and cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission any and all amendments or post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith as the Registrant deems appropriate and hereby ratifies and confirms all that said attorney-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may 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.

 

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