Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc.

Third Revised Volume No. 1

Effective Date: 05/07/2020, Docket: RS93- 1-001, Status: Accepted

Original Sheet No. 421 Original Sheet No. 421 : Effective

GAS TRANSPORTATION CONTRACT

(For Use Under FT-NN Rate Schedule)

(continued)

ARTICLE XIV

ASSIGNMENTS

14.1 Either Party may assign or pledge this Contract and all rights

and obligations hereunder under the provisions of any mort-

gage, deed of trust, indenture, or other instrument which it

has executed or may execute hereafter as security for indebt-

edness; otherwise, no Party shall assign this Contract or any

of its rights hereunder unless it shall first have obtained

the written consent of the other, which consent shall not be

unreasonably withheld.

14.2 Any person which shall succeed by purchase, merger, or consol-

idation to the properties, substantially as an entirety, of

either Party hereto shall be entitled to the rights and shall

be subject to the obligations of its predecessor in interest

under this Contract.

ARTICLE XV

MISCELLANEOUS

15.1 This Contract shall be interpreted under the laws of the State

of New Hampshire.

15.2 If any provision of this Contract is declared null and void,

or voidable, by a court of competent jurisdiction, then that

provision will be considered severable at either party's

option; and if the severability option is exercised, the

remaining provisions of the Contract shall remain in full

force and effect.

15.3 No modification of or supplement to the terms and provisions

hereof shall be or become effective, except by the execution

of supplementary written consent.