Post-effective Amendment No. 2

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 30, 2003

 

Registration No. 333-52857

 


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

POST-EFFECTIVE

AMENDMENT NO. 2

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


 

RAYONIER INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

North Carolina

(State of incorporation)

 

13-2607329

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

50 North Laura Street

Jacksonville, Florida 32202

(904) 357-9100

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,

including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 


 

W. Edwin Frazier, III

Vice President, Governance and

Corporate Secretary

50 North Laura Street

Jacksonville, Florida 32202

(904) 357-9100

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,

including area code, of agent for service)

 

 



RAYONIER INC.

 

Deregistration

 

This Registration Statement, initially filed on May 15, 1998, registered such principal amount of debt securities described in the Registration Statement No. 333-52857 in one or more offerings up to a total dollar amount equal to $200,000,000. The Registrant has sold a total of $50,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the debt securities so registered. Pursuant to this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-52857, the Registrant is now deregistering the remaining $150,000,000 aggregate principal amount of debt securities which remain unsold.

 

2


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 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 Jacksonville, State of Florida on the 30th day of September, 2003.

 

RAYONIER INC.
By:   /s/  W. L. Nutter
 
   

Name: W. L. Nutter

Title:   Chairman, President and
            Chief Executive Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on September 30, 2003.

 

Signature


  

Title


/s/  W. L. Nutter


W. L. Nutter

   Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

/s/  Gerald J. Pollack


Gerald J. Pollack

   Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

/s/  Hans E. Vanden Noort


Hans E. Vanden Noort

   Vice President and Corporate Controller

*


Rand V. Araskog

   Director

*


Ronald M. Gross

   Director

*


Paul G. Kirk, Jr.

   Director

*


Katherine D. Ortega

   Director

 

3


Signature


   Title

    

*


Burnell R. Roberts

  

Director

    

*


Carl S. Sloane

  

Director

    

*


Ronald Townsend

  

Director

    

*


Gordon I. Ulmer

  

Director

    

 

 
* By:   /s/  Gerald J. Pollack
 
   

Gerald J. Pollack

Attorney-in-fact

 

 

 

4