As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 4, 2009
Registration No. 333-65217
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
CENTEX CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Nevada
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
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75-0778259
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c/o Pulte Homes, Inc.
100 Bloomfield Hills Parkway, Suite 300
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48304
(248) 647-2750
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrants principal
executive offices)
Steven M. Cook
Senior Vice President and Secretary
Centex Corporation
c/o Pulte Homes, Inc.
100 Bloomfield Hills Parkway, Suite 300
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48304
(248) 647-2750
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the
effective date of this registration statement.
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. o
If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration
statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act,
check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier
effective registration statement for the same offering. o
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. o
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. o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a
non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of large accelerated
filer, accelerated filer and smaller reporting company in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
(Check one):
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No additional securities are being registered. Registration fees were paid with the original filing
of Registration Statement No. 333-65217 on October 1, 1998. No additional registration fees are
required.
TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1, filed by Centex Corporation, a Nevada corporation (the
Company), deregisters all of the Companys Debt Securities that had been registered on the
Companys Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-65217) (the Registration Statement)
that remain unsold as of the date hereof.
On August 18, 2009, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of April 7, 2009, by
and among the Company, Pulte Homes, Inc., a Michigan corporation (Pulte), and Pi Nevada Building
Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pulte (Merger Sub), Merger Sub merged with and into the
Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of
Pulte (the Merger). 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 the Companys
securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from
registration all Debt Securities under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date
hereof.
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 Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Bloomfield Hills, State of
Michigan, on September 4, 2009.
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CENTEX CORPORATION
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/s/ Steven M. Cook
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Senior Vice President and Secretary |
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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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/s/ Richard J. Dugas, Jr.
Richard J. Dugas, Jr.
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President and Member of the Board of Directors (Principal
Executive Officer)
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September 4, 2009 |
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/s/ Roger A. Cregg
Roger A. Cregg
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Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Member of the Board of Directors (Principal
Financial Officer)
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September 4, 2009 |
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/s/ Michael J. Schweninger
Michael J. Schweninger
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Vice President and Controller (Principal
Accounting Officer)
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September 4, 2009 |
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/s/ Steven M. Cook
Steven M. Cook
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Member of the Board of Directors
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September 4, 2009 |