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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2025</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Washington, DC 20549</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">FORM S-8</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Under</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold;">THE YORK WATER COMPANY</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 15.6pt; font-weight: bold;">YORK, PENNSYLVANIA</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; margin-left: 15.6pt;">(Address of principal executive offices)</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The York Water Company 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">(Full title of the plan)</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Joseph T. Hand</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">President and Chief Executive Officer</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The York Water Company</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">130 East Market Street</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">York, Pennsylvania 17401</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">(Name and address of agent for service)</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">717-845-3601</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Copy of all communications to:</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Jeffrey G. Aromatorio</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Reed Smith LLP</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Reed Smith Centre</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Pittsburgh, PA&#160; 15222</div>
        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">(412) 288-3364</div>
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      <div>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 &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated filer&#8221; and &#8220;smaller
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              <div style="color: #000000;">Large accelerated filer &#9744;</div>
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              <div style="color: #000000;">Accelerated filer &#9744;</div>
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            <td rowspan="1" style="width: 49%; vertical-align: top;">Non-accelerated filer &#9746;</td>
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            <td rowspan="1" style="width: 51%; vertical-align: top;">&#160;Emerging growth company &#9744;</td>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided
                pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. &#9744;</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">EXPLANATORY NOTE</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by The York Water Company, a Pennsylvania corporation (the &#8220;Registrant&#8221;), relating to 150,000 shares of its common stock, no par value (the
          &#8220;Common Stock&#8221;), issuable to eligible employees and non-employee directors of the Registrant under the Registrant&#8217;s 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;), 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&#8217;s Form S-8 filed on May 11, 2016 (File No. 333-211287) (the &#8220;Prior Registration Statement&#8221;).</div>
        <div>&#160;</div>
        <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">PART I</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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).</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">PART II</div>
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        <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
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              <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Item 3.</td>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The following documents filed by The York Water Company (the &#8220;Registrant&#8221;) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) pursuant to the Securities Exchange
          Act of 1934 (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;) are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:</div>
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              <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(a)</td>
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                <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Registrant&#8217;s Annual Report on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/108985/000010898525000015/form10k.htm">Form 10-K</a> for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the
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                <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Registrant&#8217;s Quarterly Report on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000108985/000010898525000041/form10q.htm">Form 10-Q</a> for the quarter ended March 31, 2025 filed with the
                  Commission on May 6, 2025;</div>
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              <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(c)</td>
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                <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Registrant&#8217;s Current Reports on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/108985/000010898525000040/form8k-05052025.htm">Form 8-K</a> filed with the Commission on May 6, 2025; and</div>
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              <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(d)</td>
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                <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The description of the Registrant&#8217;s Common Stock, no par value (the &#8220;Common Stock&#8221;), filed as Exhibit 4.4 to the Registrant&#8217;s Annual Report on <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/108985/000010898520000027/form10k.htm">Form 10-K</a> for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the Commission on March 10, 2020, including any amendment or report filed for the
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        <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Not applicable.</div>
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              <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Item 5.</td>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Not applicable.</div>
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        <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration Statement:</div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Exhibit No.</u></div>
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              <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Description of Exhibits</u></div>
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              <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/108985/000010898525000022/proxystatement2025.htm">4.1</a></div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The York Water Company 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan&#8221;), as amended and restated through January 27, 2025</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;">&#160;</font><font style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(incorporated by reference to Annex A to the Registrant&#8217;s Definitive Proxy Statement filed on March 21, 2025) (File No. 001-34245).</font></div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="ef20047940_ex5-1.htm">5.1*</a></div>
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              <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Opinion of Reed Smith LLP.</div>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2025
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
THE YORK WATER COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
PENNSYLVANIA
23-1242500
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
130 EAST MARKET STREET
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
17401
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
The York Water Company 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
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)
Copy of all communications to:
Jeffrey G. Aromatorio
Reed Smith LLP
Reed Smith Centre
225 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15222
(412) 288-3364
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):
Large accelerated filer ☐
Accelerated filer ☐
Non-accelerated filer ☒
Smaller reporting company ☒
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided
                pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
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
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
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:
(a)
The Registrant's Annual Report on
Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the
                  Commission on March 4, 2025;
(b)
The Registrant's Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended March 31, 2025 filed with the
                  Commission on May 6, 2025;
(c)
The Registrant's Current Reports on
Form 8-K
filed with the Commission on May 6, 2025; and
(d)
The description of the Registrant's Common Stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"), filed as Exhibit 4.4 to the Registrant's Annual Report on
Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the Commission on March 10, 2020, including any amendment or report filed for the
                  purpose of updating such description.
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.
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Item 4.
Description of Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 8.
Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration Statement:
Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibits
4.1
The York Water Company 2025 Long-Term Incentive Plan"), as amended and restated through January 27, 2025
(incorporated by reference to Annex A to the Registrant's Definitive Proxy Statement filed on March 21, 2025) (File No. 001-34245).
5.1*
Opinion of Reed Smith LLP.
23.1*
Consent of Baker Tilly US, LLP.
23.2*
Consent of Reed Smith LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (set forth on the signature page of this Registration Statement).
107*
Filing Fee Table.
*
Filed herewith.
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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.
THE YORK WATER COMPANY
By:
/s/ Joseph T. Hand
Joseph T. Hand
President and Chief Executive Officer
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.
Signature
Capacity
Date
/s/ Joseph T. Hand
President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer and Director)
May 5, 2025
Joseph T. Hand
/s/ Matthew E. Poff
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal Accounting Officer and Chief Financial Officer)
May 5, 2025
Matthew E. Poff
/s/ Paul R. Bonney
Director
May 5, 2025
Paul R. Bonney
/s/ Douglas S. Brossman
Director
May 5, 2025
Douglas S. Brossman
/s/ Michael W. Gang
Director
May 5, 2025
Michael W. Gang
/s/ Jeffrey R. Hines
Director
May 5, 2025
Jeffrey R. Hines
/s/ George W. Hodges
Director
May 5, 2025
George W. Hodges
/s/ Jody L. Keller
Director
May 5, 2025
Jody L. Keller
/s/ Robert F. Lambers
Director
May 5, 2025
Robert F. Lambert
/s/ Erin C. McGlaughlin
Director
May 5, 2025
Erin C. McGlaughlin
/s/ Steven R. Rasmussen
Director
May 5, 2025
Steven R. Rasmussen
/s/ Laura T. Wand
Director
May 5, 2025
Laura T. Wand
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