O-2017-3666 Certificate of Obligation, Series 2017

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(f) Not Federally Guaranteed. Except to the extent permitted by section 149(b)of the Code and the regulations and rulings relating to section 149(b) of the Code, the City shall not take or omit to take any action which would cause the Certificates to be federally guaranteed within the meaning of section 149(b) of the Code and the regulations and rulings relating to section 149(b)of the Code. (g) Information Report. The City shall timely file with the Secretary of the Treasury the information required by section 149(e) of the Code with respect to the Certificates on such forms and in such place as such Secretary may prescribe. (h) Payment of Rebate Amount. Except to the extent otherwise provided in section 148(f)of the Code and the regulations and rulings relating to section 148(f) of the Code, the City shall: (1) account for all Gross Proceeds (including all receipts, expenditures and investments thereof) on its books of account separately and apart from all other funds (and receipts, expenditures and investments thereof) and shall retain all records of such accounting for at least six years after the fmal Computation Date. The City may, however, to the extent permitted by law, commingle Gross Proceeds of the Certificates with other money of the City, provided that the City separately accounts for each receipt and expenditure of such Gross Proceeds and the Certificates acquired with these proceeds. (2) calculate the Rebate Amount with respect to the Certificates, not less frequently than each Computation Date, in accordance with rules set forth in section 148(f) of the Code, section 1.148 3 of the Regulations, and the rulings thereunder. The City shall maintain a copy of such calculations for at least six years after the final Computation Date. (3) as additional consideration for the purchase of the Certificates by the initial purchaser and the loan of the money represented by this purchase, and in order to induce such purchase by measures designed to ensure the excludability of the interest from the gross income of the owners for federal income tax purposes, pay to the United States the amount described in paragraph(2) above at the times, in the installments,to the place, in the manner and accompanied by such forms or other information as is or may be required by section 148(f) of the Code and the regulations and rulings relating to section 148(f)of the Code, and (4) exercise reasonable diligence to assure that no errors are made in the calculations required by paragraph (2) and, if such error is made, to discover and promptly to correct such error within a reasonable amount of time, including payment to the United States of any interest and any penalty required by the Regulations. (i) Not to Divert Arbitrage Profits. Except to the extent permitted by section 148 of the Code and the regulations and rulings relating to section 148 of the Code,the City shall not, at any time prior to the earlier of the final stated maturity or final payment of the Certificates, enter into any transaction that reduces the amount required to be paid to the United States pursuant to 15 HOU:3746876.1