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Certificates to be and remain excludable from the gross income, as defined in Section 61 of the Code, of the owners of the Certificates for federal income tax purposes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the City shall comply with each of the following covenants: (a) The City will use all of the proceeds of the Certificates to (i) provide funds to pay contractual obligations to be incurred for the purposes set forth in Section 3.1 hereof (the "Project"), which Project will be owned and operated by the City, and (ii) to pay the costs of issuing the Certificates. The City will not use any portion of the proceeds of the Certificates to pay the principal of or interest or redemption premium on, any other obligation of the City or a related person. (b) The City will not directly or indirectly take any action, or omit to take any action, which action or omission would cause the Certificates to constitute "private activity bonds" within the meaning of Section 141(a) of the Code. (c) Principal of and interest on the Certificates will be paid solely from ad valorem taxes and Net Revenues collected by the City, investment earnings on such collections, and as available, proceeds of the Certificates. (d) Based upon all facts and estimates now known or reasonably expected to be in existence on the date the Certificates are delivered, the City reasonably expects that the proceeds of the Certificates will not be used in a manner that would cause the Certificates or any portion thereof to be an "arbitrage bond" within the meaning of Section 148 of the Code. (e) At all times while the Certificates are outstanding, the City will identify and properly account for all amounts constituting gross proceeds of the Certificates in accordance with the Regulations. The City will monitor the yield on the investments of the proceeds of the Certificates and, to the extent required by the Code and the Regulations, will restrict the yield on such investments to a yield which is not materially higher than the yield on the Certificates. To the extent necessary to prevent the Certificates from constituting "arbitrage bonds," the City will make such payments as are necessary to cause the yield on all yield restricted nonpurpose investments allocable to the Certificates to be less than the yield that is materially higher than the yield on the Certificates. (f) The City will not take any action or knowingly omit to take any action which, if taken or omitted, would cause the Certificates to be treated as "federally guaranteed" obligations for purposes of Section 149(b) of the Code. (g) The City represents that not more than fifty percent (50%) of the proceeds of the Certificates will be invested in nonpurpose investments (as defined in Section 148(f)(6)(A) of the Code) having a substantially guaranteed yield for four years or more within the meaning of Section 149(g)(3)(A)(ii) of the Code, and the City reasonably expects that at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the spendable proceeds of the Certificates will be used to carry out the governmental purpose of the Certificates within the three-year period beginning on the date of issue of the Certificates. (h) The City will take all necessary steps to comply with the requirement that certain amounts earned by the City on the investment of the gross proceeds of the Certificates, if any, be 15 HOU:2690632.2