O-2010-3232 Certificates of Obligation Series 2010 and General Obligation Refunding Bonds

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(3) Accrued interest and any proceeds from the sale of the Bonds remaining after making all the foregoing deposits and payments shall be deposited into the Debt Service Fund and used to pay debt service on the Bonds. (b) From the existing debt service funds for the Refunded Obligations there shall be transferred to the paying agent for the Refunded Obligations the amount of $107,500.00 and to the Debt Service Fund $0.00. Section 7.5.: Tax Exemption. The City intends that the interest on the Bonds shall be excludable from gross income of the owners thereof for federal income tax purposes pursuant to Sections 103 and 141 through 150 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, (the "Code") and all applicable temporary, proposed and final regulations (the "Regulations") and procedures promulgated thereunder and applicable to the Bonds. For this purpose, the City covenants that it will monitor and control the receipt, investment, expenditure and use of all gross proceeds of the Bonds (including all property, the acquisition, construction or improvement of which is to be financed directly or indirectly with the proceeds of the Bonds) and take or omit to take such other and further actions as may be required by Sections 103 and 141 through 150 of the Code and the Regulations to cause the interest on the Bonds to be and remain excludable from the gross income, as defined in Section 61 of the Code, of the owners of the Bonds 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 shall not use, permit the use of or omit to use Gross Proceeds or any other amounts (or any property the acquisition, construction or improvement of which is to be financed directly or indirectly with Gross Proceeds) in a manner which, if made or omitted, respectively, would cause the interest on any Bond to become includable in the gross income, as defined in section 61 of the Code, of the owner thereof for federal income tax purposes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the City shall have received a written opinion of counsel nationally recognized in the field of municipal bond law to the effect that failure to comply with such covenant will not adversely affect the exemption from federal income tax of the interest on any Bond, the City shall comply with each of the specific covenants in this Section. (b) Except as permitted by section 141 of the Code and the regulations and rulings thereunder, the City shall, at all times prior to the last stated maturity of the Bonds, (1) exclusively own, operate, and possess all property the acquisition, construction, or improvement of which is to be financed directly or indirectly with Gross Proceeds of such series of the Bonds (including property financed with Gross Proceeds of the Refunded Obligations or notes or bonds refunded by the Refunded Obligations and not use or permit the use of such Gross Proceeds or any property acquired, constructed, or improved with such Gross Proceeds in any activity carried on by any person or entity other than a state or local government, unless such use is solely as a member of the general public, or (2) not directly or indirectly impose or accept any charge or other payment for use of Gross Proceeds of such series of the Bonds or any property the acquisition, 12 HOU:3009756.3