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The performance by the City of its Continuing Disclosure Agreement shall be subject to the annual appropriation of any funds that may be necessary to perform it. The City's Continuing Disclosure Agreement shall remain in effect only for such period that the Bonds are outstanding in accordance with their terms and the City remains an obligated person with respect to the Bonds within the meaning of the Rule. The obligation of the Ciry to provide the Annual Information and notices of the events described above shall terminate, if and when the City no longer remains such an obligated person. (d) Annlication for RatinR or Bond Insurance. If, in the judgment of the Mayor or the Director of Fuiance, the Filing of an application for (i) a rating on the Bonds by one or more nationally-recognized rating agencies, or (ii) a policy of insurance from a company or companies to better assure the payment of principal of and interest on the Bonds, is in the best interest of and financially advantageous to this City, the Mayor or the Director of Finance may prepare and submit those applications, provide to each such agency or company such information as may be required for the purpose, and provide further for the payment of the cost of obtaining each such rating or policy, except to the extent paid by the Original Purchaser in accordance with the Purchase Agreement, from the proceeds of the Bonds to the extent available and otherwise from any other funds lawfully available and that are appropriated or shall be appropriated for that purpose. The expenditure of the amounts necessary to secure those ratings and to pay the other financing costs (as defined in Section 133.01 of the Revised Code) in connection with the Bonds is authorized and approved. Section 7. Provisions for Tax Lew. There shall be levied on all the taxable property in the City, in addition to all other taxes, a direct tax annually during the period the Bonds are outstanding in an amount sufficient to pay the debt charges on the Bonds when due, which tax shall not be less than the interest and sinking fund tax required by Section 11 of Article XII of the Ohio Constitution. T'he tax shall be within the 11.1-mill limitation imposed by the Charter of the City, shall be and is ordered computed, certified, levied and extended upon the tax duplicate and collected by the same officers, in the same manner and at the same time that taxes for general purposes for each of those years are certified, levied, extended and collected, and shall be placed before and in preference to all other items and for the full amount thereof. The proceeds of the tax levy shall be placed in the Bond Retirement Fund, which is irrevocably pledged for the payment of the debt charges on the Bonds when and as the same fall due. Section 8. Federal Tax Considerations. The City covenants that it will use, and will restrict the use and investment of, the proceeds of the Bonds in such manner and to such extent as may be necessary so that (a) the Bonds will not (i) constitute private activity bonds, arbitrage bonds or hedge bonds under Sections 141, 148 or 149 of the Code or (ii) be treated other than as bonds to which Section 103 of the Code applies, and (b) the interest thereon will not be an item of tax preference under Section 57 of the Code. The City further covenants that (a) it will take or cause to be taken such actions that may be required of it for the interest on the Bonds to be and to remain excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes, and (b) it will not take or authorize to be taken any actions that would adversely affect that exclusion, and (c) it, or persons acting for it, will, among other acts of compliance, (i) apply the proceeds of the Bonds to the govemmental purpose of the borrowing, (ii) restrict the yield on investment property acquired with those proceeds, (iii) make timely and adequate payments to the federal government, (iv) maintain books and records and make calculations and reports, and (v) refrain from certain uses of those -11- D03:[00523.DOCS.NOR05228]BOND_ORDINANCE_COMPUTER_EQUIP $355.