10 - Issuance of Certificates of Obligation Series 2020

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Certificates issued and delivered under this Ordinance, but such opinion, if so printed, shall have no legal effect, and shall be solely for the convenience and information of the Registered Owner. (b) The Mayor, City Manager, Finance Director, City Secretary and all other officers, employees and agents of the Issuer, and each of them, shall be and they are hereby expressly authorized, empowered and directed from time to time and at any time to do and perform all such acts and things and to execute, acknowledge and deliver in the name and on behalf of the Issuer a Paying Agent/Registrar Agreement with the Paying Agent/Registrar and all other instruments, whether or not herein mentioned, as may be necessary or desirable in order to carry out the terms and provisions of this Ordinance, the Certificates and the sale of the Certificates. In case any officer whose signature shall appear on any Certificate shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such Certificate, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if such officer had remained in office until such delivery. (c) The obligation of the initial purchaser to accept delivery of the Certificates is subject to the initial purchaser being furnished with the final, approving opinion of McCall, Parkhurst & Horton L.L.P., bond counsel to the Issuer, which opinion shall be dated as of and delivered on the date of initial delivery of the Certificates to the initial purchaser. The engagement of such firm as bond counsel to the Issuer in connection with issuance, sale and delivery of the Certificates is hereby approved and confirmed. The execution and delivery of an engagement letter between the Issuer and such firm, with respect to such services as bond counsel, is hereby authorized in such form as may be approved by the Mayor of the Issuer and the Mayor is hereby authorized to execute such engagement letter. (d) In accordance with the provisions of Section 1202.004, Tex. Gov't Code Ann., in connection with the submission of the Certificates by the Attorney General of Texas for review and approval, a statutory fee (an amount equal to 0.1% principal amount of the Certificates, subject to a minimum of $750 and a maximum of $9,500) is required to be paid to the Attorney General upon the submission of the transcript of proceedings for the Certificates. The Issuer hereby authorizes and directs that a check in the amount of the Attorney General filing fee for the Certificates, made payable to the "Texas Attorney General," be promptly furnished to the Issuer's Bond Counsel, for payment to the Attorney General in connection with his review of the Certificates. Section 10. COVENANTS REGARDING TAX EXEMPTION OF INTEREST ON THE CERTIFICATES. The Issuer covenants to take any action necessary to assure, or refrain from any action that would adversely affect, the treatment of the Certificates as Obligations described in section 103 of the Code, the interest on which is not includable in the "gross income" of the holder for purposes of federal income taxation. In furtherance thereof, the Issuer covenants as follows: (a) to take any action to assure that no more than 10 percent of the proceeds of the Certificates (less amounts deposited to a reserve fund, if any) are used for any "private business use," as defined in section 141(b)(6) of the Code or, if more than 10 percent of the proceeds or the projects financed therewith are so used, such amounts, whether or not received by the Issuer, with respect to such private business use, do not, under the terms of 15