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expected to be issued by the City for the purpose of financing the Project; provided, however, that no such Declaration shall necessarily have been made with respect to: (i) "preliminary expenditures" for the Project, defined in the Reimbursement Regulations to include engineering or architectural, surveying and soil testing expenses and similar prefatory costs, which in the aggregate do not exceed 20% of the "issue price" of the Certificates, and (ii) a de minimis amount of Reimbursement Expenditures not in excess of the lesser of $100,000 or 5% of the proceeds of the Certificates. (b) Each Reimbursement Expenditure is a capital expenditure or a cost of issuance of the Certificates or any of the other types of expenditures described in Section 1.150- 2(d)(3) of the Reimbursement Regulations. (c) The "reimbursement allocation" described in the Reimbursement Regulations for each Reimbursement Expenditure shall and will be made forthwith following (but not prior to) the issuance of the Certificates and in all events within the period ending on the date which is the later of three years after payment of the Reimbursement Expenditure or one year after the date on which the Project to which the Reimbursement Expenditure relates is first placed in service. (d) Each such reimbursement allocation will be made in a writing that evidences the City's use of Certificate proceeds to reimburse the Reimbursement Expenditure and, if made within thirty (30) days after the Certificates are issued, shall be treated as made on the day the Certificates are issued. Provided, however, that the City may take action contrary to any of the foregoing covenants in this paragraph 21 upon receipt of an opinion of its Bond Counsel for the Certificates stating in effect that such action will not impair the tax-exempt status of the Certificates. 22. Negative Covenant as to Use of Proceeds and Equipment. The City hereby covenants not to use the proceeds of the Certificates or the Equipment or to cause or permit them to be used, or to enter into any deferred payment arrangements for the cost of the Equipment, in such a manner as to cause the Certificates to be "private activity bonds" within the meaning of Sections 103 and I41 through 150 of the Code. 23. Tax-Exempt Status of the Certificates- Rebate. The City shall comply with requirements necessary under the Code to establish and maintain the exclusion from gross income under Section 103 of the Code of the interest on the Certificates, including without limitation (1) requirements relating to temporary periods for investments, (2) limitations on amounts invested at a yield greater than the yield on the Certificates, and (3) the rebate of excess investment earnings to the United States. 24. Continuing Disclosure. (a) The City is the sole obligated person with respect to the Certificates. The City hereby agrees, in accordance with the provisions of Rule 1 Sc2-12 (the "Rule"), promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to the Securities 2086205x1 j g