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Certificate to become generally subject to taxation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), and regulations issued thereunder, as now existing or as hereafter amended or proposed and in effect at the time of such action, and that the City will take, or it will cause to be taken, all affirmative actions within its power which may be necessary to insure that such interest will not become subject to income taxation under the Code. Without limitation of the foregoing, the City shall not enter into any lease, use agreement, management or operation contract or other agreement respecting the Equipment or any portion thereof which would adversely affect the exemption from federal income tax of the interest on the Certificate, taking into account and observing the requirements of Revenue Procedure 97-13 of the Internal Revenue Service and any similar or other applicable revenue procedures or guidelines relating to leases, management contracts and service contracts involving facilities financed with tax-exempt obligations. 15. 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 Certificate, 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 Certificate, and (3) the rebate of excess investment earnings to the United States if the Certificate (together with other obligations reasonably expected to be issued and outstanding at one time in this calendar year) exceed the small-issuer exception amount of $5,000,000, or do not otherwise qualify for available exceptions. For purposes of qualifying for the small-issuer exception to the federal arbitrage rebate requirements, the City hereby finds, determines and declares that (1) the Certificate is issued by a governmental unit with general taxing powers, (2) the Certificate is not a private activity bond, (3) ninety-five percent (95%) or more of the net proceeds of the Certificate are to be used for local governmental activities of the City (or of a governmental unit the jurisdiction of which is entirely within the jurisdiction of the City), and (4) the aggregate face amount of all tax-exempt bonds (other than private activity bonds) issued by the City (and all entities subordinate to, or treated as one issuer with, the City) during the 1999 calendar year is not reasonably expected to exceed.S5,000,000, all within the meaning of Section 148(f) (4) (D) of the Code. 16. The City hereby designates the Certificate as a "qualified tax-exempt obligation" within the meaning of Section 265(b) (3) of the Code and further represents that: (a) the reasonably anticipated amount of tax-exempt obligations (other than private activity bonds, treating 1095218.1