Authorizing Issuance of Revenue Bonds concerning construction of Improvements to Waterworks, not to exceed $2,050,000

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of the City of South Bend, Indiana concerning the construction of improvements to the municipal waterworks of the City of South Bend, Indiana; authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for such purpose in the principal amount not to exceed two million fifty thousand dollars ($2,050,000); addressing other matters connected therewith, including the issuance of notes in anticipation of bonds; and repealing ordinances inconsistent herewith" (the "Ordinance"), and in accordance with the provisions of Indiana law, including without limitation Indiana Code 8-1.5, and other applicable laws, as amended (the "Act"), all as more particularly described in the Ordinance. The owner of this bond, by the acceptance hereof, agrees to all the terms and provisions contained in the Ordinance and the Act. Reference is hereby made to the Financial Assistance Agreement between the City and the State of Indiana as to certain terms and covenants pertaining to the waterworks project and this Bond (the "Financial Assistance Agreement"). Pursuant to the provisions of the Act and the Ordinance, the principal of and interest on this bond and all other bonds of said issue, the Prior Bonds (as hereinafter defined), and any bonds hereafter issued on a parity therewith are payable solely from the Sinking Fund (the "Sinking Fund") maintained under the Ordinance to be provided from the Net Revenues (defined as the gross revenues of the works remaining after the payment of the reasonable expenses of operation, repair and maintenance) of the works, including all additions and improvements thereto and replacements thereof subsequently constructed or acquired. The City irrevocably pledges the entire Net Revenues of the works to the prompt payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds and any bonds ranking on a parity therewith, including the Waterworks Revenue Bonds of 1997 and the Waterworks Revenue Bonds of 1993 (together, the "Prior Bonds") each authorized by ordinance of the City, to the extent necessary for such purposes, and covenants that it will establish proper rates and charges for services rendered by the utility as are sufficient in each year for the payment of the proper and reasonable expenses of Operation and Maintenance (as defined in the Financial Assistance Agreement) of the works and for the payment of the sums required to be paid into the Sinking Fund under the provisions of the Act and the Ordinance. If the City or the proper officers thereof shall fail or refuse to so fix and collect such rates or charges, or if there be a default in the payment of the interest on or principal of this bond, the owner of this bond shall have all of the rights and remedies provided for in the Act. The City covenants that for so long as the Bonds and any bonds issued on a parity therewith, including the Prior Bonds, remain outstanding it will set aside and pay into the Sinking Fund a sufficient amount of the Net Revenues for the payment of (a) the principal of and interest on all bonds which by their terms are payable from the Net Revenues, as such principal and interest shall fall due, (b) the necessary fiscal agency charges for paying bonds and (c) an additional amount to maintain the reserve required by the Ordinance. Such required payments shall constitute a first charge -12-