Authorizing the Issuance of Revenue Bonds re: improvements to the Waterworks, not to exceed Twenty-Two Million Five hundred thousand dollars (22,500,000); including the issuance of notes in anticipation of Bonds.

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of the original issuance of the BANs, in accord with I.C. §5-1-14-5, shall be prepayable on seven (7) days' notice in whole or in part in any authorized denomination without premium or penalty, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding eight percent (8%) per annum, and shall be sold at a discount not exceeding one percent (1 %) of the principal amount thereof. Interest on the BANS shall be payable at maturity. It shall not be necessary for the City to repeat the procedures for the issuance of the 1997 Bonds as the procedures followed before the issuance of the BANs are for all purposes sufficient to authorize the issuance of the 1997 Bonds and to use proceeds thereof to repay the BANS. The principal of the BANS herein authorized is payable solely from proceeds received from the sale of the 1997 Bonds, and the interest thereon may be paid from such proceeds or from the Net Revenues or a combination thereof, and the proceeds received by the City from the sale of the 1997 Bonds and such Net Revenues are hereby irrevocably pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the BANs. The Executive is hereby authorized to determine the form of the BANS and to execute the BANs, the Fiscal Officer is hereby authorized to have the BANS prepared, and to attest to the BANS and affix the seal the City or cause a facsimile of the seal of the City to be imprinted or impressed on the BANS. The Fiscal Officer is hereby authorized and directed to obtain the legal opinion as to the validity of the BANs from Barnes & Thornburg. After the BANS shall have been properly executed, the Fiscal Officer shall be authorized to receive from the purchaser thereof payment for the BANs and to provide for delivery of the BANs to the purchaser. Proceeds received from the sale of the BANS shall be deposited in the Construction Fund referred to in Sec. 11 of this Ordinance. The Fiscal Officer is authorized to sell the BANS to any investor, and to work with the investor to facilitate the sale of the BANS, provided, any BAN in principal amount of less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) must be sold to a financial institution. In any case any officer whose signature or a facsimile signature appears on the BANS shall cease to be such officer before delivery of the BANS, such signature shall nevertheless he valid and sufficient for all purposes as if such officer had remained in office until delivery of the BANS. Upon execution of the BANs by the Executive and the attestation thereof by the Fiscal Officer, the BANs shall constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the City. No action shall be taken that would impair the exclusion from gross income of interest on the BANs provided by the Code (as defined in Section 24). In furtherance of the foregoing, the provisions of Section 24 of this Ordinance shall apply to the BANS in the same manner as they apply to the 1997 Bonds. _ The BANS shall be subject to transferor exchange in the same manner as the 1997 Bonds, as described in Section 4, and to amendment in the same manner as the 1997 Bonds, as described in Sections 22 and 23. The Executive and the Fiscal Officer each are authorized and directed to execute a purchase agreement with respect to the BANs in such form or substance as they shall approve. As an alternative to any terms of the BANS set forth above and to the method of sale referred to -27-