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r � .1 <br />OTfiR INFORMATION <br />The Agency has covenanted in the Indenture for the benefit of holders and beneficial <br />owners of the Bonds to provide certain financial information and operating data relating to the <br />Agency by not later than 210 days following the end of the Agency's fiscal year ending June 30, <br />commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003 (the "Annual Report"), and to provide <br />notices of the occurrence of certain enumerated events, if material. The Annual Report will be <br />filed by the Agency with each Nationally Recognized Municipal Securities Information <br />Repository, and with the appropriate State information depository, if any. The notices of <br />material events will be filed by the Agency with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (and <br />with the appropriate State information depository, if any). The specific nature of the <br />information to be contained in the Annual Report or the notices of material events is set forth <br />below under the caption "APPENDIX E - FORM OF CONTINUING DISCLOSURE <br />CERTIFICATE." These covenants have been made in order to assist the Underwriter in <br />complying with S.E.C. Rule 15c2- 12(b)(5). The Agency has never failed to comply in all <br />material respects with any previous undertakings with regard to said Rule to provide annual <br />reports or notices of material events. <br />Litigation <br />At the time of delivery of and payment for the Bonds, the Agency will certify that <br />except as disclosed herein, to its best knowledge there is no litigation, action, suit, proceeding or <br />investigation, at law or in equity, before or by any court, governmental agency or body, pending <br />against or threatened against the Agency in any way affecting the existence of the Agency or the <br />titles of its officers to their respective offices or seeking to restrain or enjoin the issuance, sale or <br />delivery of the Bonds, the application of the proceeds thereof in accordance with the Indenture, <br />or the collection or application of Tax Revenues pledged or to be pledged to pay the principal <br />of and interest on the Bonds, or the pledge thereof, or in any way contesting or affecting the <br />validity or enforceability of the Bonds, the Indenture, or any action of the Agency contemplated <br />by any of said documents, or in any way contesting the completeness or accuracy of this <br />Official Statement or the powers of the Agency or its authority with respect to the Indenture or <br />any action of the Agency contemplated by said document, or which would adversely affect the <br />exclusion of interest paid on the Bonds from gross income for Federal income tax purposes or <br />the exemption of interest paid on the Bonds from California personal income taxation, nor, to <br />the knowledge of the Agency, is there any basis therefor. <br />Tax Matters <br />In the opinion of Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, LLP, Irvine, California, Bond <br />Counsel, based on existing statutes, regulations, rulings and court decisions, interest on the <br />Bonds is excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes. In the further opinion of <br />Bond Counsel, interest on the Bonds is, under existing law, exempt from State of California <br />personal income taxes. A copy of the proposed opinion of Bond Counsel is set forth in <br />APPENDIX B hereto. <br />The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the "Code "), imposes various restrictions, conditions <br />and requirements relating to the exclusion from gross income for federal income tax purposes of <br />interest on obligations such as the Bonds. The Agency has covenanted to comply with certain <br />restrictions designed to assure that interest on the Bonds will not be included in federal gross <br />income. Failure to comply with these covenants may result in interest on the Bonds being <br />-36- <br />