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provisions of this or any other contract or agreement between the Parties. This covenant shall be <br />for the benefit of the bond holders of the respective Party and shall continue after expiration of <br />this Agreement until all Project Debt Instruments issued under this Agreement are retired. <br />Section 20. Pledge of Revenue. <br />Pursuant to TEX. REV. Civ. STAT. ANN. ART. 8280-106 (Vernon 1954) and TEX. REV. <br />CIV. STAT. ANN. ART. 1113 (Vernon 1963), GBRA and the City represent and covenant that all <br />payments to be made under this Agreement shall constitute reasonable and necessary operating <br />expenses of the Parties' San Marcos Regional Water Supply Project and that all such payments <br />will be made from the Parties' revenues from the Plant and the Raw Water Delivery System. <br />GBRA and the City represent and have determined that the water supply to be obtained from the <br />Project is absolutely necessary and essential to the present and future operation of their water <br />systems; therefore, and, accordingly, all payments required by this Agreement to be made by <br />GBRA or the City shall constitute reasonable and necessary operating expenses of GBRA's and <br />the City's system or systems as described above with the effect that the obligation to make such <br />payments from revenues of such system or systems shall have priority over any obligation to <br />make any payments from such revenues, whether of principal, interest, or otherwise, with respect <br />to all Project Debt Instruments heretofore or hereafter issued by City or GBRA. <br />GBRA and the City agree throughout the term of this Agreement to continuously operate <br />and maintain their water systems and to fix and collect such rates and charges for water services <br />to be supplied by their water systems as will produce revenues in an amount equal to at least (i) <br />all of their payments under this Agreement and (ii) all other amounts as required by the <br />provisions of the ordinances or resolutions authorizing its other revenue bonds or other <br />obligations now or hereafter outstanding. <br />Unless otherwise specifically provided in writing by subsequent agreement between City <br />and GBRA, neither the City nor GBRA shall have the right to demand payment of any obligation <br />assumed or imposed under this Agreement from funds raised or to be raised by taxation, it being <br />expressly understood by City and GBRA that all payments due by GBRA or the City are to be <br />made from the revenues and income received as a result of their respective interests in and <br />operation of the San Marcos Regional Supply Project. <br />Section 21. Payments for Raw Water. <br />The City will pay GBRA for raw water pursuant to the terms of the City's Raw Water <br />Contract, as such Contract may be amended from time to time. <br />Section 22. Payments for Raw Water Delivery. <br />Rates charged to the City to recover GBRA's cost of design, construction, maintenance <br />and operation of the Raw Water Delivery System shall be set by GBRA in accordance with <br />accepted rate-making practices and billed on a monthly basis. The rates charged to the City shall <br />be sufficient for GBRA to recover the entire Raw Water Delivery System Annual Requirement; <br />-14-