Ord 2016-018/authorizing the issuance and sale of $38,000,000 City of San Marcos, Texas, Combination Tax And Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2016

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Section 1.05. Interpretation. (a) Unless the context requires otherwise, words of the masculine gender shall be construed to include correlative words of the feminine and neuter genders and vice versa, and words of the singular number shall be construed to include correlative words of the plural number and vice versa. (b) This Ordinance and all the terms and provisions hereof shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes set forth herein to sustain the validity of this Ordinance. ARTICLE II SECURITY FOR THE CERTIFICATES Section 2.01. Tax Levy for Payment of the Certificates. (a) The City Council hereby declares and covenants that it will provide and levy a tax legally and fully sufficient for payment of the Certificates, it having been determined that the existing and available taxing authority of the City for such purpose is adequate to permit a legally sufficient tax in consideration of all other outstanding obligations of the City. (b) In order to provide for the payment of the debt service requirements on the Certificates, being (1) the interest on the Certificates and (ii) a sinking fund for their payment at maturity or a sinking fund of two percent (whichever amount is the greater), there is hereby levied for the current year and each succeeding year thereafter, while the Certificates or interest thereon remain outstanding and unpaid, a tax within legal limitations on each $100 valuation of taxable property in the City that is sufficient to pay such debt service requirements, full allowance being made for delinquencies and costs of collection. (c) The tax levied by this Section shall be assessed and collected each year and applied to the payment of the debt service requirements on the Certificates, and the tax shall not be diverted to any other purpose. Section 2.02. Revenue Pledge. The Certificates are additionally secured by and shall be payable from a pledge of the Surplus Revenues. Section 2.03. Perfection of Security Interest. Chapter 1208, Texas Government Code applies to the issuance of the Certificates and the pledge of the taxes and revenues granted by the City under Sections 2.01 and 2.02 of this Ordinance, and such pledge, therefore, is valid, effective, and perfected. If Texas law is amended at any time while the Certificates are outstanding and unpaid such that the pledge of the taxes granted by the City San Marcos CTRCO 2016: Ordinance 5