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25350.10
. (a) Taxes collected by the State Board of Equalization
pursuant to Section 7204 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, that are
derived from the taxes imposed by the County of Orange pursuant to
Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 7200) of Division 2 of the Revenue
and Taxation Code, other than that portion of those taxes specified
in Section 29530.5, and any moneys allocated from the Sales and Use
Tax Compensation Fund to the County of Orange pursuant to Section
97.68 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, shall be pledged, without the
necessity for specific authorization of the pledge by the board of
supervisors, to all certificates of participation or lease revenue
bonds executed and delivered or issued, as the case may be, during
the years 1996 and 1997, including obligations executed and delivered
or issued before 2010, to refund those certificates of participation
or lease revenue bonds, to finance or refinance the lease or
lease-purchase of property of the county and having a stated maturity
of 20 years or more. Any refunding obligations may not have a final
maturity later than the final maturity of the refunded obligations.
The amount so pledged with respect to any fiscal year of the county
may not exceed the amounts to be paid in the fiscal year on those
certificates or lease revenue bonds.
(b) The pledge of taxes pursuant to this section shall constitute
a contract between the county and the owners of any of the
certificates of participation or lease revenue bonds and shall be
protected from impairment by the United States and California
Constitutions. The state hereby covenants with the owners of any
certificates of participation or lease revenue bonds entitled to the
pledge granted by this section that, as long as any of the
certificates of participation or lease revenue bonds entitled to the
pledge granted by this section shall remain outstanding, the
provisions of Section 7202 of the Revenue and Taxation Code that
authorize the imposition of the taxes may not be repealed. That
section may not be altered or amended in any manner that would
adversely affect the security of, or the ability of the county to
pay, the principal of and interest on the certificates of
participation or lease revenue bonds entitled to the pledge granted
by this section. However, nothing precludes any alteration or
amendment if and when adequate provision has been made by law for the
protection from impairment of the contract represented by the
certificates of participation or lease revenue bonds, and the right
to so alter or amend is hereby reserved. The county may include this
covenant of the state in the agreements or other documents underlying
the certificates of participation or lease revenue bonds.