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No Obligation or Ability to Tax The obligation of the City to pay the Installment Payments does not constitute an obligation of the City for which the City is obligated to levy or pledge any form of taxation or for which the City has levied or pledged any form of taxation. The obligation of the City to pay Installment Payments does not constitute a debt or indebtedness of the City, the State or any of its political subdivisions, within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction. The Authority has no taxing power. Change in Law In addition to the other limitations described herein, the State electorate or Legislature could adopt a constitutional or legislative reallocations of property taxes or an initiative with the effect of reducing revenues payable to or collected by the City. There is no assurance that the State electorate or Legislature will not at some future time approve additional limitations that could have the effect of reducing the Net System Revenues and adversely affecting the security of the Bonds. Geologic and Topographic The value of the Water System, and the ability to generate System Revenues, is contingent upon the ability of the City to deliver water to its customers. The financial stability of the City can be adversely affected by a variety of factors, particularly those which may affect infrastructure and other public improvements and private improvements and the continued habitability and enjoyment of such private improvements. Such additional factors include, without limitation, geologic conditions (such as earthquakes), topographic conditions (such as earth movements and floods) and climatic conditions (such as droughts and tornadoes). The City is in an active geological area. Engineering standards require that some of these factors be taken into account, to a limited extent, in the design of improvements, including the Water System. Some of these factors may also be taken into account, to a limited extent, in the design of other infrastructure and public improvements neither designed nor subject to design approval by the City. Design criteria in any of these circumstances are established upon the basis of a variety of considerations and may change, leaving previously -designed improvements unaffected by more stringent subsequently established criteria. In general, design criteria reflect a balance at the time of protection and the future costs of lack of protection, based in part upon a present perception of the probability that the condition will occur and the seriousness of the condition should it occur. Conditions may occur which may result in damage to improvements in varying degrees, and such damage may entail significant repair or replacement costs, and there can be no assurance that such repair or replacement will occur. Under any of these circumstances, the public and private improvements within the City in general may well depreciate or disappear, notwithstanding the establishment of design criteria for any such condition. The area encompassed by the City, like that in much of California, may be subject to unpredictable seismic activity. Occurrence of earthquakes could cause an interruption of deliveries of water to and from the City until repairs could be effected, thus possibly diminishing the value of the Water System and the amount of Net System Revenues. Cybersecurity The City relies on computers and technology to conduct its operations. This City and its departments face cyber threats from time to time including, but not limited to, hacking, viruses, malware and other forms of technology attacks. Recently, there have been significant cybersecurity incidents affecting municipal agencies, including ransomware attacks targeting Los Angeles Unified School District and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, a freeze affecting computer systems of the City of Atlanta, and attack on the City of Baltimore's 911 system, an attack on the Colorado Department of Transportation's computers, an attack that resulted in the temporary closure of the Port of Los Angeles' largest terminal, and an attack on a water treatment facility in Oldsmar, Florida. 32