Guam § 5 - Pledge and Assignment: Revenue Fund.
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§ 5. Pledge and Assignment: Revenue Fund.
(A) Subject only to the provisions of this Indenture
permitting the application thereof for or to the purposes and on the
terms and conditions set forth herein, there are hereby pledged to
secure the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds
in accordance with their terms and the provisions of this Indenture,
all of the Hotel Room Taxes, all of the Revenues (except to the
extent of the Rebate Requirement referred to in§ 5.08), and any
other amounts held in any fund or account established pursuant to
this Indenture (except the Rebate Fund and the Construction
Fund). Said pledge shall constitute a first lien on and security
interest in such assets and shall attach, be perfected and be valid
and binding from and after delivery by the Registrar of the 1997
Series A Bonds, without any physical delivery thereof or further
act.
(B) The Government shall deposit all Revenues upon the
receipt thereof in a special fund designated as the “Revenue
Fund”, which the Depositary shall establish and maintain and hold
in trust, except that all interest and other profit from the
investment of moneys in the Construction Fund shall be retained
therein. The Trustee and the Depositary shall be entitled to and
shall collect and receive all of the Revenues, and any Revenues
collected or received by the Government shall be deemed to be
held, and to have been collected or received, by the Government
as the agent of the Trustee and Depositary and shall forthwith be
paid by the Government to the Depositary.
(C) (1) The Trustee shall establish, maintain and hold in trust
the following additional funds:
(a) the Bond Fund;
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(b) the Bond Reserve Fund;
(c) the Bond Expense Fund; and
(d) the Rebate Fund.
(D) All moneys at any time deposited with the Trustee or the
Depositary, as the case may be, shall be held by the Trustee or the
Depositary, as the case may be in trust for the benefit of the
Holders at any time of the Bonds (and, to the extent of the payment
of any of the Bonds from amounts received under a Credit
Facility, for the benefit of the applicable Credit Provider,
subordinate in all respects to the Holders of all of the Bonds), and
the Government shall have no beneficial right or interest in any of
such moneys; except as in this Indenture provided. All Revenues
so deposited shall be held, disbursed, allocated and applied only
as provided in this Indenture.
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Section 5 ("Pledge and Assignment: Revenue Fund.") is part of the Guam Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Guam. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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