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ARTICLE VI <br />Tax Increment; Taxes <br />Section 6.1. Right to Collect Delinquent Taxes. The Redeveloper acknowledges that the <br />Authority is providing substantial aid and assistance in furtherance of the development through <br />reimbursement of Public Redevelopment Costs. The Redeveloper understands that the Tax <br />Increments pledged to payment on the Note are derived from real estate taxes on the <br />Redevelopment Property, which taxes must be promptly and timely paid. To that end, the <br />Redeveloper agrees for itself, its successors and assigns, that in addition to the obligation pursuant <br />to statute to pay real estate taxes, it is also obligated by reason of this Agreement to pay before <br />delinquency all real estate taxes assessed against the Redevelopment Property and the Minimum <br />Improvements. The Redeveloper acknowledges that this obligation creates a contractual right on <br />behalf of the Authority to sue the Redeveloper or its successors and assigns to collect delinquent <br />real estate taxes and any penalty or interest thereon and to pay over the same as a tax payment to the <br />county auditor. In any such suit, the Authority shall also be entitled to recover its costs, expenses <br />and reasonable attorney fees. <br />Section 6.2. Review of Taxes. The Redeveloper agrees that prior to the Maturity Date, it <br />will not cause a reduction in the real property taxes paid in respect of the Redevelopment Property <br />through: (A) willful destruction of the Redevelopment Property or any part thereof (except for <br />demolition required for construction of the Minimum Improvements); or (B) willful refusal to <br />reconstruct damaged or destroyed property pursuant to Section 5.1 of this Agreement, except as <br />provided in Section 5.1(c). The Redeveloper also agrees that it will not, prior to the Maturity Date, <br />seek exemption from property tax for the Redevelopment Property or any portion thereof or transfer <br />or permit the transfer of the Redevelopment Property to any entity that is exempt from real property <br />taxes and state law (other than any portion thereof dedicated or conveyed to the City in accordance <br />with platting of the Redevelopment Property or pursuant to the City Hall Contract), or apply for a <br />deferral of property tax on the Redevelopment Property pursuant to any law. <br />Section 6.3. Nothing in this Agreement shall limit the right of the Redeveloper, or its <br />successors and assigns, to bring a tax petition challenging a market value determination for any <br />Phase of the Minimum Improvements on the Redevelopment Property; provided that if the <br />Redeveloper brings such a challenge, the Redeveloper must inform the Authority of such tax <br />petition in writing. During the pendency of such challenge, the Authority will withhold all <br />payments of principal and interest on the applicable Note or Notes until the Redeveloper's challenge <br />is resolved. Upon resolution of Redeveloper's tax petition, any Available Tax Increment deferred <br />and withheld under this Section shall be paid, without interest thereon, to the extent payable <br />under the assessor's final determination of Market Value for the Minimum Improvements. The <br />Authority's suspension of payments on any Note pursuant to this Section 6.3 shall not constitute <br />an Event of Default under Article IX hereof. <br />(The remainder of this page is intentionally left blank.) <br />15 <br />623340v3SA730-2 <br />