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7.10.2 A description of each such proposed issue shall be published in the city newsletter, but failure to publish such description, or any defect in the description, shall not invalidate the issue. However, corrections shall be published at the earliest practical time. Section 7.11 Tax Anticipation Certificates. At anytime after January 1, the council may issue tax anticipation certificates in anticipation of state and federal aids and the collection of taxes lcvied the previous year for any fund and not yet collected. The total amount of certificates issued againsl any fund for any year together with interest thereon until maturity shall not exceed 90 percent of the total state and federal aids and current taxes due to the fund and uncollected at the time of issuance. Such certificates shall be issued on such terms and conditions as the council may determine, but they shall become due no later than April 1 of the year following their issuance. The proceeds of the tax levied and such state or federal aids as the goveruing body may have allocated for the fund against which tax anticipation certificates are issued, and the full faith and credit of the city shall be ir~e'~,ocably pledged for the redemption of the certificates. Section 7.I2 Emergency Debt Certificates. 7.12.1 If in any year, the receipt from taxes or other sources should, for some unforeseen cause, become insufficient for the ordinary expenses of the city, or if any calamity or other public emergency necessitates the making of extraordinary expenditures, the council may by ordinance issue' on such terms and in such maturer as the co.uncil determines, emergency debt certificates to run not in excess of three years. A tax sufficient to pay principal and interest on such certificates with the margin required by law shall be levied as required by law. The ordinance afithorizing the issue of the emergency debt certificates shall state the nature of the emergency and be approved by at least four members of the council. It may be passed-by emergency ordinance as defined in Section 3.6 except that the 0rdi.nance shall be enacted by a 4/5 vote of the council. 7.12.2 A description of each such proposed certificate shall be published in the city newsletter, but failure to publish such description, or any defect in the description, shall not invalidate the certificate. However, co~Tections shall be published at the earliest practical time. Sections 7.1 through 7.12 amended ,~ffectlve March 25, 1994 - Sections 7.4.1 & 7.6.1 amended by Ordinance - effective January 24, 2001 17