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470 Pillsbury Center 200 South Sixth Street Minneapolis MN 55402 & (612) 337-9300 telephone (612) 337-9310 fax htw.1lw'N"W .keD.ne(!J::g,L<!'y'~n&Qm CHARTERED $780,000 General Obligalion Temporary Improvement Bonds, Series 2004A City of Centerville Anoka County, Minnesota We have acted as bond counsel in conneclion wilh the issuance by Ihe City of Centerville, Anoka County, Minnesota, of its General Obligation Temporary Improvement Bonds, Series 2004A, (the "Bonds"), originally dated as of April I, 2004, in the original aggregate principal amount of $780,000. For the purpose of rendering this opinion we have examined certified copies of certain proceedings taken by the City with respect to the authorization, sale and issuance of the Bonds, including the form of the Bonds, certain other proceedings and documents furnished by the City, and applicable laws of the State of Minnesota. From our examination of such proceedings and other documents, assuming the genuineness of the signatures Ihereon and the accuracy of the facts stated therein, and based upon laws, regulations, rulings and decisions in effect on the date hereof, it is our opinion that: ]. The Bonds are in due fomi; have been duly executed and delivered, and are valid and binding general obligations of the City, enforceable in accordance with their terms. The rights of the owners of the Bonds and the enforceability of the Bonds may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, and other similar laws affecting creditor's righls generally and by equitable principles, whether considered at law or in equity. 2. The principal of and interest on the Bonds are payable primarily from special assessments levied or to be levied on property specially benefited by local improvements and from the proceeds of definitive or additional temporary bonds required to be issued by the City prior to or at maturity of the Bonds, but if necessary for the payment thereof ad valorem taxes are required by law to be levied on all taxable property in the City, which taxes are not subject to any limitation as to rate or amount. 3. Interest on the Bonds is not includable in gross income ofthe recipient for federal income tax purposes or in taxable net income for Minnesota income tax purposes, and is not a preference item for purposes of the computation of the federal alternative minimum tax, or the computation of the Minnesota alternative mioimum tax imposed on individuals, trusts and estales, but such interest is includable in the computation of "adjusted current earnings," used in the calculation of federal alternative minimum taxable income of corporations, and is subject to Minnesota franchise taxes on corporations (including financial institutions) measured by income and the alternative minimum tax base. The opinion seI forth in the preceding sentence is subject to the condition that the City comply with all requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, that must be satisfied subsequent to the issuance of the Bonds in order that interest thereon be, or continue to be, excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes and excluded from taxable net income for Minnesota income tax purposes. We express no opinion regarding other federal or state tax consequences arising with respect to the Bonds_ SlB.24347Ov I CE155.22