Stock of a Federal Reserve bank.

Bonds of the State of California and those for which the faith and credit of the State of California are pledged for the payment of principal and interest, and registered warrants of the State of California.

Bonds of any flood control and water conservation districts, or any zone thereof, having an assessed valuation on taxable real property of not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000), county, city and county, city, metropolitan water district, municipal utility district, any special district established by and within any municipal utility district, transit district, rapid transit district, including sales tax revenue bonds of that district of the State of California (herein referred to generally as public corporations) except the bonds of any particular

such public corporation which may be declared ineligible for investment by commercial banks by regulations of the commissioner.

Bonds of any other political subdivision, public corporation, or district of the State of California (herein referred to generally as public corporations) having the power, without limit as to rate or amount, to levy taxes to pay the principal and interest of those bonds upon all property within its boundaries subject to taxation by the public corporation, if the net direct debt of that public corporation together with its net overlapping debt does not exceed 25 percent of the assessed valuation of the taxable property within its boundaries according to the

last official equalized county assessment roll.

Bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of, or which are unconditionally guaranteed by the State of Israel, the United States of Mexico, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any state of the United States other than California, for the payment of both principal and interest of which in United States dollars, the faith and credit of that entity is pledged; in limited obligations; and in the bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of any city, county, political subdivision, public corporation, or district (herein referred to generally as public corporations) of any state of the United States other than California, or of the State of Israel, or of the

United States of Mexico, or of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, having the power without limit as to rate or amount to levy taxes to pay the principal and interest of those bonds upon all property within its boundaries subject to taxation by that public corporation; subject to the following:

of its debts; (2) the special taxes pledged for the payment of the limited obligations shall have been collected for five fiscal years next preceding any investment and during the five fiscal years shall have averaged at least 11/2times the debt service requirements, including those for principal, interest, and sinking fund, on all such special obligations existing at the time; and (3) the special taxes for each of those five fiscal years shall have equaled at least the amount of all the debt service requirements on those special obligations.

functioning for at least 10 years prior to the time of the investment.

boundaries of the public corporation as the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the overlapping public corporation lying within the boundaries of the public corporation as shown by the last official equalized county assessment roll bears to the assessed valuation of all taxable property of the overlapping public corporation as shown by the last official equalized county assessment roll.

Bonds of any irrigation district, water, storage district, water conservation district, county water district, reclamation district, drainage district, and any district the primary function of which is the irrigation, reclamation, or drainage of land within its boundaries, located in California, other than bonds referred to in Section 7262, subject to any of the following:

Division 10 of the Water Code and the certification remains unrevoked.

Bonds, consolidated bonds, collateral trust debentures, consolidated debentures, or other obligations issued by federal land banks or federal intermediate credit banks established under the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended, the Farm Credit Act of 1971, in debentures and consolidated debentures issued by the Central Bank for Cooperatives and banks for cooperatives established under the Farm Credit Act of 1933, as amended, and the Farm Credit Act of 1971, and in stocks, bonds, debentures, participations, and other obligations of, or issued by, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Student Loan Marketing Association, the Government National

Mortgage Association, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

Bonds, notes, or other obligations issued by the Federal Financing Bank, the United State Postal Service, or issued or assumed by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, the Asian Development Bank, or the African Development Bank.

In revenue securities of any state of the United States, or of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and of any city, county, city and county, political subdivision, public corporation, or district (herein referred to generally as public corporations) of any such state or commonwealth and of any department, board, agency, or authority of any such state or commonwealth or of any public corporation subject to the following:

corporation, or by a department, board, agency, or authority thereof and are secured by those revenues.

outstanding in any fiscal year thereafter.

The gross income from the property, the net income from which is pledged for the payment of those securities, in the last fiscal year prior to that investment was not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000), is located in California, and was not less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) if located elsewhere.

The issuer is obligated to maintain rates at least sufficient to meet debt service requirements and those obligations are legally enforceable.

construction contract therefore and continuing during the maximum term for which those revenue securities are to mature.

The issuer of the securities is obligated to maintain rates to produce revenue, or will receive contract payments, either or both of which will be sufficient to meet debt service requirements and that obligation contract is legally enforceable.

Bonds of any local public housing agency (as defined in the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended) as are secured either, (a) by an agreement between the public housing agency and the Public Housing Administration in which the public housing agency agrees to borrow from the Public Housing Administration, and the Public Housing Administration agrees to lend to the public housing agency, prior to the maturity of those obligations (which obligations shall have a maturity of not more than 18 months), moneys in an amount which (together with any other moneys irrevocably committed to the payment of interest on the obligations) will suffice to pay the

principal of those obligations with interest to maturity thereon, which moneys under the terms of that agreement are required to be used for the purpose of paying the principal of, and the interest on, those obligations at their maturity, or (b) by a pledge of annual contributions under an annual contributions contract between the public housing agency and the Public Housing Administration if the contract shall contain the covenant by the Public Housing Administration which is authorized by subsection (b) of Section 22 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and if the maximum sum and the maximum period specified in the contract pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 22 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall not be less than the annual amount and the period for payment which are requisite to provide for the payment when due of all installments of principal and interest on those obligations.

Bonds secured by an insurance commitment of the Federal Housing Administration.

Evidences of indebtedness of companies incorporated in the United States and, directly or indirectly, engaged in manufacturing, extraction, merchandising, or commercial financing and in bonds of authorities established pursuant to the California Industrial Development Financing Act (Title 10 (commencing with Section 91500) of the Government Code), to which those institutions are obligated with respect to payment, provided:

that they will be secured equally with any mortgage bond, except a purchase money mortgage, which may be later issued.

claim on the earnings of the subsidiary), except that the foregoing ratio requirement shall not apply in the case of evidences of indebtedness of any corporation whose consolidated gross assets less any valuation reserves exceed five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) and whose consolidated current assets exceed consolidated current liabilities by at least one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) as shown by the latest published balance sheet. When new financing is involved, the changes in gross assets, capital structure, and working capital shall be considered and reliance may be placed on the representations made in the official prospectus prepared under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission as to the application of the proceeds of that financing.

earnings of the subsidiary), as shown on the latest published balance sheet, does not exceed 331/3percent of its gross assets less valuation reserves.

times the consolidated interest charges for that year and not less than six times the annual consolidated charges on the funded debt outstanding at the time of the investment.

Fixed interest railroad bonds meeting the requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b), bonds secured by a mortgage on jointly operated railroad facilities meeting the requirements of subdivision (c), and railroad equipment trust certificates meeting the requirements of subdivision (d), as follows:

the five years next preceding the investment.

divided by its average annual railroad operating income for the same 15-year period, shall produce a quotient at least 15 percent greater than the quotient obtained by dividing the average balance of income of all class 1 railroads, computed in the same manner, by the average annual railway operating income of all class 1 railroads for the same 15-year period.

of the mileage subject to the mortgage.

preceding the investment, or for the lesser number of fiscal years that may have elapsed since December 31, 1946, shall be not less than one and one-half times its fixed charges for the last fiscal year. Those certificates shall be issued to provide funds for the construction or acquisition of new standard gauge railroad equipment made with the approval of the federal Surface Transportation Board and secured by an equipment trust, lease, conditional sales contract, or first lien on the equipment. The aggregate principal amount of the obligations shall not exceed 80 percent of the purchase price of the equipment and the certificates shall mature within 15 years of the date of issuance in equal annual, semiannual, or monthly installments, beginning not later than one year after the date of issuance.

shall have the same meaning as in the accounting reports filed by common carriers by rail pursuant to regulations of the federal Surface Transportation Board, except that “balance of income available for payment of fixed charges” shall be computed before deduction of federal income of excess profits taxes, and “fixed charges” and “contingent interest” of the railroad shall be those charges existing as of the time the computation is made, excluding charges with respect to debt that has been retired or will be retired within six months and for the payment of which funds have been or are contemporaneously being set aside in trust but including charges with respect to new debt issued or in the process of being issued.

Bonds and debentures of gas, electric, or gas and electric companies meeting the requirements of subdivision (a), bonds and debentures of telephone companies meeting the requirements of subdivision (b), and the bonds and debentures of water companies meeting the requirements of subdivision (c), as follows:

by a mortgage on substantially all of its physical property, and, if debentures, shall be issued by a company substantially all of whose physical property is free of mortgage and shall carry a covenant to be secured equally with any mortgage indebtedness, except a purchase money mortgage, subsequently issued, and both bonds and debentures shall be issued by a public utility corporation, which does all of the following:

twice the existing annual interest charges on the corporation’s total funded debt during those respective fiscal years.

furnishing telephone and other communication services and at least 80 percent of its gross revenues from all or any of the public utility businesses enumerated in this section.

earnings of subsidiaries mentioned in paragraph (2), available for the payment of interest charges, before deduction of state and federal taxes imposed on or measured by income or profits, at least equal to twice the interest charges on the company’s total funded debt during those respective fiscal years.

community or communities having a population of not less than 25,000.

least one and one-half times the interest charges on the company’s total funded debt during those respective fiscal years.

As used in this article, “funded debt” means all interest-bearing indebtedness of a corporation not maturing within one year of the date it was incurred.