This text of Alabama § 16-16-11 (Pledge of Revenues for Payment of Bonds) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Alabama primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(a)For the purpose of providing funds to enable the authority to pay at their respective maturities the principal of and interest on any bonds issued by it under the provisions of this chapter and to accomplish the objects of this chapter, there is hereby irrevocably pledged to such purpose and hereby appropriated such amount of money as may be necessary for such purpose out of the residue of the receipts from the excise tax known as the sales tax levied by Sections 40-23-1 through 40-23-38, after there shall have been taken therefrom the amounts appropriated for other than educational purposes in Section 40-23-35 (which said residue constitutes that portion of the receipts from the said sales tax that is now required by law to be paid into the Education Trust Fund), and after taking from
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(a) For the purpose of providing funds to enable the authority to pay at their respective maturities the principal of and interest on any bonds issued by it under the provisions of this chapter and to accomplish the objects of this chapter, there is hereby irrevocably pledged to such purpose and hereby appropriated such amount of money as may be necessary for such purpose out of the residue of the receipts from the excise tax known as the sales tax levied by Sections 40-23-1 through 40-23-38, after there shall have been taken therefrom the amounts appropriated for other than educational purposes in Section 40-23-35 (which said residue constitutes that portion of the receipts from the said sales tax that is now required by law to be paid into the Education Trust Fund), and after taking from the said residue amounts sufficient to meet all prior charges on the said residue including:
(1) Such amounts as may be necessary to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds of the State of Alabama issued under Amendment 117 to the Constitution of Alabama; and
(2) Such amounts as may be necessary to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds of Alabama Education Authority authorized in Sections 16-15-1 through 16-15-10.
(b) If the said residue of the receipts from the said sales tax that remains after taking therefrom the amounts necessary to meet the said prior charges thereon, and that is herein pledged and appropriated, shall be insufficient to pay at their respective maturities the principal of and the interest on the bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, there is hereby irrevocably pledged to the payment of said principal and interest and hereby appropriated to that purpose so much as may be necessary therefor of the residue of the receipts from the excise tax known as the use tax levied by Sections 40-23-60 through 40-23-88, after there shall have been taken from said receipts the amount necessary to meet the expenses of the State Department of Revenue in collecting the same (which residue constitutes that portion of the receipts from the said use tax that is now required by law to be paid into the Education Trust Fund), and after taking from the said residue such amounts as may be necessary to meet all prior charges on the said residue including:
(1) Such amounts as may be necessary to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds of the State of Alabama issued under Amendment 117 to the Constitution of Alabama; and
(2) Such amounts as may be necessary to pay the principal of and interest on the said bonds authorized in Sections 16-15-1 through 16-15-10.
(c) All moneys hereby appropriated and pledged shall constitute a sinking fund for the purpose of paying the principal of and the interest on the bonds herein authorized.
(d) As security for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds issued under this chapter, the corporation is authorized to pledge the proceeds of the appropriation and pledge herein provided for.