This text of Arkansas § 6-62-719 (Bonds - Payment - Bond fund - Debt Service Reserve Fund) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Arkansas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(a)On or before the commencement of each fiscal year, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall determine the estimated amount required for payment of all or a part of debt service on the bonds issued under this subchapter during such fiscal year, after making deductions therefrom of estimated moneys to be available to the authority from other sources therefor and making the necessary transfer of such moneys, and shall certify such estimated amount to the Treasurer of State, who shall make monthly transfers from the State Apportionment Fund to the bond fund to provide for payment of all or part of the debt service on the bonds issued under this subchapter, of such amount of net general revenue as such term is defined in the Revenue Stabilization Law, § 19-5-101 et seq., as shall be requ
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(a) On or before the commencement of each fiscal year, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall determine the estimated amount required for payment of all or a part of debt service on the bonds issued under this subchapter during such fiscal year, after making deductions therefrom of estimated moneys to be available to the authority from other sources therefor and making the necessary transfer of such moneys, and shall certify such estimated amount to the Treasurer of State, who shall make monthly transfers from the State Apportionment Fund to the bond fund to provide for payment of all or part of the debt service on the bonds issued under this subchapter, of such amount of net general revenue as such term is defined in the Revenue Stabilization Law, § 19-5-101 et seq., as shall be required to pay the maturing debt service on bonds issued under this subchapter. (b) (1) The Treasurer of State shall make such additional monthly transfer or transfers of net general revenue as the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall certify to him or her as being required to enable the Arkansas Deveopment Finance Authority to establish and thereafter maintain a debt service reserve fund, to provide a reserve or reserves for payment of debt service on the bonds. (2) (A) The obligation to make monthly transfers of net general revenue from the State Apportionment Fund to the bond fund and to the debt service reserve fund shall constitute a first charge against said net general revenue prior to all other uses to which said net general revenue are devoted, either under present law or under any laws that may be enacted in the future; (B) Provided, however, that, to the extent other general obligation bonds of the state may subsequently be incurred, all such general obligation bonds shall rank on a priority of security with respect to payment from net general revenue. (c) Moneys credited to the bond fund and the debt service reserve fund shall be used only for the purpose of paying debt service on the bonds, either at maturity or upon redemption prior to maturity, and for such purposes, the Treasurer of State is hereby designated disbursing officer to administer such funds in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter. (d) The debt service reserve fund shall be held and used to ensure prompt payment of debt service on the bonds in such manner and pursuant to such conditions as may be specified by the authority in the resolution or trust indenture authorizing or securing such bonds. (e) Moneys in the bond fund and the debt service reserve fund over and above the amount necessary to ensure the prompt payment of debt service on the bonds, and the establishment and maintenance of a reserve fund, if any, may be used for the redemption of bonds prior to maturity in the manner and in accordance with the provisions pertaining to redemption prior to maturity, as set forth in the resolution or trust indenture authorizing or securing such bonds.