§ 7-273ee — Security of bonds of municipality and of authority. Contracts and agreements. Payments.

(a) Bonds issued under the authority of this chapter by a municipality, except those which are secured only by a pledge of revenues to be derived from the operation of a facility, shall be obligatory upon the municipality and the inhabitants and property thereof according to the tenor and purport of the same and the full faith and credit of the municipality shall be pledged to the payment thereof, whether or not such pledge is stated in the bonds or in the vote authorizing their issuance, and thereafter the municipality shall appropriate in each year during which any such bonds are outstanding, and there shall be available on or before the date when the same are payable, an amount of money which, together with other revenue available for such purpose, shall be sufficient to pay the principal and interest on such bonds payable in that year, and there shall be included in the tax levy for each such year an amount which, together with other revenues available for such purpose, shall be sufficient to meet such appropriation. (b) Bonds issued under the authority of this chapter by an authority shall be general obligations of the authority payable out of any revenues or other receipts, funds or moneys of the authority, subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular bonds pledging any particular revenues, receipts, funds or moneys; unless the authority shall otherwise expressly provide by resolution that such bonds shall be special obligations of the authority payable solely from any revenues or other receipts, funds or moneys of the authority pledged therefor, subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular bonds pledging any particular revenues, receipts, funds or moneys. (c) Any municipality which has adopted the provisions of this chapter is hereby expressly empowered and authorized to enter into any agreement or agreements with an authority established under this chapter or with any person or persons to whom the proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter have been loaned, for such periods and containing such terms and conditions as the municipality shall determine to be necessary or convenient, to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction, operation or financing of a project by the municipality or by an authority, including, but not limited to, the guarantee by the municipality of the punctual payment of all or some of the principal and interest on any bonds issued by an authority and the pledge of the full faith and credit of the municipality to the payment thereof. As part of the guarantee of the municipalities for payment of principal and interest on the bonds, the municipality may pledge to and agree with the owners of bonds issued under this chapter and with those persons who may enter into contracts with the municipality or the authority or any successor agency pursuant to the provisions of this chapter that it will not limit or alter the rights thereby vested in the bondowners, the authority or any contracting party until such bonds, together with the interest thereon are fully met and discharged and such contracts are fully performed on the part of the municipality or the authority, provided nothing contained herein shall preclude such limitation or alteration if and when adequate provision shall be made by law for the protection of the owners of such bonds of the municipality or the authority or those entering into such contracts with the municipality or the authority. The authority is authorized to include this pledge and undertaking for the municipality in such bonds or contracts. To the extent provided in such agreement or agreements, the obligations of the municipality thereunder shall be obligatory upon the municipality and the inhabitants and property thereof, and thereafter the municipality shall appropriate in each year during the term of such agreement, and there shall be available on or before the date when the same are payable, an amount of money which, together with other revenue available for such purpose, shall be sufficient to pay such principal and interest guaranteed by it and payable thereunder in that year, and there shall be included in the tax levy for each such year an amount which, together with other revenues available for such purpose, shall be sufficient to meet such appropriation. Any such agreement shall be valid, binding and enforceable against the municipality if approved by action of the legislative body of such municipality. (d) Any municipality which has adopted the provisions of this chapter and any authority created pursuant to this chapter is hereby expressly empowered and authorized to enter into long-term contracts or agreements with an authority or any person or persons for solid waste disposal services whereby the municipality agrees to furnish municipal solid wastes for disposal and to make payments of fees or charges based on a percentage of actual or projected tonnage or such other formula as such contract or agreement shall provide. Any such contract or agreement may require the continuation of such payments by the municipality whether or not the agreed services are being provided but only until all bonds issued by any of the contracting parties for development and construction of solid waste facilities or resource recovery facilities have been paid or provided for and may require or permit one or more of the contracting municipalities to pay obligations of another contracting municipality in the event such other municipality fails to make such payments and to bring appropriate legal action against the defaulting municipality to recover the amounts so paid, together with the costs and expenses of such action. The obligation of a contracting municipality to make payments pursuant to any such agreement shall not be included in the aggregate indebtedness of the municipality for purposes of any state statutory provision limiting the aggregate indebtedness of the municipality. Any such agreement shall be valid, binding and enforceable against the municipality or the authority if approved by action of the legislative body of such municipality. (e) All required payments of fees and charges, interest on loans, principal of loans and necessary fees and assessments related thereto required under any contract or agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section, shall be considered expenditures for public purposes by a municipality and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any necessary general or special taxes or cost sharing or other assessments authorized to be levied or assessed and collected by municipalities within the state may be levied or collected by said municipality without limitation as to rate or amount for the purpose of making such required payments.

Legislative History

(P.A. 81-213, S. 7, 18; P.A. 85-478, S. 6, 10.) History: P.A. 85-478 provided that the existing section, now Subsec. (a), applied only to the issuance of bonds by municipalities and added Subsecs (b) to (e), inclusive.