The Authority shall appoint a secretary and treasurer, who may, but need not, be a member or members of the Authority to hold office during the pleasure of the Authority. Before entering upon the duties of the respective offices such person or persons shall take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office, and the treasurer shall execute a bond with corporate sureties to be approved by the Authority. The bond shall be payable to the Authority in whatever penal sum may be directed by the Authority conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the office and the payment of all money received by him according to law and the orders of the Authority. The Authority may, at any time, require a new bond from the treasurer in such penal sum as may then be determined by the Autho
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The Authority shall appoint a secretary and treasurer, who may, but need not, be a member or members of the Authority to hold office during the pleasure of the Authority. Before entering upon the duties of the respective offices such person or persons shall take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office, and the treasurer shall execute a bond with corporate sureties to be approved by the Authority. The bond shall be payable to the Authority in whatever penal sum may be directed by the Authority conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the office and the payment of all money received by him according to law and the orders of the Authority. The Authority may, at any time, require a new bond from the treasurer in such penal sum as may then be determined by the Authority. The obligation of the sureties shall not extend to any loss sustained by the insolvency, failure or closing of any savings and loan association or national or state bank wherein the treasurer has deposited funds if the bank or savings and loan association has been approved by the Authority as a depository for these funds. The oaths of office and the treasurer's bond shall be filed in the principal office of the Authority. All funds of the Authority, including without limitation, grants or loans from the federal government, the State or any agency or instrumentality thereof, fees, service charges, interest or other investment earnings on its funds, payments of principal of and interest on loans of its funds and revenue from any other source, except funds the application of which is otherwise specifically provided for by appropriation, resolution, grant agreement, lease agreement, loan agreement, indenture, mortgage or trust agreement or other agreement, may be held by the Authority in its treasury and be generally available for expenditure by the Authority for any of the purposes authorized by this Act. In addition to investments authorized by Section 2 of the Public Funds Investment Act, funds of the Authority may be invested in (a) obligations issued by any State, unit of local government or school district which obligations are rated at the time of purchase by a national rating service within the two highest rating classifications without regard to any rating refinement or gradation by numerical or other modifier, or (b) equity securities of an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 whose sole assets, other than cash and other temporary investments, are obligations which are eligible investments for the Authority, provided that not more than 20% of the assets of the investment company may consist of unrated obligations of the type described in clause (a) which the Board of Directors of the investment company has determined to be of comparable quality to rated obligations described in clause (a). Funds appropriated by the General Assembly to the Authority shall be held in the State treasury unless this Act or the Act making the appropriation specifically states that the monies are to be held in or appropriated to the Authority's treasury. Such funds as are authorized to be held in the Authority's treasury and deposited in any bank or savings and loan association and placed in the name of the Authority shall be withdrawn or paid out only by check or draft upon the bank or savings and loan association, signed by the treasurer and countersigned by the Chairperson of the Authority. The Authority may designate any of its members or any officer or employee of the Authority to affix the signature of the Chairperson and another to affix the signature of the treasurer to any check or draft for payment of salaries or wages and for payment of any other obligations of not more than $2,500. In case any officer whose signature appears upon any check or draft, issued pursuant to this Act, ceases to hold his office before the delivery thereof to the payee, his signature nevertheless shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes with the same effect as if he had remained in office until delivery thereof. No bank or savings and loan association shall receive public funds as permitted by this Section, unless it has complied with the requirements established pursuant to Section 6 of the Public Funds Investment Act.