§ 6-12-7 — Refunding bond issuance; procedure

Whenever the state treasurer deems it expedient to issue refunding bonds under the provisions of Sections 6-12-6 through 6-12-14 NMSA 1978, he shall present to the state board of finance in writing a statement of the outstanding bonds proposed to the [be] refunded, setting out in full and in detail in the statement all data and information necessary to a full and clear understanding of the proposal to refund, whereupon the state board of finance if it considers the proposal to be in the best interest of the state and elects to act favorably upon it shall adopt a resolution which shall be recorded in its permanent records, which resolution shall set out the facts making the issuance of the refunding bonds necessary or advisable, the determination of the necessity or advisability by the board and the amount of the refunding bonds which it is deemed necessary and advisable to issue. The resolution shall fix the rate of interest on the refunding bonds, the dates of the refunding bonds, the denomination or denominations thereof, the maturity dates which shall not be more than twenty years from the date of the refunding bonds, the place or places of payment within or without the state of both principal and interest and shall further set out in full the form of the refunding bonds and coupons, if any; provided that where bonds are issued to refund existing and outstanding bonds which may be redeemed prior to their maturity, as set out in the bonds to be refunded, the date of maturity of those refunding bonds shall not extend beyond the date of final maturity of the bonds to be so refunded. In the event bonds which may be redeemed prior to their maturity are to be called for refunding prior to their maturity date, the state treasurer shall call the bonds for payment on the dates, under the conditions and in the manner provided in the bonds.

Legislative History

Laws 1935, ch. 4, § 2; 1941 Comp., § 7-507; 1953 Comp., § 11-5-7; Laws