§ 7-65-111 — Bonds and notes

Tennessee § 7-65-111

• Jurisdiction: Tennessee
• Title: 7

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(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, all bonds issued by the authority shall be payable solely out of the revenues and receipts derived from the leasing, operation or sale by the authority of its projects or any thereof or from income received by the authority from its operation of other parking facilities or from such funds as the authority may receive from other sources as are legally available for such purpose, all as may be designated in the proceedings of the board of directors under which the bonds shall be authorized to be issued; provided, that notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds may be retired out of the proceeds of such bonds. Such bonds may be executed and delivered by the authority at any time and from time to time, may be in such form and denomination and of such terms and maturities, may be in fully registered form or in bearer form registrable either as to principal or interest, or both, may bear such conversion privileges and be payable in such installments and at such time or times, not exceeding forty (40) years, from the date of the bonds, may be payable at such place or places whether within or without the state, may bear interest at such rate or rates payable at such time or times and at such place or places and evidenced in such manner, may be executed by such officers of the authority, and may contain such provisions not inconsistent with this section, all as shall be provided in the proceedings of the board of directors whereunder the bonds shall be authorized to be issued. If deemed advisable by the board of directors, there may be retained in the proceedings under which any bonds of the authority are authorized to be issued an option to redeem all or any part of the bonds as may be specified in such proceedings, at such price or prices and after such notice or notices and on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in such proceedings and as may be briefly recited on the face of the bonds, but nothing contained in this section shall be construed to confer on the authority any right or option to redeem any bonds except as may be provided in the proceedings under which they shall be issued. Any bonds of the authority may be sold at public or private sale for such price and in such manner and from time to time as may be determined by the board of directors of the authority to be most advantageous, and the authority may pay all expenses, premiums and commissions that its board of directors may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with the issuance of the bonds. Issuance by the authority of one (1) or more series of bonds for one (1) or more purposes shall not preclude it from issuing other bonds in connection with the same project or any other project, but the proceedings whereunder any subsequent bonds may be issued shall recognize and protect any prior pledge or mortgage made for any prior issue of bonds. (b) Any bonds or notes of the authority at any time outstanding may at any time and from time to time be refunded by the authority by the issuance of its refunding bonds in such amount as the board of directors may deem necessary, but not exceeding: (1) The principal amount of the obligations being refinanced; (2) Applicable redemption premiums on the bonds or notes; (3) Unpaid interest on such obligations to the date of delivery or exchange of the refunding bonds; (4) In the event the proceeds from the sale of the refunding bonds are to be deposited in trust as provided in subdivision (d)(2), interest to accrue on such obligations from the date of delivery to the date of maturity or to the first redemption date, whichever shall be earlier; and (5) Expenses, premiums and commissions of the authority deemed by the board of directors to be necessary in connection with the issuance of the refunding bonds. (c) Any such refunding may be effected whether the obligations to be refunded shall have then matured or shall thereafter mature, either by the exchange of the refunding bonds for the obligations to be refunded by the refunding bonds, with the consent of the holders of the obligations so to be refunded, or by sale of the refunding bonds and the application of the proceeds of the sale to the payment of the obligations to be refunded by the refunding bonds, and regardless of whether or not the obligations to be refunded were issued in connection with the same projects or separate projects, and regardless of whether or not the obligations proposed to be refunded shall be payable on the same date or different dates or shall be due serially or otherwise. (d) The principal proceeds from the sale of any refunding bonds shall be applied only as follows, either to: (1) The immediate payment and retirement of the obligations being refunded; or (2) The extent not required for the immediate payment of the obligations being refunded, then such proceeds shall be deposited in trust to provide for the payment and retirement of the obligations being refunded, and to any expenses incurred in connection with such refunding, but may also be used to pay interest on the refunding bonds prior to the retirement of the obligations being refunded. Money in any such trust fund may be invested in direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are guaranteed by, the United States government, or obligations of any agency or instrumentality of the United States government, or in certificates of deposit issued by a bank and trust company located in the state, if such certificates shall be secured by a pledge of any of such obligations having an aggregate market value, exclusive of accrued interest, equal at least to the principal amount of the certificates so secured. Nothing in this subdivision (d)(2) shall be construed as a limitation on the duration of any deposit in trust for the retirement of obligations being refunded, but which shall not have matured and which shall not be presently redeemable.

Legislative History

Acts 1980, ch. 826, § 11.