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Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

Chapter 67

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  67.5032.  Issuance of bonds, requirements. — 1.  Bonds of a district authorized by sections 67.5000 to 67.5038 shall be issued pursuant to a resolution adopted by the board of directors of that district, which resolution shall set out the estimated cost to that district of the proposed improvements, and shall further set out the amount of bonds to be issued, their purpose or purposes, their date or dates, denomination or denominations, rate or rates of interest, time or times of payment, both of principal and of interest, place or places of payment, and all other details in connection with those bonds.  These bonds may be subject to provision for redemption prior to maturity, with or without premium, and at the times and upon the conditions as may be provided by the resolution.

  2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 108.170, these bonds shall bear interest at rate or rates determined by the issuing district and shall mature within a period not exceeding twenty years and may be sold at public or private sale for not less than ninety-five percent of the principal amount of the bonds to be issued.  Bonds issued by a district shall possess all of the qualities of negotiable instruments pursuant to the laws of this state.

  3.  These bonds may be payable to bearer, may be registered or coupon bonds and, if payable to bearer, may contain any registration provisions as to either principal and interest, or principal only, as may be provided in the resolution authorizing those bonds, which resolution may also provide for the exchange of registered and coupon bonds.  These bonds and any coupons attached thereto shall be signed in the manner and by the officers of the district as may be provided by the resolution authorizing the bonds.  A district may provide for the replacement of any bond that has become mutilated, destroyed, or lost.

  4.  Bonds issued by a district shall be payable as to principal, interest and redemption premium, if any, out of all or any part of the issuing district's parks, trails, and greenways fund, including revenues derived from local sales taxes and any other monies held by that district.  Neither the board members nor any person executing the bonds shall be personally liable on those bonds by reason of the issuance of those bonds.  Bonds issued pursuant to this section or section 67.5034 shall not constitute a debt, liability or obligation of this state, or any political subdivision of this state, nor shall any of these obligations be a pledge of the faith and credit of this state, but shall be payable solely from the revenues and assets held by the issuing district.  The issuance of bonds pursuant to this section or section 67.5034 shall not directly, indirectly or contingently obligate this state or any political subdivision of this state, other than the district issuing the bonds, to levy any form of taxation for those bonds or to make any appropriation for their payment.  Each obligation or bond issued pursuant to this section or section 67.5034 shall contain, on its face, a statement to the effect that the issuing district shall not be obligated to pay those bonds nor the interest on those bonds, except from the revenues received by the issuing district or assets of that district lawfully pledged for that district, and that neither the good faith and credit nor the taxing power of this state or of any political subdivision of this state, other than the issuing district, is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on that obligation or bond.  The proceeds of these bonds shall be disbursed in the manner and pursuant to the restrictions the district may provide in the resolution authorizing the issuance of those bonds.

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(L. 2012 H.B. 1504)


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