<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="1-1420" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions" subtitle_number="14">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An authority may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>issue bonds to pay the cost of acquiring or improving property;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>fund or refund the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>purchase bonds with any funds available; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>hold, pledge, cancel, or resell bonds.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>By resolution, an authority may authorize the chair, one of the authority’s members, or a committee of the members to determine or provide for any matter relating to bonds that the authority considers appropriate, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>specifying, determining, requiring, and approving matters, documents, and procedures that relate to the authorization, sale, security, issuance, delivery, and payment of and for the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>creating security for the bonds; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>providing for the administration of bond issues.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The power granted in paragraph (2) of this subsection is in addition to powers conferred on the authority by this subtitle and does not limit any power of the authority under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Within the limits that the authority sets, the authority may authorize the executive director to take any of the actions described in paragraph (2) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An authority may issue the bonds at one time or in one or more series.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>For each issue of an authority’s bonds, the authority shall pass a resolution that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>specifies and describes the project for which the proceeds of the bond issuance are intended;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>generally describes the public purpose and the financing transaction to be accomplished;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>specifies the maximum principal amount of the bonds that may be issued by the authority; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>imposes any terms or conditions on the issuance and sale of the bonds that the authority considers appropriate.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Subject to any provision for their registration, bonds are negotiable instruments for all purposes regardless of whether they are payable from a special fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The bonds may be serial bonds,    term bonds, or both.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to any delegation under subsection (a)(2) of this section, the resolution authorizing bonds may provide:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the dates of the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the maturity dates of the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the interest rates on the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the time at which the bonds will be payable;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>the denominations of the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>whether the bonds will be in coupon or registered form;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>any registration privileges of the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>the manner of execution of the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>the place at which the bonds will be payable; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>any terms of redemption of the bonds.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The bonds shall mature within a period not to exceed 50 years after the date of issue.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The bonds shall be payable in United States currency.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>An authority shall sell the bonds at competitive or negotiated sale in a manner and for a price the authority determines to be in the authority’s best interests.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>An officer’s signature or facsimile on a bond remains valid if the officer leaves office before the bond is delivered.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Pending preparation of the definitive bonds, an authority may issue interim receipts or certificates that will be exchanged for definitive bonds.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>A trust agreement authorizing bonds may contain provisions that are part of the contract with the bondholders, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the rates, rentals, fees, and other charges, the amounts to be raised in each year, and the use and disposition of the revenues;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the setting aside of reserves and sinking funds and their disposition;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>limits on the right of the authority or the authority’s agents to restrict and regulate the use of a project;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>limits on the purpose to which the proceeds of the sale of bonds may be applied;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>limits on issuing additional bonds and refunding bonds and the terms under which additional bonds may be issued and secured;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>the procedure to amend or abrogate the terms of a contract with bondholders and the requirements for consent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>limits on the amount of project revenues to be expended for operating, administrative, or other expenses of the authority;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>the acts or omissions that constitute default by the authority and the rights and remedies of the bondholders in a default;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>the conveyance or mortgaging of a project and its site to secure the bondholders;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>creation and disposition of a collateral fund to secure the bondholders; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>pledging the following to secure payment of bonds, subject to any existing agreements with bondholders:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the full faith and credit of an authority;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>revenues of a project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a revenue–producing contract the authority has made with a person or public entity; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the proceeds of the sale of bonds.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>The members of an authority and a person executing the bonds may not be held liable personally on the bonds.</text>
  </level>
</section>
