(a) All bonds issued hereunder shall be authorized by resolution of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. Each such resolution shall contain such terms, covenants, and conditions as are deemed desirable, including, without limitation, those pertaining to the establishment and maintenance of funds and accounts, to the deposit and investment of revenues and of bond proceeds, and to the rights and obligations of the state, its officers and officials, the authority, and the holders and registered owners of the bonds. All bonds issued under this subchapter shall be on a parity as to security. The resolution of the authority may provide for the execution and delivery by the authority of a trust indenture or trust indentures, with a bank or banks located within or without the state, containing any of the terms, covenants, and conditions referred to above, which trust indenture or trust indentures shall be binding upon the state and its officers and officials to the extent set forth in this subchapter.
(b) Any resolution or trust indenture adopted or executed under this section shall provide that power is reserved to apply to the payment of debt service on the bonds issued or secured thereunder all or any part of the revenues derived from any program or project financed by such bonds, and, to the extent of such revenues, to release from any requirement of such resolution or trust indenture other revenues and resources of the state, including, without limitation, the net general revenue required to be transferred under § 6-62-719.
(c) Any resolution of trust indenture adopted or executed under this section may provide for the retirement and defeasance of the bonds by the depositing in trust of cash or investments maintained for that purpose, and, when the provisions of such resolution or trust indenture are complied with, such bonds being refunded shall not be deemed to be bonds outstanding for the purposes of this subchapter.
(d) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board may select projects for financing and development under this subchapter which offer reasonable and realistic prospects for the production of revenues, whether by direct user fees, sales, royalties, program or gate receipts, or otherwise.