67-8917. PAYMENT OF BONDS — NONLIABILITY OF STATE. (1) Bonds issued by the authority shall not constitute or become an indebtedness, or a debt or liability of the state or any agency or subdivision of the state and neither the state nor any of its agencies or subdivisions shall be liable on such bonds nor shall the bonds constitute the giving, pledging or loaning of the faith and credit of the state or any agency or subdivision of the state, but shall be payable solely from the funds provided for their payment. The issuance of bonds under the provisions of this chapter shall not, directly, indirectly or contingently, obligate the state or any agency or subdivision of the state to levy or collect any form of taxes or assessments for their payment or to create any indebtedness payable out of taxes or assessments. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the authority to create a debt of the state within the meaning of the constitution or statutes of the state of Idaho or authorize the authority to levy or collect taxes or assessments and all bonds issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter are payable and shall state that they are payable solely from the funds pledged for their payment in accordance with the resolution authorizing their issuance or in any trust indenture or mortgage or deed of trust executed as security therefor and are not a debt or liability of the state of Idaho.
(2) The state shall not in any event be liable for the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds of the authority or for the performance of any pledge, mortgage, obligation or agreement of any kind whatsoever which may be undertaken by the authority. No breach of any such pledge, mortgage, obligation or agreement shall impose any pecuniary liability upon the state or any charge upon its general credit or against its taxing power.
(3) All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be payable solely from funds provided under the authority of this chapter and no liability or obligation shall be incurred by the authority beyond the extent to which moneys shall have been provided under this chapter.
History:
[67-8917, added 2005, ch. 53, sec. 1, p. 204.]