Sec. 5. (a) Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each, except that one (1) bond may be for less than one thousand dollars ($1,000), and all shall be made payable to bearer at some designated bank in the state of Indiana and shall bear interest at any rate, payable semiannually. Said bonds shall be numbered in consecutive, numerical order and shall be so issued as to the maturity dates thereof that one-thirtieth part, as nearly as practicable, of all said bonds shall become due and be payable on the first day of December following the time allowed by law for the collection of the first tax levied for use in paying said bonds and the interest thereon, and a like amount of said bonds shall thereafter become due each year and on the same date each year until all become due and payable.
(b) Said bonds shall be issued and otherwise executed as the bonds of such county, shall be the bonds of and a direct obligation of such county, shall be signed by its board of county commissioners and sealed with the corporate seal of said county and attested by the county auditor of such county; but the lithograph signature of the auditor of such county shall be the only signature required upon the interest coupons attached to said bonds.
(c) Such bonds, or any part thereof, shall be subject to call and redemption by such county at any semiannual interest payment date after the expiration of five (5) years from the date of issue, and from time to time thereafter before maturity, at the par value thereof plus accrued interest, at the election of the board of county commissioners of such county.
(d) If said board of county commissioners shall determine to redeem any of said bonds prior to maturity, such bonds shall be redeemed in their numerical order and notice of such election to redeem prior to maturity shall be given by two (2) publications, one (1) each week and on the same day of each week, in two (2) newspapers of general circulation, printed in the English language and published, one (1) at the city of Indianapolis and the other at the county seat of the county by which said bonds were issued, which publications shall be completed at least ten (10) days prior to the interest paying date on which any of said bonds are called for redemption. Said notice shall state the number or numbers of the bonds so called for redemption prior to maturity and otherwise identify and make certain the bonds so to be redeemed, and the bonds so called for redemption shall be redeemed and paid by such county at the time and place designated in such notice.
(e) If the bonds so called for redemption are not surrendered or tendered by the holders thereof for redemption at the time and place designated in said notice, such bonds shall not thereafter bear any interest, provided the county has on deposit at the time and place designated sufficient funds to redeem and pay such bonds, together with the accrued interest thereon.
Formerly: Acts 1927, c.10, s.5. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.55.