Sec. 4. (a) Said corporation shall have power to make and issue bonds, bearing any rate of interest, whether fixed or contingent, cumulative or noncumulative, payable at such times and places, and in such amount or amounts, and with such provisions with respect to redemption, sinking fund, maturity, issuance of said bonds in series, and conversion of said bonds into stock of said corporation at any time up to the maturity of said bonds, as it may deem expedient, and to sell and dispose of said bonds at such prices and in such manner as it may deem proper, to secure the payment of any bonds which it may make, issue or assume to pay by mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust of its railroad, or any part thereof, and of its real and personal property and franchises, and to act as a corporation.
(b) All property of said corporation included in such mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust, whether then held or thereafter acquired, shall be subject to the operation and lien of such mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust, and in case of sale under the same, it shall pass to and become vested in the purchaser or purchasers thereof so as to enable them to form a corporation in the manner prescribed in this chapter, and to vest in such corporation all the faculties, powers, authorities, immunities, and franchises conferred by this chapter.
Formerly: Acts 1945, c.202, s.4. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.48; P.L.136-2018, SEC.93.