5:12-163. Resolution authorizing bonds; provisions
Any resolution of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority authorizing the issuance or offering of bonds may contain provisions, except as expressly limited in this act and except as otherwise limited by existing agreements with the holders of the bonds, which shall be a part of the contract with the holders thereof, as to the following:
a. The pledging of or creating of a lien on, as security for the payment of the principal and redemption price of and interest on any bonds issued by or offered through the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, all or any part of its revenues or assets to which the issuing authority's right then exists or may thereafter come into existence, and the moneys derived therefrom, and all or any part of the proceeds of any bonds, and covenanting against pledging all or any part of the revenues, assets, moneys, funds or property, or against permitting or suffering any lien thereon;
b. Otherwise providing for the custody, collection, securing, investment and payment of any revenues, assets, moneys, funds or property of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or of the issuing authority, or with respect to which the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority may have any rights or interest;
c. The use and disposition of any payments of principal or interest received by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority with respect to investments made by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority or other income, revenues or receipts of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority;
d. The establishment of reserves or sinking funds, and the regulation and disposition thereof;
e. The custody, application and disposition of the proceeds of any bonds;
f. The rank or priority of any bonds with respect to any lien or security or the acceleration of the maturity of any bonds;
g. The creation of special funds or moneys to be held in trust or otherwise for operating expenses, payment or redemption of bonds, reserves against defaults or prepayments of investments made by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority or for other purposes, and the use and disposition of the moneys held in these funds;
h. Limitations on the purpose to which the proceeds of sale of bonds may be applied and pledging the proceeds to secure the payment of the bonds;
i. Limitations on the issuance of additional bonds, the terms upon which additional bonds may be issued and secured, the refunding or purchase of outstanding bonds of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority;
j. The procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with the holders of any bonds of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority may be amended, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which the consent may be given;
k. Provision for a trust agreement by and between the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company, within or without the State, which agreement may provide (1) for the pledging or assigning of any assets or income from assets to which or in which the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority has any rights or interest, (2) for any other rights and remedies exercisable by the trustee as may be proper for the protection of the holders of any bonds of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority and not otherwise in violation of the law, and (3) for the restriction of the rights of any individual holder of bonds of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of the trust agreement may be treated as a part of the costs of operation of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority. The trust agreement may contain any further provisions which are reasonable, to delineate further the respective rights, duties, safeguards, responsibilities and liabilities of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority, individual and collective holders of bonds of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority, and the trustee;
l. The custody of any of its properties or investments, the safekeeping thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;
m. The time or manner of enforcement or restraint from enforcement of any rights of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority, arising by reason of or with respect to nonpayment of principal or interest with respect to investments made by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority or any rights to or security interest in the collateral securing the investments made by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority or arising with respect to the default with respect to any investments made by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority;
n. Defining the acts or omissions to act which shall constitute a default in the obligations and duties of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority and providing for the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds in the event of a default;
o. Covenants to do or refrain from doing any acts or things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to better secure any bonds of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or the issuing authority or which, in the discretion of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, will tend to make any bonds to be issued more marketable, notwithstanding that the covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein; and
p. Any other matters of the like or different character, which in any way affect the security or protection of the bonds issued by or offered through the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority.
L.1984, c. 218, s. 15, eff. Dec. 19, 1984.