Resolutions of authorization for issuance of bonds; contents

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55:14K-21. Resolutions of authorization for issuance of bonds; contents

Any resolution or resolutions of the agency authorizing the issuance 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 of the agency, all or any part of its revenues or assets to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence, and the moneys derived therefrom, including the eligible loans made or purchased by the agency pursuant to this act and the revenues therefrom, the loans made to institutional lenders pursuant to this act and the revenues therefrom and the rights and interests of the agency in and to any collateral securing such loans and the collections and proceeds therefrom, the eligible loans purchased by the agency pursuant to this act and all payments on account of principal and interest with respect thereto, and all other premiums, fees and charges payable to the agency, all or any part of any money, funds or property held in trust or otherwise by others for the payment of any such mortgages, such loans to institutional lenders or such eligible loans, or any bonds of the agency, and all or any part of the proceeds of any bonds, and covenanting against pledging all or any part of such 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 agency or with respect to which the agency may have any rights or interest;

c. The use and disposition of any and all payments of principal or interest received by the agency with respect to loans to institutional lenders or eligible loans or any income or proceeds from investments held by the agency or other income, revenues or receipts of the agency;

d. The establishment of reserves or sinking funds, the making of charges and fees to provide for the same, 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 such bonds with respect to any lien or security or as to the acceleration of the maturity of any such 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 eligible loans or loans to institutional lenders or for other purposes and as to the use and disposition of the moneys held in such funds;

h. Limitations on the purpose to which the proceeds of sale of bonds may be applied and pledging such 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 agency;

j. The procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with the holders of any bonds of the agency may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given;

k. The vesting in a trustee or trustees within or without the State of such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the agency may determine, which may include any or all of the rights, powers and duties of any trustee appointed by the holders of any bonds pursuant to section 22 of this act and limiting or abrogating the right of the holders of any bonds of the agency to appoint a trustee under this act or limiting the rights, powers and duties of such trustee;

l. Appointing and providing for the duties and obligations of a paying agent or paying agents or such other fiduciaries within or without the State;

m. Provision for a trust agreement by and between the agency and a corporate trustee which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within the State, which agreement may provide for the pledging or assigning of any assets or income from assets to which or in which the agency has any rights or interest, and may further provide for such other rights and remedies exercisable by the trustee as may be proper for the protection of the holders of any bonds of the agency and not otherwise in violation of law, and the agreement may provide for the restriction of the rights of any individual holder of bonds of the agency. 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 agency. The trust agreement may contain any further provisions which are reasonable to delineate further the respective rights, duties, safeguards, responsibilities and liabilities of the agency, individual and collective holders of bonds of the agency, and the trustee;

n. 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;

o. The time or manner of enforcement or restraint from enforcement of any rights of the agency arising by reason of or with respect to nonpayment of principal or interest with respect to mortgages or loans to institutional lenders or any rights to or security interest in the collateral securing such loans or arising with respect to the default with respect to any eligible loan;

p. Defining the acts or omissions to act which shall constitute a default in the obligations and duties of the agency and providing for the rights and remedies of the holders of bonds in the event of such default;

q. Covenants to do or refrain from doing such acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable to better secure any bonds of the agency, or which, in the discretion of the agency, will tend to make any bonds to be issued more marketable, notwithstanding that such covenants, act or things may not be enumerated herein; and

r. Any other matters of the like or different character, which in any way affect the security or protection of the bonds issued by the agency.

L.1983, c. 530, s. 21, eff. Jan. 17, 1984.


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