A. Outstanding project revenue bonds may be refunded by the authority by issuing its refunding bonds in such amounts as the authority may determine to refund all or a portion of the principal of the project revenue bonds, all interest on the bonds to the normal maturity date of such bonds or to selected prior redemption dates, any redemption premiums, any commission and all estimated costs incidental to the issuance of such bonds and to such refunding. The principal amount of project revenue refunding bonds may be equal to, less than or greater than the principal amount of the project revenue bonds to be refunded. Any such refunding may be effected whether the bonds to be refunded have matured or will thereafter mature, either by sale of the refunding bonds and the application of the proceeds for the payment of the bonds to be refunded, or by exchange of the refunding bonds for the bonds to be refunded; provided that the holders of any project revenue bonds to be refunded shall not be compelled without their consent to surrender their bonds for payment or exchange prior to the date on which they are payable or, if they are called for redemption, prior to the date on which they are by their terms subject to redemption. Project revenue refunding bonds shall be payable from the revenues out of which other project revenue bonds are payable or from the amounts derived from an escrow as provided in this section, including amounts derived from the investment of refunding bond proceeds and other legally available amounts, or from any combination of the foregoing sources, and may be secured in the manner that other project revenue bonds issued pursuant to the Statewide Economic Development Finance Act may be secured.
B. Proceeds of project revenue refunding bonds shall either be applied immediately to the retirement of the project revenue bonds being refunded or placed in escrow in a commercial bank or trust company that possesses and is exercising trust powers. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the escrowed proceeds may be invested in short-term or long-term securities. Except to the extent inconsistent with the express terms of the Statewide Economic Development Finance Act, the resolution of the authority pursuant to which the project revenue bonds to be refunded were issued, including any mortgage or trust indenture securing the bonds, shall govern the establishment of any escrow in connection with the refunding bonds and the investment or reinvestment of any escrowed proceeds.
History: Laws 2003, ch. 349, § 9; 2005, ch. 103, § 9.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2005 amendment, effective April 4, 2005, changed "bonds" to "project revenue bonds".