(2) The department may enter into covenants for the benefit of the owners of bonds authorized by this section regarding the use of moneys in the infrastructure fund, the providing of infrastructure assistance and the collection of infrastructure loans. Any such covenants shall be binding upon the State of Oregon in accordance with their terms and shall be enforceable against the State of Oregon by owners of the bonds. However, no owner of bonds authorized by this section shall ever have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the state to pay any such bonds or the interest thereon, or to enforce payment thereof against any property of the state, except those moneys in the infrastructure fund that are pledged to pay the bonds and any moneys the department or an agency may agree to use to repay infrastructure loans under ORS 367.040. Bonds authorized by this section shall not constitute a charge, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the state, except moneys in the infrastructure fund that are pledged to pay the bonds, and any property that the department or agency pledges, mortgages or assigns to secure infrastructure loans pursuant to ORS 367.040. Revenue bonds authorized by this section shall not constitute a debt of the state or a lending of the credit of the state within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
(3) The total principal amount of revenue bonds that are issued under this section and outstanding at any time shall not exceed $200 million. [1997 c.679 §6; 2007 c.783 §164]