(a) Contents.--The local government unit shall include in a qualified interest rate management agreement a covenant that the local government unit shall do the following:
(1) Include the periodic scheduled amounts payable in respect of the qualified interest rate management agreement for each fiscal year in its budget for that fiscal year.
(2) Appropriate those amounts from its general or specially pledged revenues for the payment of amounts due under the qualified interest rate management agreement.
(b) Pledge.--
(1) Except as set forth in paragraph (2), the local government unit may pledge its full faith, credit and taxing power for the budgeting, appropriation and payment of periodic scheduled payments due under a qualified interest rate management agreement.
(2) A local government unit may not make a pledge under paragraph (1) if the payment obligations of the local government unit under the qualified interest rate management agreement are limited as to payment to specified revenues of the local government unit.
(c) Security interest.--If the periodic scheduled payment obligations of the local government unit are specified in the qualified interest rate management agreement to be made from specified revenues of the local government unit, the local government unit may include in the qualified interest rate management agreement a covenant granting a security interest in those revenues to secure its periodic scheduled payment obligations under the agreement. The security interest shall be perfected under section 8147 (relating to pledge of revenues).
Cross References. Section 8282 is referred to in section 8281 of this title.