Powers of the PFA

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  • The PFA have the following powers with respect to tax increment financing:
    • (i) To make contracts, incur liabilities, borrow money at such rates of interest, maturities and on such other terms and conditions as the PFA, in consultation with the Authority, may determine, issue its notes, bonds and other obligations, as authorized by Section 922, title 29, chapter 15 of the Virgin Islands Code and secure any such obligations by mortgage, deed, of trust, security agreement or other pledge of all or any of its real or personal property or any interest therein, whether then owned or thereafter acquired, and to pledge the revenues and receipts from all or any of such real or personal property and to assign or pledge the income received by virtue of the lease or leases and, subject to the provisions of any contract with noteholders, bondholders, or guarantors, to consent to the modification, with respect to rate of interest, time of payment of any installment of principal or interest secured or any other term, of any mortgage, mortgage loan, mortgage loan commitment, contract, or agreement of any kind to which the PFA is a party;

    • (ii) In connection with any property on which it has made a mortgage loan or otherwise holds a lien or security interest, to foreclose on any such property or commence any action or protect or enforce any right conferred upon it by any law, mortgage, security agreement or other agreement and to bid for and purchase such property at any foreclosure or at any other sale or otherwise acquire or take possession of any such property; and in such event the PFA, may complete, administer, pay the principal of and interest on any obligations incurred in connection with such property, dispose of and otherwise deal with such property in such manner as may be necessary or desirable to protect the interest of the PFA therein;

    • (iii) To make available to the federal government, the Government of the Virgin Islands, or any appropriate department, agency or instrumentality, the recommendations of the PFA affecting any TIF area or property therein, which it may deem likely to promote the public health, morals, safety, or welfare; and

    • (iv) To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter and exercise the powers given and granted in this chapter.


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