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§ 31-25-31. Bonds issued by Bank as general or special obligations of Bank; issuance of bonds as affecting State’s obligation to levy or collect taxes or assessments; liability of State for payment of principal or interest

MS Code § 31-25-31 (2019) (N/A)
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(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, bonds issued by the bank under this chapter shall be general obligations of the bank or, if the resolution of the board authorizing their issuance shall so provide, shall be special obligations thereof payable solely from payments of principal, interest and redemption payments on the municipal securities being purchased with their proceeds or from such payments on any or all municipal securities held or to be held by the bank or from other funds available to the bank as provided in such resolution or by any provision of law. Bonds issued by the bank shall not constitute or become an indebtedness, or a debt or liability of the state or of any local governmental unit nor shall any such entity other than the bank (in the case of its general obligations) be liable thereon, nor shall bonds or any powers granted herein to the state or agency thereof or local governmental unit constitute the giving, pledging or loaning of the faith and credit of the state or such agency thereof or of such local governmental unit. The issuance of bonds hereunder shall not directly, indirectly or contingently obligate the state to levy or collect any form of taxes or assessments therefor or to create any indebtedness payable out of taxes or assessments or make any appropriation for their payment nor to pledge the taxing power of the state and such levy or pledge is prohibited; however, notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any local governmental unit (including the state or any agency thereof) from assuming obligations in accordance with and subject to the limitations of this act or from issuing and selling municipal securities to the bank in accordance herewith. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the bank to create a debt of the state within the meaning of the constitution or statutes of the state or authorize the bank to levy or collect taxes or assessments and bonds issued by the bank pursuant to the provisions of this act are payable and shall state plainly on their face that they are payable solely as general obligations of the bank, or solely from the funds pledged for their payment in accordance with the resolution authorizing their issuance or in any trust indenture or mortgage or deed of trust executed as security therefor, as the case may be, and are not a debt or liability of the state. The state shall not in any event be liable for the payment of the principal or interest on any bonds of the bank or for the performance of any pledge, mortgage, obligations or agreement of any kind whatsoever which may be undertaken by the bank. No breach of any such pledge, mortgage, obligation or agreement shall impose any pecuniary liability upon the state or any charge upon its general credit or against its taxing power. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit any local governmental unit (including the state or any agency thereof) from assuming obligations in accordance with and subject to the limitations of this act or from issuing and selling any security to the bank in accordance with this act.

(2) Bonds issued by the bank under Section 31-25-21(k) for the purposes provided in Section 31-25-20(g) shall be general obligations of the State of Mississippi, and for the payment thereof the full faith and credit of the State of Mississippi is irrevocably pledged. If the funds appropriated by the Legislature are insufficient to pay the principal of and the interest on such bonds as they become due, then the deficiency shall be paid by the State Treasurer from any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated. All such bonds shall contain recitals on their faces substantially covering the provisions of this subsection (2).

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§ 31-25-31. Bonds issued by Bank as general or special obligations of Bank; issuance of bonds as affecting State’s obligation to levy or collect taxes or assessments; liability of State for payment of principal or interest