Sec. 44.85.220. Terms of agreement with the bondholder or noteholder.

AK Stat § 44.85.220 (2019) (N/A)
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In a resolution of the bond bank authority authorizing or relating to the issuance of bonds or notes, the bond bank authority, in order to secure the payment of the bonds or notes and in addition to its other powers, may covenant and contract with the holders of the bonds or notes

(1) to pledge to a payment or purpose all or a part of its revenues to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence, and the money derived from the revenues, and the proceeds of any bonds or notes;

(2) to covenant against pledging all or a part of its revenues, or against permitting or suffering a lien on those revenues or its property;

(3) to covenant as to the use and disposition of payments of principal or interest received by the bond bank authority on municipal bonds or other investments held by the bond bank authority;

(4) to covenant as to establishment of reserves or sinking funds, the making of provision for them, and the regulation and disposition of the reserves or sinking funds;

(5) to covenant with respect to or against limitations on a right to sell or otherwise dispose of property of any kind;

(6) to covenant as to bonds or notes to be issued, and their limitations, terms, and conditions, and as to their custody, and as to the application and disposition of the proceeds of the bonds and notes;

(7) to covenant as to issuance of additional bonds or notes or as to limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or notes and on the incurring of other debts by it;

(8) to covenant as to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds or notes, as to the sources and methods of payment, as to the rank or priority of bonds or notes with respect to a lien or security, or as to the acceleration of the maturity of any bonds or notes;

(9) to provide for the replacement of lost, stolen, destroyed, or mutilated bonds or notes;

(10) to covenant against extending the time for the payment of bonds or notes or interest on the bonds or notes;

(11) to covenant as to the redemption of bonds or notes and privileges of their exchange for other bonds or notes of the bond bank authority;

(12) to covenant as to charges to be established and charged, the amount to be raised each year or other period of time by charges or other revenues, and as to the use and disposition to be made of the charges or other revenues;

(13) to covenant to create or authorize the creation of special funds or money to be held in pledge or otherwise for operating expenses, payment or redemption of bonds or notes, reserves or other purposes and as to the use and disposition of the money held in those funds;

(14) to establish the procedure, if any, by which the terms of a contract or covenant with or for the benefit of the holders of bonds or notes may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds or notes the holders of which must consent to amendment or abrogation, and the manner in which the consent may be given;

(15) to covenant as to the custody of any of its property or investments, their safekeeping and insurance, and the use and disposition of insurance money;

(16) to covenant as to the time or manner of enforcement or restraint from enforcement of any rights of the bond bank authority arising by reason of or with respect to nonpayment of the principal or interest of a municipal bond;

(17) to provide for the rights and liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach of any covenant, condition, or obligation and to prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds, notes, or other obligation of the bond bank authority become or may be declared due and payable before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which the declaration and its consequences may be waived;

(18) to vest in a trustee inside or outside the state such property, rights, powers, and duties in trust as the bond bank authority may determine, which may include any of the rights, powers, and duties of a trustee appointed by the holders of the bonds or notes, and to limit or abrogate the right of the holders of the bonds or notes of the bond bank authority to appoint a trustee under this chapter or limit the rights, powers, and duties of the trustee;

(19) to pay the costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of the bonds or notes or of the resolution or of a covenant or agreement of the bond bank authority with the holders of its bonds or notes;

(20) to agree with a corporate trustee which may be a trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company inside or outside the state, as to the pledging or assigning of revenues or funds in which the bond bank authority has a right or interest, and may further provide for such other rights and remedies exercisable by the trustee as may be proper for the protection of the holders of bonds or notes of the bond bank authority and not otherwise in violation of law, and the agreement may also provide for the restriction of the rights of an individual holder of bonds or notes of the bond bank authority;

(21) to appoint and to provide for the duties and obligations of a paying agent or paying agents, or other fiduciaries as the resolution may provide inside or outside the state;

(22) to limit the rights of the holders of bonds or notes to enforce a pledge or covenant securing bonds or notes; and

(23) to make covenants other than and in addition to the covenants expressly authorized in this section, of like or different character, and to make covenants to do or refrain from doing acts and things as may be necessary, or convenient and desirable, in order to better secure bonds or notes or which, in the absolute discretion of the bond bank authority, will tend to make bonds or notes more marketable, notwithstanding that the covenants, acts, or things may not be enumerated in this section.