Bonds of any local public housing agency (as defined in the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended) that are secured by either of the following:

(a) An agreement between the public housing agency and the Public Housing Administration in which the public housing agency agrees to borrow from the Public Housing Administration, and the Public Housing Administration agrees to lend to the public housing agency, prior to the maturity of the obligations (which obligations shall have a maturity of not more than 18 months), moneys in an amount that (together with any other moneys irrevocably committed to the payment of interest on such obligations) will suffice to pay the principal of the obligations with interest to maturity thereon, which moneys under the terms of the agreement are required to be used for the purpose of paying the principal of and the interest on such obligations at their maturity.

(b) A pledge of annual contributions under an annual contributions contract between such public housing agency and the Public Housing Administration if the contract shall contain the covenant by the Public Housing Administration that is authorized by subsection (b) of Section 22 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and if the maximum sum and the maximum period specified in such contract pursuant to that subsection 22(b) shall not be less than the annual amount and the period for payment that are requisite to provide for the payment when due of all installments of principal and interest on the obligations.

(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 2. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)