(a) The Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System is authorized to borrow money from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for any project for which the authority is authorized to make loans pursuant to chapter 187 and to refinance any such borrowing, and in connection therewith the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System is authorized to enter into any loan or other agreement and to make such covenants, representations and indemnities as the board of trustees deems necessary or desirable to obtain such loans from the authority or to facilitate the issue of bonds by the authority to finance such loans, including agreements with providers of letters of credit, insurance or other credit facilities for such financings. Any such agreement, covenant, representation and indemnification shall be a full faith and credit obligation of the Connecticut State University System. The Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System may secure such obligations by a pledge of the revenues to be derived from the operation or use of a project or projects, from tuition payments, from student fees, from dormitory or dining hall income or from other general revenues. Any pledge made by the Connecticut State University System pursuant to this section and sections 10a-186a and 10a-187 shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the Connecticut State University System, irrespective of whether the parties have notice of the claims. Notwithstanding any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code to the contrary, no instrument by which such a pledge is created need be recorded or filed. Any revenues or other receipts, funds, moneys or income so pledged and thereafter received by the Connecticut State University System shall be subject immediately to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act and such lien shall have priority over all other liens, including without limitation the lien of any person who, in the ordinary course of business, furnishes services or materials to the Connecticut State University System.

(b) The obligations of the Connecticut State University System and any pledge entered into by the Connecticut State University System pursuant to this section and sections 10a-186a and 10a-187 shall be binding upon any successor body or entity and no dissolution or termination of the Connecticut State University System shall take effect unless adequate provision is made for the payment and fulfillment of any obligations entered into by the Connecticut State University System pursuant to this section and said sections 10a-186a and 10a-187.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act which may require that any revenue from the operation of facilities of the Connecticut State University System or any revenue of all state universities from student fees and dormitory and dining hall income or any other revenue of the Connecticut State University System be paid to the State Treasurer for the payment of debt service on any bonds issued by the state, any revenues pledged by the board of trustees pursuant to this section and said sections 10a-186a and 10a-187 shall be applied first to the extent necessary to fulfill the obligations for which such revenues are pledged, and only thereafter to the State Treasurer.

(d) The Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority shall not borrow any money or issue any bonds or notes which are secured by a pledge of any revenues of the Connecticut State University System, until and unless such borrowing or issuance has been approved by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or his deputy. In granting such approval the secretary shall consider the adequacy of revenues available to the Connecticut State University System to pay (1) debt service on all the borrowings, bonds or notes issued by the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for which revenues of the Connecticut State University System are pledged and (2) debt service on all the bonds issued by the state for which revenues of the Connecticut State University System are to be paid to the State Treasurer.

(e) The state covenants with the authority and with the purchasers and all other subsequent owners and transferees of obligations issued by the authority for the benefit of the Connecticut State University System pursuant to this section and said sections 10a-186a and 10a-187, in consideration of the financing by the authority and the acceptance of and payment for the securities of the authority, until all obligations of the Connecticut State University System and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding in connection therewith, are fully met and discharged, unless expressly permitted or otherwise authorized by the terms of each contract and agreement made or entered into by or on behalf of the Connecticut State University System with the authority or for the benefit of such other parties, that the state (1) will not create or cause to be created any lien or charge on the assets or revenues pledged to secure such obligations of the Connecticut State University System, prior to or on parity with a lien or pledge created thereon pursuant to this section and sections 10a-186a and 10a-187; (2) will not in any way impair the rights, exemptions or remedies of the authority or the owners of such bonds of the authority; and (3) will not limit, modify, rescind, repeal or otherwise alter the rights or obligations of the Connecticut State University System to take such action as may be necessary to fulfill the terms of its obligations in connection with its borrowing from the authority; provided that nothing herein shall preclude the state from exercising its power, through a change in law, to limit, modify, rescind, repeal or otherwise alter this section and sections 10a-186a and 10a-187 if and when adequate provision shall be made by law for the protection of the authority and the holders of any outstanding securities of the authority, pursuant to the agreement of the Connecticut State University System with the authority and pursuant to the indenture or other instrument under which the bonds of the authority are issued. The Connecticut State University System is authorized to include this covenant of the state, as a contract of the state, in any such agreement with the authority and in any credit facility or reimbursement agreement with respect to the obligations of the Connecticut State University System or the obligations of the authority issued for the benefit of the Connecticut State University System.

(f) The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction to enter judgment against the Connecticut State University System found upon any express agreement between the Connecticut State University System and the authority, any trustee or underwriter for the authority's bonds, or any bond insurer or other credit facility provider. Any action brought under this section shall be brought in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford. Such action shall be tried to the court without a jury. All legal defenses except governmental immunity shall be reserved to the Connecticut State University System. Any action brought under this section shall be privileged in respect to assignment for trial upon motion of either party.

(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; 95-270, S. 3, 11; P.A. 08-16, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 95-270, S. 3 effective June 22, 1995 (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230, 90-98, 93-142 and 95-220 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain” in 1995 public and special acts effective September 1, 1998.); P.A. 08-16 amended Subsec. (c) by adding “system” after “Connecticut State University”, effective July 1, 2008.