12-3710. Sewage disposal facilities; secretary of health and environment authorized to issue revenue bonds; use of proceeds; payment, conditions, interest rate, maturity and regulation of issuance of bonds; interim receipts or temporary bonds. The secretary of health and environment is hereby authorized to issue not to exceed $20,000,000 of revenue bonds payable solely from revenues arising from contracts between the secretary of health and environment and any city, county, township or other political subdivision of the state as authorized by this act and moneys held to the credit of any debt service reserve fund established by the resolution of the secretary of health and environment authorizing the bonds of any issue or the trust agreement securing such bonds. Revenue bonds issued under this act shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the state or of any political subdivision thereof for which ad valorem taxes may be levied or a pledge of the full faith and credit of the state or of any political subdivision thereof. All such revenue bonds shall be approved in form and content by bond counsel for the secretary of health and environment. The secretary of health and environment may provide by resolution for the issuance of revenue bonds under this act for the purpose of providing grants to any city, county, township or other political subdivision of the state of not less than 25% and not to exceed 30% of construction and costs associated therewith of any one or more sewage disposal facilities. The bonds of each issue shall be dated, shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate prescribed by K.S.A. 10-1009, and amendments thereto, shall mature at such time or times not exceeding 20 years from their date or dates as may be determined by the secretary of health and environment, and may be made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the secretary of health and environment at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the secretary of health and environment prior to the issuance of the bonds. The secretary of health and environment shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and shall fix the denomination of the bonds and the place of payment of principal and interest, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state. The bonds shall be signed by the secretary of health and environment, and the official seal of the secretary of health and environment shall be impressed thereon and any coupons attached thereto shall bear the facsimile signature of the secretary of health and environment. In case any officer whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature appears on any bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer before the delivery of such bonds, such signature or such facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if such officer had remained in office until such delivery, and also any bond may bear the facsimile signature of or may be signed by such persons as at the actual time of the execution of such bond shall be the proper officers to sign such bond although at the date of such bond such persons may not have been such officers. All bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall have and are hereby declared to have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the uniform commercial code of the state. The bonds may be issued in coupon or in registered form, or both, as the secretary of health and environment determines, and provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds, for the reconversion into coupon bonds of any bonds registered as to both principal and interest, and for the interchange of registered and coupon bonds. The secretary of health and environment shall sell such bonds after public advertisement and by competitive bidding on sealed proposals. Any and all bids may be rejected. If no bid acceptable to the secretary of health and environment is received, the secretary of health and environment may sell the bonds without such competitive bidding at private sale in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as the secretary of health and environment determines is in the public interest.

The proceeds of the bonds of each issue shall be used solely for the purpose for which such bonds have been issued, and shall be disbursed in such manner and under such restrictions, if any, as the secretary of health and environment may provide in the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds or in the trust agreement herein authorized securing the same.

Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the secretary of health and environment may, under like restrictions, issue interim financing receipts or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds when such bonds have been executed and are available for delivery. The secretary of health and environment may also provide for the replacement of any bonds which are mutilated, destroyed or lost. Bonds may be issued under the provisions of this act without obtaining the consent of any officer, department, division, commission, board, bureau or agency of the state and without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things, other than those proceedings or conditions which are specifically required by this act.

History: L. 1973, ch. 69, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 77, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 79, § 1; L. 1983, ch. 49, § 55; May 12.