Effective 28 Aug 1985

108.900. Commissioners authorized to borrow and to issue bonds for state building and property improvements. — 1. For the purpose of providing funds for improvements of state buildings and property, including state parks, including but not limited to repairing, remodeling, or rebuilding buildings and properties of the state, providing additions thereto or additional buildings where necessary and for planning, furnishing, equipping and landscaping such improvements and for expenditures for state parks as specified in section 253.040, and for grants administered pursuant to sections 644.031, 192.600 to 192.620, 68.010 to 68.070, and 278.080, and for construction and improvement of rail and highway access within this state, as authorized by and to implement Section 37(d) of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Missouri, the board of fund commissioners of the state of Missouri is hereby empowered to borrow, on the credit of the state, the sum of seventy-five million dollars in the manner provided in sections 108.900 to 108.914. The bonds shall be issued by the state board of fund commissioners as necessary to carry on the program of financing, planning, and constructing the improvements specified in this section as determined by the general assembly.

2. For the purpose of providing additional funds for the purposes described in subsection 1 of this section, as authorized by Section 37(d) of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Missouri, the board of fund commissioners is hereby empowered to borrow, on the credit of the state, fifty million dollars in the manner provided in sections 108.900 to 108.914. This amount shall be in addition to the seventy-five million dollars authorized by subsection 1 of this section.

3. For the purpose of providing additional funds for the purposes described in subsection 1 of this section, as authorized by Section 37(d) of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Missouri, the board of fund commissioners is hereby empowered to borrow, on the credit of the state, seventy-five million dollars in the manner provided in sections 108.900 to 108.914. This amount shall be in addition to the amounts authorized by subsections 1 and 2 of this section.

4. For the purpose of providing additional funds for the purposes described in subsection 1 of this section, as authorized by Section 37(d) of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Missouri, the board of fund commissioners is hereby empowered to borrow, on the credit of the state, four hundred million dollars in the manner provided in sections 108.900 to 108.914. This amount shall be in addition to the amounts authorized by subsections 1, 2 and 3 of this section. Funds allocated for economic development purposes from the moneys derived under this subsection need not be subject to any matching contribution requirements imposed by section 68.035.

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(L. 1982 2nd Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 1, A.L. 1983 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 1, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1017, A.L. 1985 S.B. 187)