(A) Qualified borrowers are authorized to obtain loans or other financial assistance from the bank through financing agreements. Qualified borrowers entering into financing agreements and issuing loan obligations to the bank may perform any acts, take any action, adopt any proceedings, and make and carry out any contracts or agreements with the bank as may be agreed to by the bank and any qualified borrower for the carrying out of the purposes contemplated by this chapter.

(B) In addition to the authorizations contained in this chapter, all other statutes or provisions permitting government units to borrow money and issue obligations including, but not limited to, the Revenue Bond Act for Utilities and the Revenue Bond Refinancing Act of 1937, may be utilized by any government unit in obtaining a loan or other financial assistance from the bank to the extent determined necessary or useful by the government unit in connection with any financing agreement and the issuance, securing, or sale of loan obligations to the bank. Notwithstanding the foregoing, obligations secured by ad valorem taxes may be issued by a government unit and purchased by the bank without regard to any public bidding requirement.

(C) A qualified borrower may receive, apply, pledge, assign, and grant security interest in project revenues, and, in the case of a governmental unit, its project revenues, revenues derived from a special source or ad valorem taxes, to secure its obligations as provided in this chapter, and may fix, revise, charge, and collect fees, rates, rents, assessments, and other charges of general or special application for the operation or services of a qualified project, the system of which it is a part, and any other revenue producing facilities from which the qualified borrower derives project revenues, to meet its obligations under a financing agreement or to provide for the construction and improving of a qualified project.

(D) A qualified borrower must comply with the provisions of Section 12-27-1320 and Section 12-28-2930 in the expenditure of the proceeds of a loan or other financial assistance provided by the bank for a qualified project.

HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 148, Section 2.