(a) For the purpose of providing moneys to assist small business concerns in financing pollution control facilities, the authority, in addition to the powers otherwise granted by law, has the power and is hereby authorized to issue from time to time negotiable bonds and notes of the authority in such principal amounts as may from time to time be authorized by law.

(b) The proceeds of such bonds and notes may be loaned by the authority to a small business concern pursuant to a small business financing agreement and applied by such small business concern solely to the payment of the cost of constructing, acquiring, reconstructing, improving, equipping, furnishing, bettering or extending any pollution control facilities of such small business concern, including the payment of engineering, fiscal, architectural and legal expenses incurred in connection with such pollution control facilities and the issuance of the bonds or notes, or may be applied by the authority to the payment of the cost of constructing, acquiring, reconstructing, improving, equipping, furnishing, bettering, or extending any pollution control facilities of such small business concern, including the payment of engineering, fiscal, architectural and legal expenses incurred in connection with such pollution control facilities and the issuance of the bonds or notes, and, in either case, there may be reserved sufficient proceeds of such bonds or notes to provide for the payment of interest on the bonds or notes during construction of any such pollution control facilities and for six (6) months after the estimated date of completion, and for the establishment of a reasonable reserve fund for the payment of principal of and interest on such bonds or notes in the event of a deficiency in the revenues and receipts available for such payment.

(c) Bonds or notes issued pursuant to this section shall not be issued and sold as part of an issue of bonds or notes of the authority issued pursuant to any other provision of this chapter or other law.

(d)

(1) The authority has the power, and is hereby authorized, to issue from time to time renewal notes, and bonds to pay notes issued in anticipation of such bonds, and, whenever it deems refunding expedient, to refund any bonds by the issuance of refunding bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and to issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other authorized purpose.

(2) Such refunding bonds and renewal notes may be issued without further authorization, such issuance being deemed authorized by the law authorizing the bonds and notes to be renewed, paid or refunded.

(3) The refunding bonds shall be sold and the proceeds applied to the purchase, redemption or payment of the bonds to be refunded.

(e)

(1) Except as may otherwise be expressly provided by the authority, each issue of its notes or bonds issued pursuant to this section shall be limited special obligations of the authority payable solely from and secured by moneys derived by the authority from payments made by small business concerns pursuant to small business financing agreements with such small business concerns.

(2) In addition, bonds or notes issued pursuant to this section may be secured by a mortgage or deed of trust covering all or part of the pollution control facilities financed from the proceeds of such bonds or notes, including any enlargements of and additions to any such pollution control facilities thereafter made, or by an assignment and pledge of all or any part of the authority interest in and rights under the small business financing agreement relating to such pollution control facilities, or any thereof, or by both such mortgage or deed of trust and such assignment and pledge.

(f) The authority is hereby authorized to issue bonds and notes the principal amount of which to be outstanding at any one (1) time shall not exceed fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), such bonds to be issued in the manner provided in this chapter to implement the provisions thereof relating to providing moneys to assist small business concerns in financing pollution control facilities.