Sec. 58.468. REFUNDING BONDS. (a) The district may refund any bonds issued by it by issuing new bonds.

(b) Refunding bonds may be issued only if the old bonds are taken in exchange at their face value or less or new bonds can be sold at a premium and the old bonds retired without loss to the district.

(c) The comptroller may not register the refunding bonds until the old bonds for which the refunding bonds are being issued are presented to him for cancellation or until a valid contract providing for the purchase or exchange of the old bonds is executed and a copy filed in his office.

(d) The comptroller shall keep the refunding bonds until the old bonds are presented to him for exchange or payment, and if the old bonds are presented for payment, the district shall pay them before the refunding bonds are registered.

Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 1537, ch. 627, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1977.