24.63 Term, amount, interest rate.

(1) General obligation loans other than to school districts. A general obligation trust fund loan, other than a loan to a school district, may be made for any term not exceeding 20 years and may be made payable in installments. A general obligation trust fund loan to a municipality other than a school district shall be in an amount which does not, together with all other indebtedness of the municipality applying for the loan, exceed 5 percent of the valuation of the taxable property within the municipality as equalized for state purposes.

(2) General obligation school district loans. A general obligation trust fund loan to a school district may be made for any time, not exceeding 20 years, as is agreed upon between the school district and the board, and for an amount which, together with all other general obligation indebtedness of that district, does not exceed its allowable indebtedness as determined under s. 67.03 (1).

(2m) General obligation cooperative educational service agency loans. A general obligation trust fund loan to a cooperative educational service agency may be made for any term, not exceeding 20 years, as is agreed upon between the agency and the board, and for a total amount which, for each school district for which the loan is sought, in the proportion determined under s. 24.61 (7), together with all other general obligation indebtedness of the school district, does not exceed the school district's allowable indebtedness under s. 67.03 (1).

(2r) General obligation federated public library system loans. A general obligation trust fund loan to a federated public library system may be made for any term, not exceeding 20 years, that is agreed upon between the federated public library system and the board and may be made for a total amount that, together with all other general obligation indebtedness of the federated public library system, does not exceed the federated public library system's allowable indebtedness under s. 43.17 (9) (b).

(2s) Revenue obligation loans.

(a) A revenue obligation trust fund loan to a city, village, town, or county may be made for any term not exceeding 30 years and may be made payable in installments.

(b)

1. If the board makes a revenue obligation trust fund loan to a city, village, town, or county as described in s. 24.60 (2m) (b) to (d), the loan may not exceed an amount that would require the city, village, town, or county to make annual payments, including principal and interest, of more than 80 percent of the shared revenue payments received by the city, village, town, or county under subch. I of ch. 79 in the year immediately preceding the year in which the loan application is made.

2. The board may allow a city, village, town, or county that pledges and assigns tax increments as security for a revenue obligation trust fund loan to provide that the pledge and assignment is subject to future annual appropriations made by the governing body of the respective city, village, town, or county to repay the loan.

3. The board may prescribe loan conditions in addition to the conditions specified in this paragraph.

(3) Interest rates. All state trust fund loans shall bear and draw interest at a rate not less than 2 percent payable annually.

(4) Repayment before due date permitted. Any borrower after January 1 and prior to September 1 of any year may repay one or more installments of a state trust fund loan in advance of the due date, and all interest upon such advance payment shall thereupon terminate. The board may charge a borrower who repays one or more installments of a loan a fee to cover any administrative costs incurred by the board in originating and servicing the loan.

(5) Brownfield project loans. A state trust fund loan to a city, village, or town made for the purpose of funding a project related to brownfields, as defined in s. 238.13 (1) (a), may not be included in arriving at the debt limitation under sub. (1) or the constitutional debt limitation under article XI, section 3, of the constitution if all of the following apply:

(a) The term of the loan is not more than 15 years.

(b) The loan is not in default.

(c) The department of natural resources verifies to the board that the site on which the project will occur is a brownfield, or, if the project encompasses more than one site, verifies that not less than 50 percent of the project area is brownfield.

History: 1975 c. 224, 422; 1979 c. 221; 1981 c. 169; Stats. 1981 s. 24.63; 1983 a. 423; 1985 a. 225; 1987 a. 76; 1995 a. 27; 1999 a. 9; 2001 a. 16, 104; 2009 a. 2; 2011 a. 71; 2017 a. 70.