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Statutes > Connecticut > Title3 > Chap032 > Sec3-76gSec. 3-76g. Optional provisions to secure payment of special obligation bonds. In order to secure the payment of the special obligation bonds issued pursuant to this part, the Treasurer may, on behalf and in the name of the state, include in any bond determination or determinations describing or relating to such bonds, provisions, which shall constitute a part of the contract of the state with the holders thereof, as to:
(a) The pledging, or the application, use and disposition, of all or any part of the trust receipts, the municipal refunding bonds, and the moneys derived therefrom, of all or any part or account of the Municipal Refunding Trust Fund, including provisions for payments therefrom on account of special obligation bonds in priority to payments on account of other such bonds or for payments therefrom on account of the state to repay appropriations thereto or for payments therefrom on account of municipalities in proportion to the principal amount of municipal refunding bonds sold to the state, and the proceeds of the special obligation bonds, and the moneys then or thereafter payable into any municipal reserve account established by the Treasurer, the Municipal Refunded Bond Escrow Fund or into any other fund or account established or created under authority of this part;
(b) Covenants against pledging all or any part of its trust receipts, municipal refunding bonds or other investments or property, or against permitting or suffering any lien on those trust receipts, municipal refunding bonds or the Municipal Refunding Trust Fund or the Municipal Refunded Bond Escrow Fund;
(c) Covenants as to the use and disposition of any payments of principal or interest received by the state with respect to municipal refunding bonds or other investments held in the Municipal Refunding Trust Fund or the Municipal Refunded Bond Escrow Fund;
(d) Covenants as to establishment of municipal reserve accounts, other reserve accounts or sinking funds, the making of provision for them, and the regulation, maintenance, and disposition thereof;
(e) Covenants with respect to limitations on any right to sell or otherwise dispose of its municipal refunding bonds or other investments or any of its property in the Municipal Refunding Trust Fund or Municipal Refunded Bond Escrow Fund;
(f) Covenants as to any special obligation bonds to be issued and their limitations and their terms and conditions and as to the custody, application and disposition of their proceeds;
(g) Covenants as to the issuance of additional special obligation bonds or as to limitations on the issuance of additional special obligation bonds and on the incurring of other debts;
(h) Covenants as to payment of the principal of or interest on the special obligation bonds, as to the sources and methods of payment, as to the rank or priority of any such bonds with respect to any lien or security or as to the acceleration of the maturity of any such bonds;
(i) The replacement of lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated bonds;
(j) Covenants against extending the time for the payment of such bonds or interest thereon;
(k) Covenants as to the redemption of such bonds and privileges of exchange thereof for other special obligation bonds of the state to be issued pursuant to this part;
(l) Covenants as to any fees or charges to be established, charged, and collected, the amount to be raised each year or other period of time by charges or other revenues and as to the use and disposition to be made thereof;
(m) Covenants to create or authorize the creation of special funds or moneys to be held in pledge or otherwise for operating expenses, payment or redemption of such bonds, reserves or other purposes and as to the use and disposition of the moneys held in those funds;
(n) Establishment of the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract or covenant with or for the benefit of the holders of such bonds may be amended or abrogated, the amount of such bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which the consent may be given;
(o) Covenants as to the custody of any of its properties or investment, the safekeeping thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;
(p) Covenants as to the time or manner of enforcement or restraint from enforcement of any rights of the state arising by reason of or with respect to nonpayment of any principal or interest or any municipal refunding bonds;
(q) The rights and liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach of any covenant, condition or obligation and the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of such bonds or other special obligations of the state issued pursuant to this part shall become or may be declared due and payable before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which the declaration and its consequences may be waived;
(r) The vesting in a trustee or trustees within or without the state such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the Treasurer may determine, which may include any of the rights, powers and duties of any trustee appointed by the holders of any such bonds and power to limit or abrogate the right of the holders of any such bonds to appoint a trustee under this part or limitations on the rights, powers and duties of the trustee;
(s) Payment of the costs or expenses incident to the enforcement of such bonds or of the resolution or of any covenant or agreement of the state with the holders of its special obligation bonds;
(t) Agreement with any corporate trustee which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state, concerning the pledging or assigning of any trust receipts, funds, municipal refunding bonds or other investments to which the state has any rights or interest pursuant to this part and provisions for such other rights and remedies exercisable by the trustee as may be proper for the protection of the holders of any special obligation bonds of the state and not otherwise in violation of law, and which agreement may provide for the restriction of the rights of any individual holders of such bonds of the state;
(u) Appointment, and provisions for the duties and obligations of, a paying agent or paying agents, or such other fiduciaries as the determination may provide within or without the state;
(v) Limits upon the rights of the holders of any such bonds to enforce any pledge or covenant securing such bonds;
(w) The sale by the trustee of the municipal refunding bonds or other investments pledged as security for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds of the state upon default in the payment of such principal or interest; and
(x) Covenants other than and in addition to the covenants herein expressly authorized, of like or different character, and covenants to do or refrain from doing such things as may be necessary or convenient and desirable, in order to better secure bonds or which, in the absolute discretion of the Treasurer, on behalf of the state, will tend to make bonds more marketable, notwithstanding that the covenants or things may not be enumerated herein.
(P.A. 73-591, S. 7, 21; P.A. 81-472, S. 115, 159.)
History: P.A. 81-472 made technical changes.
