(a) The department issuing revenue bonds pursuant to this part shall impose, prescribe, and collect rates, rentals, fees, or charges for the use and services of, and the facilities and commodities furnished by, the undertaking or for the use and services and benefits of the loan program for which the revenue bonds are issued, and shall revise the rates, rentals, fees, or charges from time to time whenever necessary, so that, together with the proceeds of the user taxes derived with respect to the undertaking pledged to the payment of those revenue bonds, the undertaking or loan program shall be and always remain self-sustaining. The rates, rentals, fees, or charges imposed and prescribed shall produce revenue which, together with the proceeds of the user taxes, will be at least sufficient:

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 39-61

  • Bonds: means bonds, notes, and other instruments of indebtedness. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39-51
  • Department: means any state department, board, commission, officer, authority, or agency (other than a "municipality" defined by § 49-1 ) which is charged by law with the administration of an undertaking or loan program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39-51
  • Loan program: means the activities and policies undertaken by any department to provide assistance to any department or to any county or board, agency, or instrumentality thereof, or to members of the general public who are residents of the State, by making loans or causing loans to be made available to them or by buying, refinancing, or guaranteeing loans made to or other obligations incurred by them for purposes as may be authorized by law. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39-51
  • Revenue: means the moneys collected, including any moneys collected from the State or any department, or any county or board, agency, or instrumentality thereof, from the rates, rentals, fees, and charges prescribed for the use and services of, and the facilities and commodities furnished by, an undertaking or the use and services and benefits of a loan program; provided that the term shall include all insurance premium payments, assessments, surcharges, investment earnings, and all other income of the Hawaii hurricane relief fund. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39-51
  • Revenue bonds: means all bonds payable solely from and secured by the revenue, or user taxes, or any combination of both, of an undertaking or loan program or any loan made thereunder for which bonds are issued and as otherwise provided in this part; provided that the term shall include all bonds issued by the director of finance under the authority of section 10(a), Act 339, Session Laws of Hawaii 1993, as amended, for the purposes of the hurricane bond loan fund. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39-51
  • Undertaking: means any public works and properties, improvement, or system, tangible or intangible, owned or operated by the State or a department thereof, and any public activity, policy, or program undertaken by the State or a department thereof, and from which the State or department may derive revenues, or with respect to which the State or department may derive user taxes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39-51
  • User taxes: means taxes on goods or services or on the consumption thereof, the receipts of which are substantially derived from the consumption, use, or sale of goods and services in the utilization of the functions or services furnished by the undertaking. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39-51
(1) To make the required payments of the principal of and interest on all revenue bonds issued for the undertaking or loan program, including the payment of all revenue bonds and interest thereon for the payment of which the revenue, or user taxes, or combination of both, are or shall have been pledged, charged or otherwise encumbered, or which are otherwise payable from the revenue or user taxes, or combination of both, or are payable from a special fund maintained, or to be maintained, from the revenue or user taxes, or combination of both, including reserves therefor, and to maintain the special fund in an amount at least sufficient to pay when due all revenue bonds and interest thereon which are payable from the special fund, including reserves therefor;
(2) To pay the cost of operation, maintenance, and repair of the undertaking, or to pay the cost of the administration, operation, and maintenance of the loan program, including reserves therefor; and
(3) To carry out the covenants of the resolution or resolutions or certificate or certificates authorizing the issuance of the revenue bonds, including any covenants approved by the governor as to the minimum amounts of revenue to be produced by the undertaking or loan program for which the revenue bonds are issued.
(b) The legislature hereby covenants, pledges, and obligates itself, whenever it shall have authorized the issuance for an undertaking or loan program of revenue bonds payable from and secured by the user taxes derived with respect to the undertaking, or payable from and secured by user taxes and the revenue, or any combination of both, of the undertaking or loan program to impose, or continue to impose, user taxes with respect to the undertaking in amounts at least sufficient, together with the revenue of the undertaking or loan program pledged to the payment and security, so that the undertaking or loan program shall be and always remain self-sustaining, and all payments referred to in subsection (a), including reserves therefor, may be made when due, and that compliance with any covenants referred to in the provisions is assured.