Current as of: 2009 1. An authority may borrow money for any of its corporate purposes and issue its bonds therefor, including refunding bonds, in such form and upon such terms as it may determine, payable out of any revenues of the authority, including grants or contributions from the federal government or other sources, which bonds may be sold at not less than ninety-eight percent of par plus the interest accrued on the bonds to the date of the delivery thereof. 2. Bond issues sold at private sale must bear interest at a rate or rates and be sold at a price resulting in an average net interest cost not exceeding twelve percent per annum. There is no interest rate ceiling on those issues sold at public sale or to the state of North Dakota or any of its agencies or instrumentalities. 3. Any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter by an authority, or by a governing body exercising the powers thereof, are payable, as to principal and interest, solely from revenues of an airport or air navigation facility or facilities, and must so state on their face, but if any such issue of bonds constitutes an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction, each bond of the issue is, subject to the requirements of subsection 9, an equally valid and binding special obligation of the authority or municipality, as the case may be, in accordance with its terms, in an amount proportionate to the total amount of the issue which is within the limitation or restriction. Neither the commissioners of an authority nor the governing body of a municipality nor any person executing such bonds is liable personally thereon by reason of the issuance thereof, except to the extent that the bonds, if constituting an indebtedness, exceed any applicable limitation or restriction. 4. In case any of the commissioners or officers of an authority or municipality whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons cease to be such commissioners or officers after authorization but before the delivery of the bonds, the signature shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if the commissioners or officers had remained in office until delivery. Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are fully negotiable. 5. Any bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the authority or municipality pursuant to this chapter and for a purpose or purposes authorized by this chapter is conclusively deemed, in any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforceability of the bond or the security therefor, to have been issued pursuant to this chapter and for such purpose or purposes. 6. Bonds issued by an authority or municipality pursuant to this chapter are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with interest thereon, and income therefrom, are exempt from all taxes. 7. For the security of any such bonds, the authority or municipality may by resolution make and enter into any covenant, agreement, or indenture authorized to be made as security for revenue bonds issued under chapter 40-35. The sums required from time to time to pay principal and interest and to create and maintain a reserve for the bonds may be made payable from any and all revenues referred to in this chapter, prior to the payment of current costs of operation and maintenance of the facilities. 8. Whenever bonds are issued under this chapter and made payable from revenues of an airport involving municipalities with over ten thousand population, subject to requirements of subsection 9, the governing body of the municipality, if at any time all revenues, including taxes, appropriated and theretofore collected for such bonds are insufficient to pay principal or interest then due, shall levy a general tax upon all of the taxable property in the municipality for the payment of the deficiency. If at any time a deficiency is likely to occur within one year for the payment of principal and interest due on the bonds, the governing body, in its discretion, may levy a general tax upon all the taxable property in the municipality for the payment of the deficiency. The taxes are not subject to any limitation of rate or amount applicable to other municipal taxes. 9. For bonds issued under this section to be an obligation of a municipality or authority, the issuance of the bonds must be approved by a majority vote of the governing body of each municipality involved or, within thirty days after the authority decides it wishes to issue the bonds, the municipality or authority must put the question, specifying the amount of the bond at issue, to the people at an election. The question may be put at a general election, a primary election, a municipal election, or at an election called for the purpose. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on the issue vote in favor of issuing the bonds, the authority or municipality may, to the amount authorized in the election, pledge the general obligation of the authority or municipality to guarantee the repayment of the principal and interest on the bonds. ________________________________________________________________________
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