(a) Any municipality or county in the state may at any time and from time to time, in anticipation of the sale and issuance of revenue bonds under the provisions of this article, as amended, borrow money for temporary use for any purpose or purposes for which revenue bonds are authorized to be issued under this article and in evidence of such borrowing may issue interest-bearing notes.

Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-81-165

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • United States: includes the territories thereof and the District of Columbia. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) Each such note shall be a limited or special obligation of the issuing municipality or county, payable as to both principal and interest solely from the same revenues out of which such revenue bonds are proposed to be issued or from the proceeds from the sale of such revenue bonds or from both said revenues and said bond proceeds, shall be made payable not later than 24 months after its date, shall be signed as the governing body of said municipality or county may prescribe, may be sold at public or private sale and may be renewed from time to time; provided, that no such renewal shall be made which shall extend the final date for payment of such note to more than three years from the date of the original borrowing.
(c) When any such municipality or county shall issue the revenue bonds in anticipation of which any note or notes were issued under this section, such municipality or county shall retire, out of the proceeds derived from the sale of the said revenue bonds, the said note or notes and, to the extent that such proceeds shall be sufficient therefor, the unpaid interest accrued thereon; provided, that any such municipality or county may, when any such note or notes are held by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, without regard to or compliance with the provisions of Section 11-81-11, as amended, issue and deliver such revenue bonds (or a part thereof) in exchange for an equal principal amount of such note or notes and shall, prior to or simultaneously with such issuance and delivery, pay the unpaid interest accrued on such note or notes, which shall thereupon be cancelled and retired.
(d) In issuing any such temporary notes, no municipality or county shall be subject to any requirement, condition or limitation contained in any other law.