Sec. 2. The contract entered into by the board of commissioners of any county and any such bondholder shall be signed by the parties to such contract, shall be attested on behalf of the county by the county auditor, and shall stipulate and agree that the board of commissioners of the county will pay all interest on such matured bond to the date of the maturity thereof, and that a new bond (referred to in this chapter as a redemption bond) in the same amount as the matured bond, will be issued to pay and retire such matured bond, and that such redemption bond will be and continue to be a valid and binding obligation of the county and that during the period fixed in the contract not exceeding ten (10) years the board of commissioners will pay annually to the owner of such redemption bond, one-tenth (1/10) of the principal amount of such redemption bond and, in addition thereto, will pay semiannually all interest which shall have accrued thereon to the date when such payment is to be made. The date on which such partial payments of the principal of such bond will be made shall be fixed and prescribed in such contract and may be on June 1 or December 1 of the year next succeeding the year in which such contract is executed and signed and June 1 or December 1 of each and every year thereafter until paid. The interest accrued on such bond shall be paid semiannually on June 1 and December 1, beginning on the same date as the first partial payment on such bond. The board of commissioners shall further agree to levy a tax on the taxable property of such county in an amount sufficient to make the payments on such redemption bonds as they fall due, together with all interest which shall have accrued thereon. Any bondholder who elects to avail himself or herself of the provisions of this chapter shall agree that in consideration of the privilege hereby afforded the bondholder will not maintain or attempt to maintain a suit for the collection or the enforcement of the lien of any such bond, other than in accordance with the remedies afforded by the provisions of this chapter. The form of the contract herein contemplated shall be prescribed by the state board of accounts with the approval of the attorney general. At the time when the contract is executed and the redemption bond is issued, the matured bond shall be surrendered to the county auditor and shall be canceled by writing across the face of the matured bond the words “Canceled by issuing to ______ a redemption bond in the same principal sum as this bond, due and payable on the ______ day of ______, 20____.”.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 17-3-82-2.]

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.8, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.2-2005, SEC.11.