Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:8018

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.

A.  The principal of and interest on any bonds or notes issued by a corporation may be secured as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 47:8017(B) and may be secured by a mortgage or other instrument covering all or any part of any lands or all or any part of a development project, including any additions, improvements, extensions to or enlargements of any development project thereafter made.  

B.  Bonds or notes issued for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, or improvement of a development project may be secured by an assignment of any lease of or mortgage on such development project and by an assignment of the revenues and receipts derived by a corporation from any such lease or mortgage.  

C.  The proceedings under which the bonds or notes are authorized to be issued and any mortgage, lease or other instrument may contain agreements and provisions respecting the maintenance of any development projects covered thereby, the fixing and collection of rents or other revenues therefrom, including monies received in repayment of mortgage loans, and interest thereon, the creation and maintenance of special funds from such rents or other revenues and the rights and remedies available in the event of default, all as a corporation shall deem advisable.  

D.  Each pledge, agreement, mortgage or other instrument made for the benefit or security of any of the bonds or notes of a corporation shall continue effective until the principal of and interest on the bonds or notes for the benefit of which the same were made shall have been fully paid, or until provisions shall have been made for such payment in the manner provided in the proceedings under which the same may be authorized.  

Acts 1988, No. 996, §1.