Nebraska Statutes 70-1813. Issuance of mandated project bonds; authorized; proceeds; use
(1) A public entity has the authority to issue mandated project bonds, including refunding bonds, in one or more series. A public entity also may create a mandated project bond issuer pursuant to section 70-1818 to issue mandated project bonds. Mandated project charges to which the public entity may at any time be entitled shall be pledged, without any necessity for specific authorization of the pledge by the public entity, to the mandated project bonds. Each such series of mandated project bonds shall be secured by and payable from a first lien on mandated project charges pledged for such purpose. Any separate consensual lien or security interest shall be created in accordance with and governed by the Nebraska Governmental Unit Security Interest Act. The proceeds of such bonds shall be applied exclusively to payment of mandated project costs and financing costs and, in the case of proceeds of refunding bonds, the retirement or defeasance of mandated project bonds.
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 70-1813
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Mandated project: means the construction, retrofitting, rebuilding, acquisition, or installation of any equipment, device, structure, improvement, process, facility, technology, or other property owned, licensed, or controlled by a public entity or operated for the benefit of a public entity through a power participation or purchase agreement, either within or outside the State of Nebraska, and used in connection with a new or existing facility related to electrical power generation, transmission, or distribution, which construction, retrofitting, rebuilding, acquisition, or installation is undertaken to satisfy a mandate, including, but not limited to, any equipment, device, structure, improvement, process, facility, technology, or other property related to environmental pollution control, safety, or useful life extension of an existing plant or facility. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1805
- Mandated project bond issuer: means an entity created pursuant to section 70-1818. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1805.01
- Mandated project bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued by a public entity or by a mandated project bond issuer, the proceeds of which are used directly or indirectly to pay or reimburse mandated project costs and financing costs and which bonds are secured by and payable from mandated project charges. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1806
- Mandated project costs: means capital costs incurred or to be incurred by a public entity with respect to a mandated project, including the payment of debt service on mandated project bonds, either directly or through a power participation or purchase agreement, and any related operating expenses. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1808
- Public entity: means a municipality, a registered group of municipalities, a public power district, a public power and irrigation district, an electric cooperative, an electric membership association, a joint entity formed under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, a joint public agency formed under the Joint Public Agency Act, an agency formed under the Municipal Cooperative Financing Act, or any other governmental entity. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1809
- State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
(2) The public entity and any successor or assignee of the public entity shall be obligated to impose and collect the mandated project charges in amounts sufficient to pay debt service on the mandated project bonds as due. The pledge of mandated project charges shall be irrevocable, and the state, the public entity, or any successor or assignee of the public entity may not reduce, impair, or otherwise adjust mandated project charges, except that the public entity and any successor or assignee thereof shall implement the periodic adjustment method established by the authorizing resolution pursuant to subdivision (1)(d) of section 70-1812. Revenue from mandated project charges shall be deemed special revenue and shall not constitute revenue of the public entity for purposes of any pledge of revenue, receipts, or other income that such public entity has made or will make for the security of debt other than the mandated project bonds to which the revenue from the mandated project charges is expressly pledged.