Terms Used In South Carolina Code 59-109-110

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Authority: means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, acting as the Educational Facilities Authority for Private Nonprofit Institutions of Higher Learning and serving ex officio. See South Carolina Code 59-109-30
  • Bonds: means revenue bonds of the authority issued under the provisions of this chapter, including revenue refunding bonds, notwithstanding that the same may be secured by a mortgage or the full faith and credit of a participating institution for higher learning or any other lawfully pledged security of a participating institution for higher learning. See South Carolina Code 59-109-30
  • Financing agreement: means any agreement entered into by and between the authority and any one or more participating institutions for higher learning for the purpose of assisting a participating institution for higher learning in undertaking a project pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and pursuant to which the participating institution or institutions for higher learning agree to pay to (and to secure if so required) the authority or to any assignee thereof, the sums required to meet the payment of amounts due with respect to any bonds including, without limitation, an agreement whereby the authority shall lease or sell a project to a participating institution for higher learning or any agreement whereby the authority shall loan the proceeds of bonds to a participating institution for higher learning. See South Carolina Code 59-109-30
  • Institution for higher learning: means a nonprofit educational institution within the State authorized by law to provide a program of education beyond the high school level and which does not receive state financial support, but shall not include any state-supported institution. See South Carolina Code 59-109-30
Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not be considered to constitute a debt or liability of the State or of any political subdivision thereof or a pledge of the faith and credit of the State or of any such political subdivision, but shall be payable solely from the funds herein provided therefor. All such bonds shall contain on the face thereof a statement to the effect that neither the State of South Carolina nor the authority shall be obligated to pay the same or the interest thereon except from amounts to be paid by the participating institution for higher learning pursuant to the financing agreement relating to such bonds and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State of South Carolina or of any political subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on such bonds. The issuance of bonds under the provisions of this chapter shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the State or any political subdivision thereof to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment.