§41-10-654. Bonds of the authority.

(a) General authorization to issue bonds. The authority is authorized from time to time to sell and issue the bonds in one or more series in an aggregate principal amount of up to fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) in order to provide the funds to pay project costs, ancillary costs, and training costs.

(b) Source of payment. The bonds authorized herein shall be solely and exclusively an obligation of the authority and shall not create an obligation or debt of the state. Such bonds shall not be general obligations of the authority but shall be payable solely from the pledged revenues.

(c) Security for the bonds. The principal of and interest on the bonds shall be secured by a pledge of the pledged revenues and, if necessary and desirable in the authority's sole discretion, a mortgage on any part of the project. The resolution under which the bonds are authorized by the authority to be issued and any trust indenture or mortgage may contain any agreements and provisions respecting the rights, duties, and remedies of the parties to any such instrument and the parties for the benefit for whom any such instrument is made and the rights and remedies available in the event of default as the authority shall deem advisable.

(d) General provisions respecting form, sale, and execution of the bonds. All bonds shall be issued, executed and sold in the form and in the manner set forth in Division 1. The bonds may be sold at public or private sale as the authority shall deem advisable.

(e) State Treasurer as registrar, transfer agent, and paying agent. The State Treasurer shall be registrar, transfer agent, and paying agent for the bonds. The State Treasurer may designate named individuals who are employees of the state and who are assigned to the State Treasurer's office to authenticate the bonds.

(Act 99-391, p. 641, §5.)