2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 57 - PLANNING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 10 - Small Business Assistance.
57-10-525 - Limitation on borrowing; rate of interest on nontaxable bonds or notes; issuance, terms, and execution of general or limited obligation bonds; payment of principal and interest on bonds; tax exempt status.

§ 57-10-525. Limitation on borrowing; rate of interest on nontaxable bonds or notes; issuance, terms, and execution of general or limited obligation bonds; payment of principal and interest on bonds; tax exempt status.
 

(1)  The seller is authorized to borrow, on the credit of the state, money not exceeding the aggregate sum of Thirty-two Million Dollars ($32,000,000.00), not including money borrowed to refund outstanding bonds, notes or replacement notes, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this article. The rate of interest on any such bonds or notes which are not subject to taxation shall not exceed the rates set forth in Section 75-17-101, Mississippi Code of 1972, for general obligation bonds. 

(2)  As evidence of indebtedness authorized in this article, general or limited obligation bonds of the state shall be issued from time to time to provide monies necessary to carry out the purposes of this article for such total amount, in such form, in such denominations, payable in such currencies (either domestic or foreign or both), and subject to such terms and conditions of issue, redemption and maturity, rate of interest and time of payment of interest as the seller directs, except that such bonds shall mature or otherwise be retired in annual installments beginning not more than five (5) years from the date thereof and extending not more than twenty (20) years from the date thereof. 

(3)  All bonds and notes issued under authority of this article shall be signed by the chairman of the seller, or by his facsimile signature, and the official seal of the seller shall be affixed thereto, attested by the secretary of the seller. 

(4)  All bonds and notes issued under authority of this article may be general or limited obligations of the state, and the full faith and credit of the State of Mississippi as to general obligation bonds, or the revenue derived from projects assisted as to limited obligation bonds, are hereby pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds and notes. 

(5)  Such bonds and notes and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Mississippi. 

(6)  The bonds may be issued as coupon bonds or registered as to both principal and interest as the seller may determine. If interest coupons are attached, they shall contain the facsimile signature of the chairman and the secretary of the seller. 

(7)  As to bonds issued hereunder and designated as taxable bonds by the seller, any immunity of the state to taxation by the United States government of interest on bonds or notes issued by the state is hereby waived. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1993, ch. 566, § 13; Laws, 2000, ch. 607, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 2000.