2021 California Code
Streets and Highways Code - SHC
DIVISION 11.5 - REFUNDING ACT OF 1984 FOR 1915 IMPROVEMENT ACT BONDS
CHAPTER 3 - Issuance of Refunding Bonds
Section 9600.

In this chapter, the following terms are used with the following meanings:

(a) “Costs of issuing refunding bonds” means those of the following costs and expenses which are designated by the legislative body in the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds.

(1) All expenses incident to the calling, retiring, or paying of the bonds to be refunded and to the issuance of refunding bonds, including, but not limited to, any bond counsel, financial consultants, underwriters, certified public accountants, and rating agency fees, printing and advertising costs, city administrative expenses, and the charges of any escrow agent or trustee in connection with the issuance of the refunding bonds or in connection with the redemption or retirement of the bonds to be refunded.

(2) Interest upon the refunding bonds from the September 2 next preceding the date of sale thereof to not later than the September 2 next succeeding two years from the date.

(3) Any accrued and unpaid interest on the bonds to be refunded.

(4) Any premium necessary in the calling or retiring of the bonds to be refunded.

(5) Any amount that the city pays or transfers, or has previously paid or transferred, either from a special reserve fund or from surplus funds, into the redemption fund securing the bonds to be refunded and the penalties and interest thereon, if the amounts and the penalties and interest thereon are included in and limited to the particular reassessments levied upon those subdivisions of land securing the original assessment installments which are delinquent and for which the payments or transfers are made.

(b) “Designated costs of issuing the refunding bonds” means whichever of the items specified in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), and (5) of subdivision (a) which are designated by the legislative body in the resolution providing for the issuance of refunding bonds.

(c) “Federal securities” means those securities described in Sections 1360 and 1360.1 of the Financial Code and includes United States Treasury notes, bonds, bills, or certificates of indebtedness, or obligations for which the faith and credit of the United States are pledged for the payment of principal and interest, including the guaranteed portions of small business administration loans, so long as the loans are obligations for which the faith and credit of the United States are pledged for the payment of principal and interest.

(Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 874, Sec. 21. Effective September 17, 1986.)