2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10a - State System of Higher Education
Chapter 187 - Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority
Section 10a-185 - (Formerly Sec. 10-344). Bonds.

(a) The authority is authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable bonds for any corporate purpose. In anticipation of the sale of such bonds the authority may issue negotiable bond anticipation notes and may renew the same from time to time. Such notes shall be paid from any revenues of the authority or other moneys available therefor and not otherwise pledged, or from the proceeds of sale of the bonds of the authority in anticipation of which they were issued. The notes shall be issued in the same manner as the bonds. Such notes and the resolution or resolutions authorizing the same may contain any provisions, conditions or limitations which a bond resolution of the authority may contain.

(b) Except as may otherwise be expressly provided by the authority, every issue of its bonds, notes or other obligations shall be general obligations of the authority payable from any revenues or moneys of the authority available therefor and not otherwise pledged, subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular bonds, notes or other obligations pledging any particular revenues or moneys and subject to any agreements with any participating institution for higher education, any participating health care institution or any participating corporation. Notwithstanding that such bonds, notes or other obligations may be payable from a special fund, they shall be and be deemed to be for all purposes negotiable instruments, subject only to the provisions of such bonds, notes or other obligations for registration.

(c) The bonds may be issued as serial bonds or as term bonds, or the authority, in its discretion, may issue bonds of both types. The bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the members of the board of directors of the authority and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not exceeding fifty years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate or rates, be payable at such time or times, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in lawful money of the United States of America at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, as such resolution or resolutions may provide. The bonds or notes may be sold at public or private sale for such price or prices as the authority shall determine. The power to fix the date of sale of bonds, to receive bids or proposals, to award and sell bonds, and to take all other necessary action to sell and deliver bonds may be delegated to the chairman or vice-chairman of the board or the executive director or other officers of the authority by resolution of the board. The exercise of such delegated powers may be made subject to the approval of a majority of the members of the board which approval may be given in the manner provided in the bylaws of the authority. Pending preparation of the definitive bonds, the authority may issue interim receipts or certificates which shall be exchanged for such definitive bonds.

(d) Any resolution or resolutions authorizing any bonds or any issue of bonds may contain provisions, which shall be a part of the contract with the holders of the bonds to be authorized, as to: (1) Pledging the full faith and credit of the authority, the full faith and credit of a participating institution for higher education, a participating health care institution, a participating corporation or of a participating nursing home, all or any part of the revenues of a project or any revenue-producing contract or contracts made by the authority with any individual, partnership, corporation or association or other body, public or private, any federally guaranteed security and moneys received therefrom purchased with bond proceeds or any other property, revenues, funds or legally available moneys to secure the payment of the bonds or of any particular issue of bonds, subject to such agreements with bondholders as may then exist; (2) the rentals, fees and other charges to be charged, and the amounts to be raised in each year thereby, and the use and disposition of the revenues; (3) the setting aside of reserves or sinking funds, and the regulation and disposition thereof; (4) limitations on the right of the authority or its agent to restrict and regulate the use of the project; (5) the purpose and limitations to which the proceeds of sale of any issue of bonds then or thereafter to be issued may be applied, including as authorized purposes, all costs and expenses necessary or incidental to the issuance of bonds, to the acquisition of or commitment to acquire any federally guaranteed security and to the issuance and obtaining of any federally insured mortgage note, and pledging such proceeds to secure the payment of the bonds or any issue of the bonds; (6) limitations on the issuance of additional bonds, the terms upon which additional bonds may be issued and secured and the refunding of outstanding bonds; (7) the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given; (8) limitations on the amount of moneys derived from the project to be expended for operating, administrative or other expenses of the authority; (9) defining the acts or omissions to act which shall constitute a default in the duties of the authority to holders of its obligations and providing the rights and remedies of such holders in the event of a default; and (10) the mortgaging of a project and the site thereof for the purpose of securing the bondholders.

(e) Neither the members of the board of directors of the authority nor any person executing the bonds, notes or other obligations shall be liable personally on the bonds, notes or other obligations or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof.

(f) The authority shall have power out of any funds available therefor to purchase its bonds, notes or other obligations. The authority may hold, pledge, cancel or resell such bonds, notes or other obligations, subject to and in accordance with agreements with bondholders.

(g) The authority is further authorized and empowered to issue bonds, notes or other obligations under this section the interest on which may be includable in the gross income of the holder or holders thereof under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, to the same extent and in the same manner that interest on bills, notes, bonds or other obligations of the United States is includable in the gross income of the holder or holders thereof under any such internal revenue code, and to issue bonds, notes or other obligations under this section that may be eligible for tax credits or exemptions or payments from the federal government, or any other desired federal income tax treatment of such bonds, notes or other obligations. Any such bonds, notes or other obligations may be issued only upon a finding by the authority that such issuance is necessary, is in the public interest, and is in furtherance of the purposes and powers of the authority. The state hereby consents to such inclusion only for the bonds, notes or other obligations of the authority so authorized.

(February, 1965, P.A. 170, S. 10; 1967, P.A. 368, S. 9; 1969, P.A. 586, S. 3; P.A. 79-62, S. 3, 4; 79-568, S. 7, 8, 11; P.A. 82-16, S. 14–16, 19; P.A. 88-266, S. 22, 23, 46; P.A. 92-261, S. 6, 17; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-1, S. 28, 29; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 53; P.A. 05-288, S. 50; P.A. 11-70, S. 13.)

History: 1967 act deleted “revenues” with reference to bonds throughout section, amended Subsec. (a) to delete provision setting maturity limit on notes at five years from date of issuance and to allow payment with moneys other than revenues, amended Subsec. (b) to clarify that bonds, notes, etc. are general obligations of the authority, amended Subsec. (c) to delete 6% limit on interest and amended Subsec. (d) to specify that full faith and credit of authority and participating institution pledged to secure bonds; 1969 act amended Subsec. (c) to allow delegation of bonding powers to chairman, vice chairman or executive director; P.A. 79-62 amended Subsec. (d) to include provisions re federally guaranteed securities and federally guaranteed mortgage notes; P.A. 79-568 amended Subsecs. (b) and (d) to include participating corporations; P.A. 82-16 changed “hospital” to “health care institution” and amended power of chairman, vice chairman and executive officer of authority to make decisions re sale of authority bonds to include “other officers of the authority”; Sec. 10-344 transferred to Sec. 10a-185 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 88-266 amended Subsec. (c) by substituting references to board of directors for references to the authority and inserted reference to the board of directors in Subsec. (e); P.A. 92-261 amended Subsec. (d) to include the reference to nursing homes; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-1 amended Subsecs. (e) and (f) to specify that notes or other obligations of the authority are covered by those subsections and added new Subsec. (g) re issuance of taxable bonds, effective June 8, 2004; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2 amended Subsec. (d) to add “property”, “revenue” and “funds” to the list of assets of a project which may be pledged to secure payment of bonds under section, effective May 12, 2004, and applicable to any pledge, lien or security interest of this state or any political subdivision of this state in existence on October 1, 2003, or created after that date; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsec. (d), effective July 13, 2005; P.A. 11-70 amended Subsec. (g) to permit authority to issue bonds, notes or other obligations that may be eligible for tax credits or exemptions or payments from federal government or any other desired federal income tax treatment, effective July 8, 2011.

See Secs. 10a-192, 10a-193, 10a-195, 10a-196 re authority’s power to issue refunding bonds.