2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 39 - Public Finance
RS 39:698.4 - Issuing bonds; maximum duration; interest; form
§698.4. Issuing bonds; maximum duration; interest; form
The bonds shall be authorized and issued by resolution of the governing authority and shall be of such series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times beginning not more than three years after the date of the bonds and ending not later than twenty-five years after the date thereof, bear interest at such rate or rates payable at such times, be in such denomination, be in such form, either coupon or fully registered without coupons, carry such registration and exchangeability privileges, be payable in such medium and at such place or places within or without the state, be subject to such terms of redemption, be entitled to such priorities on the sales tax revenues and be sold upon such terms not inconsistent herewith as such resolution may provide. The bonds shall be executed in the name of the local governmental subdivision or school board by the manual or facsimile signatures of such official or officials of the local governmental subdivision or school board as designated by the governing authority in said resolution authorizing their issuance. At least one signature on each bond shall be a manual signature. The seal, or a facsimile thereof, of such local governmental subdivision or school board shall be affixed, imprinted, engraved or otherwise reproduced upon each bond. The delivery of any bonds or coupons so executed at any time thereafter shall be valid, although before the date of delivery, any person or persons signing the bonds or coupons shall cease to hold office. The maturities of the bonds shall be so arranged that the total amount of principal and interest falling due in any year, together with principal and interest falling due in such year on all bonds theretofore issued hereunder, and then outstanding, shall never exceed seventy-five percent of the amount of sales tax revenues estimated by the governing authority to be received by it in the calendar year in which the bonds are issued.
Acts 1975, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 21, §4, eff. Jan. 28, 1975.
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