2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3 - Municipalities
Section 33 Improvement Districts
Section 3-33-41 Improvement district; ordinance for refunding bonds; conditions; sale or exchange.

3-33-41. Improvement district; ordinance for refunding bonds; conditions; sale or exchange.

A. The ordinance authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds for an improvement district shall describe the:

(1) details of the issue;

(2) form of the refunding bonds and interest coupons, if any;

(3) fund from which the principal and interest of the refunding bonds will be paid; and

(4) manner in which the bonds are to be issued.

B. The refunding bonds may:

(1) be issued in an amount less than, equal to or greater than the principal amount of improvement district bonds being refunded;

(2) not bear a rate of interest greater than the rate of interest borne by the assessments providing security for the refunding bonds if secured by assessments;

(3) become due and payable in regular numerical order;

(4) not be issued for a period of more than twenty years from the date of issuance; and

(5) be payable from substitute security or from the same funds that were applicable to the payment of the bonds being refunded.

C. The refunding bonds may be:

(1) sold at a public or private sale at a discount; or

(2) exchanged, dollar for dollar, for the improvement district bonds being refunded.

History: 1953 Comp., 14-32-36, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1983, ch. 265, 9; 1991, ch. 199, 28.