2010 Tennessee Code
Title 4 - State Government
Chapter 31 - Local Development Authority
Part 7 - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Facilities
4-31-706 - Issuance of bonds or notes Limitations Deficiency.

4-31-706. Issuance of bonds or notes Limitations Deficiency.

(a)  (1)  Bonds or notes issued pursuant to the provisions of this part shall not be issued and sold as part of an issue of bonds or notes of the authority issued pursuant to any other provision of this chapter or law.

     (2)  The authority shall not issue bonds and notes under this part in an aggregate principal amount at any one (1) time outstanding exceeding fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), excluding bonds or notes for the payment of redemption of which there has been or will be set aside and held in trust either moneys or direct and general obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, the United States, or obligations secured by such obligations, or any combination thereof, that are or will be sufficient to pay when due the principal or applicable redemption price and all accrued interest thereon and, if such bonds or notes are to be redeemed, for which notice of redemption has been given or satisfactory provision has been made for the giving of such notice.

(b)  Each issue of its notes or bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this part shall be limited special obligations of the authority payable solely from, and secured by amounts derived by, the authority from loans made pursuant to this part.

(c)  (1)  At the end of each calendar year, the authority shall certify to the governor and the commissioner of mental health and developmental disabilities the amount of deficiency, if any, in the debt service reserve account for bonds and notes issued pursuant to this part to mental health and developmental disabilities facilities.

     (2)  The commissioner shall transfer to the authority the amount of the deficiency from state funds appropriated to the department by the general assembly.

(d)  (1)  At the end of each calendar year the authority shall certify to the governor and the commissioner of mental health and developmental disabilities the amount of the deficiency, if any, in the debt service reserve account for bonds and notes issued pursuant to this part to alcohol and drug treatment facilities.

     (2)  The commissioner of mental health and developmental disabilities shall transfer to the authority the amount of the deficiency from state funds appropriated to the department by the general assembly.

(e)  The authorization to issue additional bonds pursuant to this section is terminated. The authority and the department are authorized and directed to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the state funding board providing for the monitoring and servicing of all outstanding loan agreements entered into under the provisions of this part. Upon the issuance of debt by the state funding board, refunding and defeasing all outstanding authority debt previously issued pursuant to the provisions of this part, the authority may transfer all payments received from grantees, as directed by the state funding board.

[Acts 1990, ch. 975, § 1; 1993, ch. 234, § 30; 1998, ch. 846, § 1; 2009, ch. 186, § 2.]