26030-26037
PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE
SECTION 26030-26037
26030. The authority may contract with any participating party for the construction of a project by such participating party. All such contracts for the construction of a project by a participating party shall provide that the participating party shall be responsible for the architectural and engineering design and for the construction and completion thereof, subject to such standards for architectural and engineering design as may be established, and subject to such supervision as the authority deems necessary. The authority may agree to pay the cost of such project constructed by any participating party and to advance such costs from time to time in installments or otherwise as required by the contract for the construction thereof. Title to all such projects shall be vested in the authority subject to the terms of any lease thereof to the participating party or the rights of a participating party under any contract for the purchase of such project including the payment of the purchase price under installment sales contracts. 26031. (a) The authority may, as lessor or lessee, enter into leases and agreements with any participating party relating to the acquisition, construction, and installation of any project, including real property, buildings, machinery, furnishings, equipment, and alternative sources and advanced transportation technology facilities of any kind or character. (b) The terms and conditions of those leases may be as mutually agreed upon. The lease may provide the means or methods by which title shall vest in a participating party upon the termination of the lease and shall contain any other terms and conditions as the authority may determine. (c) The authority may fix, revise, charge, and collect rates, rents, fees, and charges for each project. Those rates, rents, fees, and charges shall be fixed and adjusted with respect to the aggregate of rates, rents, fees, and charges from all projects so as to provide funds sufficient with other revenues and moneys available therefor, if any, to do all of the following: (1) Pay the principal of and the interest on outstanding bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the authority issued with respect to the project as they shall become due and payable. (2) Create and maintain reserves required or provided for in any resolution authorizing, or trust agreement securing, those bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness. A sufficient amount of the revenues derived from a project may be set aside at regular intervals as may be provided in that resolution or trust agreement in a sinking or other similar fund which is hereby pledged to, and charged with, the payment of the principal of and interest on those bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness as they shall become due, and the redemption price or the purchase price of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness retired by call or purchase as therein provided. That pledge shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made; the rates, rents, fees, and charges and other revenues or other moneys so pledged and thereafter received by the authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of that pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether the parties have notice thereof. Neither the resolution nor any trust agreement nor any other agreement nor any lease by which a pledge is created need be filed or recorded except in the records of the authority. The use and disposition of money to the credit of a sinking or other similar fund shall be subject to the provisions of the resolution authorizing the issuance of those bonds or of that trust agreement. The sinking or other similar fund may be a fund for all bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the authority issued to finance projects of a particular participating party without distinction or priority of one over another. However, the authority, in the resolution or trust agreement, may provide that the sinking or other similar fund shall be the fund for a particular project or projects and for the bonds issued to finance a particular project or projects and may, additionally, permit and provide for the issuance of bonds having a subordinate lien in respect of the security herein authorized to other bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the authority, and, in that case, the authority may create separate sinking or other similar funds in respect of those subordinate lien bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness. (3) Pay operating and administrative costs of the authority. 26032. The authority may enter into contracts of sale with any participating party covering any project financed by the authority. The purchase price pursuant to the contract of sale shall be treated in substantially the same manner and shall be at least sufficient to provide funds for all the purposes provided in Section 26031 and may be paid in installments, together with interest on the unpaid balance, or otherwise, as may be mutually agreed and set forth in the contract of sale. All payments received by the authority under any installment sales or conditional sales contract shall be applied by the authority substantially in the same manner as provided in Section 26031 in the case of lease payments or rental charges received by the authority. 26032.5. As an alternative to leasing or selling a project to a participating party, the authority may finance the acquisition, construction, or installation of a project by means of a loan to the participating party. The principal amount of the participating party' s obligation as borrower shall be sufficient to provide funds for all the purposes specified in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 26031 and may be paid in installments, together with interest on the unpaid balance, or otherwise as may be mutually agreed by the authority and the participating party and set forth in the loan agreement. Loans made pursuant to this section may be secured or unsecured in the discretion of the authority. The provisions of Section 26030 shall not be applicable to projects constructed with moneys loaned pursuant to this section. 26033. All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this division, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this division. Any bank or trust company with which such moneys shall be deposited shall act as trustee of such moneys and shall hold and apply the same for the purposes hereof, subject to such regulations as the resolution authorizing the bonds of any issue or the trust agreements securing such bonds may provide. 26034. Any holder of bonds, notes, or other obligations issued under the provisions of this division or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee or trustees under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by any resolution authorizing the issuance of, or any such trust agreement securing, such bonds, notes, or other obligations, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the state or granted hereunder or under such resolution or trust agreements, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this division or by such resolution or trust agreement to be performed by the authority or by any officer, employee, or agent thereof, including the fixing, charging, and collecting of the rates, rents, fees, and charges herein authorized and required by the provisions of such resolution or trust agreement to be fixed, established, and collected. 26035. The exercise of the powers granted by this division shall be in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state, for their health and welfare, and protection of the state's environment. Any bonds, notes, or other obligations issued under the provisions of this division, their transfer and the income therefrom, shall at all times be free from taxation of every kind by the state and by municipalities and other political subdivisions of the state. However, the preceding sentence shall not apply with respect to any bonds, notes, or other obligations, or the income therefrom, for any period during which such bonds, notes, or other obligations are held by (a) any participating party, (b) persons, organizations, trades, or businesses (whether or not incorporated, organized in this state, or affiliated with such participating party) owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such participating party, or (c) persons, organizations, trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated, organized in this state, or affiliated with such participating party) which own or control, directly or indirectly, such participating party. 26036. If the jurisdiction of the authority to order a proposed act is not affected, an omission of any officer or the authority in the proceedings under this division or any other defect in the proceedings shall not invalidate the proceedings for issuance of bonds pursuant to this division. 26037. An action may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure to determine the validity of any issuance or proposed issuance of bonds under this division and the legality and validity of all proceedings previously taken or proposed in a resolution of the authority to be taken for the authorization, issuance, sale and delivery of the bonds and for the payment of the principal thereof and interest thereon.