Sec. 7-371. Form of bonds.
Sec. 7-371. Form of bonds. Unless otherwise provided by the general statutes or
any special act, bonds issued by any municipality, as defined in section 7-369, by authority of any provision of the general statutes or of any special act shall be serial bonds
maturing in annual or semiannual installments of principal that shall substantially equalize the aggregate amount of principal and interest due in each annual period commencing
with the first annual period in which an installment of principal is due, or maturing in
annual or semiannual installments of principal no one of which shall exceed by more
than fifty per cent the amount of any prior installment, or shall be term bonds with
mandatory deposit of sinking fund payments into a sinking fund of amounts sufficient
to redeem or amortize the principal of the bonds in annual or semiannual installments
that shall substantially equalize the aggregate amount of principal redeemed or amortized and interest due in each annual period commencing with the first annual period
in which a mandatory sinking fund payment becomes due, or sufficient to redeem or
amortize the principal of the bonds in annual or semiannual installments no one of which
shall exceed by more than fifty per cent the amount of any prior installment. The first
installment of any series of bonds shall mature or the first sinking fund payment of any
series of bonds shall be due not later than three years from the date of the issue of such
series and the last installment of such series shall mature or the last sinking fund payment
of such series shall be due not later than twenty years therefrom.
(1949 Rev., S. 804; 1951, S. 362d; P.A. 83-408, S. 5, 6; P.A. 86-350, S. 8, 28; P.A. 87-506, S. 4, 9; P.A. 89-337, S. 2, 6.)
History: P.A. 83-408 added language requiring substantially equal annual installments to maturity as applicable to
principal and interest and applying existing limitation re increasing installment payments only to installments of principal;
P.A. 86-350 made a variety of changes for purposes of clarification, updating the statutes to conform to current financial
practices and to conform to anticipated changes in federal tax policy; P.A. 87-506 rewrote the section to provide for various
methods of determining payment amounts; P.A. 89-337 allowed semiannual installments.
Cited. 206 C. 579.