16.132 - SECURITY -- RESERVE FUNDS -- PLEDGES -- NONLIABILITY -- IRREVOCABLE CONTRACTS.

        16.132  SECURITY -- RESERVE FUNDS -- PLEDGES --
      NONLIABILITY -- IRREVOCABLE CONTRACTS.
         1.  The authority may provide in the resolution, trust agreement,
      or other instrument authorizing the issuance of its bonds or notes
      pursuant to section 16.131 that the principal of, premium, and
      interest on the bonds or notes are payable from any of the following
      and may pledge the same to its bonds and notes:
         a.  The income and receipts or other money derived from the
      projects financed with the proceeds of the bonds or notes.
         b.  The income and receipts or other money derived from
      designated projects whether or not the projects are financed in whole
      or in part with the proceeds of the bonds or notes.
         c.  The amounts on deposit in the revolving loan funds.
         d.  The amounts payable to the authority by eligible entities
      pursuant to loan agreements with eligible entities.
         e.  Any other funds or accounts established by the authority
      in connection with the program or the sale and issuance of its bonds
      or notes.
         2.  The authority may establish reserve funds, to secure one or
      more issues of its bonds or notes.  The authority may deposit in a
      reserve fund established under this subsection the proceeds of the
      sale of its bonds or notes and other money which is made available
      from any other source.
         3.  It is the intention of the general assembly that a pledge made
      in respect of bonds or notes shall be valid and binding from the time
      the pledge is made, that the money or property so pledged and
      received after the pledge by the authority shall immediately be
      subject to the lien of the pledge without physical delivery or
      further act, and that the lien of the pledge shall be valid and
      binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort,
      contract, or otherwise against the authority whether or not the
      parties have notice of the lien.  Neither the resolution, trust
      agreement, nor any other instrument by which a pledge is created
      needs to be recorded or filed under the Iowa uniform commercial code,
      chapter 554, to be valid, binding, or effective against the parties.

         4.  Neither the members of the authority nor persons executing the
      bonds or notes are liable personally on the bonds or notes or are
      subject to personal liability or accountability by reason of the
      issuance of the bonds or notes.
         5.  The bonds or notes issued by the authority are not an
      indebtedness or other liability of the state or of a political
      subdivision of the state within the meaning of any constitutional or
      statutory debt limitations but are special obligations of the
      authority, and are payable solely from the income and receipts or
      other funds or property of the authority, and the amounts on deposit
      in the revolving loan funds, and the amounts payable to the authority
      under its loan agreements with eligible entities to the extent that
      the amounts are designated in the resolution, trust agreement, or
      other instrument of the authority authorizing the issuance of the
      bonds or notes as being available as security for such bonds or
      notes.  The authority shall not pledge the faith or credit of the
      state or of a political subdivision of the state to the payment of
      any bonds or notes.  The issuance of any bonds or notes by the
      authority does not directly, indirectly, or contingently obligate the
      state or a political subdivision of the state to apply money from, or
      levy or pledge any form of taxation whatever to the payment of the
      bonds or notes.
         6.  The state pledges to and agrees with the holders of bonds or
      notes issued under the Iowa water pollution control works and
      drinking water facilities financing program, that the state will not
      limit or alter the rights and powers vested in the authority to
      fulfill the terms of a contract made by the authority with respect to
      the bonds or notes, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of
      the holders until the bonds or notes, together with the interest on
      them including interest on unpaid installments of interest, and all
      costs and expenses in connection with an action or proceeding by or
      on behalf of the holders, are fully met and discharged.  The
      authority is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of the
      state, as it refers to holders of bonds or notes of the authority, in
      a contract with the holders.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         88 Acts, ch 1217, §21
         C89, § 220.132
         C93, § 16.132
         97 Acts, ch 4, §2--4; 2002 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1003, §235, 262; 2003
      Acts, ch 44, §15, 114; 2009 Acts, ch 30, §6, 7
         Referred to in § 16.131A, 16.133