76.1 - MANDATORY RETIREMENT.



        76.1  MANDATORY RETIREMENT.
         1.  Hereafter issues of bonds of every kind and character by
      counties, cities, and school corporations shall be consecutively
      numbered.
         2. a.  The annual levy shall be sufficient to pay the interest
      and approximately such portion of the principal of the bonds as will
      retire them in a period not exceeding twenty years from date of
      issue, except as provided in paragraph "b".
         b.  General obligation bonds issued for the purposes specified
      in section 331.441, subsection 2, paragraph "b", subparagraphs
      (18) and (19), or in section 384.24, subsection 3, paragraphs "w"
      and "x", and bonds issued to refund or refinance bonds issued for
      those purposes, may mature and be retired in a period not exceeding
      thirty years from date of issue.
         3.  Each issue of bonds shall be scheduled to mature in the same
      order as numbered.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C27, 31, 35, § 1179-b1; C39, § 1179.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62,
      66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 76.1] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         2009 Acts, ch 100, §5, 21
         Referred to in § 76.2, 76.5