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66.061 Bonds for public projects -- Credit enhancement facilities agreements.

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Page 1 of 1 66.061 Bonds for public projects -- Credit enhancement facilities agreements. (1) An issuer may issue bonds for the purpose of paying all or any portion of the costs of any public project that the issuer is authorized, alone or in cooperation with other <br>persons, to acquire, improve, or construct. (2) Costs of public projects that may be financed with, and paid from the proceeds of bonds include, without limitation as to other costs properly allocable to the public <br>project, the costs of acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, rehabilitating, <br>installing, remodeling, renovating, enlarging, equipping, furnishing, or otherwise <br>improving the public project; site clearance, site improvement, and site preparation; <br>acquisition of real or personal property; indemnity and surety bonds; premiums on <br>insurance, all related direct administrative expenses and allocable portions of direct <br>costs of the issuer; engineering, architectural, legal, and other consulting and <br>professional services; designs, plans, specifications, feasibility, or rate studies; <br>appraisals, surveys, and estimates of cost; interest or interest equivalent on the <br>bonds, whether capitalized or not; financing costs; title work and title commitment, <br>insurance and guaranties; amounts necessary to establish any debt service reserve or <br>other reserves as required by the proceedings for the bonds; audits; the <br>reimbursement of moneys advanced or applied by or borrowed from any person, <br>whether to or by the issuer or others, from whatever source provided, for the <br>payment of any item or items of cost of the public project; and all other expenses <br>necessary or incidental to planning or determining feasibility or practicability with <br>respect to the public project; or necessary or incidental to the acquisition, <br>construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, installation, remodeling, or other <br>improvement of the public project; the financing of the public project; and the <br>placing of the public project in condition for use and operation; and all like or <br>related costs; including any one, part, or combination of, or the issuer's share of, <br>those costs and expenses. (3) If, after the public project for which bonds were issued is available for use, the issuer determines that proceeds of those bonds are not needed to pay costs relating <br>to that public project, those proceeds may be used to pay debt service on those <br>bonds or used to pay the costs of another public project. (4) An issuer may enter into agreements obligating an issuer which relate to credit enhancement facilities. Effective: July 15, 1996 <br>History: Created 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 280, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996.