1860-A - Reserve funds and appropriations.
Sec.1860-a. Reserve funds and appropriations. 1. The authority may create and establish one or more reserve funds to be known as debt service reserve funds and may pay into such reserve funds (a) any moneys appropriated and made available by the state for the purposes of such funds, (b) any proceeds of sale of bonds and notes to the extent provided in the resolution of the authority authorizing the issuance thereof, (c) any moneys directed to be transferred by the authority to such funds, and (d) any other moneys which may be made available to the authority for the purposes of such funds from any other source or sources. The moneys held in or credited to any debt service reserve fund established under this subdivision, except as hereinafter provided, shall be used solely for the payment of the principal of bonds of the authority secured by such reserve fund, as the same mature, required payments to any sinking fund established for the amortization of such bonds (hereinafter referred to as "sinking fund payments"), the purchase or redemption of such bonds of the authority, the payment of interest on such bonds of the authority or the payment of any redemption premium required to be paid when such bonds are redeemed prior to maturity; provided, however, that moneys in any such fund shall not be withdrawn therefrom at any time in such amount as would reduce the amount of such fund to less than the maximum amount of principal and interest maturing and becoming due in any succeeding calendar year on the bonds of the authority then outstanding and secured by such reserve fund, except for the purpose of paying principal and interest on the bonds of the authority secured by such reserve fund maturing and becoming due and sinking fund payments for the payment of which other moneys of the authority are not available. Any income or interest earned by, or increment to, any such debt service reserve fund due to the investment thereof may be transferred to any other fund or account of the authority to the extent it does not reduce the amount of such debt service reserve fund below the maximum amount of principal and interest maturing and becoming due in any succeeding calendar year on all bonds of the authority then outstanding and secured by such reserve fund. In computing the amount of any debt service reserve fund for the purposes of this section, securities in which all or a portion of such reserve fund are invested shall be valued at par or, if purchased at less than par, at their cost to the authority. 2. The authority shall not issue bonds at any time if the maximum amount of principal and interest maturing and becoming due in a succeeding calendar year on the bonds outstanding and then to be issued and secured by a debt service reserve fund will exceed the amount of such reserve fund at the time of issuance, unless the authority, at the time of issuance of such bonds, shall deposit in such reserve fund from the proceeds of the bonds so to be issued, or otherwise, an amount which together with the amount then in such reserve fund, will be not less than the maximum amount of principal and interest maturing and becoming due in any succeeding calendar year on the bonds then to be issued and on all other bonds of the authority then outstanding and secured by such reserve fund. 3. To assure the continued operation and solvency of the authority for the carrying out of the public purposes of this act provision is made in subdivision one of this section for the accumulation in each debt service reserve fund of an amount equal to the maximum amount of principal and interest maturing and becoming due in any succeeding calendar year on all bonds of the authority then outstanding and secured by such reserve fund. In order further to assure the maintenance of such debt service reserve funds, there shall be annually apportioned and paid to the authority for deposit in each debt service reserve fund such sum,if any, as shall be certified by the chairman of the authority to the governor and state director of the budget as necessary to restore such reserve fund to an amount equal to the maximum amount of principal and interest maturing and becoming due in any succeeding calendar year on the bonds of the authority then outstanding and secured by such reserve fund. The chairman of the authority shall annually, on or before December first, make and deliver to the governor and state director of the budget his certificate stating the sum, if any, required to restore each such debt service reserve fund to the amount aforesaid, and the sum or sums so certified, if any, shall be apportioned and paid to the authority during the then current state fiscal year. The principal amount of bonds secured by a debt service reserve fund or funds to which state funds are apportionable pursuant to this subdivision shall be limited to the total amount of bonds and notes outstanding on the effective date of this act, plus the total amount of bonds and notes contracted after the effective date of this act to finance projects in progress on the effective date of this act as determined by the New York state public authorities control board created pursuant to section fifty of this chapter whose affirmative determination shall be conclusive as to all matters of law and fact solely for the purposes of the limitations contained in this subdivision, but in no event shall the total amount of bonds so secured by such a debt service reserve fund or funds exceed nine million six hundred sixty thousand dollars, excluding bonds issued to refund such outstanding bonds until the date of redemption of such outstanding bonds. As outstanding bonds so secured are paid, the amount so secured shall be reduced accordingly but the redemption of such outstanding bonds from the proceeds of refunding bonds shall not reduce the amount so secured. 4. All amounts paid over to the authority by the state pursuant to the provisions of this section shall constitute and be accounted for as advances by the state to the authority and, subject only to the rights of the holders of any bonds or notes of the authority theretofore or thereafter issued, shall be repaid to the state from all available operating revenues of the authority in excess of debt service reserve fund requirements and operating expenses. 5. As used in this section, (a) the term "operating expenses" shall mean ordinary expenditures for operation and administration of the authority, including maintenance, repair and replacement of authority property; and (b) the term "available operating revenues" shall mean all amounts received on account of rentals and fees charged by the authority, if any, and income or interest earned or added to funds of the authority due to the investment thereof, and not required under the terms or provisions of any covenant or agreement with holders of any bonds or notes of the authority to be applied to any purposes other than payment of operating expenses of the authority.