Section 41-9-962 - Authority to issue revenue bonds; purposes; redemption; maturity date limitation; public or private sale; obligations of project not state; security(a) The commission shall have the power and authority to issue and sell at any time its revenue bonds for the purpose of providing funds to acquire, transport, outfit, renovate, maintain, improve, and berth the items relevant to the Tuskegee Airmen and other related historic artifacts and to construct, improve, enlarge, complete, maintain, operate, and equip the museum established in this article and for the payment of obligations incurred.(b) The principal of and interest on any bonds shall be payable solely out of the revenues derived from the project. All bond service payments shall be subordinate to the acquisition, establishment, and maintenance of a reasonable maintenance and operating fund.(c) Any bonds of the commission may be delivered by the commission at any time and shall be in such form and denominations and of tenor and maturities, shall bear rate or rates of interest, may contain provisions for redemption prior to maturity, and may contain other provisions not inconsistent with this section, all as provided by duly adopted resolutions of the commission whereupon bonds are authorized to be issued; provided, however, that no bond of the commission shall have a specified maturity date later than 30 years after its date. Each bond of the commission having a specified maturity date more than 10 years after its date shall be made subject to redemption at the option of the authority of the commission at the end of the tenth year after its date and on any interest payment date thereafter under terms and conditions as may be provided in the resolution under which a bond is authorized to be issued.(d) Bonds of the commission may be sold at either public or private sale in a manner and in a time as may be determined by the commission to be most advantageous.(e) Bonds issued by the commission shall not be obligations of the State of Alabama but shall be payable solely out of the revenue derived from the park project in respect of which bonds are issued. The principal of and the interest on the bonds shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues out of which the bonds shall be payable and by a pledge of the rentals or leases from any concessions granted by the commission and may be secured by nonforeclosable indenture covering the park project.Ala. Code § 41-9-962 (1975)
Acts 1996, No. 96-522, p. 670, §13.