Section 15-4-303 - Finances; issuance and sale of bonds generally; purposes; amounts; limitations; exception(a) The city or town may by ordinance issue and sell bonds or certificates of indebtedness as follows: (i) To pay, fund or refund any of its debts; (ii) To purchase, construct, extend, improve and maintain public utility plants named in the ordinance authorizing the issue of the bonds or certificates of indebtedness; (iii) Not to exceed a total outstanding issue of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00) for the benefit of the permanent improvement revolving fund; (iv) For defraying the cost of making local improvements: (A) In intersections of streets and alleys; and (B) In front of property exempt by law from special assessments, and property owned by the city or town. (v) For defraying the cost of establishing and maintaining a general system of sewers and of maintaining, altering, relaying and extending existing systems of sewers; (vi) For the purchase, erection and improvement of necessary public buildings; (vii) For establishing garbage crematories or other means of garbage disposal, hospitals, schools, libraries, museums and art galleries; (viii) For changing, controlling or bridging streams or ravines and constructing and repairing bridges within the corporate limits; (ix) Not to exceed forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00), to run not longer than ten (10) years, for the benefit of the general fund in case of a failure of the anticipated revenue from sources other than taxation; (x) To purchase real property for future public use, if the acquisition of the land in the opinion of the governing body is necessary to conform to a master plan adopted and certified for the physical development of the municipality under W.S. 15-1-501 through 15-1-512.(b) No bonds except those specified in paragraph (a)(i) of this section may be issued or sold unless the governing body is first authorized to do so by a majority of the electors of the city or town voting thereon at an election called, conducted, canvassed and returned in the manner provided for bond elections by the Political Subdivision Bond Election Law, W.S. 22-21-101 through 22-21-112.(c) Bonds issued and sold under this section shall not be sold for less than par value and shall bear interest at a rate established by ordinance. (d) The funded indebtedness other than that provided in subsection (a)(v) of this section shall not exceed four percent (4%) of the assessed value of the taxable property of the city. When determining indebtedness for the purpose of fixing that limit, bonds issued for the purpose of supplying water shall not be counted. Bonds issued under subsection (a)(v) of this section shall not exceed four percent (4%) of the assessed value of the taxable property of the city or town. (e) The limitations expressed in this section have no application to refunding public securities issued pursuant to the General Obligation Public Securities Refunding Law except as otherwise provided in that act.