6-20-1225. Certificates of indebtedness.

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6-20-1225. Certificates of indebtedness.

6-20-1225. Certificates of indebtedness. (a) A school district of Arkansas filing a petition in United States District Court for the composition of its bonded indebtedness and having more than five (5) years' past due interest on bonds being purchased at a discount, in order to facilitate such purchase, shall have the right to issue certificates of indebtedness payable, without interest over a period of five (5) years, from the surplus in the debt service fund and any other available revenue that the school district may pledge, for an amount not to exceed two (2) years' interest on the bonds being purchased and not to exceed two percent (2%) of the assessed valuation of all taxable property in the school district as shown by the last county assessment and may pledge the surplus and available revenue for their payment. (b) In any case in which a school district has heretofore issued certificates of indebtedness under substantially the conditions outlined in subsection (a) of this section, such action of the school district is approved and confirmed and the certificates of indebtedness so issued are declared to be the binding obligations of that school district, provided their issuance has been ordered or approved by the United States District Court in which the petition for composition of debt was filed.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-1225

Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.