Colorado § 24-46-409 - Issuance of bonds by a financing entity.

§ 24-46-409. Issuance of bonds by a financing entity.

(1) A financing entity may issue bonds from time to time in its discretion to finance any eligible improvements with respect to a transit investment project and may also issue refunding or other bonds of the financing entity from time to time in its discretion for the payment, retirement, renewal, refinancing, or extension of any bonds previously issued by the financing entity under this section.

(2) (a) Bonds issued under this section may be general obligation or revenue bonds of the financing entity, the payment of which, as to principal and interest and premiums, if any, the full faith, credit, and assets, acquired and to be acquired, of the financing entity may be irrevocably pledged.

(b) Bonds issued under this section may be special obligations of the financing entity that, as to principal and interest and premiums, if any, are payable solely from and secured only by a pledge of any income, proceeds, revenues, or funds of the financing entity, including, without limitation, state sales tax increment revenue.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any bonds issued under this section may be additionally secured as to the payment of the principal and interest and premiums, if any, by a mortgage of any transit investment project, or any part thereof, title to which is then or thereafter in the financing entity or of any other real or personal property or interests therein then owned or thereafter acquired by the financing entity.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, bonds issued under this section may be additionally secured as to the payment of the principal and interest and premiums, if any, as provided in subsection (2) of this section, with or without being also additionally secured as to payment of the principal and interest and premiums, if any, by a mortgage as provided in subsection (3) of this section or a trust agreement as provided in subsection (5) of this section.

(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any bonds issued under this section may be additionally secured as to the payment of the principal and interest and premiums, if any, by a trust agreement or indenture by and between the financing entity and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state.

(6) Bonds issued under this section do not constitute an indebtedness of the state or of any county, municipality, or public body of the state other than the financing entity issuing the bonds and are not subject to the charter of any municipality relating to the authorization, issuance, or sale of bonds.

(7) Bonds issued under this section shall be authorized by a resolution, indenture, or other document pursuant to which such obligations are issued of the financing entity and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date; be payable upon demand or mature at such time as may be determined by the financing entity not to exceed thirty years, except as the maturity may be extended in accordance with section 24-46-406 (4) and in accordance with article 57 of title 11; bear interest at a rate payable or compoundable at intervals determined by the financing entity; be in such denomination; be in such form, either coupon or registered or otherwise; carry such conversion or registration privileges; have such rank or priority; be executed in the name of the financing entity in such manner; be payable in such medium of payment; be payable at such place; be subject to such callability provisions or terms of redemption, with or without premiums; be secured in such manner; be of such description; contain or be subject to such covenants, provisions, terms, conditions, and agreements, including provisions concerning events of default; and have other characteristics that may be provided by the resolution or by the trust agreement, indenture, or mortgage, if any, issued pursuant to the resolution. The seal, or a facsimile thereof, of the financing entity shall be affixed, imprinted, engraved, or otherwise reproduced upon each of its bonds issued under this section. Bonds issued under this section shall be executed in the name of the financing entity by the manual or facsimile signatures of officials that may be designated in said resolution or trust agreement, indenture, or mortgage. Coupons, if any, attached to the bonds shall bear the facsimile signature of the official of the financing entity that may be designated as provided in this subsection (7). Said resolution or trust agreement, indenture, or mortgage may provide for the authentication of the pertinent bonds by the trustee.

(8) Bonds issued under this section may be sold by the financing entity in a manner and for a price as the financing entity, in its discretion, may determine, at par, below par, or above par, at private sale or at public sale after notice is published prior to the sale in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality, or in another medium of publication as the financing entity may deem appropriate in accordance with section 24-6-402, or may be exchanged by the financing entity for other bonds issued by it under this section.

(9) If any of the officials of the financing entity whose signatures or facsimile signatures appear on any of its bonds or coupons issued under this section cease to be officials after the authorization thereof, but before the delivery of the bonds, the signatures or facsimile signatures, as the case may be, are nevertheless valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if the officials had remained in office until the delivery.

(10) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any bonds that are issued pursuant to this section are fully negotiable.

(11) In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforceability of any a bond that is issued under this section or the security of such a bond, any bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the financing entity in connection with a transit investment project or any activity or operation of the financing entity under this part 4 is conclusively deemed to have been issued for such purposes; and such transit investment project or such operation or activity, as the case may be, is conclusively deemed to have been initiated, planned, located, undertaken, accomplished, and carried out in accordance with this part 4. No legal or equitable action brought with respect to the validity or enforceability of any bond that is issued under this section or the security of such a bond shall be commenced more than thirty days after the authorization of the bond or bonds by the financing entity.

(12) Pending the preparation of any definitive bonds under this section, a financing entity may issue its interim certificates or receipts or its temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds when the latter have been executed and are available for delivery.

(13) A person retained or employed by a financing entity as an advisor or a consultant for the purpose of rendering financial advice and assistance may purchase or participate in the purchase or distribution of its bonds when the bonds are offered at public or private sale.

(14) No commissioner or other officer of a financing entity issuing bonds under this section and no person executing the bonds is liable personally on the bonds or is subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance of the bonds.

(15) No commissioner or other officer of a transit investment authority issuing bonds pursuant to this part 4 and no person executing the bonds is liable personally on the bonds or subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance of the bonds.

(16) Bonds that are issued pursuant to this part 4 are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with interest thereon and income therefrom, are exempt from all state of Colorado taxes.

Source: L. 2026: Entire part added, (HB 26-1065), ch. 157, p. 915, § 2, effective May 27.

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