Louisiana § RS 33:130.54 - Industrial parks; financing; pledges by political subdivisions

§ RS 33:130.54. Industrial parks; financing; pledges by political subdivisions

A.  The bond resolution or the trust agreement shall authorize the industrial park project to be financed and, in addition, may contain provisions which shall be a part of the contract with the holders of such issue of revenue bonds as to:

(1)  Pledging all or any part of income and revenues received or to be received from financing agreements to secure the payment of such issue of revenue bonds;

(2)  The mortgaging of lands, buildings, machinery, and equipment to provide additional security for such revenue bonds;

(3)  The setting aside of reserves or bond retirement funds and the regulation and disposition thereof;

(4)  The custody, collection, securing, investment, and payment of any moneys held in trust or otherwise for the payment of revenue bonds or in any way to secure the payment of revenue bonds, including the establishment and maintenance of loan, construction, revenue, reserve, or other funds as trust funds;

(5)  Limitations or restrictions on the purposes to which the proceeds of sale or any revenue bonds may be applied;

(6)  Limitations or restrictions on the issuance of additional revenue bonds; the terms upon which additional revenue bonds may be issued and secured and/or the refunding of outstanding or other revenue bonds;

(7)  Vesting in one or more trustees or fiscal agents such property, rights, powers, and duties in trust as the district may determine;

(8)  The acquisition and disposition of property for industrial park projects;

(9)  The rights and remedies available to the bondholders in the event of default;

(10)  Provisions for insurance and for accounting reports and the inspection and audit thereof;

(11)  The replacement of mutilated, destroyed, stolen, or lost revenue bonds; and

(12)  Any other matters of like or different character which in any way affect the security or protection of the revenue bonds.

B.  All revenue bonds issued pursuant to a bond resolution or a trust agreement hereunder shall be equally and ratably secured by a pledge, charge, and lien upon revenues provided for in the bond resolution or trust agreement, without priority by reason of number, or of dates of bonds, execution, or delivery, except that the governing authority may provide in the bond resolution or trust agreement that revenue bonds issued pursuant thereto shall, to the extent and in the manner prescribed in such bond resolution or trust agreement, be subordinate and junior in standing, with respect to the payment of principal and interest and the security thereof, to any other revenue bonds.

C.  Any pledge made by a local governmental subdivision pursuant to this Section shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made.  The revenues, securities, and other moneys so pledged and then held or thereafter received by the local governmental subdivision or any fiduciary shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the local governmental subdivision, whether or not such parties have notice thereof.  Neither the bond resolution nor any trust agreement by which a pledge is created need be filed or recorded except in the official minutes of the local governmental subdivision and the state bond commission.

Added by Acts 1981, No. 277, §1, eff. July 13, 1981.