Mississippi § 31-23-61 - Undesignated portion of ceiling; applications for notices of allocation; fee; notices of allocation; confirmation of issuance.

§ 31-23-61. Undesignated portion of ceiling; applications for notices of allocation; fee; notices of allocation; confirmation of issuance.

The undesignated portion of the state’s ceiling is hereby established in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the state’s ceiling. The undesignated portion shall include any amounts transferred to the undesignated portion by the board pursuant to this chapter. All allocations for bonds other than exempt small issue bonds shall be granted from the undesignated portion. Applications for notices of allocation from the undesignated portion shall be received and acted upon as follows: All applications shall be filed on a form promulgated from time to time by the board. The application form shall set forth: (i) the name and address of the issuer and each borrower; (ii) the dollar amount of the undesignated portion requested; (iii) whether the applicant requests that a partial allocation be granted in the event the board is unable to grant a notice of allocation for the full amount of the undesignated portion requested. In addition, applications filed on or after November 1 of each year shall be accompanied by the following: The items which are required to accompany applications for notices of allocation from the threshold portion set forth in Section 31-23-59(b)(i) or Section 31-23-59(b)(ii), except that such items shall specify amounts as to the undesignated portion. A written opinion of bond counsel, addressed to the board to the effect that the bonds which are covered by the application will, based upon the information available at that time to such bond counsel, qualify as tax-exempt bonds under applicable federal law when issued. An allocation application fee of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to be deposited in the revolving fund provided for in Section 57-1-66. The board shall stamp or otherwise designate the date and time on which it receives each application. The application shall be considered approved upon review and approval by the bond committee or its designee pursuant to rules, regulations or qualifying criteria promulgated by the board. The application shall be stamped approved when each of the items required under paragraphs (a) and (b) above, as applicable, has been received in proper form by the board and approved by the bond committee or its designee. Any application which is not in proper form and which is determined not to be an approved application may be corrected and refiled at any time. Receipt shall be deemed to occur only on a business day. Within ten (10) days or no later than the last business day of the calendar year after the board receives the approved application the board shall: Give its notice of allocation, approving the allocation requested by such application; or Give its notice of partial allocation, approving less than the full amount of the allocation requested by such application, if the applicant has so requested a partial allocation in the event the board is unable to approve the allocation requested. In such event, if the applicant has requested that the allocation shortfall be treated as a separate application, such allocation shortfall shall be treated as though it were a separate application filed on the date and time on which the original application was filed; or Give notice to the issuer that the allocation requested by the application has not been approved because the undesignated portion has been exhausted, or is insufficient to make the requested allocation and request written direction from the issuer or the borrower as to whether the board should retain the application for approval in the future or whether the application should be withdrawn or otherwise. Such notices of allocation shall be given with respect to approved applications in chronological order, by date and time, in which the approved applications were received by the board, shall bear an effective date beginning on the date of issuance of the notice of allocation, and shall bear an expiration date as follows: Sixty (60) calendar days from the date of issuance, if issued on or after January 1, and on or before October 15. December 15, if issued after October 15 and prior to December 9. Seven (7) calendar days from the date of issuance, if issued on or after December 9, but in no event shall an expiration date be later than December 31. If at any time none of the undesignated portion remains available for notices of allocation, but additional amounts of the undesignated portion become available later in the year because confirmation of issuance was not received by the board on or before the applicable expiration date for any notice of allocation or because the board has transferred any portion of the state’s ceiling to the undesignated portion pursuant to this chapter, the board shall give a notice of allocation with respect to approved applications earlier received, including any approved applications which failed to receive a notice of allocation pursuant to paragraph (d) above or for which an allocation shortfall was treated as a separate application. Such notices of allocation shall be given to the extent that the undesignated portion becomes available at such later times, with respect to approved applications in chronological order, by date and time, in which they were received by the board. When bonds covered by a notice of allocation have been issued, confirmation of issuance shall be filed with the board on or before the expiration date. If confirmation of issuance is not received by the board on or before the applicable expiration date, the amount covered by the particular notice of allocation shall automatically be returned to, and added to, the undesignated portion, and shall be available for use in other notices of allocation; provided, if confirmation of issuance is received after the applicable expiration date, the board may, in its discretion and provided amounts are available for such project, treat such bonds as though confirmation of issuance had been received on or before the applicable expiration date. If confirmation of issuance is not received by the board on or before the applicable expiration date with respect to a notice of allocation from the undesignated portion, the issuer may file additional applications after the expiration date with respect to all or any part of the issue of bonds covered by such notice of allocation, but such applications shall be treated as filed on the next day after actually filed (and at the time of day such application was filed) for purposes of determining which applications shall receive a notice of allocation where the amount of approved applications on the actual day of filing exceeds the amount of the undesignated portion available at that time for notices of allocation.