Tennessee § 5-3-119 - Debt reorganization — Bond retirement — Sinking fund.

§ 5-3-119. Debt reorganization — Bond retirement — Sinking fund.

All bonds issued under §§ 5-3-113 — 5-3-121 shall be direct and general obligations of the unit issuing the same, for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the unit shall be irrevocably pledged. In each fiscal year while any funding or refunding bonds issued under §§ 5-3-113 — 5-3-121, shall be outstanding, there shall be levied upon all taxable property in the unit an ad valorem tax sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds as it falls due and the principal of such bonds that shall then have matured or that shall mature within the same fiscal year, and any sinking fund payments that may be provided for by the bonds or by the resolution authorizing the same, as well as all deficits in such interest, principal and sinking fund payments arising by failure to comply with §§ 5-3-113 — 5-3-121 or by failure to collect the taxes levied or otherwise; provided, that the governing body, in its discretion, may levy in any fiscal year a tax sufficient to pay, in addition to the interest and principal that shall fall due in such fiscal year, any portion of the interest or principal that shall fall due in any succeeding fiscal year, and may also levy in any fiscal year a tax for sinking fund payments, in addition to the tax required for such payments by the resolution authorizing any of such bonds. The governing body may provide in the resolution authorizing the issuance of any such funding or refunding bonds, that any sinking fund provided for such bonds shall be used solely for the purchase or redemption of the bonds authorized by such resolution, and all bonds so purchased or redeemed shall be cancelled and shall not be reissued. Acts 1939, ch. 225, § 6; C. Supp. 1950, § 136.15 (Williams, § 136.17); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-319. Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 8 Tenn. Juris., Counties, § 6.