(65 ILCS 5/11-66-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-7)
Sec. 11-66-7.
Subject to the approval of the corporate authorities, the
board of directors, for the purpose of assisting in establishing a
municipal coliseum, has the power to borrow money on the coliseum property,
and to issue bonds secured by mortgage or deed of trust on that property.
These bonds shall mature on or before 20 years from the date of their
issuance, and shall draw interest at a rate of not to exceed the maximum
rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of
the making of the contract, payable semi-annually. The board may negotiate
and sell these bonds at not less than par and accrued interest. These bonds
and all interest coupons attached thereto may be executed by the board, and
the mortgage or deed of trust securing them shall be executed by the
municipality through its proper officers. All proceeds arising from these
bonds shall be paid to the municipal treasurer, and by him deposited to the
credit of the municipal coliseum fund, and the proceeds shall be used only
for the establishment of such a municipal coliseum. Out of the annual tax
levy the board of directors shall provide a sinking fund for the retirement
of these bonds when they become due.
With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this
Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General
Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been
supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the
Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear
to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the
provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary
authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments
issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the
Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that
may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
Any bonds issued under this Section as limited bonds as defined in Section 3
of
the Local Government Debt Reform Act shall comply with the requirements of the
Bond Issue Notification Act.
The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any
municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)
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