(65 ILCS 5/8-4-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-4-3)
Sec. 8-4-3.
The corporate authorities of any municipality, without
submitting the question to the electors thereof for approval, may authorize
by ordinance the issuance of refunding bonds (1) to refund its bonds prior
to their maturity; (2) to refund its unpaid matured bonds; (3) to refund
matured coupons evidencing interest upon its unpaid bonds; (4) to refund
interest at the coupon rate upon its unpaid matured bonds that has accrued
since the maturity of these bonds; and (5) to refund its bonds which by
their terms are subject to redemption before maturity.
The refunding bonds may be made registerable as to principal and may
bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the
Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract,
payable at such time and place as may be provided in the bond ordinance.
The refunding bonds shall remain valid even though one or more of the
officers executing the bonds cease to hold his or their offices before the
bonds are delivered.
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.
The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any
municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)
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