Sec. 17. (a) If there are bonds outstanding that have been issued under this article and are not secured by a lease, or if there are leases in effect under this article, the general assembly also covenants that it will not reduce the amount required to be transferred from the counties and cities to the development authority under section 2 of this chapter below an amount that would produce one and twenty-five hundredths (1.25) multiplied by the total of the highest annual debt service on the bonds to their final maturity plus the highest annual lease payments on the leases to their final termination date.
(b) The general assembly also covenants that it will not:
(1) repeal or amend this article in a manner that would adversely affect owners of outstanding bonds, or the payment of lease rentals, secured by the amounts pledged under this chapter; or
(2) in any way impair the rights of owners of bonds of the development authority, or the owners of bonds secured by lease rentals, secured by a pledge of revenues under this chapter;
except as otherwise set forth in subsection (a).
As added by P.L.214-2005, SEC.73.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 7.5. Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority
Chapter 4. Financing; Issuance of Bonds; Leases
36-7.5-4-1. Development Authority Revenue Fund; Accounts; Use of Money in the Fund; Debt Service
36-7.5-4-2. Revenue Transfers to Fund; Rail Projects
36-7.5-4-4. Bonding; Complete Authority
36-7.5-4-5. Bonding; Security; Trust Indenture
36-7.5-4-6. Bond Refunding; Leases
36-7.5-4-8. Leases; Complete Authority
36-7.5-4-10. Agreements; Common Wall; Easements; Licenses
36-7.5-4-11. Leases or Sale of Projects or Land to Authority
36-7.5-4-12. Option to Purchase Property
36-7.5-4-14. Bonds; Legal Investments
36-7.5-4-15. Bonds; Contesting Validity
36-7.5-4-17. Covenant With Holders
36-7.5-4-18. Exclusive Approval; Development Authority; Financing a Rail Project
36-7.5-4-19. Obligations Legalized and Validated
36-7.5-4-20. Transfer of Money
36-7.5-4-21. West Lake Corridor Project; Failure to Enter Into a Full Funding Grant Agreement