Michigan Compiled Laws
Act 220 of 1982 - Michigan Family Farm Development Act (285.251 - 285.279)
Section 285.263 - Bonds and Notes; General Obligations; Negotiability; Issuance Subject to Agency Financing Reporting Act.

Sec. 13.
(1) The authority may issue its negotiable bonds and notes in a principal amount, which in the opinion of the authority is necessary to provide sufficient funds for achieving its corporate purposes, the payment of interest on bonds and notes of the authority, the establishment of reserves to secure bonds and notes, and all other expenditures of the authority incident to and necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate purposes and powers.
(2) The authority may issue renewal notes, issue bonds to pay notes, and if it determines refunding expedient, refund bonds by the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other purpose. The refunding bonds shall be sold and the proceeds applied to the purchase, redemption, or payment of the bonds to be refunded.
(3) Except as may otherwise be expressly provided by the authority, every issue of its notes or bonds shall be general obligations of the authority payable out of revenues or money of the authority, subject only to agreements with the holders of particular notes or bonds pledging any particular receipts or revenues.
(4) Whether or not the notes or bonds are of a form or character as to be negotiable instruments under the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440.1101 to 440.11102, the notes or bonds shall be and are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all the purposes of the uniform commercial code, subject only to the provisions of the notes or bonds for registration.
(5) Bonds and notes issued under this act are not subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821.
(6) The issuance of bonds and notes under this act is subject to the agency financing reporting act.
History: 1982, Act 220, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1982 ;-- Am. 1983, Act 68, Imd. Eff. May 31, 1983 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 381, Imd. Eff. May 24, 2002

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