In connection with the issuance of bonds or in order to secure the payment of its bonds, the authority incorporated under this article shall have power:
To pledge all or any part of its revenues.
To vest in a trustee or trustees the right to enforce any covenant made to secure, to pay, or in relation to its bonds, to provide for the powers and duties of such trustee or trustees, to limit the liabilities thereof, and to provide the terms and conditions upon which the trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds or any amount or proportion of them may enforce any such covenant.
To make such covenants and to do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to secure its bonds or which, in the absolute discretion of the board, tend to make the bonds more marketable notwithstanding that such covenants, acts and things may restrict or interfere with the exercise of the powers granted in this article, it being the intention hereof to give the authority power to do all things in the issuance of bonds, and for their security, that a private business corporation can do under the general laws of the state.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Article 1 - Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority
§ 77-5-5. Mississippi Rural Electrification Authority created
§ 77-5-7. Board of directors of authority
§ 77-5-9. Number, appointment, removal and terms of board of directors
§ 77-5-11. Organization of board; officers
§ 77-5-13. Compensation of members of board
§ 77-5-15. Members of board shall not hold full time state office
§ 77-5-19. Corporate purpose of the authority
§ 77-5-21. General grant of powers to authority
§ 77-5-23. Grant of specific powers to authority
§ 77-5-25. Operations outside of state authorized
§ 77-5-27. Issuance of bonds by authority
§ 77-5-31. Bonds of authority not debts of state
§ 77-5-33. Rates, fees and charges; application thereof
§ 77-5-35. Pledge of state to bondholders that it will not impair rate-making power of authority
§ 77-5-39. Rights and remedies of bondholders
§ 77-5-41. Moneys of the authority
§ 77-5-43. Assets of authority shall pass to state upon cessation of authority's existence