(a) General rule.--Every local government unit issuing bonds or notes other than notes issued under section 8109 (relating to small borrowing for capital purposes) shall appoint a sinking fund depository which may also serve as paying agent for the bonds or notes. The sinking fund depository shall be a bank or bank and trust company authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and may serve as one for one or more series of bonds or notes. Funds, which may include interest accrued and to accrue on lawful investments, in an amount sufficient for the payment of the principal of and the interest on the bonds or notes shall be deposited with the sinking fund depository not later than the date fixed for the disbursement thereof unless the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds or notes requires that the deposits be made on an earlier date or on earlier dates.
(b) Fiscal agent or trustee.--If the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds or notes provides for a fiscal agent or authorizes the execution of a trust indenture appointing a trustee, the fiscal agent or trustee shall also be the sinking fund depository.
(c) Remedy for failure to make deposit.--If the local government unit shall fail or refuse to make any required deposit in the sinking fund, the sinking fund depository, the fiscal agent or the trustee, as the case may be, may and, upon request of the holders of 25% in principal amount of the outstanding notes and bonds and upon being indemnified against cost and expense, shall exercise any remedy provided in this subpart or at law or in equity for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the outstanding notes, bonds and coupons and shall disburse all funds so collected equally and ratably to the holders of the notes, bonds and coupons as provided in the ordinance authorizing the bonds, subject to any limitations contained in Subchapter D of Chapter 82 (relating to remedies).
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY
Chapter 81 - Incurring Debt and Issuing Bonds and Notes
Section 8101 - Combining projects for financing or series of bonds or notes for sale
Section 8102 - Preliminary authorizations as to financing
Section 8104 - Covenant to pay bonds or notes or a guaranty
Section 8106 - Sinking fund depository and trustee for bondholders or noteholders
Section 8107 - Award of bonds or notes
Section 8108 - Bond anticipation notes
Section 8109 - Small borrowing for capital purposes
Section 8111 - Submission to department
Section 8112 - Agreements with bondholders or noteholders
Section 8113 - Lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated bonds or notes
Section 8115 - Contractual effect of ordinances and resolutions
Section 8116 - Unfunded actuarial accrued liability - condition precedent (Repealed)
Section 8121 - Power to issue tax anticipation notes
Section 8122 - Limitation on amount of tax anticipation notes
Section 8123 - Maturity date and time of payment of interest
Section 8124 - Other terms of tax anticipation notes
Section 8125 - Security for tax anticipation notes and sinking fund
Section 8126 - Certification as to taxes and revenues to be collected
Section 8127 - Sale of tax anticipation notes
Section 8128 - Condition precedent to validity of tax anticipation notes
Section 8129 - Scope of unfunded debt
Section 8130 - Approval by court to fund unfunded debt
Section 8141 - Form of bonds or notes
Section 8142 - Limitations on stated maturity dates
Section 8143 - Disposition of proceeds notwithstanding certain limitations
Section 8144 - Number of interest rates
Section 8145 - Place and medium of payment
Section 8146 - Execution of bonds or notes
Section 8147 - Pledge of revenues
Section 8148 - Deeds of trust and other agreements with bondholders and noteholders
Section 8149 - Negotiable qualities of bonds and notes
Section 8150 - Temporary bonds or notes or interim receipts
Section 8161 - Manner of sale of bonds or notes
Section 8162 - Contents of public advertisement and of official notice of sale
Section 8163 - Proposals for purchase
Section 8164 - Opening of bids
Section 8165 - Determination of highest and best bid
Section 8166 - Required bid security
Section 8167 - Reserved right to reject bids
Section 8168 - Failure to receive conforming bid
Section 8169 - Determination of net interest cost and net interest rate