(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise specifically provided in this subpart and subject to subsection (b), bonds or notes may be sold at public or private sale by negotiation or upon invitation and at the price the governing body of the issuing local government unit shall determine. Before making any private sale by negotiation of bonds or notes, the governing body shall adopt a resolution finding that a private sale by negotiation is in the best financial interest of the local government unit. Bonds or notes may be conditionally sold before the final details of the series are fixed.
(b) Public sale.--Bonds or notes, if sold at public sale, shall be sold to the highest responsible bidder or bidders after one public notice by advertisement of either the official notice of sale, or of the availability of the official notice of sale, in at least one and not more than two newspapers of general circulation in the county in which the local government unit is located. The advertisement may also be published in a financial journal circulating among the underwriters of securities. Advertisements shall be published not less than ten nor more than 30 days prior to the date fixed for opening proposals and need not appear on the same date nor successively in each newspaper or journal.
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Section 8116 - Unfunded actuarial accrued liability - condition precedent (Repealed)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