§ 280i. Disbursement and use of funds
(a) Subject to limitations under ISTEA and the NHS Act and other federal laws, other laws respecting the use of particular monies in the Program, and the provisions of any applicable trust agreement, amounts in the Program may be used only:
(1) to provide financial assistance, including through loans and leases, to finance or refinance the costs of qualified projects and to provide for all or any part of the interest costs on loans made by the Program during the construction of such qualified projects;
(2) to guarantee or purchase insurance or other credit enhancement for bonds of qualified borrowers issued to finance the costs of qualified projects;
(3) to provide reserves for or otherwise secure bonds issued pursuant to this subchapter and to provide insurance or other credit enhancement for such bonds;
(4) to provide a subsidy for, or to otherwise assist, qualified borrowers in the payment of debt service costs on loans made by the Program;
(5) to provide reserves for, or to otherwise secure, amounts payable by qualified borrowers on loans made by and leases with the Program in the event of default by a particular qualified borrower or, on a parity basis, by any qualified borrower;
(6) to earn interest on the Fund; and
(7) for the costs of administering the Program; provided, however, that not more than two percent of the federal funds contributed to the Program pursuant to section 350 of the NHS Act may be expended for such administrative costs.
(b) For necessary and convenient administration of the Fund, the Program shall establish the highway account and the transit account, as provided in section 280n of this title, and one or more additional accounts and sub-accounts within the Vermont Economic Development Authority as shall be necessary to meet the requirements of the NHS Act and any other applicable federal law requirements or as the program shall otherwise deem necessary or desirable in order to implement the provisions of this subchapter or to comply with any trust agreement. The Program may also establish in any trust agreement or otherwise, as the Secretary shall determine, one or more other funds and accounts for revenues and other funds not required to be held in the Program, and to apply and disburse such funds for the purposes of the Program. (Added 1997, No. 43, § 1.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 10 - Conservation and Development
Chapter 12 - Vermont Economic Development Authority
§ 213. Authority; organization
§ 214. Members; disqualification
§ 216. Authority; general powers
§ 217. Records; annual report; audit
§ 220. Transfer from Indemnification Fund
§ 231. Assistance to local development corporations
§ 232. Issuance of loans for speculative buildings and small business incubator facilities
§ 237. Issuing of loans for industrial park planning and development projects
§ 241. Powers of municipalities
§ 247. Obligations of the municipality
§ 248. Trustees and trust funds
§ 250. Bonds exempt from taxation
§ 251. Taxation of eligible facilities
§ 252. Bonds eligible for investment
§ 263. Mortgage loan; limitations
§ 264. Accelerated repayment provisions
§ 279c. Vermont Export Finance Program
§ 280. Public financing policy
§ 280a. Eligible projects; authorized financing programs
§ 280b. The Vermont sustainable jobs strategy
§ 280e. State Infrastructure Bank Program
§ 280f. Applicability of general provisions
§ 280g. State Infrastructure Bank Program; duties; powers
§ 280h. Receipt and administration of Program funds
§ 280i. Disbursement and use of funds
§ 280j. Powers and duties of the Secretary
§ 280k. Powers and duties of the Program
§ 280l. Applications for financial assistance
§ 280n. Program Fund; accounts
§ 280o. Issuance of revenue bonds
§ 280p. Additional security agreements, insurance, and credit enhancements
§ 280q. Loans to qualified borrowers to finance qualified projects
§ 280r. Powers and privileges of government units
§ 280u. Guarantees; other credit enhancement
§ 280v. Termination of the Program; remaining assets and liabilities
§ 280w. Records of receipts, expenditures, and disbursements
§ 280x. Obligations; credit of the State not pledged
§ 280bb. Vermont Entrepreneurial Lending Program
§ 280cc. Creation; purpose; definitions
§ 280dd. Loan programs administered within the Fund