§ 4551. Definitions
The following definitions shall apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) “Bank” means the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank established by section 4571 of this title.
(2) “Bonds” means bonds of the Bank issued under this chapter.
(3) “County” means any county of the State.
(4) “General Fund” means the fund established under section 4676 of this title.
(5) “Governmental unit” means any county, municipality, or public body.
(6) “Issue”, when used in reference to bonds or notes, means the physical delivery thereof or the effectuation thereof in book entry form, in each case against payment therefor.
(7) “Municipal bond” means a bond or note or evidence of debt constituting a general obligation of a governmental unit, but does not include any bond or note or evidence of debt issued by any other state or any public body or municipal corporation thereof.
(8) “Municipality” means any city, town, village, town school district, incorporated school district, union school district, or other school district, fire district, consolidated sewer district, consolidated water district, or solid waste district organized under the laws of the State, and also includes every municipal corporation identified in subdivision 1751(1) of this title.
(9) “Notes” means any notes of the Bank issued under this chapter.
(10) “Public body” means any public body corporate and politic or any political subdivision of the State established under any law of the State that may issue its bonds or notes, whether heretofore or hereafter established.
(11) “Reserve Fund” means the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank Reserve fund established under section 4671 of this title.
(12) “Revenues” means all fees, charges, monies, profits, payments of principal of or interest on municipal bonds and revenue bonds and other investments, gifts, grants, contributions, appropriations, and all other income derived or to be derived by the Bank under this chapter.
(13) “Revenue bond” means a bond or note or evidence of debt constituting an obligation of a governmental unit payable solely out of the earnings or profits derived, or to be derived, from the operation of a public utility, authorized and issued in accordance with subchapter 2 of chapter 53 of this title.
(14) “Revenue Bond Reserve Fund” means the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank Revenue Bond Reserve Fund established under section 4681 of this title.
(15) “Revenue Fund” means the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank Revenue Fund established under section 4683 of this title. (Added 1969, No. 216 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 27, 1970; amended 1971, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, Feb. 14, 1972; 1983, No. 12, § 1, eff. March 29, 1983; 1985, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 21, 1986; 1987, No. 55, §§ 1-4, eff. May 15, 1987; 1987, No. 75, § 3; 1989, No. 111, § 4, eff. June 22, 1989.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 24 - Municipal and County Government
Chapter 119 - Municipal Bond Bank
§ 4554. Administration expenses
§ 4555. Duties of State Treasurer
§ 4556. Cooperation by government agencies; cost
§ 4573. Removal from office; oath
§ 4576. Compensation; expenses
§ 4596. Care and custody of bonds
§ 4621. Form of obligation; faith and credit
§ 4622. Negotiability of bonds or notes
§ 4623. Bonds or notes as legal investment
§ 4641. Loans to governmental units
§ 4642. Amount and purpose; general obligation
§ 4645. Administrative consent or conditions not required
§ 4646. Approval of Governor and Treasurer
§ 4647. Payment or refunding of notes
§ 4648. Terms of agreement with bond or noteholder
§ 4649. Purchase and disposition of own obligations
§ 4651. Exchange of coupon bonds
§ 4652. Waiver of defenses; rights of holder
§ 4653. Bond anticipation notes
§ 4654. Marketability; certification
§ 4655. Presumption of validity
§ 4672. Withdrawal or transfer
§ 4674. Relation to bond sales
§ 4680. Application of funds; excess
§ 4681. Revenue Bond Reserve Fund
§ 4682. Investment of Revenue Bond Reserve Fund
§ 4684. Revenue Fund operating expenses
§ 4685. Special accounts in Revenue Fund
§ 4701. Rights of holders paramount
§ 4703. Powers of trustee on default
§ 4704. Superior Court jurisdiction
§ 4707. Exemption from execution and sale
§ 4708. Pledge of revenues; lien thereof