KRS 247.180: Revenue bonds.

(1) The State Fair Board is authorized and empowered to issue and sell negotiable

revenue bonds in denominations and in an amount or amounts as may be deemed by

the board to be for the best interest of the Commonwealth, for any of the following

purposes:

(a) To acquire real estate to be devoted to a revenue-producing use.

(b) To pay all or any part of the expense or cost of or incidental to a building

project.

(c) To defray the cost of plans, specifications, blue prints, architectural fees and

other expenses authorized to be incurred under the terms of KRS 247.130 and

247.140.

(2) Any revenue bonds so issued shall bear interest at a rate or rates or method of

determining rates, payable at least, as the State Fair Board determines and shall

become due and payable not more than forty (40) years from the date of issuance.

The payment of the bonds, together with the interest thereon, may be secured by a

pledge and a first lien on all the receipts and revenue derived or to be derived, from

any physical property under the control of the board. Neither the payment of any

bond, nor the interest on the bond, issued under the authority of this section, shall

constitute an indebtedness of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or of the State Fair

Board, nor shall any bond or interest on the bond be payable out of any fund except

any funds as may be derived from rentals or other revenues derived from the

operation of the properties or from revenues as may have been, or may be, available

for a purpose or purposes, by law.

(3) All bonds which may be issued by the board under the provisions of this section

shall be sold to the highest bidder after having been advertised by publication

pursuant to KRS Chapter 424, and by other advertising as the board may prescribe

if it finds additional advertising is necessary.

(4) All competitive bids for the sale of the revenue bonds shall be opened and read

publicly by the board or its representative at a designated place, day, and hour, all of

which shall be announced in the advertising.

(5) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, the board is vested with all

of the rights, powers, and duties set forth and enumerated under KRS Chapter 58.

(6) In the event the board issues and sells revenue bonds for a building project as

authorized in KRS 247.140 and this section, it may carry insurance, including fire

and windstorm, casualty, catastrophe, use and occupancy, and other insurance as the

board may deem advisable in connection with the building project, and may

obligate and bind itself in a trust indenture securing the payment of bonds. Any

insurance shall be paid for out of the funds available for the project.

(7) All money from the sale of revenue bonds shall be paid to the State Treasurer and

shall be held by him as a special trust fund to be designated as directed by the board,

and no part shall be withdrawn from the State Treasury except for the purposes

authorized by this section, together with the cost incidental to the issuing and selling

of the bonds and other directly related expenses. The board may likewise provide in

any trust indenture securing revenue bonds for additional terms and conditions, or

for other restrictions not in conflict with this section.