KRS 99.430: Bonds, notes, and obligations of the agency.

(1) Any agency shall have power to issue revenue bonds from time to time at its

discretion for any of its corporate purposes under KRS 99.330 to 99.510. An agency

shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring

bonds previo usly issued by it. An agency may issue revenue bonds on which the

principal and interest are payable:

(a) Exclusively from the income and revenues of the redevelopment project or

projects financed from the proceeds of the bonds; or

(b) Exclusively from the income and revenues together with grants and

contributions from the federal government or other sources. Any bonds may

be additionally secured by a mortgage, deed of trust, or other lien or

encumbrance on the property in the redevelopment project or proje cts

financed from the proceeds of the bonds.

(2) Neither the members of an agency or any person executing the bonds shall be liable

personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance of the bonds. The bonds and other

obligations of an agency (and the bonds and obligations shall so state on their face)

issued under this section shall not be a debt of the city, the county, the State, or any

political subdivision of the State within the meaning of any constitutional or

statutory debt limitation or restriction and neither the city, the county, the State, nor

any political subdivision of the State shall be liable, nor in any event shall the bonds

or obligations be payable out of any funds or properties other than those of the

agency.

(3) Bonds of an agency shall b e authorized by its resolution. The bonds may be issued

in one (1) or more series and shall bear a date or dates, mature at a time or times,

bear interest at a rate or rates or method of determining rates, be in a denomination

or denominations, be in form, either coupon or registered, carry conversion or

registration privileges, have rank or priority, be executed in a manner, be payable in

a medium of payment, at a place or places, and be subject to the terms of

redemption (with or without premium) as the r esolution, its trust indenture, or

mortgage may provide.

(4) The bonds may be sold at public sale held after notice has been given by publication

pursuant to KRS Chapter 424. The bonds, however, may be sold to the federal

government at private sale without advertisement.

(5) In case any of the members or officers of the agency whose signatures appear on

any bonds, coupons, notes, or other obligations shall cease to be members or

officers before the delivery of the bonds, coupons, notes, or other obligations , the

signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if

they had remained in office until delivery of the bonds. Any provision of any law to

the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds, coupons, notes, or other obligations issued

pursuant to KRS 99.330 to 99.510 shall be fully negotiable.

(6) In any suit, action, or proceedings involving the validity or enforceability of any

bonds of an agency or their security, any bonds reciting in substance that they have

been issued by the agency to aid in financing a redevelopment project shall be

conclusively deemed to have been issued for a redevelopment project and the

project shall be conclusively deemed to have been planned, approved, located, and

carried out in accordance with th e purposes and provisions of KRS 99.330 to

99.510.

(7) In connection with the issuance of bonds, an agency, in addition to its other powers,

shall have power:

(a) To pledge all or any part of its gross or net revenue to which its right then

exists or may thereafter come into existence;

(b) To encumber (by mortgage, deed of trust, or otherwise) all or any part of its

real or personal property in the redevelopment project;

(c) To covenant against pledging all or any part of its revenues, or against

encumbering all or any part of its real or personal property, to which its right

or title then exists or may thereafter come into existence or against permitting

or suffering any lien on revenues or property; to covenant with respect to its

sale, leasing, or other d isposition of any redevelopment project or any part of

the project; and to covenant as to what other or additional debts or obligations

may be incurred by it;

(d) To covenant as to the bonds to be issued and as to the issuance of the bonds in

escrow or oth erwise, and as to the use and disposition of the proceeds of the

bonds; to provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds, to

covenant against extending the time for the payment of its bonds or interest on

the bonds; and to redeem the b onds, and to covenant for their redemption and

to provide the terms and conditions of the bonds;

(e) To covenant as to the amounts to be charged in the sale or lease of properties

in a redevelopment project or projects, the amount to be raised from revenue

each year or other period of time, and as to the use and disposition to be made

of this amount; to create or to authorize the creation of special funds for

moneys held for redevelopment or other costs, debt service, reserves, or other

purposes, and to cov enant as to the use and disposition of the money held in

special funds;

(f) To prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with

bondholders may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders

of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which consent may be

given;

(g) To covenant as to the use of any or all of its real or personal property; and to

covenant as to the maintenance of its real and personal property, its

replacement, the insurance to be carried, and the use and disposition of

insurance moneys;

(h) To covenant as to the rights, liabil ities, powers, and duties arising upon the

breach of any covenant, condition, or obligation; and to covenant and

prescribe as to events of default and terms and conditions upon which any or

all of its bonds or obligations shall become or may be declared du e before

maturity, and as to the terms and conditions upon which a declaration and its

consequences may be waived;

(i) To vest in a trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds or any proportion of

them the right to enforce the payment of the bonds or any c ovenant securing

or relating to the bonds; to vest in a trustee or trustees the right, in the event of

a default by an agency, to take possession of any redevelopment project or part

of the project, and to collect the rents and revenues arising or due the agency

in connection with the project, and to dispose of the moneys in accordance

with the agreement of the agency with the trustee; to provide for the powers

and duties of a trustee or trustees and to limit the liabilities of the trustees; and

to provide the terms and conditions upon which the trustee or trustees or the

holders of bonds or any proportion of them may enforce any covenant or

rights securing or relating to the bonds; and

(j) To exercise all or any part or combination of the powers granted; to make

covenants other than and in addition to the covenants expressly authorized of

like or different character; to make the covenants and to do any and all the acts

and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to secure

its bonds, or , in the discretion of the agency, except as otherwise provided in

KRS 99.330 to 99.510, as will tend to make the bonds more marketable

notwithstanding that the covenants, acts, or things may not be enumerated

within this section.

(8) The bonds, notes, and other obligations of an agency are declared to be issued for an

essential public and governmental purpose, and together with interest and income

from the bonds, notes, and other obligations shall be exempt from all taxes.

(9) Notwithstanding any restricti ons on investments contained in any laws of this

Commonwealth, the Commonwealth and all public officers, municipal corporations,

political subdivisions, and public bodies; all banks, bankers, trust companies,

savings banks and institutions, building and lo an associations, savings and loan

associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking

business; all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons

carrying on an insurance business; and all executors, administrators, guardians,

trustees, and other fiduciaries may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys, or

other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds or other

obligations issued by an agency, as defined by KRS 99.340, or issued by any

community or other public body in the United States, when the bonds and other

obligations are secured by a contract for financial assistance to be paid by the

United States government or any of its agencies, and the bonds, and other

obligations shall be authorized sec urity for all public deposits; it being one (1) of

the purposes of KRS 99.330 to 99.510 to authorize any persons, firms, corporations,

associations, political subdivisions, bodies, and officers, public or private, to use

any funds owned or controlled by th em including (but not limited to) sinking,

insurance, investment, retirement, compensation, pension, and trust funds, any

funds held on deposit, for the purchase of any bonds or other obligations; provided,

however, that nothing contained in KRS 99.330 to 99.510 shall be construed as

relieving any person, firm, or corporation from any duty of exercising reasonable

care in selecting securities.