50 ILCS 20/14.1 — Illinois Code / Chapter 50 / Act 20 / Section 14.1
Section 14.1
Status: in_force

(50 ILCS 20/14.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 1044.1) Sec. 14.1. In addition to the permanent financing authorized by Sections 14 and 15 of this Act, the board of commissioners of any public building commission may borrow money and issue interim notes in evidence thereof, in the manner following: (a) Whenever it is deemed advisable and in the interests of the Commission to borrow funds temporarily for any of the purposes herein provided, in advance of permanent financing, the Board of Commissioners may from time to time and pursuant to appropriate resolution, borrow money and issue interim notes to evidence borrowings for the purpose of obtaining funds for any of its projects or to perform any of the duties or functions authorized under this Act, and, in addition, to obtain funds with which to acquire the area or site selected and approved, and for the erection, alteration, improvement, maintenance, operation or demolition of a building or buildings or other facilities located or to be located thereon for the purposes provided for by this Act, and with which to pay all necessary and incidental costs and expenses in connection therewith, including, but without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, general administrative expenses of the commission, preliminary project planning, area or site planning, surveying, appraisal, architectural, engineering, demolition, maintenance, operation and insurance costs and expenses, and interest on such borrowings until the date of the permanent financing. Any resolution authorizing the issuance of such notes shall describe the nature of the project, the area or site to be acquired, if the same shall have then been selected, located, designated and approved, or the work to be done and shall specify the principal amount, rate of interest (not exceeding the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract) and maturity date which shall be the same for all interim notes but not to exceed 5 years from date of issue of the first of such notes so issued, and such other terms as may be specified in such resolution. However, the time of payment of any such notes may be extended for a period of not exceeding 2 years from the maturity date thereof. The Board of Commissioners may provide for the registration of the notes in the name of the owner either as to principal alone, or as to both principal and interest, on such terms and conditions as the Board may determine by the resolution authorizing their issue. The notes shall be issued from time to time by the Board of Commissioners as funds are borrowed, in the manner the Board of Commissioners may determine. Interest on the notes may be made payable semiannually, annually or at maturity. The notes may be made redeemable, prior to maturity, at the option of the Commission, in the manner and upon the terms fixed by the resolution authorizing their issuance. The notes may be executed in the name of the Commission by the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners or by any other officer or officers of the Commission as the Board by resolution may direct, shall be attested by the Secretary or such other officer or officers of the Commission as the Board may by resolution direct, and be sealed with the Commission's corporate seal. All such notes and the interest thereon may be secured by a pledge of any income and revenue derived by the Commission from the property to be acquired with the proceeds of the notes, after deducting from such income and revenue any reasonable and necessary maintenance and operation expenses, and shall be payable solely from such income and revenue and from the proceeds to be derived from the sale of any revenue bonds for permanent financing authorized to be issued under Sections 14 and 15 of this Act, and from the property acquired with the proceeds of the notes. Contemporaneously with the issue, as provided by this Act, of revenue bonds all interim notes, even though they may not then have matured, shall be paid, both principal and interest to date of payment, from the funds derived from the sale of revenue bonds for the permanent financing and such interim notes shall be surrendered and canceled. (b) The Commission, in order further to secure the payment of the interim notes, is, in addition to the foregoing, authorized and empowered to do the following: 1. Pledge or mortgage all or any part of the property to be acquired with the proceeds of the interim notes, or provide otherwise for the sale, public or private and with or without notice, of all or any part of the property, in the event of default in payment of principal of or interest on the interim notes or on any covenant or agreement of the Commission in connection with the interim notes, and in the event of any such default to permit the acceleration of the maturity of the interim notes. Except with respect to the funds derived from revenue bonds, as provided in this Section no pledge, mortgage or provision for the sale of any property shall relate to any property, other than the property to be acquired with the proceeds of any and all such interim notes, and any net income and revenue derived from the property. 2. Covenant against pledging or mortgaging or otherwise disposing of all or any part of or interest in the property to be acquired with proceeds of the interim notes, or any net income derived from the property; and against permitting or allowing any lien on the property or its net income; and against any borrowings or incurring liabilities in addition to the borrowings and liabilities, evidenced by the interim notes, prior to the issuance of revenue bonds; and against the issue of interim notes in excess of a specified principal amount; and against preference of any interim note over any other interim note as to payment of interest or principal; and against making any substitutions for or additions or improvements to such property except with the proceeds derived from borrowings evidenced by any and all such interim notes; or with the net income derived from such property. 3. Make any other or additional covenants, terms and conditions not inconsistent with the provisions of subparagraph (a) of this Section, and do any and all acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to secure payment of its interim notes, or, in the discretion of the Commission, as will tend to make the interim notes more acceptable to lenders, notwithstanding that the covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein. However, nothing contained in this subparagraph shall authorize the Commission to secure the payment of the interim notes out of property, other than the property acquired with the proceeds of the interim notes, and any net income and revenue derived from the property and the proceeds of revenue bonds as provided in this Section. (c) The interim notes shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction. (d) No member, officer, agent or employee of the Commission, nor any other person who executes interim notes, shall be liable personally thereon by reason of the issuance thereof. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86-4.)