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WY Stat § 16-5-114 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 1 - Refunding|Section 16-5-114 - Governing Body's Determination of Legality.

16-5-114. Governing body's determination of legality.| The determination of a governing body that all the limitations hereunder imposed upon the issuance of refunding public securities have been met is conclusive in the absence of fraud or arbitrary and gross abuse of discretion.
WY Stat § 16-5-115 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 1 - Refunding|Section 16-5-115 - Refunding by Divided Governing Bodies.

16-5-115. Refunding by divided governing bodies.| When a public body having outstanding indebtedness has been divided and parts thereof included within two (2) or more other public bodies, by any lawful means, the refunding of the securities requires affirmative action by a majority of the members of the governing bodies of each of the public bodies within which any part of the area of the public body which is being lawfully taxed to pay the outstanding indebtedness is then included except as hereinafter provided. The indebtedness of any public body outstanding at the time a part or parts of the public body are detached therefrom by any lawful means, and which public body has retained its lawful corporate existence subsequent to the detachment of the land from the public body may be refunded by action of the governing body of the public body from which land has been detached with or without concurrence or action by the governing board of the public body, if any, within which the detached land is included.
WY Stat § 16-5-116 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 1 - Refunding|Section 16-5-116 - Financing; Annual Property Tax; Other Funds.

16-5-116. Financing; annual property tax; other funds.| The governing body shall cause to be levied annually, without limitation of rate or amount, upon all taxable property of the issuer, in addition to other authorized taxes, a sufficient sum to pay the principal of and interest on the refunding public securities until the refunding public securities issued pursuant to this act are fully paid. The governing body may apply any other funds that are in the treasury of the issuer and available for payment of the interest or principal as it respectively matures, and the levy or levies provided for may be diminished. Should the tax for the payment of the principal and interest on any refunding public security at any time not be levied or collected in time to meet the payment, or if the refunding public securities are issued at a time which makes it impossible to levy a tax for the initial installments of principal or interest, the principal or interest so maturing shall be paid out of the general fund of the issuer, or from any other funds available for that purpose. For the purpose of reimbursing the fund or funds the money so used may be repaid from the first monies collected from taxes thereafter levied. The full faith and credit of the issuer shall be pledged for the punctual payment of the principal and interest on the refunding public securities. If the public securities to be refunded and the interest accruing would have been paid from taxes levied upon only part of the taxable property within the boundaries of the issuer, the taxes levied for payment or redemption of the refunding public securities, and the interest accruing shall be levied in the same manner and upon only the same taxable property as would have been levied for the payment of the public securities to be refunded if no refunding of the public securities had been accomplished. Any tax levied to retire any refunding public security issued by a hospital district is subject to the limitations set forth in W.S. 35-2-414, provided any refunding securities issued under this act to refund local improvement bonds shall be payable solely from and secured by the pledge of special assessments under W.S. 15-6-401 through 15-6-448.
WY Stat § 16-5-117 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 1 - Refunding|Section 16-5-117 - Exemption From Taxation; Exception.

16-5-117. Exemption from taxation; exception.| The refunding public securities issued by any issuer pursuant to this act, their transfer, and the income therefrom, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state of Wyoming, except for estate taxes.
WY Stat § 16-5-118 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 1 - Refunding|Section 16-5-118 - Other Outstanding Securities.

16-5-118. Other outstanding securities.| This act shall have no effect on the legality of any outstanding public security issued for refunding or other purposes pursuant to any other law.
WY Stat § 16-5-119 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 1 - Refunding|Section 16-5-119 - Scope, Authority and Effect of Provisions.

16-5-119. Scope, authority and effect of provisions.| This act, without reference to other statutes of the state, except as herein otherwise specifically provided, is full authority for the authorization and issuance of refunding public securities. No other act or law with regard to the authorization or issuance of securities that in any way impedes or restricts the carrying out of the acts herein authorized shall be construed as applying to any proceedings taken or acts pursuant hereto except as otherwise provided. The powers conferred and the limitations imposed by this act are in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and shall not affect the powers conferred by any other law except as otherwise provided herein.
WY Stat § 16-5-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 2 - Validation|Section 16-5-201 - Short Title.

16-5-201. Short title.| This act shall be known as the "1965 Public Securities Validation Act".
WY Stat § 16-5-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 2 - Validation|Section 16-5-202 - Definitions.

16-5-202. Definitions.| (a) As used in this act:  (i) "Public body" of the state means any state educational institution or other state institution, its board of trustees or other governing body constituting a body corporate, any county, city or town, whether incorporated or governed under a general act, special charter, or otherwise, any school district, high school district, community college district, sanitary and improvement district, hospital district, power district, irrigation district, drainage district, water conservancy district, water district, sewer district, water and sewer district, cemetery district, fire protection district, any other corporate district, any corporate commission or any other political subdivision of the state constituting a body corporate;  (ii) "Public security" means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness, coupon or other similar obligation for the payment of money, issued by this state or by any public body thereof;  (iii) "State" means the state of Wyoming and any board, commission, department, corporation, instrumentality or agency thereof;  (iv) "This act" means W.S. 16-5-201 through 16-5-204.
WY Stat § 16-5-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 2 - Validation|Section 16-5-203 - Outstanding Securities.

16-5-203. Outstanding securities.| All public securities of the state and of all public bodies outstanding on February 17, 1965, the right to the payment of which has not been barred by any pertinent statute of limitations, and all acts and proceedings taken, or purportedly taken by or on behalf of the state or any public body under law or under color of law preliminary to and in the authorization, execution, sale, issuance and payment (or any combination thereof) of all such public securities, are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, including but not necessarily limited to the terms, provisions, conditions and covenants of any resolution or ordinance appertaining thereto, the redemption of public securities before maturity and provisions therefor, the levy and collection of rates, tolls and charges, special assessments, and general and other taxes, and the acquisition and application of other revenues, the pledge and use of the proceeds thereof, and the establishment of liens thereon and funds therefor, appertaining to such public securities, except as hereinafter provided, notwithstanding any lack of power, authority, or otherwise, and notwithstanding any defects and irregularities in such public securities, acts and proceedings, and in such authorization, execution, sale, issuance and payment. Outstanding public securities are and shall be binding, legal, valid and enforceable obligations of the state or the public body issuing them in accordance with their terms and their authorizing proceedings.
WY Stat § 16-5-301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 3 - Debt Limitation and Bond Redemption|Section 16-5-301 - Voidness of Excessive Indebtedness; Liability of Officer and Sureties.

16-5-301. Voidness of excessive indebtedness; liability of officer and sureties.| Any indebtedness created by any county, city, town or other subdivision of the state in any current year in excess of that authorized by the constitution of the state and for which there are no revenues available for payment during the current year, shall as against the county, city, town or other subdivision of the state, be void and of no effect. Any officer who participates in creating the indebtedness, and the sureties on his official bond, is personally liable to the holder, or holders, of the indebtedness as fully as if the indebtedness had been contracted for his individual benefit. As used in this section, "current year" means from the first Monday in January of a year to the first Monday in January of the next year.
WY Stat § 16-5-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 3 - Debt Limitation and Bond Redemption|Section 16-5-302 - Issuance of Bonds in Series; Discharge.

16-5-302. Issuance of bonds in series; discharge.| (a) Whenever the issuance of bonds by the state, or any county, city, town, school district or high school district, is lawful, the board or other public body having authority to issue the bonds may divide the issues into series so that:  (i) Substantially equal amounts of the indebtedness mature annually;  (ii) Substantially equal annual tax levies are required for the payment of principal and interest of the bonds; or  (iii) Substantially equal annual tax levies are required for the payment of principal and interest of all outstanding bonds of the state or subdivision thereof issuing the bonds.  (b) The bonds of each series shall be due and payable at a definite date within the period permitted by law for the discharge of the indebtedness.
WY Stat § 16-5-303 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 3 - Debt Limitation and Bond Redemption|Section 16-5-303 - Redemption of Bonds Owned by State.

16-5-303. Redemption of bonds owned by state.| Any bond issued by any county, municipality, school district or other political subdivision of the state and which bond the state owns on any interest payment date, upon thirty (30) days written notice to the state treasurer of the state is subject to redemption on the date by the payment of the principal and interest then due on the bond to the treasurer. Redemption shall be made only from sinking funds of the political subdivisions and not from funds obtained by its refunding of the bonds.
WY Stat § 16-5-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-401 - Short Title.

16-5-401. Short title.| This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Bond Anticipation Note Act of 1981".
WY Stat § 16-5-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-402 - Definitions.

16-5-402. Definitions.| (a) As used in this act:  (i) "Anticipation note" means notes of the issuer, evidencing short-term borrowings, issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds which a governing body is authorized to issue;  (ii) "Authorizing instrument" means an ordinance, resolution, instrument or other written evidence of a proceeding by which a governing body takes formal action and adopts legislative provisions on matters of some permanency;  (iii) "Bonds" means general obligation bonds or revenue bonds of an issuer;  (iv) "General obligation bonds" means bonds authorized to be issued by a governing body or any successor thereto which are payable or which may be paid from ad valorem taxes or which constitute a debt or an indebtedness of the issuer within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation, which mature one (1) or more years after the date of their issuance and delivery;  (v) "Governing body" means the city council, town council, commission, board of commissioners, board of trustees, board of directors or other legislative body of an issuer in which the legislative powers of the issuer are vested;  (vi) "Issuer" means any Wyoming county, school district, municipal corporation, community college, hospital district, sanitary and improvement district, water district, sewer district, water and sewer district, county improvement and service district or other political subdivision of the state specifically authorized by law to issue any general obligation bond or revenue bond;  (vii) "Revenue bond" means bonds authorized to be issued by a governing body or any successor thereto which are payable from a pledge of designated revenues other than ad valorem taxes or special assessments which mature one (1) or more years after the date of their issuance.
WY Stat § 16-5-403 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-403 - Authority to Issue Notes; Election Thereon.

16-5-403. Authority to issue notes; election thereon.| (a) If the qualified electors of an issuer authorize the issuance of bonds or the issuance of anticipation notes at an election held pursuant to W.S. 22-21-101 through 22-21-112 and the governing body of the issuer considers it advisable and in the interests of the issuer, to anticipate the issuance of the bonds, the governing body may from time to time and pursuant to an appropriate authorizing instrument issue its bond anticipation notes.  (b) At the election to authorize the issuance of bond anticipation notes, the question shall state the maximum principal amount for which the notes may be issued, which may not exceed the principal amount of the bonds authorized, and the maximum rate of interest that may be paid on the notes.
WY Stat § 16-5-404 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-404 - Authorizing Instrument.

16-5-404. Authorizing instrument.| (a) Anticipation notes issued pursuant to this act shall be authorized by instrument of the issuer which shall:  (i) Describe the bonds in anticipation of which the notes are to be issued;  (ii) Declare the results of the election authorizing the issuance of the bonds wherein the qualified electors of the issuer have approved their issuance in the manner required by law;  (iii) Specify the principal amount of the anticipation notes, the rate of interest and maturity date or dates of the anticipation notes, which maturity date or dates shall not exceed three (3) years from the date of issue of the anticipation notes.
WY Stat § 16-5-405 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-405 - Manner of Issuance; Form, Terms and Conditions.

16-5-405. Manner of issuance; form, terms and conditions.| Anticipation notes shall be issued and sold in such manner and at such price as the governing body determines by the instrument authorizing their issuance. Anticipation notes shall be in bearer form, except that the governing body may provide for the registration of the anticipation notes in the name of the owner either as to principal alone, or as to both principal and interest, and on such other terms and conditions as the governing body determines in the authorizing instrument. Interest on anticipation notes, not to exceed the rate authorized by the electors, may be payable semiannually, annually or at maturity. Anticipation notes may be made redeemable prior to maturity at the option of the governing body in the manner and upon the terms fixed by the instrument authorizing their issuance. Anticipation notes shall be executed and shall be in such form and have such details and terms as provided in the authorizing instrument.
WY Stat § 16-5-406 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-406 - Payment, Surrender and Cancellation.

16-5-406. Payment, surrender and cancellation.| Contemporaneously with the issuance of the bonds in anticipation of which anticipation notes have been issued, all anticipation notes issued, even though they may not then have matured, shall be paid, both as to principal and interest to date of payment, and all such notes shall be surrendered and cancelled by the issuer.
WY Stat § 16-5-407 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-407 - Security; Sources of Payment.

16-5-407. Security; sources of payment.| (a) Whenever the bonds in anticipation of which notes are issued are to be payable from ad valorem taxes and constitute full general obligations of the municipality, the bond anticipation notes and the interest on them shall be secured by a pledge of the full faith and credit of the municipality in the manner provided in the statutes of the state authorizing their issuance and shall also be made payable from funds derived from the sale of the bonds in anticipation of which the notes are issued.  (b) Whenever the bonds in anticipation of which the anticipation notes are to be issued are to be payable solely from revenues pledged for payment of revenue bonds, as provided in the statutes authorizing their issuance, such anticipation notes and the interest on them shall be secured by a pledge of the income and revenues pledged for payment of the revenue bonds and shall also be made payable from funds derived from the sale of the revenue bonds in anticipation of which the notes are issued.
WY Stat § 16-5-408 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-408 - Signing, Countersigning, Execution or Attestation of Notes; Facsimile Seals and Signatures.

16-5-408. Signing, countersigning, execution or attestation of notes; facsimile seals and signatures.| Any anticipation notes or interest coupon may be signed, countersigned, executed or attested by the public official or officials who are authorized by law at the time of the issuance of the anticipation notes to sign, countersign, execute or attest bonds or interest coupons of the issuer of the same general character as those bonds in anticipation of which the notes are being issued. In the alternative, the governing body may designate appropriate public officials to sign, countersign, execute or attest any anticipation note or appurtenant coupon, if any. Any officer so authorized or designated may utilize a facsimile signature in lieu of his manual signature in the manner provided by law, provided that compliance with any law other than this act is not a condition of execution with a facsimile signature of any interest coupon. The facsimile seal shall have the same legal effect as the impression of the seal. Anticipation notes and any coupons bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations of the issuer, notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all persons whose signatures appear thereon have ceased to fill their respective offices. Any officer of the issuer authorized or designated to sign, countersign, execute or attest any anticipation note or interest coupon, at the time of its execution or of the execution of a signature certificate, may adopt as and for his or her facsimile signature the facsimile signature of his or her predecessor in office in the event that such facsimile signature appears upon the anticipation note or coupons appertaining thereto, or upon both the anticipation notes and such coupons, after their delivery for value.
WY Stat § 16-5-409 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-409 - Recital in Notes Imparting Legality.

16-5-409. Recital in notes imparting legality.| Any instrument of an issuer authorizing, or any other instrument appertaining to, any anticipation note may provide that each anticipation note therein authorized shall recite that it is issued under the authority of this act. Such recital shall conclusively impart full compliance with all of the provisions hereof, and all anticipation notes issued containing such recital shall be incontestable for any cause whatsoever after their delivery for value.
WY Stat § 16-5-410 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-410 - Endorsement.

16-5-410. Endorsement.| The clerk of the issuer shall endorse a certificate upon every anticipation note that the same is issued pursuant to law and is within the debt limit of the issuer if the notes are issued in anticipation of the issuance of general obligation bonds, or, as to notes issued in anticipation of revenue bonds, that they do not constitute a debt of the issuer within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision or limitation.
WY Stat § 16-5-411 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 16 - City, County, State and Local Powers|Chapter 5 - Public Securities|Article 4 - Bond Anticipation Notes|Section 16-5-411 - Governing Body's Determination of Legality.

16-5-411. Governing body's determination of legality.| The determination of a governing body that all the limitations imposed upon the issuance of anticipation notes have been met shall be conclusive in the absence of fraud or arbitrary and gross abuse of discretion.