NM Stat § 3-45-13 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 45 - Municipal Housing|Section 3-45-13 - Provisions of bonds and trust indentures.

In connection with the issuance of bonds pursuant to the Municipal Housing Law or the incurring of obligations under leases made pursuant to the Municipal Housing Law and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, a city in addition to its other powers, shall have power: A. to pledge all or any part of the gross or net rents, fees or revenues of a housing project, financed with the proceeds of such bonds, to which its rights then exist or may thereafter come into existence; B. to covenant against pledging all or any part of the rents, fees and revenues, or against permitting or suffering any lien on such revenues or property; to covenant with respect to limitations on its right to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any housing project or any part thereof; and to covenant as to what other, or additional debts or obligations may be incurred by it; C. to covenant as to the bonds to be issued and as to the issuance of such bonds in escrow or otherwise, and as to the use and disposition of the proceeds thereof; 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 thereon; and to redeem the bonds, and to covenant for their redemption and to provide the terms and conditions thereof; D. to covenant, subject to the limitations contained in the Municipal Housing Law, as to the rents and fees to be charged in the operation of a housing project or projects, the amount to be raised each year or other period of time by rents, fees and other revenues, and as to the use and disposition to be made thereof; to create or to authorize the creation of special funds for moneys held for construction or operating costs, debt service, reserves or other purposes, and to covenant as to the use and disposition of the moneys held in such funds; E. 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 such consent may be given; F. to covenant as to the use of any or all of its real or personal property acquired pursuant to the Municipal Housing Law; and to covenant as to the maintenance of such real and personal property, the replacement thereof, the insurance to be carried thereon and the use and disposition of insurance moneys; G. to covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach by it of any covenant, condition or obligation; and to covenant and prescribe as to events of default and terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived; H. to vest in a trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds issued pursuant to the Municipal Housing Law, or any specified proportion of them, the right to enforce the payment of such bonds or any covenants securing or relating to such bonds; to vest in a trustee or trustees the right, in the event of a default by said city, to take possession of any housing project or part thereof, and, so long as the city shall continue in default, to retain such possession and use, operate and manage said project, and to collect the rents and revenues arising therefrom and to dispose of such moneys in accordance with the agreement of the city with said trustee; to provide for the powers and duties of a trustee or trustees and to limit the liabilities thereof; and to provide the terms and conditions upon which the trustee or the holders of bonds, or any proportion of them, may enforce any covenant or rights securing or relating to such bonds; and I. to exercise all or any part or combination of the powers herein granted; to make covenants other than and in addition to the covenants herein expressly authorized, or like or different character; to make such covenants as will tend to make the bonds more marketable notwithstanding that such covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-46-13, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.