2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning › Act 346 of 1966 - State Housing Development Authority Act of 1966 (125.1401 - 125.1499c) › 346-1966-2 - Chapter 2 (125.1421...125.1449v) › Section 125.1425 - Bonds and Notes; Issuance; Purposes; Issuing Renewal Notes, Bonds to Pay Notes and Refunding Bonds; Notes or Bonds as General Obligations and Negotiable Instruments; Revised Municipal Finance Act Inapplicable; Issuance Subject to Agency Financing Reporting Act.

125.1425 Bonds and notes; issuance; purposes; issuing renewal notes, bonds to pay notes and refunding bonds; notes or bonds as general obligations and negotiable instruments; revised municipal finance act inapplicable; issuance subject to agency financing reporting act.
Sec. 25.
(1) The authority may issue its negotiable bonds and notes in a principal amount, which in the opinion of the authority shall be necessary to provide sufficient funds for achieving its corporate purposes, including the making of loans for housing projects and the making or purchasing of loans for the rehabilitation of residential real property, the provision of money for the land acquisition and development fund as provided in this act, the payment of interest on bonds and notes of the authority during construction, the establishment of reserves to secure bonds and notes, the provision of money for the housing development fund in order to make noninterest bearing advances to nonprofit housing corporations and consumer housing cooperatives as provided in this act, the provision of money to be used for the land acquisition and development powers and purposes of the authority, the development, rehabilitation, or acquisition of real and personal property for use as office facilities by the authority, and all other expenditures of the authority incident to and necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate purposes and powers.
(2) The authority may issue renewal notes, issue bonds to pay notes, and when it determines refunding expedient, refund bonds by the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other purpose. The refunding bonds shall be sold and the proceeds applied to the purchase, redemption, or payment of the bonds to be refunded. The authority may issue instruments separate from the obligations described in this section that establish a contractual right in the holder of the instrument to require mandatory tender for purchase of the obligations to which the instrument applies for such period of time and subject to such provisions as the authority may determine.
(3) Except as may otherwise be expressly provided by the authority, every issue of its notes or bonds shall be general obligations of the authority payable out of revenues or money of the authority, subject only to agreements with the holders of particular notes or bonds pledging any particular receipts or revenues.
(4) Whether or not the notes or bonds are of a form or character as to be negotiable instruments under the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440.1101 to 440.11102, the notes or bonds shall be and are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all the purposes of the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440.1101 to 440.11102, subject only to the provisions of the notes or bonds for registration.
(5) A bond issued by the authority is not subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821.
(6) The issuance of bonds and notes under this act is subject to the agency financing reporting act.
History:
1966, Act 346, Eff. Mar. 10, 1967 ;-- Am. 1968, Act 343, Imd. Eff. July 19, 1968 ;-- Am. 1970, Act 129, Imd. Eff. July 29, 1970 ;-- Am. 1976, Act 410, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1977 ;-- Am. 1977, Act 130, Imd. Eff. Oct. 25, 1977 ;-- Am. 1978, Act 192, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1978 ;-- Am. 1983, Act 49, Imd. Eff. May 16, 1983 ;-- Am. 1991, Act 137, Imd. Eff. Nov. 22, 1991 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 220, Imd. Eff. Oct. 29, 1993 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 385, Imd. Eff. May 30, 2002