Haw. Rev. Stat. § 49-11

Current through Chapter 253 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 49-11 - Use of revenue and user taxes of undertaking or loan program

Whenever any revenue bonds have been issued under this chapter for an undertaking or a loan program, the revenue, or the user taxes, or combination of both, from which the revenue bonds are payable and by which they are secured of the undertaking or loan program shall be deposited in a special fund and shall be appropriated, applied, or expended, and the county shall have the right to appropriate, apply, or expend the same, in the amount necessary therefor for the following purposes and in such order of priority as the county shall provide in the resolution or resolutions authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds:

(1) To pay when due all revenue bonds and interest thereon issued for the undertaking or loan program, for the payment of which the revenue, or user taxes, or combination of both, is or shall have been pledged, charged, or otherwise encumbered, including reserves therefor;
(2) To pay or provide for the payment of the cost of operation, maintenance, and repair of the undertaking, or to pay or provide for the payment of administering, operating, and maintaining the loan program, including reserves therefor;
(3) For such purposes, within the jurisdiction, powers, duties, and functions of the county, including the creation and maintenance of reserves, as shall have been covenanted in any resolution or resolutions of the county providing for the issuance of revenue bonds;
(4) To reimburse the general fund of the county for all bond requirements for general obligation bonds which are or shall have been issued for the undertaking or loan program, or to refund any of the general obligation bonds, except insofar as the obligation of reimbursement has been or shall be canceled by the governing body, the bond requirements being the interest on term and serial bonds, sinking fund for term bonds, and principal of serial bonds maturing the following year;
(5) To provide for betterments and improvements to the undertaking or expansion of the loan program, including reserves therefor; or
(6) To provide such special reserve funds and other special funds as are or may be created by the resolution or resolutions authorizing the revenue bonds.

Unless and until adequate provision has been made for the foregoing purposes, the county shall not have the right to transfer to its general fund or apply to any other purposes any part of the revenue, or user taxes, pledged to the payment of the revenue bonds, of the undertaking or loan program.

HRS § 49-11

L 1989, c 80, pt of §3