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Section 15-106 Issuance of Revenue Bonds.

Label: City charter section

[New sec. May 16, 1958; Am. Nov. 5, 1974; am. July 1, 2007.]

  1. Upon the request of the Commission, the Council may from time to time issue revenue bonds, certificates or debentures, to be repaid, to the extent permitted or to be permitted by law, solely out of:  revenues from an urban renewal and redevelopment; or from the sales of property involved in an urban renewal and redevelopment; or from tax revenues attributable to improvements existing or subsequently constructed on property in an urban renewal and redevelopment project, or tax revenues exceeding a specified level within such project, to the extent that such is permitted by law; or any combination of such methods of repayment, and to that end the Commission, with the concurrence of the Council, may, to the extent permitted or to be permitted by law, pledge such tax revenues or other revenues as hereinbefore mentioned. Such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness shall be issued by the Council in accordance with the procedures established by law and as the Council may prescribe by ordinance, and shall bear the facsimile signatures of the Mayor and Auditor and be known as "Urban Renewal and Redevelopment Bonds, Series . . . . . . "  

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