(1) Upon the sale and issuance of municipal obligations to the authority by a governmental unit, that governmental unit shall be held and considered to have agreed to all of the following if the governmental unit fails to pay the interest on or the principal of the municipal obligations held or owned by the authority as and when due and payable:
    (a) That the governmental unit waives all and any defenses to the nonpayment and the authority upon the nonpayment shall constitute a holder or owner of the municipal obligations as being in default.

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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 141.1074

  • Authority: means the Michigan finance authority created by Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Governmental unit: means this state, a county, city, township, village, school district, intermediate school district, community college, public university, authority, district, any other body corporate and politic or other political subdivision, any agency or instrumentality of the foregoing, or any group self-insurance pool formed pursuant to 1951 PA 35, MCL 124. See Michigan Laws 141.1053
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
    (b) That, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law as to time or duration of default or percentage of holders or owners of municipal obligations entitled to exercise rights of holders or owners of municipal obligations in default, or entitled to invoke any remedies or powers of holders or owners of or of a trustee in connection with or of a board, body, agency, or commission of the state having jurisdiction in the matter or circumstances of municipal obligations in default, the authority may immediately avail itself of all other remedies, rights, and provisions of law applicable in such a circumstance.
    (c) That the failure to exercise or exert any rights or remedies within any time or period provided by law shall not be raised as a defense by that governmental unit.
    (d) That all of the obligations of the issue of municipal obligations of that governmental unit as to which there has been such a nonpayment shall for all of the purposes of this section be held and considered to have become due and payable and to be unpaid.
    (2) The authority may carry out the provisions of this section and exercise all of the rights and remedies and provisions of law provided or referred to in this section.