Missouri Laws 360.080 – Bonds not an obligation of the state
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 360.080
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
Bonds issued under the provisions of sections 360.010 to 360.140 shall not be deemed to constitute a debt or liability of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or a pledge of the full faith and credit of the state or of any such political subdivision, but the bonds shall be payable solely from the funds provided for in sections 360.010 to 360.140. The issuance of bonds under the provisions of sections 360.010 to 360.140 shall not, directly, indirectly, or contingently, obligate the state or any political subdivision thereof to levy any form of taxation therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment. Nothing in this section shall prevent or be construed to prevent the authority from pledging the full faith and credit of a participating health institution or participating educational institution, as the case may be, to the payment of bonds authorized pursuant to sections 360.010 to 360.140. Nothing in sections 360.010 to 360.140 shall be construed to authorize the authority to create a debt of the state within the meaning of the constitution or statutes of the state of Missouri, and each bond issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions of sections 360.010 to 360.140 shall be payable and shall state on its face that it is payable solely from the funds pledged for its payment in accordance with the resolution authorizing its issuance or any trust indenture or mortgage or deed of trust executed as security therefor. The state shall not be liable in any event for the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds of the authority or for the performance of any pledge, mortgage, obligation, or agreement of any kind whatsoever which may be undertaken by the authority. No breach of any such pledge, mortgage, obligation, or agreement may impose any pecuniary liability upon the state or any charge upon the general credit or taxing power of the state.