(a)  Each issuer is authorized to establish and maintain a system of registration with respect to each obligation which it issues. The system may be a system pursuant to which (1) only certificated registered public obligations are issued; (2) only uncertificated registered public obligations are issued; or (3) both certificated and uncertificated registered public obligations are issued. The issuer may amend, discontinue, and reinstitute any system, from time to time, subject to covenants.

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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-4

  • Authorized officer: means any individual required or permitted, alone or with others, by any provision of law, or by the issuing public entity, to execute on behalf of the public entity a certificated registered public obligation or a writing relating to an uncertificated registered public obligation. See Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2
  • Certificated registered public obligation: means a registered public obligation which is represented by an instrument. See Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2
  • Code: means the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2
  • Issuer: means a public entity which issues an obligation. See Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2
  • 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.
  • Obligation: means an agreement of a public entity to pay principal and any interest thereon, whether in the form of a contract to repay borrowed money, a lease, an installment purchase agreement, or otherwise, and includes a share, participation, or other interest in that agreement. See Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2
  • Official actions: means the actions by statute, order, ordinance, resolution, contract, or other authorized means by which the issuer provides for issuance of a registered public obligation. See Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2
  • Official or official body: means :

    (i)  The officer or board that is empowered under the laws of one or more states, including this state, to provide for original issuance of an obligation of the issuer, by defining the obligation and its terms, conditions, and other incidents;

    (ii)  The successor or successors of the official or official body; and

    (iii)  Such other person or group of persons as shall be assigned duties of the official or official body with respect to a registered public obligation under applicable law from time to time. See Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2

  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Registered public obligations: means an obligation issued by a public entity pursuant to a system of registration. See Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2
  • Uncertificated registered public obligation: means a registered public obligation which is not represented by an instrument. See Rhode Island General Laws 35-13-2

(b)  The system shall be established, amended, discontinued, or reinstituted for the issuer and shall be maintained for the issuer as provided by the official or official body.

(c)  The system shall be described in the registered public obligation or in the official actions which provide for original issuance of the registered public obligation, and in subsequent official actions providing for amendments and other matters from time to time. The description may be by reference to a program of the issuer which is established by the official or official body.

(d)  The system shall define the method or methods by which transfer of the registered public obligation shall be effective with respect to the issuer, and by which payment of principal and any interest shall be made. The system may permit the issuance of registered public obligations in any denomination to represent several registered public obligations of smaller denominations. The system may also provide for the form of any certificated registered public obligation or of any writing relating to an uncertificated registered public obligation, for identifying numbers or other designations, for a sufficient supply of certificates for subsequent transfers, for record and payment dates, for varying denominations, for communications to holders or owners of obligations, and for accounting, cancelled certificate destruction registration, and releases of security interests and for other incidental matters. Unless the issuer otherwise provides, the record date for interest payable on the first or fifteenth day of a month shall be the fifteenth day or the last business day of the preceding month, respectively, and for interest payable on other than the first or fifteenth day of a month shall be the fifteenth calendar day before the interest payment date.

(e)  Under a system pursuant to which both certificated and uncertificated registered public obligations are issued, both types of registered public obligations may be regularly issued, or one type may be regularly issued and the other type issued only under described circumstances or to particular described categories of owners, and provision may be made for registration and release of security interests in registered public obligations.

(f)  The system may include covenants of the issuer as to amendments, discontinuances, and reinstitutions of the system and the effect of these on the exemption of interest from the income tax provided for by the code.

(g)  Whenever an issuer shall issue an uncertificated registered public obligation, the system of registration may provide that a true copy of the official actions of the issuer relating to the uncertificated registered public obligation be maintained by the issuer or by the person, if any, maintaining the system on behalf of the issuer, so long as the uncertificated registered public obligation remains outstanding and unpaid. A copy of the official actions, verified to be a copy by an authorized officer, shall be admissible before any court of record, administrative body, or arbitration panel without further authentication.

(h)  Nothing in this chapter shall preclude a conversion from one of the forms of registered public obligations provided for by this chapter to a form of obligation not provided for by this chapter if interest on the obligation so converted will continue to be exempt from the income tax provided for by the code.

(i)  The rights provided by other laws with respect to obligations in forms not provided for by this chapter shall, to the extent not inconsistent with this chapter, apply with respect to registered public obligations issued in forms authorized by this chapter.

History of Section.
P.L. 1983, ch. 267, § 1.