South Carolina Code 11-15-540. Pledges and covenants to ensure payment; ad valorem tax
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 11-15-540
- governing body: shall mean , in the case of incorporated cities or towns, the city council or town council and in other instances the commission, group, board or body to whom is delegated the administrative duties of the issuer. See South Carolina Code 11-15-430
- issuer: as used in this article , shall mean any incorporated city or town, school district, county, or other political division or subdivision of the State which shall have outstanding and unpaid, whether matured or unmatured, bonds for whose payment the full faith, credit, taxing power and resources of such political division or subdivision have been pledged, whether or not such general obligation bonds be additionally secured by pledge of other revenues. See South Carolina Code 11-15-430
For the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds as they respectively mature and for the creation of such sinking fund as may be necessary to provide for the prompt payment thereof, the full faith, credit, taxing power and resources of the issuer shall be irrevocably pledged, and there shall be levied and collected annually upon all taxable property of the issuer an ad valorem tax, without limitation as to rate or amount, sufficient for such purposes. The governing body of the issuer may, in its discretion, additionally secure the refunding bonds by a pledge of such revenues as were pledged to secure additionally the outstanding bonds. If such refunding bonds be additionally secured, covenants similar to those made in issuing the outstanding bonds may be made.