(a) Any local government has the power and is authorized to issue, by resolution, general obligation refunding bonds to refund outstanding obligations heretofore or hereafter lawfully issued or assumed by the local government, and to provide for the rights of the holders thereof and to secure such bonds as provided in this part and part 1 of this chapter.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 9-21-901

  • Bonds: means bonds or interim certificates issued pending preparation or delivery of definitive bonds of a local government issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
  • Law: means any act or statute, general, special or local, of this state, including, but not limited to, any local government charter. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
  • Local government: means any county, municipality or metropolitan government in this state. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
  • 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.
  • Obligations: means bonds, notes and any other evidence of indebtedness lawfully issued or assumed by a local government. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
  • Public works project: includes any one (1) or any combination of the following: acquisitions of land for the purpose of providing or preserving open land. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
  • Refunding bonds: means bonds issued to refund all or any part of bonds, notes or other obligations, except notes issued in anticipation of bonds, heretofore or hereafter issued or lawfully assumed by a local government pursuant to this chapter, or any other provision of this code or any other general or special law. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
  • Revenues: means all fees, rents, tolls, rates, rentals, interest earnings, or other charges received or receivable by the local government from any public works project or enterprise then existing or thereafter to be constructed, including any revenues derived or to be derived by a local government from a lease, agreement or contract with any other local government, local government instrumentality, the state, or a state or federal agency for the use of or in connection with a public works project or enterprise, or all other charges to be levied and collected in connection with and all other income and receipts of whatever kind or character derived by the local government from the operation of any public works project or enterprise or arising from any public works project or enterprise. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
(b) General obligation refunding bonds issued hereunder and secured by the full faith and credit and unlimited taxing power of the local government shall be for the purpose of:

(1) Refunding outstanding obligations which are secured by a pledge of the full faith and credit and unlimited taxing power of the local government;
(2) Refunding outstanding obligations secured by a pledge of revenues in addition to the full faith and credit pledge; or
(3) Refunding outstanding obligations secured solely by the revenues of a public works project.
(c) General obligation refunding bonds may be issued to refinance more than one (1) issue of outstanding obligations, notwithstanding that such obligations may have been issued at different times.
(d) The resolution authorizing general obligation refunding bonds may also provide for other bonds to be issued jointly with such refunding bonds.
(e) For purposes of this chapter, the modification of an outstanding obligation must be deemed a refunding of the modified obligation, and such refunding must be required to comply with this chapter, if the modification is of such significance that the obligation would be deemed to be reissued for federal tax law purposes, whether or not the outstanding obligation is tax-exempt for purposes of federal tax laws. However, an outstanding obligation is not significantly modified and does not rise to the level of a state law reissuance if the obligation allows for and contemplates a modification of the rate of interest of the outstanding obligation at any time during its existence.
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