Illinois Statutes Chapter 605. Roads and Bridges § 5/10-703. Issuance of revenue bonds

§ 10-703. Without limiting any other powers granted in this Division of this Article, each municipality has the power to provide for the payment of the cost of acquiring or constructing any bridge or for the payment of any portion of the cost by one or more issues of revenue bonds of the municipality, payable solely from the net revenue of the bridge so acquired or constructed. These bonds shall be authorized by ordinance of the corporate authorities of the municipality and shall be in substantially the form set forth in the ordinance. The bonds may be serial or term; redeemable, with or without premium, or non-redeemable; shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended  1 at the time of the making of the contract, payable at such times as may be provided; shall mature at such times not exceeding the life of the bridge, for the acquisition or construction of which they are issued, as estimated by the corporate authorities, but in no event exceeding 40 years; and shall be issued in such amounts and at such place as shall be prescribed in the ordinance authorizing their issuance.

The bonds shall be signed by such officers as the corporate authorities shall determine, and coupon bonds shall have attached thereto interest coupons bearing the facsimile signatures of such officers as the corporate authorities shall determine; all as shall be prescribed in the ordinance authorizing the bonds. The bonds may be issued and delivered, notwithstanding the fact that an officer signing the bonds, or whose facsimile signature appears upon any of the coupons has ceased to hold his office at the time that the bonds are actually delivered.

The bonds of the municipality may be sold in such manner, at such times, and at such prices as the corporate authorities may determine, but no sale shall be made at a price which would make the interest cost to maturity on the money received therefor computed with relation to the absolute maturity of the bonds in accordance with standard tables of bond values, exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract. The principal of and interest upon the bonds shall be payable solely from the net revenue derived from the operation of the bridge acquired or constructed with proceeds of the sale of the bonds. No bond issued pursuant to this Division of this Article shall constitute an indebtedness of a municipality within the meaning of any constitutional, statutory, or charter limitation. It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond in substance that the bond has been issued under the provisions of this Division of this Article and that the taxing power and general credit of the municipality issuing the bond are not pledged to the payment of the bond, or interest thereon, and that the bond and the interest thereon are payable solely from the net revenue of the bridge to acquire or construct which the bond is issued.

The cost of the bridge or improvement thereto shall include interest during construction, and for not exceeding 12 months thereafter, and also all engineering, legal, architectural, traffic surveying, and other expenses incident to the construction and the acquisition of the necessary property, and incident to the financing thereof, including the cost of acquiring existing franchises, rights, plans, and works of and relating to the bridge. If the proceeds of the bonds issued shall exceed the cost as finally determined, the excess shall be applied to the payment, purchase, or redemption of the bonds. Bonds and interest coupons issued under this Division of this Article shall possess all the qualities of negotiable instruments.

No ordinance pursuant to this section shall become effective until after the plans and specifications relating to the project have been submitted to and approved by the Department.

With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts  2 are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.