Illinois Statutes Chapter 65. Municipalities § 5/11-102-6. Revenue bonds

§ 11-102-6. Every municipality specified in Section 11-102-1 may from time to time issue its bonds in anticipation of its revenue from such an airport or airports or from any buildings, structures, or facilities thereof or relating thereto to accomplish any of the purposes of this Division 102 and to refund such bonds. These bonds may be authorized by ordinance and may be issued in one or more series, may bear such dates, mature at such time or times, not exceeding 40 years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rates, not exceeding the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended  1 at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such places, be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, and may be made registrable as to principal or as to both principal and interest, as the ordinance may provide. These bonds may be issued without submission thereof to the electors of the municipality for approval. The bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable paper under the law merchant and the negotiable instruments law. The bonds shall be sold at a price, so that the interest cost of the proceeds thereof shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually, computed to maturity according to standard tables of bond values and shall be sold in such manner and at such time as the corporate authorities of such municipality shall determine. Pending the preparation or execution of definitive bonds, interim receipts or certificates or temporary bonds may be delivered to the purchasers or pledgees of these bonds. These bonds bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all the persons whose signatures appear thereon cease to be officers. No holder of any bond issued under this section shall ever have the right to compel any exercise of taxing power of the municipality to pay the bond or the interest thereon. Each bond issued under this section shall recite in substance that the bond, including the interest thereon, is payable from the revenue pledged to the payment thereof and that the bond does not constitute a debt of the municipality issuing the bond within any statutory or constitutional limitation.

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.

The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.