Illinois Statutes Chapter 70. Special Districts § 1710/14.1. Power to borrow money; issuance of notes

§ 14.1. Whenever necessary to maintain efficient and continuous operation of Commission activities or responsibilities, the Commission, through its treasurer, executive director, and such of the other officers thereof as may be designated from time to time by resolution of the Commission or of the executive committee acting in behalf of the Commission pursuant to its authority under Section 9 of this Act, shall have the power to borrow money and to issue and sell or pledge its notes or other evidences in indebtedness at a rate of interest which shall not exceed the greater of (i) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended  1 at the time of the making of the contract, or (ii) 9% per annum or 70% of the prime commercial rate in effect at the time a contract is made, which may be secured by a lien upon Commission revenue or upon the revenue or grants of any project of the Commission, provided that any sums so borrowed shall first be authorized by a resolution of the Commission or executive committee thereof specifying the maximum amount to be borrowed and such additional qualifications and restrictions thereon as the Commission or executive committee deems advisable. In no event shall the amounts borrowed by the Commission hereunder exceed in the aggregate 10% of the Commission's total budget during any fiscal year, nor shall the period of such loans, notes or other evidences of indebtedness extend beyond the end of the fiscal year during which they are issued or subscribed.

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.