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The bonds shall:1\n\nBe issued at, above, or below par value, for cash or other valuable consideration, and mature at a time or times, whether as serial bonds or as term bonds or both, not exceeding 40 years from their respective dates of issue;2\n\nBear interest at the fixed or variable rate or rates determined by the method provided in the resolution or trust agreement;3\n\nBe payable at a time or times, in the denominations and form, and carry the registration and privileges as to conversion and for the replacement of mutilated, lost, or destroyed bonds as the resolution or trust agreement may provide;4\n\nBe payable in lawful money of the United States at a designated place;5\n\nBe subject to the terms of purchase, payment, redemption, refunding, or refinancing that the resolution or trust agreement provides; and6\n\nBe sold in the manner and upon the terms determined by the bond issuer, including private and negotiated sales.D\n\nAny resolution or trust agreement may contain provisions that shall be a part of the contract with the holders of the bonds as to:1\n\nPledging, assigning, or directing the use, investment, or disposition of receipts of the bond issuer or proceeds or benefits of any contract and conveying or otherwise securing any property rights;2\n\nThe setting aside of loan funding deposits, debt service reserves, capitalized interest accounts, cost of issuance accounts, and sinking funds, and the regulation, investment, and disposition thereof;3\n\nLimitations on the purpose to which or the investments in which the proceeds of sale of any issue of bonds may be applied and restrictions to investments of revenues or bond proceeds in government obligations for which principal and interest are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America;4\n\nLimitations on the issuance of additional bonds and the terms upon which additional bonds may be issued and secured and may rank on a parity with, or be subordinate or superior to, other bonds;5\n\nThe refunding or refinancing of outstanding bonds;6\n\nThe procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders may be altered or amended and the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which consent shall be given;7\n\nDefining the acts or omissions that shall constitute a default in the duties of the bond issuer to bondholders and providing the rights or remedies of such holders in the event of a default, which may include provisions restricting individual right of action by bondholders;8\n\nProviding for guarantees, pledges of property, letters of credit, or other security, or insurance for the benefit of bondholders; and9\n\nAny other matter relating to the bonds that the bond issuer determines appropriate.E\n\nNo member of the governing body of the bond issuer nor any person executing the bonds on behalf of the bond issuer shall be liable personally for the bonds or subject to any personal liability by reason of the issuance of the bonds.F\n\nThe bond issuer may enter into agreements with agents, banks, insurers, any political subdivision of the Commonwealth, or others for the purpose of enhancing the marketability of, or as security for, its bonds.G\n\nA pledge by the bond issuer of its revenues as security for an issue of bonds shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made.\n\t\t\tThe revenues pledged shall immediately be subject to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery or further act, and the lien of any pledge shall be valid and binding against any person having any claim of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the bond issuer, irrespective of whether the person has notice.\n\t\t\tNo resolution, trust agreement or financing statement, continuation statement, or other instrument adopted or entered into by the bond issuer need be filed or recorded in any public record other than the records of the bond issuer in order to perfect the lien against third persons, regardless of any contrary provision of public general or public local law.H\n\nExcept to the extent restricted by an applicable resolution or trust agreement, any holder of bonds issued under this chapter or a trustee acting under a trust agreement entered into under this chapter may, by any suitable form of legal proceedings, protect and enforce any rights granted under the laws of the Commonwealth or by any applicable resolution or trust agreement.I\n\nThe bond issuer may issue bonds to refund any of its bonds then outstanding, including the payment of any redemption premium and any interest accrued or to accrue to the earliest or any subsequent date of redemption, purchase, or maturity of the bonds. Refunding bonds may be issued for the public purposes of realizing savings in the effective costs of debt service, directly or through a debt restructuring, for alleviating impending or actual default and may be issued in one or more series in an amount in excess of that of the bonds to be refunded.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":304155,"text":"A bond issuer may at any time and from time to time issue bonds for any valid purpose, including the establishment of reserves and the payment of interest.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":304156,"text":"The bonds of any issue shall be payable solely from the property or receipts of the bond issuer, or other security specifically pledged by the bond issuer to the payment thereof, including but not limited to:","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"B1"},"2":{"id":304157,"text":"Taxes, fees, charges, or other revenues;","type":"section","prefixes":["B","1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"B1","prefix_anchor":"B1","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B","next_prefix":"B2"},"3":{"id":304158,"text":"Payments by financial institutions, insurance companies, or others pursuant to letters or lines of credit, policies of insurance, or purchase agreements;","type":"section","prefixes":["B","2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"B2","prefix_anchor":"B2","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B1","next_prefix":"B3"},"4":{"id":304159,"text":"Investment earnings from funds or accounts maintained pursuant to a bond resolution or trust agreement;","type":"section","prefixes":["B","3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"B3","prefix_anchor":"B3","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B2","next_prefix":"B4"},"5":{"id":304160,"text":"Sales and use tax revenues remitted to the Authority by the State Comptroller pursuant to § 15.2-5940; and","type":"section","prefixes":["B","4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"B4","prefix_anchor":"B4","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B3","next_prefix":"B5"},"6":{"id":304161,"text":"Proceeds of refunding bonds.","type":"section","prefixes":["B","5"],"prefix":"5","entire_prefix":"B5","prefix_anchor":"B5","level":2,"prior_prefix":"B4","next_prefix":"C"},"7":{"id":304162,"text":"Bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the bond issuer and may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the bond issuer and a corporate trustee or trustees, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or outside the Commonwealth. 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This law was first created in 2020. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 538<\/a> and 539<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":[{"id":55989,"section_number":"15.2-5942","catch_line":"Public hearings; notice; reports","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-5942\/"},{"id":80000,"section_number":"15.2-5945","catch_line":"Facility Financing Fund; use","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-5945\/"},{"id":68848,"section_number":"15.2-5948","catch_line":"Tax revenues of the Commonwealth or any other political subdivision not pledged","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-5948\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":78623,"section_number":"15.2-5940","catch_line":"Participation in the Authority by a Hampton Roads locality","order_by":null,"url":"\/15.2-5940\/"}],"permalink":{"id":159891,"object_type":"law","relational_id":84893,"identifier":"15.2-5943","token":"15.2\/IV\/59.3\/15.2-5943","url":"\/15.2-5943\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-5943\/","token":"15.2\/IV\/59.3\/15.2-5943","dublin_core":{"Title":"Bond issues","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-5943","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> A bond issuer<\/span> may at any time and from time to time issue<\/span> bonds<\/span> for any valid purpose, including the establishment of reserves and the payment of interest. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The bonds<\/span> of any issue<\/span> shall be payable solely from the property or receipts of the bond issuer<\/span>, or other security specifically pledged by the bond issuer<\/span> to the payment thereof, including but not limited to: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Taxes, fees, charges, or other revenues; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> Payments by financial institutions, insurance companies, or others pursuant to letters or lines of credit, policies of insurance, or purchase agreements; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> Investment earnings from funds or accounts maintained pursuant to a bond resolution or trust agreement; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> Sales and use tax revenues<\/span> remitted to the Authority<\/span> by the State Comptroller pursuant to § 15.2-5940<\/a>; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> Proceeds of refunding bonds<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> Bonds<\/span> shall be authorized by resolution of the bond issuer<\/span> and may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the bond issuer<\/span> and a corporate trustee or trustees, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or outside the Commonwealth. The bonds<\/span> shall: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Be issued at, above, or below par value, for cash or other valuable consideration, and mature at a time or times, whether as serial bonds<\/span> or as term bonds<\/span> or both, not exceeding 40 years from their respective dates of issue<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> Bear interest at the fixed or variable rate or rates determined by the method provided in the resolution or trust agreement; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> Be payable at a time or times, in the denominations and form, and carry the registration and privileges<\/span> as to conversion and for the replacement of mutilated, lost, or destroyed bonds<\/span> as the resolution or trust agreement may provide; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> Be payable in lawful money of the United States at a designated place; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> Be subject to the terms of purchase, payment, redemption<\/span>, refunding, or refinancing that the resolution or trust agreement provides; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

6.<\/span> Be sold in the manner and upon the terms determined by the bond issuer<\/span>, including private and negotiated sales. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> Any resolution or trust agreement may contain provisions that shall be a part of the contract<\/span> with the holders of the bonds<\/span> as to: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Pledging, assigning, or directing the use, investment, or disposition<\/span> of receipts of the bond issuer<\/span> or proceeds or benefits of any contract<\/span> and conveying or otherwise securing any property rights; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> The setting aside of loan funding deposits, debt service reserves, capitalized interest accounts, cost of issuance accounts, and sinking funds, and the regulation, investment, and disposition<\/span> thereof; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> Limitations on the purpose to which or the investments in which the proceeds of sale of any issue<\/span> of bonds<\/span> may be applied and restrictions to investments of revenues or bond proceeds in government obligations for which principal and interest are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> Limitations on the issuance of additional bonds<\/span> and the terms upon which additional bonds<\/span> may be issued and secured and may rank on a parity with, or be subordinate or superior to, other bonds<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> The refunding or refinancing of outstanding bonds<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

6.<\/span> The procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract<\/span> with bondholders may be altered or amended and the amount of bonds<\/span> the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which consent shall be given; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

7.<\/span> Defining the acts or omissions that shall constitute a default<\/span> in the duties of the bond issuer<\/span> to bondholders and providing the rights or remedies of such holders in the event of a default<\/span>, which may include provisions restricting individual right of action by bondholders; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

8.<\/span> Providing for guarantees, pledges of property, letters of credit, or other security, or insurance for the benefit of bondholders; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

9.<\/span> Any other matter relating to the bonds<\/span> that the bond issuer<\/span> determines appropriate. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

E.<\/span> No member of the governing body<\/span> of the bond issuer<\/span> nor any person executing the bonds<\/span> on behalf of the bond issuer<\/span> shall be liable personally for the bonds<\/span> or subject to any personal liability by reason of the issuance of the bonds<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

F.<\/span> The bond issuer<\/span> may enter into agreements with agents, banks, insurers, any political subdivision of the Commonwealth, or others for the purpose of enhancing the marketability of, or as security for, its bonds<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

G.<\/span> A pledge by the bond issuer<\/span> of its revenues as security for an issue<\/span> of bonds<\/span> shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made.\n\t\t\tThe revenues pledged shall immediately be subject to the lien<\/span> of the pledge without any physical delivery or further act, and the lien<\/span> of any pledge shall be valid and binding against any person having any claim of any kind in tort<\/span>, contract<\/span>, or otherwise against the bond issuer<\/span>, irrespective of whether the person has notice.\n\t\t\tNo resolution, trust agreement or financing statement, continuation statement, or other instrument adopted or entered into by the bond issuer<\/span> need be filed or recorded in any public record other than the records of the bond issuer<\/span> in order<\/span> to perfect the lien<\/span> against third persons, regardless of any contrary provision of public general or public local law<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

H.<\/span> Except to the extent restricted by an applicable resolution or trust agreement, any holder of bonds<\/span> issued under this chapter or a trustee acting under a trust agreement entered into under this chapter may, by any suitable form of legal proceedings, protect and enforce any rights granted under the laws<\/span> of the Commonwealth or by any applicable resolution or trust agreement. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

I.<\/span> The bond issuer<\/span> may issue<\/span> bonds<\/span> to refund any of its bonds<\/span> then outstanding, including the payment of any redemption<\/span> premium and any interest accrued or to accrue to the earliest or any subsequent date of redemption<\/span>, purchase, or maturity of the bonds<\/span>. Refunding bonds<\/span> may be issued for the public purposes of realizing savings in the effective costs of debt service, directly or through a debt restructuring, for alleviating impending or actual default<\/span> and may be issued in one or more series in an amount in excess of that of the bonds<\/span> to be refunded. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nBOND ISSUES (\u00a7 15.2-5943)\n\nA. A bond issuer may at any time and from time to time issue bonds for any valid\npurpose, including the establishment of reserves and the payment of interest.\n\nB. The bonds of any issue shall be payable solely from the property or receipts\nof the bond issuer, or other security specifically pledged by the bond issuer to\nthe payment thereof, including but not limited to:\n\n 1. Taxes, fees, charges, or other revenues;\n\n 2. Payments by financial institutions, insurance companies, or others pursuant\n to letters or lines of credit, policies of insurance, or purchase agreements;\n\n 3. Investment earnings from funds or accounts maintained pursuant to a bond\n resolution or trust agreement;\n\n 4. Sales and use tax revenues remitted to the Authority by the State\n Comptroller pursuant to § 15.2-5940; and\n\n 5. Proceeds of refunding bonds.\n\nC. Bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the bond issuer and may be secured\nby a trust agreement by and between the bond issuer and a corporate trustee or\ntrustees, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust\ncompany within or outside the Commonwealth. The bonds shall:\n\n 1. Be issued at, above, or below par value, for cash or other valuable\n consideration, and mature at a time or times, whether as serial bonds or as\n term bonds or both, not exceeding 40 years from their respective dates of\n issue;\n\n 2. Bear interest at the fixed or variable rate or rates determined by the\n method provided in the resolution or trust agreement;\n\n 3. Be payable at a time or times, in the denominations and form, and carry the\n registration and privileges as to conversion and for the replacement of\n mutilated, lost, or destroyed bonds as the resolution or trust agreement may\n provide;\n\n 4. Be payable in lawful money of the United States at a designated place;\n\n 5. Be subject to the terms of purchase, payment, redemption, refunding, or\n refinancing that the resolution or trust agreement provides; and\n\n 6. Be sold in the manner and upon the terms determined by the bond issuer,\n including private and negotiated sales.\n\nD. Any resolution or trust agreement may contain provisions that shall be a part\nof the contract with the holders of the bonds as to:\n\n 1. Pledging, assigning, or directing the use, investment, or disposition of\n receipts of the bond issuer or proceeds or benefits of any contract and\n conveying or otherwise securing any property rights;\n\n 2. The setting aside of loan funding deposits, debt service reserves,\n capitalized interest accounts, cost of issuance accounts, and sinking funds,\n and the regulation, investment, and disposition thereof;\n\n 3. Limitations on the purpose to which or the investments in which the\n proceeds of sale of any issue of bonds may be applied and restrictions to\n investments of revenues or bond proceeds in government obligations for which\n principal and interest are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of\n America;\n\n 4. Limitations on the issuance of additional bonds and the terms upon which\n additional bonds may be issued and secured and may rank on a parity with, or\n be subordinate or superior to, other bonds;\n\n 5. The refunding or refinancing of outstanding bonds;\n\n 6. The procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders\n may be altered or amended and the amount of bonds the holders of which must\n consent thereto, and the manner in which consent shall be given;\n\n 7. Defining the acts or omissions that shall constitute a default in the\n duties of the bond issuer to bondholders and providing the rights or remedies\n of such holders in the event of a default, which may include provisions\n restricting individual right of action by bondholders;\n\n 8. Providing for guarantees, pledges of property, letters of credit, or other\n security, or insurance for the benefit of bondholders; and\n\n 9. Any other matter relating to the bonds that the bond issuer determines\n appropriate.\n\nE. No member of the governing body of the bond issuer nor any person executing\nthe bonds on behalf of the bond issuer shall be liable personally for the bonds\nor subject to any personal liability by reason of the issuance of the bonds.\n\nF. The bond issuer may enter into agreements with agents, banks, insurers, any\npolitical subdivision of the Commonwealth, or others for the purpose of\nenhancing the marketability of, or as security for, its bonds.\n\nG. A pledge by the bond issuer of its revenues as security for an issue of bonds\nshall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made.\n\t\t\tThe revenues pledged shall immediately be subject to the lien of the pledge\nwithout any physical delivery or further act, and the lien of any pledge shall\nbe valid and binding against any person having any claim of any kind in tort,\ncontract, or otherwise against the bond issuer, irrespective of whether the\nperson has notice.\n\t\t\tNo resolution, trust agreement or financing statement, continuation\nstatement, or other instrument adopted or entered into by the bond issuer need\nbe filed or recorded in any public record other than the records of the bond\nissuer in order to perfect the lien against third persons, regardless of any\ncontrary provision of public general or public local law.\n\nH. Except to the extent restricted by an applicable resolution or trust\nagreement, any holder of bonds issued under this chapter or a trustee acting\nunder a trust agreement entered into under this chapter may, by any suitable\nform of legal proceedings, protect and enforce any rights granted under the laws\nof the Commonwealth or by any applicable resolution or trust agreement.\n\nI. The bond issuer may issue bonds to refund any of its bonds then outstanding,\nincluding the payment of any redemption premium and any interest accrued or to\naccrue to the earliest or any subsequent date of redemption, purchase, or\nmaturity of the bonds. Refunding bonds may be issued for the public purposes of\nrealizing savings in the effective costs of debt service, directly or through a\ndebt restructuring, for alleviating impending or actual default and may be\nissued in one or more series in an amount in excess of that of the bonds to be\nrefunded.\n\nHISTORY: 2020, cc. 538, 539.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}