LD 1880
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activities under this article. Payment of the principal and
interest of bonds may be further secured by a pledge of a
loan, grant or contribution from the Federal Government or
other source in aid of activities of the authority under this
article or solely from income, proceeds, revenues, loan
repayments, funds and other property, real or personal,
pledged, assigned or mortgaged by or to the authority in
connection with the provision of financial assistance by the
authority to any person or any combination of the foregoing
and by a mortgage of an urban activity or a project or part of
a project, title to which is in the authority.

 
B. Bonds issued under this section and paragraph do not
constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any
constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction
and are not subject to other laws or charters relating to
the authorization, issuance or sale of bonds.
Notwithstanding this paragraph, the authority may issue
bonds in an original principal amount not to exceed
$100,000,000 to which the authority may designate section
13080-N to apply. Bonds issued under this article are
declared to be issued for an essential public and
governmental purpose and, together with interest on and
income from the bonds, are exempt from all taxes.

 
C. Bonds may not be issued by the authority until the authority
has received a certificate of approval from the Finance Authority
of Maine authorizing issuance of bonds. Before issuing a
certificate of approval under this section, the authority Finance
Authority of Maine shall determine that there is a reasonable
likelihood that the income, proceeds, revenues and funds of the
authority derived from or held for activities under this article
or otherwise pledged to payment of the bonds will be sufficient
to pay principal, interest and all other amounts that may at any
time become due and payable under the bonds. In making this
determination, the Finance Authority of Maine must consider the
authority's analysis of the proposed bond issue and the revenues
to make payments on the bond and may require such information,
projections, studies and independent analyses as it considers
necessary or desirable and may charge the authority reasonable
fees and expenses. The issuance by the Finance Authority of
Maine of a certificate of approval under this section does not
constitute an endorsement of the bonds or the projects or
purposes for which those bonds are issued and neither the
authority nor any other person or entity, including, without
limitation, any holders of bonds of the authority, have any cause
of action against the Finance Authority of Maine with respect to
any such certificate of approval. The Finance Authority of Maine
may


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