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instruments under Title 11, Article 3-A, the certificates or
instruments are made negotiable instruments within the meaning of
and for all purposes of Title 11, Article 3-A, subject only to
such registration requirements as the authority may establish.

 
§11498.__Tax exemption

 
Bonds issued under this chapter constitute a proper public
purpose and the securities, their transfer and the income from
them, including any profits made on their sale, are at all times
exempt from taxation within the State, whether or not those
securities, their transfer or the income from them, including any
profits made on their sale, are subject to federal taxation.

 
§11499.__Bonds as legal investments

 
Bonds issued by the authority under this chapter are
securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the
State and its political subdivisions; insurance companies and
associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business;
trust companies, banks, bankers, banking associations, savings
banks and savings associations, including savings and loan
associations; financial institutions; credit unions; building and
loan associations; investment companies; executors,
administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries; pension,
retirement funds and profit-sharing plans; other persons carrying
on a banking business; and all other persons may properly and
legally invest funds, including capital in their control or
belonging to them.__These bonds are made securities that may
properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state,
municipal or public officer or any agency or political
subdivision of the State for any purpose for which the deposit of
bonds or other obligations of the State is now or may hereafter
be authorized by law.

 
§11499-A.__Taxable bond option

 
With respect to all or any portion of any issue of any bonds
or any series of bonds that the authority may issue in accordance
with the limitations and restrictions of this chapter, the
authority may covenant, elect and consent that the interest on

 
the bonds be includable under the federal Internal Revenue Code
or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue law of the
United States in the gross income of the holders of the bonds to
the same extent and in the same manner that the interest on
bills, bonds, notes or other obligations of the United States is
includable in the gross income of the holders under the federal
Internal Revenue Code or any subsequent law.__Bonds issued
pursuant to this section are not subject to any limitations or
restrictions of any law that may limit the authority's power to


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