LD 1880
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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
require that it be indemnified, defended and held harmless
by the authority for any liability or cause of action
arising out of or with respect to the bonds.

 
D.__Bonds may be issued by the authority only to finance
projects that are substantially located within Aroostook
County.

 
Sec. 5. 5 MRSA §13080-G, sub-§4, ķA, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 474, §1,
is amended to read:

 
A. Sold at not less than par at public sales held after
notice has been published in a newspaper of general
circulation in the area of operation and in any other medium
of publication that the authority designates to any person
on such terms as the authority may negotiate;

 
Sec. 6. 5 MRSA §13080-G, sub-§§7 and 9, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 474,
§1, are amended to read:

 
7. No personal liability; not debt of State or municipality.
Neither the trustees of the authority nor the person executing
the bonds is liable personally on the bonds by


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