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57-901

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-901. Short title. This act may be cited as the Registered Public Obligations Act of Idaho. History: [57-901, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 211.]

57-902

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-902. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) Authorized officer means any individual required or permitted, alone or with others by any provision of law or by an issuing public entity to execute a certificated registered public obligation or any writing relating to an uncertificated registered public obligation. (2) Certificated registered public obligation means a registered public obligation which is represented by an instrument. (3) Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended. (4) Facsimile seal means the reproduction by engraving, imprinting, stamping, or other means of the seal of the issuer, official or official body. (5) Facsimile signature means the reproduction by engraving, imprinting, stamping, or other means of a manual signature. (6) Financial intermediary means a bank, broker, clearing corporation or other person, or the nominee of any of them, which in the ordinary course of its business maintains registered public obligation accounts for its customers, when so acting. (7) Issuer means a public entity which issues an obligation. (8) Obligation means an agreement of a public entity to pay principal and any interest thereon, whether in the form of a contract to repay borrowed money, a lease, an installment purchase agreement, or otherwise, and includes a share, participation, or other interest in any such agreement. (9) Official actions mean the actions by statute, order, ordinance, resolution, contract, or other authorized means by which an issuer provides for issuance of a registered public obligation. (10) Official or official body means an officer or board that is empowered under the laws of one or more states including this state to provide for original issuance of an obligation of the issuer, by defining the obligation and its terms, conditions and other incidents, the successor or successors of any such official or official body, and such other person or group of persons as shall be assigned duties of such official or official body with respect to a registered public obligation under applicable law from time to time. (11) Public entity means any entity, department, or agency which is empowered under the laws of one or more states, territories, possessions of the United States or the District of Columbia, including this state, to issue obligations any interest with respect to which may, under any provision of law, be provided an exemption from the income tax referred to in the code. The term public entity may thus include this state, a political subdivision, a municipal corporation, a state university or college, a school or other special district, a joint agreement entity, a public authority, a public trust, a nonprofit corporation, and other organizations. (12) Registered public obligation means an obligation issued by a public entity which is issued pursuant to a system of registration. (13) System of registration and its variant

57-903

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-903. Findings of state interests — Purposes. (1) The code provides that interest with respect to certain obligations may not be exempt from federal income taxation unless they are in registered form. It is therefore a matter of state concern that public entities be authorized to provide for the issuance of obligations in such form. It is a purpose of this act to empower all public entities to establish and maintain a system pursuant to which obligations may be issued in registered form within the meaning of the applicable provisions of the code. (2) Obligations have traditionally been issued in bearer rather than in registered form, and a change from bearer to registered form may affect the relationships, rights and duties of issuers of and the persons that deal with obligations, and by such effect, the costs. Such effects will impact the various issuers and varieties of obligations differently depending on their legal and financial characteristics, their markets and their adaptability to recent and prospective technological and organizational developments. It is, therefore, a matter of state concern that public entities be provided flexibility in the development of such systems and control over system incidents, so as to accommodate such differing impacts. It is a purpose of this act to empower the establishment and maintenance, and amendment from time to time, of differing systems of registration of obligations, including system incidents, so as to accommodate the differing impacts upon issuers and varieties of obligations. It is further a purpose of this act to authorize systems that will facilitate the prompt and accurate transfer of registered public obligations and develop practices with regard to the registration and transfer of registered public obligations. History: [57-903, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 212.]

57-904

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-904. Systems of registration. (1) Each issuer is authorized to establish and maintain a system of registration with respect to each obligation which it issues. The system may either be (a) a system pursuant to which only certificated registered public obligations are issued, or (b) a system pursuant to which only uncertificated registered public obligations are issued, or (c) a system pursuant to which both certificated and uncertificated registered public obligations are issued. The issuer may amend, discontinue and reinstitute any system, from time to time, subject to covenants. (2) The system shall be established, amended, discontinued, or reinstituted for the issuer by, and shall be maintained for the issuer as provided by, the official or official body. (3) The system shall be described in the registered public obligation or in the official actions which provide for original issuance of the registered public obligation, and in subsequent official actions providing for amendments and other matters from time to time. Such description may be by reference to a program of the issuer which is established by the official or official body. (4) The system shall define the method or methods by which transfer of the registered public obligation shall be effective with respect to the issuer, and by which payment of principal and any interest shall be made. The system may permit the issuance of registered public obligations in any denomination to represent several registered public obligations of smaller denominations. The system may also provide for the form of any certificated registered public obligation or of any writing relating to an uncertificated registered public obligation, for identifying numbers or other designations, for a sufficient supply of certificates for subsequent transfers, for record and payment dates, for varying denominations, for communications to holders or owners of obligations, and for accounting, cancelled certificate destruction, registration and release of security interests and other incidental matters. Unless the issuer otherwise provides, the record date for interest payable on the first or fifteenth days of a month shall be the fifteenth day or the last business day of the preceding month, respectively, and for interest payable on other than the first or fifteenth days of a month, shall be the fifteenth calendar day before the interest payment date. (5) Under a system pursuant to which both certificated and uncertificated registered public obligations are issued, both types of registered public obligations may be regularly issued, or one type may be regularly issued and the other type issued only under described circumstances or to particular described categories of owners and provision may be made for registration and release of security interests in registered public obligations. (6) The system may include covenants of the issuer as to a

57-905

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-905. Certificated registered public obligation — Execution — Authentication. (1) A certificated registered public obligation shall be executed by the issuer by the manual or facsimile signature or signatures of authorized officers. Any signature of an authorized officer may be attested by the manual or facsimile signature of another authorized officer. (2) In addition to the signature referred to in subsection (1) of this section any certificated registered public obligation or any writing relating to an uncertificated registered public obligation may include a certificate or certificates signed by the manual or facsimile signature of an authenticating agent, registrar, transfer agent or the like. (3) At least one (1) signature of an authorized officer or other person required or permitted to be placed on a certificated registered public obligation shall be a manual signature. History: [57-905, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 214.]

57-906

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-906. Certificated registered public obligation — Signatures. (1) Any certificated registered public obligation signed by the authorized officers at the time of the signing thereof shall remain valid and binding, notwithstanding that before the issuance thereof any or all of such officers shall have ceased to fill their respective offices. (2) Any authorized officer empowered to sign any certificated registered public obligation may adopt as and for the signature of such officer the signature of a predecessor in office in the event that such predecessor’s signature appears on such certificated registered public obligation. An authorized officer incurs no liability by adoption of a predecessor’s signature that would not be incurred by the authorized officer if the signature were that of the authorized officer. History: [57-906, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 214.]

57-907

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-907. Certificated registered public obligation — Seal. When a seal is required or permitted in the execution of any certificated registered public obligation, an authorized officer may cause the seal to be printed, engraved, stamped, or otherwise placed in facsimile thereon. The facsimile seal has the same legal effect as the impression of the seal. History: [57-907, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 214.]

57-908

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-908. Agents — Depositories. (1) An issuer may appoint for such term as may be agreed, including for so long as a registered public obligation may be outstanding, corporate or other authenticating agents, transfer agents, registrars, paying or other agents and specify the terms of their appointment, including their rights, their compensation and duties, limits upon their liabilities and provisions for their payment of liquidated damages in the event of breach of certain of the duties imposed, which liquidated damages may be made payable to the issuer, the owner or a financial intermediary. None of such agents need have an office or do business within this state. (2) An issuer may agree with custodian banks and financial intermediaries, and nominees of any of them, in connection with the establishment and maintenance by others of a central depository system for the transfer or pledge of registered public obligations. Any such custodian banks and financial intermediaries, and nominees, may, if qualified and acting as fiduciaries, also serve as authenticating agents, transfer agents, registrars, paying or other agents of the issuer with respect to the same issue of registered public obligations. (3) Nothing shall preclude the issuer from itself performing, either alone or jointly with other issuers, any transfer, registration, authentication, payment or other function described in this section. History: [57-908, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 214.]

57-909

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-909. Costs — Collection. (1) An issuer, prior to or at original issuance of registered public obligations, may provide as part of a system of registration that the transferor or transferee of the registered public obligations pay all or a designated part of the costs of the system as a condition precedent to transfer, that costs be paid out of proceeds of the registered public obligations, or that both methods be used. The portion of the costs of the system not provided to be paid for by the transferor or transferee or out of proceeds shall be the liability of the issuer. (2) The issuer may as a part of a system of registration provide for reimbursement or for satisfaction of its liability by payment by others. The issuer may enter into agreements with others respecting such reimbursement or payment, may establish fees and charges pursuant to such agreements or otherwise, and may provide that the amount or estimated amount of such fees and charges shall be reimbursed or paid from the same sources and by means of the same collection and enforcement procedures and with the same priority and effect as with respect to the obligation. History: [57-909, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 215.]

57-910

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-910. Deposits for security. Obligations issued by public entities under the laws of one or more states, territories, possessions, or the District of Columbia, which are in registered form, whether or not represented by an instrument, and which, except for their form, satisfy the requirements with regard to security for deposits of moneys of public agencies prescribed pursuant to any law of this state, shall be deemed to satisfy all such requirements even though they are in registered form if a security interest in such obligations is perfected on behalf of the public agency whose moneys are so deposited. History: [57-910, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 215.]

57-911

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-911. Public records — Locations. (1) Records, with regard to the ownership of or security interests in registered public obligations shall be subject to disclosure according to chapter 1, title 74 , Idaho Code. (2) Registration records of the issuer may be maintained at such locations within or without this state as the issuer shall determine. History: [57-911, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 215; am. 1990, ch. 213, sec. 87, p. 552; am. 2015, ch. 141, sec. 156, p. 500.]

57-912

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-912. Applicability — Election — Recession. (1) Unless at any time prior to or at original issuance of a registered public obligation the official or official body of the issuer determines otherwise, this chapter shall be applicable to such registered public obligation, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary. When this chapter is applicable, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail over any inconsistent provision of any other law. (2) Nothing in this chapter limits or prevents the issuance of obligations in any other form or manner authorized by law. (3) Unless determined otherwise pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable with respect to obligations which have heretofore been approved by vote, referendum or hearing, authorizing or permitting the authorization of obligations in bearer and registered form, or in bearer form only, and such obligations need not be resubmitted for a further vote, referendum or hearing, for the purpose of authorizing or permitting the authorization of registered public obligations pursuant to this chapter. History: [57-912, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 216.]

57-913

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-913. Construction. This chapter shall be construed in conjunction with the uniform commercial code and the principles of contract law relative to the registration and transfer of obligations. History: [57-913, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 216.]

57-914

TITLE 57 PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL CHAPTER 9 PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT 57-914. Amendment or repeal — Effect. The state hereby covenants with the owners of any registered public obligations that it will not amend or repeal this chapter if the effect may be to impair the exemption from income taxation of interest on registered public obligations. History: [57-914, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 216.]