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§ 7305. Obligations of Pennsylvania governmental organizations

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 20 Pa.C.S.A. Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 20 Pa.C.S.A. Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 73. Municipalities Investments (Refs & Annos)
20 Pa.C.S.A. § 7305
§ 7305. Obligations of Pennsylvania governmental organizations
Obligations of the following Pennsylvania governmental organizations shall be authorized investments:
(1) General State Authority and other State authorities.--Obligations issued by The General State Authority1 and other authorities created by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the payment of which faith and credit of the authority is pledged.
(2) Housing authorities.--Obligations of any housing authority issued pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth relating to the creation or operation of housing authorities.
(3) Pennsylvania Housing Agency.--Bonds and notes of the Pennsylvania Housing Agency created by the “Housing Agency Law.”2
(4) Municipality authorities.--Obligations of any municipality authority issued pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth relating to the creation or operation of municipality authorities, if the obligations are not in default and if the project for which the obligations were issued is under lease to a school district or school districts, or if the obligations are not in default and if the project for which the obligations were issued is under lease to a municipality or municipalities or subject to a service contract with a municipality or municipalities, pursuant to which the authority will receive lease rentals or service charges available for fixed charges on the obligations, which will average not less than one and one-fifth times the average annual fixed charges of such obligations over the life thereof, or if the obligations are not in default and if for the period of five fiscal years next preceding the date of acquisition, the income of such authority available for fixed charges has averaged not less than one and one-fifth times its average annual fixed charges of such obligations over the life of such obligations. As used in this clause, the term “income available for fixed charges” shall mean income after deducting operating and maintenance expenses, and, unless the obligations are payable in serial, annual maturities, or are supported by annual sinking fund payments, depreciation, but excluding extraordinary nonrecurring items of income or expenses; and the term “fixed charges” shall include principal, both maturity3 and sinking fund, and interest on bonded debt. In computing such income available for fixed charges for the purposes of this paragraph, the income so available of any corporation acquired by any municipality authority may be included, such income to be calculated as though such corporation has been operated by a municipality authority and an equivalent amount of bonded debt were outstanding. The eligibility for investment purposes of obligations of each project of a municipality authority shall be separately considered hereunder.
(5) Parking authorities, public auditorium authorities, and port authorities.--Obligations of any parking authority, public auditorium authority, or port authority issued pursuant to the Parking Authority Law,4 the Public Auditorium Authorities Law5 or the Second Class County Port Authority Act,6 as the same have been heretofore or may be hereafter amended, if the obligations are not in default and if the project or facility for which the obligations were issued is under lease to a municipality or municipalities or is subject to a service contract or grant contract with a municipality or municipalities, and if the term of such lease or contract is not less than the term of the final maturity of the obligations, and if the authority will receive or is entitled to receive under such lease or contract annual rentals, service charges, or grants available for fixed charges on such obligations of not less than the average annual fixed charges on such obligations over the life thereof, or if the obligations are not in default, and if for the period of five fiscal years next preceding the date of acquisition the income of such authority available for fixed charges has averaged not less than one and one-fifth times its average annual7 fixed charges of such obligation over the life of such obligations. As used in this paragraph, the term “income available for fixed charges” shall mean income after deducting operating and maintenance expenses and, unless the obligations are payable in serial, annual maturities, or are supported by annual sinking fund payments, depreciation, but excluding extraordinary nonrecurring items of income or expenses, and the term “fixed charges” shall include principal, both maturity and sinking fund, and interest on bonded debt.
(6) Delaware River Joint Commission.--Obligations of the Delaware River Joint Commission issued pursuant to the act of June 12, 1931 (P.L. 575, No. 200),8 and its amendments and supplements heretofore or hereafter enacted.
(7) Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.--Obligations of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission issued pursuant to the act of June 25, 1931 (P.L. 1352, No. 332),9 and its amendments and supplements heretofore or hereafter enacted.
(8) Delaware Tunnel Board.--Obligations issued by or with the approval of the Delaware Tunnel Board pursuant to the act of July 8, 1947 (P.L. 1452, No. 561),10 and its amendments and supplements heretofore or hereafter enacted.
(9) Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.--Obligations of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission issued pursuant to:
(i) the act of May 21, 1937 (P.L. 774, No. 211);11
(ii) the Pennsylvania Turnpike Philadelphia Extension Act of May 16, 1940 (Spec.Sess. P.L. 949, No. 11);12 and
(iii) the Western Pennsylvania Turnpike Extension Act of June 11, 1941 (P.L. 101, No. 53);13
and the amendments and supplements of each heretofore or hereafter enacted.
(10) Pennsylvania Parkway Commission.--Obligations of the Pennsylvania Parkway Commission, issued pursuant to the act of July 16, 1941 (P.L. 386, No. 149),14 and its amendments and supplements heretofore or hereafter enacted.
(11) Redevelopment authorities.--Obligations of any redevelopment authority issued pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth relating to the creation or operation of redevelopment authorities.
(12) The Pennsylvania State University.--Obligations of The Pennsylvania State University.
(13) Municipalities issuing nondebt revenue bonds.--Obligations issued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Article VI of the act of June 25, 1941 (P.L. 159, No. 87), known as the “Municipal Borrowing Law,”15 and its amendments, if the obligations are not in default and if, for the period of five fiscal years next preceding the date of acquisition the income of the municipality issuing such obligations from the facility from which revenues are pledged for the payment for such obligations, available for fixed charges has averaged not less than one and one-fifth times the average annual fixed charges of such obligations over the life of such obligations. As used in this paragraph, the term “income available for fixed charges” shall mean income after deducting operating and maintenance expenses, and, unless the obligations are payable in serial, annual maturities, or are supported by annual sinking fund payments, depreciation, but excluding extraordinary nonrecurring items of income or expenses; and the term “fixed charges” shall include principal, both maturity and sinking fund, and interest on bonded debt.

Credits

1972, June 30, P.L. 508, No. 164, § 2, eff. July 1, 1972.

Footnotes

Now Department of General Services; see 71 P.S. § 631.1.
35 P.S. §§ 1680.101 to 1680.603.
Words “and sinking” repeated in original.
53 P.S. §§ 341 to 356 (repealed); see 53 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 5501 to 5516.
53 P.S. §§ 23841 to 23857.
55 P.S. §§ 551 to 553.4.
Word “annual” omitted in original.
36 P.S. §§ 3503 to 3505.
36 P.S. § 3401.
36 P.S. §§ 3561 to 3579 (repealed).
36 P.S. §§ 652a to 652q.
36 P.S. §§ 653 to 653s.
36 P.S. §§ 654 to 654r.
36 P.S. §§ 655.1 to 655.17.
53 P.S. §§ 6620 to 6623 (repealed); see 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 8001 et seq.
20 Pa.C.S.A. § 7305, PA ST 20 Pa.C.S.A. § 7305
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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