(a) Principal amounts.--The authority may issue its bonds, notes or other obligations in principal amounts as in the judgment of the authority shall be necessary to provide sufficient funds for any of its corporate purposes. Corporate purposes shall be deemed to include:

(b) Negotiable instrument designation.--Whether or not the bonds are of a form and character as to be negotiable instruments under the terms of Title 13 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes (relating to commercial code), the bonds are made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for the purposes of Title 13, subject only to the provisions of the bonds for registration.

(c) Resolution; terms of bonds.--Bonds shall be authorized by resolution of the board, may be issued in one or more series and shall bear any date or dates, mature at any time or times not later than 35 years from the date of issuance thereof, bear interest at any rate or rates or at variable rates, be in any denomination or denominations, be in any form, either coupon or registered, carry any conversion or registration privileges, have any rank or priority, be executed in any manner, be payable from such sources in any medium of payment at any place or places within or without this Commonwealth, and be subject to any terms of redemption, purchase or tender by the authority or the holders thereof, with or without premium, as the resolution or resolutions may provide. A resolution of the authority authorizing the issuance of bonds may provide that the bonds be secured by a trust indenture between the authority and a trustee, vesting in the trustee any property, rights, powers and duties in trust consistent with the provisions of this act as the authority may determine. Such resolution may further provide for the acquisition of credit enhancement devices such as bond insurance, letters of credit or any other instruments to carry out the provisions of this section.

(d) Public or private sale.--Bonds shall be sold initially at public sale at any price or prices and in any manner as the authority may determine, subject to the requirement that the chairman shall ensure that minority-owned or minority-controlled firms shall have an opportunity to participate to a significant degree in any bond sale activities. Any portion of any bond issue so offered and not sold or subscribed for may be disposed of by private sale by the authority in such manner and at such prices as the authority shall direct.

(e) No prior preconditions on bond issuance.--Bonds may be issued under the provisions of this act without obtaining the consent of any department, division, board, bureau or agency of the Commonwealth and without any other proceeding or the happening of any other conditions or other things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required by this act.

(f) Limitation on obligations.--Bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall not be a debt or liability of the Commonwealth or of any of its political subdivisions other than the authority and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the Commonwealth or of any political subdivision. All bonds shall be payable solely from revenues or funds pledged or available for their payment as authorized in this act, including the proceeds of any issue of bonds. Each bond shall contain on its face a statement to the effect that the authority is obligated to pay the principal thereof or the interest thereon only from its revenues, receipts or funds pledged or available for their payment as authorized in this act, that neither the Commonwealth nor any political subdivisions are obligated to pay the principal or interest, and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds.

(g) Nature of obligation and payment.--Each issue of bonds may, if it is determined by the authority, be general obligations of the authority payable out of any revenues, receipts or funds of the authority, or special obligations payable out of particular revenues, receipts or funds, subject only to agreements with the holders of the bonds. Bonds may be secured by one or more of the following:

(h) Exemption from taxation.--All bonds and notes issued under the provisions of this section shall be exempt from taxation for State and local purposes.