Section 6-15-12 - Ordinance or resolution for refunding bonds; contents; maturities. - New Mexico Statutes

6-15-12. Ordinance or resolution for refunding bonds; contents; maturities.

Whenever such governing body shall deem it expedient to issue refunding bonds under the provisions of Sections 6-15-11 to 6-15-22 NMSA 1978, the governing body of a municipality shall adopt an ordinance, and the governing body of a county or school district shall adopt a resolution, which shall be spread on the records of the governing body, which ordinance or resolution shall set out the facts making the issuance of such refunding bonds necessary or advisable, the determination of such necessity or advisability by said governing body and the amount of such refunding bonds which it is deemed necessary and advisable to issue. Such ordinance or resolution shall fix the rate or rates of interest of such bonds, which shall not be in excess of the maximum coupon rate which is permitted by the Public Securities Act [6-14-1 NMSA 1978], the date of said refunding bonds, the denomination or denominations thereof, the maturity date or dates, the last of which shall not be more than twenty-five years from the date of said refunding bonds, the place or places of payment within or without the state of New Mexico of both principal and interest, and shall further set out the form of said refunding bonds.