Section 23-19-16 - Security for bonds or notes(a) The principal of and interest on any bonds or notes issued by the corporation may be secured by a pledge of any revenues and receipts of the corporation, and may be secured by a mortgage or other instrument covering all or any part of one or more projects, including all or part of any additions, improvements, extensions to, or enlargements of the projects thereafter made.(b) Bonds or notes issued for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, development, or improvement of one or more projects may also be secured by an assignment of leases of, or mortgages on, or contracts of sale or other contracts or loan agreements with regard to the project or projects, and by an assignment of the revenues, receipts, payments, or repayments derived by the corporation from the leases, mortgages, sales agreements, contracts, or loan agreements.(c) The resolution under which the bonds or notes are authorized to be issued and any mortgage, lease, sales agreement, contract, or loan agreement, or other instrument may contain agreements and provisions respecting the maintenance of the covered projects, the fixing and collection of rents, payments, or repayments or other revenues, including moneys received in repayment of loans, and interest, the creation and maintenance of special funds from rents or other revenues, and the rights and remedies available in the event of default, all as the corporation shall deem advisable.(d) Each pledge, agreement, mortgage, contract, or other instrument made for the benefits or security of any of the bonds or notes of the corporation shall continue in effect until the principal of and interest on the bonds or notes for the benefit of which the instrument was made shall have been fully paid, or until provision shall have been made for the payment in the manner provided in the resolutions under which the bonds or notes were authorized.(e) The corporation may provide in any proceedings under which the bonds or notes may be authorized that any project or part of any project may be constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, or improved by the corporation or any lessee, vendee, obligor, or any designee of the corporation, and may also provide in the proceedings for the time and manner of and requisitions for disbursements to be made for the cost of the construction, and for all certificates and approvals of construction and disbursements that the corporation shall deem necessary and provide for in the proceedings.(f) Any resolution under which bonds or notes of the corporation are authorized to be issued (and any trust indenture established thereby) may contain provisions for vesting in a trustee or trustees properties, rights, powers, and duties in trust that the corporation may determine, including any or all of the rights, powers, and duties of the trustee appointed by the holders of any issue of bonds or notes pursuant to § 23-19-19, in which event the provisions of § 23-19-19 authorizing the appointment of a trustee by the holders of bonds or notes shall not apply.(g) Any pledge made by the corporation shall be valid and binding from the time it is made. The money or property pledged and thereafter received by the corporation shall immediately be subject to the lien of the pledge without physical delivery or further act. The lien of the pledge shall be valid and binding against all parties having a claim in tort, contract, or otherwise against the corporation, irrespective of whether the parties have notice of the claim. Neither the resolution nor any instrument by which a pledge is created need be recorded.R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-19-16
P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 13; G.L. 1956, § 23-46.1-16; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-16; P.L. 1982, ch. 262, § 4.