2025 Minnesota Statutes

216B.497 EXTRAORDINARY EVENT BONDS.

(a) A bank, trust company, savings and loan association, insurance company, executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary may legally invest any money within the individual's or entity's control in extraordinary event bonds.

(b) Extraordinary event bonds issued under a financing order are not debt of or a pledge of the faith and credit or taxing power of the state, any agency of the state, or any political subdivision. An extraordinary event bonds holder does not possess the ability to compel taxes to be levied by the state or a political subdivision in order to pay the principal or interest on extraordinary event bonds. The issuance of extraordinary event bonds does not directly, indirectly, or contingently obligate the state or a political subdivision to levy any tax or make any appropriation to pay principal or interest on the extraordinary event bonds.

(c) The state pledges to and agrees with an extraordinary event bonds holder, assignee, and financing party that the state and state agencies, including the commission, are prohibited from:

(1) taking or permitting an action that reduces or impairs the extraordinary event property approved in the financing order or impairs the collection or recovery of extraordinary event charges or extraordinary event revenue;

(2) reducing, impairing, postponing, or terminating extraordinary event charges approved in the financing order that are imposed, collected, and remitted for the benefit of an extraordinary event bonds holder, assignee, and financing party until all principal, interest, and redemption premium, if any, payable on extraordinary event bonds, all financing costs, and all amounts to be paid to an assignee or financing party under an ancillary agreement are paid in full; or

(3) changing the customers required to pay the extraordinary event charges.

(d) The commission may include a pledge in the financing order similar to the pledge included in paragraph (c).

(e) A person who issues extraordinary event bonds may include the pledge specified in paragraphs (c) and (d) in the extraordinary event bonds, ancillary agreements, and documentation related to the issuance and marketing of the extraordinary event bonds.

History:

1Sp2025 c 7 art 4 s 7