South Carolina Resources Authority Act

The act establishes a state-level financing authority empowered to issue bonds and use the proceeds to purchase obligations of local governments, giving smaller communities access to capital markets for water and other public infrastructure projects on better terms than they could obtain alone. Bonds are authorized by resolution of the authority and may be secured by a pledge of revenues and by capital reserve funds, with the authority's debt being an obligation of the authority alone rather than of the state; supporting provisions cover trust indentures, refunding and repurchase of bonds, tax exemption, and the treatment of the bonds as legal investments. To protect bondholders, the state treasurer may withhold state monies otherwise payable to a local government that defaults on its obligations, and the authority operates alongside a coordinating council for water resources, reports annually, and dissolves once all bonds are retired.

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