Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 13. UTILITY SERVICES

Part 30. Consolidated Local Government Water Supply and Sewer Districts

Covenants To Use And Maintain Reserve Fund

7-13-3039. Covenants to use and maintain reserve fund. (1) In connection with the issuance of district bonds, the governing body may undertake and agree:

(a) to issue orders annually authorizing loans or advances from the reserve fund to the fund maintained for the payment of the bonds in amounts sufficient to make good any deficiency in the bond and interest accounts to the extent that money is available; and

(b) to provide money for the reserve fund pursuant to the provisions of 7-13-3026 and 7-13-3027 by establishing and collecting rates, charges, and rentals for services and benefits in amounts sufficient to provide net revenues in excess of the current costs of operation and maintenance of the system and sufficient to maintain a balance in the reserve fund as the governing body may agree to and undertake.

(2) The undertakings and agreements authorized by subsection (1) are binding upon the local government as long as any bonds or any interest on the bonds remains unpaid.

History: En. Sec. 33, Ch. 282, L. 1991.