File #: ORD-73:2439    Version: 1 Name: Revenue bonds for FMC Corporation
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/19/1973 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/19/1973
Title: AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BONDS UNDER ACT NO. 9 OF THE FIRST EXTRAORDINAREY SESSION OF THE SIXTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, APPROVED JANUARY 21, 1960, AS AMENDED, FOR THE PUROSE OF PROVIDING PERMANENT FINANCING OF THE COSTS OF SECURING AND DEVELOPING INDUSTRY (THE PARTICULAR INDUSTRIAL PROJECT IS DESCRIBED IN THE ORDINANCE); AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A TRUST INDENTURE SECURING THE BONDS; AUTHORIZING AND PRESCRIBING OTHER MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE INDUSTRIAL PROJECT, THE CONSTRUCTING THEREOF AND THE FINANCING THEREOF; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
Indexes: Bonds - revenue/development
Related files: MIN-73:919
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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BONDS UNDER ACT NO. 9 OF THE FIRST EXTRAORDINAREY SESSION OF THE SIXTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, APPROVED JANUARY 21, 1960, AS AMENDED, FOR THE PUROSE OF PROVIDING PERMANENT FINANCING OF THE COSTS OF SECURING AND DEVELOPING INDUSTRY (THE PARTICULAR INDUSTRIAL PROJECT IS DESCRIBED IN THE ORDINANCE); AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A TRUST INDENTURE SECURING THE BONDS; AUTHORIZING AND PRESCRIBING OTHER MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE INDUSTRIAL PROJECT, THE CONSTRUCTING THEREOF AND THE FINANCING THEREOF; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
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WHEREAS the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas (the “City”) is authorized by Act No. 9 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Sixty-Second General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, approved January 21, 1960, as amended (“Act No. 9”), to acquire, construct and equip lands, buildings, improvements and facilities and to incur other costs and expenses and make other expenditures incidental to and for the implementing and accomplishing of the conduct of industrial operations; and

WHEREAS the City is authorized by Act No. 9 to issue Industrial Development Revenue Bonds payable from revenues derived from the industrial Project so acquired, constructed and equipped and secured by a lien thereon and security interest therein; and

WHEREAS the necessary arrangements have been made with FMC Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“FMC”), for a substantial project consisting of lands, buildings, machine, equipment and facilities for an industrial plant which will be utilized for the manufacturing of such products as FMC shall elect to manufacture (the “Project”), and lease the Project to FMC pursuant to the terms of a Lease and Agreement subsequently identified herein and referred to as the “Lease Agreement”; and

WHEREAS permanent financing of Project costs and the costs of issuing bonds is being furnished by the City issuing Industrial Develop...

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