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File #: ORD-70:2520    Version: 1 Name: Revenue bonds for Tenneco
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/5/1970 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 10/5/1970
Title: AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BONDS UNDER 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, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING PERMANENT FINANCING OF THE COST 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: ORD-70:2521, MIN-70:025
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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BONDS UNDER 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, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING PERMANENT FINANCING OF THE COST 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 (“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 lands, construct and equip manufacturing buildings, improvements and facilities and to incur other costs and expenses and made other expenditures incidental to and for the implementing and accomplishing of the conduct of manufacturing operations; and

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

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

WHEREAS, PERMANENT FINANCING OF THE Project costs, necessary costs and expenditures incidental thereto and the expenses incurr...

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