70 ILCS 210/13.1

(70 ILCS 210/13.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 1233.1)

Sec. 13.1. There is hereby created the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund and the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Completion Note Subordinate Fund in the State Treasury. All moneys transferred from the McCormick Place Account in the Build Illinois Fund to the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund and all moneys transferred from the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund to the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Completion Note Subordinate Fund may be appropriated by law for the purpose of paying the debt service requirements on all bonds and notes issued under this Section, including refunding bonds, (herein collectively referred to as bonds) to be issued by the Authority subsequent to July 1, 1984 in an aggregate amount (excluding the amount of any refunding bonds issued by the Authority subsequent to January 1, 1986), not to exceed $312,500,000, with such aggregate amount comprised of (i) an amount not to exceed $259,000,000 for the purpose of paying costs of the Project and (ii) the balance for the purpose of refunding those bonds of the Authority that were issued prior to July 1, 1984 and for the purpose of establishing necessary reserves on, paying capitalized interest on, and paying costs of issuance of bonds, other than refunding bonds issued subsequent to January 1, 1986, issued for those purposes, provided that any proceeds of bonds, other than refunding bonds issued subsequent to January 1, 1986, and interest or other investment earnings thereon not used for the purposes stated in items (i) and (ii) above shall be used solely to redeem outstanding bonds, other than bonds which have been refunded or advance refunded, of the Authority. The Authority will use its best efforts to cause all bonds issued pursuant to this Section, other than bonds which have been refunded or advance refunded, to be or to become on a parity with one another. Notwithstanding any provision of any prior ordinance or trust agreement authorizing the issuance of outstanding bonds payable or to become payable from the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund, refunding or advance refunding bonds may be issued subsequent to January 1, 1986, payable from the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund on a parity with any such prior bonds which remain outstanding provided, that in the event of any such partial refunding (i) the debt service requirements after such refunding for all bonds payable from the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund issued after July 1, 1984, by the Authority which shall be outstanding after such refunding shall not have been increased by reason of such refunding in any then current or future fiscal year in which such prior outstanding bonds shall remain outstanding and (ii) such parity refunding bonds shall be deemed to be parity bonds issued to pay costs of the Project for purposes of such prior ordinance or trust agreement. It is hereby found and determined that (i) the issuance of such parity refunding bonds shall further the purposes of this Act and (ii) the contractual rights of the bondholders under any such prior ordinance or trust agreement will not be impaired or adversely affected by such issuance.

No amounts in excess of the sum of $250,000,000 plus all interest and other investment income earned prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1985 on all proceeds of all bonds issued for the purpose of paying costs of the Project shall be obligated or expended with respect to the costs of the Project without prior written approval from the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget. Such approval shall be based upon factors including, but not limited to, the necessity, in relation to the Authority's ability to complete the Project and open the facility to the public in a timely manner, of incurring the costs, and the appropriateness of using bond funds for such purpose. The Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget may, in his discretion, consider other reasonable factors in determining whether to approve payment of costs of the Project. The Authority shall furnish to the Governor's Office of Management and Budget such information as may from time to time be requested. The Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget or any duly authorized employee of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall, for the purpose of securing such information, have access to, and the right to examine, all books, documents, papers and records of the Authority.

On the first day of each month commencing after July of 1984, moneys, if any, on deposit in the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund shall, subject to appropriation by law, be paid in full to the Authority or upon its direction to the trustee or trustees for bond holders of bonds which by their terms are payable from the moneys received from the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund issued by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority subsequent to July 1, 1984, for the purposes specified in the first paragraph of this Section and in Section 10.1 of this Act, such trustee or trustees having been designated pursuant to ordinance of the Authority, until an amount equal to 100% of the aggregate amount of such principal and interest in such fiscal year, including pursuant to sinking fund requirements, has been so paid and deficiencies in reserves established from bond proceeds shall have been remedied.

On the first day of each month commencing after October of 1985, moneys, if any, on deposit in the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Completion Note Subordinate Fund shall, subject to appropriation by law, be paid in full to the Authority or upon its direction to the trustee or trustees for bond holders of bonds issued by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority subsequent to September of 1985 which by their terms are payable from moneys received from the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Completion Note Subordinate Fund for the purposes specified in the first paragraph of this Section and in Section 10.1 of this Act, such trustee or trustees having been designated pursuant to ordinance of the Authority, until an amount equal to 100% of the aggregate amount of such principal and interest in such fiscal year, including pursuant to sinking fund requirements, has been so paid and deficiencies in reserves established from bond proceeds shall have been remedied.

The State of Illinois pledges to and agrees with the holders of the bonds of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority issued pursuant to this Section that the State will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority by this Act so as to impair the terms of any contract made by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority with such holders or in any way impair the rights and remedies of such holders until such bonds, together with interest thereon, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceedings by or on behalf of such holders, are fully met and discharged. In addition, the State pledges to and agrees with the holders of the bonds of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority issued pursuant to this Act that the State will not limit or alter the basis on which State funds are to be paid to the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority as provided in this Act, or the use of such funds, so as to impair the terms of any such contract. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority is authorized to include these pledges and agreements of the State in any contract with the holders of bonds issued pursuant to this Section.

The State shall not be liable on bonds of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority issued under this Act, and such bonds shall not be a debt of the State, nor shall this Act be construed as a guarantee by the State of the debts of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority. The bonds shall contain a statement to such effect on the face thereof.

(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)