§ 9. Bonds.  


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  • Bonds may be issued by the authority for the purposes herein provided in an amount, including any bonds then outstanding, not exceeding $40 million provided the issuance of such bonds shall have been approved by the council of the city and thereafter by a majority of the votes cast in an election in which a majority of the qualified electors residing in the county participate. For the prompt payment of the principal and interest of [ sic ] and interest on such bonds, the authority is hereby authorized and required to certify to the council, as provided in section 16, an amount to be derived form [from] an annual ad valorem tax, levied as provided in section 16(a), sufficient to pay such principal and interest as the same respectively become due and payable, and the proceeds of the taxes shall be deposited as received to the credit of a sinking fund and used for no other purposes than for the payment of such principal and interest; provided, however, that the revenues derived from the operation of any facility or any combination of the facilities of the authority shall, if so authorized by the resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds, be deposited to the credit of the sinking fund for such bonds and in that event the amount of the annual certification herein required may be reduced in any year by the amount of such revenues actually received in the preceding year (excluding any depreciation fund) and then remaining on deposit to the credit of the sinking fund for the payment of such principal and interest.

(Laws of Fla., Ch. 65-1499; Laws of Fla., Ch. 79-449, § 1)