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Fla. Stat. § 132.03 (2025)

Interest; maturity; payment; right to redeem in advance.

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132.03 Interest; maturity; payment; right to redeem in advance.Such resolution or resolutions shall determine the rate or rates of interest to be paid, not exceeding 7.5 percent per annum, payable annually or at shorter intervals, and the maturity or maturities of the bonds which shall be at a time or times not exceeding 60 years from the date of the bonds (except that in the issuance of bonds of taxing districts where the maturities are fixed under the Constitution, then such maturities shall be in accordance with the maturities fixed in the constitutional provision), as well as determine the medium of payment and the place or places in Florida or any other state at which the principal and interest shall be payable. In the discretion of the governing body the right to redeem all or any of the bonds at par before maturity may be reserved upon terms and conditions to be fixed by resolution.
History.s. 3, ch. 15772, 1931; CGL 1936 Supp. 2383(3); s. 2, ch. 73-302.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1943–2001 · leading case: Dimmitt & Owens Fin., Inc. v. Green (In Re Green), 262 B.R. 557 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2001).
Dimmitt & Owens Fin., Inc. v. Green (In Re Green), 262 B.R. 557 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2001). · cites it 2× “” 18 Moore’s Federal Practice, § 132.03[4][b][i] (Matthew Bender 3d ed.)(Footnotes omitted).”
State v. City of Lakeland, 16 So. 2d 924 (Fla. 1943). · cites it 2× “Section 132.03 Florida Statutes 1941. It provides, further, that such unit may obligate itself to redeem any or all of its refunding bonds before maturity on such terms and conditions as the resolution authorizing such bonds may determine.”
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