Sec. 34.005. FINANCING

(a) A school district financially unable to immediately pay for a school motor vehicle, including a bus, bus body, or bus chassis, the district purchases may, as prescribed by this section, issue interest-bearing time warrants in amounts sufficient to make the purchase.

(b) The warrants must mature in serial installments not later than the fifth anniversary of the date of issue and bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate provided by Section 1204.006, Government Code. The warrants shall be issued and sold at not less than their face value.

(c) The proceeds of the sale of the warrants shall be used to provide the funds required for the purchase.

(d) The warrants, on maturity and in the order of their maturity dates, are payable out of any available funds of the school district and, as they become due, are entitled to first and prior payment out of those funds.

(e) Full records of all warrants issued and sold shall be kept by the school district.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 8.205, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.