California · Government Code

GOV §53595.40: (a) Debt instruments issued under this article shall be payable solely from the tax increment revenues herein provided and not from any other assets or revenues of the issuing local agency.

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(a) Debt instruments issued under this article shall be payable solely from the tax increment revenues herein provided and not from any other assets or revenues of the issuing local agency. (b) The local agency issuing the debt instruments shall not pledge the faith or credit of the state or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof to secure the debt instruments. All debt instruments shall contain on the face thereof a statement to the effect that neither the State of California nor the local agency issuing the debt instruments shall be obligated to pay the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the debt instruments, except from the revenues of the local agency pledged for payment, and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State of California nor of any municipality or political subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the debt instruments. (c) The issuance of debt instruments under this article shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the state, a municipality, or any political subdivision of the state to levy or pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for the payment thereof.

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