3237 - Capital reserve fund.

§  3237.  Capital  reserve  fund.  1. The corporation shall create and  establish one or more special  funds  (each  herein  referred  to  as  a  capital  reserve  fund),  which may be funded initially from proceeds of  bonds or notes of the corporation issued pursuant to this title,  in  an  amount  equal  to  the  capital reserve fund requirement of the bonds or  notes secured thereby. All amounts held in a capital reserve fund  shall  be  used solely for the payment of principal of or interest on the bonds  or notes secured thereby, sinking fund payments thereon, the  redemption  thereof  and payments to providers of bond or note facilities in respect  of payments of such principal, interest or sinking fund payments made by  them, in accordance with  the  applicable  provisions  of  any  and  all  resolutions and trust indentures, if any, securing such bonds and notes.  Any  income or interest, not required to be rebated to the United States  to provide for continued exclusion from gross income for federal  income  tax  purposes  of  interest  on  the bonds and notes of the corporation,  earned by, or  increment  to,  the  capital  reserve  fund  due  to  the  investment  thereof,  in  excess  of  the  amount  thereof needed to pay  interest on the bonds or notes issued to fund the capital reserve  fund,  shall  be  used  to  pay  debt  service  on bonds or notes issued by the  corporation. Any amounts released from a capital reserve fund  shall  be  applied, or set aside to be applied when practicable, by the corporation  to  the  payment  of  principal  on the applicable bonds or notes, or to  redemption thereof or to the providers of bond or note facilities.    2. In computing the  amount  of  the  capital  reserve  fund  for  the  purposes  of this section, obligations in which all or a portion of such  fund shall be invested shall be valued at par if purchased at par or, if  purchased at a premium above or a discount below par, the value  at  any  given  date  obtained by dividing the total premium or discount at which  such obligations were purchased by the number of interest payment  dates  remaining  to  maturity  on such obligations after such purchase, and by  multiplying the number so calculated by the number of  interest  payment  dates having passed since the date of such purchase; and (i) in the case  of  such  obligations  purchased  at a premium, by deducting the product  thus obtained from the purchase price; and (ii)  in  the  case  of  such  obligations purchased at a discount, by adding the product thus obtained  to  the  purchase price. In lieu of a deposit of money or obligations to  the capital reserve fund, the corporation, having  due  regard  for  the  security  and marketability of all affected bonds and notes, may satisfy  the whole or any portion of the  capital  reserve  fund  requirement  by  providing  one  or more surety agreements, insurance agreements, letters  of credit or other type  of  agreement  or  arrangement  satisfying  the  provisions  of  all  applicable resolutions or trust indentures, if any,  each of which provides for  the  availability,  at  all  times  required  thereunder,  of  the  amount of money or the value of the obligations in  lieu of the deposit of which such agreement or arrangement is provided.