It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. The Town of North Smithfield is hereby empowered, in addition to authority previously granted, to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding four hundred ninety-five thousand dollars ($495,000) from time to time under its corporate name and seal. The bonds of each issue may be issued in the form of serial bonds or term bonds or a combination thereof and shall be payable either by maturity of principal in the case of serial bonds or by mandatory serial redemption in the case of term bonds, in annual installments of principal, the first installment to be not later than three (3) years and the last installment not later than thirty (30) years after the date of the bonds.

SECTION 2. The bonds shall be signed by the manual or facsimile signatures of the town finance director and the president of the town council and shall be issued and sold in such amounts as the town council may authorize. The manner of sale, denominations, maturities, interest rates and other terms, conditions and details of any bonds or notes issued under this act may be fixed by the proceedings of the town council authorizing the issue or by separate order or resolution of the town council or, to the extent provisions for these matters are not so made, they may be fixed by the officers authorized to sign the bonds or notes. The proceeds derived from the sale of the bonds shall be delivered to the finance director, and such proceeds, exclusive of premiums and accrued interest, shall be expended (a) for the purpose of financing the acquisition, preservation, restoration or improvement of recreational areas in the town (b) in payment of the principal of or interest on temporary notes issued under section three, (c) in repayment of advances under section four, or (d) in payment of related costs of issuance of any bonds or notes. No purchaser of any bonds or notes under this act shall be in any way responsible for the proper application of the proceeds derived from the sale thereof. The project shall be carried out and all contracts made therefor on behalf of the town, by the town council. The proceeds of bonds or notes issued under this act, any applicable federal or state assistance and the other moneys referred to in section six shall be deemed appropriated for the purposes of this act without further action than that required by this act.

SECTION 3. The town council may by resolution authorize the issue from time to time of interest bearing or discounted notes in anticipation of the issue of bonds or in anticipation of the receipt of federal or state aid for the purposes of this act. The amount of original notes issued in anticipation of bonds may not exceed the amount of bonds which may be issued under this act and the amount of original notes issued in anticipation of federal or state aid may not exceed the amount of available federal or state aid as estimated by the finance director. Temporary notes issued hereunder shall be signed by the finance director and by the president of the town council and shall be payable within five (5) years from their respective dates, but the principal of and interest on notes issued for a shorter period may be renewed or paid from time to time by the issue of other notes hereunder, provided the period from the date of an original note to the maturity of any note issued to renew or pay the same debt or the interest thereon shall not exceed five (5) years.

SECTION 4. Pending any authorization or issue of bonds hereunder or pending or in lieu of any authorization or issue of notes hereunder, the finance director, with the approval of the town council, may, to be extent that bonds or notes may be issued hereunder, apply funds in the treasury or the town to the purposes specified in section two, such advances to be repaid without interest from the proceeds of bonds or notes subsequently issued or from the proceeds of applicable federal or state assistance or from other available funds.

SECTION 5. Any proceeds of bonds or notes issued hereunder or of any applicable federal or state assistance, pending their expenditure, may be deposited or invested by the finance director in demand deposits, time deposits or savings deposits in banks which are members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or in obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States of America or by any agency or instrumentality thereof or as may be provided in any other applicable law of the state of Rhode Island.

SECTION 6. Any accrued interest received upon the sale of bonds or notes hereunder shall be applied to the payment of the first interest due thereon. Any premiums arising from the sale of bonds or notes hereunder and any earnings or net profit realized from the deposit or investment of funds hereunder shall, in the discretion of the forum director of finance, be applied to the cost of preparing, issuing, and marketing bonds or notes hereunder to the extent not otherwise provided, to the payment of the cost of the project, to the payment of the principal of or interest on bonds or notes issued hereunder, or to any one (1) or more of the foregoing. The cost of preparing, issuing, and marketing bonds or notes hereunder may also, in the discretion of the town director, be met from bond or note proceeds exclusive of premium and accrued interest or from other moneys available therefor. Any balance of bonds or note proceeds remaining after payment of the cost of the project and the cost of preparing, issuing and marketing bonds or notes hereunder shall be applied to the payment of the principal of or interest on bonds or notes issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by applicable federal laws, any earnings or net profit realized from the deposit or investment of funds hereunder may upon receipt be added to and dealt with as part of the revenues of the town from property taxes. In exercising any discretion under this section, the finance director shall be governed by any instructions adopted by resolution of the town council.

SECTION 7. All bonds and notes issued under this act and the debts evidenced thereby shall be obligatory on the town in the same manner and to the same extent as other debts lawfully contracted by it and shall be excepted from the operation of section 45-12-2 of the general laws. No such obligation shall at any time be included in the debt of the town for the purpose of ascertaining its borrowing capacity. The town shall annually appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the principal and interest coming due within the year on bonds and notes issued hereunder to the extent that moneys therefor are not otherwise provided. If such sum is not appropriated, it shall nevertheless be added to the annual tax levy. In order to provide such sum in each year and notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all taxable property in the town shall be subject to {ADD ad valorem ADD} taxation by the town without limitation as to rate or amount.

SECTION 8. Any bonds or notes issued under the provisions of this act, if properly executed by officers of the town in office on the date of execution, shall be valid and binding according to their terms notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all of such officers shall for any reason have ceased to hold office.

SECTION 9. The town, acting by resolution of its town council, is authorized to apply for, contract for and expend any federal or state advances or other grants expend any federal or state advances or other grants or assistance which may be available for the purposes of this act, and any such expenditures may be in addition to other moneys provided in this act. To the extent of any inconsistency between any law of this state and any applicable federal law or regulation, the latter shall prevail. Federal and state advances, with interest where applicable, whether contracted for, prior to or after the effective date of this act, may be repaid as project cost under section two.

SECTION 10. Bonds and notes may be issued under this act without obtaining the approval of any governmental agency or the taking of any proceedings or the happening of any conditions except as specifically required by this act for such issue. In carrying out any projects financed in whole or in part under this act, including where applicable the condemnation of any land or interest in land, and in the levy and collection of assessments or other charges permitted by law on account of any such projects, all action shall be taken which is necessary to meet constitutional requirements whether or not such action is otherwise required by statute; but the validity of bonds and notes issued hereunder shall in no way depend upon the validity or occurrence of such action.

SECTION 11. The question of the approval of this act shall be submitted to the electors of the town at the general or special election to be held no later than December 31, 1994, as shall be designated by the town council. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: "Shall an Act, passed at the 1994 session of the general assembly entitled 'AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD TO FINANCE THE ACQUISITION, PRESERVATION, RESTORATION OR IMPROVEMENT OF RECREATIONAL AREAS IN THE TOWN AND TO ISSUE NOT MORE THAN $495,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND/OR NOTES THEREFOR' be approved?" and the warning for the election shall contain the question to be submitted. From the time the election is warned and until it is held, it shall be the duty of the town clerk to keep a copy of the act available at his/her office for public inspection, but the validity of the election shall not be affected by this requirement.

SECTION 12. This section and the foregoing section shall take effect upon the passage of this act. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon the approval of this act by a majority of those voting on the question at the election prescribed by the foregoing section.