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The provision allowed the authority, near the expiration of its original bonds, to issue new bonds with a term of up to 40 years for any corporate purpose, potentially unrelated to the original project.

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“And those new ones could be, quote, "for any other corporate purpose," end quote. So just before the original bonds were about to expire, the authority now had the right to issue a totally fresh 40-year note for a potentially totally different use.”
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