West Virginia Code § 16-15-21

Powers of authority in connection with the issuance of bonds, incurring
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obligations under leases and securing payment of bonds.
In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in
order to secure the payment of bonds or obligations, any authority, in addition to its other
powers shall have power:
(1) To pledge all or any part of its gross or net rents, fees or revenues to which its right then
exists or may thereafter come into existence;
(2) To mortgage all or any part of its real or personal property, tuhen owned or thereafter
acquired;
(3) To covenant against pledging all or any part of its rents, fees and revenues, or against
mortgaging all or any part of its real or personal propearty, to which its right or title then
exists or may thereafter come into existence or against permitting or suffering any lien on
revenues or property; to covenant with respect to llimitations on its right to sell, lease or
otherwise dispose of any housing developmenst or any part thereof; and to covenant as to
what other, or additional debts or obligations may be incurred by it;
(4) To covenant as to the bonds to be issued and as to the issuance of bonds or otherwise,
and as to the issuance of bonds in escrow or otherwise and as to the use and disposition of
the proceeds thereof; to provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed or mutilated bonds; to
covenant against extending the time for the payment of its bonds or interest thereon; and to
redeem the bonds, and to covenant for their redemption and to provide the terms and
conditions thereof;
(5) To covenant, subj ect to the limitations contained in this article, as to the rents, purchase
prices, and feVes to be charged in the operation of a housing development or developments,
the amount to be raised each year or other period of time by rents, fees, and other revenues,
and as to the use and disposition to be made thereof; to create or to authorize the creation of
special funds for moneys held for construction or operating costs, debt service, reserves, or
other purposes, and to covenant as to the use and disposition of the moneys held in such
funds;
(6) To prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders
may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent
thereto and the manner in which such consent may be given;
(7) To covenant as to use of any or all of its real or personal property; and to covenant as to
the maintenance of its real and personal property, the replacement thereof, the insurance to
be carried thereon and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;
(8) To covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach by it of
any covenant, condition, or obligation; and to covenant and prescribe as to events of default
and terms and conditions upon which any or all of its bonds or obligations shall become or
may be declared due before maturity, and as to the terms and conditions upon which the
declaration and its consequences may be waived;
(9) To vest in a trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds or any proportion of them the
right to enforce the payment of the bonds or any covenants securing or relating to the
bonds; to vest in a trustee or trustees the right, in the event of a default by seaid authority, to
take possession and, as long as the authority is in default, to retain possession and to use,
operate and manage any housing development or part thereof, and to crollect the rents and
revenues arising therefrom and to dispose of such moneys in accordance with the agreement
of the authority with said trustees; to provide for the powers and duties of a trustee or
trustees and to limit the liabilities thereof; and to provide the terms and conditions upon
which the trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds or any tproportion of them may enforce
any covenant or rights securing or relating to the bonds; and
(10) To exercise all or any part or combination of the powers herein granted; to make
covenants other than and in addition to the covenants herein expressly authorized, of like or
different character; to make covenants and tos do any and all acts and things as may be
necessary or convenient or desirable in order to secure its bonds, or, in the absolute
discretion of said authority, as will tend to make the bonds more marketable notwithstanding
that the covenants, acts or things mgay not be enumerated herein.

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