Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 12 — Virgin Islands [1954]
§ 1574c. Priority for payment of principal and interest of revenue bonds or other obligations
Statutory text
Each issue of bonds or other obligations issued under subsection (a) of section 1574a of this title shall have a parity lien with every other issue of bonds or other obligations issued for payment of principal and interest out of revenues received under section 7652(b)(3) of title 26, except that issues guaranteed under section 1574b of this title shall have priority, according to the date of issue, over issues not so guaranteed and the revenues received under section 7652(b)(3) of title 26 shall be pledged for the payment of such bonds or other obligations.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 94–392 § 3 · 90 Stat. 1192
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1574c
Pub. L. 94–392, § 3, Aug. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 1195
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 94–392, § 3, Aug. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 1195Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. Each issue of bonds or other obligations issued under subsection Payment priorities. 48 USC 1574c. 26 USC 7652. (a) of the first section of this Act shall have priority for payment of principal and interest out of revenues received under section 28(b) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands in the order of the date of issue, except that issues guaranteed under section 2 shall have priority, according to the date of issue, over issues not so guaranteed and the revenues received under section 28(b) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands shall be pledged for the payment of such bonds or other obligations.Pub. L. 105–83 title I § 124(a) · 111 Stat. 1543
Substituted · 48 U.S.C. § 1574c
Pub. L. 105–83 substituted “a parity lien with every other issue of bonds or other obligations issued for payment” for “priority for payment”
Struck · 48 U.S.C. § 1574c
Pub. L. 105–83 struck out “in the order of the date of issue” before “, except that”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 105–83 substituted “a parity lien with every other issue of bonds or other obligations issued for payment” for “priority for payment” and struck out “in the order of the date of issue” before “, except that”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Priority of Bonds.— Section 3 of Public Law 94–392 (90 Stat. 1193, 1195) is amended— 48 USC 1574c. (1) by striking “priority for payment” and inserting “a parity lien with every other issue of bonds or other obligations issued for payment”; and (2) by striking “in the order of the date of issue”.Effective date note
Pub. L. 105–83, title I, § 124(b), Nov. 14, 1997, 111 Stat. 1567, provided that: “The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply to obligations issued on or after the date of enactment of this section [Nov. 14, 1997].”
3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
“Section 7652(b)(3) of title 26” substituted in text for “section 28(b) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands [68 Stat. 508]”, which was classified to section 3350(c) of former Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, on authority of section 7852(b) of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, which provided that any reference in any other law to a provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 be deemed a reference to the corresponding provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Section was not enacted as part of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands which comprises this chapter.
Amendments
1997—Pub. L. 105–83 substituted “a parity lien with every other issue of bonds or other obligations issued for payment” for “priority for payment” and struck out “in the order of the date of issue” before “, except that”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1997 Amendment
Pub. L. 105–83, title I, § 124(b), , 111 Stat. 1567, provided that: “The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply to obligations issued on or after the date of enactment of this section [].”
Credits
1976–1997 · 2 acts
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(Pub. L. 94–392, § 3, , 90 Stat. 1195; Pub. L. 105–83, title I, § 124(a), , 111 Stat. 1567.)