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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability

§ 2147. Oversight Board authority related to debt issuance

Statutory text

For so long as the Oversight Board remains in operation, no territorial government may, without the prior approval of the Oversight Board, issue debt or guarantee, exchange, modify, repurchase, redeem, or enter into similar transactions with respect to its debt.

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.

  1. Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act

    Pub. L. 114–187 title II § 207 · 130 Stat. 549

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 2147

    (Pub. L. 114–187, title II, § 207, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 575.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 114–187, title II, § 207, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 575.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 207. OVERSIGHT BOARD AUTHORITY RELATED TO DEBT ISSUANCE.   For so long as the Oversight Board remains in operation, no territorial government may, without the prior approval of the Oversight Board, issue debt or guarantee, exchange, modify, repurchase, redeem, or enter into similar transactions with respect to its debt.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 114–187, title II, § 207, , 130 Stat. 575.)

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