81.00 Bond resolution, or note resolution or certificate, containing estoppel clause; publication and notice. a. If a resolution of a finance board authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes or the certificate of a chief fiscal officer authorizing the issuance of notes contains the statement referred to in section 80.00 of this chapter, such resolution after adoption, or a summary of such resolution, or such certificate after its execution and filing, shall be published in full by the clerk of the municipality, school district or district corporation or such other official or person as the finance board or such fiscal officer may designate, together with a notice in substantially the following form:
"The resolution (or the resolution a summary of which is) (or certificate) published herewith has been adopted (or authorized) on the day of ,19 , and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution (or certificate) may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the (Here insert name of municipality, school district or district corporation) is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution. ........................................................................
(Clerk or other official or person designated by the finance board or
chief fiscal officer)"
If a summary of such resolution is published as provided in this section, such summary shall list the class or classes of objects or purposes for which the obligations to be authorized by such resolution are to be issued together with the period or periods of probable usefulness and the amount of obligations to be issued for each such class of objects or purposes, and in addition, such summary shall state an office of the municipality, school district or district corporation where the resolution summarized thereby shall be available for public inspection. Such resolution shall be kept available for public inspection at such office during normal business hours for twenty days following the publication of such summary as provided in this title.
b. However, if such resolution is subject to a mandatory or permissive referendum, or is submitted to a referendum by the finance board on its own motion, such resolution or summary thereof shall not be published together with such notice until it shall have been approved at such a referendum or, in the case of a resolution subject to a permissive referendum, until the period of time shall have elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition shall not have been submitted and filed, and such notice shall state that such resolution has been approved at such a referendum or, in the case of a resolution subject to a permissive referendum, that the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed, as the case may be.
c. If any bond resolution or capital note resolution does not contain a determination of the period of probable usefulness of the specific object or purpose or class of objects or purposes for which such resolution authorizes the issuance of obligations, there shall be published, together with such resolution or summary thereof and notice, the certificate of the appropriate body or official containing such determination.
d. Such publication as shall be required by this section shall be in the official newspaper or newspapers of the municipality, school district or district corporation or if there be no such newspaper or newspapers, then in such newspaper or newspapers having a general circulation in the municipality, school district or district corporation as the finance board shall designate.
Last modified: February 3, 2019