In all cases where any county, municipal or public corporation or
other political subdivision of the State or where any instrumentality
or agency of said county, municipal or public corporation or other
political subdivision shall have issued and sold or may hereafter issue
and sell, pursuant to proper authority duly granted, securities which,
by such authority or by the resolution or ordinance providing for the
same, are issued subject to a separate indenture or agreement or are
limited, as to the payment of the principal and interest thereof, to
the proceeds of the collection of special assessments, tolls, rents,
special taxes, or other limited sources of revenue, or where such
principal and interest are, by such authority, resolution or ordinance,
made payable only from some special fund established for that purpose,
or where such issuer is limited by law in the amount or rate of
taxation which may be levied or imposed for the purpose of paying such
principal and interest, or where provision is made for the registration
of any such securities as to both principal and interest, then,
notwithstanding the provisions of the Commercial Law Article, as to
negotiable instruments, such securities shall nevertheless pass as
negotiable instruments and shall possess all the attributes thereof,
but no more, as are possessed by securities which any such issuer could
or might be authorized to issue on its full faith and credit, payable
to bearer, secured as to payment of principal and interest by its
unlimited taxing power, provided always that the securities herein
referred to shall comply in all other respects with those provisions as
to negotiable instruments.
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