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Fitch Rates NYS Thruway $458MM Trust Fund Bonds `A+'.


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 5, 2000

Fitch rates the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 State Thruway's $458,055,000 highway and bridge trust fund bonds, series 2000 B, 'A+'. In addition, its $3.3 billion outstanding trust fund bonds are affirmed at 'A+'. The bonds, expected July 12 through negotiation with a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite.  Dean Witter Dean Witter may refer to:
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, will be due April 1, 2001-20; call provisions are yet to be determined.

The authority has been designated the financing agency for the state's multi-year comprehensive transportation programs. The bonds are on a parity with $3.28 billion outstanding bonds but are separately secured from other authority bonds as well as from $2.2 billion state general obligation bonds issued for transportation purposes. Under the previous five-year plan Five-Year Plan, Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. , which has now expired, trust fund bonding of $4.75 billion was authorized au·thor·ize  
tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es
1. To grant authority or power to.

2. To give permission for; sanction:
. A new plan has been adopted, increasing the bonding to $10.25 billion and redirecting existing taxes and fees to the trust fund.

The highway and bridge trust fund bonds are special obligations, payable from dedicated highway revenues subject to annual appropriations by the state legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system.

The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions:
 in the form of cooperative agreement payments. The fund receives dedicated portions of the petroleum business tax (now providing about 44% of dedicated revenues), motor fuel tax, motor vehicle registration fees and the highway use tax. Revenue composition has varied somewhat, as changes have been made to the dedicated taxes and fees; yet the state has taken compensating actions to maintain the fund's integrity. With the adoption of the new capital plan, the fund will gradually receive additional shares of the motor fuel and petroleum business taxes as well as motor vehicle related fees. The new receipts, estimated to amount to $468 million annually by 2004-05, will be diverted from other existing uses, primarily the state's general fund. Currently, dedicated revenues provide 2.3 times (x) debt service coverage, close to the 2.0x additional bond test. Initially, coverage will widen from the new revenues, but given the size of the capital program, will likely move toward the test level.

The bonds enjoy additional security derived from various impoundment An action taken by the president in which he or she proposes not to spend all or part of a sum of money appropriated by Congress.

The current rules and procedures for impoundment were created by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.A.
 provisions, which are triggered if the legislature fails to appropriate. In the event of non-appropriation, the state would be unable to receive excess sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government.  revenues held by the Local Government Assistance Corp (LGAC LGAC Local Government Advisory Committee
LGAC Low Grazing Angle Clutter
). These moneys are received by the state's general fund after provision for debt service on LGAC bonds. In addition, the state would not receive funds from the highway and bridge trust fund capital account to provide for 'pay-as-you-go' transportation projects.

The state's commitment to these bonds is further evidenced by provisions for shortfalls in any appropriated amounts to be transferred from the capital account as well as from the state's general fund.

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