Any bonds issued by a state or local government pursuant to this chapter, or otherwise, and the purchasers or holders thereof, shall be exempt from the usury provisions of Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution. Any loan, lease, installment sale, investment, forbearance of money, or other agreement between a user of the proceeds of or other moneys pledged to bonds and the issuer of the bonds, or entered into by or on behalf of the issuer of the bonds that provides for the use of the proceeds of the bonds or other moneys pledged to or securing the bonds, and the issuer of the bonds or any person acting on its behalf in connection with the foregoing shall be exempt from the usury provisions of Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution. This section creates and authorizes exempted classes of transactions and persons pursuant to Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution.
(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 231. Effective January 1, 2007.)