Section 998.067.

All bonds authorized by this article, when duly sold and delivered as provided herein, constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State of California, and the full faith credit of the State of California is hereby pledged for the punctual payment of both principal and interest thereof.

There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected a sum of money, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, sufficient to pay the principal and interest on these bonds as provided herein, and all officers required by law to perform any duty in regard to the collection of state revenues shall collect this additional sum.

On the dates on which funds are remitted pursuant to Section 16676 of the Government Code for the payment of the then maturing principal and interest of the bonds in each fiscal year, there shall be returned into the General Fund all of the money in the Veterans' Farm and Home Building Fund of 1943, not in excess of the principal of and interest on any bonds then due and payable, except as herein provided for the prior redemption of the bonds, and, if the money so returned on the remittance dates is less than the principal and interest then due and payable, the balance remaining unpaid shall be returned into the General Fund out of the Veterans' Farm and Home Building Fund of 1943 as soon as it shall become available, together with interest thereon from the dates of maturity until so returned at the same rate of interest as borne by the bonds, compounded semiannually.

(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 391, Sec. 1. Approved November 6, 1984, by adoption of Proposition 29.)