County can use general obligation bonds for projects

(a) For any project initiated pursuant to this chapter, the council, in lieu of the issuance of tax increment bonds, may in its sole discretion issue general obligation bonds of the County or authorize payment of the required amount from the general fund of the County. The proceeds of such general obligation bonds or any amount paid by the County out of the general fund shall be deposited in the tax increment fund for the appropriate district and expended only in accordance with section (b) All such general obligation bonds shall be authorized, issued and sold under, pursuant to, and in accordance with chapter 47, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, as amended, all of the provisions of which chapter shall be applicable thereto. Without limiting the generality of the provisions of the foregoing sentence, the form, name, date, denomination, numbers, maximum interest rate, method of execution and all other details of such general obligation bonds shall be fixed and determined in accordance with and as provided by chapter 47. No right of prior redemption needs to be reserved in the issuance of such bonds, nor shall either the amounts or dates of the maturities of any such bonds be required to conform in any way to the amounts of tax increments to be collected. (c) The validity of such general obligation bonds shall not be dependent on or affected in any way by any proceedings taken or any contracts made, acts performed or done in connection with, or in furtherance of, any improvement or any assessments for such improvement. (d) If general obligation bonds are issued as provided in this section, all moneys collected on account of the tax increment may, to the extent so directed by the council, be applied to the reimbursement of the general fund of the County to the extent of the amounts paid for interest on and principal of such general obligation bonds. Any amounts collected on account of the tax increment as aforesaid to the extent not so directed by the council to be applied to such reimbursement or in excess of the amounts required for such reimbursement shall be applied in the manner set forth in section 33-17. (e) The provisions of sections 33-23, 33-24, 33-25, 33-26 and 33-27 shall not apply to the general obligation bonds authorized by this section and such sections shall be restricted in their application to tax increment bonds. (1994, ord 94-76, sec 3.)33-29 Article 5. Refunding Bonds.