Validation

All outstanding refunding public securities of the state and of all public bodies thereof, and all acts and proceedings had or taken, or purportedly had or taken prior to April 27, 1963, by or on behalf of the state or any public body thereof under law or under color of law preliminary to and in the authorization, execution, sale, issuance, and payment, or any combination thereof, of all such public securities are hereby validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed, including but not necessarily limited to the terms, provisions, conditions, and covenants of any ordinance appertaining thereto, the redemption of public securities before maturity and provisions therefor, the levy and collection of rates, tolls, and charges and other revenues appertaining to such public securities, and the acquisition and application of such other revenues, the pledge and use of the proceeds thereof, and the establishment of liens thereon and funds therefor, appertaining to such public securities, except as provided in this article, notwithstanding any lack of power, authority, or otherwise, other than constitutional, and notwithstanding any defects and irregularities, other than constitutional, in such public securities, acts, and proceedings, and in such authorization, execution, sale, issuance, and payment, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing such acts and proceedings appertaining to such public securities all or any part of which have not been issued nor purportedly issued prior to April 27, 1963. Such outstanding public securities are and shall be, and such public securities not issued nor purportedly issued prior to said date shall be, after their issuance, binding, legal, valid, and enforceable obligations of the state or the public body issuing them in accordance with their terms and their authorizing proceedings, subject to the taking or adoption of acts and proceedings not had nor taken nor purportedly had nor taken prior to April 27, 1963, but required by and in substantial and due compliance with laws appertaining to any such public securities not issued nor purportedly issued prior to said date.