[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 26CFR1.141-0]

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                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
    CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1_INCOME TAXES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.141-0  Table of contents.

    This section lists the captioned paragraphs contained in Sec. Sec. 
1.141-1 through 1.141-16.

       Sec. 1.141-1 Definitions and rules of general application.

    (a) In general.
    (b) Certain general definitions.
    (c) Elections.
    (d) Related parties.

                Sec. 1.141-2 Private activity bond tests.

    (a) Overview.
    (b) Scope.
    (c) General definition of private activity bond.
    (d) Reasonable expectations and deliberate actions.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Reasonable expectations test.

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    (3) Deliberate action defined.
    (4) Special rule for dispositions of personal property in the 
ordinary course of an established governmental program.
    (5) Special rule for general obligation bond programs that finance a 
large number of separate purposes.
    (e) When a deliberate action occurs.
    (f) Certain remedial actions.
    (g) Examples.

            Sec. 1.141-3 Definition of private business use.

    (a) General rule.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Indirect use.
    (3) Aggregation of private business use.
    (b) Types of private business use arrangements.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Ownership.
    (3) Leases.
    (4) Management contracts.
    (5) Output contracts.
    (6) Research agreements.
    (7) Other actual or beneficial use.
    (c) Exception for general public use.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Use on the same basis.
    (3) Long-term arrangements not treated as general public use.
    (4) Relation to other use.
    (d) Other exceptions.
    (1) Agents.
    (2) Use incidental to financing arrangements.
    (3) Exceptions for arrangements other than arrangements resulting in 
ownership of financed property by a nongovernmental person.
    (4) Temporary use by developers.
    (5) Incidental use.
    (6) Qualified improvements.
    (e) Special rule for tax assessment bonds.
    (f) Examples.
    (g) Measurement of private business use.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Measurement period.
    (3) Determining average percentage of private business use.
    (4) Determining the average amount of private business use for a 1-
year period.
    (5) Common areas.
    (6) Allocation of neutral costs.
    (7) Commencement of measurement of private business use.
    (8) Examples.

             Sec. 1.141-4 Private security or payment test.

    (a) General rule.
    (1) Private security or payment.
    (2) Aggregation of private payments and security.
    (3) Underlying arrangement.
    (b) Measurement of private payments and security.
    (1) Scope.
    (2) Present value measurement.
    (c) Private payments.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Payments taken into account.
    (3) Allocation of payments.
    (d) Private security.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Security taken into account.
    (3) Pledge of unexpended proceeds.
    (4) Secured by any interest in property or payments.
    (5) Payments in respect of property.
    (6) Allocation of security among issues.
    (e) Generally applicable taxes.
    (1) General rule.
    (2) Definition of generally applicable taxes.
    (3) Special charges.
    (4) Manner of determination and collection.
    (5) Payments in lieu of taxes.
    (f) Certain waste remediation bonds.
    (1) Scope.
    (2) Persons that are not private users.
    (3) Persons that are private users.
    (g) Examples.

                Sec. 1.141-5 Private loan financing test.

    (a) In general.
    (b) Measurement of test.
    (c) Definition of private loan.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Application only to purpose investments.
    (3) Grants.
    (4) Hazardous waste remediation bonds.
    (d) Tax assessment loan exception.
    (1) General rule.
    (2) Tax assessment loan defined.
    (3) Mandatory tax or other assessment.
    (4) Specific essential governmental function.
    (5) Equal basis requirement.
    (6) Coordination with private business tests.
    (e) Examples.

              Sec. 1.141-6 Allocation and accounting rules.

    (a) Allocation of proceeds to expenditures.
    (b) Allocation of proceeds to property. [Reserved]
    (c) Special rules for mixed use facilities. [Reserved]
    (d) Allocation of proceeds to common areas. [Reserved]
    (e) Allocation of proceeds to bonds. [Reserved]
    (f) Treatment of partnerships. [Reserved]
    (g) Examples. [Reserved]

           Sec. 1.141-7 Special rules for output facilities.

    (a) Overview.
    (b) Definitions.
    (1) Available output.
    (2) Measurement period.
    (3) Sale at wholesale.
    (4) Take contract and take or pay contract.

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    (5) Requirements contract.
    (6) Nonqualified amount.
    (c) Output contracts.
    (1) General rule.
    (2) Take contract or take or pay contract.
    (3) Requirements contract.
    (4) Output contract properly characterized as a lease.
    (d) Measurement of private business use.
    (e) Measurement of private security or payment.
    (f) Exceptions for certain contracts.
    (1) Small purchases of output.
    (2) Swapping and pooling arrangements.
    (3) Short-term output contracts.
    (4) Certain conduit parties disregarded.
    (g) Special rules for electric output facilities used to provide 
open access.
    (1) Operation of transmission facilities by nongovernmental persons.
    (2) Certain use by nongovernmental persons under output contracts.
    (3) Ancillary services.
    (4) Exceptions to deliberate action rules.
    (5) Additional transactions as permitted by the Commissioner.
    (h) Allocations of output facilities and systems.
    (1) Facts and circumstances analysis.
    (2) Illustrations.
    (3) Transmission and distribution contracts.
    (4) Allocation of payments.
    (i) Examples.

       Sec. 1.141-8 $15 million limitation for output facilities.

    (a) In general.
    (1) General rule.
    (2) Reduction in $15 million output limitation for outstanding 
issues.
    (3) Benefits and burdens test applicable.
    (b) Definition of project.
    (1) General rule.
    (2) Separate ownership.
    (3) Generating property.
    (4) Transmission and distribution.
    (5) Subsequent improvements.
    (6) Replacement property.
    (c) Examples.

          Sec. 1.141-9 Unrelated or disproportionate use test.

    (a) General rules.
    (1) Description of test.
    (2) Application of unrelated or disproportionate use test.
    (b) Unrelated use.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Use for the same purpose as government use.
    (c) Disproportionate use.
    (1) Definition of disproportionate use.
    (2) Aggregation of related uses.
    (3) Allocation rule.
    (d) Maximum use taken into account.
    (e) Examples.

         Sec. 1.141-10 Coordination with volume cap.[Reserved]

Sec. 1.141-11 Acquisition of nongovernmental output property.[Reserved]

                    Sec. 1.141-12 Remedial actions.

    (a) Conditions to taking remedial action.
    (1) Reasonable expectations test met.
    (2) Maturity not unreasonably long.
    (3) Fair market value consideration.
    (4) Disposition proceeds treated as gross proceeds for arbitrage 
purposes.
    (5) Proceeds expended on a governmental purpose.
    (b) Effect of a remedial action.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Effect on bonds that have been advance refunded.
    (c) Disposition proceeds.
    (1) Definition.
    (2) Allocating disposition proceeds to an issue.
    (3) Allocating disposition proceeds to different sources of funding.
    (d) Redemption or defeasance of nonqualified bonds.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Special rule for dispositions for cash.
    (3) Notice of defeasance.
    (4) Special limitation.
    (5) Defeasance escrow defined.
    (e) Alternative use of disposition proceeds.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Special rule for use by 501(c)(3) organizations.
    (f) Alternative use of facility.
    (g) Rules for deemed reissuance.
    (h) Authority of Commissioner to provide for additional remedial 
actions.
    (i) Effect of remedial action on continuing compliance.
    (j) Nonqualified bonds.
    (1) Amount of nonqualified bonds.
    (2) Allocation of nonqualified bonds.
    (k) Examples.

               Sec. 1.141-13 Refunding issues.[Reserved]

                    Sec. 1.141-14 Anti-abuse rules.

    (a) Authority of Commissioner to reflect substance of transactions.
    (b) Examples.

                     Sec. 1.141-15 Effective dates.

    (a) Scope.
    (b) Effective dates.
    (1) In general.
    (2) Certain short-term arrangements.
    (3) Certain prepayments.
    (c) Refunding bonds.
    (d) Permissive application of regulations.
    (e) Permissive retroactive application of certain sections.
    (f) Effective dates for certain regulations relating to output 
facilities.
    (1) General rule.

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    (2) Transition rule for requirements contracts.
    (g) Refunding bonds for output facilities.
    (h) Permissive retroactive application.
    (i) Permissive application of certain regulations relating to output 
facilities.

   Sec. 1.141-16 Effective dates for qualified private activity bond 
                               provisions.

    (a) Scope.
    (b) Effective dates.
    (c) Permissive application.

[T.D. 8712, 62 FR 2283, Jan. 16, 1997, as amended by T.D. 8757, 63 FR 
3259, Jan. 22, 1998; T.D. 8941, 66 FR 4664, Jan. 18, 2001; T.D. 9016, 67 
FR 59759, Sept. 23, 2002; T.D. 9085, 68 FR 45775, Aug. 4, 2003]

          Tax Exemption Requirements for State and Local Bonds