Qualified Small Issue Bond
A type of private activity bond (PAB) permitted under Section 144(a) of the Code of under $1,000,000 in face value to finance certain projects relating to manufacturing facilities.
Although technically Industrial Development Bonds do not exist under the Code, the 1954 Code term is still in use. Under the 1954 Code, the term Industrial Development Bonds was used to describe what are now referred to as Private Activity Bonds (PABs) and, most frequently, Qualified Small Issue Bonds.
A type of private activity bond (PAB) permitted under Section 144(a) of the Code of under $1,000,000 in face value to finance certain projects relating to manufacturing facilities.
The term used in the Code to describe any bond issued as part of a bond issue that meets both of the private business tests or meets the private loan financing test.

Bonds which may be issued in the future under the same master indenture, bond resolution/ordinance, and related documentation upon meeting certain conditions designed to ensure that the revenues available to repay the original bonds, any currently outstanding additional bonds, and the proposed additional bonds will be sufficient (the “additional bonds test”).