1. (a) The county executive of a county may authorize the furnishing of financial assistance to a community intellectual disability and other developmental disabilities center that is located or will be located in the county.

2. (b) Assistance authorized under this section shall be used for the following purposes:

   1. (1) Constructing a center.
   2. (2) Operating a center.
3. (c) Upon request of the county executive, the county fiscal body may appropriate annually from the county's general fund the money to provide financial assistance for the purposes described in subsection (b). For property taxes first due and payable before January 1, 2017, the appropriation may not exceed the amount that could be collected from an annual tax levy of not more than three and thirty-three hundredths cents ($0.0333) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of taxable property within the county.

4. (d) For property taxes first due and payable after December 31, 2016, the maximum allowable appropriation for the purposes described in subsection (b) is equal to the result of:

   1. (1) the maximum allowable appropriation by the county for the preceding year; multiplied by
   2. (2) the maximum levy growth quotient determined under IC 6-1.1-18.5-2 for the year.

5. (e) For purposes of this subsection, "first calendar year" refers to the first calendar year after 2008 in which the county imposes an ad valorem property tax levy for the county general fund to provide financial assistance under this chapter. If a county did not provide financial assistance under this chapter in 2008, the county for a following calendar year:

   1. (1) may propose a financial assistance budget; and

   2. (2) shall refer its proposed financial assistance budget for the first calendar year to the department of local government finance before the tax levy is advertised.

      The ad valorem property tax levy to fund the budget for the first calendar year is subject to review and approval under IC 6-1.1-18.5-10 .

      [Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 16-16-1-2.]

As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.23. Amended by P.L.6-1997, SEC.149; P.L.78-2004, SEC.10; P.L.182-2009(ss), SEC.299; P.L.117-2015, SEC.25; P.L.184-2016, SEC.23; P.L.159-2020, SEC.57.