1. (a) A tax area must be established by resolution. A resolution establishing a tax area must provide for the allocation of covered taxes attributable to a taxable event or covered taxes earned in the tax area to the professional sports and convention development area fund established for the city or county. The allocation provision must apply to the entire tax area. The following apply to Allen County:

   1. (1) The fund required by this subsection is the coliseum professional sports and convention development area fund. This fund shall be administered by the Allen County Memorial Coliseum board of trustees.

   2. (2) The allocation each year must be as follows:

      1. (A) The first two million six hundred thousand dollars ($2,600,000) shall be transferred to the county treasurer for deposit in the coliseum professional sports and convention development area fund.

      2. (B) The remaining amount shall be transferred to the treasurer of the joint county-city capital improvement board in the county.

         The resolution must provide the tax area terminates not later than December 31, 2027. However, in the case of a tax area located in Allen County, the resolution must provide that the tax area terminates before the later of January 1, 2028, or if the designating body takes final action on the financing for the facility or proposed facility before January 1, 2015, a date agreed to jointly by the budget agency and the designating body that established the tax area. However, the date agreed to jointly may not be later than twenty-five (25) years after the debt to finance the facility or proposed facility is issued. The budget agency must approve the final financing for the facility or proposed facility. Any bonds issued to finance the facility or proposed facility must have a maturity of less than twenty-five (25) years.

2. (b) In addition to subsection (a), all of the salary, wages, bonuses, and other compensation that are:

   1. (1) paid during a taxable year to a professional athlete for professional athletic services;
   2. (2) taxable in Indiana; and

   3. (3) earned in the tax area;

      shall be allocated to the tax area if the professional athlete is a member of a team that plays the majority of the professional athletic events that the team plays in Indiana in the tax area.

3. (c) For a tax area that is:

   1. (1) not located in a county having a population of more than three hundred thousand (300,000) but less than four hundred thousand (400,000); and

   2. (2) not located in a city having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) but less than one hundred ten thousand (110,000);

      the total amount of state revenue captured by the tax area may not exceed five dollars ($5) per resident of the city or county per year for twenty (20) consecutive years.

4. (d) For a tax area that is located in a city having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) but less than one hundred ten thousand (110,000), the total amount of state revenue captured by the tax area may not exceed six dollars and fifty cents ($6.50) per resident of the city per year for twenty (20) consecutive years.
5. (e) The resolution establishing the tax area must designate the facility or proposed facility and the facility site for which the tax area is established.
6. (f) The department may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 and guidelines to govern the allocation of covered taxes to a tax area.

As added by P.L.255-1997(ss), SEC.20. Amended by P.L.176-2009, SEC.26; P.L.182-2009(ss), SEC.511; P.L.119-2012, SEC.212; P.L.137-2012, SEC.121; P.L.100-2014, SEC.3.