(a) A municipality or a public transportation corporation that expends money for the establishment or maintenance of an urban mass transportation system under this chapter may acquire the money for these expenditures:

1. (1) by issuing bonds under section 43 or 44 of this chapter;
2. (2) by borrowing money made available for such purposes by any source;
3. (3) by accepting grants or contributions made available for such purposes by any source;
4. (4) in the case of a municipality, by appropriation from the general fund of the municipality, or from a special fund that the municipal legislative body includes in the municipality's budget; or
5. (5) in the case of a public transportation corporation, by levying a tax under section 49 of this chapter or by recommending an election to use revenue from the local income tax, as provided in subsection (c).

(b) Money may be acquired under this section for the purpose of exercising any of the powers granted by or incidental to this chapter, including:

1. (1) studies under section 4, 9, or 11 of this chapter;
2. (2) grants in aid;
3. (3) the purchase of buses or real property by a municipality for lease to an urban mass transportation system, including the payment of any amount outstanding under a mortgage, contract of sale, or other security device that may attach to the buses or real property;
4. (4) the acquisition by a public transportation corporation of property of an urban mass transportation system, including the payment of any amount outstanding under a mortgage, contract of sale, or other security device that may attach to the property;
5. (5) the operation of an urban mass transportation system by a public transportation corporation, including the acquisition of additional property for such a system; and
6. (6) the retirement of bonds issued and outstanding under this chapter.

(c) This subsection applies only to a public transportation corporation located in a county having a consolidated city. In order to provide revenue to a public transportation corporation during a year, the public transportation corporation board may recommend and the county fiscal body may elect to provide revenue to the corporation from part of the certified distribution, if any, that the county is to receive during that same year under IC 6-3.6-9 . To make the election, the county fiscal body must adopt an ordinance before November 1 of the preceding year. The county fiscal body must specify in the ordinance the amount of the certified distribution that is to be used to provide revenue to the corporation. If such an ordinance is adopted, the county fiscal body shall immediately send a copy of the ordinance to the county auditor.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-2-24.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.77. Amended by P.L.84-1987, SEC.15; P.L.5-1988, SEC.221; P.L.137-2012, SEC.123; P.L.197-2016, SEC.148.