Sec. 9. (a) If the governing body of a school corporation finds and declares that an emergency exists to borrow money with which to pay current expenses from a particular fund before the receipt of revenues from taxes levied or state tuition support distributions for the fund, the governing body may issue warrants in anticipation of the receipt of the revenues.

     (b) The principal of warrants issued under subsection (a) is payable solely from the fund for which the taxes are levied or from the school corporation’s education fund in the case of anticipated state tuition support distributions. However, the interest on the warrants may be paid from the debt service fund, from the operations fund, or the education fund in the case of anticipated state tuition support distributions. A governing body may not increase the debt service fund levy to pay for the interest on the warrants unless the warrants have been authorized by the governing body in a resolution adopted at a public meeting in the year immediately preceding the year in which the warrants will be issued.

     (c) The amount of principal of temporary loans maturing on or before June 30 for any fund may not exceed eighty percent (80%) of the amount of taxes and state tuition support distributions estimated to be collected or received for and distributed to the fund at the June settlement.

     (d) The amount of principal of temporary loans maturing after June 30 and on or before December 31 may not exceed eighty percent (80%) of the amount of taxes and state tuition support distributions estimated to be collected or received for and distributed to the fund at the December settlement.

     (e) The county auditor or the auditor’s deputy shall determine the estimated amount of taxes and state tuition support distributions to be collected or received and distributed. The warrants evidencing a loan in anticipation of tax revenue or state tuition support distributions may not be delivered to the purchaser of the warrant and payment may not be made on the warrant before January 1 of the year the loan is to be repaid. However, the proceedings necessary for the loan may be held and carried out before January 1 and before the approval. The loan may be made even though a part of the last preceding June or December settlement has not been received.

     (f) Proceedings for the issuance and sale of warrants for more than one (1) fund may be combined. Separate warrants for each fund must be issued, and each warrant must state on the face of the warrant the fund from which the warrant’s principal is payable. An action to contest the validity of a warrant may not be brought later than fifteen (15) days after the first publication of notice of sale.

     (g) An issue of tax or state tuition support anticipation warrants may not be made if the total of all tax or state tuition support anticipation warrants exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) until the issuance is advertised for sale, bids are received, and an award is made by the governing body as required for the sale of bonds, except that the publication of notice of the sale is not necessary:

(1) outside the county; or

(2) more than ten (10) days before the date of sale.

[Pre-2006 Recodification Citation: 21-2-21-8.]

As added by P.L.2-2006, SEC.171. Amended by P.L.146-2008, SEC.524; P.L.244-2017, SEC.116; P.L.38-2021, SEC.71; P.L.136-2021, SEC.8; P.L.165-2021, SEC.169.