Sec. 6. (a) A school city wishing to make a temporary loan for its operations fund under this section may temporarily borrow money, without payment of interest, from the school city’s treasury if the school city has in its treasury money derived from the sale of bonds that cannot or will not in the due course of the business of the school city be expended in the near future. A school city shall, by its board, take the following steps required by law to obtain a temporary loan under this section:

(1) Present to the department of local government finance and the state board of accounts:

(A) a copy of the corporate action of the school city concerning the school city’s desire to make a temporary loan;

(B) a petition showing the particular need for a temporary loan;

(C) the amount and the date or dates when the operations fund will need the temporary loan or the installments of the loan;

(D) the date on which the loan and each installment of the loan will be needed;

(E) the estimated amounts from taxes to come into the operations fund;

(F) the dates when it is expected the proceeds of taxes will be received by the school city for the operations fund;

(G) the amount of money the school city has deposited in the operations fund that is derived from the proceeds of the sale of bonds that cannot or will not be expended in the near future; and

(H) a showing of when, to what extent, and why money deposited in the operations fund under clause (G) will not be expended in the near future.

(2) Request the department of local government finance and the state board of accounts to authorize a temporary loan for the operations fund.

     (b) If:

(1) the department of local government finance finds and orders that there is need for a temporary loan and that it should be made;

(2) the state board of accounts finds that the money proposed to be borrowed will not be needed during the period of the temporary loan by the fund from which it is to be borrowed; and

(3) the state board of accounts and the department of local government finance approve the loan;

the business manager and treasurer of the school city shall, upon the approval of the state board of accounts and the department of local government finance, take all steps necessary to transfer the amount of the loans as a temporary loan from the fund to be borrowed from to the operations fund of the school city. The loan is a debt of the school city chargeable against its constitutional debt limit.

     (c) The state board of accounts and the department of local government finance:

(1) may fix the total amount that may be borrowed on a petition; and

(2) shall determine:

(A) at what time or times;

(B) in what installments; and

(C) for what periods;

the money may be borrowed.

The treasurer and business manager of the school city, as money is collected from taxes levied on behalf of the operations fund, shall credit the amount of money collected from taxes levied to the loan until the amount borrowed is fully repaid to the fund from which the loan was made. The treasurer and business manager of the school city shall at the end of each calendar month report to the board the amounts applied from taxes to the payment of the loan.

     (d) The school city shall, as often as once a month, report to both the state board of accounts and the department of local government finance:

(1) the amount of money borrowed and unpaid;

(2) any anticipated similar borrowings for the current month;

(3) the amount left in the operations fund; and

(4) the anticipated drafts on the operations fund for the purposes for which the fund was created.

     (e) The state board of accounts and the department of local government finance, or either acting independently:

(1) if it appears that the fund from which the loan was made requires the repayment of all or part of the loan before maturity; or

(2) if the operations fund no longer requires all or part of the proceeds of the loan;

may require the school city to repay all or part of the loan. A school city shall, if necessary to repay all or part of a loan under this subsection, exercise its power to obtain a temporary loan from others under section 5 of this chapter to raise the money needed to repay the amount ordered repaid.

[Pre-2006 Recodification Citation: 20-25-4-8.]

As added by P.L.2-2006, SEC.171. Amended by P.L.244-2017, SEC.118.