Sec. 23. (a) The legislative body of a city that has entered into an approved lease contract under this chapter shall annually levy a tax sufficient to produce each year the necessary revenues that, with other available money, are sufficient to pay the lease rental provided to be paid in the lease from taxes.

     (b) In fixing and determining the amount of the necessary levy to pay lease rental payable from taxes, the legislative body may take into consideration amounts that have been transferred from the net revenues of the convention center to a fund for payment of lease rental. This chapter does not relieve the city from the obligation to pay from taxes any lease rental payable from taxes if other funds are not available for that purpose. The tax levies are reviewable by other bodies vested by statute with authority to ascertain that the levies are sufficient to raise the amount that, with other money available, will be sufficient to meet the rental which under the lease contract is payable from taxes. The annual lease rental shall be paid semiannually to the authority or to the corporate trustee under any trust indenture following settlements of tax collections.

As added by Acts 1982, P.L.218, SEC.4.