Sec. 34. (a) Except as provided by subsection (d), an eligible entity that executes a lease under this chapter shall annually levy a tax sufficient to produce each year the necessary money with which to pay the lease rental required by the lease. These levies may be reviewed by other bodies vested by law with that authority, in order to determine that the levies are sufficient to raise the amount required to meet the rental under the lease.

     (b) The first tax levy shall be made at the first annual tax levy period following the date of the execution of the lease. However, if the lease was entered into in anticipation of the purchase of land, construction or purchase of a government building, or acquisition of a system, the first tax levy shall be made at the first annual tax levy period immediately before the date fixed in the lease for the beginning of the lease rental. The first annual levy shall be made in an amount sufficient to pay the estimated amount of the first annual lease rental to be made under the lease.

     (c) The annual lease rental shall be paid to the authority semiannally, following settlements for tax collections.

     (d) If a consolidated city executes a lease agreement for all or part of any land, government building, or system, and its use and benefit is for a certain special service district within the consolidated city, the authority may determine that the annual tax required under subsection (a) shall be levied by the special service district benefited by the lease agreement.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-8-4-23.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.86. Amended by P.L.37-1988, SEC.40.