Sec. 7. (a) The Indiana department of transportation shall notify a qualified county that makes a loan application of the department’s approval or disapproval of the application within sixty (60) days of the date of application. The decision made by the department to approve or disapprove a loan application is final.

     (b) The Indiana department of transportation and each qualified county for which a loan has been approved under this chapter shall enter into a loan agreement which shall specify, as a minimum, the purposes for which the loan is to be used and the terms of repayment of the loan. The terms must be consistent with subsection (c).

     (c) The maximum term of repayment of a loan made under this section is ten (10) years. A loan that is repaid within the term of repayment specified in the loan agreement is not subject to interest. If a loan is not fully repaid within the term of repayment, the balance that remains unpaid at the end of the term of repayment is subject to interest at the rate of twelve percent (12%) per year.

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.88, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.114-1983, SEC.3; P.L.18-1990, SEC.117.