Sec. 2. (a) There is created a fund known as the industrial rail service fund. The fund shall consist of money distributed to the fund by IC 6-2.5-10-1 and IC 8-3-1.5-20. Amounts held in the fund may only be used to do the following:

(1) Provide loans to railroads that will be used to purchase or rehabilitate real or personal property that will be used by the railroad in providing railroad transportation services.

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 8-3-1.7-2

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(2) Pay operating expenses of the Indiana department of transportation, subject to appropriation by the general assembly.

(3) Provide fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) annually to the Indiana department of transportation for rail planning activities. Money distributed under this subdivision does not revert back to the state general fund at the end of a state fiscal year.

(4) Provide money for the high speed rail development fund under IC 8-23-25.

(5) Provide grants to a railroad owned or operated by a port authority established under IC 8-10-5.

(6) Make grants to a Class II or a Class III railroad for the rehabilitation of railroad infrastructure or railroad construction.

     (b) A grant made under subsection (a)(5) may not exceed twenty percent (20%) of the gross sales and use tax receipts deposited in the fund under IC 6-2.5-10-1 during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the grant is made.

     (c) A grant program under subsection (a)(6) must:

(1) provide a grant to a recipient of not more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the cost of the project; and

(2) require a grant recipient to pay for not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the cost of a project.

As added by Acts 1982, P.L.51, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.96-1985, SEC.1; P.L.95-1987, SEC.4; P.L.84-1988, SEC.2; P.L.18-1990, SEC.37; P.L.83-1991, SEC.1; P.L.100-1993, SEC.1; P.L.87-1997, SEC.2; P.L.121-2001, SEC.1; P.L.49-2024, SEC.2.