Citations Affected: IC 6-6-1.1-801.5; IC 8-16-3-3.
Synopsis: Gasoline tax distributions. Allocates one-ninth of the
gasoline tax revenue to each county to replace property tax revenue for
the county's cumulative bridge fund beginning in 2010. Bases each
county's share on the county's 2008 cumulative bridge fund levy.
Eliminates the county cumulative bridge fund property tax levy
beginning in 2010.
Effective: January 1, 2010.
January 13, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local
government.
county shall deposit the distribution in the county's
cumulative bridge fund established under IC 8-16-3 and may
use the money only for purposes permitted by IC 8-16-3.
(b) The administrator shall transfer one-eighteenth (1/18) of the
taxes that are collected under this chapter to the state highway fund.
(c) The administrator shall transfer one-eighteenth (1/18) of the
taxes that are collected under this chapter to the auditor of state for
distribution to counties, cities, and towns. The auditor of state shall
distribute the amounts transferred under this subsection to each of the
counties, cities, and towns eligible to receive a distribution from the
motor vehicle highway account under IC 8-14-1 and in the same
proportion among the counties, cities, and towns as funds are
distributed from the motor vehicle highway account under IC 8-14-1.
Money distributed under this subsection may be used only for purposes
that money distributed from the motor vehicle highway account may be
expended under IC 8-14-1.
(d) After the transfers required by subsections (a) through (c), the
administrator shall transfer the next twenty-five million dollars
($25,000,000) of the taxes that are collected under this chapter and
received during a period beginning July 1 of a year and ending June 30
of the immediately succeeding year to the auditor of state for
distribution in the following manner:
(1) thirty percent (30%) to each of the counties, cities, and towns
eligible to receive a distribution from the local road and street
account under IC 8-14-2 and in the same proportion among the
counties, cities, and towns as funds are distributed under
IC 8-14-2-4;
(2) thirty percent (30%) to each of the counties, cities, and towns
eligible to receive a distribution from the motor vehicle highway
account under IC 8-14-1 and in the same proportion among the
counties, cities, and towns as funds are distributed from the motor
vehicle highway account under IC 8-14-1; and
(3) forty percent (40%) to the Indiana department of
transportation.
(e) The auditor of state shall hold all amounts of collections
received under subsection (d) from the administrator that are made
during a particular month and shall distribute all of those amounts
pursuant to subsection (d) on the fifth day of the immediately
succeeding month.
(f) All amounts distributed under subsection (d) may only be used
for purposes that money distributed from the motor vehicle highway
account may be expended under IC 8-14-1.