Sec. 51. (a) The board of directors of a public transportation corporation shall prepare an annual budget for the expenditures of the corporation.

     (b) This subsection applies only when a municipality, having operated an urban mass transportation system under a department of municipal government, establishes a public transportation corporation under section 10 of this chapter to maintain that system. The annual operating and maintenance budget for the corporation shall be subject to review and modification by the legislative body of the municipality.

     (c) A public transportation corporation may not impose a property tax levy on property that it has not taxed before January 1, 1982, and that lies outside the corporate boundaries of the municipality without the approval of the fiscal body or county council of the county in which the municipality is located.

     (d) The budget and any tax levies prepared by the board shall be prepared and submitted at the same time, in the same manner, and with the same notice as is prescribed by IC 6-1.1-17 for the annual budget of the municipality. The department of local government finance may review the budget and tax levies in the same manner by which the department reviews budgets and tax levies of the municipality.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-2-30.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.77. Amended by Acts 1982, P.L.217, SEC.2; P.L.90-2002, SEC.507; P.L.257-2019, SEC.159.