Sec. 31. (a) The flood control board may levy a special benefit tax each year for the purpose of providing for the cost of operation, maintenance, and repair of the flood control works after the completion of the works, including the general expenses of the board, such as salary and wages, that the board finds are not properly chargeable to the proceeds of bonds issued under this chapter. The tax may not exceed eleven and sixty-seven hundredths cents ($0.1167) on each hundred dollars ($100) of taxable property in the district, as it appears on the tax duplicates.
(b) The property within the flood control district is conclusively presumed to be benefited to the extent of the annual tax by the maintenance of the district and the maintenance, operation, and repair of the flood control works.
(c) The county auditor shall estimate the tax and enter it upon the tax duplicates, and the county treasurer shall collect and enforce the tax in the same manner as state and county taxes are estimated, entered, collected, and enforced.
(d) The county treasurer charged with the duty of collecting the taxes shall, between the first and tenth days of each month, notify the flood control board of the amount of the tax collected during the preceding month. Upon the date of notification, the treasurer shall credit the amount collected to a fund designated as "__________ flood control district maintenance fund", which may be used only for the purposes stated in this section.
(e) The flood control board has complete and exclusive authority to expend, on behalf of the flood control district, all revenues realized under this section.
(f) The flood control board may, by resolution, authorize and make temporary loans in anticipation of the collection of the special benefit taxes actually levied and in course of collection under this section. The loans mature and shall be paid within the year in which they are made, and may bear interest at any rate payable at the maturity of the loan. The temporary loans shall be evidenced by warrants, and, if the amount of warrants to be issued exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000), they shall be sold at public sale in the same manner as the bonds of the district.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-4-18-17 part.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.105. Amended by P.L.6-1997, SEC.227.
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