Sec. 21. There is created a Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railway capital improvements fund. There is hereby appropriated the sum of three million six hundred thousand dollars ($3,600,000) to said fund. The fund shall be disbursed by the governor of the state of Indiana to any regional transportation authority, or commuter transportation district which has among its purposes the maintenance, operation and improvement of passenger service over the Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railway railroad and any extension thereof. As to capital improvements, the fund hereby appropriated shall only be expended at such time as the governor of the state of Indiana finds that the state of Illinois or any instrumentality thereof has appropriated and is ready to expend for Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railway passenger service improvement and development the sum of not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000), and the Indiana counties, through which the line runs, or instrumentalities thereof, have appropriated and are ready to expend for Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend Railway passenger service maintenance and improvement such sums as he may judge to be said counties' fair share of passenger service maintenance and improvement costs. Said costs to said counties may not exceed three million six hundred thousand dollars ($3,600,000) in the aggregate. Up to one million dollars ($1,000,000) of said fund may be expended at the discretion of the governor for the operation of said railroad.

Formerly: Acts 1975, P.L.79, SEC.1. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.107, SEC.1; Acts 1978, P.L.57, SEC.3; Acts 1980, P.L.74, SEC.60; P.L.95-1987, SEC.3; P.L.2-1995, SEC.41.