A. A municipality may impose a stadium surcharge by majority vote of the governing body. If a stadium surcharge has been imposed, the municipality shall include a stadium surcharge in each vendor contract, and each vendor contract shall be signed by the chief executive officer.
B. Before establishing the amount of the stadium surcharge to be included in each vendor contract, the municipality shall notify the authority in writing of the proposed amount of the loan requested for the minor league baseball stadium and of the proposed amount of the surcharge to be included in each vendor contract. The authority shall review the proposed amount of the stadium surcharge and shall make a written recommendation to a municipality setting forth the minimum amount of the surcharge to be set forth in the loan and related documents. The minimum amount of the stadium surcharge shall never be less than five percent and may be any higher percentage recommended by the authority or otherwise established by the municipality.
C. After receipt of the written recommendation from the authority, a municipality shall establish the amount of the stadium surcharge to be included in each vendor contract, provided that the amount of the surcharge to be set forth in the loan and related documents shall be at least the minimum amount recommended by the authority.
D. The receipts from the stadium surcharge may be used by the municipality for all or any portion of:
(1) loan payments;
(2) costs of constructing, renovating, operating, maintaining or improving the minor league baseball stadium; or
(3) costs of collecting and otherwise administering the surcharge.
E. A municipality shall establish a fund for construction, renovation, operation, maintenance and improvement of a minor league baseball stadium for deposit of all receipts from the stadium surcharge that exceed the required loan payments, and all receipts deposited in that fund shall be used for such purposes and may also be used for the costs of collection and otherwise administering the surcharge.
History: Laws 2001, ch. 231, § 4.
Emergency clause. — Laws 2001, ch. 231, § 13 contained an emergency clause and was approved April 3, 2001.
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