§ 7515. Payments involving two or more political subdivisions.

(a) General rule.--Where two or more political subdivisions have entered into an agreement as provided by section 7513 (relating to agreements among political subdivisions), all bills and claims for expenses incurred by or for the local organization shall thereafter be paid in the first instance by the political subdivision named as agent in the agreement in the manner provided in section 7514 (relating to payments involving one political subdivision) as though the organization were coterminous with the political subdivision, and the organization shall be subject to all of the laws governing the making of contracts or purchases, the employment of persons or otherwise incurring financial obligations which apply to the political subdivision.

(b) Accounting by agent.--The political subdivision designated as agent shall, not later than the fifteenth day of each month, submit an itemized account of the expenses of the organization paid by it during the preceding calendar month to each of the other political subdivisions party to the agreement, together with a request for reimbursement of the proportionate share of expenses agreed to be paid by each of the other political subdivisions.

(c) Reimbursement of agent.--Each political subdivision requested to make reimbursement shall do so within 30 days after the request from the appropriation made for the payment of the expenses of the organization and, in the event of failure to do so, mandamus shall lie to compel the officers of the political subdivision to pay the agreed-upon proportionate share of the proper expenses of the organization out of the first moneys thereafter in the treasury of the political subdivision and not previously pledged to any other purpose. No political subdivision may be compelled to pay for any one year an amount greater than the amount estimated in the agreement as its proportionate share. Any payment made by any political subdivision to the political subdivision named as agent in the agreement for reimbursement for the payment of the expenses of the organization shall be credited by the agent political subdivision to the appropriation made by it for the payment of the expenses of the organization and shall be available for the payment of future expenses of the organization without further appropriation or action by the agent political subdivision.

(d) Gift or grant of money.--Any gift or grant of money made to or for the local organization, if made to a political subdivision, shall be deposited in its treasury and be appropriated by it for the purpose for which the gift or grant was made and the political subdivision shall notify the political subdivision named as agent in the agreement of the appropriation and the purpose for which it is available. If the gift or grant of money is made to the organization, it shall be deposited in the treasury of the political subdivision named as agent in the agreement and shall be appropriated by the political subdivision for the purpose for which the gift or grant was made. Any expenditure made by the agent political subdivision from any gift or grant deposited in its treasury or reimbursed from any gift or grant deposited in the treasury of any other political subdivision shall not be included in computing the reimbursement requested from any other political subdivision under the agreement.