Sec. 16. (a) The board of county commissioners shall levy a county supplemental school financing tax at a rate that is sufficient to annually provide adequate funds to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The various officials and employees of the qualified county and the qualified school corporations charged with the duty of levying, collecting, and receiving other property tax funds for county or school purposes, or both, shall take the appropriate and respective steps as otherwise required by law for the levying, collecting, and receiving of property taxes in order to levy, collect, and receive the tax.
(b) The receipts from the tax shall be credited into the fund and paid from the fund by the county auditor to the qualified school corporations.
[Pre-2006 Recodification Citation: 21-2-13-5(a).]
As added by P.L.2-2006, SEC.168.