Indiana Code Title 36. Local Government § 36-7-31-21

Sec. 21. (a) Except as provided in section 14.1 of this chapter, the capital improvement board may use money distributed from the professional sports development area fund established by section 16(a) of this chapter only to construct and equip a capital improvement that is used for a professional sporting event, including the financing or refinancing of a capital improvement or the payment of lease payments for a capital improvement.

(b) The capital improvement board or its designee shall deposit the revenue received from the sports and convention facilities operating fund established by section 16(b) of this chapter in a special fund, which may be used only for paying usual and customary operating expenses with respect to the capital improvements that are owned, leased, or operated by the capital improvement board.  The special fund may not be used for the payment of any current or future obligations owed by the capital improvement board to the Indiana stadium and convention building authority created by IC 5-1-17 or any state agency under a lease or another agreement entered into between the capital improvement board and the Indiana stadium and convention building authority or any state agency under IC 5-1-17-26.

(c) Revenues available for deposit in the sports and convention facilities operating fund may be pledged to secure and provide for the payment of bond or lease obligations of the capital improvement board related to the construction or equipping of a capital improvement that is used for a professional sporting event or convention, including by a deposit or transfer of revenues into the capital improvement bond fund under IC 36-10-9-11.