Indiana Code Title 36. Local Government § 36-9-17-5

Sec. 5.  (a) Subject to tax limitations and to the review of appropriations and tax levies, the legislative body of a municipality that establishes a general improvement fund may appropriate money from the general fund of the municipality and transfer that money to the general improvement fund, levy a tax for the benefit and use of the general improvement fund in compliance with the procedures for a levy for a cumulative fund under IC 6-1.1-41, or both.

(b) During the year in which a municipality establishes a general improvement fund, the municipal legislative body may make an emergency appropriation from the general fund of the municipality and transfer that appropriation to the general improvement fund in the manner prescribed by statute for the making of emergency appropriations.

(c) Any sum may be appropriated or levied under this section in any one (1) year, but the aggregate sum that may be appropriated and levied under this section, including emergency appropriations under subsection (b), may not exceed the equivalent of sixteen and sixty-seven hundredths cents ($0.1667) on each one hundred dollars ($100) net taxable valuation of property in the municipality.