Sec. 7. (a) All revenues collected from the heavy equipment rental excise tax must be deposited in a special account of the state general fund called the heavy equipment rental excise tax account.

(b) On or before April 30 and October 30 of each year, all amounts held in the heavy equipment rental excise tax account must be distributed to counties as provided by this section.

(c) The amount to be distributed to a county treasurer under this section equals the part of the total heavy equipment rental excise taxes being distributed that were initially imposed and collected from within that county treasurer's county. The department shall notify each county auditor of the amount of taxes to be distributed to the county treasurer. At the same time each distribution is made to a county treasurer, the department shall certify to the county auditor the taxing districts within the county where heavy equipment rental excise taxes were collected and the amount of the county distribution that was collected with respect to each taxing district.

(d) A county treasurer shall deposit heavy equipment rental excise tax distributions in a separate account for settlement at the same time as property taxes are accounted for and settled in June and December of each year.

(e) The county auditor shall apportion and the county treasurer shall distribute the heavy equipment rental excise taxes among the taxing units of the county in the same manner that property taxes are apportioned and distributed with respect to property located in the taxing district where the heavy equipment rental excise tax is sourced by the department under section 6(b) of this chapter.

(f) Before January 1, 2020, the heavy equipment rental excise taxes distributed to a taxing unit must be deposited in the taxing unit's levy excess fund under IC 6-1.1-18.5-17, or in the case of a school corporation, the school corporation's levy excess fund under IC 20-44-3.

(g) After December 31, 2019, the heavy equipment rental excise taxes distributed to a taxing unit must be allocated among the taxing unit's funds in the same proportion that the taxing unit's property tax collections are allocated among those funds.

(h) After December 31, 2019, taxing units of a county may request and receive advances of heavy equipment rental excise tax revenues in the manner provided under IC 5-13-6-3.

(i) All distributions from the heavy equipment rental excise tax account must be made by warrants issued by the auditor of state to the treasurer of state ordering those distributions to the appropriate county treasurer.

As added by P.L.188-2018, SEC.3.