2011 Indiana Code
TITLE 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT
ARTICLE 9. TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS
CHAPTER 12. PARKING METERS AND PARKING FEES

IC 36-9-12
Chapter 12. Parking Meters and Parking Fees

IC 36-9-12-1
Application of chapter
Sec. 1. This chapter applies to all municipalities.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.85.

IC 36-9-12-2
Use of parking meters authorized
Sec. 2. A municipality may:
(1) regulate the parking or standing of vehicles upon or off any public way in the municipality; and
(2) provide for the collection of license fees from a person parking or standing a vehicle upon or off any public way in the municipality;
by the use of parking meters. Regulations and fees under this section must be established by ordinance.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.85.

IC 36-9-12-3
Purchase or lease of parking meters
Sec. 3. A municipality may provide, by ordinance, for the purchase or lease of parking meters. However, the ordinance must provide for the payment of the purchase price or rental fees only from the license fees collected from the parking meters.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.85.

IC 36-9-12-4
Deposit and disbursement of money collected from parking meters
Sec. 4. (a) A municipality must provide, by ordinance, that:
(1) all license fees collected from parking meters shall be deposited with the municipal fiscal officer;
(2) the fees shall be deposited to the credit of the municipality in a special fund; and
(3) disbursements from the special fund may be made only on orders of the municipal works board, or board of transportation, and only for the purposes listed in subsection (b).
(b) Disbursements from the special fund may be made only to pay:
(1) the purchase price, rental fees, and cost of installation of the parking meters;
(2) the cost of maintenance, operation, and repair of the parking meters;
(3) incidental costs and expenses in the operation of the parking meters, including the cost of clerks and bookkeeping;
(4) the cost of traffic signal devices used in the municipality;
(5) the cost of repairing and maintaining any of the public ways, curbs, and sidewalks where the parking meters are in use, and all public ways connected with them in the municipality; (6) the cost of acquiring, by lease or purchase, suitable land for offstreet parking facilities to be operated or leased by the municipality;
(7) the principal and interest on bonds issued to acquire parking facilities and devices;
(8) the cost of improving and maintaining land for parking purposes and purchasing, installing, and maintaining parking meters on that land; and
(9) the cost of providing approved school crossing protective facilities, including the costs of purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair, and all other incidental costs.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.85.

IC 36-9-12-5
Appropriations; budget estimates
Sec. 5. (a) Money deposited in the special fund under section 4 of this chapter may be expended only upon a specific appropriation made for that purpose by the municipal legislative body in the same manner that it appropriates other public money.
(b) The municipal works board or board of transportation shall prepare an itemized estimate of the money necessary for the operation of parking meters for the ensuing year at the regular time of making and filing budget estimates for other departments of the municipality. These estimates shall be made and presented to the municipal legislative body in the same manner as other department estimates.
(c) An appropriation under this section is not subject to review by the county tax adjustment board or the department of local government finance, and the general statutes regarding appropriation of funds do not affect this chapter.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.85. Amended by Acts 1981, P.L.317, SEC.11; P.L.90-2002, SEC.509.

IC 36-9-12-6
Warrants for expenditures
Sec. 6. Warrants for expenditures under this chapter shall be prepared and processed in the manner provided by statute.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.85.

IC 36-9-12-7
Disposition of surplus funds
Sec. 7. At the end of a calendar year, money remaining in the municipal treasury to the credit of the special fund established under section 4 of this chapter remains in the fund and does not revert to the general fund of the municipality, but the municipal legislative body may, by ordinance, transfer any balance in the special fund to the general fund.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.85.

IC 36-9-12-8 Contracts; procedure for awarding
Sec. 8. Contracts for public improvements under this chapter must be awarded in the manner prescribed by IC 36-1-12.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.85. Amended by Acts 1982, P.L.33, SEC.46.