Ind. Code § 8-14-6-1 Budget estimates
Sec. 1. Where, by virtue of the provisions of any law of this state, any designated portion of the gasoline tax collected by the state shall have been distributed to the several cities of the state to be used for the maintenance and repair of the streets of such cities, such funds shall be under the exclusive control of the common council, and shall be used and expended by, the board of public works of any such city, or the common council thereof, acting as the board of public works. The maintenance and repair of streets, for which any such funds may be used and expended, shall be deemed to include any part of the cost of resurfacing, widening or reconstructing any street or any part thereof which any such city may be liable to pay pursuant to any law authorizing the improvement of streets; Provided, That any such funds so distributed hereafter shall be estimated and included in the published budgets of such municipalities in the year preceding such distribution.
Formerly: Acts 1932(ss), c.35, s.1.