349.041  Provision of funds and services by city to authority; employment of legal counsel.--

(1)  The authority shall prepare and submit annually its requests for such funds as it may require from the city for the ensuing year to the council of the city on or before June 1, setting forth its estimated gross revenues and estimated requirements for operations, maintenance expenses, and debt service. A copy of such requests shall be furnished to the Department of Transportation. The council and the mayor of the City of Jacksonville may appropriate such funds as they deem appropriate for the use of the authority.

(2)  Except as the council may provide, and except as otherwise required by any trust indenture outstanding on September 1, 1971, the authority shall utilize, on a cost-accounted basis, the central services of the city, and shall pay therefor. The authority may, however, employ legal counsel it deems necessary, upon resolution of the authority.