§ 119-S — Participation in federal and state assistance programs for mass transportation and airport and aviation projects

§ 119-s. Participation in federal and state assistance programs for\nmass transportation and airport and aviation projects. 1. Any municipal\ncorporation shall have power, either individually or jointly with one or\nmore other municipal corporations, to apply for, accept, and expend\nfinancial assistance:\n a. From the state of New York for one or more mass transportation\ncapital projects or for one or more airport or aviation capital projects\nprovided pursuant to the transportation capital facilities bond act and\nthe transportation capital facilities development act, whether by way of\ndirect financial assistance or by way of prefinancing of any financial\nassistance from the United States.\n b. From the United States, or any agency or instrumentality thereof,\nfor one or more mass transportation capital projects or one or more\nairport or aviation capital projects provided pursuant to any act of the\nCongress of the United States or any rule, regulation or order\npromulgated pursuant thereto.\n c. From the United States, or any agency or instrumentality thereof,\nfor operation or maintenance of one or more mass transportation capital\nprojects or one or more airport or aviation capital projects provided\npursuant to any act of the Congress of the United States or any rule,\nregulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto.\n d. From the United States, or any agency or instrumentality thereof,\nfor one or more grants for transportation demonstration projects\nprovided pursuant to any act of the Congress of the United States or any\nrule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto.\n 2. Any city, town, village or county not wholly contained within a\ncity shall have power (a) to finance or raise pursuant to law,\nappropriate and expend such sums as are required to administer, conduct\nor participate in such a project or projects and (b) to accept money\nprovided by any person, firm or corporation whatever, including the\nprivate owner or operator of a mass transportation facility affected by\nthe specific project, for the administration or conduct of, or\nparticipation in, a specific project and comply with the conditions of\nthe provider of such money.\n 3. No municipal corporation, whether acting individually or jointly\nwith one or more other municipal corporations, shall submit to the\nUnited States, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, any project\napplication for one or more mass transportation capital projects or one\nor more airport or aviation capital projects, any application for one or\nmore transportation demonstration projects or any federal mass\ntransportation operating assistance, unless the application or\napplications therefor shall have been first approved by the state\ncommissioner of transportation as being a part of or consistent with a\nstatewide comprehensive master plan for transportation promulgated by\nhim and approved by the governor on the recommendation of the department\nof state or, in the absence of any such statewide plan, any other\nrecognized long-range regional transportation plan approved by the\ncommissioner or, in the absence of any such regional plan, sound\ntransportation development policy and planning concepts.\n 4. The county shall have power to pledge its interest in any mass\ncommuting vehicles, the acquisition of which was not wholly financed\nwith the proceeds of bonds or bond anticipation notes under the\nprovisions of the local finance law, to secure or further secure the\npayment of any bonds or bond anticipation notes issued for any object or\npurpose of such county, if such pledge will have the effect, directly or\nindirectly, of enabling such county to participate in any transaction\ndescribed in section ninety-nine-o of this chapter. As used in this\nsubdivision, the term "mass commuting vehicle" means any bus, subway\ncar, rail car, locomotive, or similar equipment used or to be used to\nprovide mass commuting services, whether or not operated by a private\noperator under agreement with such county.\n