KRS 96A.095: Authorization for the Transportation Cabinet to accept funds for

promotion of, development of, and provision of capital for mass transit

services and human service transportation delivery -- Authority to

promulgate administrative regulations.

(1) The Transportation Cabinet may receive and accept from the Commonwealth

or any of its agencies, including the Cabinet for Health and Family Services

and the Department of Workforce Development, and from federal agencies

appropriations or grants to promote, develop, and provide capital and operating

subsidies for mass transit services and human service transportation delivery in

Kentucky, and to receive and accept aid or contributions from any source of

either money, property, labor, or other things of value to promote mass transit

services. Subject to the provisions of Section 230 of the Constitution of the

Commonwealth of Kentucky, any of these funds, property, or things of value

received by the Transportation Cabinet may be given directly to any of the

following entities in order to accomplish the purposes of this section:

(a) A local transit authority as created under this chapter;

(b) A city;

(c) A county;

(d) Other public mass transit providers;

(e) A nonprofit or public mass transit provider operating under 49 U.S.C. sec.

5310 or 5311; or

(f) An entity providing human service transportation delivery.

(2) The Transportation Cabinet is authorized and directed to apply for any

available federal funds for operating subsidies, either on a matching basis or

otherwise and to make any of these funds received available to any of the

following entities in order to accomplish the purposes of this section:

(a) A local transit authority as created under this chapter;

(b) A city;

(c) A county;

(d) Other public mass transit providers;

(e) A nonprofit or public mass transit provider operating under 49 U.S.C. sec.

5310 or 5311; or

(f) An entity promoting or providing transit services such as safety, planning,

research, coordination, or training activities.

In those cases where federal laws or regulations preclude the Transportation

Cabinet from direct application for this type of federal funds, the cabinet is

authorized and directed to provide assistance to any of the entities listed in this

subsection as necessary to enable it to apply for and obtain this type of federal

funds in order to accomplish the purposes of this section.

(3) The Transportation Cabinet is authorized to assist cities and counties in the

formation of local transit authorities in conformance with this chapter, but

nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the Transportation

Cabinet from providing assistance as authorized in this chapter to cities or

counties where local transit authorities do not exist.

(4) The Transportation Cabinet is authorized to contract, in accordance with the

provisions of KRS Chapters 45A and 281, with a broker to provide human

service transportation delivery within a specific delivery area.