N.Y. General Municipal Law § 357: Federal aid for public airports

§ 357. Federal aid for public airports. No county, town, city, village

or authority in this state whether acting alone or jointly with another

county, town, city, village or authority or with the state, shall submit

to the administrator of civil aeronautics of the United States any

project application, under the provisions of section nine (a) of the Act

of Congress, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred forty-six, being

a public law three hundred seventy-seven, seventy-ninth Congress, known

and hereinafter designated as the "Federal Airport Act", or any

amendment thereto, unless the project and the project application shall

have been first approved by the state commissioner of transportation. No

such county, town, city, village or authority shall directly accept,

receive, receipt for, or disburse any funds granted by the United States

under the Federal Airport Act but it must designate such commissioner as

its agent, who, on its behalf, shall accept, receive, receipt for and

disburse such funds. Every such county, town, city, village or authority

shall enter into an agreement with such commissioner prescribing the

terms and conditions of such agency in accordance with the federal laws,

rules and regulations and applicable laws of this state. Such moneys as

are paid over by the United States government shall be retained by the

state or paid over to such county, town, city, village or authority upon

such terms and conditions as may be imposed by the United States in

making such grant.