N.Y. General Municipal Law § 99-h: Participation in federal programs

§ 99-h. Participation in federal programs. 1. As used in this section

the term "municipal corporation" shall mean a county, city, town,

village, school district, or board of cooperative educational services

of this state or a board of higher education in a city having a

population of one million or more.

2. Any municipal corporation shall have power, either individually or

jointly with one or more other municipal corporations, to apply for,

accept and expend funds made available by the federal government either

directly or through the state, pursuant to the provisions of any federal

law, which is not inconsistent with the statutes or constitution of this

state, in order to administer, conduct or participate with the federal

government in programs relating to the general welfare of the

inhabitants of such municipal corporation. Any such municipal

corporation is authorized to appropriate and expend such sums as are

required to administer, conduct or participate in any such programs and

may perform any and all acts necessary to effectuate the purposes of any

such programs.

3. Any municipal corporation, either individually or jointly with one

or more other municipal corporations, may enter into agreements with

private, non-profit agencies which are authorized to apply for and

accept funds made available by the federal government pursuant to the

provisions of any federal law, which is not inconsistent with the

statutes or constitution of this state, in order to administer, conduct

or participate with the federal government in programs relating to the

general welfare of the inhabitants of such municipal corporation. Such

agreements may provide that funds, services, or facilities will be made

available by any such municipal corporation or municipal corporations to

such private, non-profit agency upon such terms and conditions as may be

prescribed by such municipal corporation or municipal corporations, in

order to defray that portion of the cost of any program administered by

any such private, non-profit agency which is not paid for by funds made

available by the federal government. Such private, non-profit agency

shall file annually with each such municipal corporation with which it

has entered into such an agreement or at such more frequent periods as

may be required by such municipality, a financial report with respect to

such program or programs and shall make available for inspection or

audit by each such municipal corporation, its books, records and other

data.

No funds, services, or facilities shall be made available by a

municipal corporation to a private, non-profit agency pursuant to the

provisions of this subdivision unless such agency has obtained approval

of its program as required by law, and its program is designed to serve

an area within the municipal corporation or municipal corporations with

which it has entered into such an agreement.

4. The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in

substitution for or in limitation of any other authorization to apply

for, accept and expend funds made available by the federal government

either directly or through the state, and it is not intended by this

section to repeal by implication any existing provision of law.