N.Y. Transportation Law § 232: State assistance application procedure

§ 232. State assistance application procedure. 1. A municipality may

submit an application for state assistance toward the cost of any

municipal rail preservation project which is eligible for state

assistance pursuant to this article to the commissioner in such form and

containing such information as he may require.

2. A county highway superintendent, or the county official having

jurisdiction over the county highway system for any county which does

not have a county highway superintendent, or in the case of the city of

New York, the city commissioner of transportation, may submit an

application for state assistance toward the cost of any local street or

highway project which is eligible for state assistance pursuant to this

article to the commissioner in such form and containing such information

as he may require.

3. The commissioner shall review any such project application and may

approve, disapprove or recommend modifications thereto consistent with

applicable law, criteria, standards or rules and regulations relative to

such project.

4. Upon approval of a project application, a municipality, county

highway superintendent, county official or city commissioner of

transportation, as the case may be, may enter into a contract as further

provided within this article with the commissioner for payment of state

assistance to be received pursuant to this article.

5. In connection with local street or highway projects, the total

funds made available as a result of the energy conservation through

improved transportation bond act of nineteen hundred seventy-nine shall

be allocated in accordance with the following percentums: a)

thirty-eight percentum for town roads; b) thirty percentum for county

roads; c) eighteen percentum for city and village highways, streets and

roads, outside of New York city; and d) fourteen percentum for highways

and streets in New York city.