N.Y. Transportation Law § 234: Powers and duties of an applicant

§ 234. Powers and duties of an applicant. An applicant shall have the

power and authority to:

1. undertake and carry out any project for which state assistance is

received or to be received pursuant to this article and maintain and

operate such project;

2. expend money received from the state pursuant to this article for

costs incurred in conjunction with the approved project;

3. perform such other and further acts as may be necessary, proper or

desirable to carry out a project or obligation, duty or function related

thereto;

4. for local street or highway projects outside the city of New York,

determine, subject to the approval of the commissioner, the

suballocations, of the allocation determined for such county pursuant to

subdivision two of section two hundred thirty-three of this chapter that

should be made available to the towns, cities, villages, within each

county and to the county itself. Such suballocation determination shall

be based on information and data furnished each such county by the

commissioner for such purpose. The applications for state assistance

shall be made in accordance with such suballocations and within the

total allocation determined to be available to such county;

5. enter into contracts with the towns, cities and villages within

such county with respect to undertaking local street or highway projects

on the town highway, or city or village highway, street or road systems

respectively; and

6. for local street or highway projects, to undertake the work of the

project either with its own forces or by contract, however, whenever the

estimate for the construction contract work exceeds three hundred fifty

thousand dollars such work must be performed by contract let by the

competitive bid process.