N.Y. Transportation Law § 73-f: Local coordination of rural public transportation services

§ 73-f. Local coordination of rural public transportation services.

Transportation services funded under this article must be coordinated

with transportation services funded by other federal, state and local

sources. Public, private, and private non-profit corporations or

organizations applying for or receiving federal, state or local aid in

order to provide or contract for public transportation services or

transportation to the general public and specific clientele groups in

rural counties, shall coordinate and integrate funding and resulting

services, to the maximum extent possible, with services coordinators in

said counties in accordance with this article. No rural county shall

qualify for aid or assistance authorized pursuant to this article unless

said county shall first appoint a services coordinator. An individual,

agency or corporation may be designated a services coordinator by the

county executive, if any, or the county legislative body in a rural

county in accordance with rules promulgated by the commissioner which

rules shall establish criteria for selecting and terminating

coordinators. A rural county may terminate the services of a services

coordinator at any time following established county procedures for same

and may change its designation of a services coordinator at any time in

accordance with this article. A rural county's designated services

coordinator may request, from public and private agencies receiving

federal, state or local aid in that county, information or data related

to transportation services, facilities, equipment, usage, costs,

revenues and funds as he or she may deem necessary for the preparation,

revision, updating and implementation of the county's coordinated public

transportation service plan. The extent to which such information is

provided by agencies wishing to participate in the program may be

considered by the department in the awarding of grants.