N.Y. Transportation Law § 73-h: Operating aid

§ 73-h. Operating aid. 1. For those rural counties having an approved

and implemented coordinated public transportation service plan which has

maintained existing levels of funding used for transportation by the

coordinated service and has documented the need for additional operating

aid, the commissioner may, in consultation with the interagency

coordinating committee on rural public transportation, grant up to

twenty-five thousand dollars per year for operating aid for up to five

successive years, subject to annual appropriations to be included in the

state budget. Such aid may be extended annually when the county or

operator of the coordinated public transportation service has adequately

demonstrated the need for such continued aid and that criteria for

continuing aid established by rules issued by the commissioner have been

met.

2. No such operating aid shall be paid to any rural county unless such

county appropriates and expends at least twenty percent of the

coordinated public transportation service's total annual administrative

and operating costs. Except for other public transportation monies paid

by the department to the county, such amount may include any county

funds used for operating aid, including funds used to support any other

transportation service, that have been appropriated to an account under

the management and control of the coordinated public transportation

service.