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.
Terms Used In N.Y. Transportation Law 73-H
- Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of transportation. See N.Y. Transportation Law 73-C
- Coordinated public transportation service: shall mean a coordinated transportation service which is predominately a public transportation service as defined in this article. See N.Y. Transportation Law 73-C
- Department: shall mean the state department of transportation. See N.Y. Transportation Law 73-C
- Public transportation service: shall mean a passenger transportation service which, during its hours of operation, is available on an equal opportunity basis to any person, without preference for service availability, eligiblity or design being given to any person or population sub-group because of age, gender, race, national origin, creed or agency client status, and which is regularly advertised and marketed as available to the general public. See N.Y. Transportation Law 73-C
- Rural counties: shall mean those New York state counties having populations of two hundred thousand or less. See N.Y. Transportation Law 73-C
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.