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.