§ 10-c. Consolidated local highway assistance payments. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or any other law,\nand subject to an appropriation made therefor and in accordance with the\nprovisions of this section and with the rules and regulations\npromulgated by the commissioner in connection therewith, on and after\nthe first day of April, nineteen hundred eighty-two, a consolidated\nlocal highway assistance program is hereby established for the purpose\nof making payments toward the construction, operation and/or maintenance\nof highways, bridges and highway-railroad crossings that are not on the\nstate highway system. For purposes of this section, such program shall\napply to any county, city, town or village highway, bridge and/or\nhighway-railroad crossing within the state that is not on the state\nhighway system and not under the maintenance and/or operational\njurisdiction of the state. The commissioner shall promulgate all\nnecessary rules and regulations to carry out the program so that an\nequitable distribution of aid shall be made for the construction,\noperation and/or maintenance of any county, city, town and village\nhighways, bridges and highway-railroad crossings.\n 2. On or before the twenty-fifth day of April, June, September and\nNovember of each state fiscal year commencing with the state fiscal year\nbeginning on April first, nineteen hundred eighty-four there shall be\ndistributed and paid to counties, cities, towns and villages an amount\nequal to the moneys appropriated for the purposes of this section\ndivided by the number of payment dates in that state fiscal year. Such\namounts shall be distributed and paid pursuant to subdivision three of\nthis section.\n 3. Amounts shall be distributed for local highways, bridges and\nhighway-railroad crossings in accordance with the following three step\nprocess:\n (a) First, 41.40 percent of moneys so appropriated or authorized by\nthe legislature for distribution pursuant to this subdivision in any\nfiscal year shall be distributed to New York city and to the counties\noutside of New York city, fifty percent on the basis of their relative\nshares of motor vehicle registration and fifty percent on the basis of\nthe relative shares of center line highway mileage, except interstate\nand state highways, under the maintenance jurisdiction of the city of\nNew York and the several counties.\n (b) Second, the balance of the moneys so appropriated or authorized by\nthe legislature for distribution pursuant to this subdivision in any\nfiscal year shall be distributed among four jurisdictional systems based\non relative vehicle miles of travel as follows:\n JURISDICTIONAL PERCENT OF\n SYSTEM VEHICLE MILES OF TRAVEL\n Cities 42.7\n Counties 18.5\n Villages 10.7\n Towns 28.1\n -----\n Total 100.0\n Within each jurisdictional system, the distribution made to each\nmunicipality shall be based on the ratio of the number of lane miles\nunder the maintenance jurisdiction, except interstate and state\nhighways, of each municipality that is devoted to the movement of\ntraffic, excluding lanes devoted to the parking of vehicles, to the\ntotal number of such lane miles under the operational jurisdiction,\nexcept interstate and state highways, of all municipalities in the state\nwithin each jurisdictional system.\n (c) Third, the amounts distributed to each municipality in accordance\nwith paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision shall be adjusted so\nthat such amounts will not be less than the "funding level" as defined\nin subdivision
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