*§ 18-a. Statewide mass transportation operating assistance program.\n1. Within the amounts made available therefor by appropriation, a\nstatewide mass transportation operating assistance program is hereby\nestablished for the purpose of making payments toward the operating\nexpenses of public transportation systems. For the purposes of this\nsection, the term public transportation system shall mean any public\nbenefit corporation constituting a transportation authority which\nprovides or contracts for the provision of (under joint support\narrangements) mass transportation services, or a subsidiary thereof, or\nany county or city which provides or contracts for the provision of\n(pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-r of the general municipal\nlaw) mass transportation services.\n 2. a. On and after May first, nineteen hundred seventy-four, the\ncommissioner shall pay to each public transportation system that makes\nan application therefor, in quarterly installments, a mass\ntransportation operating assistance service payment to be determined and\ncomputed as follows: the chief executive officer of each such system\nshall certify to the commissioner not more than thirty days nor less\nthan fifteen days prior to the date of commencement of any quarter for\nwhich an installment is payable, the total number of passengers such\nsystem estimates that it will carry and the total number of vehicle or\ncar miles such system estimates that its equipment will travel in\nrevenue service during the quarter for which such installment is to be\npaid. Upon receipt of any such certification, the commissioner shall\nprovide to the public transportation system a service payment, which\npayment shall be computed by adding the sum of (i) the certified number\nof passengers multiplied by one and four-tenths cents per passenger,\n(ii) the certified number of vehicle or car miles multiplied by nine\ncents per vehicle or car mile, and (iii) the amount obtained by\nmultiplying the total number of persons within the urban area served by\nthe public transportation system, as determined by the most current\nfederal decennial census, by ten cents per capita; provided, however,\nthat any service payment made by the commissioner to any county or city\non account of such county's or city's contracts for mass transportation\nservices (pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-r of the general\nmunicipal law), shall not include an amount computed under item (iii)\nabove. Such quarterly installments shall be payable not later than the\ntenth day of each successive quarter, with the quarters commencing on\nthe first day of May, August, November and February, respectively;\nprovided, however, that for the first quarter of May first through July\nthirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-four, such quarterly installment\nmay be made on or before June fifteenth, nineteen hundred seventy-four\nand the chief executive officer of any public transportation system\nmaking application hereunder shall make the required certifications not\nmore than thirty nor less than fifteen days prior to such date.\n b. Each public transportation system receiving a quarterly service\npayment pursuant to this subdivision shall certify to the commissioner,\nwithin five days of the end of each quarter for which a service payment\nwas received, the actual total number of passengers carried by the\nsystem during such quarter and the actual total vehicle or car miles the\nsystem's equipment traveled in revenue service during such quarter, and\nbased upon such actual totals, the commissioner shall make such\nadjustments as may be appropriate in the amount of the service payment\nfor such system for the succeeding quarter.\n 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section,\nthe commissioner may establish with respect to any public transportation\nsystem a maximum service payment, limiting the amount of state\nassistance for which such system may qualify, where it appea
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