§ 18-b. Statewide mass transportation operating assistance program. 1.\nWithin the amounts made available therefor by appropriation, a statewide\nmass transportation operating assistance program is hereby established\nfor the purpose of making payments toward the operating expenses of\npublic transportation systems. For the purposes of this section, the\nterm public transportation system shall mean any public benefit\ncorportion constituting a transportation authority which provides or\ncontracts for the provision of (under joint support arrangements) mass\ntransportation services, or a subsidiary thereof, or any Indian tribe\nwhich provides or any county or city which provides or contracts for the\nprovision of (pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-r of the general\nmunicipal law) mass transportation services or any person, firm or\ncorporation performing intercity bus passenger service as defined in\nsubdivision three of section fourteen-g of this article serving two or\nmore counties within the state which is under contract with the\ncommissioner pursuant to such section fourteen-g to provide mass\ntransportation services.\n 2. a. The commissioner shall pay to each public transportation system\nthat makes an application therefor, in quarterly installments, a mass\ntransportation operating assistance service payment. For the purposes of\nthis section, the quarters shall be April through June, July through\nSeptember, October through December and January through March.\n b. For the quarter commencing April first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-five the quarterly service payment shall be the amount computed\nby the formula set forth in subsection three of this section.\n 3. The quarterly service payment made to any public transportation\nsystem shall not be greater than a sum computed in one of the following\nmanners:\n (i) In the case of commuter rail, by adding the certified number of\ncommuter rail passengers multiplied by two cents per passenger and the\ncertified number of commuter rail vehicle or car miles multiplied by\ntwenty-five cents per vehicle or car mile.\n (ii) In the case of subway or rapid transit, by adding the certified\nnumber of subway or rapid transit passengers multiplied by two cents per\npassenger and the certified numbers of subway or rapid transit vehicle\nor car miles multiplied by eight cents per vehicle or car mile.\n (iii) In the case of bus lines, by adding the certified number of bus\npassengers multiplied by two cents per passenger and the certified\nnumber of bus miles multiplied by seven cents per bus mile. For the\npurposes of computing quarterly service payments only mileage\naccumulated in revenue service shall be used.\n Whenever it is determined by the commissioner that the amount of money\nappropriated for service payments is less than the total amount of money\nfor which all public transportation systems are eligible, the\ncommissioner may establish on a quarterly or annual basis, a maximum\nservice payment limit which is lower than that provided for in this\nsection.\n (iv) In the case of commuter ferry lines with the authorization for\npayment thereof for the fiscal year nineteen hundred\nseventy-five--nineteen hundred seventy-six to be in the discretion of\nthe commissioner, by adding the certified number of annual ferry\npassengers multiplied by two cents per passenger, times the certified\nnumber of annual nautical ferry miles, times two-one hundred\nthousandths. For the purposes of computing quarterly service payments\nonly mileage accumulated in revenue service shall be used.\n 4. a. All service payments shall be made upon an application of the\npublic transportation system. Such application shall be filed between\nthe second and the seventeenth day of the first month of each quarter.\nUpon application, the chief executive officer of each public\ntransportation system shall certify to the commissioner, the total\nnumber of passengers such system estimates that it will c
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