§ 73-j. Special provisions relating to aid. 1. Within one hundred\ntwenty days after the adoption of a state budget containing an\nappropriation implementing this article, the commissioner shall send to\nthe county executive, if any, or the chairperson of the county\nlegislative body of each rural county, a copy of this article and\ngeneral information relating to the procedure to be followed to obtain\nthe aid provided for in this article including, but not limited to, the\nfollowing:\n a. the intent of the program;\n b. program guidelines, including the time when applications must be\nsubmitted; the time when applications will be accepted or rejected; the\ntime when the applicant must complete the program for which aid has been\ngiven;\n c. potential county benefit, including an indication of the level of\nthe funds to which each county would be entitled should it participate\nin the program as defined in this article.\n 2. The failure to file an application for aid in any year shall not\nimpair the right of a rural county to file an application for aid in any\nsubsequent year.\n 3. Within six months of the time of receipt of any application for\naid, pursuant to section seventy-three-g of this article, the\ncommissioner shall notify the applicant that such application was\napproved and aid shall be paid to such county or the commissioner will\nreject such application and state the reasons for such rejection. The\nrejection shall not disqualify an applicant from resubmitting an\napplication for aid. In the event, after consultation with the\ncommissioner, the application is modified it may thereafter be\nresubmitted for further consideration.\n 4. Each request submitted to the commissioner for a financial\nassistance grant under this article shall be accompanied by an itemized\npreliminary budget, certified by the chief financial officer of the\ncounty, identifying expected eligible costs, amounts and sources of\ngrant funding including any applicable county matching funds.\n a. Within sixty days after the completion of the grant, as determined\nby the terms of the grant, the chief executive officer of the county, if\nany, or the chairperson of the county legislative body shall forward to\nthe commissioner a certified financial statement identifying actual\ncosts incurred, grant funds expended or encumbered, including any\napplicable county matching funds on forms provided by the commissioner.\nAfter the expenditure of any applicable county matching funds, should\nany state funds paid to a county remain unexpended or unencumbered upon\ncompletion of the grant, as determined by the terms of the grant, the\ncommissioner will credit said state funds to the county's planning or\noperating assistance grant for the subsequent year. In no event, shall\nthe county's subsequent year's grant exceed the sum of forty-five\nthousand dollars for planning or twenty-five thousand dollars for\noperating aid.\n b. Should a county's activities in coordinated public transportation\nservices be terminated at any time, the chief executive officer of the\ncounty, if any, or the chairperson of the county legislative body shall\nadvise the commissioner of such termination in writing and return to the\ncommissioner any unexpended state funds paid to the county together with\nthe final certified financial statement indicating the expenditure of\nany grant funds received.\n 5. Except as provided for in section seventy-three-g of this article,\nany moneys paid to rural counties by the commissioner shall be paid in\nquarterly installments at the beginning of each quarter, commencing on\nthe first day of January of each year, unless the commissioner approves\nan alternative method of payment in accordance with subdivision nine of\nthis section.\n 6. Except as provided for in section seventy-three-g of this article,\na rural county's apportionment of funds made available in accordance\nwith this article may be used for capital, operating and or\n
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