New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter VI - Transportation Regulations › Subchapter G - Mass Transportation Operating Assistance › Part 980 - Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program Rules And Regulations › Section 980.13 - Relationships to other programs that fund rural transportation

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Human Service
				  Programs. State or county agencies administering or overseeing federal or State
				  programs which are being, or can be, used in part to pay for the transport of
				  agency program clientele should adopt new or revised program policies or
				  procedures which re-direct portions of such programs' funds and other
				  transportation resources to a rural county's coordinated public transportation
				  service. Agencies should take other policy or administrative actions that would
				  facilitate or provide incentives to their local agency counterparts to
				  participate in a rural county's coordination program funded by this
				  Part.
(b) Section 16(b)(2)Program.
(1) When included and operated as an integral
				  part of a coordinated public transportation service plan approved by the
				  Department and adopted pursuant to this Part, and consistent with the Urban
				  Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, vehicles obtained through Section
				  16(b)(2) of said Federal Urban Mass Transportation Act, are eligible to carry
				  persons other than the elderly and disabled on a regular basis, provided that
				  the transportation needs of elderly and/or disabled persons described in the
				  recipient's original Section 16(b)(2) grant application, and those of other
				  elderly and disabled persons in the rural county, are met by the adopted
				  coordinated public transportation service.
(2) In rural counties which have adopted a
				  coordinated public transportation service plan in accordance with this Part,
				  and such plan has been approved by the Department, the Department shall give
				  priority in awarding current or future grants for vehicles to be funded through
				  the 16 (b) (2) Program to applications for transportation services which are
				  formally included in a county's coordinated public transportation service and
				  are operated, or subcontracted and managed by, the county's designated
				  coordinated service operator. In any cases where 16(b)(2) grant vehicles are to
				  be used for client- specific portions of a coordinated public transportation
				  service, such portions of service must, at a minimum, be advertised and
				  operated as open to the general public on a seat-available basis and such
				  vehicles must at all other times be made available without condition to the
				  county's coordinated service operator for its operation for other
				  purposes.
(3) In rural counties
				  which have an adopted coordinated public transportation service in accordance
				  with this Part, priority in granting vehicles through the Section 16(b)(2)
				  program shall be given by the Department for transportation services which, at
				  a minimum, are operated as open to the general population of elderly and/or
				  disabled persons on a regular and continuing, equal opportunity basis and which
				  do not give priority to any one agency's clientele.
(4) Organizations applying for and receiving
				  16(b)(2) grant vehicles for services within a rural county are required to
				  participate in that county's planning and implementation process leading to the
				  development of a coordinated public transportation service. In addition, should
				  a 16(b)(2) recipient's client service area be wholly or partly contained within
				  a rural county and should the government of that county adopt and implement a
				  coordinated public transportation service plan which is approved by the
				  Department, then the 16(b)(2) recipient shall, when requested by the
				  Department, lease or otherwise make available to the county's coordinated
				  service operator any 16(b)(2) grant equipment it applied for or received
				  following the commencement of the county's coordinated service planning
				  process, in accordance with its Section 16(b)(2) grant agreement.