New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter VI - Transportation Regulations › Subchapter G - Mass Transportation Operating Assistance › Part 975 - Statewide Mass Transportation Operating Assistance Program › Section 975.6 - Reports of public transportation systems, corporations or individuals

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
In order to receive funds under the STOA Program, any
					 participating public transportation system shall submit applications and
					 reports in the form and at the time prescribed as follows:
(a) Applications must be submitted each
				  quarter using forms to be supplied by the Department. Such applications shall
				  be filed between the second and seventeenth day of the first month of each
				  quarter, with the quarters tracking the State's Fiscal Year.
(b) All systems must file an annual report.
				  Those systems that provided more than one million vehicle, car or nautical
				  miles in local revenue service or carried more than one million revenue
				  passengers during the preceding state fiscal year must file the report
				  specified by the commissioner. For those systems receiving federal funds, the
				  reports filed with the cognizant federal agency may be submitted (with the
				  permission of the commissioner under such terms as the commissioner may
				  prescribe). In the case of such systems not required to file either of the two
				  above-identified reports, such systems must file an annual report using a form
				  to be provided by the Department.
All operators holding authority from the Commissioner of
					 Transportation shall also file the report required by Part 741 of this Title.
					 A11 operators holding authority from any city pursuant to section 80  of the Transportation Law shall also file
					 a copy of any annual report required by such city.
(c) Filing Deadlines: The required annual
				  financial and service data reports, shall be submitted to the New York State
				  Department of Transportation Transit Division within one hundred twenty (120)
				  days of the completion of the operator's fiscal year. These reports must be
				  signed by the Chief Executive Officer. All authorized operators' reports shall
				  be submitted on or before March 31st of each year.
Failure to file required annual reports noted in (b) above
					 within the specified period from the end of the operator's fiscal year shall
					 result in the operator's next quarterly STOA payment otherwise due being
					 withheld pending receipt of the report. In the event that the required annual
					 report is still outstanding by the succeeding quarter, the funds withheld from
					 the prior quarter will then be returned to the general account for
					 redistribution to all other eligible program participants. Besides withholding
					 STOA for failure to file timely annual reports, the Commissioner may also
					 withhold future State operating assistance payments from public transportation
					 systems or private operators that do not provide such operational, financial,
					 performance data, or such other information as may be required and deemed
					 necessary by the Commissioner.
(d) Section 15 data. When a public or private
				  bus operator receives State operating assistance and that bus operator provides
				  service to or within an urbanized area of over 200,000 population, such
				  operator shall file with the cognizant Federal agency such applications and/or
				  reports (such as Section 15 data reports) as would serve to obtain and/or
				  increase the Federal assistance apportioned to such area. Such applications or
				  agents will cover fiscal years starting on or after July 1, 1989. Transit
				  operators must file such applications or reports even if a transit operator is
				  not receiving Federal aid from an urbanized area's apportionment. The local
				  Metropolitan Transportation Organization (MPO) transit planning process is the
				  proper forum to determine the allocation of Federal funds to individual transit
				  operations.
(e) The Commissioner
				  may grant exemptions to transit systems serving an urbanized area of over
				  200,000 population from having to file these required applications or reports.
				  Any request for an exemption must be filed by such affected transit systems
				  directly with the Commissioner. Exemptions to filing these applications or
				  reports will be granted by the Commissioner only in those cases where
				  extraordinary circumstances, such as financial hardship, warrant exemption
				  treatment.
(f) Corporation or
				  individuals: Any transportation system contracting with a corporation, firm or
				  individual for the provision of mass transportation services, pursuant to
				  section 18-b  of the Transportation Law and section 119-r  of the General Municipal Law, shall
				  provide within that contract such requirements as it deems necessary to obtain
				  the information required by this section.