N.Y. TRA Law § 234

§ 234. Powers and duties of an applicant. An applicant shall have the\npower and authority to:\n 1. undertake and carry out any project for which state assistance is\nreceived or to be received pursuant to this article and maintain and\noperate such project;\n 2. expend money received from the state pursuant to this article for\ncosts incurred in conjunction with the approved project;\n 3. perform such other and further acts as may be necessary, proper or\ndesirable to carry out a project or obligation, duty or function related\nthereto;\n 4. for local street or highway projects outside the city of New York,\ndetermine, subject to the approval of the commissioner, the\nsuballocations, of the allocation determined for such county pursuant to\nsubdivision two of section two hundred thirty-three of this chapter that\nshould be made available to the towns, cities, villages, within each\ncounty and to the county itself. Such suballocation determination shall\nbe based on information and data furnished each such county by the\ncommissioner for such purpose. The applications for state assistance\nshall be made in accordance with such suballocations and within the\ntotal allocation determined to be available to such county;\n 5. enter into contracts with the towns, cities and villages within\nsuch county with respect to undertaking local street or highway projects\non the town highway, or city or village highway, street or road systems\nrespectively; and\n 6. for local street or highway projects, to undertake the work of the\nproject either with its own forces or by contract, however, whenever the\nestimate for the construction contract work exceeds three hundred fifty\nthousand dollars such work must be performed by contract let by the\ncompetitive bid process.\n