(A) The department of transportation is authorized and empowered to receive and accept from the Commonwealth or any of its agencies and from federal agencies appropriations or grants to accomplish the promotion and development of mass transit services in Kentucky, and to receive and accept aid or contributions from any source of either money, property, labor, or other things of value to promote mass transit services. Subject to the provisions of Section 230 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, any funds, property, or things of value received by the department of transportation may be given directly to a local transit authority as created under this subchapter or to a city or a county, in order to accomplish the purposes of this section.
(B) The department of transportation is authorized and directed to apply for any available federal funds for operating subsidies, either on a matching basis or otherwise and to make any said funds received available to transit authorities created under this subchapter or to a city or a county in order to accomplish the purposes of this section, or in such cases where federal laws or regulations preclude the department of transportation from direct application for such federal funds the department is authorized and directed to provide assistance to local transit authorities or a city or a county as necessary to enable it to apply for and obtain such federal funds, in order to accomplish the purposes of this section.
(C) The department of transportation is authorized to assist cities and counties in the formation of local transit authorities in conformance with this subchapter, but nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as preventing the department of transportation from providing such assistance as authorized in this subchapter to cities or counties where local transit authorities do not exist.
(Ord. passed 10-8-91)