2006 New York Code - Powers And Duties Of The Commissioner.

 
    § 233. Powers  and  duties  of  the commissioner. In administering the
  provisions of this article, the commissioner:
    1. shall make an itemized estimate of funds or appropriations required
  annually for inclusion in the executive budget;
    2. shall, by April  first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty,  determine  and
  submit  to  the governor and legislature for approval the allocations of
  the funds made available as a result of the energy conservation  through
  improved  transportation  bond act of nineteen hundred seventy-nine on a
  county by county basis broken into categories (a), (b) and (c) specified
  in subdivision five of section two hundred thirty-two of  this  chapter.
  Once  such  allocations  have  been  approved by the governor and by the
  legislature by a concurrent resolution of such bodies  such  allocations
  shall  not  be  modified  except  by  an act of the legislature which is
  enacted into law by the  governor.  Such  allocations  shall  take  into
  consideration  the  miles of highway in each category in relationship to
  total number of miles of highway in the local street or highway  project
  program  and other similar factors utilized in the safer off system road
  program based on the most recent information and data available  to  the
  commissioner.
    3.  may  in  the  name  of  the  state as further provided within this
  article contract to  make,  within  the  limitations  of  appropriations
  available therefor, a state grant for payment to a municipality, county,
  or  city  of  New  York  representing  the  state share of the cost of a
  project approved and to be undertaken pursuant  to  this  article.  Such
  contracts  shall be subject to the approval by the state comptroller and
  as to form by the attorney general.
    4. shall approve vouchers for the payment of local assistance pursuant
  to an approved contract. All such payments shall be paid  on  audit  and
  warrant of the state comptroller.
    5.  may  perform such other and further acts and promulgate such rules
  and regulations as may be necessary, proper or desirable  to  carry  out
  the provisions of this article.