§ 302. Application for assistance. The commissioner is hereby
authorized to receive and review applications from municipal
corporations for state aid for municipal projects, and to approve such
applications, within the amounts appropriated therefor, as are part of
or consistent with a statewide comprehensive master plan for
transportation promulgated by the commissioner and approved by the
governor or, in the absence of any current comprehensive master plan
sound transportation development policy and planning concepts. The
commissioner shall submit copies of any application so approved to the
governor, to the director of the budget and to the office of planning
services with such recommendations as he may deem appropriate.

The commissioner is hereby authorized to prescribe such rules and
regulations as he may deem appropriate to effectuate the purposes of
this article, including but not limited to rules and regulations
governing the form, content and submission of applications by municipal
corporations for state aid for municipal projects pursuant to the
provisions of this article.