§ 99-h. Participation in federal programs. 1. As used in this section
the term "municipal corporation" shall mean a county, city, town,
village, school district, or board of cooperative educational services
of this state or a board of higher education in a city having a
population of one million or more.

2. Any municipal corporation shall have power, either individually or
jointly with one or more other municipal corporations, to apply for,
accept and expend funds made available by the federal government either
directly or through the state, pursuant to the provisions of any federal
law, which is not inconsistent with the statutes or constitution of this
state, in order to administer, conduct or participate with the federal
government in programs relating to the general welfare of the
inhabitants of such municipal corporation. Any such municipal
corporation is authorized to appropriate and expend such sums as are
required to administer, conduct or participate in any such programs and
may perform any and all acts necessary to effectuate the purposes of any
such programs.

3. Any municipal corporation, either individually or jointly with one
or more other municipal corporations, may enter into agreements with
private, non-profit agencies which are authorized to apply for and
accept funds made available by the federal government pursuant to the
provisions of any federal law, which is not inconsistent with the
statutes or constitution of this state, in order to administer, conduct
or participate with the federal government in programs relating to the
general welfare of the inhabitants of such municipal corporation. Such
agreements may provide that funds, services, or facilities will be made
available by any such municipal corporation or municipal corporations to
such private, non-profit agency upon such terms and conditions as may be
prescribed by such municipal corporation or municipal corporations, in
order to defray that portion of the cost of any program administered by
any such private, non-profit agency which is not paid for by funds made
available by the federal government. Such private, non-profit agency
shall file annually with each such municipal corporation with which it
has entered into such an agreement or at such more frequent periods as
may be required by such municipality, a financial report with respect to
such program or programs and shall make available for inspection or
audit by each such municipal corporation, its books, records and other
data.

No funds, services, or facilities shall be made available by a
municipal corporation to a private, non-profit agency pursuant to the
provisions of this subdivision unless such agency has obtained approval
of its program as required by law, and its program is designed to serve
an area within the municipal corporation or municipal corporations with
which it has entered into such an agreement.

4. The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in
substitution for or in limitation of any other authorization to apply
for, accept and expend funds made available by the federal government
either directly or through the state, and it is not intended by this
section to repeal by implication any existing provision of law.