§ 16. Powers and duties of commissioner with respect to state
projects. With respect to any state project, the commissioner shall
have the following duties and powers: 1. To order such repairs of the
buildings and structures constituting the project as may be necessary.

2. To order the authority or the municipality if the project is
undertaken or operated by the municipality, to do such acts as may be
necessary to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or any rule or
regulation adopted by the commissioner, or the terms of the contract for
state aid, or to refrain from doing any act in violation of any of the
foregoing.

3. To enforce his orders by mandamus or injunction in a summary
proceeding.

4. To permit the consolidation of two or more approved state projects
or the extension or amendment thereof or the consolidation of any
approved state project with a proposed project. In any such case, the
consolidated state project shall be treated as an original state project
and an application shall be submitted as in the case of an original
state project and the rents and costs of the consolidated project may be
averaged. Consolidation hereunder may be permitted regardless of whether
the state projects to be consolidated are contiguous or adjacent to each
other. Such contracts as may have been made with regard to approved
state projects may, upon consolidation of the projects, also be
consolidated and contracts for consolidated state projects shall be
subject to all the provisions of this chapter, governing original state
projects.