§ 73-p. Department report. Commencing December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred eighty-seven, the department, in cooperation with the state
interagency coordinating committee on rural public transportation, shall
prepare and submit to the governor and the legislature a report on or
before the first day of January of each year, which shall include
information relating to the operation of coordinated public
transportation services in rural counties then being funded under this
article and any recommendations for overall program improvement; stating
the receipts and disbursements made during the preceding fiscal year and
adequacy of programs financed by federal, state, local and private aid
in rural counties of the state. The department shall analyze the
programs financed in accordance with this article and recommend methods
of avoiding duplication and increasing the efficacy of programs
financed. The department shall receive comments from the officers and
agents of affected state and local government units relative to the
department's analysis.