Kentucky Revised Statutes Title IX. Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units § 96A.095.Authorization for the Transportation Cabinet to accept funds for promotion of, development of, and provision of capital for mass transit services and human service transportation delivery; authority to promulgate administrative regulations

(1) The Transportation Cabinet may receive and accept from the Commonwealth or any of its agencies, including the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Department of Workforce Development, and from federal agencies appropriations or grants to promote, develop, and provide capital and operating subsidies for mass transit services and human service transportation delivery in Kentucky, and to receive and accept aid or contributions from any source of either money, property, labor, or other things of value to promote mass transit services. Subject to the provisions of Section 230 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, any of these funds, property, or things of value received by the Transportation Cabinet may be given directly to any of the following entities in order to accomplish the purposes of this section:

(2) The Transportation Cabinet is authorized and directed to apply for any available federal funds for operating subsidies, either on a matching basis or otherwise and to make any of these funds received available to any of the following entities in order to accomplish the purposes of this section:

(3) The Transportation Cabinet is authorized to assist cities and counties in the formation of local transit authorities in conformance with this chapter, but nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the Transportation Cabinet from providing assistance as authorized in this chapter to cities or counties where local transit authorities do not exist.

(4) The Transportation Cabinet is authorized to contract, in accordance with the provisions of KRS Chapters 45A and 281, with a broker to provide human service transportation delivery within a specific delivery area.