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ing them in connection with planning, acquisition, con-
struction, improvements, maintenance or operation of air-
ports or air navigation facilities.

(b) (State Financial Assistance.) The Commission
may render financial assistance by grant or loan or both
to any municipality or municipalities acting jointly, in the
planning, acquisition, construction, improvement, mainte-
nance, or operation of an airport owned or controlled, or
to be owned or controlled by such municipality or munici-
palities, out of the appropriations made by the Legislature
for such purposes. Such financial assistance may be fur-
nished in connection with federal or other financial aid
for the same purposes.

(c) (Federal Aid.) The Commission is authorized to
act as agent of any municipality or municipalities acting
jointly, in accepting, receiving, receipting for and disburs-
ing federal moneys, and other moneys public or private,
made available to finance, in whole or in part, the planning,
acquisition, construction, improvement, or maintenance or
operation of a municipal airport or air navigation facility;
to act as the agent of such municipality or municipalities
in contracting for and supervising such planning, acquisi-
tion, construction, improvement, maintenance, or opera-
tion; and all municipalities are authorized to designate
the Commission as their agent for the foregoing purposes.
The Commission, as principal on behalf of the State, or
any municipality, may enter into any contracts, with each
other, with the United States, or with any person, which
may be required in connection with a grant or loan of
federal moneys for municipal airport or air navigation
facility purposes. All federal moneys accepted under this
Section shall be accepted and transferred or expended by
the Commission upon such terms and conditions as are
prescribed by the United States. All moneys received by
the Commission pursuant to this Section shall be deposited
in the State treasury, and, unless otherwise prescribed by
the authority from which such moneys were received, shall
be kept in separate funds designated according to the pur-
poses for which the moneys were made available, and held
by the State in trust for such purposes.

(d) (Federal Aid—Municipalities.) No municipality
in this State, whether acting alone or jointly with another
municipality or with the State, shall submit to the Admin-
istrator of Civil Aeronautics of the United States a project
application under the provisions of Section 9 (a) of the
Act of Congress approved May 13, 1946, being a Public