Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1175

14.

(a)    Technical services of [Commission] Administration.—
The [Commission] Administration may, in so far as it is reasonably
possible, make available its engineering and other technical services
with or without charge to any municipality or person desiring them
in connection with planning, acquisition, construction, improve-
ments, maintenance or operation of airports or air navigation facili-
ties.

(b)    State financial assistance—The [Commission] Administra-
tion, with the approval of the Secretary of Transportation, may
render financial assistance by grant or loan or both to any munic-
ipality or municipalities acting jointly, OR AUTHORITIES CRE-
ATED PURSUANT TO STATE LAW, in the planning, acquisition,
construction, improvement, maintenance, or operation of an airport
owned or controlled, or to be owned or controlled by such municipality
or municipalities, OR AUTHORITIES CREATED PURSUANT TO
STATE LAW, out of the appropriations made by the legislature for
such purposes. Such financial assistance may be furnished in connec-
tion with federal or other financial aid for the same purposes.

(c)    [Commission] Administration as agent of municipality in
receiving and disbursing federal and other moneys.—The [Commis-
sion] Administration, with the approval of the Secretary of
Transportation, is authorized to act as agent of any municipality or
municipalities acting jointly, in accepting, receiving, receipting for
and disbursing federal moneys, and other moneys public or pri-
vate, 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 super-
vising such planning, acquisition, construction, improvement, mainte-
nance, or operation; and all municipalities are authorized to des-
ignate the [Commission] Administration as their agent for the
foregoing purposes. The [Commission] Administration, as principal
on behalf of the State, or any municipality, may with the approval
of the Secretary of Transportation 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 navigation facility purposes. All federal
moneys accepted under this section shall be accepted and transferred
or expended by the [Commission] Administration upon such terms
and conditions as are prescribed by the United States. All moneys
received by the [Commission] Administration pursuant to this sec-
tion 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 purposes
for which the moneys were made available, and held by the State
in trust for such purposes. Such moneys shall not be part of the
Transportation Trust Fund, and they shall be exempt from the pro-
visions of Article 94A, Section II 11, of this Code.

(d)    Same—Approval of project by [Commission] Secretary
prerequisite to project application under federal law.—No munic-
ipality in this State, whether acting alone or jointly with another
municipality or with the State, shall submit to the Administrator
of Civil Aeronautics of the United States a project application under