(a) The Mass Transit Revolving Account is hereby created in the State Transportation Fund. The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby transferred from the Transportation Planning and Development Account to the Mass Transit Revolving Account and appropriated to the department for expenditure for effectuating the purposes of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended.
(b) Allocations may be made by the department from the Mass Transit Revolving Account to an applicant for the advance purchase of vehicles for programs reimbursable from the funds available from the Urban Mass Transportation Act, as amended, when such advance purchase will eliminate unnecessary delays in the procurement, purchase, and delivery of the vehicles.
(c) The department shall keep a record of all allocations pursuant to subdivision (b) and the account shall be reimbursed in full from the federal funds and local funds.
(d) The provisions of this section shall only be utilized during those fiscal years in which federal funds are available under the Urban Mass Transportation Act, as amended.
(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 782.)