§ 1332-a. Restrictions. With respect to any statewide mass transportation operating assistance program established pursuant to section eighteen-a of the transportation law which by its terms makes available to the authority monies for operating expenses as mass transportation operating assistance service payments, no application therefor shall be made and no monies available under such program shall be accepted by the authority, notwithstanding the provision of any other law, unless the county legislature of any member county whose matching fund percentage for service payments under such section is at least eighty-five percent, authorizes the authority, by resolution adopted by a majority of the county legislature, to make such application.