(a) Annual certification for the CHIPS O&M component is only required if O&M funding is appropriated by the Legislature. Unless an exemption is granted by the commissioner for any municipality that receives more than $5,000 but less than $7,000 in any local fiscal year, each municipality that receives $5,000 or more annually in CHIPS O&M funding must annually certify on a NYSDOT-provided form that its fiscal year expenditures of non-state funds raised by the municipality for the operation and maintenance (exclusive of capital construction) of its highways, bridges, and/or highway-railroad crossings was not reduced below the level of the average of the previous two fiscal years' expenditures. The annual certificate is due to the NYSDOT's regional office that serves the municipality by the first day of the third month following the end of a municipality's fiscal year.

(b) Capital certification to accompany each request for the CHIPS capital component. Each capital project reimbursement request must be accompanied by a certification by the municipality, on a NYSDOT-provided form, that the amount requested is for moneys expended by the municipality during a specified reimbursement period solely for eligible work. Eligible work consists of construction, reconstruction, or improvement of local highways, bridges, highway-railroad crossings, and/or other local facilities per NYSDOT CHIPS Capital Guidelines, including right-of-way acquisition, preliminary engineering, and construction supervision and inspection, where the service life of the project is in accordance with the stipulation on the CHIPS capital reimbursement request form for the project.