GOV §14035.5: The department may enter into contracts with common carriers, as defined by Section 211 of the Public Utilities Code, or with any corporation, partnership, or person to provide feeder services to and

The department may enter into contracts with common carriers, as defined by Section 211 of the Public Utilities Code, or with any corporation, partnership, or person to provide feeder services to and from rail passenger terminals or intercity bus transportation. In contracting for intercity bus transportation, the department may fund fixed route, scheduled services which primarily provide service between nonurbanized communities and passenger air terminals with 1980 volumes of 1,000,000 passengers or less. “Nonurbanized community” means any city or territory which does not meet the criteria for an “urbanized area,” as defined by the Bureau of Census of the United States Department of Commerce on page 66185 in Number 195 of Volume 45 of the Federal Register for October 6, 1980. The department may construct, acquire or lease, improve, and operate bus passenger terminals and related facilities which provide intermodal passenger services.