Section 3.13. Participation in programs to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts

1.  As  used  in  this  section,  the  following terms shall mean and include:
    a.  "Municipal  corporation". A county, city, town, village, or school
  district of the state, or a board of higher education in a city having a
  population of one million or more.
    b. "National foundation act". The national foundation on the arts  and
  humanities  act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-five  and any federal laws
  amendatory or supplemental thereto heretofore or hereafter enacted.
    2. Any municipal corporation shall have power, either individually  or
  jointly  with  one  or  more other municipal corporations, to apply for,
  accept, and expend  funds  made  available  by  the  federal  government
  pursuant  to  the  provisions of the national foundation act in order to
  administer, conduct or participate with  the  federal  government  in  a
  program  which  has  as  its  purpose  the  promotion  of  progress  and
  scholarship  in  the  humanities  and  the  arts.  Any  such   municipal
  corporation  is  authorized  to  appropriate and expend such sums as are
  required to administer, conduct, or participate in any such program  and
  may perform any and all acts necessary to effectuate the purposes of any
  such program.
    3.  Any municipal corporation, either individually or jointly with one
  or more other municipal corporations, may  enter  into  agreements  with
  private,  non-profit  agencies  which  are  authorized  to apply for and
  accept funds made available by the federal government  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  the national foundation act. Such agreements may provide
  that funds, services, or facilities will be made available by  any  such
  municipal   corporation  or  municipal  corporations  to  such  private,
  non-profit agency upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by
  such municipal corporation or municipal corporations, in order to defray
  that portion of the  cost  of  any  program  administered  by  any  such
  private, non-profit agency which is not paid for by funds made available
  by  the  federal  government. Such private, non-profit agency shall file
  annually with each such municipal corporation with which it has  entered
  into  such  an  agreement,  or  at  such more frequent periods as may be
  required by such municipality, a financial report with respect  to  such
  program  or programs and shall make available for inspection or audit by
  each such municipal corporation, its books, records and other data.
    4. No funds, services, or facilities shall  be  made  available  by  a
  municipal  corporation  to  a private, non-profit agency pursuant to the
  provisions of subdivision three of this section unless such  agency  has
  obtained  approval  of  its  application  for  a federal grant-in-aid as
  required by the provisions of  the  national  foundation  act,  and  its
  program   is  designed  to  promote  progress  and  scholarship  in  the
  humanities and the arts within the municipal  corporation  or  municipal
  corporations with which it has entered into such an agreement.