Section 16. Powers and duties of commissioner with respect to state projects

With respect to any state  project,  the  commissioner  shall
  have  the  following  duties and powers: 1. To order such repairs of the
  buildings and structures constituting the project as may be necessary.
    2. To order the authority  or  the  municipality  if  the  project  is
  undertaken  or  operated  by the municipality, to do such acts as may be
  necessary to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or any rule  or
  regulation adopted by the commissioner, or the terms of the contract for
  state  aid,  or to refrain from doing any act in violation of any of the
  foregoing.
    3. To enforce his orders  by  mandamus  or  injunction  in  a  summary
  proceeding.
    4.  To permit the consolidation of two or more approved state projects
  or the extension or  amendment  thereof  or  the  consolidation  of  any
  approved  state  project  with a proposed project. In any such case, the
  consolidated state project shall be treated as an original state project
  and an application shall be submitted as in  the  case  of  an  original
  state project and the rents and costs of the consolidated project may be
  averaged. Consolidation hereunder may be permitted regardless of whether
  the state projects to be consolidated are contiguous or adjacent to each
  other.  Such  contracts  as  may  have been made with regard to approved
  state  projects  may,  upon  consolidation  of  the  projects,  also  be
  consolidated  and  contracts  for  consolidated  state projects shall be
  subject to all the provisions of this chapter, governing original  state
  projects.