Section 612. State aid; public nursing homes

State aid reimbursement shall
  be provided to counties and the city of New  York  at  thirty-three  and
  one-third  per centum of the amount of money expended by a county or the
  city of New York for the construction and establishment or expansion  of
  a  public nursing home, which as used in this title means a county or in
  the case of New York city, a city institution, place, building or agency
  which maintains and operates an organized residential facility  for  the
  purpose  of  providing  therein  nursing  care  or  medical  supervision
  primarily to  the  needy,  aged,  sick,  invalid,  infirm,  disabled  or
  convalescent  persons, provided however, that no state aid reimbursement
  shall be provided unless the governing body of such county  or  city  of
  New  York  has  received  written  approval  of  its public nursing home
  application for first year  project  construction  from  the  department
  prior to April first, nineteen hundred eighty-two.