N.Y. Correction Law § 184: Articles manufactured to be furnished to the state or subdivisions thereof

§ 184. Articles manufactured to be furnished to the state or

subdivisions thereof. 1. The commissioner is authorized and directed to

cause to be manufactured or prepared by the incarcerated individuals in

the state correctional facilities, such articles as are needed and used

therein, and also, such articles as are required by the state or

political subdivisions thereof, and in the buildings, offices and public

institutions owned or managed and controlled by the state, including

articles and materials to be used in the erection of the buildings, and

including material for the construction, improvement or repair of

highways, streets and roads.

2. All such articles manufactured or prepared in the state

correctional facilities, or by incarcerated individuals, and not

required for use therein, shall be of the styles, patterns, designs and

qualities fixed by the department of corrections and community

supervision, except where the same have been or may be fixed by the

office of general services in the executive department. Such articles

may be furnished to the state, or to any political subdivision thereof,

or for or to any public institution owned or managed and controlled by

the state, or any political subdivision thereof, government of the

United States or to any state of the United States or subdivision

thereof or to any public corporation, authority, or eleemosynary

association funded in whole or in part by any federal, state or local

funds, at and for such prices as shall be fixed and determined as

hereinafter provided, upon the requisitions of the proper officials

thereof. No article so manufactured or prepared shall be purchased from

any other source, for the state or public institutions of the state, or

the political subdivisions thereof, or public benefit corporations,

authorities or commissions, unless the commissioner of corrections and

community supervision shall certify that the same can not be furnished

upon such requisition, and no claim therefor shall be audited or paid

without such certificate.