N.Y. Executive Law § 163-a: Contracts with Green Thumb Environmental Beautification, Incorporated

§ 163-a. Contracts with Green Thumb Environmental Beautification,

Incorporated. Each state department, agency, board, bureau, commission

or other unit performing governmental functions for the state, within

amounts appropriated therefor, may contract with Green Thumb

Environmental Beautification, Incorporated, a nonprofit organization

that is organized for the purpose of environmental beautification and

employs persons fifty-five years of age or older whose annual income

does not exceed: (1) two hundred fifty percent of the non-farm federal

poverty level applicable to a family of one (as defined and updated by

the federal department of health and human services) for an individual

living alone or in another person's home; or (2) four hundred percent of

the non-farm federal poverty level applicable to a family of one (as

defined and updated by the federal department of health and human

services) for a couple living alone or in another person's home. The

contract shall name the organization, the amount and manner of payments

for the service to be rendered, nature of such service, the rendering of

a verified account of the disbursements with verified or certified

vouchers therefor attached, a refund of any unused amount, and such

other conditions upon the use thereof as may be deemed proper.