N.Y. General Municipal Law § 109-a: Purchases through the office of general services by certain public associations

§ 109-a. Purchases through the office of general services by certain

public associations. The New York State Association of Counties, the

Association of Towns of the State of New York, the New York State Town

Clerk's Association, Inc., the New York State Conference of Mayors and

Other Municipal Officials, the New York State School Boards Association,

Inc., the New York Planning Federation and the Association of Fire

Districts of the State of New York, the New York State Association of

School Business Officials, the New York state council of school

superintendents, any nonpublic elementary and/or secondary school of the

state of New York, which provides the instruction required by section

thirty-two hundred four and article seventeen of the education law, and

which is chartered by, registered with or subject to examination and

inspection by the department of education and which is a not for profit

institution and any public library, association library, library system,

cooperative library system, the New York Library Association, and the

New York State Association of Library Boards or any other library except

those which are operated by for profit entities, may make purchases

through the office of general services subject to such rules as may be

promulgated pursuant to section one hundred sixty-three of the state

finance law and subdivision eight-a of section one hundred three of this

article which may establish limitations with respect to commodities and

impose such other appropriate conditions upon purchasing as deemed

necessary by the commissioner of general services in order to protect

the state's own purchasing interests; and that such association, school,

library, library system or cooperative library system shall accept sole

responsibility for any payment due the vendor. Boards of education may

permit such nonpublic schools to make purchases pursuant to this section

through the school district in which the nonpublic school is located,

provided that any administrative costs incurred by the school district

will be paid by the nonpublic school.