N.Y. Judiciary Law § 40-a: Recycled products

§ 40-a. Recycled products. All products purchased by the courts shall

be recycled products, which meet contract specifications, unless the

product is only available without recycled content, and provided that

the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium of ten

percent above the cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled

product or, if at least fifty percent of the secondary materials

utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from the waste

stream in New York state, the cost of the recycled product does not

exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the cost of a comparable

product that is not a recycled product. For the purpose of this section

and until July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product"

shall mean any product which has been manufactured from secondary

materials, as defined in subdivision one of section two hundred

sixty-one of the economic development law, and meets secondary material

content requirements adopted by the office of general services under

subdivision one of section one hundred seventy-seven of the state

finance law for products available to the courts under state contract

or, if no such contract for such product is available, any product which

meets the secondary material content requirements adopted by the courts

with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the court. On and

after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product" shall

mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which has been

manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of

section two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and which

meets the requirements of subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the

environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant

thereto. Whenever purchasing or causing the purchase of printing on

recycled paper pursuant to this section, the courts shall require the

printed material to contain the official state recycling emblem

established pursuant to subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the

environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant

thereto if such paper has been approved by the department of

environmental conservation as satisfying the requirements of such

statute and regulations, or, if such paper has not been so approved,

require the printed material to include a printed statement which

indicates the percentages of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled

material content of such paper.