N.Y. Legislative Law § 16: Supplies furnished by secretary and clerk

§ 16. Supplies furnished by secretary and clerk. a. The secretary of

the senate, or such other officers or employees of the senate as the

temporary president of the senate shall designate and the clerk of the

assembly, or such other officers or employees of the assembly as the

speaker of the assembly shall designate, respectively, shall purchase

all stationery, office supplies and equipment necessary for the official

use of the members, officers and employees, and shall prepay the postage

on all official mail deposited in the post office of the respective

houses for transmission through the mails by members of the senate and

assembly, respectively.

b. All products purchased shall be recycled products, which meet

contract specifications, unless the only available product does not

contain 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

legislature 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 secretary of the senate, or such

other officers or employees of the senate as the temporary president of

the senate shall designate, and the clerk of the assembly, or such other

officers or employees as the speaker of the assembly shall designate,

respectively, with respect to a specific commodity procurement by such

entity. On or 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

secretary of the senate, or such other officers or employees of the

senate as the temporary president of the senate shall designate, and the

clerk of the assembly, or such other officers or employees as the

speaker of the assembly shall designate, respectively, 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.