N.Y. Public Buildings Law § 152: Chapter inapplicable to state university construction

§ 152. Chapter inapplicable to state university construction. The

provisions of this chapter shall not apply to academic buildings,

dormitories and other facilities constructed, acquired, reconstructed,

rehabilitated or improved for the use of the state university of New

York or any state-operated institution or statutory or contract college

under the jurisdiction thereof or for the use of the students, faculty

and staff of the state university or any such state-operated institution

or statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction thereof, and

their families, or to contracts entered into by the state university

construction fund or the state university trustees pursuant to article

eight-a of the education law or to real property held in the name of the

state for purposes of the state university of New York or a

state-operated institution or statutory or contract college under the

jurisdiction thereof; provided, however, that nothing herein contained

shall be deemed to affect the power of any officer, department, board,

commission, bureau, division, public benefit corporation, agency or

instrumentality of the state from constructing, acquiring,

reconstructing, rehabilitating or improving such facilities in

accordance with the provisions of article eight-a of the education law

if duly authorized by law; and provided further that nothing herein

contained shall be deemed to affect the power of the state university

trustees to enter into any short form contract for minor work of

construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair of any such

facilities operated under the jurisdiction of such trustees in

accordance with the provisions of section twenty of this chapter.