N.Y. Public Buildings Law § 19: Manner of doing work or acquiring material

§ 19. Manner of doing work or acquiring material. The work of

construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair or improvement of any

state building, whether constructed or to be constructed, may be done by

the employment of incarcerated individuals or outside labor or both and

by the purchase of materials in the open market whenever in the opinion

of the department having jurisdiction over such building, and the

commissioner of general services or his or her authorized

representative, such a course shall be deemed advantageous to the state,

and only upon plans and specifications prepared by the commissioner of

general services, but no compensation shall be allowed for the

employment of incarcerated individual labor except convict labor.