N.Y. Public Buildings Law § 24: Application of article to mental hygiene construction

§ 24. Application of article to mental hygiene construction. The

provisions of this article shall not apply to the department of mental

hygiene or to mental hygiene facilities constructed, acquired,

reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved pursuant to the health and

mental hygiene facilities improvement act, or to contracts entered into

by the trustees of the health and mental hygiene facilities improvement

corporation or by the state housing finance agency in relation thereto,

or to real property held in the name of the state for the corporate

purposes of such corporation, except that the provisions of this article

shall apply, so far as practicable, to such mental hygiene facilities or

real property as are constructed, acquired, reconstructed, rehabilitated

or improved by the commissioner of general services under an agreement

made with the trustees of the health and mental hygiene facilities

improvement corporation; and except further that nothing herein

contained shall be deemed to affect the power of the department of

mental hygiene or the trustees of the health and mental hygiene

facilities improvement corporation to enter into any short form contract

in accordance with section twenty of this chapter for minor work of

construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair of any mental

hygiene facility being used by the said department or under the

jurisdiction of the said trustees.