N.Y. State Finance Law § 139-h: Participation in an international boycott prohibited

§ 139-h. Participation in an international boycott prohibited. 1. A

clause shall be inserted in all specifications or contracts hereafter

made or awarded by the state or any public department, agency or

official thereof, for work or services performed or to be performed, for

goods sold or to be sold, in an amount exceeding five thousand dollars,

pursuant to which any contractor, to whom any contract shall be let,

granted or awarded, agrees, as a material condition of the contract,

that neither such contractor nor any substantially owned or affiliated

person, firm, partnership or corporation has participated or is

participating or shall participate in an international boycott in

violation of the provisions of the United States export administration

act of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, as amended, or the export

administration act of nineteen hundred seventy-nine, as amended, or the

regulations of the United States department of commerce promulgated

thereunder.

2. Any such contract shall be rendered forfeit and void by the state

comptroller, if, subsequent to execution, such person, firm, partnership

or corporation has been convicted of a violation of the provisions of

the United States export administration act of nineteen hundred

sixty-nine, as amended, or the export administration act of nineteen

hundred seventy-nine, as amended, or the regulations promulgated

thereunder or has been found upon the final determination of the United

States commerce department or any other appropriate agency of the United

States to have violated the provisions of either such federal act or

such regulations.

3. Nothing contained in this section shall operate to impair any

existing contract, except that any renewal, amendment or modification of

such contract occurring on or after the effective date of this section

shall be subject to the conditions specified in this section.

4. The comptroller of the state shall have the power to issue rules

and regulations pursuant to this section.