New York Laws
Article 5-A - Public Contracts
103-E - Conspiracies to Prevent Competitive Bidding or Competitive Offering on Public Contracts.

§ 103-e. Conspiracies to prevent competitive bidding or competitive
offering on public contracts. 1. A person or corporation who shall
wilfully, knowingly and with intent to defraud, make or enter into, or
attempt to make or enter into, with any other person or corporation, a
contract, agreement, arrangement or combination to submit a fraudulent
or collusive bid or offer, or to refrain from submitting a bona fide
competitive bid or competitive offer, to any board, officer, agency,
department, commission or other agency of the state or of a public
corporation on a contract for public work or purchase which has been
advertised for bidding or offering, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof shall, if a natural person, be punished by a
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not
longer than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and if a
corporation by a fine not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. An
indictment or information based upon a violation of any provision of
this section must be found within three years after its commission.

2. For the purpose of this section a public corporation shall mean a
county, city, town, village, school district, a territorial division of
the state established by law and possessing the power to contract
indebtedness and levy taxes or benefit assessments upon real estate or
to require the levy of such taxes or assessments, whether or not such
territorial division is expressly declared to be a body corporate and
politic by the statute creating or authorizing the creation of such
territorial division, and a corporation organized to construct or
operate a public improvement wholly or partly within the state, the
profits from which inure to the benefit of this or other states or to
the people thereof.