New York Laws
Article 5-A - Public Contracts
109-A - Purchases Through the Office of General Services by Certain Public Associations.

§ 109-a. Purchases through the office of general services by certain
public associations. The New York State Association of Counties, the
Association of Towns of the State of New York, the New York State Town
Clerk's Association, Inc., the New York State Conference of Mayors and
Other Municipal Officials, the New York State School Boards Association,
Inc., the New York Planning Federation and the Association of Fire
Districts of the State of New York, the New York State Association of
School Business Officials, the New York state council of school
superintendents, any nonpublic elementary and/or secondary school of the
state of New York, which provides the instruction required by section
thirty-two hundred four and article seventeen of the education law, and
which is chartered by, registered with or subject to examination and
inspection by the department of education and which is a not for profit
institution and any public library, association library, library system,
cooperative library system, the New York Library Association, and the
New York State Association of Library Boards or any other library except
those which are operated by for profit entities, may make purchases
through the office of general services subject to such rules as may be
promulgated pursuant to section one hundred sixty-three of the state
finance law and subdivision eight-a of section one hundred three of this
article which may establish limitations with respect to commodities and
impose such other appropriate conditions upon purchasing as deemed
necessary by the commissioner of general services in order to protect
the state's own purchasing interests; and that such association, school,
library, library system or cooperative library system shall accept sole
responsibility for any payment due the vendor. Boards of education may
permit such nonpublic schools to make purchases pursuant to this section
through the school district in which the nonpublic school is located,
provided that any administrative costs incurred by the school district
will be paid by the nonpublic school.