2006 New York Code - 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,
  except of printed material,  through  the  office  of  general  services
  subject  to  such rules as may be established from time to time pursuant
  to sections one hundred sixty-three and one hundred  sixty-five  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.