2010 New York Code
LAB - Labor
Article 23 - (810 - 819) APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING
816-B - Apprenticeship participation on construction contracts.

§  816-b.  Apprenticeship  participation on construction contracts. 1.
  For purposes of this section:
    (a) "governmental entity" shall mean the state, any state  agency,  as
  that  term  is  defined  in  section  two-a  of  the  state finance law,
  municipal corporation, commission  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  school
  district, district corporation, board of education, board of cooperative
  educational  services,  soil  conservation  district, and public benefit
  corporation; and
    (b) "construction  contract"  shall  mean  any  contract  to  which  a
  governmental entity may be a direct or indirect party which involves the
  design,   construction,   reconstruction,  improvement,  rehabilitation,
  maintenance, repair, furnishing, equipping of or otherwise providing for
  any building, facility or physical structure of any kind.
    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, of section one
  hundred three of the general  municipal  law,  of  section  one  hundred
  thirty-five  of  the state finance law, of section one hundred fifty-one
  of the public housing law, or of any other general, special or local law
  or administrative code, in entering into any  construction  contract,  a
  governmental  entity  which  is to be a direct or indirect party to such
  contract may require that any contractors and subcontractors have, prior
  to entering into such contract,  apprenticeship  agreements  appropriate
  for  the  type  and  scope  of  work  to  be  performed,  that have been
  registered with, and approved  by,  the  commissioner  pursuant  to  the
  requirements found in this article. Whenever utilizing this requirement,
  the  governmental entity may, in addition to whatever considerations are
  required by law, consider the degree to which  career  opportunities  in
  apprenticeship  training  programs  approved  by the commissioner may be
  provided.