2012 New York Consolidated Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 25 - (856 - 857) NEW YORK STATE JOB RETENTION BOARD
857 - New York state job retention board.

 
    *  §  857.  New  York  state  job  retention board. 1. There is hereby
  established a board, to be hereinafter designated as the New York  state
  job  retention  board,  to be comprised of the following voting members:
  the governor of the state of New York, the comptroller of the  state  of
  New  York, the attorney general of the state of New York, the industrial
  commissioner, the commissioner of commerce, the president of  the  state
  tax  commission, and the commissioner of the office of general services.
  The executive director of the New York state economic development  board
  shall be a non-voting ex-officio member.
    2.  The  governor  of  the  state of New York may direct and order the
  commissioner of the office of  general  services  or  other  contracting
  offices  to  award  a  contract  to  a  bidder,  other  than  the lowest
  responsible bidder,  whenever  such  bid  substitution  in  the  board's
  judgment  would  best  promote  the  public interest of the state of New
  York, pursuant to the provisions of section one hundred seventy-four  of
  the  state  finance  law, providing such substituting is consistent with
  the intent of section  eight  hundred  fifty-six  of  this  chapter  and
  section one hundred seventy-four of the state finance law.
    3.  The New York state job retention board may request any bidder on a
  state contract to prepare and submit a preferential bidding form.
    4. The New York state job retention board shall meet upon the  request
  of the governor of the state of New York.
    * NB Expired July 1, 1979