2019 New York Laws
GMU - General Municipal
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.