N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2878-A – Purchasing of products
§ 2878-a. Purchasing of products. 1. All products purchased shall be recycled products, which meet contract specifications, unless the only available product does not contain recycled content, and provided that the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium of ten percent above the cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled product or, if at least fifty percent of the secondary materials utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from the waste stream in New York state, the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled product. For the purpose of this section and until July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product" shall mean any product which has been manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of § 261 of the economic development law, and meets secondary material content requirements adopted by the office of general services under subdivision one of § 177 of the state finance law for products available to the public authority under state contract or, if no such contract for such product is available to the public authority, any product which meets the secondary material content requirements adopted by the public authority with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the public authority. On and after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product" shall mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which has been manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of § 261 of the economic development law, and which meets the requirements of subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2878-A
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Office: means the office of general services. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2875-A
- Product: means any material, supply, equipment or construction item or other item whether real or personal property which is the subject of any purchase, barter, or other exchange made to procure such product. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2875-A
- Secondary materials: means any material recovered from or otherwise destined for the waste stream, including but not limited to, post-consumer material, industrial scrap material, and overstock or obsolete inventories from distributors, wholesalers and other companies as defined in rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of general services but such term does not include those materials and byproducts generated from, and commonly reused within an original manufacturing process. See N.Y. Public Authorities Law 2875-A
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
2. Whenever a public authority, corporation or commission shall purchase or cause the purchase of printing on recycled paper, it shall require the printed material to contain the official state recycling emblem established pursuant to subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto if such paper has been approved by the department of environmental conservation as satisfying the requirements of such statute and regulations, or, if such paper has not been so approved, require the printed material to include a printed statement which indicates the percentages of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled material content of such paper.