N.Y. CNT Law § 626

§ 626. Purchasing of products for county use. Notwithstanding the\nprovisions of section one hundred three of the general municipal law,\nwhen purchasing products, the county purchasing agent may, wherever\nrecycled products meet contract specifications and the price of such\nproducts is reasonably competitive, purchase such products. For the\npurpose of this section and until July first, nineteen hundred\nninety-six, "recycled product" shall mean any product which has been\nmanufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of\nsection two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and meets\nsecondary material content requirements adopted by the office of general\nservices under subdivision one of section one hundred seventy-seven of\nthe state finance law for products available to the county under state\ncontract or, if no such contract for such product is available, any\nproduct which meets the secondary material content requirements adopted\nby the county with respect to a specific commodity procurement by the\ncounty. On and after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled\nproduct" shall mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which\nis manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one\nof section two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and\nwhich meets the requirements of subdivision two of section 27-0717 of\nthe environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant\nthereto. For the purpose of this section, "reasonably competitive" shall\nmean that the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost\npremium of ten percent above the cost of a comparable product that is\nnot a recycled product or, if at least fifty percent of the secondary\nmaterials utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from\nthe waste stream in New York state, the cost of the recycled product\ndoes not exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the cost of a\ncomparable product that is not a recycled product. Whenever the county\npurchasing agent shall purchase or cause the purchase of printing on\nrecycled paper pursuant to this section, he or she shall require the\nprinted material to contain the official state recycling emblem\nestablished pursuant to subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the\nenvironmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant\nthereto if such paper has been approved by the department of\nenvironmental conservation as satisfying the requirements of such\nstatute and regulations, or, if such paper has not been so approved,\nrequire the printed material to include a printed statement which\nindicates the percentages of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled\nmaterial content of such paper.\n